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• And Now A Word From The Cassandra Of American Letters

  29-05-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lionel Shriver, who is sixty-three, thinks people are ridiculous for congratulating themselves on enduring quarantine, when the worst is yet to come. “This is not the bad part,” she said. – The New Yorker
  
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• How Verdi Evolved To The Next Form Of Opera

  29-05-2020 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the Paris Opéra, there were many colleagues to deal with and only the institution’s most successful composers had enough clout to impose their will on a piece. It makes sense that Verdi’s triumph came at the end, when he was no longer just a successful foreigner, but a living legend and someone who had a work history with the company. For Don Carlos, he was the ultimate authority, like a modern movie auteur.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Opera Of The Web (Not Just On It)

  29-05-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In our first performance one of our actors froze in the middle of her big solo. But, fortunately, we had planned for and built that into the piece, so what we did is skip to the next cue, and then when she unfroze she joined up with us again, just as you would do if you were doing a live play or musical or opera.” – American Theatre
  
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• Time To Rethink The Entire Restaurant Industry

  29-05-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The current crisis has turned the industry’s cracks into chasms, exposing the ways in which it fails its workers almost by design. It has also raised the question of what restaurants will look like—and how they could survive—once this is all over. But a better question might be whether they should survive as they currently exist. What could restaurants look like if we threw out the old system and built something better?  – The New Republic
  
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• Why We Need To Rethink The Art Blockbuster

  29-05-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the years, the blockbuster has been frequently called into question, and with good reason. Do these shows really serve our audiences or do they just pander to the crowd in order to attract large numbers of visitors? – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Melbourne Writers Festival Artistic Director

  29-05-2020 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Melbourne Writers Festival seeks a creative and visionary Artistic Director to curate and deliver its annual festivals in 2021–2023. Working closely with the CEO, the Artistic Director will provide the organisation’s artistic vision and curatorial leadership — delivering festivals that inspire, challenge and delight existing and new audiences.Applications:
  To apply for this position, please forward a covering letter; a current resume including three referees; and a statement ad
  
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• The Tragedy Of Philosophy

  29-05-2020 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To live is to encounter the tragic — a reality shot through with utter strife, and covered in complete darkness. Despite our best attempts, we are not going to get out of it. For philosophers to overlook, sugarcoat, or rationalize this fact is to deny something essential about who we are and what we might become, both intentionally but also in spite of ourselves. – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Well, Nobody’s Using The Airport These Days, So Let’s Use It As A Drive-In

  29-05-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s what Uruguayans are doing with Carrasco International Airport near Montevideo. The movies, screened every evening, range from The Lion King and Sonic the Hedgehog to Bohemian Rhapsody and Joker. Viewers, in their cars, can order snacks and drinks via WhatsApp, and they can put on masks and go inside to use the airport’s (constantly cleaned) restrooms. – The Guardian
  
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• When Art Became “The Show”

  29-05-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today the more relevant split is the more recent one between modern and contemporary fields (the latter has no exact date of origin—1968, 1980, 1989?), which is a schism less between the university and the museum than between scholarly curators and flashy exhibition-makers. This split was opened up when the 20th-century art museum was penetrated by the culture industry, and it was deepened when the contemporary art world expanded into the global business of art biennials and fairs. With t
  
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• Europe’s Dance Companies Begin, Very Carefully, To Go Back To Work

  29-05-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here, for instance, are the rules for dance class at the Ballet du Rhin in France: “Dancers are not allowed to use changing rooms. Instead, they must go directly to the studio and stand at a marked spot at the barre, about 11 feet away from others. Their outside clothes must go into a bag to ensure they do not touch anything … [and] that bag must then be put into another one provided by the company that is thrown into the trash once the class has finished. They are also each given
  
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• Richard Anuszkiewicz obituary

  29-05-2020 20:01
  
  American artist and op art pioneer known as ‘the new wizard of op’One Friday evening in 1953, Richard Anuszkiewicz, who has died aged 89, was painting in his cubicle at the Yale School of Art when a white-haired figure appeared silently at his side. This was Josef Albers, the ex-Bauhaus master who was then chairman of the school’s painting department. Albers was famed for the brutality of his Friday night critiques, or “crits”. Ex-GIs, back from Korea, would emerge
  
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• Kennicott: Online Arts Experiences That Work For Me

  29-05-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I want stuff that has not been made in response to the pandemic, that would exist if we weren’t all in the same boat. Or things I know I won’t have time for once the real world begins to make its usual demands once again. I want to use my brain in ways that it didn’t ordinarily get exercised in the pre-pandemic world, things that I know I probably won’t have the time or patience for once this all gets back to some kind of normal.” – Washington Post
  
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• Arts Officer (Projects and Commissioning) / Richmond Arts Service and Orleans House Gallery / London

  29-05-2020 19:27
  Are you looking to join an innovative, dynamic and forward-thinking team?
  Do you enjoy supporting and delivering cultural activities and festivals?
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• Programmer (Exhibitions and Collections) / Richmond Arts Service and Orleans House Gallery / London

  29-05-2020 19:18
  Are you looking to join an innovative, dynamic and forward-thinking team?
  Are you passionate about visual art and programming high quality exhibitions?
  Do you enjoy caring for and interpreting...
  
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• Programmer (Artist Development) / Richmond Arts Service and Orleans House Gallery / London

  29-05-2020 19:13
  Are you looking to join an innovative, dynamic and forward-thinking team?
  Do you enjoy developing and delivering cultural activities and programmes?
  Are you passionate about supporting artists...
  
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• Missy Mazzoli’s ‘Breaking The Waves’ Premiered In 2016. The World’s Pretty Different Now. Does The Piece Hold Up?

  29-05-2020 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Before the coronavirus hit, the Met was going to perform a new co-production of the opera this spring at BAM. David Patrick Stearns went online to revisit the original Opera Philadelphia production, and here’s why he believes that, despite the terrific craft in the score and libretto (and in Kiera Duffy’s performance as Bess), with the cancellation “the Met and Mazzoli dodged a bullet.” – WQXR (New York City)
  
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• New Part Time Acting Course - 'Earn while you Train' / The Wheel Actor Training Company / South West

  29-05-2020 18:56
  Taking applications now: One Year Part Time Actor Training Course based in Plymouth, offering students a chance to hold down work whilst they study. Students become company...
  
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• Free Online Dance Sessions for People with Learning Disabilities / Magpie Dance / London

  29-05-2020 18:43
  Inclusive dance company, Magpie Dance, are proud to announce their new online programme, ‘Virtually Magpie’.
  The ‘Virtually Magpie’ programme allows participants to take part...
  
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• Here’s One Theater That’s Putting On A New Show Every Weekend Despite The Lockdown

  29-05-2020 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As most American theaters have pared down their offerings to a mix of Zoom readings, artist conversations, and archival streams, Seacoast Rep, in Portsmouth, N.H., has been web-casting new productions since mid-May and has them planned for every weekend until at least July 5.” Says one of the Rep’s artistic directors, “People in the industry thought ‘no live audience means no live theater.’ We thought we just had to change our delivery system.” –
  
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• Freelance Arts Administrator/Organiser / The Brewtime Collective / North West

  29-05-2020 17:56
  We are seeking an experienced Arts Organiser or Arts Administrator to undertake a minimum of 6 days research into Preston’s existing cultural networks and listings, producing a report including...
  
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• Call for Creative Ideas: Kind Places & Spaces / People United / South East

  29-05-2020 17:56
  People United is interested in exploring the kinds of positive place-based interventions that create or support connectedness and encourage kindness.
  This is an opportunity to spend a day or two...
  
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• Evaluation Partner - Havering Changing / Havering Changing / London / Essex

  29-05-2020 17:36
  Evaluation Partner - Havering Changing
  CLOSING DATE: 19/06/2020
  Invitation to tender
  In August 2019, Havering Changing was thrilled to be one of only twelve new places in the country successful in...
  
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• Executive Director / Dance4 / East Midlands

  29-05-2020 17:34
  From its international Centre for Choreography in Nottingham, Dance4 is exploring new territories in dance and choreographic practices by providing inspirational artistic experiences by artists from...
  
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• Remembering Larry Kramer

  29-05-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For Kramer, who died at age 84 in Manhattan on Wednesday, not speaking up was a signal of a dishonorable combination — of cowardice, willful blindness and greed. He was constitutionally incapable of self-serving apathy, but that’s not to say that he didn’t recognize the cost of his conscience to that quieter corner of his identity as an artist. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• This Is The Book That Politicians, Pundits, And Reporters Want Everyone To See On Their Bookshelves

  29-05-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is 46 years old, weighs nearly four pounds in paperback and is about as ill-suited for the internet age as they come: The book is not even available for digital readers. And yet, in certain circles, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, the 1,246-page tome by Robert Caro, has become a breakout star of the Covid-19 era.” – The New York Times
  
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• Novelist Robb Forman Dew Dead At 73

  29-05-2020 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mrs. Dew emerged in the early 1980s as part of a group of prominent female novelists that included her friends Louise Erdrich, Anne Tyler and Nancy Thayer, a onetime neighbor in Williamstown, Mass. A master at breathing life into flawed and complex characters, she had … ‘a special gift for charting the subtle tidal flow of emotions that make up daily life.’ She was 34 when she published Dale Loves Sophie to Death (1981), which won [what is] now known as the National Bo
  
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• Curator's Assistant / Socially Engaged Art Salon (SEAS) Brighton / South East / Brighton

  29-05-2020 16:28
  SEAS’s is seeking a part-time curator assistant to work alongside the creative director, Dr Gil Mualem-Doron.  The role involves organising exhibitions and events (on and offline),...
  
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• Folkestone turns gold and Edvard Munch's selfies – the week in art

  29-05-2020 16:16
  
  A giant metal kookaburra with a sense of humour, Martin Creed’s video call to inaction and a graffiti take on lockdown – all in your weekly dispatchStefan Brüggemann’s OK (Untitled Action)
  Are we all going to be “OK”? The Mexican artist has sprayed a three-storey building in Folkestone gold, before scrawling the two-letter word across it, graffiti-style – a response, he says, to our current situation under lockdown. • Creative Quarter, Folkeston
  
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• Engagement Manager / The Big House / London

  29-05-2020 16:10
  We are seeking a passionate Engagement Manager to ensure the delivery and implementation of high quality support at The Big House, working to facilitate personal, social and educational growth...
  
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• Coming In 2022: A Virtual Reality Biennial, Curated By An AI Program

  29-05-2020 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That’s right: the chief curator of the 2022 Bucharest Biennial is Jarvis, an artificial intelligence program in development from the Vienna-based studio Spinnwerk. … Jarvis will ‘use deep learning in order to learn by itself from databases from universities, galleries, or art centers’ and select works that fit the chosen theme, Spinnwerk founder Razvan Ion [said]. … Instead of a traditional in-person exhibition, the show will take place in virtual reality,
  
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• Assistant Producer, Artist Development (Maternity Cover) / South East Dance / South East

  29-05-2020 15:54
  We are looking for an excellent Assistant Producer, with a proven ability to work with artists, partner organisations, communities, volunteers and people of all ages.
  Do you have good communication...
  
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• Open Call: Delta Research Placement / Flat Time House / London / Remote

  29-05-2020 15:27
  The Delta (Δ) Research Placement is open to artists to undertake a period of remote research with the John Latham Archive and to develop a digital project for a new experimental online platform...
  
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• Minnesota State Troopers Arrest Black CNN Reporter And Crew Live On Air

  29-05-2020 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Police arrested CNN journalist Omar Jimenez and his crew on air early Friday during a live broadcast in Minneapolis, as they covered riots sparked by George Floyd’s death, sparking intense outrage as well as an apology by Minnesota governor Tim Walz to top executives at the cable-news network . CNN called the arrests a ‘violation of First Amendment rights.'” – Variety
  
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• Marketing and Communications Executive / Puppets with GUTS / South East / Brighton

  29-05-2020 15:20
  Puppets with Guts (www.puppetswithguts.com) is a big puppet theatre company based in Brighton. Our work consists of touring shows, work for theatre, community engagement, puppet design and...
  
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• Artists, Don’t Worry That The AI Robots Are Coming To Replace You

  29-05-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ahmed Elgammal, director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers: “Can an artificially intelligent machine be an artist in its own right? My answer is no. While the definition of art is ever-evolving, at its core it is a form of communication among humans. Without a human artist behind the machine, A.I. can do little more than play with form, whether that means manipulating pixels on a screen or notes on a musical ledger.” – The New York Times
  
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• Online Dance Project for Children and Young People / Union of Dance / Yorkshire / London

  29-05-2020 14:54
  An uplifting, online class mixing street, contemporary, lyrical and silliness delivered by a fabulous group of dance teachers who have worked on education and community projects for Phoenix Dance...
  
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• Polish Government Fines Artists Who Protested At Parliament, Then Backs Down

  29-05-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Earlier this month, 11 artists from a collective called the Consortium of Postartistic Practices carried a 46-foot-long letter about 1¼ miles to the Parliament building in Warsaw as lawmakers debated whether to hold a presidential election during the COVID lockdown. The artists were subsequently fined about $2,500 for violating social distancing rules — until a public outcry led officials to reverse that decision. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• ‘Deeply Disappointing’: Arts Officials Say Culture Is Being Cut In EU’s €750 Billion COVID Recovery Plan

  29-05-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The European Commission announced an ambitious seven-year budget yesterday to bail out the EU’s 27 member states from the economic impact of COVID-19, but culture representatives say it fails to provide enough protection for their industry, which is one of the economic sectors that has been hardest hit by the pandemic.” In particular, the representatives say, “cuts to three programs — Erasmus+, Creative Europe, and European Solidarity Corps — send a ‘t
  
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• Artist Commission - Hirst Park, Northumberland / Arts&Heritage / North East

  29-05-2020 13:26
  Arts&Heritage is working with Northumberland CC to commission an artist/s to create work responding to green space heritage at Hirst Park, Northumberland.  The project is funded by HLF and...
  
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• Major Northern Art prize extends deadline / New Light Art / North East / North West, Yorkshire

  29-05-2020 13:24
  In response to a late surge in artist entries the New Light Prize Exhibition, has announced a two week deadline extension until 6pm on 14 June.
  This is a fabulous opportunity for Northern artists,...
  
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• A 2020 Group Figurative Exhibition / Hughes Fine Art / North West / North East

  29-05-2020 13:09
  Virtual Gallery (Online/Worldwide)
  1st June to 1st September 2020
  A selection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, sound art and video art.
  Curated and built by Jonathan Hughes
  Artists...
  
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• Professional training programme for early career stage creatives / Creative Accelerator Blackburn / North West

  29-05-2020 12:37
  Kick starting emerging creative careersThe Creative Accelerator is a new programme supporting and mentoring emerging talent to develop professional elements of their burgeoning careers. The programme...
  
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• Senior Buyer / British Museum / London

  29-05-2020 12:17
  Senior Buyer BMCo Full-TimeFixed-Term, 13 months, Maternity CoverApplication Deadline: Monday 22 June, Midday
  * Please note that the salary is dependent on experience.
  The British Museum Company is...
  
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• NOXE call out! / Nu Nu Theatre Bristol and Live Art and Performance Group Oxford / North West / North East, East and West Midlands, South East, South West, All UK

  29-05-2020 11:29
  What type of pollution is affecting you most and driving you mad?
  If you have in mind a performance about what is the most affecting pollutant to you please get in touch.
  Send us a video of your...
  
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• C.G. Jung’s The Tree of Life: from Norse gods to eastern mysticism

  29-05-2020 11:00
  
  Included in the secret Red Book, the illustration marks Jung’s departure from science into the realms of myth, magic and soul
  This could be a page from a medieval illuminated manuscript, but the symbolism is hard to place. The tree with its roots in hell and its branches stretching to heaven recalls any number of myths and religions, from Eden’s tempting apples to Yggdrasil, the tree connecting the nine worlds of Norse mythology. The snake is a major player in numerous cosmologies fr
  
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• How did this painter lose the sight in one eye? The great British art quiz

  29-05-2020 09:00
  
  Falmouth Art Gallery in Cornwall set today’s quiz, which lets you explore the art collections of museums around the UK closed due to coronavirus – while answering some difficult 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 and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.Today, our questions are set by Falmouth Art Gallery. T
  
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• Signs of the times: how Douglas Coupland's art came to life under coronavirus

  29-05-2020 08:00
  
  Ten years ago the novelist created slogans that captured the isolated nature of contemporary life. But when Covid-19 hit, his artworks began to feel eerily prescientI was in Toronto for both waves of Sars in 2003. You didn’t quibble with the disease. Globally, it killed one in 10 of its victims. Toronto had 44 deaths. The Toronto Sars experience was similar to, but different from, Covid. One huge difference is that in 2003, the internet and smartphones were still in semi-infancy. There was
  
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• Cornucopia Soup a play by Mark Norfolk / The Muse Gallery / London

  29-05-2020 06:39
  Scratch Days IICornucopia Soup a play by Mark Norfolk director: Jefferey Kissoon - online6th of June, 7pm* Performance: 7.00pm** Q&A - 8.20pmCharacters:Captain Pasha Sulieman, a military...
  
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• Contemporary box-making with Jonathon Vaiksaar / Handmade in Britain / London

  29-05-2020 03:08
  Jonathon Vaiksaar is an experienced box-maker who produces contemporary pieces primarily from British timbers. He seeks out the most interesting and figured woods which often go to waste in...
  
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• Casting made simple with Lisa Marie Designer Goldsmith / Handmade in Britain / London

  29-05-2020 03:01
  Lisa Marie lovingly handcrafts statement jewellery pieces and bespoke commissions from her Oxfordshire studio. In this virtual event, you will not only have the opportunity to witness the...
  
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