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• Accounts Assistant / Royal Academy of Music / London

  13-03-2020 23:55
  Full-time 32.5 hours per week Monday - Friday
  Permanent role
  Salary range: £26,670 to £30,968 inclusive of London Allowance per annum
  The Royal Academy of Music is a stimulating and...
  
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• Coronavirus: Australia's performing arts industry 'could be brought to the brink'

  13-03-2020 23:04
  
  Anxiety and fear is pervading the $2.5bn sector, which is calling on the government to step in before ‘irreparable damage’ is causedThe Australian arts industry operates on a knife-edge at the best of times – but in recent years, the pressure has reached boiling point: local creators have faced millions in funding cuts, with draconian laws decimating once thriving scenes.Now, with the coronavirus pandemic causing the Australian government to recommend any gathering of more than
  
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• Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid Reopens After 14-Year Closure

  13-03-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Assembled between 2630 and 2611 B.C. in Saqqara, Egypt, the pyramid,where Djoser and 11 of his daughters were buried upon their deaths,contains roughly 11.6 million cubic feetof stone and clay. Looping through and around the burial chambers is awinding, maze-like network of tunnels that was likely designed toprevent theft but apparently weakened the building’s structuralintegrity. – Smithsonian
  
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• Does Democratization Of Culture Mean The End Of Audience?

  13-03-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My current research situates audience development within work on cultureas a vocation, and wider debates around the democratisation of cultureand cultural democracy. Audience development both replicates andreproduces (rather than challenges) the dominant cultural hegemony –most notably in subsidised cultural institutions. As such, it hastraditionally been seen as a management tool for the democratisation ofculture.” – Arts Professional
  
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• Sculptor J. Seward Johnson Jr, 89

  13-03-2020 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Johnson, a sculptor who may be responsible for more doubletakes than anyone in history thanks to his countless lifelike creationsin public places — a businessman in downtown Manhattan, surfers at aFlorida beach, a student eating a sandwich on a curb in Princeton, N.J. —died on Tuesday at his home in Key West, Fla. – The New York Times
  
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• Modernism And The African American Experience

  13-03-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Back at thebeginning of the 20th century, artists such as Picasso, Braque andMatisse turned to African art for new ideas about how to represent theworld, creating figures with masklike faces, flattened forms andbackgrounds of vibrant patterning. They weren’t just borrowing visualideas, however. Many of them believed in a connection between what theysaw as primitive culture and the deeper wellsprings of psychologicallife, a way to reference and represent urges and emotional drives thathad
  
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• An Opera That Works To Reinvent The Form

  13-03-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We were like, how do we do this so that we don’t let the audience off the hook — that thisis the land where this happened?” says Yuval Sharon. “Los Angeles StateHistoric Park feels like a central character in ‘Sweet Land.’” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Needed: A Rethink Of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act And Creativity

  13-03-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The platforms are under no legal obligation to proactively seek outinfringement and remove it, nor – most annoyingly of all – do they everhave to permanently remove an infringing work. “Notice andtakedown” does not mean “notice and stay-down,” which results in anongoing game of Whack-A-Mole for copyright owners who get a workremoved, only to see it pop up again somewhere else on the internet…again, and again, and again…  – Cr
  
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• Was London’s Millennium Dome Really The Enormous Fiasco Everyone Remembers? Not Entirely …

  13-03-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It cost more than £750 million (that was well over a billion dollars then), the grand opening at the turn of the millennium was one snafu after another, actual visitor numbers were half of projections, and the UK government eventually sold it for a pound. But families loved it at the time, and it’s now the most popular live music venue on Earth. Imogen West-Knights recounts how it all happened in this week’s Guardian Long Read. – The Guardian
  
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• A High Stress Threat To The Arts

  13-03-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There will soon be lots of demands for emergency funds, to bail outsmall businesses, cab drivers, restaurants, and so on. Cultural workers,who contribute so much to urban life in normal times and who will be soseverely missed in abnormal ones, need relief starting now, before the world they belong to withers away.– New York Magazine
  
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• We Are Animals - Interdisciplinary Professional Development / Dance Research Studio / London

  13-03-2020 19:07
  There is a growing and urgent cultural and social momentum driving forward awareness about environmental sustainability and animal extinction. Dance Research Studio (DRS) in collaboration with...
  
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• This New Museum Is The First Entirely State-Funded Arts Institution In Africa

  13-03-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The Palais de Lomé in Togo] is a remarkable achievement for one of the world’s poorest countries, where almost 70 percent of the rural population lives below the global poverty line. … The new museum is also an unexpected signal of cultural openness by the historically repressive Togolese government.” – Frieze
  
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• Virus Could Cost $5 Billion Worldwide To Live Events Business

  13-03-2020 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Coronavirus-related event cancellations seem to be barreling in by thehour, and the $26 billion global live events industry is watching withbated breath. Several sources across the booking, management, and venuessectors either declined to comment to Rolling Stone on thesubject because of the uncertainty around the matter, or say they do notyet have them in place. There’s also the issue of unpredictability. – Rolling Stone
  
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• Learning and Participation Project Assistant (Ballet and Opera) / Royal Opera House / London / Covent Garden

  13-03-2020 18:22
  £22,484 pa, FTC until August 2022Full-time (5 of 7 days (40hrs) pw)
  Our Learning and Participation programme encourages participation and deepens learning, offering people of all ages the...
  
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• Public Art Mural / The Blue Bermondsey / London

  13-03-2020 18:13
  The Blue Bermondsey Public Art Mural
  A community campaign led by Blue Bermondsey BID with support from Southwark Council was successful in securing £2m capital funding from the Mayor of...
  
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• How Inigo Philbrick Became The Talented Mr. Ripley Of Art Dealers

  13-03-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Inigo Philbrick probably didn’t set out to become one of the art world’s great enigmas when, at the age of 24, he opened a gallery and consultancy in London” and went on to become a conspicuously big spender. “Not if what he really wanted was to be seen nowhere but talked about everywhere. Yet that is what happened in the fall of 2019: a vanishing act.” He hasn’t been charged with a crime (yet), but he is definitely a fugitive. – The New York Tim
  
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• Crowds Continued To Fill Disneyland As Warnings Increase

  13-03-2020 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aimee and Charlie Cotherman, of Oil City, Pa., said that ahead of theirtrip to Orlando last week, they were worried about the coronavirus, butdecided to still visit with their children, ages 8, 6 and 3, as well astheir two-month-old baby, because “percentages are in our favor,” Mr.Cotherman said, referring to the low number of children infected. – The New York Times
  
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• Trustee / FilmBath / South West / BATH

  13-03-2020 17:26
  We are looking for new trustees to join our board.
  This is an exciting moment for FilmBath: we are in our 30th year and are expanding and developing our film festival and our year round...
  
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• Programme Manager, Children and Young People`s Reading / The Reading Agency / London / South East

  13-03-2020 17:20
  The Reading Agency is looking for an experienced project manager to lead our work with children and young people from disadvantaged communities. 
  As a national charity, we tackle life's big...
  
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• L&P Projects Assistant (Ballet and Opera) / Royal Opera House / London

  13-03-2020 17:20
  Ballet and opera capture the deepest emotions and tell universal stories. The Royal Opera House wants to share these life-changing artforms and their power to move and excite with as many people as...
  
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• Triennial Hosting Coordinator / Creative Folkestone / South East

  13-03-2020 17:17
  We are looking for an inspiring leader to motivate and look after the group of Hosts and Host Supervisors. You will be someone with strong communication skills and attention to detail, who makes...
  
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• L&P Projects Assistant (National Programmes) / Royal Opera House / London

  13-03-2020 17:17
  Ballet and opera capture the deepest emotions and tell universal stories. The Royal Opera House wants to share these life-changing artforms and their power to move and excite with as many people as...
  
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• Office/Production Assistant Trainee / Parable / London

  13-03-2020 17:13
  Parable is a production company and agency working across factual TV and brand consultancy. Based in Kentish Town, London, and backed by Channel 4 and The Economist Magazine, the company...
  
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• Network Engineer / Royal Opera House / London

  13-03-2020 17:13
  The Royal Opera House continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance live on stage at our heritage theatre site here in Covent Garden, and reaching out to audiences across the UK and...
  
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• 'It almost destroyed me': behind New York's greatest nightclub, Studio 54

  13-03-2020 17:05
  
  In a new exhibition, Studio 54 co-founder Ian Schrager goes back to the late 70s to explore the highs and lows of the celebrity-packed hotspotIan Schrager has seen many things in his life, but nothing quite like this. The 73-year-old Studio 54 co-founder is freaking out on the phone.“It’s funny after 40 years! Forty years!” he exclaims. “Doing an exhibition on Studio 54? In a world-class museum? I don’t think anyone would have believed that – but they were too
  
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• Front of House Manager / TTA The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton / South West

  13-03-2020 17:05
  FOH MANAGER  :  FULL TIME :  £20-23,000 P.A. DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE
  Excellent opportunity for a pro-active, resourceful Manager to be part of the dynamic team at the Brewhouse...
  
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• Egypt’s Favorite Street Music Banned By Government

  13-03-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mahraganat music, fast and loud, soared in popularity following Egypt’s 2011 Arab Spring revolts, which toppled the country’s longtime autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak, who died last month. The music provided an outlet for poor Egyptians frustrated by political turmoil, growing repression, a declining economy, high unemployment and other woes. … [But] since February, clubs, hotels, music venues and even Nile cruise boats have been ordered not to book mahraganat musician
  
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• Drum & Bass Artist/Musician / Half a String / South East

  13-03-2020 16:54
  Half a String is a theatre company that merges stunning visuals and atmospheric music to tell powerful stories that resonate in the hearts and minds of audiences. 
  Our first production A Heart...
  
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• Senior Venue Technician (Electrics) / Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LW Theatres / London

  13-03-2020 16:34
  Do you have what it takes to be part of a high performing team at an iconic destination venue in the heart of London’s West End?
  In September 2020 the Theatre Royal Drury Lane will reopen as a...
  
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• Call for Artists - Lincoln Weekender: 2" Deep 2" Wide / UK Young Artists / East Midlands / National

  13-03-2020 16:32
  UKYA welcomes applications from artists across all art forms and across the UK, aged between 18-30 for a micro-residency in Lincoln from 29 May - 1st June 2020.
  Curated by Claudio...
  
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• Music Operations Manager / Shakespeare's Globe / London

  13-03-2020 16:30
  The Music team at Shakespeare’s Globe are looking for a Music Operations Manager to join us in the Theatre department. This is an excellent opportunity for a practical and hands-on...
  
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• Ex-President’s Estate Sues Otis College

  13-03-2020 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The legal complaint by Bruce Ferguson’s sister, who is executor of his estate,alleges that Otis committed discrimination, retaliation and wrongfultermination related to Ferguson’s illness at the height of a powerstruggle on campus, when faculty members whose jobs were threatened byorganizational changes waged a letter of no confidence campaign againstFerguson after his illness became public. – Argonaut News
  
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• Booker, Producer, Curator / Avantgardeners Collective / London / anywhere in UK

  13-03-2020 16:10
  We are looking for a person to book shows and festivals across Europe. The work to be presented is interdisciplinary and unites electronic pop music with dance, art fashion and live art. Besides some...
  
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• Anna Teasdale obituary

  13-03-2020 16:07
  My friend Anna Teasdale, who has died aged 88, was a landscape artist and art teacher.She was born in East Molesley in Surrey, to Geoffrey Teasdale, a gardener, and his wife, Marguerite (nee Smyrk), who died when Anna was eight years old. Anna grew up in Rye in East Sussex, where she became intrigued by the local painter, Edward Burra, whose unsettling landscapes influenced her for the rest of her life. After Rye grammar school she ran away from home to follow her dream of attending art school.
  
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• Keeping Contemporary Dance Works From Being Lost To History

  13-03-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, Mark Morris, Pina Bausch, Richard Alston … and the list goes on.Writer Lyndsey Winship gives a brief survey of the various ways (and no, video alone is not enough) that companies and archives are working to preserve modern choreography. – The Guardian
  
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• Art Teacher / GLUE (Tabernacle W11) / London

  13-03-2020 15:59
  GLUE is a community arts programme based at The Tabernacle W11, utilizing the arts to encourage young people to stick together. Providing free workshops in performing, visual and literary arts, we...
  
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• Fashion Promoter & Management / Avantgardeners Collective / London / UK wide

  13-03-2020 15:58
  We are looking for a communicative, reliable person with good initiative and an interest in finding interesting ways in conceptualising and releasing fashion collections and reaching people with...
  
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• Stephen Sondheim At 90: The Master Of Mixed Emotions

  13-03-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ben Brantley: “When it comes to emotions, Sondheim — more than any other composer from the Broadway songbook — is the one I trust to tell me the truth. That’s because in the world of Sondheim, feelings never come singly but in battalions. Even his simplest, most assertive melodies usually sound as if they’re being pulled in contradictory directions.” – The New York Times
  
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• Stephen Sondheim At 90: Not Just A Great Songwriter, A Great Playwright

  13-03-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jesse Green: “Having long taken for granted that he is the greatest composer-lyricist the United States has produced, we can perhaps now notice that he is also an artist to place in the line of America’s foundational 20th-century playwrights. In years to come, critics will have trouble understanding how our time put him in one basket but put Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, August Wilson and Edward Albee in another.” – The New York Times
  
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• The (Nearly) Complete Musicals Of Stephen Sondheim: A New York Times Critics’ Guide

  13-03-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ben Brantley and Jesse Green give their takes on the 15 shows for which Sondheim wrote music and lyrics and the three for which he was lyricist (with music by Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, and Richard Rodgers). – The New York Times
  
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• Trustee / Proteus / South West

  13-03-2020 15:23
  Proteus is a theatre company which has made and toured high quality work for over thirty five years, including nationally and internationally. Four years ago we moved into Proteus Creation Space, a...
  
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• A Fundraiser For The Academy Of Music Is Philadelphia’s Biggest High-Society Event. Here’s How It Should Change For The 21st Century.

  13-03-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eyebrows shot up last month when the Philadelphia Orchestra (which owns the building) and the Kimmel Center (which operates it) announced that the Academy Ball, held every year but one since 1957, was called off for next year and would be reconsidered entirely. Peter Dobrin makes the case that the Ball is a unique Philadelphia tradition that shouldn’t be ended but can definitely be made more relevant. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• UK Finally Makes E-Books Exempt From Sales Tax, As Print Books Are

  13-03-2020 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Printed books and newspapers have always been zero-rated for VAT but until now their digital equivalents – such as books from Amazon’s Kindle service or online subscriptions to news websites such as the Times or the Guardian – have been subject to the sales tax.” (Audiobooks will remain taxable, though.) – The Guardian
  
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• What Happens To ‘The Merchant Of Venice’ When Shylock Is A Woman?

  13-03-2020 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Carey Perloff, who directed Seana McKenna in the role last year in Calgary: “I am not always convinced that cross-gender casting helps illuminate Shakespeare; many of the plays focus so specifically on gender that swapping out men for women can sometimes muddy the actual narrative or intent of the play. But in the case of Shylock, who is the ultimate ‘other’ in the play, gender served to crack open the drama in fascinating ways.” – American Theatre
  
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• Beltane Fire Festival / / London / Edinburgh

  13-03-2020 14:03
  Bid farewell to winter at Beltane Fire Festival, which gives summer a warm welcome with a huge display of fire play, music, and immersive storytelling.
  For one special night, hundreds of...
  
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• Arts Programmer / The Dartington Hall Trust / South West

  13-03-2020 13:51
  The ambitious Arts team at the Dartington Hall Trust is looking for an experienced, well-connected, arts programmer to deliver a creative, innovative and bold programme of contemporary performance...
  
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• Composer Charles Wuorinen Dead At 81

  13-03-2020 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Known for his adherence to thorny modernism and his strong opinions, Wuorinen won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for Time’s Encomium (the first piece of electronic music to earn the honor) but is best known for his opera adaptations of Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain. – Yahoo! (AP)
  
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• Personal Assistant to Creative Director & Managing Director / Jason Bruges Studio / London

  13-03-2020 13:19
  Jason Bruges is Creative Director of Jason Bruges Studio, which he founded in April 2002. He leads a pioneering team of architects, designers, creative technologists, programmers, computational...
  
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• Chanel Miller, Edwidge Danticat, Patrick Radden Keefe Win National Book Critics Circle Awards

  13-03-2020 13:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Miller, the survivor of the rape by Stanford athlete Brock Turner, received the autobiography award for her memoir Know My Name; Danticat’s Everything Inside: Stories won the fiction prize; Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland took nonfiction honors; Morgan Parker’s Magical Negro won the poetry award. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Artistic Director, Music at Reading / University of Reading / South East

  13-03-2020 12:53
  Salary: £41,526 pro rata, per annum
  Location: Whiteknights Reading UK
  Job reference: SRF32046
   
  Hours per week: 0.40 FTE - including evenings and weekends. Some flexibility of hours...
  
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