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• And Now… Drive-In Van Gogh

  15-05-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Art lovers will drive into the 4,000 square foot downtown industrial space and will stay inside their vehicles. It’s quite a change from the original concept, which permitted 700 people to walk inside the space at a time. – CBC
  
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• Now More Than Ever: The Social Value Of The Arts

  15-05-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Beyond simply creating art for art’s sake, or for school credits, many of the young people I encountered are building social movements and creative projects around a different vision for our planet. And they are calling us in. This is an unprecedented moment for intergenerational justice and we need to seize it. – The Conversation
  
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• Report: We’re Reading More In Lockdown (And Our Taste Is Changing)

  15-05-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to the nationally representative sample of 1,000 adults, surveyed from 29 April to 1 May, the nation has also increased the amount of time it spends reading books from around 3.5 hours per week, to six. Just 10% of adults said they were reading less. Readers also revealed their tastes have changed since the outbreak of Covid-19. – The Guardian
  
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• Musicians Association Will Pay Musicians To Perform Online

  15-05-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada will pay musicians $150 per online performance for its members. The project is backed by $200,000 in funding every three months for the duration of COVID-19 lockdown period. Shares of royalties will go to all rights holders of the music performed. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Fall TV Is Going To Look Very Different

  15-05-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now — when yearly upfront presentations would normally take place — networks are instead deciding whether to move forward with or completely scrap prospective shows, despite having barely any other finished product to consider. Some networks are requesting more scripts and approving straight-to-series orders, while others are delaying summer releases so they can be used as fresh content in the fall. – Huffington Post
  
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• Buy A Painting By This Dog And Get Free Weed

  15-05-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In D.C., you see, it is legal to possess marijuana but not to sell it; there is, however, no law against giving it away. So the enterprising proprietors of District Derp gallery got the idea to sell paintings by Sudo — their four-year-old mini-husky, who’s been trained to paint with a specially constructed brush — and offer purchasers, as a bonus gift, an amount of cannabis equal in value to the price of the artwork. – Business Insider
  
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• Interest In Disaster, Dystopian Stories Is Soaring. Why?

  15-05-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Global downloads for Plague Inc, a 2012 video game that encourages players to spread a disease around the world before a cure is found, increased by an annual 123% from January to March this year, as the spread of Covid-19 began to gather speed internationally. Its UK-based developer Ndemic Creation addressed the game’s popularity: “Whenever there is an outbreak of disease, we see an increase in players as people seek to find out more about how diseases spread, and to understand the
  
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• Call for Entries: Aesthetica Short Film Festival / Aesthetica Magazine / Yorkshire

  15-05-2020 20:23
  Submit your film to the Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF), which is a BAFTA-Qualifying event. This year we will be celebrating 10 years of ASFF, and the festival is taking place from 4-8...
  
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• Gabriel Bacquier, France’s Greatest Baritone Of The Postwar Era, Dead At 95

  15-05-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In addition to his triumphs in Europe, he was one of the few French singers of his time to have a big career in the U.S., notably in Chicago and Philadelphia and at the Met, where he sang for 18 seasons. Also unusually for a francophone singer of the day, he was admired internationally for his command of Italian opera as well as the French repertoire. – OperaWire
  
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• On Second Consideration: Rewatching Theatre Online Can Spark Different Conclusions

  15-05-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laura Collins-Hughes: “As we flock online in these isolated, uncertain days, looking to sate our theater cravings, a lot of us are watching plays we have already seen onstage — familiar comforts that, in digital form, can bring fresh revelation, too.” – The New York Times
  
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• Francophone African Authors Are Finally Getting Their Work Published Within Africa

  15-05-2020 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For decades, most authors writing in French in Africa have had to publish their books in France, partly because of a lack of publishing infrastructure at home and partly because French companies have insisted on worldwide rights. So if these writers’ books appear in their own countries at all, the prices are something like a week’s pay for an ordinary person. Now the authors are pushing back, insisting on retaining rights for Africa and even starting their own publishing houses to p
  
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• A Book Festival For The Epidemic Era, Live From Africa

  15-05-2020 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Afrolit Sans Frontières, a series of hourlong readings and question-and-answer sessions held entirely on Facebook and Instagram, kicked off on March 23 and [is recurring monthly]. In the face of the pandemic, with countless numbers of book fairs, tours and other literary events canceled or postponed, Afrolit stands out as a gathering where readers — for some sessions, hundreds have logged in — can hear from authors and talk to them about sometimes difficult or taboo su
  
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• Digital Marketing Lead / Institute of Art and Ideas / London

  15-05-2020 18:53
  This is a remarkable opportunity to play a key role in driving the success of two global media and education platforms to be launched in the spring and summer of 2020. Our major competitors are...
  
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• Commission Call Out For Musicians and Sound Artists / Kent Medway Museums NPO / South East

  15-05-2020 18:51
  The Kent Medway Museums National Portfolio Organisation Partnership (KMM NPO) are seeking proposals from musicians, song writers, sound artists, poets, and those working with sound to create new...
  
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• Book Sales Were Down 35 Percent In April

  15-05-2020 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Categories of books that sold best last month were fiction, cookbooks, and children’s books, but compared with April 2019, sales were largely down at the indies contacted. Most saw declines of more than 35% compared to the same period in the prior year. For many, online sales continue to be a lifeline, especially direct-to-home orders fulfilled by Ingram. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Graphic Designer / Eclipse Theatre / Yorkshire / UK wide

  15-05-2020 18:09
  Project Aim: To produce a visually engaging report that successfully presents the key findings of a unique three-year project completed by Eclipse Theatre. Slate: Black. Arts....
  
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• What Are The Possibilities Of Socially Distanced Performance? We’ve Been Seeing Some Of Them For Years

  15-05-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Justin Davidson: “There is a cohort of artists and presenters who, long before the great contagion, were already rethinking the physical relationships between performers, audience, and space. They rebelled against the tyranny of the proscenium, placed intimate shows in vast rooms, coaxed audiences to roam, and expanded their palette with electronics — all techniques that could now prove essential. … I can think of a dozen powerful experiences from the recent past that might s
  
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• The Medieval Book That Suggested How The World Looked

  15-05-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Asking a Medieval person to imagine the world and their place on it would demand a radically different sort of cognitive map than one a modern person might rely on. This affects pragmatic matters (of navigation and so forth), but also what could be termed poetic ones as well. Philosopher Bertrand Westphal writes in Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces that the “perception of space and the representation of space do not involve the same things,” and this is a crucial point. &ndash
  
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• Morton Feldman’s Music Is Just The Thing For Quarantine

  15-05-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  By the time new Washington Post classical critic Michael Andor Brodeur confesses that he used to listen to Feldman at the supermarket and when stuck in traffic, you might think he’s not impartial enough to make a convincing case. Actually, he’s pretty persuasive: “Now, as the days repeat with barely perceptible variations like one of Feldman’s figures, his music isn’t just lending form to time as it drifts by, it’s recalibrating my sense of scale. And I&rsquo
  
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• Walks for art lovers, and artists who walk – the week in art

  15-05-2020 17:00
  
  Wherever and however you are allowed to exercise, why not seek out public sculptures and monuments? Meanwhile, artists including Gilbert & George do their best to keep working – all in your weekly dispatchBottle of Notes by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
  Middlesbrough’s excellent MIMA remains closed like all galleries, but if you’re out for a walk you can see the city’s engaging sculpture created in homage to local boy Captain Cook by one of America’s gr
  
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• Artist Commission, Blue Sky Museum / Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum and Arts&Heritage / North East / National

  15-05-2020 16:40
  During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) period, Arts&Heritage is initiating a new project, inviting UK-based artists to create unusual and ambitious project responses for some of the Meeting Point...
  
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• This 222-Year-Old Poem Really Captures The Spirit Of 2020 (And Not Just Because Of COVID)

  15-05-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ first published in 1798, is … the dream-poem of right now.” It’s currently appearing on YouTube in short daily installments read by a nebula of quirky stars (Jeremy Irons, Marianne Faithfull, Willem Dafoe, Hilary Mantel, Tilda Swinton, Iggy Pop, etc.), and James Parker explains why the project reflects our zeitgeist so well. – The Atlantic
  
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• Call out for Visual Artists: Bristol, Bath, N. Somerset, S. Glos / Bricks / South West

  15-05-2020 16:09
  Bricks have launched Reaching Resilience, a programme of support for visual artists in Bristol and West.
   
  Artist call out closes 1/6/20
   
  Details including how you can get involved:...
  
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• Why The Pandemic Has Seen Shakespeare Popping Up Everywhere Online

  15-05-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexis Soloski: “The glut of new content speaks to the reach and ubiquity of his work, the open-source accessibility of his plays, the confidence that if you do share a snippet of pentameter, you will be heard, recognized and retweeted. The plays — and the humanist values they intimate — offer a [common] cultural touchstone when the rest of our lives feel unsteady.” – The New York Times
  
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• Progression Lab - weekly performance training via Zoom / Tramshed / London

  15-05-2020 15:39
  We are launching a digital space for experimentation and training for emerging artists aged 16 to 25.
  The Progression Lab will run as weekly drop-in sessions on Fridays from 4pm to 6pm, starting...
  
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• Coronavirus Or No, Demolition And Construction At L.A. Museums Goes On

  15-05-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In California, all construction — including museum expansions — has been categorized as essential. While much of the art world is standing still, expansions at LACMA, the Hammer, and other museums are prompting both questions and criticisms.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Get Creative! Craft ideas to make and do at home / Oswestry Community Action (Qube) / West Midlands / Shropshire

  15-05-2020 15:34
  Get Creative! Craft ideas to make and do at home
  To help everyone through these tricky times, Qube is adding creative ideas to its website that are ideal to do in the safety and comfort of your own...
  
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• Creativity in Isolation: Online exhibition opportunity / Oswestry Community Action (Qube) / West Midlands / Shropshire

  15-05-2020 15:22
  Calling all artists, writers and makers! Qube will be holding an online exhibition of Creativity in Isolation later this month. We’re inviting everyone to get involved by sending us...
  
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• Call for artists and creative practitioners / Oswestry Community Action (Qube) / West Midlands / Oswestry

  15-05-2020 15:13
  Good Things for People to do at Home
  Qube and Taking Part are seeking Creative Practitioners and Artists to create imaginative, fun and creative activities for people who would normally attend Day...
  
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• Accordion tutor (Saturday Folk Music Workshops) freelance / English Folk Dance and Song Society / London

  15-05-2020 15:05
  We are looking to appoint an Accordion tutor (Piano accordion, stradella bass system) for the Level 2 and Level 3-4 (beginner with some keyboard experience to improvers/intermediate level) classes...
  
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• Facebook’s New Content Oversight Board Could End Up Overseeing A Lot More Than Facebook

  15-05-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In designing this new organization, Facebook’s leaders … formed a separate legal trust with an initial $130 million investment from Facebook. But they also empowered that trust to both accept funding from sources outside Facebook and to form companies of its own. That structure would ensure Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t just shut down the board if he didn’t like its decisions. But it also opens up the possibility that the trust might some day spin off add
  
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• ‘The New Facebook Review Board Will Have No Influence Over Anything That Really Matters In The World’: Siva Vaidhyanathan

  15-05-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It will hear only individual appeals about specific content that the company has removed from the service — and only a fraction of those appeals. The board can’t say anything about the toxic content that Facebook allows and promotes on the site. It will have no authority over advertising or the massive surveillance that makes Facebook ads so valuable. … It won’t dictate policy for Facebook Groups, where much of the most dangerous content thrives. And most importa
  
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• Constellations 2020/21 Artists Open Call / UP Projects and Flat Time House / London

  15-05-2020 14:54
  Are you an artist interested in socio-political issues, community-oriented practice and public contexts as a site for your practice? 
  Apply to Constellations, a free artist development...
  
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• 2 x Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design & Fine Art 2020 / Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University / London

  15-05-2020 14:35
  The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design & Fine Art 2020.
  Each Fellowship provides up to...
  
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• The Satellite Company That Helps Transmit Everything To Everyone Has Just Gone Bankrupt

  15-05-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Set up in the 1960s via international treaty, Intelsat SA has played a critical and often-overlooked role providing connectivity infrastructure for more than a half century so that humanity could witness everything from Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon in 1969 to Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes’ recent victory in [this year’s] Super Bowl. But thanks to technological evolution, shifting FCC priorities and the latest COVID-19 pandemic, the company declared Chapter
  
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• Festival Echoes 2020 - 4 Artist Commissions / Festival Stoke / West Midlands

  15-05-2020 14:26
  Theme: Creating art in a different landscape
   
  Festival Echoes is a series of one-month artist commissions May – October 2020
  Four open commissions are available: July, August,...
  
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• Curator: Visual, Digital and Applied Arts / UK New Artists / East Midlands

  15-05-2020 14:13
  Fee: £2,500
  Number of days: 17 (approx)
  Contract: Freelance
  Place of work: Leicester/Nottingham
  Timescale: July 2020 - March 2021
  We are looking for a Curator who...
  
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• Hockney invites the French to find joys of spring in lockdown

  15-05-2020 14:09
  
  Artist provides inspiration for competition to lift spirits during the coronavirus crisis
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLocked down in France, British artist David Hockney has been sitting in the garden of his Normandy home drawing the blossoming of spring. The cherry and other fruit trees, the hawthorns and blackthorns, all feature in his works, famously created on his iPad.Now Hockney, 82, is the inspiration for a competition to encourage young and old to cr
  
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• Hockney invites budding artists to find joys of spring in lockdown

  15-05-2020 14:09
  
  Artist provides inspiration for competition to lift spirits during the coronavirus crisis
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLocked down in France, British artist David Hockney has been sitting in the garden of his Normandy home drawing the blossoming of spring. The cherry and other fruit trees, the hawthorns and blackthorns, all feature in his works, famously created on his iPad.Now Hockney, 82, is the inspiration for a competition to encourage young and old to cr
  
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• A New Kind Of Corona-Concert: Ten Minutes, One Musician, One Listener, One Empty Airport

  15-05-2020 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Flutist Stephanie Winker has been organizing these very intimate events at the airport and in other locations around Stuttgart — inspired, she says, by The Artist Is Present, the project in which Marina Abramović sat in a chair and, one at a time, stared into people’s eyes. – The New York Times
  
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• Head of Events Marketing / Coventry City of Culture / West Midlands

  15-05-2020 13:55
  Coventry City of Culture Trust was set up in 2015 to bid to be UK City of Culture in 2021. Now that we have been successful in securing the prestigious title, we are recruiting the team ready to...
  
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• Online Training: Trusteeship in Crisis / Cause4 / Trustee Leadership Programme / London / Online

  15-05-2020 10:36
  A 90-minute session on leading charities in crisis: guidance, legal responsibilities, best practice, and an opportunity to ask questions.
  About this Event:
  Delivered by social enterprise Cause4 in...
  
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• How do we know Monet painted this outdoors? The great British art quiz

  15-05-2020 09:00
  
  The National Gallery in London has set today’s quiz, which allows you to explore the collections of museums closed due to coronavirus – while answering some tricky questionsThis 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, by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.Today, our questions are set by the National Gallery in London, which ho
  
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• Time For Spotify Et Al To Pay Musicians More

  15-05-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Spotify, which controls 36 per cent of the world streaming market, reported third-quarter operating proceeds of $60 million (all figures U.S.) in October 2019. YouTube, meanwhile, revealed its ad-revenue intake publicly for the first time in February: last year it was $15.15 billion, a 36 per cent increase from 2018’s $11.16-billion tally. And here’s what you’ve been offering the creators in return for all that content that has enabled you to attract and retain tens of million
  
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