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• LA Says Museums Can Reopen. Museums Say Not So Fast

  12-06-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Southern California museums are navigating complicated health and safety protocols while also seeing to the regular work of preparing new exhibitions, caring for art, managing employees and communicating with the public. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• VIRTUAL Month of Making / Space Clarence Mews / London / online

  12-06-2020 23:19
  Artists working in and across all performance practices, choreographers, composers, directors, writers, maker-performers: Delve, draft, test, question, discard, run with or keep for later.
  This...
  
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• How Museums Can Take Advantage Of Lockdown

  12-06-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Museums have an opportunity to make a contribution to civic discourse that plays to their intrinsic strengths. It is obvious that many of our political and civic institutions have failed in the promotion of the interests of humanity and the planet. We are entering a period where questioning the status quo ante and its values and priorities is of existential importance. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Unions Set Conditions For Reopening Theatres. But It’s Unlikely To Happen Anytime Soon

  12-06-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Clearly, we’re not bringing anybody back to work anytime soon in person, based on those guidelines,” Aurora Managing Director Julie Saltzman Kellner told The Chronicle by phone. “To be honest, we weren’t anyways. They are really similar to the guidelines we had set out for ourselves, in terms of when we imagined we could produce again.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• When Will It Be Safe To Return To The Dance Studio?

  12-06-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Put simply, dancers who aren’t ready to go back shouldn’t have to. As desperately as we miss dancing, we have to put our health—and the health of our communities—first. But as artists who often lack employment protections, it may feel risky to draw a line in the sand. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Won’t Artificial Intelligence Be Immortal?

  12-06-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is common to assume that an AI could achieve immortality by creating backup copies of itself and thus transfer its consciousness from one computer to the next. This view is encouraged by science-fiction stories. But is it right? – Nautilus
  
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• Festival Commissions for d/Deaf and/or disabled artists / DaDaFest / North West / Worldwide

  12-06-2020 21:44
  DaDaFest International is a world-renowned festival of work by d/Deaf and disabled artists, and this year it's going online! The theme will be 'Translations' and we're looking to commission 4 works...
  
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• Micro-commissions for d/Deaf and/or disabled artists / DaDaFest / North West

  12-06-2020 21:37
  DaDaFest International is a festival of work by d/Deaf and disabled artists, and this year it's going online! The theme will be 'Translations' and we're looking to commission 10 works responding to...
  
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• The Comedy Culture Divide

  12-06-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On one side, new faces have meant less tolerance for the flippant bigotry that has long been a part of stand-up—Shane Gillis, for example, recently lost a spot on Saturday Night Live after people called out his history of using homophobic and racist slurs. On the other side—which includes some of the biggest names in the business, like Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, and Ricky Gervais—comedians complain that people can no longer take a joke and that the art is losing its edge becau
  
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• This Nonprofit Website Could Be The Future Model For Thriving Online Journalism

  12-06-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Conversation, founded in Melbourne in 2011 with university and state government funding, now has ten editions in various countries and 150 employees as well as dozens of freelance contributors; its traffic has more than doubled in the last year alone to 38.1 million monthly site visits. Its specialty is interpreting scholarly research for a general audience, and its articles can be reprinted elsewhere for free. And its outside funding protects it from worry about plummeting ad revenue. Anya
  
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• Director of Development – Oregon Shakespeare Festival

  12-06-2020 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Oregon Shakespeare Festival invites applicants and nominations for the Director of Development position at one of nation’s leading regional theatres. Join the leadership team of Artistic Director Nataki Garrett and Executive Director David Schnmitz to guide OSF’s vision and strategy.The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is one of the nation’s most important theatres and one of the few remaining large-scale theatres offering rotating repertory and a resident company. Over its 8
  
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• Here Are Hollywood’s New Production Rules For Shooting During Pandemic

  12-06-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The instructions detail how to deal with a confirmed case of COVID-19 on a set. Anyone in the cast or crew that was within six feet of the infected person for more than 15 minutes may need to be quarantined, potentially bringing a complete halt to filming. The name of the ill employee must not be disclosed, according to the rules. Physical distancing will be required, which will be a challenge for crowded sets. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• [Accelerate Sessions] Female Figures artists' talk online / Animate Projects / East Midlands / National

  12-06-2020 20:17
  Artists Jessica Ashman, Anna Bunting-Branch, Birgitta Hosea and Michelle Kranot will present their work and discuss the opportunities and challenges of working with live performance and...
  
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• National Book Critics Circle Board Members Resign After Discussion Of Black Lives Matter Statement Goes Bad

  12-06-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the NBCC statement was posted, a foreword was appended which said, in part, “In the course of our committee’s discussion with the rest of the board, a board member responded to the statement with an email that many of us saw as racist. Before a planned vote on the statement today, details from the board’s internal discussion were released on social media, and some board members have announced their resignation.” – The Guardian
  
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• Sonny Rollins On Surviving A Pandemic

  12-06-2020 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is O.K. for me because I am trying to live in a different world, besides the world of the illness. I’m trying to live in a world of the spirit wherein I am concentrating on things such as the golden rule. This is my big thing; I am trying to live by it. The main thing is do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Sure, everybody knows it, but nobody lives by it. We live in a world where it’s about “I’ve gotta get mine, and—too bad for you—
  
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• Chair of Trustees / Icon Theatre / London / & South East

  12-06-2020 19:16
  Icon Theatre is an award-winning organisation, based at the Brook Theatre in Chatham, Kent.  We transform lives and strengthen communities, by supporting people to make and experience world...
  
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• Trustee / Icon Theatre / London / & South East

  12-06-2020 19:06
  Icon Theatre is an award-winning organisation, based at the Brook Theatre in Chatham, Kent.  We transform lives and strengthen communities, by supporting people to make and experience world...
  
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• #TakeTwoKnees And The Art Of Transforming Familiar Music In Troubled Times

  12-06-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anthony McGill, New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist, launched a new mini-genre of musical protest on May 28 when he tweeted a video of himself playing “America the Beautiful,” transposed into a minor key, in honor of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and “the struggle for justice and decency.” David Patrick Stearns surveys some #TakeTwoKnees responses and some similar musical repurposings from earlier years — from Leonard Bernstein’s famous Beethoven 9th a
  
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• 'Time for Practice' Artist Development Bursary / The Collection and Usher Gallery / East Midlands

  12-06-2020 18:33
  Time for Practice - Artist Development Bursaries 2020
  The Collection and Usher Gallery's 'Time for Practice' Artist Development Bursary is a response to the on-going difficulties for contemporary...
  
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• Banff Centre Permanently Fires 284 Staff

  12-06-2020 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On Thursday, management laid off 284 staff members, some of whom had worked there for decades and lived in campus housing. An additional 100 people remain on temporary layoff, leaving 123 fully employed. – CBC
  
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• Alister Warman obituary

  12-06-2020 18:24
  
  Intuitive and collaborative director of the Serpentine Gallery in LondonEschewing recently fashionable titles such as curator and art educator, Alister Warman, who has died of cancer aged 73, described what he did as “working with artists”. The first official director of the Serpentine Gallery, from 1983 to 1991, then principal of the Byam Shaw School of Art, both in London, Alister had an approach that was always intuitive and collaborative, rather than strategic.The Serpentine Gall
  
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• Drama Teacher / CAPA College / Yorkshire

  12-06-2020 18:08
  CAPA College (Creative and Performing Arts College) Yorkshire’s newest and most exciting post-16 education institution, opened it’s doors as Wakefield’s first DfE-funded Free School...
  
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• Perhaps The Perfect American Artist For This Moment Is One Who’s Been Working For Six Decades

  12-06-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The themes of racial (in)equality and (in)justice that are now starting to get the attention they deserve have been material for Faith Ringgold for her entire career. Yet, faced with the death of her husband this winter and the coronavirus epidemic, this prolific 89-year-old artist found herself creatively paralyzed. Then George Floyd was murdered, the nation erupted in outrage, and Ringgold got back to work. – The New York Times
  
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• Awkward: It Appears Netflix Trademarked “Space Force” Before The US Military

  12-06-2020 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The streaming platform’s trademark for “Space Force” dates back to January 2019. The US military’s space warfare service of the same name was founded in December, eleven months later, without ever having registered a trademark for its name. – Futurism
  
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• Call for Entries: UKNA City Takeover, Leicester 2021 / UK New Artists / East Midlands / National

  12-06-2020 17:20
  UK New Artists is seeking up to 70 new artists from across the UK to takeover the city of Leicester for a long weekend. For the first time, there are two routes for artists to participate in the City...
  
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• Operations Manager / UK New Artists / East Midlands

  12-06-2020 17:16
  Salary: £30,000 (pro rata)
  Hours: 3 days pw with flexibility on days
  We are anticipating that this will be office based, Monday – Friday, 9.30am to 5.30pm, however given...
  
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• The Pragmatic Art Of The Post-Pandemic Concert

  12-06-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As COVID-19 gets more and more contained on the island, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan is moving back into live performance, gradually increasing the numbers of both musicians and attendees while keeping safety measures in place. NSOT music director Shao-Chia Lü and executive director Wen-Chen Kuo talk about the logistics involved. – Van
  
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• Minority Artists Making Art About Their Difficulties As Minorities? Great, But There Are Ethical Pitfalls To Look Out For

  12-06-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Funding nonwhite creators to make work using stories from their own underrepresented communities may seem a self-evidently good thing, but there are potential dangers — to the artists themselves and to the communities involved — in telling those stories publicly, and the artists may not have the support to deal with the fallout. Dr. Ranjit Khutan, an expert in arts and public health, suggests four basic ethical principles for both funders and creators to keep in mind. – Arts P
  
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• Rap and Lyric Writing Tuition / Set The Flow / London

  12-06-2020 16:22
  I am keen to reach out to young people and adults who may wish to have online lessons to imporve their skills as a rapper and/or lyric writer. It is perfect for complete beginners and also those who...
  
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• 15 Black Creatives In South Carolina Talk About Art And Protest

  12-06-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[We] reached out to more than a dozen black artists” — painters, actors, musicians, poets, quilters, hip-hop artists — “across the state to discuss what they think is at the center of today’s protests and how their art has been part of the movement and catalyst for change.” – The Post and Courier (Charleston)
  
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• Monumental metal for the art-starved as London's commercial galleries reopen – the week in art

  12-06-2020 16:00
  
  London’s commercial galleries are back in business with Paul Klee, Urs Fischer and Charles Ray. Meanwhile, Tracey Emin shows her lockdown drawings online – all in your weekly dispatchCrushed, Cast, Constructed
  The most exciting thing about this exhibition is that it is happening at all as London’s commercial galleries reopen, under strict social distancing and by appointment. Urs Fischer, John Chamberlain and Charles Ray should make an intriguing ensemble for the art-starved.
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• Dance Teacher / CAPA College / Yorkshire / Wakefield

  12-06-2020 16:00
  CAPA College (Creative and Performing Arts College) Yorkshire’s newest and most exciting post-16 education institution, opened it’s door as Wakefield’s first DfE-funded Free School...
  
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• Director of Visitor Experience, National Videogame Museum / The BGI / Yorkshire

  12-06-2020 15:55
  Role: The charity seeks a Director of Visitor Experience to lead the NVM’s Visitor Experience team, ensure high quality visitor experiences and support our strategic development. The new role...
  
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• Kimmel Center In Philadelphia Furloughs 80% Of Staff, Cuts Pay For Rest

  12-06-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By December, the city’s largest performing arts presenter will have missed out on revenue from about 800 shows, events, and rentals since mid-March, when it closed the doors to its halls because of the coronavirus pandemic. These events would have been attended by about 700,000 visitors.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Dance City appoints new CEO / Dance City / North East

  12-06-2020 15:16
  Dance City has appointed Anand Bhatt as its new Chief Executive and Artistic Director who will take up the post on July 1st 2020.
  Anand Bhatt, most recently Executive Producer at Aakash Odedra...
  
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• STEAM Projects Coordinator / Holborn Community Association / London

  12-06-2020 15:15
  We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to help bring STEAM to life for local children. HCA are excited to be developing a new creative STEAM outreach programme on two local...
  
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• YouTube Establishes $100 Million Fund To Support Black Creatives

  12-06-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The video platform is launching the multi-year initiative to fund content hosted on the site “to center and amplify Black voices and perspectives,” as YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki put it in a statement on the company’s official blog. The first work supported by the new program will be a multi-hour benefit, featuring roundtables and performances, streaming on Saturday (June 13) under the title Bear Witness, Take Action. – Variety
  
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• Artists wanted for exhibition by post / / Yorkshire

  12-06-2020 15:02
  I am looking for postgraduate art students and other critically engaged visual artists to participate in a 1 to 1 art exchange with me. I am an MA art student interested in spontaneity and...
  
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• Archaeologist Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Fabricating Find

  12-06-2020 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The discoveries were little short of miraculous: pieces of third-century pottery engraved with one of the first depictions of the crucified Christ, along with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and with Basque words that predated the earliest known written examples of the language by 600 years.” No miracles here, though: there were serious anachronisms in the engravings as well as traces of modern glue. Archaeologist Eliseo Gil and two collaborators were convicted of fraud in a Spanish court.
  
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• Pandemic Has Hurt Theatre In UK Worse Than In US Or Canada: Study

  12-06-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The research by TRG Arts and Purple Seven found that, compared to the same period in 2019, ticket revenue fell by 71% in North America and by 92% in the United Kingdom over two weeks in March. The key difference seems to be deeper audience loyalty in North America. – American Theatre
  
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• Artist development programme goes online this Summer / Clod Ensemble / London

  12-06-2020 14:05
  This Summer, Clod Ensemble's Reboot artist development programme goes online with artists from across disciplines of music, theatre and dance talking about aspects of their practice and...
  
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• Illustrator / Avantgardeners Collective / South West / UK wide

  12-06-2020 13:15
  The Avantgardeners Collective  - an open, flexible, diverse and ever-changing constellation of creatives, practitioners and mainly female voices - is looking for a collaborator with a...
  
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• Merseyside Project Coordinator / Arts Emergency / North West

  12-06-2020 12:27
  We are looking for a proactive and committed Project Coordinator to help us launch and run our award winning mentoring scheme in Merseyside.
  As Project Coordinator your work will be at the heart of...
  
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• Artists Commission Call Out / Harrow Arts Centre / London

  12-06-2020 11:02
  Harrow Arts Centre is a community driven facility which seeks to enhance the lives of all who live in Harrow through the transformative power of arts and culture. In this unprecedented time when many...
  
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• What's wrong with these horses' legs? The great British art quiz

  12-06-2020 09:00
  
  Heritage Doncaster set today’s quiz, which enables you to explore the art collection of British museums closed due to Covid-19 – while answering some fiendish questions along the wayThis 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 by Heritage Doncaster. The collecti
  
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• A photo of my daughter and me at a Black Lives Matter march made news. This is my story | Greta Morton Elangué

  12-06-2020 07:02
  
  Representation is everything in this hypervisual world and there are so many ways to be black. What is mine?On Monday I discovered that a photo of myself and my eight-year-old daughter has appeared in the Guardian. This is a first. I work in the arts but our life is private, quietly enclosed.The photo of us forms part of a gallery of images taken this weekend at one of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in solidarity with both the American protesters after the recent death of George Floyd and
  
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• Creative Team / Showtown / North West

  12-06-2020 00:33
  This is a Showtown and LeftCoast co-commission
  We are looking to appoint a creative team who will lead on the development of a new participatory dance project for Blackpool with an...
  
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• How Pop Physics Snuck Into Our Belief Systems

  12-06-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The modern genre of pop cosmology began with the big bang of Stephen Hawking’s 1988 megabestseller, A Brief History of Time. Since then, world-class physicists like Michio Kaku, Steven Weinberg, and Freeman Dyson, who died earlier this year at the age of 96, have earned wider fame by writing popular accounts of fundamental physical concepts: time and space, matter and energy, the origin and destiny of the universe. – Tablet
  
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