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• Viro-Skeptics: Why Are Some Having Trouble Taking The Crisis Seriously?

  20-04-2020 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not entirely irrational behavior. And it can be explained. It’s the product of several longterm trends that encourage hyper-skepticism. – Good Company
  
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• The Cult Of Celebrity… In Perspective

  20-04-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi recently noted, both capitalism and celebrity rely on the “lie of meritocracy:” that working hard will lead to ultimate success. The grips of COVID-19, with its fallout of the millions who have lost their jobs and the thousands who have lost their lives, has shined light on the tenuous nature of the meritocracy myth. Now that we know what essential work is, it seems the perfect time to reflect upon the not-so-essential work of celebrities. –
  
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• How Technology Has Changed How We Analyze (And Understand) Shakespeare

  20-04-2020 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The latest analysis is computer-aided quantitative analysis of the texts. It’s revelatory (in a way), and it adds something to our understanding. But it doesn’t replace our previous close contextual study. – Times Literary Supplement
  
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• Mozart Was A Brilliant Letter-Writer

  20-04-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Composers’ letters can make frustrating reading. Beethoven’s are brusque, practical affairs; Brahms hides behind a humour as impenetrable as his beard. But with Mozart, you get the whole personality — candid, perceptive and irresistibly alive. – The Spectator
  
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• Frontiers: We’re At The Junction Of Human Thought And Machine Computation

  20-04-2020 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On the one side is the human mind, the source of every story, theory and explanation that our species holds dear. On the other stand the machines, whose algorithms possess astonishing predictive power but whose inner workings remain radically opaque to human observers. As we humans strive to understand the fundamental nature of the world, our machines churn out measurable, practical predictions that seem to extend beyond the limits of thought.” – Aeon
  
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• Free access to the latest issue of the Engage Journal / Engage / International

  20-04-2020 20:31
  Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 44 of the Engage Journal, Engage 44: Biennials and beyond. 
  In...
  
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• How The Messages Around Us Will Change Their Resonance

  20-04-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the last century, the advertising industry has been centered around this cardinal principle: Find the consumer’s problem and fix it with your product. When the problem is practical and tactical, the solution is “as seen on TV” and available at Home Depot. But when the problem is emotional, the fix becomes a new staple in your life, and you become a lifelong loyalist. Coca-Cola makes you happy. A Mercedes makes you successful. Taking your family on a Royal Caribbe
  
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• An Indie Bookstore Apocalypse? (Maybe Skip This Story)

  20-04-2020 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What’s clear to everyone is that the much celebrated “independent bookstore renaissance,” which coincided with the post–Great Recession economic expansion, is over. Hundreds of stores may never reopen again. The future of independent bookselling, a tenuous, low-margin business in the best of times, has never been gloomier. – The New Republic
  
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• What The Pandemic Revealed: Our Failure To Build The Things We Know We Need

  20-04-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination. But the other part of the problem is what we didn’t do in advance, and what we’re failing to do now. And that is a failure of action, and specifically our widespread inability to build. – Andreesen Horowitz
  
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• `Communicate` Artist Commissions / Peshkar / North West

  20-04-2020 18:15
  At Peshkar we love a big idea. And we feel like this is the perfect time to start having some interesting conversations with artists. So we want to hear from you. If you’ve got a burning idea...
  
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• The Story Behind The Fantastical Dr. Seuss Library

  20-04-2020 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The library is a bit jarring in real life. It’s more like the Space Age tower headquarters of the police, only with hundreds of sunkissed students pouring in, out, and around it. – The Daily Beast
  
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• Graeae's digital lockdown programme Crips without Constraints / Graeae / London / National digital programme

  20-04-2020 17:36
  Graeae have launched a new digital lockdown programme, Crips without Constraints: A Play, A Podcast, A Picture, to help celebrate the talent, resilience and creativity of Deaf and disabled artists...
  
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• What’s Going To Happen Next For The Art World?

  20-04-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Are blockbusters over? Can galleries survive, and, if they do, will they be more important than museums? And can art-world social media come back from the thirsty ferret tweet? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How we made the Keep Calm and Carry On poster

  20-04-2020 16:46
  
  ‘When I’m asked why it’s so popular, I always say the same thing: it’s cheaper than antidepressants’ The original poster was part of a trio designed during the second world war by the Ministry of Information. After the first two went out – Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory and Freedom Is in Peril / Defend It With All Your Might – scathing letters appeared in the Times saying they were patronising. I think that’s
  
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• The Cast Of 2006’s ‘A Chorus Line’ Revival Makes A Physically Distanced Dance Video

  20-04-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What started as a jokey way to help fellow cast members share dance moves turned into an emotionally moving performance with 44 different cast members dancing everywhere – alone with masks on, in their homes with their children, near their dogs, and more. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Yolanda & Alistair's Tea Time with Lakesha Arie-Angelo / / London

  20-04-2020 16:04
  Join Yolanda and Alistair in their first ever episode of their brand new online talk show: 'Yolanda & Alistair's Tea Time'. Here they will speak to artists they admire, about their life and...
  
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• The Last Tourist In Assisi

  20-04-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Contemplating Giotto as the virus closes in, the author says, “Assisi is a city where religious pilgrims come to pray, study, and convene. Before the virus, nuns, priests, monks, and friers careened about on their cell phones, jostling maps, enjoying their time in this holy place, robes and wimples aflutter. They are all gone.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Help Create the Yorkshire Poem / Settle Stories / Yorkshire

  20-04-2020 16:00
  Ey’ Up Yorkshire! 
  Brass bands, flat caps, whippet racing, wrinkled stockings, beef dripping with bread, Yorkshire puddings. The clichés associated with “God’s own...
  
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• Children Invited to Tell Cressida Cowell a Story / Settle Stories / Yorkshire

  20-04-2020 15:58
  Calling all story lovers everywhere!
  Our Children's Story Competition is now OPEN FOR ENTRIES.
  It’s Settle Stories 10th year. To celebrate we are launching the Yorkshire Festival of...
  
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• Yorkshire Festival of Story goes Digital / Settle Stories / Yorkshire

  20-04-2020 15:55
  Settle Stories and Guest Festival Director Joanne Harris (MBE), are so excited to bring you Yorkshire Festival of Story!
  The festival is turning digital and will take place throughout August...
  
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• Balcony Tenor Maurizio Marchini Took Time Off When He Saw Army Trucks Taking Away Bodies

  20-04-2020 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After the Italian shutdown, Marchini immediately “went viral” (but in a good, pre-Covid-19 way) when he performed from his balcony on March 13. He didn’t even know it because, he says, “I’m not a social guy.” Then things got grim, and he took time off out of respect to the families. Now he’s back on his balcony singing arias. – Vice
  
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• Grammy Winner Miho Hazama Explains How To Combine Classical Training And Contemporary Jazz

  20-04-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hazama, in this podcast: “My main study back in Japan was to be a film composer. But at the time, computer was taking over the entire industry. My thing was to write for acoustic musicians, not for the computer. …And I kind of lost my dream in the middle of my college life in Japan. So that’s the only reason why I got really into jazz composition. And then I wanted to meet jazz composers who are alive. That excited me so much because I couldn’t obviously meet Ravel or P
  
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• What Winning The Women’s Prize Does For An Author’s Career

  20-04-2020 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zadie Smith, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Marilynne Robinson, Tayari Jones, and many more winners of what used to be the Orange Prize explain what it does. Ann Patchett: “Even now, I’ll be dusting in the living room and I’ll pick up that little statue and think about what a happy moment that was. My father is dead now, as are the elderly English cousins. I think about how happy they were that night. I had begged them not to come because I thought they’d be sad when I lost,
  
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• The Backstage Creatives Trying To Keep Hollywood Going

  20-04-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shooting may not resume until at least August for most productions – or it may be far later – but while most everyone in cast, crew, and production teams are out of work, some are frantically trying to figure out everything from socially distanced musicians creating a score for finished films to walking with a face mask and taking phone call after phone call. – The New York Times
  
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• The Art Of The Pandemic Poster

  20-04-2020 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Before Twitter, before 24-hour cable news, before instantaneous visual information flooding our lives, there was the poster. “Produced and displayed on a massive scale, these posters used a variety of cultural, political, and psychological strategies to steer public behavior with eye-catching and sometimes shocking visuals.” (The message? Very much the same.) – The Atlantic
  
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• New Barbara Hepworth Letters Rewrite The Idea Of The Great Artist As A Bad Mother

  20-04-2020 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hepworth has, for decades, been thought of as a cold and uncaring parent who sent her triplets away when they were four months old so she could get some work done. Surprise: The letters tell a quite different story about postpartum depression and abandonment by the babies’ father (and an idealistic view of the “nursery college” where she sent the babies for just over nine months). – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Peter Beard, Photographer And Artist, Has Died At 82

  20-04-2020 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Margalit Fox: “Beard, a New York photographer, artist and naturalist to whom the word ‘wild’ was roundly applied, both for his death-defying photographs of African wildlife and for his own much-publicized days — decades, really — as an amorous, bibulous, pharmaceutically inclined man about town, was found dead in the woods on Sunday, almost three weeks after he disappeared from his home in Montauk on the East End of Long Island.” – The New York Times
  
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• Open call for Postcard Show Fund raiser / Cupola Contemporary Art / Yorkshire

  20-04-2020 14:07
  SECRET POSTCARD SHOW
  Exhibition Dates:17 July – 22 August 2020.
  SHOW OPENS 16 July 2020, 7:30pm
  With Grateful thanks to Rachael Pinks from the Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford whose excellent...
  
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• Please, Please, Give Us This Eighth Narnia Book

  20-04-2020 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now is truly a time when the world could use an update to the beloved C.S. Lewis series. But only 75 copies of the sequel, written by a Narnia lover and scholar, exist. “It may never be conventionally published because Lewis’ work remains under copyright through 2034, and his estate has expressed no interest in authorizing it.” – Slate
  
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• When The Telenovelas Ground To A Halt

  20-04-2020 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The writers scrambled to end the last episode on a cliffhangar from footage they’d already shot. This is a first: “Neither military dictatorship nor the Rio Olympics halted production of Brazil’s famous novelas, which are broadcast six days a week for single seasons of around 150 episodes apiece.” – The Economist
  
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• Online Poetry Courses - new term starting April 29th / Live Canon / Online

  20-04-2020 13:35
  Correspondence Courses - Summer Term 2020 - Now On SaleLost Lionesses: Female poets of the 16th and 17th centuries
  Book here: https://tinyurl.com/y9oq75sq
  This new course will explore the work...
  
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• How Our Phones Track Social Distancing

  20-04-2020 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And everything else about our location, as well; you can download huge files of randomized info about the entire US, if you’d like. “If you’re wondering whether data from your phone is included in these reports, the answer is yes, probably. However, both Apple and Google are keen to emphasize that they’ve collected this data with user privacy in mind.”– Wired
  
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• Online Relief For Listeners Isn’t Replacing Income For Devastated Musicians

  20-04-2020 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s just nothing left, really. “The temporary halt to playing live removes the one dependable way musicians can make money. Royalties from music being played in pubs, clubs and shops are suddenly in jeopardy, and with advertising revenues down, the fees paid to music publishers by broadcasters may be cut. Given the long-term decline of physical sales, that only leaves streaming – at which point, let us remind ourselves that YouTube’s average per-stream
  
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• Auction Houses Try To Step Up Digital Selling, But Art Prices Remain Low

  20-04-2020 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The chairwoman of Sotheby’s fine art division says, “In effect, we’ve been in the live theater business. Now we’re segueing into what is more like live streaming. The truth is, that revolution has been underway for some time.” But that revolution is deeply incomplete. – The New York Times
  
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• Virtual Artists Trail 2020 / Sydenham Arts / London / International

  20-04-2020 12:20
  Introducing Sydenham Arts Virtual Artists Trail - keeping the Artists Trail going at this challenging time for us all.
  With social distancing and lockdown set to continue for the foreseeable future,...
  
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• Head of Arts Award / Guru Nanak Sikh Academy / London

  20-04-2020 12:17
  If you're looking for a school where the safety, happiness and future opportunities for all our learners is at the heart of everything we do, then Guru Nanak Sikh Academy is the school for you....
  
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• Inclusion Producer / Watershed / South West

  20-04-2020 10:57
  This role will be working within the Bristol + Bath Creative R+D project and sits alongside a programme of inclusion training and development at Watershed. The Inclusion Producer will lead...
  
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• Prescot Festival Offers Literary Challenge during the Lockdown / Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts / North West

  20-04-2020 10:26
  With gatherings and events being postponed nationwide at the moment, a Merseyside town has decided that one aspect of its summer arts festival can go ahead as planned—lockdown or no...
  
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• 'Who can draw us a thirsty ferret?' How the art world has adapted to Covid-19

  20-04-2020 07:00
  
  The glitzy fairs and blockbuster shows are history, replaced with Zoom studio tours and virtual exhibitions. Might this actually mark an improvement? In the first week of March, New York’s Armory Show opened on schedule, as it has done for the past 26 years. Despite coronavirus concerns, gallerists and collectors from across the globe packed Piers 90 and 94 on the West Side of Manhattan for one of the ritziest art fairs in the calendar. Big sales were made – a painting by the superst
  
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• Bye bye, blockbusters: can the art world adapt to Covid-19?

  20-04-2020 07:00
  
  The glitzy fairs and crowded shows are history, replaced with Zoom studio tours and virtual exhibitions. Might this actually mark an improvement? In the first week of March, New York’s Armory Show opened on schedule, as it has done for the past 26 years. Despite coronavirus concerns, gallerists and collectors from across the globe packed Piers 90 and 94 on the West Side of Manhattan for one of the ritziest art fairs in the calendar. Big sales were made – a painting by the superstar c
  
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