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• Italy Debates: Are Physical Newspapers Necessary? The Answer Surprises

  17-03-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Newsstands are even registering a small bump in sales.That was clear in Milan. In a busier newsstand, near a major shoppingstreet here, I had to wait to pay for the newspaper. And when my turncame, I had to ask my questions quickly. The newsagent was impatient,answering with short sentences, and insistently looking over myshoulder. A line was forming. – Quartz
  
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• Curator / The Ruskin Museum (Coniston) / North West

  17-03-2020 22:47
  We are seeking a new Curator to work in collaboration with the Ruskin Museum team to ensure best standards of collections management which include updating the accession register, caring for the...
  
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• The Role Of Plagues In Ancient Greek Stories – Tests Of Leadership

  17-03-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plagues functioned as a setup for an even more crucial theme inancient myth: a leader’s intelligence. At the beginning of the “Iliad,”for instance, the prophet Calchas – who knows the cause of a nine-day plague – is praised as someone “who knows what is, what will be and what happened before.” This language anticipates a chief criticism of Homer’s legendary King Agamemnon: He does not know “the before and the after.” – The Conver
  
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• What Dance Companies Are Doing As Lockdowns Multiply

  17-03-2020 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As dance, music and opera companies seek ways to stream performances online; dance teachers hold class and dance parties on Instagram live; university dance programs unveil plans to move curriculum online; and pioneering choreographers seek ways to make virtual dancesamidst this period of social distancing, an uptick in innovative onlinedance experiences is imminent. But it is impossible to predict now whatthe overall economic impact of COVID-19 will be on arts and culture—an $800 billion
  
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• British Public Discover Treasure With Metal Detectors

  17-03-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The British Museumon Tuesday announced that 1,311 finds which are defined as treasure hadbeen found by members of the public across England, Wales and NorthernIreland in 2019. They also included an iron age drinking set, a solid gold bronze agearm ring and a coin which helps tell the story of Carausius, a usurperemperor who in 286AD broke Britain away from Europe, in an adventurewhich ended badly. – The Guardian
  
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• Home Because Of COVID? In Praise Of Boredom

  17-03-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charles McNulty: “I’m sure I’m not the only writer who fantasizes about retreating to acountry house with nothing to do but curl up by a fire beside a mountainof Dickens and Dostoevsky. But as the coronavirus pandemic upends ourcivilization, I’m urging myself to jump off the self-improvementtreadmill.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Is This The End Of The Movie Theatre Business?

  17-03-2020 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After many weeks of self-quarantining and social distancing, will peoplebe eager to rub shoulders again when restrictions are lifted? And whatwill happen to the release calendar, with so many delayed blockbusterslikely to clog up the schedule when they’re finally ready for theviewing public? There are far more urgent public-health concerns toconsider in the short term, of course, but after years of industry hand-wringingover the future of the cinematic experience, it will still be quite a
  
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• What We Can Learn (And Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s ‘The Plague’

  17-03-2020 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you read The Plague long ago, perhaps for a college class, … perhaps you paid more attention to the buboes and the lime pits than to the narrator’s depiction of the ‘hectic exaltation’ of the ordinary people trapped in the epidemic’s bubble, … caught up in ‘the frantic desire for life that thrives in the heart of every great calamity’: the comfort of community. The townspeople of Oran did not have the recourse that today’s global
  
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• Jazz vs. lockdown: Blogs w/ vid clips defy virus muting musicians

  17-03-2020 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jazz doesn’t want to stay home and chill, so members of the Jazz Journalists Association have launched JazzOnLockdown: Hear It Here, a series of curated v-logs featuring performance videos of musicians whose gigs have been postponed or cancelled due to coronavirus concerns. – Howard Mandel
  
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• We’ll be together again

  17-03-2020 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I doubt it will surprise any of you to learn that I’d been growing increasingly worried about the inability of Mrs. T’s doctors to rouse her from the medically induced coma into which she was placed after her double-lung transplant surgery two weeks ago. – Terry Teachout
  
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• Denver Arts Funder Offers Money To Its Grantees To Help With COVID Effects

  17-03-2020 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bonfils-Stanton Foundation: “These Denver-based organizations offer ongoing public arts &culture programming and are at risk for earned revenue loss due to theCOVID-19 global pandemic. The funding amount is based on 10% of theirmost recent grant, with a $6,000 cap. The total grant commitment isapproximately $125,000. These grants will not require any sort of application or finalreport. The funding has already been released. Much has been writtenabout how funders are taking this opport
  
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• The Vexed Relationship Between Theatre And Disease

  17-03-2020 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexis Soloski, who wrote a dissertation on the subject, reminds us that playwrights from Sophocles through Shaw to Kushner and Kramer have grappled with the subject. “It’s only a matter of time before the first COVID-19 plays emerge, and we can … be nudged toward compassion for the afflicted, be constituted as a community of support. Because that’s what theater can do: It can ask us to think and feel beyond the confines of our own experience and find fellow-feeling, im
  
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• New Classical Playlist / Alternative Classical / London

  17-03-2020 18:59
  Every month, Alternative Classical usually publishes an events guide, recommending informal concerts, gigs and other classical-inspired events around the UK. 
  As most of these events are now...
  
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• Universal Says It Will Make Its Current-Release Movies Available By Streaming

  17-03-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company will also make movies that are currently in theatricalrelease available on-demand beginning as early as Friday, starting withthe Elisabeth Moss horror film “The Invisible Man,” the satiricalthriller “The Hunt” and Focus Features’ period comedy-drama “Emma.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• ‘It Felt Like A Parallel Universe’: Watching The Philadelphia Orchestra Stream Beethoven From An Empty Hall

  17-03-2020 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The few people present in the hall … were asked not to applaud because such meager clapping would sound pallid to listeners tuning in from elsewhere. But for those who were there, it was confounding to have the orchestra standing to receive phantom applause that wasn’t there,” reports David Patrick Stearns. “The atmosphere, though, was hardly grave.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Arts Organizations Take To Streaming. But Is There A Way Of Supporting It?

  17-03-2020 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re going make sure we protect our people, but we need to keep thearts and the music going. That’s what we’re going to do. That’s whywe’re here.” – The Guardian
  
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• At A Ballet Company’s Last Dance Before The COVID Shutdown

  17-03-2020 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Moira Macdonald was at Pacific Northwest Ballet’s final (in too many senses) dress rehearsal for a program the public won’t get to attend. “There was no one in the seat in front of me, no one next to me, no one across the aisle — just performance, filling up the empty spaces. You don’t usually think of McCaw Hall as a room, but it is; this was like a large version of a living-room entertainment. Were those people onstage, dancing with the fierce passion that comes
  
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• Concerts & Marketing Manager / The Tenebrae Choir / London

  17-03-2020 16:38
  Tenebrae is looking for a new Concerts & Marketing Manager to join its small and busy management team. As one of the world’s leading chamber choirs, Tenebrae performs around 60 concerts...
  
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• The BioPhysicist Who Crunched The Virus Numbers And Made Some Accurate Predictions

  17-03-2020 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, an American-British-Israelibiophysicist who teaches structural biology at Stanford University andspends much of his time in Tel Aviv, unexpectedly became a householdname in China, offering the public reassurance during the peak of thecountry’s coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Levitt did not discover atreatment or a cure, just did what he does best: crunched the numbers.The statistics led him to the conclusion that, contrary to the grimforecasts being branded
  
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• Festival Intern / Kensington + Chelsea Art Week / London

  17-03-2020 16:27
  Kensington + Chelsea Art Week (KCAW) opens doors to the area’s most prestigious museums and institutions alongside the independent galleries, studios, creative spaces and...
  
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• Closed By The Virus, The Art Business Is Moving Itself Online

  17-03-2020 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 2017, having realized how much business the gallery did through online previews before art fairs, the dealer David Zwirner decided to develop virtual viewing rooms. Now, as art fairs are canceled, museums close and auction houses consider whether to call off their spring sales in response to the coronavirus, Mr. Zwirner seems prescient.” – The New York Times
  
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• Opera Australia May Have To Sell Real-Estate Assets To Remain Solvent

  17-03-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With the rest of the company’s summer season in Sydney cancelled, including the popular and lucrative outdoor Opera on the Harbour, CEO Rory Jeffes said, “suddenly we were in a position where we had to show [the board] that we could refund all our tickets sold for the future and have no income from ticket sales for the foreseeable future.” – The Sydney Morning Herald
  
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• Artist-in-Residence: food, futures and biodiversity / Art Gene / North West

  17-03-2020 15:29
  Freelance Part Time, 2.5 days per week (Flexible)
  One year residency from April 2020
  Fee £9,460
  Barrow-in-Furness, CumbriaArt Gene is announcing an opportunity for an experienced...
  
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• India’s Film Industry, World’s Largest, Freezes All Production

  17-03-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After an emergency meeting over the weekend, the India Motion Picture Producers’ Association said Monday that it would request the suspension of all film, TV, advertising and web series shoots in the country from March 19 to 31. The body also advised all Indian film crews currently at work on projects overseas to return to the country within the next three days.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Activity Plan - Durham History Centre / Durham County Council / North East

  17-03-2020 14:42
  Durham County Council are looking for a consultant to produce a full activity plan for an NLHF round 2 bid as part of the Durham History Centre project. More details can be found...
  
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• All U.S. Movie Theatre Chains Close As COVID Restrictions Spread

  17-03-2020 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AMC will keep its theatres dark for six to 12 weeks; Regal, Landmark, Alamo Drafthouse, Showcase, Harkins, and Bow Tie have closed indefinitely; ArcLight and Pacific Theaters will close this week. Only Cinemark has not announced plans as yet. (Update: Cinemark will shutter as well.)– The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Plague visionaries: how Rembrandt, Titian and Caravaggio tackled pestilence

  17-03-2020 14:21
  
  Much of Europe’s greatest art is haunted by outbreaks – but amid the death are testimonies of love. Can these masterpieces guide us through today’s crisis?• Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellations
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  • See all our coronavirus coverageIt seems incredible that we should find common cause with the people of 500 years ago, who faced disease without any understanding or remotely adequate treatment. But on Sunday,
  
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• Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Longtime Boston Symphony Principal Flute And Pioneering Female Musician, Dead At 98

  17-03-2020 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A grand-niece of Susan B. Anthony, Dwyer was only the second woman ever to win a principal chair in a major U.S. orchestra. She joined the BSO in 1952 (negotiating a higher-than-usual salary) and retired in 1990, premiering a new concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in her final season. – The Boston Musical Intelligencer
  
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• England’s Arts Funding Will ‘Refocus’ To Help Artists With Loss Of Income Due To COVID

  17-03-2020 13:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We will refocus some grant programmes to help compensate individual artists and freelancers for lost earnings,” said a statement from Arts Council England. “This will require further planning. It may take about ten days before we can announce the details.” Institutions will continue to receive grant money, with funding requirements suspended for three months, and advance payments can help those with cash flow problems. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• All Major UK Theatres Are Now Dark

  17-03-2020 13:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Society of London Theatre (Solt) and UK Theatre, the industry body that represents nearly every British theatre, announced that, as of Monday night, all its members would close their doors [due to the COVID-19 epidemic]. The groups represent about 50 London theatres and almost 250 others throughout the UK.” – The Guardian
  
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• Senior Counsellor/Co-ordinator / Royal Academy of Music / London

  17-03-2020 12:52
  Full-time: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
  Fixed term to July 2021
  Salary range: £40,649 to £43,426 inclusive of London Allowance per annum
  The Royal Academy of Music is a...
  
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• Head of Inorganic Conservation / British Museum / London

  17-03-2020 12:42
  Head of Inorganic Conservation Collection Care Full time Permanent£40,902 per annum Application deadline: Monday 30th March at midday
  The Head of Inorganic Conservation is a key role within...
  
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• Nature writing book club: Dancing with bees / Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) / North East

  17-03-2020 11:43
  Join us as we discuss Brigit Strawbridge Howard's passionate dive into the world of bees of all stripes.
  The evening will be split into two halves. During the first half, much like a traditional...
  
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• Digital Media Assistant / Arts University Bournemouth / South West / Poole

  17-03-2020 10:41
  Arts University Bournemouth is the leading professional arts university dedicated to turning creativity into careers. The AUB Students’ Union is the voice of change for students at AUB, working...
  
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