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• US Army To Create New “Monuments Men” Unit To Try To Save Artifacts

  21-10-2019 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Army is forming a new unit with a similar mandate to be composed ofcommissioned officers of the Army Reserves who are museum directors orcurators, archivists, conservators and archaeologists in addition to newrecruits with those qualifications. They will be based at the ArmyCivil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C.– The New York Times
  
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• San Francisco To Make Its Busiest Street Car-Free

  21-10-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It can’t be overlooked that San Francisco has someheavyweight car-free peers. Once, pedestrianized urban cores werelargely the domain of enlightened mid-sized cities in northern Europe.But now Paris and Barcelona have expanded the concept, and Toronto ismulling a car blockade for multiple downtown corridors.London charges a pricy fee for vehicles entering its busy streets, andNew York City will follow with its own congestion pricing scheme in2021.” – CityLab
  
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• Orange County’s Segerstrom Center Gets A New Leader

  21-10-2019 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  He’s Casy Reitz, currently executive director of New York’s Second Stage. “Before taking the position at the Second Stage Theater in September of2010, Reitz was director of development at the Public Theater anddirector of individual giving at Manhattan Theatre Club. He holds amaster’s in fine arts in theater management from Yale School of Dramaand an undergraduate degree in theater from the University of Alabama.” – Voice of OC
  
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• Art, meet the future. York Mediale to return 21-25 October 2020 / York Mediale / Yorkshire

  21-10-2019 22:32
  A 365 day countdown has begun to York Mediale, the UK’s leading celebration of digital and media arts. Taking place over four days, from 21 – 25 October, the festival promises a...
  
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• Reading As An Active Sport (No Really)

  21-10-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The main contention of What We Talk About When We Talk About Books– that reading print can be a sociable, active, and even seditiousactivity – is so sensible that it seems incredible that this long-form,evidence-based case hasn’t been made before. Why does it matter? Perhapsnot only because we should think about whether our fantasies about theprinted word are true, but also because we should ask why theseparticular fantasies have become so dominant.”– Times
  
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• Humans Say: Music is Not An Algorithm

  21-10-2019 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The current streaming culture we find ourselves in marks music and wideopen spaces of exploration into nothing more than a commodity, andbecause of this, we’re increasingly driven away from music’s way ofconnecting us all, that deep resonating force that helps us experienceand process the weird wonder that is life.” I Care If You Listen
  
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• Studies: Acting Changes Actors’ Brains

  21-10-2019 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Until recently, this debate over whether actors literally losethemselves in their roles was largely a matter of conjecture. However, apair of research papers in psychology published this year has providedsome concrete evidence, and results suggest that actors’ sense of selfis changed profoundly by their characters.” – Aeon
  
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• Confronting the MoMA Monster: How Its Rehang Lynches the Collection

  21-10-2019 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  How do I not love the Museum of Modern Art’s reinstallation of its permanent collection in it expanded, renovated galleries? Let me count the ways. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Solomon Volkov on Stalin and Shostakovich

  21-10-2019 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Stalin: “People underestimate the level of control that Stalin maintained. I once tried to count the number of people in the arts that Stalin controlled personally – it was close to one thousand. This was Stalin’s habit.”On Shostakovich: “I wouldn’t dare to record him [in an interview]. He was mortally afraid of a microphone.” – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• Recent Listening: “New” Ones By Anne Phillips And Roger Kellaway

  21-10-2019 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Until recently, it may have seemed that the singer and songwriter Anne Phillips had resigned as a performer. She had not. Coincidentally, one of her colleagues on her most recent album, pianist Roger Kellaway, has a new disc of his own. – Doug Ramsey
  
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• The twenty-five record albums that changed my life (5)

  21-10-2019 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  After watching Leonard Bernstein’s “Bach Transmogrified” Young People’s Concert (back when I was a young person), I went to Smalltown USA’s local music store the very next day hoping to find a recording of one miraculous piece. I did, and I’ve been listening to it ever since. – Terry Teachout
  
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• A Star Architect Who Recycles And Rebuilds For Those In Need

  21-10-2019 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shigeru Ban, a designer of houses and visitors’ centers and condominiums andtowers, is perhaps more famous as a designer of emergency shelters, forpeople suffering from earthquakes and floods, for people escapingviolence and genocide. For them, he has employed a signature material —recycled paper tubes of variable length and thickness. – The New York Times
  
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• Economists Make The Case For Studying Humanities

  21-10-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  As humanities majors slump to the lowest level in decades, calls arecoming from surprising places for a revival. Some prominent economistsare making the case for why it still makes a lot of sense to major (orat least take classes) in humanities alongside more technical fields. – Washington Post
  
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• Female Performer / Spiltmilk Dance / East Midlands / West Midlands

  21-10-2019 19:43
  Spiltmilk Dance are on the hunt for a Performer to learn Desert Island Flicks for Spring/Summer 2020 tour dates.
  A blockbuster, adventure and rom com rolled into one, Desert Island...
  
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• Development Manager / The Charterhouse / London

  21-10-2019 19:39
  The Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery in London, to the north of what is now Charterhouse Square, in the middle of the City of London. Since the dissolution of the monasteries in the...
  
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• Glass Blowing Generates Significant Amounts Of Greenhouse Gasses. What To Do?

  21-10-2019 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  While the glass art industry blows oxygen and life into intricate glasschandeliers, vases, bowls and complex sculptures, it also consumes heftyamounts of natural gas and propane while filling the air literally withtons of carbon dioxide. Other issues, like heavy metal pollution andlow levels of recycling, add to the industry’s sustainability concerns. – Crosscut
  
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• Director / Art Fund / London

  21-10-2019 19:20
  The Art Fund is an independent membership-based charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as...
  
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• Ballet Teacher - Bexleyheath Area / Ballet For Kids / South East / London

  21-10-2019 19:00
  Hello,
  Looking for a teacher to deliver 2 ballet classes for children 3+. 
  Saturday sessions will be in the Bexleyheath area. 
  We have a solid and straight forward fun syllabus.
  Info on...
  
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• Reversal: WNYC Decides Not To Cancel “New Sounds”

  21-10-2019 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It has become clear to me that John and Caryn Havlik’s work isdistinct, inimitable, and intrinsically New York—and that this belovedteam must stay with us. A show like New Sounds can only be produced by public radio, and specifically at NYPR,” station CEO Goli Sheikholeslami wrote in her email. – Gothamist
  
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• Preview: The Dark Arts Exhibition / Candid Arts / London

  21-10-2019 18:29
  Candid Arts has the pleasure of inviting you to the opening of the DARK ARTS Exhibition.The Dark Arts exhibition will be a group mixed media show organised by Candid Arts Trust exploring the dark...
  
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• Three New Company Dancers / Candoco Dance Company / London

  21-10-2019 18:28
  Candoco Dance Company – a world-leading professional dance company for disabled and non-disabled dancers – is looking for three dancers to join the company to tour nationally and...
  
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• Background Studies, Hues of Labour by James Smith / Fermynwoods Contemporary Art / East Midlands / Northamptonshire

  21-10-2019 18:28
  Fermynwoods Associate Artist James Smith has been exploring Fineshade Wood to understand the Forestry Commission’s pragmatic and logical reasoning of spot marking trees for...
  
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• Frame Drum (Middle Eastern Percussion) Workshops 23rd Nov / Frame Drums UK / London / South Hackney

  21-10-2019 18:25
  It's time again to tune in to your heart beat with frame drumming!Beginners: 11AM- 1PM. Learn and/or revise basic strokes and rhythms on upright poistion; develop sense of pulse and coordination;...
  
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• Events and Filming Coordinator / Imperial War Museums / East

  21-10-2019 18:21
  As part of this exciting role you will be delivering the on-site commercial filming, managing client(s) and overseeing their time on site. In addition to this you will manage commercial events for a...
  
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• E-Commerce Executive / The Ambassador Theatre Group, 39-41 Charing Cross Road / London

  21-10-2019 18:07
  You'll be responsible for the day to day management, maintenance and optimisation of websites to continually improve conversion and drive online sales growth.The Ambassador Theatre Group is an...
  
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• Freelance Journalists In California Freak Out That New Uber Law Would Apply To Them

  21-10-2019 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  If a freelance journalist writes for a magazine, newspaper or otherentity whose central mission is to disseminate the news, the law says,that journalist is capped at writing 35 “submissions” per year per“putative employer.” At a time when paid freelance stories can bewritten for a low end of $25 and high end of $1 per word, some meet thatcap in a month just to make end’s meet. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Technical Stage Manager (Tale Trail) / New Vic Theatre / West Midlands

  21-10-2019 17:53
  Technical Stage Manager
  2 December 2019 to 4 January 2020 Wage £495 per week UK Theatre/Equity Contract
  We are looking for an experienced Technical Stage Manager to run, manage and operate...
  
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• York Ceramics Fair 2019 / / Yorkshire

  21-10-2019 17:32
  Discover Britain’s brightest ceramicists at this Autumn's York Ceramics Fair, when leading potters from the UK and beyond will be showcasing a stunning selection of their beautifully...
  
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• Klaus Friedeberger, Abstract Painter Who Found Inspiration In The Australian Outback, Has Died At 97

  21-10-2019 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Friedeberger was inspired by his time as a European refugee in Australia during WWII. “Whereas many abstract painters of the 60s were working on a large scale with fields of unmodulated colour that emphasised the flatness of the surface of the painting, Friedeberger eventually eschewed colour altogether. Working unfashionably on an easel, he made small, modest monochromatic paintings of abstracted forms that advanced, receded or hovered in space within the confines of a square canvas, nev
  
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• Loans Registrar / National Portrait Gallery / London

  21-10-2019 17:06
  Loans Registrar£34,500 per annum
  Full-time, 40 hours per week
  Permanent role
  The Gallery is looking for a Loans Registrar to manage and administer all short and long term loans from the...
  
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• Lancaster Words 2019 tickets available / / North West

  21-10-2019 17:04
  Lancaster Words is a three-day celebration of the written and spoken word that is being run by the Department of English Literature & Creative Writing at Lancaster University. It features...
  
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• Front of House Assistants / Coliseum Theatre / North West / Oldham

  21-10-2019 17:02
  Front of House Assistants are crucial members of the Customer Services team, maintaining service standards and ensuring sales are maximised and that the customer experience is always of the highest...
  
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• Chair of Trustees, and Trustee x3 / Frantic Assembly / London

  21-10-2019 16:57
  Frantic Assembly is one of the UK’s leading theatre companies. Led by Artistic Director and co-founder Scott Graham, its unique method of devising theatre has been inspiring audiences and...
  
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• Actors who can teach French/ Italian/ Mandarin / Play with Languages / London

  21-10-2019 16:52
  We teach languages through acting and playing.Yes, it's for adults!
  And we are looking for teachers!
  If you are an experienced teacher of French, Mandarin or Italian.
  If you have acting...
  
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• Entries Closing Soon: Art Maze at Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf / Exhibit Here / London

  21-10-2019 16:32
  With over 350 entries already received for Exhibit Here’s Art Maze at Bargehouse (if you're interested click here to view them on our website!) spaces are filling up and with the...
  
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• New series of contemporary Greek exhibitions launches in London / Varvara Roza / London

  21-10-2019 16:23
  Managing all the cultural activiities in the huge metropolitan district of Thessalonki is one of the strings to the bow of Greek politician and entrepreneur Varvara Roza. She served as Deputy Major...
  
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• More than Mona Lisa: Louvre's Leonardo da Vinci is a blockbuster with brains

  21-10-2019 16:23
  Louvre, Paris
  From a windmill-punk helicopter to a VR Mona Lisa that the artist himself would have loved, this show blows away his old-master reputation to present a relentlessly modern mind At first sight, the Louvre’s grand Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, the most keenly awaited event of his 500th anniversary year, might look like a wasted opportunity. Disputes with Italian museums – and a general resistance to letting the gallery that happens to own the Mona Lisa appoint itself Leon
  
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• Greater than the Mona Lisa: Leonardo’s windmill punk dreams come alive at the Louvre

  21-10-2019 16:23
  Louvre, Paris
  From a windmill-punk helicopter to a VR Mona Lisa that the artist himself would have loved, this show blows away his old-master reputation to present a relentlessly modern mind At first sight, the Louvre’s grand Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, the most keenly awaited event of his 500th anniversary year, might look like a wasted opportunity. Disputes with Italian museums – and a general resistance to letting the gallery that happens to own the Mona Lisa appoint itself Leon
  
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• Activity Engagement and Volunteer Manager / Linacre Methodist Mission / North West

  21-10-2019 16:04
  Linacre Methodist Mission in Bootle, Liverpool, has received a substantial grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the conservation and refurbishment of The Albert Walker Hall and the...
  
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• Teaching Assistant / PQA Amersham / South East

  21-10-2019 15:54
  The Pauline Quirke Academy in Amersham has vacancies for teaching assistants to help with the teaching of performing arts to their students aged from 4-18 years old
  Ideally, you will also have...
  
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• Fundraising Coordinator / Curve Theatre / East Midlands

  21-10-2019 15:54
  We have an exciting entry-level opportunity for an enthusiastic and hardworking individual to join the fundraising team as Fundraising Coordinator and contribute to the continued growth of...
  
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• Marketer (part-time, remote) for Actor Training Company / The Salon:Collective / London / Remote

  21-10-2019 15:44
  About us:The salon:collective is a small actor training, writer development and theatre production company run by two company directors. For an overview of the acting classes we offer please go...
  
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• Theatre & Events Intern, 3 month / SP Productions / London

  21-10-2019 15:28
  An opportunity to get hands-on learning experience across all areas in a studio theatre and events space in Islington N1.Well suited to recent graduates or people looking to make a career change...
  
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• Video and Digital Media Producer / Science Museum - South Kensington / London

  21-10-2019 15:24
  Do you have experience of making high quality video material? Would you like to work at a world-class Museum?
  The Science Museum is focussed on developing new, interactive, exhibitions that share...
  
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• Chair of the Board / Talawa Theatre Company / London

  21-10-2019 15:21
  Talawa was founded in 1986 by Yvonne Brewster, Carmen Munroe, Mona Hammond and Inigo Espejel, in response to the lack of creative opportunities for Black actors and the marginalisation of Black...
  
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• Retail Sales Assistant / Russell & Chapple / London

  21-10-2019 15:17
  Job Profile / Duties
  We are seeking committed and professional staff to work in our retail store. This position would suit someone with retail experience and an interest in artists' materials,...
  
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• life drawing + live music / K5 Studio / London

  21-10-2019 14:53
  A series of life drawing sessions with a twist - live music every session. Exclusive autumn series. As the nights draw in, cosy up and concentrate on the human form and your representation of it....
  
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• Prop Maker / Royal Opera House / London

  21-10-2019 14:28
  The Royal Opera House produces some of the best opera and ballet in the world and is seeking to appoint a full time Prop Maker on a permanent basis.
  The successful candidate will manufacture, repair...
  
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• Artist/Writer Assistant / working directly with the artist / London

  21-10-2019 13:58
  Writer, life-coach, artist, looking for assistant who can help with professional video making, research, writing and preparing for TED talks and materials for my coaching...
  
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• Logo Designer / Heifer Productions / London / Yorkshire

  21-10-2019 13:49
  Seeking a logo designer for new theatre company, Heifer Productions.
  Heifer Productions celebrates our cultural heritage through theatre and storytelling and is looking for an individual to create a...
  
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