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• The Art Of Culturally Relevant Crosswords

  20-03-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Crossword editors are strange arbiters of cultural relevance. Read tweets by Awkwafina or Olivia Wildeon learning that they’ve been immortalized in the black-and-whitegrid—it’s the bookish version of handprints on a slab outside Grauman’sChinese Theatre. But any pub-trivia attendee—exposed to categories oncraft beer or things that smell like sourdough or whatever the emcee isinto—will tell you that personnel is policy.– The Atlantic
  
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• Open Call: Cafe Ceiling Art Installation / Fine Line Art / South East

  20-03-2020 22:50
  A philanthropic community based organisation in Southsea, Hampshire, invite proposals for a visually striking ceiling art installation in their café. A budget of £2,000 is...
  
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• Do You Suffer From Imposter Syndrome?

  20-03-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This kind of reflexive self-doubt is not so much a ‘syndrome’ asit is a widespread state of psychological distortion, with roughly 70per cent of people experiencing it at some point in their lives. – Aeon
  
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• Movie Box Office Falls 97 Percent As Theatres Shut

  20-03-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Box office revenue limped to a historic low of $300,000 or less onWednesday as the vast majority of cinemas in North America closed theirdoors indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis. That compares to $10.7 million in revenue on the same Wednesday ayear ago, resulting in a year-over-year decline of 97 percent. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Philanthropies Are Lining Up To Try To Help The Arts

  20-03-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though the organizers of the fund wanted to start with New York becauseof the city’s importance as a cultural center, they know the need spansthe country, extending to individuals as well as nonprofit groups.Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,another fund contributor, expects Mellon to partner with other advocacyorganizations to develop additional granting programs soon. – Washington Post
  
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• “Sweet Land” Opera Was A Hit. Then It Had To Close For The Virus. So One Performance For Just The Cameras

  20-03-2020 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think of it a little bit like if a house was burning, and you had theopportunity to run in and save a piece of humanity,” says Industryfounder Yuval Sharon. “That’s what we’re doing.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• American Alliance Of Museums Asks Congress For $4 Billion In Aid

  20-03-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The letter notes that museums annually contribute $50 billion to the USeconomy, generate $12 billion in local, state, and federal tax, alongwith supporting 726,000 jobs, expressing worry that great losses in thecultural sector will displace thousands of workers and act as a blow tothe greater economy.– Hyperallergic
  
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• High Drag Comes To Flamenco (It Had To Happen Eventually, And It’s Great)

  20-03-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It seems all too obvious to compare flamenco virtuoso/a Manuel Liñán’s all-bio-male show Viva! to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. But, writes Marina Harss, the dancing here is quite traditional, “less satire than declaration of love for flamenco, pure and simple.” – The New York Times
  
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• Thieves Steal Bronze Gates To Seattle Arboretum In The Middle Of The Night

  20-03-2020 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They were made by sculptor George Tsutakawa. The theft was discovered Thursday morning when gardeners arrived forwork and discovered the gates missing and bolt cutters on the ground,said Ray Larson, curator of living collections at the arboretum. Thievesalso stole downspouts from the visitor’s center. Known as the Memorial Gates, the artwork was commissioned in 1971 bythe University of Washington and the Arboretum Foundation as a memorialto all who have loved and cared for the arboretum.
  
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• How The Scientists Leading The Notre-Dame Restoration Are Working, And What They’re Learning

  20-03-2020 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even as they try to reclaim what was lost, they and others are also taking advantage of a rare scientific opportunity. The cathedral, laid bare to inspection by the fire, is yielding clues to the mysteries of its medieval past. ‘We’ve got 40 years of research coming out of this event,’ says LRMH Assistant Director Thierry Zimmer.” Here’s an in-depth look at what the teams are doing. (Well, were doing, before work was suspended.) – Science
  
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• New online marketplace for creatives / Tutti / London

  20-03-2020 18:44
  London-based startup Tutti has announced Creative Skills, a brand-new online marketplace for creatives all over the world to share their skills.
  We are looking for creatives in music, theatre,...
  
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• What Might The Arts Look Like After Corona?

  20-03-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Consider all the ways arts and cultural groups earn money: from ticketsales and admission fees; participation in educational programs; rentingspaces for galas and gatherings; investments and endowments; and thelargesse of public and private giving. Every one of those streams is nowpotentially shut off. – Washington Post
  
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• Digital Engagement & Marketing Specialist / Beverley Puppet Festival / Yorkshire / North East, North West, South East, South West, Wales, London, England

  20-03-2020 18:26
  Digital Engagement and Marketing Specialist
  Freelance employment period: March 2020 - August 2020Fee:
  We are currently seeking further funding to increase the fee for this role so we can...
  
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• Gallery Operations Co-ordinator / Absolutely Cultured / Yorkshire

  20-03-2020 18:12
  This role is key to ensuring that the company’s front facing building runs smoothly and effectively and delivers excellent customer service to all its visitors and users. As Operations...
  
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• Alvin Ailey Dancers Do Part Of ‘Revelations’ On Instagram, Each From Their Own Home

  20-03-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The idea came from the dancer Miranda Quinn: The opening sequence of The Brady Bunch popped into her head. ‘How they’re all in little squares,’ she said. ‘That made me think of how we’re all being quarantined and are supposed to stay separate, but this was a way for all of us to still be dancing together and creating together even though we’re apart.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Opportunity: Unplug, Pick Some Music And REALLY Listen

  20-03-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There was a time when listeners treated the mere existence of recordedsound as a miracle. A wonder, a kind of time travel. Priests warned ofearly wax cylinders being tools of the devil. Vintage images from thespace age show couples seated around their high-fidelity systems as ifbeing warmed by a fireplace.– Los Angeles Times
  
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• Hot Young Playwrights Are Now Teaching Workshops Online

  20-03-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Young Jean Lee, Lauren Gunderson, and Jaclyn Backhaus are among those who have begun leading playwriting lessons and seminars on the web since coronavirus sent almost everyone home. Gunderson’s first session had 900 people watching live; by the next night, 23,000 had watched. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Art books to self-isolate with, from Patti Smith to Lucian Freud – the week in art

  20-03-2020 17:00
  
  Picasso’s inner beast, a sizzling take on Bacon and Buñuel’s last breath are among our art biographies to curl up with – all in your weekly dispatch
  Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellationsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJust Kids by Patti Smith
  Stuck at home and want to read a vivid book that’s more living art than dead art history? An eyewitness memoir might do the trick. They don’t come better than Pat
  
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• Americans For The Arts Makes Plea For Federal Assistance For The Arts

  20-03-2020 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a national survey by Americans for the Arts, 91% of responding artsorganizations have cancelled one or more events. Many arts organizationshave closed their doors for months to come. More than one-third ofrespondents expect to make reductions in staff; 26% have already reducedtheir creative workforce. The $3.2 billion figure losses so far includes actualrevenue losses to date from admissions (ticket sales, subscriptions,memberships), non-admissions income (gift shop sales, sponsorships,contri
  
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• Tonie Marshall, First Woman Director To Win A French Oscar, Dead At 68

  20-03-2020 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[She] won the top directing prize at the Cesars in 2000 for her movie Venus Beauty Institute, a romantic comedy starring Nathalie Baye and Audrey Tautou that recounts the quest for fulfillment of three female employees in a Parisian beauty parlor. After that, she became a prominent figure in the fight against sexism in the French film industry.” – Yahoo! (AP)
  
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• Washington Post’s New Classical Critic: What A Week To Start A Job!

  20-03-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Brodeur: “The plan was to spend my first week … seeing concerts and shaking hands. (Just typing that makes me want to sanitize.) The goal was to go big,” with five performances in four days. “Then came the coronavirus, and the sudden lack of things for a critic to critique seemed the least of our problems.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Director, City of Literature / University of Exeter / South West

  20-03-2020 15:33
  We are looking for an experienced and ambitious leader for the new UNESCO City of Literature four year programme who will serve as the initiative’s Director, building collaborations with...
  
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• Hope! As Movie Houses Everywhere Else Close, China Begins Moving Toward Reopening Them

  20-03-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A very few cinemas in far-flung cities are back in business already (though few customers are coming just yet), and the major cities are making plans. The big problem: nothing exciting to show, since the epidemic scuttled the Chinese New Year release of the new blockbusters. The solution: studios will re-release recent hits. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Chicago Lyric’s Orchestra Gives Up Part Of Salary So Freelancers For Cancelled ‘Ring’ Can Be Paid

  20-03-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The orchestra musicians voted [unanimously] to take a ’10 percent cut of our weekly salary for the next seven weeks that had been canceled,’ said [violist Amy] Hess. ‘Then the dollar amount of everyone’s cut will be distributed to the extra and stage band of musicians, to help make up for the work they wouldn’t have been paid for.'” – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Hay Literature Festival Cancelled, With Future In Doubt

  20-03-2020 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Organisers will struggle to recoup the large infrastructure costs they have already committed to, as 70% of the festival’s income comes from ticket and book sales on site. In a statement on Thursday, the festival said the not-for-profit event was now in ‘immediate financial jeopardy’ and would need to raise funds in 10 days to ‘plot a sustainable route forward’.” – The Guardian
  
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• Metropolitan Opera Cancels Rest Of Season And Furloughs All Musicians And Stagehands

  20-03-2020 13:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company will pay its chorus members, orchestral musicians, and unionized backstage staff through the end of March but maintain their health insurance. Upper-level administration employees will take pay cuts ranging from 10 to 50 percent, and general manager Peter Gelb is forgoing his salary entirely. – The New York Times
  
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• Why It Matters So Much That Cannes Was Postponed And Not Called Off

  20-03-2020 13:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To take Cannes out of the equation for even one year would have massive reverberations throughout the world of international cinema. It is, simply put, the most important film event of the year, from which distributors flesh out their art-film slates, festivals take their programming cues and countries make their Oscar selections. Films that launch in Cannes are virtually assured a healthy run at smaller fests around the globe for a year or more.” – Variety
  
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• Cannes Film Festival Postponed But Not Cancelled

  20-03-2020 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The festival made the news public on Thursday, saying that ‘several options are [being] considered in order to preserve its running’ – its preferred one being a shift of the festival to the end of June.” – The Guardian
  
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• Community Engagement Co-ordinator (Wellingborough) / Made In Corby / East Midlands

  20-03-2020 12:55
  We are the Creative People & Places (CPP) programme for the boroughs of Corby and Wellingborough in Northamptonshire.
  We are passionate about community-leadership, co-creation and engaging new...
  
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• Producer (Wellingborough) / Made In Corby / East Midlands

  20-03-2020 12:46
  We are the Creative People & Places (CPP) programme for the boroughs of Corby and Wellingborough in Northamptonshire.
  We are passionate about community-leadership, co-creation and engaging new...
  
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• Far South West-based emerging art writer commission / Rame Projects CIC / South West

  20-03-2020 12:43
  Rame Projects is a new artist-led project space on the Rame Peninsula in South-East Cornwall. Thanks to support from Arts Council England, FEAST, The Box, and Plymouth College of Art, we are able to...
  
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• Residency opportunity for Cornwall based emerging artist / Rame Projects CIC / South West

  20-03-2020 12:41
  Rame Projects is a new artist-led project space on the Rame Peninsula in South-East Cornwall. Thanks to support from Arts Council England, FEAST, The Box, and Plymouth College of Art, we are able to...
  
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• Residency opportunity for Devon based emerging artist / Rame Projects CIC / South West

  20-03-2020 12:39
  Rame Projects is a new artist-led project space on the Rame Peninsula in South-East Cornwall. Thanks to support from The Box, Arts Council England, FEAST, and Plymouth College of Art, we are able to...
  
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• Estates Technician / RAF Museum / London

  20-03-2020 12:12
  Estates TechnicianPermanentFull-time £31,000 per annumLondon
  The Royal Air Force Museum is a national museum, a Government non-departmental public body (NDPB) and a registered charity, with...
  
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• Helmut Newton's Retro Verseau: a study in erotic ambiguity

  20-03-2020 11:00
  
  The German-Australian photographer plays with domination and submission in this high-art fashion shootThis signature 1979 Helmut Newton shot casts the 19-year-old gay supermodel Gia Carangi with Robin Osler, who leans over her like an elegantly lecherous lizard in Yves Saint Laurent’s Le Smoking tux. Continue reading...
  
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• Livestreaming schedule: music, art, literature and events from Australia and beyond

  20-03-2020 05:27
  
  As the coronavirus crisis roils on, creatives and cultural organisations are moving their work online. Here’s what’s coming to a monitor near you • 21–22 March: Members of the beleaguered live music scene have banded together to create Isol-Aid, a “socially (media) distanced music festival” featuring 74 Australian musicians including Angie McMahon, Julia Jacklin, Stella Donnelly, Alice Skye, Didirri and heaps of others. The two-day festival will run from midday
  
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