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• The Atlantic Magazine Cuts 20 Percent Of Its Staff

  21-05-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 68 staff cuts are mostly attributable to the collapse of the company’s events business, which was one of its strongest pillars for many years.
  
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• Why Should It Matter If You Know What You’re Listening To?

  21-05-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Our preconceived ideas about a composer or piece can keep us from listening with fresh ears. An intermezzo by the mighty Brahms? Before you hear a note, you may already have decided it’s great. – The New York Times
  
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• Can The “Experience Economy” Survive The Pandemic?

  21-05-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The economy’s reliance on live events has been growing for years. When Disneyland opened in 1955, it sparked a boom in the theme park business. In recent decades, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Great Wolf Lodge water parks and more have emerged to compete for the attention — and money — of American families. – The New York Times
  
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• Online one-to-one Writing Tutorials now available from Arvon / / London / UK Wide

  21-05-2020 19:05
  Arvon 1-1s are a one-to-one live conversation with an Arvon tutor, delivered via Zoom – an opportunity for you to receive personalised feedback from an experienced writer on your writing, and...
  
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• Board Director / Little Earthquake / West Midlands

  21-05-2020 18:29
  This year, Little Earthquake is celebrating our 15th birthday! We are looking for some new members to join Little Earthquake’s Board, who will help the company blossom through our teens and...
  
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• Project Curator: Circulating Artefacts / British Museum / London

  21-05-2020 17:59
  Project Curator: Circulating Artefacts Egypt and Sudan Full-Time Fixed-Term (until 28 February 2021)£30,348 per annum Application Deadline: 28 May 2020, Midday
  The British Museum is seeking a...
  
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• Open Call - British Art and Natural Forces / British Art Studies / London / Online

  21-05-2020 16:58
  The online scholarly journal British Art Studies seeks proposals for new artwork responding to the theme of "British Art and Natural Forces", the subject of the Paul Mellon Centre's autumn...
  
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• Experimental Lighting Designer / Air Giants / South West

  21-05-2020 16:42
  Air Giants are looking for a lighting designer who can work outside of black box spaces, is comfortable using light outdoors and enjoys lighting strange things in unconventional ways. We are not yet...
  
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• Exhibiting Artist / Pragmata Collective / London

  21-05-2020 16:42
  >>>>>Open call for artists -- online exhibition<<<<<<Pragmata Collective is now inviting submissions for the July 2020 online show: Person and the Otherness of...
  
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• Head of Preventive Conservation / British Museum / London

  21-05-2020 16:15
  Head of Preventive Conservation Collection Care, Conservation Full-Time Permanent£40,902 per annum Application Deadline: 21 June 2020, Midday
  The British Museum is seeking a Head of Preventive...
  
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• Project Curator: Circulating Artefacts x2 / British Museum / London

  21-05-2020 16:00
  Project Curator: Circulating Artefacts x2Egypt and Sudan Full-Time Fixed-Term (until 28 February 2021)£30,348 per annum Application Deadline: 28 May 2020, Midday
  The British Museum is seeking...
  
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• Social Media Coordinator / COMMUN / London

  21-05-2020 15:52
  COMMUN is a new combined arts co. based in London with a focus on MENASA communities and is looking to hire a Social Media Coordinator to manage its online presence – especially on...
  
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• Confessions of an art critic: my own inner critic, a back-seat homunculus, stalks me | Adrian Searle

  21-05-2020 15:33
  
  Finding a voice of my own that is not derailing, distracting or in denial is vital. Luckily, each artist provokes a different responseRead more confessions of an art criticThat article won’t write itself, I tell myself, clearing away the breakfast things, sticking my plate in the dishwasher, rinsing out the coffee pot and putting the marmalade and the butter back on the top shelf of the fridge. But they do write themselves, don’t they, when things are going well; that’s exactly
  
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• Freelance Comms and Marketing Consultant Advisor / Music Mark / London

  21-05-2020 14:46
  Role
  To provide strategic support on Comms and Marketing to the CEO and staff team at Music Mark whilst the Comms and Marketing Manager is on maternity leave.
  Period of engagement:
  1/9/20 to...
  
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• Project Co-ordinator / Maxability / London

  21-05-2020 14:37
  21 hours/week during full operation
  £15.50 per hour (£28k full-time annual salary equivalent)
  To start ASAP. Initial engagement to 31 December 2020 with scope to extend
  We are a small...
  
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• Ceramics Tutor / Maxability / London

  21-05-2020 14:27
  Freelance engagement
  Up to 24 hours per week/average during full operation (TUES, THUR, SAT)
  £28 - £32 per hour depending on experience
  To start ASAP. Initial contract to 31 December...
  
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• Assistant and Projects Manager / Il Libro Magazine / London

  21-05-2020 13:51
  The Assistant and Projects Manager is a key member of Il Libro Magazine staff and the assistant to the Editor-in-Chief (and at times the Publisher) in both her functions with Il Libro and as a...
  
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• Project Coordinator: Circulating Artefacts / British Museum / London

  21-05-2020 13:49
  Project Coordinator: Circulating Artefacts Egypt and SudanFull-Time Fixed-Term (until 28 February 2021)£29,958 per annum Application Deadline: 28 May 2020, Midday
  The British Museum is seeking...
  
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• Proximity: new directions in art and social repair / Migrant Artists Mutual Aid / North West

  21-05-2020 13:26
  13th& 14thJune 2020
  Migrant Artists’ Mutual Aid joins with artists mayfield brooks, Mary Pearson and Jennifer Verson to host a two day virtual symposium which brings together important...
  
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• Education Intern / Sound and Music / London

  21-05-2020 12:44
  Sound and Music is the national charity for new music, with international links. We are unique in having a UK-wide remit for the development of new music which we do through artist development,...
  
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• Trustee Vacancies / The Chelsea Theatre / London

  21-05-2020 12:43
  Chelsea Theatre in London is a community hub and a contemporary performance space with a firm focus on enabling the development of talent within the local community. Our reach is very wide. As a...
  
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• Web Designer for Arts Website / Nwando Ebizie Ltd / North West

  21-05-2020 11:59
  We are looking for a web designer familiar with the arts to re-design www.nwandoebizie.com using Squarespace.
  The challenge is to communicate the many different strands of Nwando's work clearly!
  If...
  
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• New Creativity and Wellbeing Online Programme 14-25 year olds / Theatre for Life CIC / South West / UK wide

  21-05-2020 09:51
  Due to a successful Arts Council of England funding application, Theatre for Life is delighted to announce the launch of a new online project. As a result, we are able to offer young people aged...
  
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• Where did Henry Wellcome keep his cats? The great British art quiz

  21-05-2020 09:00
  
  The Wellcome Collection in London set today’s quiz with Art UK, enabling you to explore the collections of UK museums closed due to coronavirus – while answering some brain-teasersThis 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 the Wellcome Collection, which
  
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• Empty and eerie: the cities that went silent before lockdown – in pictures

  21-05-2020 08:00
  
  When Mat Hennek shot some of the world’s great cities – from Paris to Shanghai – without any people, he had no idea that empty streets would soon become the new normal Continue reading...
  
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