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• COVID As An Opportunity For The Arts To Reconsider

  19-05-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Comparing the Covid-19 pandemic with the second world war is a perilous and largely ridiculous game. Yet in purely practical terms, the war was the last time cultural organisations ground entirely to a halt. Robert Skidelsky’s biography of John Maynard Keynes notes that the economist liked to say he used the calm of war to reflect on the turmoil of peace. That reflection led to an entirely new settlement for the arts in Britain – the foundation of the Arts Council of Great Br
  
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• How Live Online Is Evolving

  19-05-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some performers get their fans involved – whether by taking requests or doing Q&As, virtual charity festivals or tutorials like Duran Duran star John Taylor with his bass masterclasses and Oti Mabuse with her dance lessons. Listening parties have also been a big hit. Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess has carved out a sideline as host of #timstwitterlisteningparty. Fans and musicians listen together in real time, tweeting their thoughts and memories. – BBC
  
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• Emotion As A Virus

  19-05-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There is a growing body of scientific evidence showing that our internal mental states, including our emotions, might also be socially transmissible. Understanding the nature and dynamics of this emotional contagion is crucial in highlighting how social interactions might impact on our wellbeing. – Psyche
  
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• Billionaire Art Collectors Are Moving Art Out Of Berlin. Why?

  19-05-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Der Tagesspiegel, a local newspaper, saw the departure of the Flick collection as “further proof of Berlin’s gradual metamorphosis from a creative hub into a stronghold for property speculators”. – The Guardian
  
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• What Our Social Media Images Say About Our Crisis

  19-05-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Our images don’t often depict the pandemic explicitly, say with an ambulance or an unusually empty street, but they likely convey how you are feeling through this. Anxiety, grief, boredom, fear, and exhaustion are often the content of social photos right now, even if they don’t depict something like a face mask.” – Artnet
  
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• Cleo Parker Robinson Talks About 50 Years Of Her Dance Company In Denver

  19-05-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Long ago, both jobs and respect were hard to come by for choreographers and dancers. This was especially true for women of color, as well as for modern dance. Respect went more easily towards ballet. I wanted to balance all my interests, to be in Denver and the world at the same time. When you find your true voice, the funding will follow.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Fascinating: Brains Of Pokeman Players Light Up Differently Than Those Who Don’t Play

  19-05-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When processed by childhood Pokémon players, the images lit up a small groove in the temporal lobe that remained mostly inactive in the brains of Pokémon newbies. – Aeon
  
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• Pornhub Offers To Help Save Germany’s Equivalent Of Sundance

  19-05-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Digital juggernaut Pornhub has offered itself as a streaming partner to Germany’s Oldenburg Film Festival, a 26-year-old indie movie event known for edgy programming and quirky celebrity tributes. The offer … comes nearly a week after the festival announced it will forge ahead as planned for a September run [with] a combination of physical and virtual screenings. The move is yet another recent sign of Pornhub’s seriousness about participating in mainstream cinema.&rdqu
  
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• A New Tool That Lets You Curate Digital Shows

  19-05-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ArtUK has released a tool that allows anyone to build, annotate and share their own online show of digital art. Which art? Anything in public collections in the UK, so there’s a lot to choose from. – ArtUK
  
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• CYBER-SCRATCH Applications open! / Aktualise Theatre / London / UK wide

  19-05-2020 19:16
  Aktualise is so excited to be taking its scratch night online: cue CYBER-SCRATCH. Due to be hosted by Poplar Union, Aktualise Theatre are determined to continue to find, support and give new work a...
  
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• Joel Kupperman, Most Famous Of 1940s ‘Quiz Kids’, Dead Of COVID At 83

  19-05-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For about 10 years, between the era of Shirley Temple in the 1930s and before Jerry Mathers appeared on TV’s Leave It to Beaver in the late 1950s, Joel Kupperman may have been the most famous child in America. From 1942 to 1952, he appeared almost every week on Quiz Kids, … [where] he would put on a scholar’s cap and gown and, with a panel of other genius-level children from Chicago, answer questions about mathematics, science, history, music, literature, sports and cu
  
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• Trustee / Mafwa Theatre / Yorkshire / Leeds

  19-05-2020 18:55
  Mafwa Theatre is a community theatre organisation working with refugees and asylum seekers in Leeds since February 2018. Mafwa deliver a weekly women’s drama group at Leeds Refugee Forum in...
  
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• Admissions and Conversion Officer / Sotheby's Institute of Art / London

  19-05-2020 18:37
  This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly organised admissions professional who wishes to pursue their career in an academic environment which is both demanding and stimulating....
  
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• How You Build A Network Of Women Composers (From Iran, No Less)

  19-05-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Young Iranian composers have set up a network for mentorship, commissioning and presenting. – The New York Times
  
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• Data Protection for Artists & Creatives / Creativity Works / South West / All

  19-05-2020 18:22
  Why do we need data protection law and does it apply to me? What is personal information? What does processing data mean?This a FREE live webinar but if you are able to do so please...
  
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• Freelance - Illustrator / Designer / Blackdown Hills AONB / South West

  19-05-2020 18:21
  We are looking to commission the creation of a series of images to show the past, present and future changes to the River Culm and its surrounding landscape, including two future scenarios: one...
  
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• New Music Written Expressly For The Pandemic

  19-05-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Violinist Jennifer Koh has been commissioning more than 40 pieces for herself to play unaccompanied on her weekly Facebook Live show. So are other musicians and organizations, from the New Jersey Symphony to the Guggenheim. “Taken together,” writs David Patrick Stearns, “these direct artistic responses are the classical soundscape of the pandemic. The keep-your-spirits-up message that circulated early on in the classical music community has given way to something darker.&rdquo
  
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• Painter Susan Rothenberg, 75

  19-05-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rothenberg’s paintings are spare and stark—frequently understated in their color palette and simple in their form. But through even the vague suggestion of figures, Rothenberg was able to create memorable images that tease the brain and tickle the eye. – ARTnews
  
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• It Could Be Two Years Until Choirs Can Safely Sing Together Again, And Choral Singers Are Devastated

  19-05-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The moisture that comes out of singers’ mouths and into the air that their fellow singers are breathing seems to be a very efficient way of transmitting coronavirus, as several cases of multiple contagion traced to choirs have shown. And from community-based groups to church and gospel choirs to top professional ensembles like The Crossing, as one director put it, “We grieve.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Reading Science Fiction Helps Kids Build Mental Resiliency

  19-05-2020 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Youths see [in speculative fiction] examples of young people grappling with serious social, economic, and political issues that are timely and relevant, but in settings or times that offer critical distance. This distance gives readers an avenue to grapple with complexity and use their imagination to consider different ways of managing social challenges.” – The Conversation
  
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• The Psoas Major Muscle = The Muscle of the Soul - workshop / To Move with Voice project / London

  19-05-2020 16:26
  What role does the psoas major muscle play in speaking and singing?Are you someone who is interested in vocal exploration?Are you curious about the connection between voice and body?​✨...
  
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• Is There Anybody Out There? Micro-commissions / Lancaster Arts / North West

  19-05-2020 16:22
  We are inviting proposals to support four artistic development projects, in any art form. Our aim is to facilitate some time and space, to reflect on creative practice and audiences under these new...
  
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• Michel Piccoli, Revered Star Of French Screen For Five Decades, Dead At 94

  19-05-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even when he was a big name, Piccoli was never too proud to play small supporting roles or even bit parts if he liked the screenplay. But whatever the size of the role, whether playing a goody or a baddie, Piccoli would bring to the character a gravitas (with a tinge of humour) and an ironic detachment, simultaneously revealing a real, recognisable human being beneath the surface.” – The Guardian
  
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• Call for Submissions: Water / Khidr Collective / London

  19-05-2020 15:53
  The Khidr Collective is a UK-based multidisciplinary arts collective of writers/artists/activists. We produce the Khidr Collective Zine, an annual print magazine that showcases the work of...
  
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• Why Has Munch’s ‘The Scream’ Been Fading? Because We’ve Been Breathing On It

  19-05-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On the 1910 version of the painting, housed at the Munch Museum in Oslo, the cadmium yellow in the sky and the lake has been fading to off-white and flaking off for years, with light believed to be the culprit. A team of scientists has now found that light is not the problem: the dulling is caused by high humidity, particularly from the breath of many thousands of viewers. – CNN
  
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• Male and Female Voiceover Actors / MBD / East Midlands

  19-05-2020 15:29
  MBD are casting for four voiceover performers, to deliver the script for a VR film based around the 400 year anniversary of the Mayflower voyage. The film tells the story of the Mayflower Voyage and...
  
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• How And When Will Texas Arts Organizations Reopen? They Have No Idea, Thanks To The Governor

  19-05-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “North Texas arts organizations tuned in eagerly at 2 p.m. Monday to hear Gov. Greg Abbott’s address regarding ‘Phase Two’ of the effort to reopen the state’s economy, which, they thought, would include them. But the governor pulled off a bit of a stunner in not addressing performing arts organizations at all. He gave guidance to youth sports camps, summer camps, Little League baseball and professional sports” — even indoor rodeo. But not the arts. &nda
  
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• Fermynwoods Podcast Episode 1 - Sarah Gillett / Fermynwoods Contemporary Art / East Midlands / Northamptonshire

  19-05-2020 14:50
  We’re proud to announce the launch of the Fermynwoods Podcast. The podcast is hosted by Fermynwoods Assistant Director Jessica Harby and will feature artist talks,...
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe Warns It Could Go Bankrupt Without Government Help

  19-05-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite being well-managed, well governed, and – crucially – able to operate without public subsidy,” says the statement, “we will not be able to survive this crisis,” the coronavirus epidemic, without rescue funding from the British government. In fact, it’s the lack of public subsidy that’s the problem: it means the Globe is not eligible for Arts Council England’s emergency support. – The Guardian
  
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• Marketing Manager / MehaArt / North West

  19-05-2020 14:28
  Part-time Marketing Manager required for established arts and gifts brand MehaArt - https://www.mehaart.com/The successful applicant will need:
  👉 Experience in social media...
  
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• Open Call for Curators / Vienna Design Week / London / UK wide

  19-05-2020 14:27
  Applications are now open to UK-based curators for a research residency during VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2020. Curators are invited to explore ways in which design festivals can act as agents for positive...
  
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• Announcing: The Young Coneys News Network / Coney / London / Nationwide

  19-05-2020 14:05
  Coney are proud to present The Young Coneys News Network - a bi-weekly news bulletinmasterminded by a group of 7-13 year old change makers in lockdown.
  The Young Coneys are a group of young people...
  
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• Both Venice Biennales Postponed For A Year

  19-05-2020 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which had already been rescheduled from this spring to August, will now take place in the late summer and fall of 2021; next year’s (art) Biennale will be transferred to 2022, when it will coincide with Documenta. – ARTnews
  
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• What`s in the box? project evaluation consultant / Hastings Museum and Art Gallery / South East

  19-05-2020 13:44
  We are seeking to appoint an evaluation consultant to undertake an independent evaluation of our 'What’s in the box?' engagement project.
  For full brief please...
  
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• Acts wanted for mental health arts festival / Fluid Motion Theatre Company / South East / UK wide

  19-05-2020 13:42
  Artists from the worlds of poetry, music, theatre and dance, who produce work related to mental health, are invited to perform at the All in the Mind festival. 
  The festival aims to shine a...
  
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• Writing Bursary / GRAIN / West Midlands

  19-05-2020 13:31
  As part of our online programme we have a series of commissions and bursaries aimed at exploring, responding to and documenting the current historical and significant time we are experiencing.The...
  
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• Association Officer (Museum) / The King's Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum / North East

  19-05-2020 13:21
  The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum was founded in 1946 and is the home for an impressive collection of militaria, medals, art, silver and archive material that charts the...
  
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• Arts Consultant / Fluid Motion Theatre Company / South West

  19-05-2020 10:38
  Fluid Motion Theatre Company is seeking an experienced arts consultant to work with the directors on an Arts Council funded development project. The consultant will be responsible for undergoing a...
  
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• 'I wanted to give hope': the artists making upbeat murals at a tough time

  19-05-2020 09:10
  
  An ambitious new project aims to create 1,000 new murals across the US to promote hope and community during the pandemicA mural was recently painted in Santa Monica, California, with the word “Togetherness.”It covers the front of a homeware store that closed during the pandemic, and is painted in hues of pink, yellow and red. This mural is no random gesture – it’s part of a new campaign called Back to the Streets, which aims to create 1,000 murals by 1,000 artists in 100
  
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• 'I wanted to give hope': the artists making upbeat coronavirus murals

  19-05-2020 09:10
  
  An ambitious new project aims to create 1,000 new murals across the US to promote hope and community during the pandemicA mural was recently painted in Santa Monica, California, with the word “Togetherness.”It covers the front of a homeware store that closed during the pandemic, and is painted in hues of pink, yellow and red. This mural is no random gesture – it’s part of a new campaign called Back to the Streets, which aims to create 1,000 murals by 1,000 artists in 100
  
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• What triggered the riot in this picture? The great British art quiz

  19-05-2020 09:00
  
  Bristol Museum and Art Gallery have set today’s quiz, which allows you to explore the art collections of UK galleries closed due to coronavirus, while answering a few tricky questions on the way This quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 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 Bristol Museum and Art Gal
  
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• How Technology is Shaping Opera

  19-05-2020 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Opera America had asked me to speak at their annual conference this year, but of course the conference was canceled and moved online. So I made this video for the online conference, talking about the influence of technology on opera and how audience expectations evolve as they use technology. – Douglas McLennan
  
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• What Comes Next? III

  19-05-2020 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If we as a nation come out of the pandemic with a heightened awareness of and reaction to profound economic inequality and the systemic injustice in which it is rooted, it could be that the arts are in for a difficult time. If that is the case, I think of the Pete Seeger song, “Which Side Are You On?” – Doug Borwick
  
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• Ship builders and snow eaters: forgotten lives in the frame – in pictures

  19-05-2020 08:00
  
  Witold Krassowski has witnessed countries such as India, Afghanistan and his native Poland undergo huge transformations – yet he always kept his camera trained on the lives of ordinary peopleContinue reading...
  
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• Making Art On Instagram During A Shutdown

  19-05-2020 00:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Strip may be closed, but Las Vegas is so much more than gambling – or at least that’s what its chroniclers show. “In the absence of take-my-hand influencers, creative control of Instagram is free to return to the first group who adopted it: artists and photographers. If you give an artist a tool like Instagram and a bunch of idle hours, he or she will find a way to build a project.” – Las Vegas Weekly
  
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• Los Angeles City Council Moves To Help Artists And Arts Organizations With Emergency Grants

  19-05-2020 00:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The grants, which are also available for live performance spaces, “will take arts fees paid by developers in support of now-canceled or planned cultural events and instead make the money available as small-dollar grants.” One city councillor said, “Whether a poet, a painter or a dancer, Los Angeles needs its artists right now … and artists need our help.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A Boom In Pandemic Books

  19-05-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Publishing books about an unfolding calamity, when the duration and outcome remain uncertain, carries obvious risks for authors and publishers. With so many unanswered questions about the virus, how it spreads and when a vaccine might arrive, works that are reported and written over the next few months risk being out of date, or dangerously incorrect, by the time they are published. The severity of the economic and political fallout is also still a big unknown. – The New York Times
  
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