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• How LACMA’s New Building Became A Referendum On Museums

  02-04-2020 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How did this building, initiallyembraced as promising, if not visionary, come to ignite a scorched-earthdebate in its final stages? The story of LACMA’s campusreconstruction—and the current opposition to it—reflects some of thethorniest questions at play in the operation of museums today: what theyare meant to be, who gets to decide, and who is meant to pay for them. – Artnet
  
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• How To Maintain (Or Renew) Your Relationship With Shakespeare: Read Him

  02-04-2020 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s certainly true that people have been reading Shakespeare’s playsfor almost as long as they have been watching them. Within two or threeyears of his first, collaborative efforts on the London stage,Shakespeare’s first play in print was the gory tragedy Titus Andronicus(1594). Only one copy of this edition exists, now in the Folger Shakespeare Libraryin Washington DC. That scarcity itself tells us something aboutreading: playbooks were small, consumable pamphlets often read
  
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• There’s Going To Still Be Theatre. But What Will It Be?

  02-04-2020 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Said Chay Yew, “We’ve alwayscomplained about how the American theatre doesn’t work. I for one findthe blank slate exciting. We either repeat what we did before or wedon’t. The structure will have to come down.” Joe Haj conceded that if the crisis“ends in six weeks, we may be much like we were before. But if not, orthere’s another spike in the virus, we may need to rethink our modelentirely. There’s a huge role for leadership. We need to be able to
  
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• Can Looking At Art Online Beat The In-Person Experience?

  02-04-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s definitely less trouble. You can stroll around the masterpieces atthe Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, while seated at home in front of yourlaptop. Naturally, it’s far less crowded that way than it would be inreality. In other respects, though, the process is almost the same. Youcan select a Vermeer or a Frans Hals, and move in to examine it closeup, read the information, move back — and, if you want, listen to arather noisy narrated analysis of Rembrandt’s ‘Nig
  
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• Bookstores Had Staged Something Of A Comeback. And Now This

  02-04-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a 2016 study, the median small business had enough cash to last just 27 days,while a 2018 survey found that 21 percent would fail after a monthwithout cash flow. Bookstores run on even slimmer margins than thetypical mom-and-pop shop—but the ones that have survived in the Amazonera have made it for a reason. – Slate
  
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• Ancient Egyptian Pigment Has Become Biomedical Research Tool

  02-04-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A researcher at the University of Göttingen, Sebastian Kruss, has used [Egyptian Blue], which is also known as calcium copper silicate, to produce a new nanomaterial that improves infrared spectroscopic and microscopic imaging.” – Artnet
  
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• They don’t trust me with cheese

  02-04-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ‘The man next to us is honking like a seal,’ whispered my friend Mel at the interval of One Man, Two Guvnors at the National Theatre back in 2011. Tonight the National Theatre will stream their film of the show (available on YouTube for a week afterwards), and I’ve just found the review I wrote for Plays International. – David Jays
  
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• COVID Response: Panic Buying Of Pianos?

  02-04-2020 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many see the period of isolation as an opportunity to pursue passionsthat might have otherwise lain dormant. Music-learning apps and sheetmusic sites like nKoda have boomed, and, contrary to trends across the rest of the retail sector, so have instrument sales.” – Van
  
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• Libraries As ‘Second Responders’ In The COVID Crisis

  02-04-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When libraries closed their doors abruptly, they immediately opened their digital communications, collaborations, and creative activity to reach their public in ways as novel as the virus that forced them into it. You can be sure that this is just the beginning. Today libraries are already acting and improvising.” Deborah Fallows gives some examples of what they’re doing. – The Atlantic
  
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• Company Apprentice / Milk Presents / West Midlands / Nationwide

  02-04-2020 20:00
  Milk Presents are looking for a Company Apprentice. The Company Apprentice will shadow Milk Presents’ core team members alongside the creation of our summer show, learn tangible skills for...
  
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• Canada Council Launches Emergency Funding Plan

  02-04-2020 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Canada Council for the Arts has announced $60M in advance fundingto arts organizations that have approved funding from the 2019/20season. This amounts to the equivalent to 35% of the annual grants heldby all core funded organizations. The funding is designed to helparts not-for-profits meet short term financial commitments to theartists and cultural workers they employ. Ludwig Van
  
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• Theaters Across The U.S. Commission Ten-Minute Plays We Can All Perform While Sheltering In Place

  02-04-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The [project], which is being called ‘Play at Home,’ is a website (playathome.org) featuring new plays, intended to take no more than 10 minutes to read, that are free so that anyone can read or perform them at home or by video conferencing. The commissioning theaters are providing a $500 stipend to the playwrights they select to write the works.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sculpture Open Call: Beyond the static / 508 Gallery / London

  02-04-2020 19:00
  The 508 Gallery takes pride in giving opportunities to talented artists from around the world. Our team is passionate about bringing creativity to Chelsea and supporting both established and emerging...
  
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• Antiques Packing and Customer Support - Full Time, Bermondsey / Pax Romana Auctions / London

  02-04-2020 18:58
  We are an established Antiquities and Numismatics Gallery and Auction House, looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team!
  The main task will be to pack carefully various antiques and ancient...
  
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• Antiques and Coins Photographer - Full Time, Bermondsey / Pax Romana Auctions / London

  02-04-2020 18:46
  We are an established Antiquities and Numismatics Auction House and Gallery looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team!
  You will be responsible for photographing and editing photos which...
  
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• Chicago Dance Companies On The Edge

  02-04-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Put simply, the state’s dance scene has taken a body blow. Indeed,industry leaders fear that some companies won’t recover from this crisisat all and others could come back in a weakened or reduced form. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Street By Street - Digital Artist Residency / Artlink Hull / Yorkshire

  02-04-2020 18:24
  Call for Digital Artist Residency
  Without precedent and with immediate effect, society is endeavouring to understand, adapt, and evolve to a whole new concept: Social Isolation.
  In this present...
  
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• Open call for artists - The Library Presents Digitally / / East / Cambridge

  02-04-2020 18:09
  Submissions are invited from artists to deliver digital content for The Library Presents arts programme.
  Small and medium sized commissions are available to bring art activities into homes via...
  
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• Assembling New Micro-Operas During Coronavirus Confinement

  02-04-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ella Marchment, stage director of the International Opera Awards, is behind the scheme, which is called #OperaHarmony. … The [project] will pair composers with librettists to create pieces on the theme of distance or community. The composers and librettists will then be matched with directors and singers to record their micro-opera, which will be shared online.” – The Stage
  
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• Digital Producer / Make Music Day UK / London / or remote working

  02-04-2020 17:55
  MAKE MUSIC DAY 2020 – DIGITAL CELEBRATION
  Make Music Day is a grassroots festival where musicians, communities, venues and businesses collaborate to celebrate music on 21 June around the...
  
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• Gathering and editing your first collection (Summer Term 2020) / Live Canon / Online

  02-04-2020 17:51
  If you have written a substantial body of poems and you are starting to think about gathering them into a first collection, this course aims to support that process. We work through how to select...
  
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• Brown Paper Tickets Systems Overwhelmed, Artists And Venues Can’t Get Their Money

  02-04-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 20-year-old BPT, which has grown from a local company to aninternational ticket broker, handles tens of thousands of events aroundthe world each month. But in the past few weeks, an avalanche ofpandemic-related pressures swamped the company, overwhelming itssystems. In a flurry of confusing event cancellations and postponements,BPT founder and president William Scott Jordan said, the company andits bank lost control of their financial machinery — together, theydecided to s
  
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• Earth Photo 2020 - Now calling photographers! / / London

  02-04-2020 17:18
  A picture is worth a thousand words. Earth Photo, an international competition developed by Forestry England and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British...
  
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• The Dance World May Be Socially Liberal, But It’s Still Difficult For Gender-Nonconforming Dancers

  02-04-2020 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The male-female binary is built into the formalized structures of dance at just about every level, from the very beginning of training through the conventions of professional-level choreography and even down to dancewear. As alienating as that can be, non-binary dancers find ways to make room for themselves. – Dance Spirit
  
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• When COVID Shut This Small Museum Down, Its Community Suffered A Big Loss

  02-04-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the eight years since it was founded, the Underground Museum has become not only one of the most important destinations for black art in the country but also a crucial gathering place for its working class Arlington Heights neighborhood [in Los Angeles]. … As cultural institutions all over the world wrestle with how to bring art to the public during the pandemic, smaller ones like the Underground Museum are also trying to figure out how to continue serving communities that have
  
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• As The World Shuts Down, Yale School Of Music Takes Care Of Its Students

  02-04-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a March 31st letter to alumni, Dean Robert Blocker outlined an ambitious plan to provide aid, including ‘a one-time stipend of $500’ to all students to assist with travel and expenses; full pay, despite social distancing, for all student employees through May 1st, 2020; and relocation of all international students who could not return home to University housing.” – The Middleclass Artist
  
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• Call for female actors / Popelei / East / UK wide

  02-04-2020 15:38
  CALL FOR FEMALE ACTORS
  ​Would you like to be part of the Popelei Seed Commission 2020 and bring a new Women in Lockdown monologue to life?
  We'll assign the selected actors a fee of £100...
  
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• Call for writers / Popelei / East / UK wide

  02-04-2020 15:36
  WOMEN IN LOCKDOWN  ​
  "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf ​
  This is not the first time in history that women have...
  
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• North American Movie Box Office Down $600 Million From Last Year

  02-04-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Amid the far-reaching impact of the coronavirus pandemic, … domestic ticket sales turned in a combined $1.81 billion from Jan. 1 through March 19, the day when Comscore stopped reporting theater grosses. That compares to $2.41 billion for the first full three months of 2019.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Jazz Patriarch Ellis Marsalis Dead Of COVID At 85

  02-04-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[A] pianist and educator, [he] became the guiding force behind a late-20th-century resurgence in jazz. … Photogenic, erudite and fabulously talented, Mr. Marsalis’s children and many other young jazz musicians he had taught — including Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison Jr., Harry Connick Jr. and Nicholas Payton — became the leaders in a burgeoning traditionalist movement, loosely referred to as the Young Lions.” – The New York Times
  
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• Customer Service Advisor (Remote working available) / Jacksons Art Supplies / London

  02-04-2020 14:49
  Vacancy: Sales & Customer Services Assistant. 
  Location: Dalston, London (REMOTE WORKING AVAILABLE)
  Hours: Full Time (Monday to Friday, 9am – 5.30pm)
  Closes: Friday 17th April...
  
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• It Took Only Four Days For Berlin To Distribute €500 Million In Emergency Funds For Freelancers

  02-04-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Imagine you are a small businessperson or freelancer suffering a deep financial loss as a result of your city’s lockdown. You apply for a grant from the government on a Friday, submitting nothing more than your mailing address, a tax number, banking details, and a legal form with your company’s name. On Tuesday, you wake up to find €5,000 has been wired into your account.” – Artnet
  
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• Edinburgh Festivals — All Of Them — Canceled

  02-04-2020 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Edinburgh International Festival, the Fringe, Book Festival, Art Festival, and Military Tattoo, which transform Scotland’s capital for the month of August, have been called off for 2020. No one knows what the coronavirus situation will be by late summer, but preparations are so large, lengthy and expensive that, the authorities agreed, the decision had to be made now. – The Guardian
  
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• Theatre Maker Call Out / Pests Production / South West

  02-04-2020 10:51
  Pests are looking for performances to programme as part of our new season This Is My Story. This Is My Story will be season of DIY, small scale, low tech theatre performances centering round...
  
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• Artist in residence: Excavating Vulnerability / Keele University / West Midlands

  02-04-2020 09:37
  Keele Institute of Social Inclusion and ArtsKeele are inviting expressions of interest for an artist in residence at Keele University, Staffordshire. The residency takes place from May 2020 to Spring...
  
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• How David Hockney depicted a spring for self-isolationists

  02-04-2020 09:26
  
  Artists have long been fascinated by spring, but their blossoming buds can feel like a sick joke when we’re stuck inside. Thankfully, Hockney’s new iPad paintings look to the true master of the season – Van Gogh David Hockney, who has spent a lifetime looking on the bright side, recommends spring as the cure for our ills. The 82-year-old artist has released his latest iPad paintings – intense observations of daffodils and fruit trees in blossom in Normandy. They are, as t
  
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• The great British art quiz: set by Museums Sheffield

  02-04-2020 09:00
  
  British museums may be closed – but you can still explore their collections through our series of fun quizzes. The latest is set by Museums SheffieldThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection will set the questions.Today, our questions are set by Museums Sheffield, a charity that cares for the city’s collections of a
  
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• Rinchen Ato's best photograph: Tibetan twins and their albino rabbits

  02-04-2020 07:00
  
  ‘These girls from Qinghai in China got albino rabbits for their birthdays. But albino rabbits don’t like harsh climates. They didn’t last the winter’My father is a Tibetan lama. When he was still just a baby, he was recognised as a tulku, a reincarnation of a Tibetan Buddhist teacher. He lives in the UK now. He met my mother in Dalhousie, India, when she was teaching English to Tibetan refugees. They fell in love and he gave up his monastic vows, but being a tulku isn&rsq
  
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• Letters of Love in a Time of Crisis in response to COVID-19 / Letters To The Earth / Worldwide

  02-04-2020 00:11
  In February 2019 the British public were invited to put pen to paper and write a Letter to the Earth in response to the climate and ecological emergency. This could be a letter to or from the Earth,...
  
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• Soooo… We Were Trying To Cut Down Our Screen Time Before This Happened. How’s It Going?

  02-04-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Covered in screens these past few weeks, I have noticed some positivechanges. I FaceTime my friends so much that I know them better than Idid before. I decided to learn what TikTok was, and I love it. I spendhours with my chin tucked into my chest and a weird smile on my face,watching. I’m using Duolingo, an app to learn languages. – The New York Times
  
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