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• Bankers Didn’t Just Want To Own The Art, Now They Want To Run It Too

  23-04-2020 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sure, the machers of the banking industry have deep roots in the art market—the Medicis fueled the Renaissance, the bankers of the East India Company let Rembrandt put up his paintings as loan collateral, and the robber barons used their money to build the Frick and the Morgan. But today, bankers don’t just want to be patrons—they want to be players, occupying roles once filled by art experts.– Artnet
  
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• Intuitive Abstract Painting: Online Practical course / The Essential School of Painting / London

  23-04-2020 23:10
  Intuitive Abstract Painting: Exploring process and narrative with Alexander James Pollard and Johanna Melvin: 3rd May to 28th June 2020Prepare yourself for full immersive days incorporating...
  
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• Arts platform HOAX relaunches; submissions & crowdfunder open / HOAX / London / UK wide

  23-04-2020 23:09
  Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying social distancing efforts, there is
  now more need than ever to financially support struggling creatives, and also to facilitate themaking and...
  
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• AI Is Done With Games (Having Beaten Us). Now On To The Serious Stuff

  23-04-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 2016 survey of top AI researchers found that, on average, they thought there was a 50 percent chance that AI systems would be able to “accomplish every task better and more cheaply than human workers” by 2061. The expert community doesn’t think of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as an impossible dream, so much as something that is more likely than not within a century. So let’s take this as our starting point in assessing the risks, and consider what would transp
  
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• Met Museum Lays Off 81, Says It’s Already Lost $150 Million

  23-04-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Salary and benefits constitute more than 65% of the Met’s annual budget. In addition to the layoffs, the museum announced today, April 22, that its top executives will be taking salary reductions. That includes 20% pay cuts for director Max Hollein and president and CEO Daniel H. Weiss and 10% for 11 other museum officers. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Missing Nothing a virtual tour of Spring & Summer exhibitions / The Essential School of Painting / London

  23-04-2020 22:30
  Missing Nothing: A virtual tour of the Spring and Summer exhibitions with Liane Lang – 13 May to 17 June 2020 Wednesday Evenings Online 6-9pmMissing Nothing is a virtual tour of the Spring...
  
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• Listen To 50 Years Of Interviews About American Music

  23-04-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the most part, the Oral History of American Music, known as OHAM, has focused not on insurance salesmen or barbers, but has instead gone straight to the source: living American composers, who sit for interviews that can last many hours. The archive has grown to encompass recordings of around 3,000 interviews with major voices in American music.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Super-power of a sketch book / The Essential School of Painting / London

  23-04-2020 22:15
  The Super-power of a sketch book with Guy Allott: 7th May to 16th Jul 2020 – Thursday Evenings Online 6-9pmThe aim of this course is to develop the skills required to produce sketchbooks...
  
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• Through the Looking Glass: Painting from the imagination / The Essential School of Painting / London

  23-04-2020 22:00
  Through the Looking Glass: Painting from the imagination with Dan Coombs – 4th May to 13th Jul 2020 Monday Evenings Online 6-9pm
  On this 10 week online course, with half term on 25th May,...
  
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• Quarantined Shakespeare As Performed As Global Conversation

  23-04-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the speeches are performed by a succession of people in the videos, it feels “as if they are in conversation even though they are in different parts of the world” said Terry. The three speeches suit our current period of contemplation under lockdown as they “ask questions about our place in the planet and where we go when we are no longer physical beings”. They provide an opportunity for questioning – “rather than worrying about what the answers might be&r
  
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• Zoom As Arthouse Film – What We Can Learn

  23-04-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When a face looks back at us in the real world, that means something very deep: we have to choose how to respond – because they can see us. So we manifest a facial expression, or talk back, or look away. Cinema takes away that other person seeing you. That gives us some freedom: we can look, think and engage with the content of the film.” – The Guardian
  
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• Betsy Wyeth — Muse, Model, And Manager For Husband Andrew — Dead At 98

  23-04-2020 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “More than just the organizational and financial genius of the enterprise, Mrs. Wyeth also had a firm hand in guiding her husband’s artistic development. … Later she came up with the idea of turning an old grist mill in Chadds Ford into what would become the Brandywine River Museum of Art, which opened in 1971 and continues in part as a shrine to her husband and the artist family from which he sprang.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Who Contributed £250,000 UK Campaign For Bookstores? Why, Amazon…

  23-04-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The fundraiser got the anonymous donation, organized to help out struggling book sellers, after raising £100,000. Book shop owners are feeling a bit conflicted. – The Guardian
  
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• Passages ‘I Cannot Unread, Unhear, Unknow’ — What’s Really Horrifying About Woody Allen’s Memoir

  23-04-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mark Harris: “So forget the movies — he certainly has. What remains is the man, and on that score, Apropos of Nothing is one of the most unsettling accounts of a life I ever hope never to encounter again. … From its first pages, what is meant to amuse is as discomforting as steel-wool underwear.” – Vulture
  
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• Digital Design Tutor / RHACC / London

  23-04-2020 19:06
  RHACC is a Specialist Designated Institution for Adult Learning, providing a varied course offer to support the lifelong learning goals of adults. With daytime, evening, weekend and residential...
  
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• After Half A Century, Glenn Gould’s Radio Documentaries Still Seem Avant-Garde

  23-04-2020 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shortly after the pianist abandoned live performance for good, he started making nonfiction radio programs for the CBC, the best-known of which are called the “Solitude Trilogy”: The Idea of North (about life in sub-Arctic Manitoba), The Latecomers (Newfoundland outports), and The Quiet Land (an isolated Mennonite community). The voices of those he interviewed are “intertwined as though contrapuntal voices in a Bach fugue or suite. Several could be sometimes be heard at once,
  
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• Online Singing - all welcome / The Voice Energy project / London

  23-04-2020 18:35
  Have you heard that… …SINGING boosts the immune system, reduces stress and anxiety, improves mood, lowers blood pressure, improves brain function, increases lung capacity, reduces...
  
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• Why Are So Many Jazz Greats Dying Of COVID?

  23-04-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It will be a while before we can accurately assess whether jazz indeed has suffered more losses, proportionately, than other art forms. Yet the tragedy of so many major figures dying of the disease in such short order says a great deal about the jazz world’s perils and vulnerabilities.” – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Creative Director / Project Phakama / London

  23-04-2020 18:16
  We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Creative Director to co-lead Phakama. Phakama, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2021, is an Arts Council National Portfolio...
  
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• Apply Now for WebinArt 2020/21 / WebinArt by Creative Leicestershire / East Midlands

  23-04-2020 18:09
  * Free for 3 months *
  In the midst of the pandemic, it’s a hard time for us all right now. As artists and creatives in a world of uncertainty, it’s easy to feel lost and overwhelmed....
  
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• The Pandemic Has Left Cirque Du Soleil Staring Down Bankruptcy

  23-04-2020 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Its vast army of 1,800 artists relies on international travel to get from show to show, regularly crossing borders, performing on cruise ships, and interacting with fans. Daily training regimens require constant physical contact. The entire operation depends on an intricate logistical network of cargo ships, trucks, hotels, and food-service businesses, all of which have ground to a halt. In effect, government bans on large gatherings are a ban on Cirque itself, leaving a company that gen
  
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• FREE In Conversation Talk with Rachel Duckhouse, Wed 6 May, 2pm / Leicester Print Workshop / East Midlands

  23-04-2020 17:34
  In Conversation is Leicester Print Workshop's FREE series of talks with LPW artists, as they discuss their ideas, inspirations and challenges as practicing artists.
  We’re...
  
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• It Was 15 Years Ago Today The First YouTube Video Was Uploaded. Here It Is

  23-04-2020 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was an 18-second video called “Meet Me At The Zoo” and it’s been seen 90 million times. – CNN
  
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• Open Call for Artists / Eden Tearoom & Galleries / North West

  23-04-2020 17:29
  Open call for artists to submit work 
  Eden Tearoom & Galleries will be a new creative hub in Newburgh Lancashire, providing a space that is engaging and rewarding for the local community,...
  
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• Call for Covid-19 voices for collaborative animation project / / Yorkshire

  23-04-2020 17:21
  Liz Churton, an artist based in Rotherham, is looking to collect voices and sounds to assist in a creative 'lockdown' project to collage together as soundtrack for an animation.
  If you have any...
  
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• Tips For Streaming Live Theater From The Guys Who Did It Really Well

  23-04-2020 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Earlier this week, Helen Shaw wrote that the Broadway.com stream of Jonathan Tolin’s Buyer & Cellar was “the proof-of-concept for low-budget live-capture.” So she talked to the people who made it happen — director Nic Cory, star Michael Urie, director of photography (and Urie’s partner) Ryan Spahn, digital director (and Broadway.com editor-in-chief) Paul Wontorek — about the details that really made it work (including the ones they learned the hard way).
  
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• Want To Really Appreciate Your Delivery People And Supermarket Cashiers? Re-Read Studs Terkel’s ‘Working’

  23-04-2020 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, as the pandemic reshapes the ways we understand our work life and its meaning, Terkel’s supermarket workers would be classified ‘essential’ to the smooth continuity of society. Yet they would also receive modest wages (at best) and come to work knowing that they will be exposed daily to COVID-19. It’s doubtful being ‘essential’ would leave them feeling any more valued. Or as Working described it nearly a half century ago, many of the workers who
  
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• Micro-Commisons / Collective Encounters / North West

  23-04-2020 16:16
  Collective Encounters is looking for emerging artists in the Liverpool City Region to send us their ideas for works that respond to the theme of ‘community...
  
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• The Composer For Quarantine Consolation — Bach? Beethoven? Brahms? How About Leroy Anderson?

  23-04-2020 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What, the guy who wrote all those pops-concert pieces like The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock, and Sleigh Ride? Yes, says Anthony Tommasini: “Bach provides solace, Beethoven stirs us with resolve and Brahms probes aching emotional ambiguities. But trust me: Leroy Anderson will make you feel better about things.” – The New York Times
  
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• As Epidemic Seems To Fade, Germany And Austria Move Toward Reopening Museums

  23-04-2020 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Germany, it’s a state-by-state process: small museums in Brandenburg are reopening this week, with Thuringia next week, Saxony and Berlin in early May and the rest of the country following. Austria’s museums will open their doors in mid-May, though larger ones such as the Belvedere may wait as late as July. Distancing procedures and other safety measures are being developed with Teutonic thoroughness. – ARTnews
  
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• Art Prize: Bridging Corona to a Sustainable Future / Sustainability First / London / UK wide

  23-04-2020 15:32
  We are inviting original, radical ideas and visions in response to the question:
  ‘How do we build from the current corona crisis towards a more sustainable future?’
  The Sustainability...
  
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• Could We See A New Version Of FDR’s Depression-Era Arts Programs? Not Likely

  23-04-2020 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As we know, American society and politics (especially in Congress) are very different in 2020 than they were in 1934. Even then, there was political opposition to the very idea of arts funding and suspicion of artists as dangerous leftists. Julia Jacobs looks at that opposition, then and now. – The New York Times
  
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• Actress Shirley Knight, 83

  23-04-2020 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a long film, television and stage career [she] earned two Oscar nominations while still in her 20s, won a Tony Award in 1975 and later garnered three Emmy Awards.” – The New York Times
  
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• Violinist/Violist Jan Talich, Founder Of Talich Quartet, Dead At 71

  23-04-2020 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With his fellow quartet members, he toured all over the world, specialising in works by Czech composers — many of them contemporary — and winning several prestigious prizes, including Diapason d’or awards for recordings of Mozart and Beethoven string quartets. He continued to play with the quartet until 2000. His nephew now occupies the leader’s seat.” – The Strad
  
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• Walls of engagement: how domestic art became a lockdown obsession

  23-04-2020 13:07
  
  From Matt Hancock’s Damien Hirst to P Diddy’s mega-painting, home broadcasts have uncovered unexpected cultural tastesA select committee hearing is not normally a place culture vultures go to spot works of art. Yet last week, eagle-eyed folk watching the health secretary, Matt Hancock, face a (remote) grilling on coronavirus couldn’t help spot something in the background: a garish image of the Queen overlaid with blue and pink spray-paint. The Art Newspaper confirmed that it wa
  
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• Head of Programming / VAULT Festival / London

  23-04-2020 12:32
  VAULT Festival is London’s biggest, boldest, and wildest arts festival, hosting thousands of live performances and events each year; across theatre, comedy, cabaret, immersive, family, Late...
  
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• Writing School East Midlands - Open Call for New Tutors / Writing East Midlands / East Midlands

  23-04-2020 12:21
  Based in Leicester and Nottingham, Writing School East Midlands is a craft development programme for emerging and established adult writers looking to develop new skills in creative writing, meet...
  
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• Celebrities strike a pose from home for Sky Arts portrait painting show

  23-04-2020 12:09
  
  Programme invites audiences to submit work to be judged for Portrait Artist of the YearCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe dancer and choreographer Akram Khan is not known for sitting still but will have to this weekend as he has invited anyone, from anywhere, to paint him in his own home.Khan is the first sitter for a live and experimental version of one of Sky Arts’ most popular shows, Portrait Artist of the Year.Epidemics of infectious diseases behave i
  
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• Framing and canvas technician / Jacksons / South West / Quedgley

  23-04-2020 10:47
  Jackson's Art Supplies are the UK's leading art material suppliers and they are looking for a professional and experienced technician to join our team in the framing and canvas service in...
  
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• How did St Jerome help the lion? Take the great British art quiz

  23-04-2020 09:00
  
  The UK’s galleries and museums may be closed, but you can still explore their collections through our fiendish quiz. Today, it’s set by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of BirminghamThis 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 on Art UK will set the questions.Today, our questions are set by the Barber Inst
  
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• Caught on video: Van Gogh painting stolen in sledgehammer raid

  23-04-2020 04:33
  
  Thief arrived on motorcycle and smashed through reinforced glass doors, escaping with The Parsonage Garden tucked under armA Dutch crime show has aired security footage revealing how an art thief smashed his way through reinforced glass doors at a museum with a sledgehammer, raced into the building and ran out with a precious Vincent van Gogh painting tucked under his right arm.The thief, who arrived on a motorcycle, stole Van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884 from the S
  
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• Caught on video: how Van Gogh painting was stolen in sledgehammer raid

  23-04-2020 04:33
  
  Thief arrived on motorcycle and smashed through reinforced glass doors, escaping with The Parsonage Garden tucked under armA Dutch crime show has aired security footage revealing how an art thief smashed his way through reinforced glass doors at a museum with a sledgehammer, raced into the building and ran out with a precious Vincent van Gogh painting tucked under his right arm.The thief, who arrived on a motorcycle, stole Van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884 from the S
  
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• Coronavirus hit Australia’s arts industry hard and early. Our support package is designed to help | Paul Fletcher

  23-04-2020 03:42
  
  Of course the creative sector needs to be saved, writes federal arts minister Paul Fletcher. That’s what jobseeker and jobkeeper are there for For the many Australians who enjoy the arts, the restrictions imposed by Covid-19 are painful.Galleries, museums and libraries are closed. You cannot attend a play, a ballet, an opera, a circus, a festival – indeed any live performance. Clubs and pubs, which are normally venues for bands, comedians and other performers, have shut down. Related
  
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• Critic: Am I Mean? Yup. And I Don’t Care

  23-04-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adrian Searle: “On the page, I am the mildest, most humane and dare I say sympathetic of writers, while the one who is doing the writing is an incoherent monster, if not an absolute swine. But it isn’t always like this. Life would be intolerable if it were. Often protesting that I am only as good as my material, give me an artist I admire and work that I can identify with and it can all be plain sailing.” – The Guardian
  
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