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• Do Cities Work Against Us When The Pandemic Comes?

  24-03-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Kimmelman: “Thecoronavirus undermines our most basic ideas about community and, inparticular, urban life. Historians tell us that cities emerged thousandsof years ago for economic and industrial reasons — technological leapsproduced a surplus of agricultural goods, which meant not everyone hadto keep working the land. Still,cities also grew, less tangibly, out of deeply human social andspiritual needs. The very notion of streets, shared housing and publicspaces stemmed from
  
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• When Art Became Advertising – And The Man Who Helped Make It So

  24-03-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Advertising was like art, and more and more art was like advertising. Ideally, the only difference wouldbe the logo. Advertising could take up the former causes ofart—philosophy, beauty, mystery, empire. There areno ethics in fashion. There are no ethics in magazines. There are noethics in advertising.”– New York Review of Books
  
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• A History Of Being Alone

  24-03-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Virginia Woolf insisted on the need for a room of one’s own, but onlythe upper middle classes could have afforded one at the time. In the19th century, only 1% of the British population lived on their own; in2011 it was 31%, or some 8 million people. Yet as urbanisation and largefamilies pitched people together, the anonymous world of industrialcapitalism also split them apart. Rural life may have been rough, but atleast you knew who lived next door. So if a longing to be alone becamemore a
  
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• Bitcoin And Shares In Art – Is The Idea Dead?

  24-03-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two years ago this was a hot idea as a way of expanding the art market. You could own shares in works of art. But then bitcoin value cratered and things have stalled… – The Art Newspaper
  
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• As Restoration Of Notre Dame Pauses, Thieves Break In

  24-03-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to a report by Le Parisien,two men face charges for allegedly attempting to steal various stonesfrom the cathedral after the government ordered a pause onreconstruction so as to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Aspokesperson for Notre-Dame told the publication that the thieves likelyintended to sell the stones on the black market. – Artnet
  
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• Systemic Failure: Virus Shutdown Highlights Precariousness Of Arts Economic Model

  24-03-2020 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The economic fallout of the virus has made the disparity betweenemployed workers and independent contractors clearer than ever. New Yorkhas a paid-sick-leave law, but it does not cover contract workers. Manyfreelance workers in the arts have high self-employment taxes andhealth-insurance costs; they do not have 401(k) matching programs oremployer-backed disability insurance, or severance when work is calledoff. If artists have health insurance through a guild or a union,coverage is usually depen
  
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• Playwright Terrence McNally Dies Of Coronavirus, Age 81

  24-03-2020 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  McNally, once referred to as “the quintessential man of the theater” byactress Zoe Caldwell, died from complications related to thecoronavirus, according to his publicist Matt Polk. He was diagnosed withlung cancer in 2001 and twice underwent surgery. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Thanks To Social Distancing, Drive-In Movie Theaters Are Having A Comeback

  24-03-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Drive-in movie theaters may seem like a blast from the past, something out of the 1950s or ’60s. Numerous baby boomers haven’t gone for decades; Gen Xers and millennials, perhaps never. But there are still 305 of them in the United States” — and they’re seeing increased demand from stir-crazy customers. – The New York Times
  
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• Voting for arts funding – a short video

  24-03-2020 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We are making the adjustment to teaching arts policy at a distance for the remainder of the semester, and so I’m about to get used to (and hopefully better at) short videos for students, practitioners, anyone with an interest. – Michael Rushton
  
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• What’s The Purpose Of Daydreaming?

  24-03-2020 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Daydreaming is taken very seriously within scientific circles, where it is more accurately referred to as mind wandering.The level of interest in this area runs more or less parallel to thatof the default network, and that is no coincidence either. The neuralactivity that can be observed when a person is daydreaming is verysimilar to that found in the default network. The control situation whentaking neural measurements is also one in which the brain is notperforming any tasks, and so we start d
  
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• How One Top Off-Off-Broadway Company Is Facing Theatre’s COVID Collapse

  24-03-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Helen Shaw: “To try to understand the complexity of a situation that was changing minute by minute — last Thursday, we still had a full theater calendar for April, for instance — I talked to members of one downtown company: Elevator Repair Service,” best known for Gatz, its eight-hour, word-for-word re-enactment of The Great Gatsby. – Vulture
  
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• Dame Fanny Waterman, Founder Of The Leeds Competition, Turns 100 And Dishes About Music

  24-03-2020 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dame Fanny says: “I had courage when people said, ‘It won’t work inLeeds’. Even my darling husband said that and I said ‘I’ll show you’. Irang up Marion and she said ‘Let’s try’. That was the ambition I learnedfrom my parents. My father was concerned about style and ability andnever produced anything that was shabby, and I used to try to emulatethat. You can either do nothing with your world, or you can say toyourself ‘I’m g
  
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• Afrika Homecoming, Online Poetry and Short story workshops / / South West

  24-03-2020 18:20
  Prizewinning writer and editor invites you to join her Afrika Homecoming 12 week Creative Writing online workshops.
   
  Afrika Homecoming (1) Poetry
  Join me as we journey through 12 Afrikan...
  
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• Gallerist Paul Kasmin, Who Helped Turn Chelsea Into An Art Hotbed, Dead At 60

  24-03-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the 30 years since founding the gallery in Soho in 1989, Kasmin developed a program that managed to toe the line between brainy and lighthearted by placing historic postwar artists like Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, and Stuart Davis in dialogue with established and emerging contemporary figures.” – Artnet
  
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• Report: San Francisco Arts Orgs Could Lose $73 Million By This Summer

  24-03-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Everyperforming arts group in the Bay Area contacted by The Chronicle hascanceled its spring season, even as most had barely begun. Now a studyreports that arts organizations stand to lose more than $73 million inrevenue and donations if the shutdown continues through summer. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Hong Kong Museums, Having Reopened, Close Again

  24-03-2020 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After the city sought to reintroduce normal activity, a wave of new coronavirus cases hit, largely due to returning travelers. The reversal offers a cautionary tale to countries around the world that are eager to ease restrictions on social distancing practices and get business moving back on pace.” – Artnet
  
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• Picasso on paper exhibition | VR tour! / Alon Zakaim Fine Art / London

  24-03-2020 17:02
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  View full press releaseAlon Zakaim Fine Art is proud to present Picasso on paper, an exhibition of works on paper -...
  
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• Project Assistant (Cultural Development) / Kirklees Council / Yorkshire

  24-03-2020 16:50
  This job is fixed term until December 2023.
  We are looking for a Project Assistant to work within our Culture and Tourism Service.  This service contributes to creating vibrant and thriving...
  
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• Woody Allen’s Memoir Gets A New Publisher

  24-03-2020 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With little advance notice, the 84-year-old film-maker’s book arrives ata time when much of the world is preoccupied with the coronaviruspandemic. Arcade is an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing and a Skyhorsespokeswoman said no decisions had been made on whether Allen would giveinterviews. – The Guardian
  
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• Students criticise Royal College of Art's plan to hold degree show online

  24-03-2020 15:50
  
  Students say online degree shows would be unworkable and a waste of their tuition fees The Royal College of Art (RCA) is facing a backlash from thousands of students and artists over their decision to make their degree shows online-only for the first time ever due to the coronavirus pandemic.More than 4,500 people, including Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey, have signed a petition calling on the RCA to suspend its programmes and postpone the exhibition until it is safe to return to the co
  
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• Youth Engagement Organisation for Don't Settle / Beatfreeks Arts / West Midlands

  24-03-2020 15:39
  Don’t Settle is a three year project that empowers 16 - 25 year old people of colour in Birmingham and the Black Country to change the voice of heritage through the arts, research, and...
  
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• Chief Executive / Academy of Ancient Music / East

  24-03-2020 15:21
  Chief ExecutiveAcademy of Ancient MusicCompetitive SalaryCambridge/London
  The Academy of Ancient Music seeks a new Chief Executive following the appointment of Alexander Van Ingen to the position of...
  
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• AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship / Towner Eastbourne / South East

  24-03-2020 14:46
  AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship - Gender in the Towner: Regional Collections, Histories and Exhibitions (2020)
  Applications are invited for a collaborative doctoral project between the...
  
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• Together! 2012 CIC announces Gbp 8000 of virtual commissions / / London / all

  24-03-2020 11:28
  Together! 2012 CIC is offering ‘virtual’ commissions to Disabled artists and Disabled-led companies for the Together! 2020 Disability History Month Festival. Every year the Festival...
  
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• The Zoots Sounds of the 60s and 70s show / Seaton Gateway / South East

  24-03-2020 10:20
  THE ZOOTS are here to make your whole family bop to the '60s and 70s beats that everybody loves - with legendary numbers by The Beatles, The Stones, Status Quo, Elton John, TREX, The Bee Gees, The...
  
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• Hard-partying ex-YBA Sarah Lucas: 'I was pretty wild'

  24-03-2020 07:00
  
  As the shamelessly bawdy artist thunders towards her 60s, she talks about knobby guys, life in metal-detecting country – and coping with all her hair falling out last yearThere are three people in the foyer of the gallery grappling with a very large crate, easily two metres tall. “What’s in that?” I ask, edging around them. “It’s empty,” says the woman who seems to be in charge. “But it contained a sculpture called Elf Warrior. We’ve just set
  
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