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• COVID Casualty: Celebrity Culture?

  30-03-2020 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Among the social impacts of the coronavirus is its swift dismantling ofthe cult of celebrity. The famous are ambassadors of the meritocracy;they represent the American pursuit of wealth through talent, charm andhard work. But the dream of class mobility dissipates when society locksdown, the economy stalls, the death count mounts and everyone’s futureis frozen inside their own crowded apartment or palatial mansion. Thedifference between the two has never been more obvious. – The New
  
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• Placido Domingo Hospitalized In Mexico With COVID

  30-03-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a press statement, a spokesperson for the opera singer reported thathe is in stable condition but will remain the hospital for “as long asthe doctors find it necessary until a hoped-for full recovery.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Lockdown Live / English Folk Expo / North West

  30-03-2020 22:19
  Some of our favourite musicians have been keeping their spirits (and ours) up with live concerts from their locked down lives. Broadcasts from their living rooms, kitchens and gardens to family...
  
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• We Can Rebuild, But Why?

  30-03-2020 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Merely stabilizing the economy, or preventing the absoluteworst of all possible worlds, will not be enough. In a short few weeks,the COVID-19 recession has made painfully clear our profound economicweaknesses. We have long known that 40 percent of Americans cannotafford an unexpected $400 expense. Now we are beginning to understandexactly what that means. – Boston Review
  
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• Awareness: Our Digital Selves Are Our Real Selves

  30-03-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It would be easy to dismiss the rise of “social distance socializing” asa product of pure necessity, a stopgap until we are, hopefully, able tosafely congregate in person again. But these online gatherings are theculmination of a much broader cultural shift: the revelation that somuch of our lives is already livedonline. What we might call our “digital bodies” — our online avatars,the words we write on Twitter or Facebook, the photos we post onInstagram — are
  
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• Little Angel Theatre launches online stories and activities / / London

  30-03-2020 21:24
  Little Angel Theatre has launched a host of video stories and activity guides to keep children and parents/carers entertained while schools are closed.
  The theatre has had an overwhelming amount of...
  
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• Dick Titterington’s New Trio Album

  30-03-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Asked about his intriguing new album, west coast trumpeter Dick Titterington talked about the project’s genesis during a Christmas party. – Doug Ramsey
  
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• Reason to believe

  30-03-2020 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I can’t believe I’m posting this message, but…after looking at this morning’s stats, Mrs. T’s doctors now believe … – Terry Teachout
  
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• Jennifer Schantz Is New Director Of The NY Public Library’s Performing Arts Collection

  30-03-2020 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Schantz, 51, currently the executive vicepresident and chief operating officer at the New-York HistoricalSociety, will take up the position in May. She succeeds JacquelineDavis, who has led the library for two decades. Theperforming arts library, located in Lincoln Center, is one of the NewYork Public Library’s four research divisions, with a collection of some8 million items that extend far beyond books to include manuscripts,photographs, scores, ephemera, sheet music, stage designs, cos
  
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• Creative Connections Commissions / Creative Black Country / West Midlands

  30-03-2020 20:12
  Creative Black Country (CBC) are offering small commissions of £500 - £2000 for projects that develop creative activity with and for local communities in the Black Country to make...
  
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• ACS Studio Prize 2020 / Artists' Collecting Society (ACS) / East / UK wide

  30-03-2020 20:12
  The Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS) is offering one student or recent graduate £4,500 to contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in a UK city of your choice.
  The Studio...
  
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• Vital Film Hub Shuts Down With Layoffs At Film At Lincoln Center

  30-03-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Film at Lincoln Center announcedmassive internal upheaval on Friday. A longtime hub of film culture inNew York City with an influential reach around the country, theorganization furloughed or laid off approximately 50% of the full-timestaff as well as all of the part-time staff. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Musician Sues Pension Fund For Risky Investments And Wins $28 Million Settlement

  30-03-2020 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thursday’s settlement deal in a case brought by a onetime Philadelphiaarea saxophonist against a $2 billion musicians’ pension fund shows thatthe trustees who ratify advisers’ and outside managers’ investmentpicks can be held responsible for their mistakes. – Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Van Gogh painting stolen from Dutch museum

  30-03-2020 19:10
  
  Thieves have stolen the £5m Parsonage Garden at Neunen in Spring by the famous artist from the Singer Laren museumA painting by Vincent van Gogh with an estimated value of up to £5m has been stolen from a Dutch museum currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.The thieves took Van Gogh’s Parsonage Garden at Neunen in Spring after smashing through the front glass door of the Singer Laren museum, in Laren, at around 3.15am on Sunday morning. No other art is believed to be m
  
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• The Best Sketch Comedian Online Now

  30-03-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sure, everything’s online now, but some comedians have been doing the work for a much longer time than the last two weeks. They didn’t need to adjust “because they were already there, particularly those in the growing genre of ‘front-facing camera comedy’: short character sketches played directly to the camera. Owing a debt to the hectic editing of Tim and Eric and the influence of the defunct six-second-or-less platform Vine, these videos have
  
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• Thieves Steal Van Gogh From Museum Closed Because Of Virus

  30-03-2020 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TheSinger Laren museum, just outside the Dutch capital city of Amsterdam,said van Gogh’s “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring” was stolen inan overnight raid. Thepainting — created in 1884 by the Dutch master, according to Reuters— was on loan from another Dutch institution, the Groninger Museum inthe city of Groningen. – CNN
  
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• Coxside Carnival Commission Call Out Live / Take A Part / South West

  30-03-2020 18:14
  In light of the current global pandemic, Take A Part have made some changes to the Coxside Carnival commission, and this call out is now live! 
  Take A Part and Coxside Arts Action Group (CAAG)...
  
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• Why We Should Bail Out Classical Music

  30-03-2020 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Matthew Walther: “If it is worth bailing out restaurants and bars and other places wherepeople congregate together for merriment and diversion, we must notneglect those institutions in which men and women come together forsomething that satisfies all the deepest longings of our species.” – The Week
  
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• Antony Gormley and Grayson Perry help design the 'ultimate artists’ activity pack'

  30-03-2020 17:41
  
  A top team of visual artists – including Gormley, Perry, Jeremy Deller and Gillian Wearing – will this week launch an activity pack full of creative ideas for the coronavirus lockdown• See all our coronavirus coverage
  • Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellationsMark Wallinger hopes bored people everywhere will draw their own hand and put it in their window as a kind of nationwide wave and Jeremy Deller suggests we write songs about toilet roll.Michael Lan
  
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• Corporate and Donor Development Consultant / Fallen Angels Dance Theatre / North West

  30-03-2020 17:39
  Fallen Angels Dance Theatre (FADT) exists to support people in recovery from addiction to transform their lives and share the recovery journey with the wider public, through high quality dance,...
  
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• Memes Belong In Museums

  30-03-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Think about the doge meme, for instance. “This meme is iconic, woah heritage, such icon.” (But for real: Memes show the power of photography and creativity, and the top memes deserve to be archived.) – BBC
  
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• LINK - a digital culture, creativity and wellbeing programme / Warts and All Theatre / East Midlands / West Midlands

  30-03-2020 16:41
  Link is Warts and All Theatre’s brand new virtual programme of activity.
  It’s aims are:
  to provide an opportunity for children, young people and their families to connect with each...
  
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• A Choir Practice That Turned Deadly

  30-03-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sixty singers showed up in early March for a 2.5-hour choir practice. Now, three weeks later, “45 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with the symptoms, at least three have been hospitalized, and two are dead.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Who Gets The Credit – And Money – For An Artist’s Quick Rise?

  30-03-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A lesson in not making desperate promises, perhaps: “When Derek Fordjour was a little-known art student at Hunter College, before Michael Ovitz and Beyoncé began collecting his work, before his paintings came to sell for more than $100,000, the fledgling artist struck a deal with a New York gallery. He agreed, according to a lawsuit now being pursued in New York Supreme Court, to produce 20 works for $20,000.” Now the gallery says he owes 7 paintings – or $1.4
  
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• As The UK Public Saw What Was Coming, Book Buying Soared

  30-03-2020 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even as government officials seemed a bit cavalier about it all – talking about herd immunity, for instance – people sensed that a shutdown was coming. “Sales of fiction rose by a third, while children’s education went up 234% to the third highest level on record. Puzzle books, handicrafts and true crime also saw sharp rises.” – BBC
  
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• Can Community Radio Survive With Its Unique Sound Intact?

  30-03-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sure, they’re still as quirky and gap-filling as ever, except for one rather large problem. WFMU Jersey City’s station manager: “This is the situation that so many broadcasters dream of! … You have a global, captive audience, and everyone can share and commiserate their experiences. But it’s not safe to go to the station!”- The New York Times
  
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• Cal Shakes Cancels Its 2020 Season

  30-03-2020 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AD Eric Ting: “This may seem like an extraordinary decision, but taking into account the incredible uncertainty of this moment, the cost of producing a season at the Bruns, of which ticket sales only account for a third, the current and long-term disruption in fundraising, … we feel this is our best course of action.” No word on whether the four plays will be rescheduled in future seasons. – American Theatre
  
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• Production Manager / ADC Theatre / East

  30-03-2020 15:00
  The ADC Production Manager provides a friendly and supportive environment for visiting teams to experience all aspects of theatre and ensures that the ADC Theatre continues to present professional...
  
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• In Europe, Cinema Production Has Been Thrown Into Utter Crisis

  30-03-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even before COVID-19 shut down production completely, three historic companies were in trouble – deep in debt to creditors, troubled by streaming, etc. Then seven feature films in Paris alone stopped dead, one leaving a street recreated in WWII-era styles. Some relief: “The National Cinema Center (CNC) plans to relieve the short-term cash flow of 1,200 arthouse cinemas and distributors. It also suspended payment of the ticket tax (TSA) in March and authorized the advance use of
  
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• How Can Visual Artists Survive?

  30-03-2020 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Museums are silent, and the Tate Modern’s 20th anniversary celebration has gone mute. But the small galleries and artists of Britain are in much more dire circumstances. Says one close observer, “We might lose the really interesting emergent art, the stuff of the future, if we are not careful.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Wear your clothes backwards and learn cartooning: artists share lockdown tips

  30-03-2020 14:33
  
  From Martin Parr’s indoor photography challenge to Martin Creed’s guitar-playing tutorial, artists are showing how the coronavirus needn’t mean an end to creativityThe doors of the world’s finest museums, galleries and art fairs may now be firmly closed for who knows how long. But art can still reach us in dazzling detail, via the now essential gateway of social media. Large organisations were the first to get involved, with MoMA in New York and the National Portrait Gall
  
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• Sarasota Ballet Will Support Its Dancers Through The Original End Of The Season

  30-03-2020 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The ballet says that, “We also recognized that while many of our dancers have made their homes here in Sarasota, and others would be able to easily return to their home states/countries, many of the Company were not going to be so lucky. With our dancers from countries like Italy, who are unable to return to their families, we have assured them that we will help in whatever ways we can.” They expect to lose around $800,000. – Ballet News
  
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• The Producers Of Dystopian Fiction Are Thinking Again

  30-03-2020 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But it’s a complex consideration: “‘You do feel guilty about putting these anxieties in people’s minds,’ said Bruce Miller, the creator and showrunner of Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale. ‘There’s no way not to feel like you somehow wished things into being.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Is This A Craft Renaissance?

  30-03-2020 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  People in Britain – perhaps spurred on by Brexit fears, or perhaps it’s just a cyclical thing, this “return to traditional craft” – are learning everything from vase painting to making spinning wheels and clay pipes.– The Observer (UK)
  
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• Online Creative Facilitator / ToddlerTunez / London / Nationwide, not just London

  30-03-2020 13:49
  We are looking for artists of any kind - musicians, actors, dancers, painters, etc! - who have experience working with children to deliver online creative sessions, for individual children and...
  
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• When Your Book About Getting Through Hard Times Comes Out In The Middle Of A Pandemic

  30-03-2020 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Carmen Esposito’s Save Yourself was meant to be released on a book tour that saw the comedian and podcaster performing in cities across the country. But then, COVID-19. In the book, she writes, “Humans are scared out of our minds and want to be saved. We want to know why we are here, what we are supposed to do, and how to protect ourselves.” – NPR
  
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• Online Voice and Yoga workshop / / London

  30-03-2020 13:32
  Would you like to explore the powerful connection between yoga and voice? 🎊ALL WELCOME🎊DETAILS and BOOKINGS:https://tomovewithvoice.wixsite.com/london/online (each registration is...
  
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• UK gallery curator calls for public art project in response to Covid-19

  30-03-2020 07:00
  
  Ambitious national programme is needed to support artists and institutions, says Serpentine Galleries’ artistic director An ambitious multimillion-pound public art project is needed to support cultural institutions during the coronavirus outbreak and help create a new generation of artists, according to one of British art’s most respected names.Hans-Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, said the project would need to be similar in scale to Franklin D Roose
  
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