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• From People Who Care: The Opera Recordings That Got Them Hooked

  29-04-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Talk to a fan or performer, and they usually have a moment, a performance, a recording that got them hooked on whatever the art was. The Times asked 14 famous opera-lovers what their moments were. – The New York Times
  
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• How Italy Will Reopen Its Museums

  29-04-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The next phase is set to start on May 4, with museums slated to welcome visitors again on May 18. They must follow safety guidelines drawn up by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, which requires that all tickets be purchased online and visitors must practice social distancing in the galleries. – Artnet
  
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• How To Save Indigenous Culture? Pop

  29-04-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Their argument is that there is no better way to become visible than through pop culture. – The New York Times
  
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• Gillian Wise obituary

  29-04-2020 21:24
  
  Abstract artist and key member of the British constructivists group in the late 1950s and 60sVisitors to Cinema 1 at the Barbican Centre in London arrive via a stairwell clad in metal panels spray-painted in vivid geometric forms. These are an artwork: The Alice Walls, created for the centre’s opening in 1982.The work’s feel of the early Russian avant garde – Kazimir Malevich, say – is no coincidence. Gillian Wise, its creator, who has died aged 84 after contracting Covid
  
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• Is This An Art Collective Or A Private Equity Firm? Group Buys Brand-Name Artwork And Literally Breaks It Up To Sell Off The Parts

  29-04-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Brooklyn-based artists and designers behind MSCHF purchased a $30,000 Damien Hirst spot print and cut out all 88 of its dots. Starting today, they’re selling the dots for $480 each.” (That’s $42,400 in total.) “Meanwhile, the original print, now just a piece of paper with 88 holes and Hirst’s signature, is up for auction for a minimum of $126,500.” (Wow, they really are like Bain Capital.) – Artnet
  
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• Fundraiser / I Am All Stories / South West

  29-04-2020 20:50
  We are looking for someone who has extensive experience of working as a fundraiser to obtain grants for arts projects.
  We have spent a number of months researching and developing a collaborative...
  
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• Why Zoom Makes You Feel Bad

  29-04-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To be sure, video calls are great for letting toddlers blow kisses to their grandparents, showing people what you’re cooking for dinner or maybe demonstrating how to make a face mask out of boxer briefs. But if you want to really communicate with someone in a meaningful way, video can be vexing. – The New York Times
  
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• This Company Is Making LPs Using Actual 1960s Technology

  29-04-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The albums released by London-based Electric Recording Co., “assembled by hand and released in editions of 300 or fewer — at a cost of $400 to $600 for each LP — are made with restored vintage equipment down to glowing vacuum-tube amplifiers, and mono tape systems that have not been used in more than half a century. … Even its record jackets, printed one by one on letterpress machines, show a fanatical devotion to age-old craft.” – The New York Times
  
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• Trustee / SPID Theatre Company / London

  29-04-2020 19:45
  SPID Theatre creates high quality community theatre for council estates and advocates community investment in social housing. For fifteen years we have dreamt of restoring our neglected space in...
  
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• The Difference Between European And American Intellectuals

  29-04-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The American writer—so goes the transatlantic stereotype—addresses the general public deliberately and democratically. Rapidly clarifying her argument and the research or experience behind it, she (over)emphasizes how little she takes this audience’s trust and attention for granted. By a contrasting convention, the European essayist makes his genre and theme seem almost accidental. – Public Books
  
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• Shuttered Theatre Companies Still Need Their Fundraising Galas. So They’re Streaming Them — And It’s Working

  29-04-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With many staffers on furlough, and operations grinding to a halt, fundraising efforts (and a boost of morale) can be more important than ever. And while there’s some debate over how well stage productions translate to the screen, theatres are proving that virtual galas do just fine online. Fundraising goals are being met, even surpassed, with attendance tripled in some cases.” Here’s how several companies are pulling it off. – American Theatre
  
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• Experience Illuminated River virtually on Google Arts & Culture / Illuminated River Foundation / London

  29-04-2020 18:59
  The first phase of Illuminated River, the artwork that will eventually span up to 14 central London bridges, is now accessible online via the Google Arts & Culture...
  
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• Royal Society of Marine Artists - Call for Entries 2020 / Mall Galleries / London / UK wide

  29-04-2020 18:55
  Artists are invited to submit work for exhibition alongside members of the Royal Society of Marine Artists at their Annual Exhibition 2020.
  The RSMA seeks submissions of painting...
  
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• How Our History Has Been Shaped By Plagues

  29-04-2020 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We don’t have to look far and wide to see how disease has challenged and shaped our increasingly cosmopolitan world. The modern epidemics of cholera, typhus, yellow fever, measles, smallpox, and polio, among a host of other infectious diseases, might have better prepared us for our current crisis—if only their histories were better remembered and their dead and injured duly honored.” – New Criterion
  
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• Female Choreographers Are Transforming The Story Ballet

  29-04-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An iconic yet tortured female painter. A mistress wrapped up in a witch hunt in an early American colony. A talented cellist whose life ended prematurely after her battle with multiple sclerosis. … Today, there is a thrilling, 21st-century wave of story-driven ballets choreographed by women. What are their perspectives, and the stories they choose to tell, adding to ballet’s canon?” – Dance Magazine
  
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• hotel generation - Young Artist Development Programme Open Call / arebyte Gallery / London

  29-04-2020 18:01
  hotel generation is a UK wide, young digital artist development programme run every year by arebyte Gallery, mentoring four shortlisted participants from outside of London through an open call and...
  
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• Sports Development Co-ordinator / ARTS Students' Union / London

  29-04-2020 17:51
  JOB TITLE: Sports Development Co-ordinator
  REPORTS TO: Activities Development Manager
  HOURS (FT) 37 hours per week, 6 Month Fixed Term Contract
  LOCATION: Central London, mainly Holborn but...
  
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• Deborah Borda On Surviving Tough Times

  29-04-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The next couple of months are very unknown. But times of this kind of catastrophe are times for really reimagining what you can do and bringing people along to dare to make those choices.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• NEW: Concert Roulette, a classical jukebox / Alternative Classical / London

  29-04-2020 17:25
  Alternative Classical has created Concert Roulette during lockdown: a classical jukebox to help fill the concert-shaped hole in our lives 💔 Simply click to start and you’ll be presented...
  
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• 'They were forgotten': the great female cartoonists who have been overlooked

  29-04-2020 17:17
  
  In a new online exhibition, the work of 50 women in comics is being celebrated from the late 19th century to the present dayThe world of comic books, both on the page and off, is one that’s typically dominated by men. It’s an unavoidable gender skew yet what gets pushed to the forefront often hides a wealth of overlooked female talent.Women in Comics: Looking Forward and Back is a group exhibition at the Society of Illustrators featuring more than 50 female cartoonists, from the earl
  
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• Irrfan Khan, Star Of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ And ‘Life Of Pi’, Dead At 53

  29-04-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After an unsatisfying early career in Indian TV serials and films (his acting was too subtle and his looks too unconventional for a traditional Bollywood lead), he found acclaim in the British-Indian co-production The Warrior and settled into a career of Bollywood character parts and major roles in Indian art cinema. In the ’00s, his Western career went into high gear as he played the policeman in Slumdog Millionaire, the adult Piscine in Life of Pi, and the owner of the Jurassic World pa
  
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• One Berkshires Theater Is Going Ahead With Its Summer Season — In A Very Careful, Socially Distanced Way

  29-04-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Barrington Stage Company, … responding to the coronavirus pandemic, will give up the ambitious musical productions for which it is known (it’s the birthplace of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee). Instead, it will concentrate on one-person shows, and stage a play in which the central relationships are so strained that social distancing will not be a stretch.” 70% of the seats will be removed, as will intermissions (no mingling), and audience members must w
  
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• Performers And Presenters Game Out Various Reopening Scenarios (Some Of Them Quite Pricey)

  29-04-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With both the timing and the conditions of the return of live performances uncertain, organizations are considering numerous possibilities, from outdoor shows (free or ticketed) with spectators carefully spaced apart to playing in half-full halls (but what about box office and bathroom lines?) to booking in-high-demand artists in smaller (and half-empty) venues and charging hundreds of dollars for the few tickets. – The Washington Post
  
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• Just For This Year, Oscars Will Relax Rule That Contenders Must Be Shown In Theaters

  29-04-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “During a meeting on Tuesday, the [Academy’s] board of governors approved a temporary hold on the requirement that a film needs a seven-day theatrical run in a commercial theater in Los Angeles County to qualify for the Oscars. Instead, films will be allowed to be released digitally without playing in theaters. However, … to be considered, the streamed film must have already had a planned theatrical release.” – Variety
  
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• Tune Into Nature Music Prize / Yorkshire Sculpture Park / Yorkshire

  29-04-2020 15:12
  Location:       UK
  Type:              Prize
  Salary:       ...
  
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• Open call for Yorkshire-based artists / Yorkshire Sculpture Park / Yorkshire

  29-04-2020 15:04
  Location:       Yorkshire
  Type:              Commission
  Salary:     ...
  
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• Simone De Beauvoir Has A New Novel Coming Out

  29-04-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, she’s been dead for 34 years. She started writing the book, titled The Inseparables and based on her best friend (who died at 21), in 1954, the year she won the Prix Goncourt for The Mandarins and five years after she published The Second Sex. Jean-Paul Sartre, her partner, was unimpressed with the novel, and de Beauvoir put it aside. Scholars wondered what had happened to it; turns out she had kept the manuscript and typescript in her archives. – The New York Times
  
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• Cellist Lynn Harrell, 76

  29-04-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the course of his wide-ranging career, Harrell performed as a soloist with just about every major orchestra in the U.S. and Europe. Within the classical music world, Harrell was also widely beloved as a generous chamber music colleague, a respected teacher and a musician’s musician.” – NPR
  
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• Copywriter and Graphic Designer / Pulno / remote work

  29-04-2020 14:25
  Pulno is a professional SEO audit tool for digital marketing agencies, webmasters and web designers. We are currently looking for a creative and talented Copywriter and Graphic Designer for our team....
  
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• James Weaver, Period-Instrument Pioneer And Founder Of Smithsonian Chamber Players, Dead At 82

  29-04-2020 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He was part of the first generation of American musicians to work seriously on the revival of historical keyboard instruments and their repertoire. He used the Institution’s instrument collection for both solo work and to start one of the first professional Baroque-instrument groups in the U.S., the Smithsonian Chamber Players (1976), and expanded into the Classical era with the launch of the Smithson String Quartet and the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra. – Early Music America
  
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• Text in Motion: Movement & New Writing Workshops / Part of the Main / London / Online via Zoom

  29-04-2020 13:13
  Led by Movement Director Christina Fulcher, these workshops will focus on the process of creating movement within new writing. Participants are welcome to join for all or individual workshops. Each...
  
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• Apocalyptic vision: the unsettling beauty of lockdown is pure sci-fi

  29-04-2020 12:19
  
  The streets lie silent, the skies are clear, as office buildings reflect our empty cities. Coronavirus has brought with it the same eerie scenes that have long haunted the modern imagination The best arts and entertainment during self-isolationThe end of everything we took for normal has a dire aesthetic fascination. The streets lie silent and still under unnaturally clean skies. A lone walker stares into a deserted bookshop. Office buildings, once vulgar, fulfil their true potential as sets for
  
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• Apocalyptic vision: the unsettling beauty of lockdown Britain is pure sci-fi

  29-04-2020 12:19
  
  The streets lie silent, the skies are clear, as office buildings reflect our empty cities. Coronavirus has brought with it the same eerie scenes that have long haunted the modern imagination The best arts and entertainment during self-isolationThe end of everything we took for normal has a dire aesthetic fascination. The streets lie silent and still under unnaturally clean skies. A lone walker stares into a deserted bookshop. Office buildings, once vulgar, fulfil their true potential as sets for
  
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• Trustee - Communications and Fundraising / Abney Park Trust / London

  29-04-2020 11:51
  The COVID-19 epidemic has highlighted the importance of Abney Park as a communal garden, a place of peace and respite for local people as well as being a nature reserve with a unique and precious...
  
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• My travel sketches: 'Some drawings remind me how the sun felt on my skin'

  29-04-2020 07:30
  
  Illustrator Jonathan Edwards on how his travel sketchbooks are bringing back memories of places and experiences On family holidays, my parents would give me a book of A4 paper to keep me quiet. I’m drawing in every holiday photo! Actually, I’ve drawn every day for as long as I can remember.
  I’ve always taken a sketchbook on my travels … and a major part of my work as an illustrator is based on travel drawings. I see what catches my eye, then sit on a bench or at a cafe w
  
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• The Decline Of Novels, Poetry, Art… And Just About Everything Else?

  29-04-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The truth, sad or bad or however one wishes to characterize it, is that both contemporary visual art and contemporary poetry no longer hold anything approximating the central place in culture that they once did. Without anyone actually saying so, these once major branches of art have become of at best tertiary interest. A person who thinks himself reasonably cultured need no longer be responsible for knowing much, if anything at all, about either of them. – Commentary
  
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