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• Organizing For Change In The Dance World

  14-06-2020 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the past few months, with live performances canceled or on hold, dance artists have been mobilizing on multiple fronts to transform flawed and outdated systems. The Dance Artists’ National Collective, a group working to organize for a freelance dancers’ union, has seen record attendance at its virtual meetings. In early May, a webinar about a collaboratively written, 140-page, in-progress text called “Creating New Futures: Working Guidelines for Ethics & Equity in Pre
  
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• Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Without Tourists

  14-06-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Attracting visitors was not the problem Emilie Gordenker thought she’d be facing when she became director of one of Amsterdam’s most popular museums in February. A profile in the Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad at the time heralded her move from the tranquil Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery in the Hague to the Van Gogh Museum with the headline, “It Will Never Be Quiet in the Museum Again.” Famous last words. – The New York Times
  
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• Hollywood’s Damaging Images And Stereotypes

  14-06-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The south supposedly lost the civil war. There is an overused cliche which suggests that the winners write history. Is this true? If it is, then why do all these relics of the losing side still circulate in this society so many years after the civil war ended? The point is, films like Gone With the Wind should have been held accountable a long time ago. Further, Hollywood’s role in disseminating such demeaning, dehumanized, stereotypical images can no longer be ignored.” &nda
  
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• Personal Space: Call for Submissions / Surface Gallery / East Midlands

  14-06-2020 20:38
  Online Exhibition: Free Entry
  Deadline: 11th July 2020
  Surface Gallery invites artists and creatives to take part in Personal Space, an online display of Performance Art.
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• Christie's withdraws 'looted' Greek and Roman treasures

  14-06-2020 19:07
  
  Four antiquities pulled from auction after claims they came from illicit excavations Christie’s has quietly withdrawn four Greek and Roman antiquities from auction this month amid allegations that they had been looted from illicit excavations.The items were in the original brochure catalogue but later removed from the online site with no explanation. Continue reading...
  
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• Folk Musical 'Travelling With Thomas' Goes Online / / South West

  14-06-2020 17:28
  Travelling With Thomas, the emergent folk musical from the combined creative forces of Bristol-based musician/composer Laurel Swift and designer Lizzie Watts, enters its second year of development...
  
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• New Fringe digital TV channel looking for content / Morecambe Fringe / East / UK wide

  14-06-2020 13:31
  CALLING ARTISTS/FRINGES/THEATRES - The Fringe Now digital TV channel has been developed as a response to the Covid crisis as a way to shore up and safeguard Fringes and their performers around the...
  
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• Painting the town red ... and green and yellow: art movement brings new colour to London

  14-06-2020 09:45
  
  Young creatives’ vibrant lockdown installations reflect capital’s ‘cultural melting pot’Colourful postmodern street furniture, temporary temples adorned with neon geometric shapes and underpasses designed to evoke happiness have given Londoners a joyous break from the monotony of city landscapes in recent years. Now the trend has been identified as a design movement called New London Fabulous (NLF).The Virtual Design Festival, organised by architecture and design magazine
  
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• From Baldrick to trainspotting composers: the Observer's culture quiz

  14-06-2020 08:00
  
  Test your arts knowledge with these questions from our criticsWho or what is Roderick Jaynes?The name that Edward Norton uses when he checks into hotelsThe former basketball player turned actor who played both the Predator in Predator and Harry in Harry and the Hendersons The pseudonym that the Coen brothers use when they edit their filmsIn which country were the oldest known oil paintings made? IndiaBelgiumAfghanistan“Do you ask a car crash for another take? Do you ask a volcano for anoth
  
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