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• Broadway’s Obie Awards Go Virtual

  08-04-2020 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The annual celebration of stage work was originally scheduled to be held at Terminal 5 in Manhattan on May 18. Instead it will be postponed until a later, as yet unannounced, date. In an interview with Variety, Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, one of the organizations behind the awards, said the show will include some form of performances, but cautioned that details are still being worked out. – Variety
  
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• When The Music Stops – Your Life On The Road Scrambles To A Halt

  08-04-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lara Downes: “Two weeks of dates cancelled, and then before we knew it, two months. Every single concert, opera, festival, club date–our calendars were wiped clean. When it happened, some of us were out on the road, and we made our way home in confusion and panic. Some of us were getting ready to head out on tour, and we cancelled flights, unpacked suitcases. We were all stunned. It was surreal and impossible.” – I Care if you Listen
  
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• Rehearsals Move Online – To Practice And For Community

  08-04-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Physical distancing is the antithesis of what a community chorus is all about. We rehearse for four months before our performances twice a year. The community we form as we breathe, learn the music, and sing together is a vital component of who we are. Who are we in times of physical isolation?” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• When We See Familiar Art Again We Will Have Changed

  08-04-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Schjeldahl: Online “virtual tours” add insult to injury, in my view, as strictly spectacular, amorphous disembodiments of aesthetic experience. Inaccessible, the works conjure in the imagination a significance that we have taken for granted. Purely by existing, they stir associations and precipitate meanings that may resonate in this plague time. Why does the art of what we term the Old Masters have so much more soulful heft than that of most moderns and nearly all of our cont
  
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• Sad: Pictures Of The Demolition Of The Old LACMA

  08-04-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The work that began Monday focused on the museum’s 1965 Leo S. Bing Center, a 600-seat theater designed by architect William L. Pereira that has been used for film screenings, musical performances, talks and other events. Interior demolition of three other buildings — Pereira’s 1960 Hammer and Ahmanson buildings as well as Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates’ 1980s Art of the Americas building — is underway as well. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Salesforce Consultant / The Royal Drawing School / London

  08-04-2020 21:28
  The Royal Drawing School is seeking a highly experienced CRM consultant for a period of six months to support the School on a freelance basis, leading on the development and implementation of...
  
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• Gasworks Online Screenings / Gasworks / London / Online

  08-04-2020 21:12
  Throughout April and May 2020 Gasworks presents a series of online screenings of artist films commissioned for our exhibitions programme over the last few years. Featuring works by...
  
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• Montreal’s Franglais Rap: Multi-Culti Creativity Or Threat To The Survival Of French In North America?

  08-04-2020 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To their legions of fans, the groups give voice to the bilingual vernacular of a multicultural city, marinated by its past French and British rulers, the forces of globalization and successive waves of immigration. … But they have also spawned a backlash in Quebec, … where critics have castigated them as self-colonizers who are ‘creolizing’ the French language and threatening its future.” – The New York Times
  
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• Fenway Park’s Organist Is Playing The Games Even Though Baseball Has Been Canceled

  08-04-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Normally, Josh Kantor is in a perch at Boston’s venerable baseball park, churning out tunes as the home team’s official organist. In late March, with the season put on pause due to coronavirus concerns, he decided he would try a single video stream from behind his Yamaha Electone and leave it at that. But the online response convinced him to come back the next day. And the next. Kantor is now pledging to continue the “7th-Inning Stretch,” as he calls his 30-minute show,
  
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• Archaeologists Open Egyptian Mummy’s Coffin And Discover 3,000-Year-Old Paintings Inside

  08-04-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland, conservators working to preserve the remains of an ancient priestess or noblewoman named Ta-Kr-Hb opened her sarcophagus and found two paintings of a goddess in a red dress called Amentet. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Say Goodbye To The Cleveland Plain Dealer As Owners Dismantle It

  08-04-2020 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The paper’s remaining staffers are now faced with a devastating decision: they can either leave and let the state’s largest paper, (and the country’s first News Guild), die, ceding victory at last to the Newhouses of Advance Publications who’ve been ruthlessly and methodically busting the PD’s union for years; or they can stay on, suffering the indignities of filing low-stakes stories on distant locales that haven’t been part of the paper’s regul
  
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• Editor / Copywriter / Writer / Photographer Elisa Franceschi / London / remote

  08-04-2020 19:22
  Hello,
  I am a photographer/retoucher, and I am looking for an editor/ copywriter/ professional with great writing skills, ideally working in the art/creative sector. I need help to improve some...
  
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• Social Media developpers, Creatives, Designers / E-Merge Production House / London

  08-04-2020 19:09
  Got nothing to do during lockdown? Feeling Bored?
  E-Merge Production House has a number of little projects that we're working on that will put us in a better position once life is unpaused.
  The...
  
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• Another Landmark Postmodern Dance Piece You Can Perform At Home

  08-04-2020 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last week it was one by Yvonne Rainer. This week it’s Trisha Brown’s 1971 Roof Piece, in which “dancers scattered themselves across the roofs of SoHo and played a dance version of the game Telephone.” Recently members of the Trisha Brown Dance Company got together on Zoom to do an adaptation they call Room/Roof Piece — and they recommend that you get some friends together and do the same. Here’s how. – The New York Times
  
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• Artist Brief: The Summit / In-Situ / North West

  08-04-2020 18:46
  The Summit
  Radical thinking and making with young people
  Timescale: 6 month project 2020/ 2021 (flexible timeline from Sept 2020 to Feb 2021) Deadline: 30th May 2020Interview date: to be...
  
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• Seattle Is Boarded Up. Seattle’s Artists Are Painting Murals On The Boards

  08-04-2020 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plywood started going up about two weeks ago after vandals began smashing windows of closed businesses. That led to more plywood from store owners who feared they might be next. Things were starting to look bleak all over town. Already artists are out and about, painting  murals to combat the growing blight as the novel coronavirus pandemic forces continued closures of local businesses and restaurants. – Seattle Times
  
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• Call for artwork! Young artists exploring mental health / City Arts (Nottingham) / East Midlands / Nottingham

  08-04-2020 18:19
  Are you aged 13-25? Do you make art? Are you using it to express something about mental health?
  We’re looking for young artists to submit artwork for City Arts and the Institute of Mental...
  
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• 'Beginning of a new era': how culture went virtual in the face of crisis

  08-04-2020 18:18
  
  The rise of Covid-19 has forced cultural institutions to explore alternative digital spaces with online exhibitions and a rise in virtual realityIt’s a terrible time for going out. Since the emergence of Covid-19 and resulting self-quarantine, thousands of museums, cultural institutions, festivals and global happenings have temporarily shuttered operations, leaving behind empty streets and a restless public. In a sector that thrives on in-person connection, the loss of an audience is disas
  
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• CAN and CFCCA Digital Commission / Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art / North West

  08-04-2020 18:11
  Chinese Arts Now (CAN) and the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) are accepting applications from artists who identify as having Chinese cultural heritage and are resident in the UK for...
  
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• ‘Tiger King’, The Most Watched TV Show In The U.S., Is An Ethical And Moral Dumpster Fire

  08-04-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The series is] the latest and most acute iteration of a Netflix trend toward extreme storytelling; the more unfathomable and ethically dubious, the better. The point is virality — content so outlandish that people can’t help but talk about it. … America right now, in the midst of a pandemic, is reliant on collective behavior, adhering to rules, and taking sensible precautions to avoid danger. Tiger King is the TV equivalent of licking the subway pole.” – T
  
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• NEW Diploma in Creative Producing / CGO Institute / UK and International

  08-04-2020 17:40
  A new cloud-based international 16 week intensive programme of classes, seminars and tutorials from experienced current practitioners from UK, US, Australia, Singapore and Saudi Arabia for a max...
  
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• Amsterdam Embraces A New Model For Its Post-COVID Life

  08-04-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When suddenly we have to care about climate, health, and jobs and housing and care and communities, is there a framework around that can help us with all of that? Yes there is, and it is ready to go.” The central premise is simple: the goal of economic activity should be about meeting the core needs of all but within the means of the planet. The “doughnut” is a device to show what this means in practice. – The Guardian
  
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• Writing a historical novel (webinar) / in partnership with the British Library / London / all (webinar)

  08-04-2020 17:02
  Want to write a historical novel? This webinar will take you from ideas to research, get you writing, then on to publication & marketing. It includes how to evaluate new ideas and working with...
  
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• Australia’s Arts Funder Slashes Grants, Leaving Companies In Shock

  08-04-2020 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Australia Council for the Arts’ four-year funding program for 2021-24 has reduced the number of organizations included by a quarter, from 128 to 95, and has cut the planned grants for the first of those years by 30%. Because of the current COVID-related shutdowns, the Council is extending for one year funding for current grantees dropped for 2021-24, but even that extension will be cut by 30%. – Limelight (Australia)
  
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• Williamstown Theatre Festival Finds Alternative To Canceling This Summer’s Season

  08-04-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a bold attempt to salvage its shows, the festival … has decided to develop, rehearse, and record all seven of its planned productions and release them in audio form on Audible … [with] the same performers that would have appeared onstage.” – The New York Times
  
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• Online Event - Calling all Tottenham Creatives / Collage Works / London

  08-04-2020 16:21
  Calling all Creatives based in Tottenham to join our upcoming WEBINAR event 'Are you Focused' by Leadership Development Facilitator and Executive Coach Gavin...
  
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• Pulitzer Prizes Postponed, Will Be Livestreamed In May

  08-04-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The announcement of this year’s awards had been scheduled for April 20, but, as administrator Dana Canedy said in a statement, “The Pulitzer board includes many high-level journalists who are on the frontlines of informing the public on the quickly evolving Coronavirus pandemic.” – Poynter Institute
  
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• Artist Call - Arts & Music Exhibition, When The Dust Settles / When The Dust Settles / London

  08-04-2020 15:56
  When the dust settles is a collective Art & Music Exhibition. To be launched in conjunction with end of the lockdown we are currently enduring due to the global epidemic that has affected every...
  
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• Interim CEO / Theatre Bristol / South West

  08-04-2020 15:42
  Are you looking for a way to help build the new future of the arts?
   
  Theatre Bristol is an organisation dedicated to supporting and improving live performance and championing independent...
  
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• Kennedy Center Rescinds Furlough Of National Symphony Musicians

  08-04-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The deal [with the musicians’ union] includes immediate pay cuts until early September, a wage freeze and a delayed pay increase and extends the current contract for a year, to 2024, according to the arts center. It avoids the open-ended furlough that was supposed to have started Monday.” – The Washington Post
  
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• New York Philharmonic Players Fired For Sexual Misconduct Reinstated

  08-04-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Philharmonic dismissed the players — its principal oboist, Liang Wang, and associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey — in September 2018. Both men denied wrongdoing, and the players’ union filed a grievance challenging their dismissals. The case was heard by an independent arbitrator, who found that the players had been terminated without just cause and should be reinstated.” – The New York Times
  
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• London’s West End Theatres To Remain Closed At Least Through May 31

  08-04-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “London’s theatres first shuttered their doors on March 16 in the wake of the escalating coronavirus pandemic. The mass closures, in an effort to curb the spread of the virus, mirrored those on Broadway on March 12. … While theatres in New York were initially scheduled to re-open April 13, an update from the Broadway League is expected to arrive in the coming days.” – Playbill
  
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• Singer-Songwriter John Prine Dead Of COVID At 73

  08-04-2020 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A onetime Army mechanic and mail carrier who wrote songs rooted in the experiences of lower-middle-class life, Mr. Prine rose to prominence almost by accident. He was at a Chicago folk club called the Fifth Peg one night in 1969, complaining about the performers, when someone challenged him to get onstage, saying, ‘You get up and try.’ … Within a year, he released his first album and was hailed as one of the foremost lyricists of his time, even as a musical heir to Bob
  
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• Programme Manager: Planning and Logistics / British Museum / London

  08-04-2020 12:41
  Programme Manager: Planning and Logistics Capital Planning and Programme Management Full time Permanent £48,982 per annum Application Deadline: 22nd April 2020 at Midday
  Use your...
  
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• Analogue videographer/film-maker / Freelance / London

  08-04-2020 11:53
  Hi, I'm working on an animation project, and I need to film a video playing on a screen, ideally with film/analogue. 
  The animation uses for its source material frames from a video file, and...
  
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• Be it Hopper pastiche or Hockney original, art offers vital comfort in times of crisis | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  08-04-2020 10:00
  
  Humanity’s creative drive is unassailable – and the coronavirus outbreak has already inspired some minor masterworksTwo Russians – a man and a woman –­ gaze gloomily from a photograph. He is wearing glasses, she a floral pinafore. In the foreground, so close that it looks enormous, is a kitchen fork. It is, unmistakably, American Gothic. Except this couple are inside their apartment, standing in front of a window, through which we see huge tower blocks.Confinement has
  
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• The great British art quiz: set by Derby Museums

  08-04-2020 09:00
  
  The latest in our series of quizzes set by British museums and galleries closed during the corona lockdown comes from Derby Museums. Explore its collection as you answer these teasersThis 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 Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Derby Museums
  
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• The beautiful and the Damned: Sheila Rock's punk gods – in pictures

  08-04-2020 08:00
  
  From Eater to the Clash, from the lipstick of Siouxsie Sioux to the staff of Sex, photographer Sheila Rock caught the faces of punk just as it all went haywire Continue reading...
  
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• The artist with the remote-controlled robotic body: 'I’ve made a career out of being a failure'

  08-04-2020 03:00
  
  Stelarc has suspended himself from hooks and had an ear implanted in his arm. Now his 2020 Adelaide biennial work puts the audience at the helmWhat was it about the 1970s that promoted suffering for one’s art? In Rhythm 0 (1974), Marina Abramović stood next to a table loaded with items ranging from a rose to a gun, and let the audience desecrate her with them. Tehching Hsieh took a two-storey leap for Jump Piece (1973) and broke his ankles. Chris Burden somehow lived to the age of 69,
  
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• Mega Art And The Mega Market That Drives It

  08-04-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The huge growth of the art market at its top end is surely, as Michael Shnayerson suggests, a function of the spiralling number of billionaires and increasing disparities of wealth. He also points out that successful artists are a very select few: the huge majority make at best only a few thousand dollars a year from their art. The question remains: how good is all this extremely expensive stuff?” – Times Literary Supplement
  
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