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• Creative Spaces Manager / Babylon ARTS / South East

  29-02-2020 23:19
  Babylon ARTS is a 25-year-old arts charity, based in the Babylon Gallery, located in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Our work has been developing over the last 12 months and focuses on two areas of...
  
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• Lighting Designer / Toad in the Hole Theatre Company / London

  29-02-2020 19:45
  Toad in the Hole Theatre Company is looking for a freelance lighting designer for our intimate, dynamic production taking place in central London at the end of March 2020....
  
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• Call for Artists: ConTEXT III / Foundry Art Centre / London / International

  29-02-2020 19:38
  ConTEXT III
  May 8, 2020 - June 19, 2020
  Deadline to enter: March 16th, 2020
  The Foundry Art Centre in Saint Charles, Missouri is seeking submissions for “ConTEXT III,” an all media...
  
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• Stephen Shore: 'People would chase me off their lawns with my Leica'

  29-02-2020 18:00
  
  Whether using a large-format camera or his handy 35mm Leica, celebrated US photographer Stephen Shore became a chronicler of ordinary life in the 70s. He discusses his new book of unseen small camera worksIn the early 1970s, Stephen Shore made a series of large-format photographs of main streets in the US. He showed them to his friend and fellow photographer, Hilla Becher, one half of a rigorously formal German photographic duo with her husband, Bernd Becher. Nearly 50 years later, Shore can sti
  
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• Assistant Curator, Sculpture / Leeds Museums and Galleries, Leeds City Council / Yorkshire

  29-02-2020 14:49
  Leeds Museums and Galleries seeks to appoint an Assistant Curator with a specialism in sculpture as part of its longstanding partnership with the Henry Moore Institute.The Leeds’ sculpture...
  
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• Assistant Curator, Lotherton (Decorative Art) / Leeds Museums and Galleries, Leeds City Council / Yorkshire

  29-02-2020 14:45
  Leeds Museums and Galleries seek to appoint an Assistant Curator with a specialism in decorative art to be based at Lotherton.The Designated collections of fine and decorative arts are wide-ranging...
  
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• Assistant Curator, Fine Art (maternity cover) / Leeds Museums and Galleries, Leeds City Council / Yorkshire

  29-02-2020 14:39
  Leeds Museums and Galleries is seeking to appoint an Assistant Curator, Fine Art with a specialism in works on paper to cover a period of maternity leave at Leeds Art Gallery.
  Leeds Museums and...
  
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• Free Workshops: Using Twine to create interactive experiences / Closed Forum / Yorkshire

  29-02-2020 13:19
  Artist Matt Allen, Closed Forum, is leading a series of free workshops in Leeds for artists and games developers who're interested in creating interactive experiences for performance.
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• Artemisia Gentileschi, the baroque #MeToo heroine who avenged her rape through art

  29-02-2020 13:01
  
  After centuries of neglect, the genius of ‘the female Caravaggio’ is being recognised with her first London showOn a recent afternoon in Florence, room 91 of the Uffizi Gallery, home to a magnificent Caravaggio, was packed with visitors.But the work they were straining to see wasn’t by the baroque master but one of his contemporaries, an artist whose life story is strikingly reminiscent of the #MeToo movement. This painter risked all to challenge the man who raped her, and spen
  
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• Why Derek Jarman’s garden must be saved | Alys Fowler

  29-02-2020 12:00
  
  The film-maker’s Prospect Cottage and inspirational garden on the Kent shingle should be preserved for future generationsProspect Cottage and its garden sit on the shingle of Dungeness, on the Kent coast, not nestled but parked among the wild and washed-up things: sea crambe, horned poppies, driftwood, flint stone, sea worn metal and flotsam. It was with these materials that Derek Jarman, the film-maker, artist and activist, started his garden in the 80s. By the time I became aware of it a
  
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• Country diary: forward into spring, back to pre-Raphaelite days

  29-02-2020 06:30
  
  Worcester Park, Sutton: Urban sprawl has engulfed the farm where Millais and Holman Hunt spent an idyllic summerThe Ordnance Survey app on my phone tells me where I am, but I’m finding the question of when I am trickier. In travelling 250 miles south to a south-western suburb of London, I’ve hopped almost two weeks forward in the schedule of blossom, bulb and birdsong, and 170 years back in the company I’m keeping. The first morning, I heard my first song thrush, mistle thrush
  
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• Art (Graphics) Instructor (Reg FT 10 month, with benefits)

  29-02-2020 05:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The primary responsibilities of the faculty are to teach and to develop the curriculum.Art (Graphics) Instructor (Reg FT 10 month, with benefits)Position Title: Art (Graphics) Instructor (Reg FT 10 month, with benefits)
  Department: Art
  Campus: Allegheny CampusAdditional Information: This position will remain open until filled.However, in order to ensure consideration for an interview, pleasesubmit your completed application, cover letter and resume by no laterthan March 12, 2020. The College ca
  
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• Betrayal Of Education: America’s College Adjunct Crisis

  29-02-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, 25 percent ofpart-time faculty nationally rely on public assistance programs. In1969, 78 percent of instructional staff at US institutions of highereducation were tenured or on the tenure track; today, after decades ofinstitutional expansion amid stagnant or dwindling budgets, the figureis 33 percent. More than one million workers now serve as nonpermanentfaculty in the US, constituting 50 percent of the instructionalworkforce at public Ph.D.-granting i
  
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