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• Journalism Is Broken. Can It Be Saved?

  10-02-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What has happened in journalism in the twenty-first century is aversion, perhaps an extreme one, of what has happened in many fields. Ablind faith that market forces and new technologies would always producea better society has resulted in more inequality, the heedlessdismantling of existing arrangements that had real value, and aheightened gap in influence, prosperity, and happiness between thedominant cities and the provinces.– New York Review of Books
  
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• Something Is Going Wrong At The Glasgow School Of Art After A Bad Fire. So Why Fire A Whistleblower For Talking?

  10-02-2020 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than 70 staff have left the GSA since a second fire devastated the Mackintosh building in June 2018. Last month Gordon Gibb was sacked for breach of contract for giving his views on failings at the GSA. Whenhe gave evidence at the Scottish Parliament’s culture committee, hecalled for the iconic building to be taken out of the hands of its boardfollowing the two fires. – Sunday Post (Glasgow)
  
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• All Objects Have Meaning – So How Do Museums Contextualize Shame?

  10-02-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As museums face increasing pressure to be responsive to historicalintersections and contradictions in their presentation of works, it canbe risky to introduce audiences, who otherwise might not seek complexityborn out of conflict, to objects that may provoke embarrassment orpain. Yet some institutions still believe generating this tension is anecessary step toward reconciliation. Perhaps there is no more powerfulfeeling provoked by a museum than shame, which extends beyond theinitial encounter
  
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• Artists Talk: Vanessa Jackson RA, 28 February 6.30 to 8.30pm / The Essential School of Painting / London

  10-02-2020 22:22
  We are delighted to announce the painter Vanessa Jackson RA will be giving a talk on her work at The Essential School of Painting followed by a question and answer session
  Vanessa Jackson,...
  
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• What If The Tech Revolution Was Just An Illusion Of Progress?

  10-02-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ross Douthat: “What if the feeling of acceleration is an illusion, conjured by ourexpectations of perpetual progress and exaggerated by the distortingfilter of the internet? What if we — or at least we in the developedworld, in America and Europe and the Pacific Rim — really inhabit an erain which repetition is more the norm than invention; in which stalematerather than revolution stamps our politics; in which sclerosis afflictspublic institutions and private life alike; in wh
  
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• Meaning Is More Important Than Happiness (The Path To One Is The Other)

  10-02-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Given that psychological pain is so ubiquitous, we should focus less onwhat might make us happy, and more on achieving a sense of meaning,regardless of how we’re feeling.– Aeon
  
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• Here’s How Hard It Is For Musicians To Make A Living From Streaming (Spoiler Alert: You Really Can’t)

  10-02-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For example, Taylor Swift’s song “Shake It Off” had a whopping 46.3 million streamsin 2017 and earned between $280,000 and $390,000, according to onereport. Swift, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, will generate morestreams with one song than most musicians can accumulate in a lifetime. Another study by Digital Music News found that Pandora had the highest per-playroyalty rate. At Pandora’s 1.68 cents per play, a musician would needabout 114,149 plays to earn t
  
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• Singing & Signing: How Christine Sun Kim Brought Her Whitney-Biennial “Rage” to the Super Bowl

  10-02-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After making a powerful impression at last year’s Whitney Biennial with her six drawings of pie charts plotting Degrees of Deaf Rage, deaf artist Christine Sun Kim reached a much wider, more diverse audience — at the Super Bowl. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• The Best of the “Black Symphonies”

  10-02-2020 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the past decade, both William Grant Still and Florence Price have acquired new prominence. But the buried treasure is William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony of 1934. – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• Assistant Director / Bath Spa University / South West

  10-02-2020 20:50
  Bath Spa Productions is looking for an Assistant Director for Carmen 
  For full details go to https://www.producerworks.org/jobsJob Purpose
  To support the Director in the creation...
  
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• Roberto Magris And Two Good Czechs

  10-02-2020 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An Italian of Slovenian ancestry who grew up in Trieste, pianist Roberto Magris frequently tours in Europe and the United States. Here, we see and hear him and his colleagues in the Birdland Jazz Club in Neuburg a.d. Donau, Germany. – Doug Ramsey
  
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• Trump Versus Architecture Is Really Trump Versus Experts

  10-02-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The proposal would allow Trump to create a “President’s Committee forthe Re-Beautification of Federal Architecture” which would enforce thisdesign mandate, and this panel would exclude “artists, architects,engineers, art or architecture critics, members of the building industryor any other members of the public that are affiliated with anyinterest group or organization” involved in architecture. Speaking as anarchitecture critic, this is insane and borderline-total
  
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• New Book Claims: Brubeck Rehearsal Tapes Show Legendary Band Struggling Mightily

  10-02-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Philip Clark, author of a forthcoming book on Brubeck, the Americanjazz legend, has for the first time gained access to 1959 recordingsthat had lain forgotten in a Californian archive until now. He was taken aback to hear a completely different rhythmic groove andBrubeck’s quartet struggling to make sense of it. “It sounds like a badstudent jazz band,” he said. – The Guardian
  
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• Choir Leaders / The People's Show Choirs / West Midlands / UK

  10-02-2020 19:49
  Salary: £40 per hour – the equivalent of £3,200 to £76,000 a year
  Guaranteed minimum income. Teach, perform, and join a leading UK Music Charity
  A minimum commitment of one...
  
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• Why Would Trump Attack Modernist Buildings?

  10-02-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Kimmelman: “It almost seems conceived to provoke supporters of both modernarchitecture and architectural diversity. It’s a shiny object, Twitterbait. The populists versus the elites. Outrage enraptures PresidentTrump’s base. It’s a win-win for him.” – The New York Times
  
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• A $20,000 artwork accidentally destroyed by a critic? That's nothing!

  10-02-2020 18:51
  
  I sympathise with the critic who smashed Gabriel Rico’s sheet of glass work. I once knocked a priceless artefact off the director of the Louvre’s deskArt critics, by our very nature, are prone to taking violently against inanimate objects. Yet we are also given exclusive access to precious masterpieces, with minimal supervision. Now the inevitable has happened. Art critic Avelina Lésper has destroyed a $20,000 piece by Gabriel Rico at an art fair in Mexico City. She says the o
  
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• Projects Assistant (internship) / PRS Foundation / London

  10-02-2020 18:43
  PRS Foundation is the UK's leading charitable funder of new music and talent development. Since 2000 PRS Foundation has given more than £35 million to over 7,300 new music initiatives by...
  
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• Chief Executive / Live Theatre / North East

  10-02-2020 18:37
  Live Theatre, Newcastle, one of the UK’s great new writing theatres, is looking for a new Chief Executive with exceptional experience as an inspirational cultural leader.
  ‘One of the...
  
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• Tom Lutz, Man Of Writing

  10-02-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He founded the LA Review of Books. He argues for LA as the center of the book publishing industry.Now he’s written a novel as he follows the Kerouac school of writing. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Head of Communications / Create / London

  10-02-2020 18:29
  Are you ambitious, driven, committed and creative? Do you have extensive communications / PR skills and experience? Would you like to make your mark on a multi award-winning charity at a time of...
  
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• 'Leach Studio Potters: 100 Years On' Exhibition / Leach Pottery / South West

  10-02-2020 18:28
  The Leach Pottery presents an exhibition of diverse personal work from each member of its international Studio team. The inaugural exhibition of the Leach 100 centenary celebrations, ‘Leach...
  
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• Call for Artists Wotisart #37 (April 2020) / Wotisart Magazine / East / North East, North West, Yorkshire, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East, South West, London

  10-02-2020 18:23
  Wotisart is a portfolio magazine. Our goal is to allow unknown artists an avenue to show their work and gain some recognition in the industry and also to answer the question... What is art? We are...
  
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• JPN Communications Manager / Jazz Promotion Network / UK wide

  10-02-2020 18:11
  The Jazz Promotion Network (JPN) was established in 2015 as a membership organisation to provide support for the jazz sector across the UK and Ireland. Membership is open to promoters, managers,...
  
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• General Management Assistant / The Really Useful Group / London

  10-02-2020 18:09
  CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 MONTHS
  The Really Useful Group are looking for a General Management Assistant to join our busy General Management Office. The main focus of the role is to support the General...
  
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• JPN Network Manager / Jazz Promotion Network / UK wide

  10-02-2020 18:05
  The Jazz Promotion Network (JPN) was established in 2015 as a membership organisation to provide support for the jazz sector across the UK and Ireland. Membership is open to promoters, managers,...
  
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• Amazon Has Been Banning Objectionable Books (Think Neo-Nazi) From Its Platform. Is That A Problem?

  10-02-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While few may lament the disappearance of these hate-filled books, theincreasing number of banished titles has set off concern among some ofthe third-party booksellers who stock Amazon’s vast virtual shelves.Amazon, they said, seems to operate under vague or nonexistent rules. – The New York Times
  
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• Lead Designer / Brighton Dome & Festival / South East

  10-02-2020 17:32
  Full Time – Permanent
  Salary: £21,500 Per Annum
  Are you a graphic designer with a keen interest in the arts?
  Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival is looking for a full-time Designer...
  
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• Protests Over Plans To Kill New Zealand’s Only Classical Radio Station

  10-02-2020 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The station draws about 170,000 listeners a week in New Zealand,heavily skewed towards those aged 65 and older, according to thebroadcaster. But fans mobilised last week when Radio New Zealand proposed to throw outits classical arm’s FM station in May, replacing it with a youth radiochannel in August. Some 18 jobs would be eliminated, with new rolescreated at the youth station, RNZ said. – The Guardian
  
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• Freelance opportunities for filmmakers & illustrators/animators / University of Cambridge / South East

  10-02-2020 17:21
  The University of Cambridge Public Engagement Team just launched new calls for the 'Cambridge Creative Encounters'. These are payed freelance collaborations between University researchers and...
  
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• Maker's Eye / Crafts Council / London

  10-02-2020 17:20
  Maker's Eye28 March - 20 June 2020Crafts Council Gallery, 44a Pentonville Road, N1 9BYWednesday - Saturday 11.00 - 17.00FREE ADMISSION
  What does craft mean to you? 
  Does craft need to be...
  
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• School Engagement Manager / Guildhall School of Music & Drama / London

  10-02-2020 17:19
  The School Engagement Manager will be responsible for ensuring that the Barbican and Guildhall School's world class arts and learning offer is made available to, and engages, schools and colleges...
  
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• Get the Geiger counter! The Scholar Stones Project – review

  10-02-2020 17:16
  
  Holden Gallery, ManchesterRussian artist Yelena Popova collected stones from atomic power stations and turned them into art – to remind us of how long nuclear waste will lastUp and down the UK, stern concrete structures stare silently out across the sea. Behind barbed wire fences in a blossoming natural landscape, these decommissioned first-generation nuclear power plants are now untouchable tombs for the graphite reactor cores that can’t be moved for 80 to 100 years. Though these q
  
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• Studio Technician / Say Fromage Ltd / London

  10-02-2020 17:15
  As a Say Fromage Studio Technician you will be key to making our activations a success. Ensuring that all projects are provided with the correct equipment in good working order and complete to...
  
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• Collect: International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design / Crafts Council / London

  10-02-2020 17:12
  Collect: The International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design is at Somerset House from 27 February - 1 March, 2020.
  Collect is the only gallery-presented art fair dedicated to...
  
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• TILT 2020 Circus Festival Ticket Offers / RoguePlay Theatre / West Midlands

  10-02-2020 17:11
  TILT FESTIVAL IS BACK FOR 2020!
  We are celebrating our fifth year with seven awesome days of classes and performances from international circus artists. And this year we have an exclusive ticket...
  
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• Managing Producer / Chris Goode & Company / London

  10-02-2020 17:06
  Chris Goode & Company is a theatre company making performance projects across a wide range of contexts. Working as a fluid ensemble of makers, our principal aim is to create welcoming spaces for...
  
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• A Black, Gay Writer Takes On The Traditional Campus Narrative

  10-02-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Brandon Taylor always felt that he had to choose between science and writing. “Throughout his undergraduate years at Auburn University at Montgomery and graduate school in Wisconsin … science often won. But when he received an acceptance letter from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he decided that, this time, writing would win. ‘I could survive not having science, but I couldn’t survive not having writing,’ he said.” – The New York Times
  
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• Volunteer Coordinator / Derby Theatre / East Midlands

  10-02-2020 16:58
  The Derby Creative Arts Network (CAN) will programme cultural events (theatre, music, outdoor and indoor arts experiences) in community settings across the city. We’ll also be putting events...
  
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• Producer- DerbyCAN / Derby Theatre / East Midlands

  10-02-2020 16:55
  The Derby Creative Arts Network (CAN) will programme cultural events (theatre, music, outdoor and indoor arts experiences) in community settings across the city. We’ll also be putting events...
  
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• Community Manager- DerbyCAN / Derby Theatre / East Midlands

  10-02-2020 16:51
  The Derby Creative Arts Network (CAN) will programme cultural events (theatre, music, outdoor and indoor arts experiences) in community settings across the city. We’ll also be putting events...
  
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• Assistant Learning Curator: Public Programmes / Tate / South West / St. Ives

  10-02-2020 16:48
  Play an integral role in Tate St Ives Learning programmes for all audiences.
  This is your chance to bring your knowledge and experience of working with people in an educational, community, museum or...
  
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• Temporary Festival Assistant / Make It York / Yorkshire

  10-02-2020 16:42
  Make It York is looking for an enthusiastic and creative individual to take on the temporary role of Festival Assistant for Bloom! 2020, which takes place in June in York. This is a varied and...
  
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• Sales and Marketing Assistant / Cambridge Arts Theatre / East

  10-02-2020 16:35
  Cambridge Arts Theatre is looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual for the exciting new position of Sales and Marketing Assistant.
  This is a well-supported and varied entry-level role...
  
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• Participate / A3 Project Space / West Midlands

  10-02-2020 16:32
  PARTICIPATE: March - September 2020
  Participate is a programme led by A3 studio members who will deliver 3 projects to support creative practitioners in the West Midlands and 3 projects to...
  
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• Anonymous Used To Be A Woman, But Now Is A Secret Identity For Spill-All Political Writers

  10-02-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not just politicians, of course, in our age of surveillance and social media. “Here is someone who – by concealing their identity – can reveal the complete and shocking truth. Many anonymous authors say this is precisely why they’ve chosen to remain hidden. The Secret Barrister, whose anonymous exposé of the [British] criminal justice system was published in 2018, explains from behind the barrier of email: ‘Anonymity means I can criticise ins
  
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• Project Planning for Artists / A3 Project Space / West Midlands

  10-02-2020 16:18
  Project Planning for Artists is a programme for creative practitioners in planning an art project and writing a funding application.
  The course of workshops and 1-2-1 sessions will be...
  
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• Photoshop Technician / ADL Studios / London

  10-02-2020 16:09
  ADL Studios is a Peckham based global surface design agency working in both the fine art and decor industries.  We are currently looking for a highly competent Photoshop technician to join us on...
  
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• The Wolves in the Walls: A Weekend Workout / Little Angel Theatre / London

  10-02-2020 16:08
  This two-day intensive workshop led by director/designer Toby Olié gives participants the chance to explore the creative and rehearsal processes of adapting Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s...
  
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• Communications Officer / Derby Theatre / East Midlands

  10-02-2020 16:07
  The Derby Creative Arts Network (CAN) will programme cultural events (theatre, music, outdoor and indoor arts experiences) in community settings across the city. We’ll also be putting events...
  
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• Hand Shadow Masterclass / Little Angel Theatre / London

  10-02-2020 16:03
  This masterclass explores the ancient art form of shadowgraphy – making moving pictures with your shadow. In the course participants will learn practical physical warm-ups, general hand...
  
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