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• Visitor Services and Retail Coordinator (2 days) / Museum of Brands / London

  08-03-2020 22:00
  The person in this role will be responsible for the commercial success of our retail offer and the day to day running of the museum when they are on site. Core responsibilities include helping to...
  
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• New Interest In Iranian Art, Partly Because So Many Artists Are Living In Exile

  08-03-2020 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Artists who fled the 1979 revolution with their families – especially if they were young – are seeing a renewed interest in their work from British and US buyers. But there’s “a growing gap between artists of the diaspora and those living in Iran, where economic hardship, sanctions and a collapsing currency mean that artists are unable to buy colors or canvases, or to have their work exhibited by Tehran-based gallerists at international fairs.” – The New York
  
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• The Irish Photographer Who Won A Pulitzer Prize, Was Banned By India, And Quit

  08-03-2020 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cathal McNaughton was returning to Delhi after winning a Pulitzer Prize for his photography of desperate Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar. “Without explanation, the Indian authorities escorted him back to the plane he’d flown in on and marched him down the aisle to his seat. Before he was fully aware of it, he found himself flying back to Toronto. His job, his apartment, his friends, his possessions: all were left behind in Delhi. McNaughton’s life, as he had known it up unti
  
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• A French Sex Columnist Says It’s Not Possible – Or Desirable – To Separate The Art From The Artist

  08-03-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Maïa Mazurette says the times have changed because our context has changed: “Not only does the recognition of our sexual, artistic and worldly continuity allow us to protect ourselves, to come together, to connect with ourselves and with others, but it frees us from obsolete hierarchical codes that want art to shine above everyday life … while sexuality would be relegated to the underground and the obscene.” – Le Monde
  
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• On International Women’s Day, The Art World Asks Whether Feminist Shows Can Change The World

  08-03-2020 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As everyone who’s glanced at anything Guerrilla Girls-related knows, collections across the U.S. are less than welcoming to women and nonbinary artists. A new initiative seeks to change that. One curator says, “It’s diving into our history and examining who was and wasn’t collected. … It’s taking a critical lens to our own collecting practices.” – The New York Times
  
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• Community Choir looking for members - free to attend! / Cossall Community Choir / London

  08-03-2020 19:34
  Led by experienced community musician Steve Barbe. 
  World, folk and traditional styles, plus the odd classic popular song from the jazz/swing era up to 1980s.
  Everyone welcome.
  Every Friday...
  
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• Big Tech Conferences Are Getting Canceled, And That May Be A Good Thing For Humanity

  08-03-2020 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically, access to tech could become more equitable if the conferences go online. “There are developers across the U.S. and around the world who get shut out when the conferences get sold out. Even more of them simply can’t afford the admission fee (last year’s WWDC was $1,599) and travel expenses required to spend time in the Bay Area or Seattle.” – Fast Company
  
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• The Children’s Museum Of Manhattan Wants To Alter A Landmarked Church

  08-03-2020 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The neighborhood response is not going well for the museum. “Preservationists and community members called the proposed changes ‘cultural vandalism.’ ‘Why buy a church if you don’t like the windows, when you knew that they were landmarked when you purchased it?'” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Creative Spaces Manager / Babylon ARTS / East

  08-03-2020 18:44
  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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• Inception Times 1250 As Author Sets A ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Style Record

  08-03-2020 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seriously, this book has a lot of endings. – Sri Lanka Mirror
  
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• Alan Turner, Artist Who Painted Oddly Disturbing Trees And Body Parts, Has Died At 76

  08-03-2020 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Turner drew on surrealism, abstract expressionism, and much more for his works. “In recent years, spurred by cardboard shelters in the homeless encampments along the Tiber River that he saw on his frequent trips to Rome, he developed a ‘Box House’ series, mostly in graphite, that explored not only those but all sorts of boxes that harbor all sorts of things.” – The New York Times
  
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• What The Likely To Spread Festival Cancellations Mean For Movie And Music Makers

  08-03-2020 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As festivals in the US, France, Italy and elsewhere cancel because of fears of COVID-19, producers struggle to stay positive. Kelly Oxford, whose movie Pink Skies Ahead was supposed to premiere on opening night of SXSW, wrote, “While I’m devastated at losing this world premiere at a festival I love, I’m happy that the health of others is still more valuable than anything and we are protecting each other.” – CBC
  
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• Skywhale soars once again in the skies over Canberra

  08-03-2020 17:30
  
  The 30-metre inflatable balloon returns after nearly six years but without her ‘strong and gentle’ partner Skywhalepapa For six years, nine months and 27 days Canberra’s skies had missed her. But on Monday morning one of Australia’s most memorable and polarising artworks, the bulbous and beautiful Skywhale, was home.At dawn the 30-metre inflatable balloon with “a calm, benign expression” and 10 pendulous teats soared once again through a sky deprived for so lo
  
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• Skywhale returns to Canberra ahead of Skywhalepapa's arrival

  08-03-2020 17:30
  
  The 30-metre inflatable balloon returns after nearly six years but without her ‘strong and gentle’ partner Skywhalepapa, who has been delayedFor six years, nine months and 27 days Canberra’s skies had missed her. But on Monday morning one of Australia’s most memorable and polarising artworks, the bulbous and beautiful Skywhale, was home.At dawn the 30-metre inflatable balloon with “a calm, benign expression” and 10 pendulous teats floated once again through a
  
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• Glastonbury and Hay festival organisers press on despite coronavirus fears

  08-03-2020 17:05
  
  Most UK events, theatres and museums yet to be affected by outbreak Coronavirus – live updatesThose in charge of theatres, galleries, concert halls, arts centres and festivals in the UK are all busy with contingency planning, but most have not yet been significantly affected by the coronavirus outbreak.The London book fair, which was scheduled to run from 10-12 March, has been one of the highest-profile cancellations but organisers of other mass participation events taking place in the spr
  
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• Associate Fine Art Technician / Cromwell Place / London

  08-03-2020 17:01
  Cromwell Place is a membership organisation building a thriving community for the arts, with a reputation for the quality and professionalism of its members. Five historic Grade II listed buildings...
  
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• Arts Festival Director / Westival / Mayo, Ireland

  08-03-2020 16:47
  The Arts Festival Director is responsible for the overall creative programme, management, finance and administration as well as the operational health of this well-established annual celebration of...
  
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• The Currency of Freedom / Haringey Shed / London

  08-03-2020 15:38
  A new and exciting theatre production by Marlon Kameka and Haringey Shed. 
  THE CURRENCY OF FREEDOM 
  'Set in a distopian land ruled by a powerful corporation, a young boy struggles to lead...
  
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• Warhol’s unseen drag queens

  08-03-2020 10:00
  
  Little-known portraits of 70s drag queens by Andy Warhol bring vivid New York glamour to Tate Modern’s retrospective. But what’s the story behind them?In 1974, Andy Warhol landed a $1m commission from Italian art dealer Luciano Anselmino. His brief was to forsake the soup cans and superstars that had made his name and take a walk on the wild side, creating portraits of New York’s hidden community of drag queens. Too famous to track them down himself, he sent his young acolytes
  
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• Can Galway fare better than Derry as a capital of culture?

  08-03-2020 10:00
  
  Galway 2020 gets off to a suitably stormy start. Plus, the home-improving power of ParasiteThanks to Ed Sheeran’s song Galway Girl, this year’s European capital of culture has widespread name recognition. And for the first time, Brussels has selected both a city and its surrounding county. The hope is that Galway will fare better than UK city of culture Derry over the Irish border, did in 2013. Visitor numbers there were disappointing, with little subsequent “cultural legacy&rd
  
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• Aubrey Beardsley; Among the Trees – review

  08-03-2020 10:00
  
  Tate Britain; Hayward Gallery, London
  Languid figures and highly disciplined draftsmanship combine in the first show in a century of Beardsley’s work. Elsewhere, the calming effect of trees of all kindsAubrey Beardsley, at Tate Britain, is elegant, biting and smart as a whip. He pits burning black shapes against the empty white space of a page with coruscating zip and register. He is master of the flowing robes, psychedelic hair and ever lengthening lines that end in swaying tassels or sha
  
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• 'Andy allowed everyone to be beautiful': Warhol’s unseen drag queens

  08-03-2020 10:00
  
  Little-known portraits of 70s drag queens by Andy Warhol bring vivid New York glamour to Tate Modern’s retrospective. But what’s the story behind them?In 1974, Andy Warhol landed a $1m commission from Italian art dealer Luciano Anselmino. His brief was to forsake the soup cans and superstars that had made his name and take a walk on the wild side, creating portraits of New York’s hidden community of drag queens. Too famous to track them down himself, he sent his young acolytes
  
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