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• Chiura Obata’s Career Was Interrupted By Internment During WWII. Now A Retrospective Of His Work Has Been Stilled By The Virus

  03-04-2020 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Suddenly he was in a drab, dehumanizing place, first a stable in California, then the barracks of Topaz, Utah, where he spent most of his time in internment. It was bleak, hot, arid and dusty, and he missed green things, trees and gardens. He moved quickly to establish an art school, both at Tanforan and later Topaz. And when he represented the camp at Topaz, the sense of displacement became dreamlike, even surreal, a luminous landscape that looked just a bit scorched, with a few dark bu
  
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• How Podcasting Is Changing

  03-04-2020 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The podcasting business is changing at the speed of sound. There’s a pivot toward profit. And while that’s great in the short run for public podcasting, it also attracts new players and an aggressive new business model. Public podcasts that often started as spinoffs or experiments are becoming lucrative. NPR recently projected that podcasting would account within three years for 20% of its revenues. In public-broadcasting–adjacent venues, The Daily reportedly made millions las
  
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• How Dance Helps Me Think And Thinking Helps Me Dance

  03-04-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For most of my career, dancing and academic research were two separate but equally weighted spheres. However, over the years, I have become more and more aware that many people viewed dance as a less valuable way of thinking and working. Dance, in their minds, was a purely emotive activity consisting of uncritical, spontaneous movement or a purely athletic endeavour whose sole purpose is to defy our body’s physical limits. Part of the reason why this view of dance persists, I think, stems
  
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• Why AI Can’t Predict The Value Of Art

  03-04-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To bring real value, any A.I. application needs loads of quality data—which is doubly problematic in our small and notoriously opaque industry (dealers l-o-v-e to hoard sales info). Without greater transparency, A.I. can do only so much. – Artnet
  
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• Inside This Season’s Most Controversial Book – The Woody Allen Memoir

  03-04-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I spoke to several industry professionals; almost all were reluctant to play Monday morning quarterback without the promise of anonymity—if you’re making a book deal in secret, perhaps it’s worth interrogating why. – The New Republic
  
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• Press & Marketing Officer / Komedia / South East

  03-04-2020 19:51
  Full time: 40 hours p/week, reporting to the Marketing Manager.
  Komedia is seeking an experienced Press & Marketing Officer to cover maternity leave. A pivotal role within our busy and dynamic...
  
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• Head of Collection, Loans and Programmes (Maternity Cover) / Paintings in Hospitals / London / National

  03-04-2020 19:22
  Paintings in Hospitals is looking for a dynamic, motivated and creative leader to cover the Head of Collection, Loans & Programmes role for nine to twelve months. Joining the charity at a crucial...
  
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• Communications Manager / AudioActive / South East

  03-04-2020 19:06
  Salary: £24,000 – £27,000 (dependent on experience) pro rata, for 19 hrs per week
  Term: 1 year fixed-term contract with intention to become a permanent position subject to...
  
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• Communications & Marketing Coordinator / Music:Leeds / Yorkshire

  03-04-2020 18:49
  Communications & Marketing Coordinator20 hours / week£806 / month (£18,377 FTE pro rata)Duration: 12 months minimum - extension dependent on continued...
  
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• Fantastic for Families is open for online events! / Family Arts Campaign / London / South East, South West, West Midlands, East Midlands, East, Yorkshire, North East, North West

  03-04-2020 17:33
  If you have a live performance, class or workshop coming up, you can now add it to the site by logging in and visiting the My Online Events tab. As always, listing your event is completely...
  
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• Apply for a Fantastic for Families Award / Family Arts Campaign / London / East, North East, North West, West Midlands, East Midlands, Yorkshire, South East, South West

  03-04-2020 16:38
  We’re still celebrating the excellent work which took place for families all across the UK over the last year.Did you run an excellent family event?
  Improve your venue and its...
  
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• Online Circle Singing session / / London

  03-04-2020 15:54
  Hello Everyone,
  nothing will ever replace human contact but it doesn’t mean that we cannot sing and/or create together, in other ways! Due to a delay, we won’t be able to follow our...
  
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• Handmade Chelsea - Open Call for Makers & Artists / Handmade in Britian / London

  03-04-2020 14:25
  We feel it's important for you to have events to look forward to later in the year, just as we are looking forward to Handmade Chelsea - The Contemporary Craft and Design Fair (13 - 15...
  
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• Digital gallery tours and Hockney's daffodils – the week in art

  03-04-2020 14:17
  
  Galleries are throwing their doors open to the web so you can still enjoy their treasures, and posing fun quizzes too – all in your weekly dispatchHastings Contemporary robot toursIt’s hard for some galleries outside London to maintain the virtual presence of national museums or art dealers, but there are ingenious ideas to keep exhibitions and collections visible. Hastings Contemporary for example is offering real-time tours using a state of the art telepresence robot. Its current e
  
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• Wildchild Festival Art Commission / Staffordshire Wildlife Trust / West Midlands

  03-04-2020 11:55
  Staffordshire Wildlife Trust is Staffordshire’s local wildlife charity that has been working to protect the wildlife and wild places in Staffordshire for over 50 years. We have around 80...
  
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• The great British art quiz: set by Gallery Oldham

  03-04-2020 09:00
  
  British museums and galleries are closed due to coronavirus – but you can explore their art collections by answering some tricky questions instead. The fourth of our series is by Gallery OldhamThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.Today, our questions are set by Gallery Oldham, located in L
  
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• Norman Rockwell, the most American of all artists – archive, April 1972

  03-04-2020 06:30
  
  3 April 1972: Once scorned by the art world, Rockwell is being acclaimed not only as a man who held a mirror to American social history but as one of the country’s greatest genre paintersCall it a myth, a legend, nostalgia for the good old days, Norman Rockwell, the 78 year-old American artist whose work has been described as a popular history of the United States in the twentieth century, is one of the year’s most sought after artistic properties. His paintings, once scorned by the
  
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• This Is A Transition From One Era To Another

  03-04-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The era of peak globalisation is over. An economic system that relied onworldwide production and long supply chains is morphing into one thatwill be less interconnected. A way of life driven by unceasing mobilityis shuddering to a stop. Our lives are going to be more physicallyconstrained and more virtual than they were. A more fragmented world iscoming into being that in some ways may be more resilient.  – New Statesman
  
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