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• Survey Quantifies Dire Situation For Artists

  28-04-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conducted by the advocacy group Americans for the Arts and released Friday, the survey of more than 11,000 creative workers reveals that 95 percent have lost some income because of the pandemic, with almost two-thirds reporting that they are now fully unemployed. Almost half of the respondents have no savings to mitigate their lost income — which averages $27,100 — and 8 in 10 said they have no path to recovery. – Washington Post
  
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• San Francisco Art Institute Says It Won’t Close After All

  28-04-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An outpouring of support and encouragement from potential partners and charitable organizations — along with protests by students, faculty, alumni and staff — convinced the Board to take extreme measures to keep SFAI open,” the press release states. – Inside Higher Ed
  
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• Frank Ramsey – The Genius Who Always Got There First

  28-04-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ramsey not only died young but lived too early, or so it can seem. He did little to advertise the importance of his ideas, and his modesty did not help. He was not particularly impressed with himself—he thought he was rather lazy. At the same time, the speed with which his mind worked sometimes left a blur on the page. The prominent American philosopher Donald Davidson was one of several thinkers to experience what he dubbed “the Ramsey effect.” You’d make a thrilling br
  
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• The Privilege Economy

  28-04-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What separates Americans is not just income, but whole frames of reference: Cordoned off, the wealthy live in a world apart from the less-well-off, no longer sharing the same experiences. – The New Republic
  
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• Berlin Philharmonic, Shut For Weeks, Will Begin Performing Again Friday

  28-04-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Friday’s concert will strictly adhere to current social distancing guidelines in Germany, with players forming a chamber orchestra, spaced apart from one another on stage. The programme includes Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, music by Ligeti, Barber’s Adagio for Strings anda chamber version of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with soprano Christiane Karg. – ClassicFM
  
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• New Online Sales Hub For Indie Bookstores Is Doing Great Business, But Not All Is Well

  28-04-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bookshop launched in January with the intention of offering independent bookstores an improved online commerce hub that will help them woo customers away from Amazon. … The site has seen a 2,000% increase in sales in the past month compared to the month before and has become a lifeline for many stores that have been temporarily closed by the Covid-19 pandemic. … Despite its success, the site has critics.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Socially Engaged Art in a time of Social distancing / Creativity Works / South West / All

  28-04-2020 19:12
  What role do socially engaged artists play in this current crisis and what does  this mean for the profession?
  During this online presentation and interactive workshop (delivered over two...
  
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• Space Between Us, Digital Exhibition reflecting on space & life / Artlink Hull / Yorkshire / International - online

  28-04-2020 18:50
  Artlink Hull is pleased to announce Space Between Us, a new digital exhibition about space and life in a time of international lock-down.
  This is Artlink’s first purely digital exhibition and...
  
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• Patinating bronze sculptures with Pomarius | Handmade Interact / Handmade in Britain / London

  28-04-2020 18:49
  Handmade in Britain is excited to present Handmade Interact; a series of weekly live demonstrations and talks featuring selected craftspeople. The online events are FREE to attend - but places are...
  
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• Resonance: call for entries from BAME music-makers / Opera North / Yorkshire / UK wide

  28-04-2020 18:24
  Designed to support UK-based BAME music-makers exploring new ideas and collaborating with other artists under our current, uniquely challenging circumstances, a new ‘Lockdown Edition’ of...
  
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• The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 Now Open for Entries! / / London

  28-04-2020 17:04
  The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is now open for entries for a milestone edition. 2020 will be the 25th consecutive annual exhibition since the Prize was created in...
  
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• Local history education pack - N.W. Leicestershire Voices / Mantle Arts / East Midlands

  28-04-2020 15:59
  We wish to appoint someone with experience of planning and writing educational materials to create a pack for primary schools based around oral history recordings, which will be used to inspire a...
  
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• New Work Commission / Migration Matters Festival / Yorkshire

  28-04-2020 15:17
  Migration Matters Festival is now in its 5th year celebrating Refugee Week and this year will happen the 15th-20th June.
  This year the festival like many other arts organisations is bringing its...
  
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• FVU: BEYOND commission / Film and Video Umbrella / London / UK wide

  28-04-2020 14:13
  Film and Video Umbrella have just launched our BEYOND commission. This rolling call for entries is looking for new moving image works that are made with minimal equipment, crew, and space. At...
  
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• Sex and sensibility: the photographers capturing a new American youth

  28-04-2020 14:01
  
  Peyton Fulford shot LGBTQ+ teenagers in the deep south; Sabine Ostinvil explores nascent black masculinity in pictures that cast a new light on US youth cultureWhen Peyton Fulford looks at her photograph Backbend, she sees gender fluidity in motion. A body arches over a bag of pink grapefruit, the white underwear and bare legs curving across the golden landscape in a defiant pose that is both playful and strong – yet also ambiguous. “I wanted to tell a story and for people to questio
  
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• Audio Editor - N.W. Leicestershire Voices Project / Mantle Arts / East Midlands

  28-04-2020 13:28
  We wish to appoint an Audio Editor with appropriate experience, preferably based in the East Midlands, to edit audio material for a range of projects up until June 2021.
  In the mid 1980s to early...
  
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• Confessions of an art critic: I can't believe the things I write in my notebooks

  28-04-2020 13:10
  
  From felt-tipped obscenities to sketches of his aunt stolen at a tube station, our reviewer writes about his life in the marginsDo I realise how hurtful some of my comments are? Of courseOne for dreams, one for writing down things you might otherwise forget, one for composing drafts and organising your thoughts: in the end, they all get mixed up, but that’s half the fun of keeping notebooks. You could use your phone, but it isn’t the same. Unlike JMW Turner’s sketchbooks or his
  
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• Design Craft Online Showcase May 2020 - call out for makers / LCB Depot / East Midlands / UK

  28-04-2020 12:19
  LCB Depot is Leicester’s creative hub. We’re looking to showcase the latest contemporary craft work from designer makers whether students or established artists, from Leicester &...
  
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• Festival takes Puppetry Online to Escape COVID-19 Shutdown / Beverley Puppet Festival / Yorkshire

  28-04-2020 12:16
  The biennial Beverley Puppet  Festival in East Yorkshire, which would normally take place over one weekend in July, is being extended to a two-month digital spectacle, starting in...
  
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• Words at the window: how people are connecting with hopeful messages

  28-04-2020 10:35
  
  In a new project, photographer Stephen Lovekin has captured messages in the windows of his Brooklyn neighbors under quarantineWith everyone stuck at home during this moment, it tracks that the windowsill has turned into a canvas, people looking out on the world while sharing something with it.As part of a new photo project, Stephen Lovekin has photographed hopeful messages posted in the windows of his Brooklyn neighborhood of Ditmas Park, an area known for its palatial Victorian homes. The serie
  
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• Which world-famous writer is this? Take the great British art quiz

  28-04-2020 09:00
  
  The National Trust have set the questions for today’s quiz, in which you can explore the collections of arts institutions around the UK currently closed due to coronavirus. Solve the mystery now ...This 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 National Trust
  
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• Show solidarity! Artists' posters to help struggling arts venues – in pictures

  28-04-2020 08:00
  
  Gillian Wearing and Wolfgang Tillmans are among the 40 artists designing posters for 2020Solidarity, a Between Bridges project helping cultural groups during the coronavirus pandemicRead more about 2020 Solidarity Continue reading...
  
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• A new Mapplethorpe? The queer zine legend reinventing the nude

  28-04-2020 07:00
  
  Paul Mpagi Sepuya started out taking shots of his friends naked. His work, in which sitters often face away, has now earned comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe – and even CaravaggioIn the autumn of 2001, Paul Mpagi Sepuya was an art student living in downtown New York. He’d just started his second year of university after moving from California when 9/11 changed life in the city for good. In March this year, the Covid-19 outbreak triggered another seismic change for the photographer
  
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