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• Sculpture by the Sea threatens to leave Bondi after dispute over new path

  10-07-2019 23:54
  Organisers say 2019 likely to be last year at site due to space concerns caused by council’s decision to boost disabled access to Marks Park This year’s Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Sydney’s Bondi may be the last after a spectacular falling out between organisers and the local council over a new path to boost disabled access.David Handley, the founding director of the popular exhibition, which brings in about 450,000 visitors each year, says the 279m long and 1.8m wide co
  
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• Christopher Knight Takes Issue With Peter Zumthor’s Comments About How Museums Work

  10-07-2019 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Presumably you didn’t mean to insult these folks, who represent a coremuseum constituency. Every art museum serves two publics — an art publicand a general public. After the affront, your interview puts a thumb onthe scale for the latter.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Pacific Symphony Leadership Opportunity in Development

  10-07-2019 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lead the $9.5 million annual campaign for the dynamic, innovative Pacific Symphony.ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT
  The Associate Vice President of Development reports to and worksclosely with the Vice President of Development to develop, manage,implement and evaluate an overall fundraising program consistent withthe Symphony’s goals. The AVP of Development is accountable forleading the $9.5 million annual fund, managing all forms of givingincluding: individuals, foundations, corpo
  
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• Skills Versus Knowledge: Are We Teaching Kids The Wrong Way?

  10-07-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  What if the best way to boost reading comprehension is not to drillkids on discrete skills but to teach them, as early as possible, thevery things we’ve marginalized—including history, science, and othercontent that could build the knowledge and vocabulary they need tounderstand both written texts and the world around them? – The Atlantic
  
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• Egypt Asks Interpol To Track Tut Artifact It Believes Was Stolen And Sold At Christie’s Auction

  10-07-2019 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Egyptsaid on Tuesday it had asked Interpol to track the statue and otherartefacts over alleged missing paperwork, and it criticised Britishauthorities for not supporting its claim. – The Guardian
  
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• Want To Tear Down Authority, Then Attack The Authority (Not Its Argument)

  10-07-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Contrary to the popular view, I think that we sometimes have good reasons to argue against the person. In other words, ad hominem arguments can be good arguments, especially when they are construed as rebuttals to appeals to authority.” – Aeon
  
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• Warner Announces New Streaming Service Built Around HBO – A Really Dumb Idea?

  10-07-2019 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some 35 million households now subscribe to HBO either via their cableservice or the HBO Now streaming service. They’re used to paying forpremium content. HBO is betting that they’ll pay roughly the same amountfor a lot more of this other stuff. HBO Max subscribers will geteverything a current HBO subscription delivers plus a lot more from TBS,TNT, Cartoon Network and CNN. – Washington Post
  
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• Really Good Nature Documentaries ‘Are Great Art, Maybe The Greatest Art Of Our Time’

  10-07-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sebastian Smee: “I realize the claim sounds odd. After all, they weren’t really intended as high art. They’re television documentaries. They were created primarily to educate and to entertain. And yet a lot of things we now display in our museums and think of as art were never intended as such. African carvings. Russian icons. Minoan ceramics. Egyptian statues. … The best nature documentaries … [are] great in this important sense, too: Like those Impressionist pa
  
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• Grass Is Greener?

  10-07-2019 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  The arts being valued by the government as an important part of society and the (near) certainty that money will be available for basic operations — as in Australia and Chile, which I recently visited — borders on utopian fantasy for those of us in the States. And yet there are reasons they envy us. – Doug Borwick
  
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• Grace and Mercy Come Together

  10-07-2019 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ronald K. Brown’s Grace and Mercy, performed by Ronald K. Brown/Evidence: A Dance Company at the 2019 SummerScape Festival at Bard College. – Deborah Jowitt
  
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• Transcending Toxic Times with street poetry & music

  10-07-2019 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  My DownBeat article about the compulsively listenable Last Poets album Transcending Toxic Times includes a lot of quotes from bassist/composer Jamaaladeen Tacuma and poet Abiudon Oyewale. But there’s more to tell. – Howard Mandel
  
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• Hollywood Is Betting Big On Remakes. But New Study Suggests Audiences Aren’t Thrilled

  10-07-2019 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The study found that fully 91 percent of remakes drew a less positiveaudience score than the original. Among critics, the remakes received alower Metacritic score just slightly less frequently -— 87 percent ofthe time. – Washington Post
  
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• Community Board Members / Inspire Culture, Learning and Libraries / East Midlands

  10-07-2019 20:05
  Passionate about culture, learning and libraries? Join our board and help us deliver the best cultural and learning offer to the people of Nottinghamshire.
  We have places for TWO community...
  
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• How Exactly Do You Go About Translating The Words Of An Opera?

  10-07-2019 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Writer Heather O’Donovan looks at the challenges of both translations for singing (fitting new words to the music) and supertitles (fitting the words onto that little screen). – WQXR (New York City)
  
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• Intern Gallery Assistant / Hanmi Gallery / London

  10-07-2019 19:48
  Hanmi Gallery is looking for an enthusiastic individual on a temporary full-time basis with immediate start. The role will last until the end of October. This is a junior level position that would be...
  
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• Conservation Assistant / National Trust / South West

  10-07-2019 19:32
  What it's like to work here
  A rare gem of a Jacobean country house, Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612 by a prosperous wool merchant as an impressive statement of wealth and power....
  
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• Bournemouth Symphony Calls On Orchestras To Employ Disabled Musicians, Touting Its Own Successes

  10-07-2019 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  It received funding from Arts Council England’s Change Makers initiativeto become more accessible and inclusive. Alongside organisationalchanges like disability awareness training, BSO created a disabled-ledensemble, BSO Resound, and supported a training placement for itsDirector, conductor James Rose. – Arts Professional
  
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• Duty Manager / Institute of Imagination / London

  10-07-2019 19:29
  We are looking for Duty Managers to be part of a creative and inspiring, month-long event, which will welcome 10,000 visitors throughout the month of August.
  We are looking for reliable, friendly...
  
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• Digital Marketing Manager / Lex Records / London

  10-07-2019 19:09
  About Lex:
  Lex is a record label, music publisher, and film production company based in London. The label was founded in 2001 and has released music by artists including Danger Mouse, Eyedress,...
  
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• Studio Technician / Hempstead May / London

  10-07-2019 19:07
  Hempstead May is seeking a full-time Studio Technician, specialising in digitising analogue film and hand prints via drum scanning. The selected candidate will work closely with the Studio Manager,...
  
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• Hungary’s Government Building Huge, Multi-Million-Euro Cultural Complex In Budapest Park

  10-07-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The so-called Liget project, initiated in 2011, aims to transform Budapest’s city park (Városliget) into a cultural hub, including the new National Gallery, Museum of Ethnography and House of Hungarian Music, alongside the existing thermal baths and an expanded city zoo. The project hit a major milestone in May, as the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán opened one of Europe’s largest museum collections centres on the nearby site of a former hospital.” &
  
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• Rights Assistant / Sentric Music / North West

  10-07-2019 18:56
  Location:                             Liverpool (Baltic...
  
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• Music Administrator / Tri-borough Music Hub / London

  10-07-2019 18:56
  The award-winning Tri-borough Music Hub is seeking a new Music Administrator to carry out the administrative aspects of the school service level agreement (SLA) buy-in and subsequent Tutor...
  
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• Performance Assistant / Sentric Music / North West

  10-07-2019 18:46
  Location:                             Liverpool (Baltic...
  
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• Studio Assistant / Pottery Cafe / London

  10-07-2019 18:35
  The Pottery Café are looking for a new Saturday Studio Assistant to work at their Battersea branch, starting from the end of August.  
  We are looking for someone with a strong work...
  
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• Office Assistant (1st August - 30th November) / NMC Recordings / London

  10-07-2019 18:35
  Part time fixed position, 2 days per week (16 hours incl lunch break)
  1st August – 30th November 2019
  National Minimum WageWe require some temporary extra assistance in the office,...
  
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• General Manager / Something To Aim For / London

  10-07-2019 18:33
  Something To Aim For (STAF) is a new charity set up to drive the onward ambitions of The Sick of the Fringe and associated strategies.
  STAF charts, supports and promotes performance and other...
  
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• Development Coordinator / Studio Voltaire / London

  10-07-2019 18:32
  £23,000 – £25,000 (pro rata) Dependant on experience3 days per week, occasional evening and weekend working. Location of work: Clapham SW4, and Mayfair W1.
  Studio Voltaire is...
  
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• Some Science Has Become So Theoretical It Lacks Evidence. Are We Fooling Ourselves?

  10-07-2019 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the past, experiments played a vital role in developing theory andvice versa. For some time now that back-and-forth has not existed incertain fields where experiments are barely managing to test theoriesdeveloped over decades. Wherever experimental data can be coaxed out ofnature, it suffices to corroborate or refute a theory and serves as thesole arbiter of validity. But where evidence is spare or absent – as itis for a growing number of questions in physics – other criteria,inc
  
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• Communications and Creative Assistant / London School of Mosaic / London

  10-07-2019 18:23
  London School of Mosaic (LSoM) is a charity dedicated to the teaching mosaic studies to the widest cross-section of people possible. We train people school age to adult, from beginners to degree...
  
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• Free Q&A with Royal Court playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones / Samuel French Bookshop at the Royal Court Theatre / London

  10-07-2019 18:18
  Join us for a free Q&A with playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones, whose debut play seven methods of killing kylie jenneris now playing upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre.Jasmine Lee-Jones in...
  
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• Zest Session Volunteer / Bright Shadow / South East

  10-07-2019 18:15
  Bright Shadow’s mission is to enable people living with dementia, and those affected by it, to live well and to thrive. We are experts in creative activities designed specifically for people...
  
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• Vivian Perlis, Who Founded And Ran Who Founded Yale’s Oral History Of American Music, Dead At 91

  10-07-2019 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Her] oral history project includes some 3,000 recordings of interviews with composers and other major musical figures, from Aaron Copland to Elliott Carter, from Duke Ellington to John Adams. The eminent musicologist H. Wiley Hitchcock described it as an ‘incomparable resource.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Digital Executive / The Lowry / North West

  10-07-2019 17:48
  Digital Executive – 37.5 hours per week, £21,509 per annum plus staff benefits 
  The Lowry is an internationally acclaimed cultural landmark situated at the heart of MediaCityUK,...
  
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• Tracing the Sky / Jiayu Liu / North East

  10-07-2019 17:47
  12 - 8PM15 July - 20 July
  Brickworks, Barton Arcade, Manchester
  A hidden underground space in a busy city is transformed into an immersive sanctuary. Under a Victorian shopping arcade, a space...
  
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• What Happens When We Lose The Capacity To Be Bored?

  10-07-2019 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the past, work was recognized for its colonizing power, expanding tofill and dominate time itself such that there might exist no clear linebetween work hours and nonwork hours. Our current condition is worse.The Interface, leveraging boredom, makes us all into unpaid workers forthe advertisers who support those apparently cost-free platforms. Weought to recall that there is no such thing as a free transaction. Inthis species of transaction, you pay with your individuality, freedom,and happine
  
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• Brighton Part Time Chocolatier / MyChocolate / South East / Brighton

  10-07-2019 17:12
  MyChocolate is a successful, creative, independent and entrepreneurial chocolate-making events company. We’re a fun, warm and high-energy team of passionate individuals with a strong work...
  
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• Technician / The Harlequin Theatre / South East

  10-07-2019 17:11
  Join the team at the Harlequin Theatre and Cinema!
   
  Reigate & Banstead Borough Council wishes to recruit an enthusiastic technician to join our multi-skilled technical department based at...
  
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• Course Leader - BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen / Performance Preparation Academy (PPA) / South East

  10-07-2019 17:09
  Course Leader- Acting for Stage and Screen
   
  We are looking for an experienced and dynamic teacher in Higher Education to lead and deliver our Acting for Stage and Screen (AfSaS) BA Hons and...
  
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• Annabelle Lopez Ochoa On The Challenge Of Creating New Story Ballets

  10-07-2019 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s actually very hard to keep the audience engaged in the development of a story. The struggle is figuring out how literal I can be, and how much I can use the abstract aesthetic of dance to enhance an emotion as opposed to just tell the story. … Storytelling is where ballet started, and then contemporary dance took over and it was all about movement and space and music. I want to revive it, and not feel it has to be an old-fashioned form.” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Supervisor / Picturehouse Cinemas, Dukes at Komedia, Brighton / South East

  10-07-2019 16:50
  JOB TITLE  Supervisor
  To ensure the delivery of the highest standards of customer service in line with the Picturehouse Experience expectations. You will guide, support and coach Customer...
  
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• School Counsellor / The Complete Works / London

  10-07-2019 16:39
  TCW is a charity led Independent School, running an Alternative Provision that offers education to young people of all ages and abilities who are unable to access mainstream education. The reasons...
  
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• Read An Unpublished Langston Hughes Essay About An Escaped Chain Gang Prisoner

  10-07-2019 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The piece, a forward written for the Soviet edition of a novel by Georgia investigative journalist John L. Spivak, recounts an incident from the 1927 road trip Hughes took with Zora Neale Hurston in which they were flagged down on the road outside Savannah by a 15-year-old escapee. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• London's answer to New York's High Line? You must be joking

  10-07-2019 16:31
  A tree-scattered, elevated walkway through air vents, The Tide is a textbook piece of artwash and greenwash – more pointless whimsy amid the tortured cityscape of Greenwich PeninsulaAlmost 20 years since the unveiling of the Millennium Dome, which promised to transform the post-industrial wastes of the Greenwich Peninsula, the area has become a junkyard of half-baked ideas and botched plans. Emerging from the tube station, you are confronted with a cacophony of competing structures: the ti
  
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• Lead Acting Tutor / ALRA / North West

  10-07-2019 16:25
  The Lead Voice Tutor will join ALRA North’s faculty as the head of the acting department with responsibility to lead the actor training on the BA, MA & Foundation acting courses. Sound...
  
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• PA to Director of Development / Tate / London

  10-07-2019 16:20
  The art of administration and organisation
  We’re looking for an experienced PA to ensure the smooth-running of the day to day administration surrounding the work of the Director of...
  
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• Marketing and Sales Officer / Performances Birmingham Ltd / West Midlands

  10-07-2019 16:16
  Marketing & Sales OfficerSalary £21,000 – £22,000 per annum, plus benefits
  Performances Birmingham Ltd is the charitable trust that manages Town Hall Symphony Hall (THSH) as...
  
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• The Company That Tailors Broadway Musicals For School Productions Now Creates Versions For Seniors

  10-07-2019 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Into the Woods Sr. and other musicals tailored to older casts are the brainchild of Freddie Gershon, [Music Theater International’s] co-chairman, who first developed similarly shortened ‘Junior’ productions more than 20 years ago for elementary and middle schools, earning him a Tony Awards honor.” Reporter Nancy Coleman looks in on a production of the senior-ized Sondheim show. – The New York Times
  
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• Curatorial Fellow / Holburne Museum, Bath / South West

  10-07-2019 15:54
  The Holburne Museum in Bath is seeking a Curatorial Fellow to work as part of a small, busy curatorial team, assisting with both practical and project work. This newly-created role is an exciting...
  
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• Digital Print Tutor (job-share) / Royal Academy of Arts / London

  10-07-2019 15:52
  As part of its provision, digital print has become a central aspect of the Royal Academy and RA Schools teaching and creative production over the last 20 years. Working with the students, the Digital...
  
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