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• Survey Says One Third Of Museums Could Close. How Do You Close Them?

  01-05-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Closing a museum is not just a matter of shutting the doors and turning off the lights. Institutions with significant collections have ethical and sometimes legal obligations to make sure that their objects are transferred elsewhere. The process can be both costly and time-consuming, experts say. – The New York Times
  
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• The New Frugality?

  01-05-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For decades American culture has promoted the ethos of disposable things. We are encouraged to be acquisitive – getting things for the sake of getting them. Suddenly under lockdown, is a new zeitgeist taking hold? Reuse. Make last. Seek permanence. – Vox
  
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• We Still Haven’t Made The Case That Artists Are Essential Workers

  01-05-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why is it in the UK we are afraid of expressing big thinking, challenging the government to a discussion about the indispensability of the arts and making the case that its practitioners are absolutely Essential Workers for our spiritual and intellectual wellbeing? – Arts Professional
  
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• How Do You Reopen Hollywood? Maybe Move It To Iceland?

  01-05-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Iceland has tested its population widely for virus, and has had few cases so it could be safe for shooting. The country, with its sparsely populated but spacious North Atlantic geography, advanced filming infrastructure, production incentives and experienced crews, had long been an attractive shooting location. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Why Do We Like Symmetry?

  01-05-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Leonard Susskind argues that we don’t. He says that “dating back to the Ancient Greeks, what’s often been perceived as elegant simplicity was almost always a fiction or an approximation covering for a much messier reality.” – Aeon
  
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• Even In This Crisis, Museums Selling Their Art Is A Dangerously Slippery Slope

  01-05-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, the COVID lockdown has deprived most museums of nearly all their income, which is why the Association of Art Museum Directors has given qualified approval for members to “use the proceeds from deaccessioned works of art … to support the direct care” of a museum’s collections as a whole. Sebastian Smee points out the problems (and there are several) that this might create. – The Washington Post
  
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• Lockdown lessons: ‘Singin’ in the Rain’

  01-05-2020 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We learned a lot of things about Singin’ in the Rain during the Lockdown Theatre Club group watch. Here are 20 of them – from dubbing the dubbers to Gene Kelly’s buttock-framing trousers. – David Jays
  
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• A Lesson in the Art of Drawing: ‘Taking the Line for a Walk’

  01-05-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The point of the exercise is to wean the young artist off result-oriented copying from photos. ‘Taking the line for a walk’ lets the drawing come about in the process of drawing. – Jan Herman
  
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• Matthew Shipp’s ‘Piano Equation’

  01-05-2020 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The dictionary defines equation as “the act of making equal.” In his engrossing new solo album, pianist Matthew Shipp creates eleven new pieces of music in which the equality of his powerful hands is important to the venture’s success, but not as important as his fertile imagination. – Doug Ramsey
  
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• How Can You Be A Street Artist When The Streets Are Restricted?

  01-05-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Street artists get their juice from the urban landscape. But performers don’t have crowds to perform for. And while street painters have plenty of urban canvas, there’s not many out to see it.– The New York Times
  
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• Is It Feasible To Reopen Cinemas With A Max Of 50 People Per Screen? Norway Is Trying It

  01-05-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Movie theaters in Norway will reopen on May 7 with a mandatory minimum of one meter of space between each audience member and no more than 50 patrons total in any one space. (These rules follow those of Sweden, which did not close its cinemas when the novel coronavirus arrived.) If everything goes smoothly, the limit will be increased to 200 patrons per screen on June 15. – Variety
  
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• Tips For Taking Online Dance Classes

  01-05-2020 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Online platforms are not equally useful, and the class options are dizzying, especially when the “I don’t want to humiliate myself” barrier is gone. (Who’s looking?!) – Dance Enthusiast
  
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• Digital Hatch: Submissions Call Out / Brainchild / London / Anywhere, it's digital!

  01-05-2020 19:17
  Award-winning company Brainchild, best known for their annual multi-arts festival (sadly postponed to July 2021), are running their first ever digital Hatch event!
  Hatch is Brainchild’s cosy,...
  
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• Live Workshop/Demonstrator / Fresh Perspective / Yorkshire

  01-05-2020 19:15
  I’m currently working on a community project called Joy in Numbers as part of Fresh Perspective. Fresh Perspective is a group that has been put in place by the Great Place: Lakes & Dales...
  
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• Acting Classes On Zoom Are Actually Working Out Kind Of Well

  01-05-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reacting to a scene partner’s body language and expressions is an integral part of learning how to act. Zoom, clearly, isn’t optimal in that department. But … students were finding ways to make the most of it.” In particular, the app “encourages acting students to be more nuanced, more private and more intimate.” – The New York Times
  
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• Paignton Flood Defence artist commission / Ginkgo Projects / South West

  01-05-2020 18:59
  Opportunity for an artist or surface designer experienced in surface and pattern design in the public realm to develop concept designs that can be integrated into the surface treatment of new sea...
  
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• Alan Thornhill obituary

  01-05-2020 18:37
  
  My father, the sculptor Alan Thornhill, who has died aged 98, is best known as the creator of the Putney Sculpture Trail, the largest outdoor collection of work by one artist in London.At the studio he set up in Putney, south-west London, in 1959, Alan pioneered a radical and improvisatory approach to claywork that involved dispensing with an internal armature and allowing content to emerge from his unconscious. Abstract pieces of the 1960s developed into large groups of figures. Pacifism, Jungi
  
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• The White House Has Created A Medal Commemorating Trump’s “Heroes” Of The Virus War (Cue Parodies)

  01-05-2020 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The coin shows an artist’s rendering of the coronavirus overlaid on a world map, and reads (with characteristically Trumpian capitalization), “World vs Virus: We Fought the Unseen Enemy. Everyday HEROES Suited Up. Everyday CITIZENS Did Their Part.” The other side features the presidential podium, where Trump until recently delivered his controversial daily press briefings. – Artnet
  
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• Freelance Consultant / TripleC / North West / Virtual

  01-05-2020 18:21
  Info - 25 days over 3 months
  TripleC are looking for a Freelance Consultant to support our organisational development. 
  To develop -
  • Business Plan
  • Policies &...
  
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• What Classic Plague Lit Tells Us About COVID — And About Its Aftermath

  01-05-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The primary lesson of plague literature, from Thucydides onwards, is how predictably humans respond to such crises. Over millennia, there has been a consistent pattern to behaviour during epidemics: the hoarding, the panicking, the fear, the blaming, the superstition, the selfishness, the surprising heroism, the fixation with the numbers of the reported dead, the boredom during quarantine.” – The Guardian
  
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• St James Square, Grimsby Public Art Commissions / Our Big Picture Ltd / East Midlands

  01-05-2020 17:46
  We are looking to commission a collaboration of artists to work with Our Big Picture Ltd to deliver a community engagement programme that will explore the newly created shared space and...
  
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• India Shorts / Tse Tse Fly Middle East / London

  01-05-2020 17:34
  India Shorts is a curated selection of short films on the Tse Tse Fly Middle East website that have their origins in India. Featuring animation, drama and documentaries, the films cover topics...
  
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• The Show Must Go On (But It Needs Help)

  01-05-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While much of the future is uncertain, one thing is clear: The industry will be gutted without major federal help. Arts nonprofits have already suffered $4.5 billion in losses as a result of the pandemic, and theaters alone are predicted to lose $500 million more by June, according to a new survey by Theatre Communications Group (TCG), a national service organization with over 700 member theaters. – Forbes
  
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• Open Call For Art Book: RegenerART / / London

  01-05-2020 17:24
  Share your work and stories about resilience and hope.
  This art book aims to infuse the readers with optimism and help sustain our energy levels during these difficult times.
  Artists from all...
  
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• Idled Professional Dancers Start Making TikTok Videos

  01-05-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since its release in 2017, TikTok has become a wildly popular global platform for dance, especially among teens, with tools that make it easy to film yourself dancing to music, integrate special effects and share the results. … In recent weeks, the app has attracted a small but growing contingent of professional dancers in their 20s and 30s, who … are tapping into its joys and questioning how TikTok might shape the future of their field.” – The New York Times
  
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• Surrealist games for lockdown and a Magritte masterpiece – the week in art

  01-05-2020 17:00
  
  Tap into your unconscious with Tarot, check out feudal chess or gaze into Magritte’s magic mirror – all in your weekly dispatchSurrealist games
  The surrealist movement started out by playing games in Parisian cafes. They wanted to tap the creative potential of the unconscious mind, and games like Exquisite Corpse – the avant-garde answer to consequences – helped. Exquisite Corpse quickly turns into a swearing and obscenity contest, at least in my family, and is totally hi
  
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• Furloughed Met Opera Musicians Worry About Making It Through The Pandemic Shutdown

  01-05-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The performers … feel abandoned by the Met. … The sense of drift has been compounded by what musicians call a lack of communication and leadership from the Met’s management. Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin has sent the group hopeful video messages, but updates from [general manager Peter] Gelb and the house’s human resources department have been practically nonexistent.” – Van
  
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• Steppenwolf Announces New Online Productions As It Cancels Stage Plays Until October

  01-05-2020 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The offerings, open only to subscribers, include a “virtual reading” of a new adaptation of Chekhov’s Seagull (available May 14-27); a radio-play version of Arthur Miller’s The American Clock, directed by Austin Pendleton and featuring John Malkovich, Joan Allen, and Laurie Metcalf (June); and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s In the Red and Brown Water, directed by Tina Landau (July). – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Vintage Photography Show - Modern Masters: Through the Lens / Alon Zakaim Fine Art / London

  01-05-2020 15:51
  Alon Zakaim Fine Art is proud to present the first instalment in their two-part series - Modern Masters: Through the Lens - an online exhibition of iconic portraiture from inside the...
  
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• Germano Celant, Curator Who Launched Italy’s Arte Povera Movement, Dead Of COVID At 79

  01-05-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1967,[he] wrote a lasting page in art history when, as a 27-year-old curator in Genoa, he mounted an exhibition of five young Italian artists making provisional assemblages of humble materials, which he grouped under the term Arte Povera (‘poor art’). These artists, including Alghiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis and Luciano Fabro, bridled against the conventions of the Italian academies (and American Pop art), and made a virtue of simple everyday objects: melted wax, rusting
  
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• PA Governor Freezes All State Arts Grants For Rest Of Year

  01-05-2020 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Facing his own burgeoning budget problems, Gov. Tom Wolf has directed some state agencies to rescind grant money previously awarded to arts groups. The decision surfaced Monday when numerous cultural organizations received an email from [the] executive director of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts … [saying that] “the PCA can no longer guarantee completion of processing for current year grant awards.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Beijing Reopens Forbidden City, Museums, Parks

  01-05-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Forbidden City, past home to China’s emperors, is allowing just 5,000 visitors daily, down from 80,000. And parks are allowing people to visit at 30% of the usual capacity. … Large-scale group activities remain on hold and visitors must book tickets in advance online.” – AP
  
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• This Theatre Festival Moved Itself Online Without Cancellations Or Posting Old Shows

  01-05-2020 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kate Craddock, founder and director of the Gateshead International Festival of Theatre in northeastern England, “is keen to point out this isn’t just about taking a stash of pre-recorded work and sticking it online. Rather it’s a ticketed and carefully curated festival [May 1-3] that aims to connect audiences and artists from across the globe in real-time theatrical encounters, one-on-one experiences, workshops and panel discussions. There’s even a virtual cocktail loung
  
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• Artists campaign against Bristol Spike Island eviction of Howard Silverman

  01-05-2020 12:44
  
  Founding member got notice to leave studio days after coronavirus lockdown startedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA founding father of one of Europe’s largest artist studio complexes has expressed grief, anger and a sense of betrayal after being told he must leave the community he helped create almost half a century ago.The contemporary artist Howard Silverman, 73, said his part in the development of Spike Island in Bristol had been his life’s work,
  
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• Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Course Leader / British Academy of Jewellery / London

  01-05-2020 12:32
  We are looking for an individual with a strong commitment to learning and teaching in the Arts, which is dynamic and engaging. They should have strong motivational skills, which can inspire students...
  
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• Writers/ Artists / Louder Than The Storm / London / UK Wide

  01-05-2020 11:30
  **What is Louder Than The Storm?** http://louderthanthestorm.com/ 
  Louder Than The Storm is an environmental movement dedicated to celebrating the beauty of the Earth, changing the...
  
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• What's happening in this picture? Take the great British art quiz

  01-05-2020 09:00
  
  Birmingham Museums Trust set today’s quiz, which allows you to explore the collections of institutions closed to coronavirus while answering a few tricky questions along the wayThis 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 Birmingham Museums Trust – Fine A
  
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• Historic England launches lockdown photography project

  01-05-2020 08:00
  
  People are asked to share their images of life under lockdown to ‘record history’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe British public is being invited to contribute to a national collection of photographs billed as a “unique time capsule for the future”, which will show future generations what the Covid-19 lockdown was like for everyday people.The week-long project, which was launched by Historic England on Wednesday and runs until Tuesday
  
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