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• The Poetry Foundation Has Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars. Should It Be Giving Away More Right Now?

  08-05-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The foundation has only pledged $25,000 for COVID relief. “The Poetry Foundation’s IRS filings between 2016 and 2018 suggest the Foundation averaged about $213 million in assets that weren’t tied up in real estate or restricted. In 2018, the Foundation reported that it spent about $4 million on education, public programs and prizes; nearly $1.5 million on its website; and $1.2 million on Poetry Magazine, after accounting for $703,000 in revenue.” – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Canada’s Finest Orchestra (What Does That Even Mean?)

  08-05-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sir Thomas Beecham used to say that there are no good or bad orchestras, only good or bad conductors, and to an extent he has a point. – Toronto Star
  
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• An Engineering Perspective On Art’s Transformational Potential On Technology

  08-05-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Domhnaill Hernon: “I believe that the arts could be (should be) more transformational in the way they inform more human-centric design. I believe that the arts should be deeply integrated into all companies but especially technology companies. I believe it is critical that the voice of the artist be heard and taken seriously in the context of business and in understanding the role that technology can play in influencing humanity. It is the role of companies to understand and embrace the u
  
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• When Kirill Met Thomas

  08-05-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pianist Kirrill Gerstein and composer Thomas Ades have been in a musical conversation of the sort that happens only when two people intrinsically seem to understand what the other is trying to say. – The New York Times
  
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• Crises Have Always Inspired Creativity

  08-05-2020 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I would only say that some artists feel a curiosity about examining the phenomenology of those things. It is investigative work, not just emotional work, that can enable an artist to determine how a system works and find the right vocabulary to discuss it.” – San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• The Semantics Of Cooties (Speaking Of Contagion) And Other Children’s Semi-Nonsense Words

  08-05-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a kid’s world, cooties and other similar contagions may not be real — but they’re deadly serious. The North American children’s lore of cooties is ‘a social contaminant that pass[es] from one child to another, a form of interpersonal pollution.’ … Children who play this game learn and absorb concepts familiar to a public health emergency” (such as immunization — remember cooties shots?), “but on their own strange terms. &hel
  
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• Has Our Sense Of Time Changed In Lockdown? Scientists Are Studying…

  08-05-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Time’s elasticity has perplexed philosophers for millennia. It has inspired writers for centuries. More recently, it has captured the attention of psychologists like Ogden, who have crafted experiments to understand the conditions of time perception: whether people feel time differently when they’re hot or cold, stressed or at ease, watching the clock or focused on something else. Time can disappear when we are deeply immersed in an activity we enjoy—the baking of sourdough br
  
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• In Search Of The Next Music Director Of The Fort Worth Symphony

  08-05-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With Miguel Harth-Bedoya stepping down after 20 “transformational” years, Tim Diovanni talks to musicians and observers about potential successors and finds that there is, as yet, no clear favorite. – The Dallas Morning News
  
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• How Being Bored Helps Us

  08-05-2020 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We should not fear being bored, say psychologists James Danckert and John D Eastwood, the authors of Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom. Their research has revealed boredom to be widely misunderstood, perhaps even unfairly maligned. Boredom evolved to help us, says Danckert. It signals that we are unengaged, in need of an activity to satisfy us. “I think that’s a good thing, in a lot of ways. How we respond to it is up to us. I think you can minimise it. But do you want to t
  
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• Writer / Corridor8 / North East / North West

  08-05-2020 19:09
  Corridor8 writing commissions: call for expressions of interest
  Deadline May 25th, apply via...
  
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• Jean Erdman, Dancer/Choreographer/Stage Director, Dead At 104

  08-05-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A former principal dancer for Martha Graham, Ms. Erdman first came to wide notice as a choreographer in the 1940s, and she remained in the vanguard of the field for decades. She later created performance pieces for the Theater of the Open Eye, an avant-garde New York stage she founded in 1972 with her husband, Joseph Campbell, the scholar of literature and myth.” – The New York Times
  
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• We Might Need To Redesign The Backends Of Theatres

  08-05-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The best analogy I can provide is the changes we’ve seen in travel since 9/11. Once it was clear that security screenings were here to stay, new airports were designed with that reality in mind. There is no finer example than the airport in Indianapolis where space for screening was designed into the original plan and has contributed to the airport being chosen as one of America’s ten best year after year. Contrast that with Newark Airport where security has been shoe-horned
  
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• This May Be The World’s Biggest, Starriest Online Ballet Class

  08-05-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Worldwide Ballet Class] stands out for offering dancers of all levels the opportunity to take open company class alongside professional dancers, six days a week … taught by the likes of Julie Kent, Christopher Stowell, SFB ballet master Felipe Diaz and National Ballet of Canada principal Jurgita Dronina.” All for free, no less. Here’s a Q&A with co-founders Diego Cruz and Rubén Martín Cintas. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Writer wanted to collaborate on piece of music theatre / Maz O'Connor / North West / Nationwide

  08-05-2020 17:48
  Wanted:Theatre writer (ideally Irish/Irish heritage, female) for musical theatre commission
  Fee:£1800 all-inclusive
  Project:Musical theatre piece based on the true life & death of Bridget...
  
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• Emmanuel Macron’s Plan For Culture Over The Next Year

  08-05-2020 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He said the coming months should be ones of “learning and culture,” as opposed to travel and leisure. (France has also imposed limits on international travelers for the summer months). He added that artists would need to invent new forms of culture, saying that “nothing prevents us from inventing something else, in smaller forms with no public or little public.” – Artnet
  
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• To Stream Or Not To Stream? Arthouse Film Distributors Face Quandary With This Year’s New Releases

  08-05-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some, like A24 and Sony Pictures Classics, are sticking with the existing theater-first model and waiting the COVID lockdown out; says a top Sony exec, “Without theatrical, the business disappears.” Yet some smaller distributors “have seized an opportunity to release their films as digital links, often through art-house and independent theaters that have eagerly accepted a chance to earn some revenue and keep their homebound audiences engaged.” (Alamo Drafthouse, meanwhi
  
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• Archaeologists Cry Foul As Egypt Moves Ancient Sphinxes Into Tahrir Square

  08-05-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Officials from Egypt’s antiquities ministry recently announced that [four] ram-headed sphinxes had been taken from the Karnak temple in Luxor to the capital’s busy traffic roundabout, where they have joined a pink granite obelisk.” Egyptologists say that the sculptures will be damaged by Cairo’s air pollution, while government critics say it’s a move to erase Tahrir Square’s recent history as a protest site. – The Guardian
  
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• Facebook’s New Independent Oversight Board ‘Has All The Hallmarks Of The UN, Except Potentially Much Less Effective’

  08-05-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kara Swisher: “I am not trying to be glib here, because solving the problem of how to deal with speech across the largest and most unwieldy communications platform in human history … may be beyond the capabilities of anyone .. given that Facebook and [Mark] Zuckerberg have purposefully created a system that is ungovernable.” – The New York Times
  
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• Hirst goes virtual and Banksy creates a caped crusader – the week in art

  08-05-2020 16:00
  
  A punk philosopher picks up the brush, past surrealists bloom again and Frieze serves fries – all in your weekly dispatchRodney Graham
  The Canadian punk conceptualist famous for his philosophical videos here exhibits a set of disconcertingly impressive paintings that echo early 20th-century modernism.• Lisson Gallery online space Continue reading...
  
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• As Creatives Move Online During Lockdown, Fans Follow Them To Patreon

  08-05-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since mid-March more than 70,000 extra creators have joined Patreon, which allows fans to give monthly payments to artists in exchange for exclusive content or simply out of a desire to support someone whose work they appreciate. The artistic influx has been matched by an equally large increase in supporters. … the number of whom is up 25% month on month. Over the same period, spending by existing patrons has increased by 75%.” – The Guardian
  
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• Two California Galleries Defy Lockdown Orders And Reopen Because ‘Art Is So Important’

  08-05-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One gallery owner said, “Art is so important. We’re more important than other businesses. I want to be taken seriously.” Another said, “We refuse to die here in the tunnel. We’re pushing through to the light.” Her husband tweeted a quote from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. – Artnet
  
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• As If COVID Weren’t Bad Enough, This City’s Shuttered Museums Are Dealing With An Earthquake

  08-05-2020 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 5.4 magnitude temblor hit the Croatian capital, Zagreb, in late March. “Over 80% of [the city’s] museums are in buildings that date from before the Second World War and most of them have reported serious damage, but the aftershocks and lockdown have stopped detailed inventories of the destruction being made. More than a third of them are identified as unsafe or dangerous.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• UK’s National Theatre Will (Offer To) Pay Actors For Plays Streamed During Corona-Crisis

  08-05-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ‘nominal’ payment will apply to all the productions the National has been streaming on YouTube since early April. The venue said it was up to the artists whether they chose to accept it.” – BBC
  
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• 3 Under 30 competition for young photographers / Daniel Blau gallery / London / International

  08-05-2020 14:05
  Daniel Blau is pleased to announce the launch of ‘3 Under 30’, a prestigious competition for young photographers.
  This is a unique opportunity for talented emerging artists to gain...
  
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• `State of Emergency` Contemporary Art Micro-Commissions / The Box, Plymouth / South West

  08-05-2020 11:22
  The Box is inviting applications for 20 paid micro-commissions for artists based in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall, to consider how Covid-19 has impacted on our notion of freedom during this...
  
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• Head of Studies / Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts / London

  08-05-2020 02:56
  Italia Conti Academy of Theatre ArtsHead of Studies£competitiveFull time. Permanent.
  Are you an experienced Performing Arts Lecturer at FE or HE level with a background in dance, acting or...
  
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