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• Film (or game) Producer / Avantgardeners Collective / London / flexible, UK

  14-04-2020 23:55
  I’m looking for a (film) producer for an upcoming project dedicated to future visions who has experience, knowledge and interest in new technologies. 
  Electronica music, art fashion and...
  
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• Will We Lose A Whole Generation Of Artists?

  14-04-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chances are the current pandemic has them considering whether a creative life is possible – feasible, affordable, open to someone like themselves – at the very moment when that world began cancelling, shuttering, and laying off the teaching artists who was the first person to say to them “Yes, absolutely, poetry (or choreography or set design) could be yours.”  – Creative Generation
  
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• If Travel Is Shut Down Do You Need Travel Books? Lonely Planet Shuts Down

  14-04-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was fearing bad news about a big travel firm this week: perhaps an airline, holiday company or cruise line. But I never expected to hear that the world’s leading travel-guide firm is proposing to shut its two main hubs: the original HQ in Melbourne, and the London office where much Lonely Planet content, including the magazine, is created.” – The Independent (UK)
  
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• How Andrea Bocelli’s Easter Concert In The Empty Milan Cathedral Became A Worldwide Megahit

  14-04-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Roughly 5 million people around the world logged on to YouTube to view the half-hour sacred music concert as it was happening. By Monday night the archived performance had 32 million views. Clearly, it transcended religion, nationality, age demographic and even music preference on its way to becoming perhaps the signature cultural event of the pandemic.” – Variety
  
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• The Arts Helped Build The Berkshires’ New Economy. Now It’s Gone

  14-04-2020 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For a region whose economy was rebuilt on the most hopeful of things — a social economy, based on the gathering of people — the level of cruelty feels almost farcical. Mass MoCA sees around 300,000 annual visitors, which it says generates about $52 million every year to the local economy. – Boston Globe
  
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• After Two Weeks, Photographer Peter Beard Still Missing

  14-04-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 82-year-old, suffering from dementia, was last seen on March 31, walking the grounds of his cliffside oceanfront property near the eastern tip of Long Island. – The New York Times
  
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• Trustee / Culture Healing Communities / North East

  14-04-2020 19:36
  Culture Healing Communities (CIC) is a newly created social enterprise setting out to use culture to fight social exclusion in the North East, particularly County Durham. We create cultural projects...
  
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• How To Reopen Museums – Quickly And Safely

  14-04-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andras Szanto: “Museums could offer people who have experienced weeks of isolation a safe place to go, or a reprieve from cramped quarters. Their opening would signal the beginnings of a return to normalcy. What’s more, once the public is back, museums can serve as hubs of education, information-sharing, and collective reflection as we work together to surmount this crisis.” – Artnet
  
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• Here’s To The Workers Disinfecting The World’s Great Historic Sites

  14-04-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While non-essential workers are still housebound, pictures from around the world show surreal scenes of Tyvek suit-wearing workers spraying down eerily empty spaces like Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo,” the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Great Mosque of Mecca. – Artnet
  
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• How Small Non-Profit Arts Organizations Are Slipping Through Cracks

  14-04-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In this country we don’t have national infrastructure that supports individual artists the way that would be effective in a crisis.” said Laura Zabel. “That said, every disaster is local,” noted Cerf+ Executive Director Cornelia Carey. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Dystopia with hot chocolate: Tales from the Loop's author on his low-key sci-fi

  14-04-2020 18:16
  
  Artist-writer Simon Stålenhag, whose work has inspired a new Amazon Prime serial, explains why he keeps it understated
  If you think you’ve never seen Simon Stålenhag’s art before, you could well be wrong. His paintings often turn up online under headlines such as This Art Is Cool: Imagining a Dystopian Sweden Full of Robots and Dinosaurs, where people marvel at his beautiful and haunting melding of sci-fi and suburbia: rural towns where children spend listless afternoons
  
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• Support TAAG - Teignmouth Devon / TAAG / South West

  14-04-2020 18:09
  The coronavirus pandemic and restrictions have had a serious impact on many people’s lives. Normally, TAAG and its Arts and Well-Being services would be looking to help those in need. However,...
  
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• Teaching Choreography Lessons Over Zoom (It Can Be Done)

  14-04-2020 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marina Harss writes about Jessica Lang teaching principles of dance composition to participants — all socially isolating at home — in David Hallberg’s ABT Incubator program. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Submit your short film to New Shoots: Filmmakers / Shooting People / London

  14-04-2020 17:43
  Now in its second year, NEW SHOOTS: FILMMAKERS is Shooting People’s short film competition which aims to support filmmakers wanting to take the next step in their career. 
  The winner...
  
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• How Fear Has Shaped (And Built) New York

  14-04-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Justin Davidson: “New York has been a scary place for most of the past 400 years. Fire, flood, attack, crime, rebellion, drugs, and disease have shaped it. I find that an oddly reassuring thought, because all through its litany of misfortunes and bouts of exodus, the city’s magnetic force field has strengthened. Fear and pain are crucial human responses — without them, we die. At every desperate juncture, New York has grown and transformed as it healed.” – New York
  
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• Why Damien Hirst has been talking about art, money – and painted genitalia

  14-04-2020 17:13
  
  In a series of Instagram videos, the artist has discussed sobriety, Rembrandt and an eyebrow-raising experience with Leigh BoweryName: Damien Hirst.Age: 54.Appearance: Taxi driver from Romford.Occupation: Artist. Enfant terrible (retired).Net worth: More than £200m, apparently. Often said to be the richest artist in the UK, the world, the universe.Sharks pickled in formaldehyde, that’s the bloke, isn’t it? I can see you know your contemporary art, although he has turned his bac
  
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• Rio Lights Up Christ The Redeemer Statue To Honor Healthcare Workers Treating Coronavirus

  14-04-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The striking scene included messages of thanks in many languages, along with images of nurses and doctors smiling in protective gear. The word ‘hope’ was also projected onto the statue, along with the Portuguese phrase Fique Em Casa or ‘Stay at Home’.” – NPR
  
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• Disney-On-Broadway Coronavirus Benefit On Again After Musicians’ Union Relents

  14-04-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A benefit concert from last November, in which 79 stage performers did songs from Disney musicals, was going to be streamed online to benefit the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund — until, less than a day ahead of time, the international president of the American Federation of Musicians demanded that the pit band be paid extra for streaming rights. (Equity and SAG-AFTRA had waived such payments.) On Sunday, the musicians involved, backed by the union’s
  
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• Avignon Festival, One Of Europe’s Largest Theatre Events, Cancelled

  14-04-2020 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Organizers called off the festival, scheduled for July 3-23, within minutes of an announcement by France’s President Macron that, because of the COVID epidemic, it would be unsafe to hold major summer events until at least mid-July. – France 24
  
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• Registration for Like The Prose Now Open / The Literal Challenge / London

  14-04-2020 15:46
  Submission deadline May 28, 2020
  Back for a second year, Like The Prose is a writing opportunity from The Literal Challenge - a small social enterprise that brings together a community of writers,...
  
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• Quibi Sees 1.7 Million Downloads In Its First Week

  14-04-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 1.7 million figure that [CEO Meg] Whitman cited does not indicate how many people signed up for the app, which is offering an extended 90-day free trial. Once the trial ends, Quibi … which offers shortform episodic programming … designed to be viewed on the go … will cost $5 with advertising and $8 without advertising.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Indie Bookstores In Crisis Turn To GoFundMe, But Site Won’t Turn Over Contributed Money

  14-04-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “High-profile booksellers seeking recourse have flocked to the platform. … Yet a number of the stores that were among the first to launch successful campaigns in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic are complaining that, to date, GoFundMe has not released the funds promised them. While some of the bookstores PW contacted declined to go on the record, others are going public.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Metropolitan Opera Plans A Gala For The Quarantine Age

  14-04-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ‘At Home Gala’ the company is planning for Saturday, April 25, … will feature more than 40 artists, including stars like Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Renée Fleming, performing from their homes and streamed on the company’s website, metopera.org.” – The New York Times
  
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• Even Burning Man Has Been Canceled

  14-04-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The giant annual alterna-conclave doesn’t take place until the end of August, but even so, “the organizers of Burning Man announced on Friday that they will not be assembling 80,000 people in the Nevada desert this summer to build giant works of art and then set them on fire.” – The Guardian
  
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• 'Like a glass of iced water to the face': filmmakers, artists and actors on Covid-19

  14-04-2020 12:13
  
  From a self-isolation thriller to photographs exploring the human touch, coronavirus has made artists of all kinds re-evaluate their work. In the first of a three-part series we speak to Natalie Cassidy, Mary McCartney and more I’m currently writing book four of a quartet, and it has the shadow of Covid-19 hanging over every part of it. It deals with a very different sort of pandemic (the loss of linear time) and is ostensibly about grief, about how we move past that which we’ve lost
  
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• Name this regal child: the great British art quiz set by Dulwich Picture Gallery

  14-04-2020 09:00
  
  Museums and galleries across the UK are closed due to coronavirus – so explore their collections with a few tricky questions in this daily brain-teaserThis 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 Dulwich Picture Gallery, the world’s first purpose-built public
  
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• Art Hole - Now Calling for Entries! / Art Hole / London / South West, South East, West Midlands, East Midlands, Yorkshire, North East, North west, East

  14-04-2020 02:41
  Art Hole is an independent artist-run and ad-free international print and online publication dedicated to showcasing and promoting experimental and progressive contemporary art, which reflects modern...
  
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• Pandemic Could Be An Opportunity To Rethink How Cities Work

  14-04-2020 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We’re using cities differently while we’re under lockdown, but urbanists see this as an opportunity to maybe challenge the ways we have constructed and use urban areas. Cars, for example – do they have to be so dominant? – Wired
  
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