Arts news

• A Deep Dive Into The Alternative Universe Of YouTube

  15-06-2020 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Popular YouTube videos are filled with flashes of memes, zoom-ins, funny voices, gurning faces and whiplash-inducing cultural references. Watching a Pewdiepie video is like having some sort of episode. I thought that my generation of Generation X-ers were knowingly abstract, but this generation is dealing with so many layers of whimsy and reference it’s often disorienting. – Irish Times
  
  Read more

• Writers and creatives of colour online social with Kadija George / Writing Our Legacy / South East

  15-06-2020 23:44
  *WRITERS SOCIAL - 26 June, 5pm*
  Join Writing Our Legacy & special guest Kadija Sesay for the first in a series of monthly online socials with special literary guests. This is a space for writers...
  
  Read more

• Curator/Arts Advisor / Hugo Dalton / London

  15-06-2020 23:40
  London based curator to work on a part time basis over the next 12 months.  The opportunity is to work between artist Hugo Dalton, selected institutions and a research laboratory.  The...
  
  Read more

• New Narratives: We Need to Change the Stories We`re Telling / Writing Our Legacy / South East / Sussex

  15-06-2020 23:32
  We are delighted to announce our new online literary programme. 
  Designed in response to the Covid-19 lockdown, it will enable us to continue delivering our mission to support and raise...
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Book Critics Circle Board Members Resign Over Statement

  15-06-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laurie Hertzel, who had served as president since 2019, announced over the weekend she was leaving the 24-member board. Her departure came two days after another board member, Ugandan-American writer Hope Wabuke, posted redacted screenshots on Twitter of an email exchange that included correspondence from Hertzel and board member Carlin Romano. The NBCC had been crafting a response to the worldwide protests against police racism and violence. – Baltimore Sun (AP)
  
  Read more

• Summer Solstice/Midsummer Floral Head Garland-Making Workshop / Deep Roots Tall Trees / East Midlands

  15-06-2020 23:22
  Deep Roots Tall Trees (DRTT) is offering the opportunity to take part in a FREE online Midsummer/Summer Solstice garland-making workshop run by Corby-based artist, Carole Miles.
  This will take place...
  
  Read more

• Patrick Vernon OBE to speak at Windrush Day in Brighton / BME Heritage Network / South East / Brighton

  15-06-2020 23:18
  Please join us at this free educational event on 22 June to honour Windrush Day with Patrick Vernon OBE, social commentator, campaigner and cultural historian. 
  Windrush Presence 2020 Launch...
  
  Read more

• Will People Flee Cities In Post-COVID World? Preliminary Findings Say No

  15-06-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We found that 25-to-34-year-old college graduates were among the most likely to move of any demographic group, and that they were systematically moving toward some places and away from others,” states to the report, Youth Movement: America’s Accelerating Urban Renaissance. “To an apparently unprecedented degree, those moves seemed to be motivated by a desire for urban living.” – CityLab
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Culture@Home FREE History of Everything in 60 mins w/ Ben Watson / Live Art Local CIC / South East / Online

  15-06-2020 22:53
  On Wednesday 19th August at 2pm join Ben Watson, the theatre-maker behind 'Everything you ever wanted to know about everything ... ever'. A silly, surreal and speedy sixty-minute hurtle through...
  
  Read more

• Culture@Home FREE Paper Flowers Workshop/ Digital Installation / Live Art Local CIC / South East / Online

  15-06-2020 22:46
  On Wednesday 12th August at 2pm join contemporary artist and Live Art Local founder, Beth Davis-Hofbauer for a workshop that will bring the colour and vibrancy of a beautiful garden inside through...
  
  Read more

• Culture@Home Street/Folk Fusion Dance workshop / Live Art Local CIC / South East / Online

  15-06-2020 22:42
  On Wednesday 5th August at 2pm join Natasha from Folk Dance Re-mixed for a workshop featuring their fusion of folk and street dance styles.
  Participants will be taught simple folk and street...
  
  Read more

• Culture@Home FREE Beatboxing workshop w/ The Beatbox Collective / Live Art Local CIC / South East / Online

  15-06-2020 22:33
  On Wednesday 29th July at 2pm join the official 2015 world beatbox champions The Beatbox Collective for a journey through sounds, instruments, rhythms and bass lines to learn simple patterns, famous...
  
  Read more

• How To Write A Novel: A Practical Guide

  15-06-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The most important point to start from is that while there are a number of things you should consider when planning your book – such as characterisation, plotting or the style and voice of your work – there is no single golden rule for how to write a novel. – Psyche
  
  Read more

• Culture@Home FREE Family Music Performance with Chroma Harp / Live Art Local CIC / South East / Online

  15-06-2020 22:27
  On Wednesday 22nd July at 2pm join musical duo, Chroma Harp on a magical, musical ride around the world on your own magic carpet (blanket). Participants will visit Wales, Cuba, Spain, and end in...
  
  Read more

• Culture@Home FREE Online Family Theatre Workshop + Puppets! / Live Art Local CIC / South East / Online

  15-06-2020 22:21
  On Wednesday 15th July at 2pm, join theatre-maker, Alys Williams from Sardines Theatre for a super active and fun session for all the family! Fun and energetic drama exercises, whole-body theatre, a...
  
  Read more

• Culture@Home FREE Family puppet making and puppeteering workshop / Live Art Local CIC / South East / Online

  15-06-2020 22:15
  On Wednesday 1st July at 2pm, join professional puppet-maker and puppeteer Steph Reeves for a step-by-step guide to making your very own talking puppet out of junk and easily found materials.
  Steph...
  
  Read more

• Culture@Home Free Sonnet writing workshop / Live Art Local CIC / South East / Online

  15-06-2020 22:09
  On Wednesday 24th June at 2pm, join author Sarah Bower for a lighthearted workshop that will help you find inspiration in the everyday.  Participants will learn to compose a sonnet inspired by...
  
  Read more

• The End Of The Liberal World Order

  15-06-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We could try to salvage the order by constructing institutions that enable us to meaningfully govern it. But to do that, we’d have learn to do politics with people who are different from us. Can that be done? Probably not. And that means either the nation-states will kill the liberal order, or they will find a way to disguise it in democratic daydreams. The liberal order might not last much longer. – Aeon
  
  Read more

• Drive-In Concerts In High Demand

  15-06-2020 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These shows will be the first paid gig many people in the industry have had since March. Airwaves’ event director, Cindy Jensen, says organising her event has highlighted how desperate the music industry is for work. “Since we launched [last Monday] I’ve been inundated – and I mean inundated – with calls from production houses, foodies, market stall holders asking: ‘Have you got this sorted?’ Everyone is just screaming out for work.”  –
  
  Read more

• Calling all creatives / KickItDown Productions / London / UK Wide

  15-06-2020 21:22
  KickItDown Productions primary aim is to help artists get their ideas out. We strive to unearth, discover and source groundbreaking work, with the aim of fleshing it out and transforming an idea into...
  
  Read more

• Internet Archive Ends Its Free Library Initiative Early After Publishers Sue

  15-06-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Internet Archive announced the National Emergency Library project on March 24, in response to the widespread closures of libraries and schools during the Covid-19 crisis. The temporary initiative unilaterally removed the usual one copy/one user restriction on scans borrowed from the Internet Archive’s Open Library project, allowing unlimited borrowing of the roughly 1.4 million titles scanned, unless an author or publisher opted out. The NEL was set to last until June 30, or until the
  
  Read more

• “Overhead Premium”: Sotheby’s Invents a New Fee for Buyers

  15-06-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sotheby’s has quietly upped its charges for purchasers of its offerings: An “Overhead Premium” of 1% of the auction hammer price will supplement its buyer’s premium, effective Aug. 1. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
  Read more

• Art Buyers Are Asking For Big Discounts Right Now

  15-06-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Buyers demand discounts of as much as 30% on new works and 50% on the secondary market, according to art dealers. Temporary reprieve, including government rescue loans or rent reductions, will go away. And art fairs, one of the largest sources of revenue for galleries, aren’t coming back soon. – Bloomberg
  
  Read more

• Freelance Education Programme Manager / Royal African Society / London

  15-06-2020 20:23
  Are you interested in:
  ✓ arts education✓ improving cultural representation✓ African & diaspora literature✓ Continuing Professional Development and Learning?
  We are...
  
  Read more

• Director Of Art Basel: Online Galleries Won’t Replace Art Fairs

  15-06-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marc Spiegler: “Fortunately, the Amazon art world won’t come to pass. For one thing, artworks are unique, and thus not so easily commodified. They have no utility value, no truly provable worth, no strict comparables. All of which makes buying art an act of trust. It goes both ways, too, because galleries build the reputation of their artists by selling to great collections, while avoiding the speculators who might rapidly “flip” works into auction.” – Financ
  
  Read more

• Arts Organizations Asked Patrons To Donate Their Tickets Instead Of Getting Refunds. Did They?

  15-06-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With the cost of tickets ranging from a few dollars to a few hundred dollars, calling for ticket donations is a strategy many performing arts organizations are using to stay afloat amid coronavirus-related show cancellations and postponements. But are audiences actually donating tickets? And if so, what impact does that have on venues? – Los Angeles Times
  
  Read more

• Nandy raises question over Foreign Office 'racial' Goetze murals

  15-06-2020 19:27
  
  Debate about appropriateness of images reignited in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests
  The Foreign Office has come under scrutiny over a set of large-scale painted murals in which the Anglo-Saxon empire is triumphantly portrayed, including one in which Africa is depicted as a little naked boy carrying a fruit basket.Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary, has written to her counterpart, Dominic Raab, asking him to set out his views on the murals that decorate the Foreign Office grand stai
  
  Read more

• Nandy raises concerns over imperialist Foreign Office murals

  15-06-2020 19:27
  
  Debate about appropriateness of images by Sigismund Goetze reignited in wake of Black Lives Matter protests
  The Foreign Office has come under scrutiny over a set of large-scale painted murals in which the Anglo-Saxon empire is triumphantly portrayed, including one in which Africa is depicted as a little naked boy carrying a fruit basket.Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary, has written to her counterpart, Dominic Raab, asking him to set out his views on the murals that decorate the Foreign O
  
  Read more

• Senior Producer (Maternity Cover) / Trigger / South West

  15-06-2020 19:12
  About TriggerTrigger create and produce surprising theatrical interventions that reimagine and revive public spaces, and put audiences at the centre of the action. Our programme aims to create...
  
  Read more

• The Objectionable Flannery O’Connor

  15-06-2020 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  O’Connor is now as canonical as Faulkner and Welty. More than a great writer, she’s a cultural figure: a funny lady in a straw hat, puttering among peacocks, on crutches she likened to “flying buttresses.” The arc is not complete, however. Those letters and postcards she sent home from the North in 1943 were made available to scholars only in 2014, and they show O’Connor as a bigoted young woman. – The New Yorker
  
  Read more

• Photographer/Social Media / Pax Romana Auctions / London

  15-06-2020 18:54
  Pax Romana Auctions, Bermondsey, SE164DG, UK
  We are an established Antiques and Numismatics Auction House and Gallery looking for an enthusiastic photographer to join our team!
  We are looking for a...
  
  Read more

• Dance On The Internet – Not Really The Real Thing, Is It?

  15-06-2020 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  George Balanchine rightly said that watching dance on TV was like reading about a murder in a newspaper—a poor approximation of the terror of the real event. And, for all its offerings, the new online dance world feels cramped and constrained. Dancers are a kind of urban wildlife, and as they crop their bodies to Zoom squares we can almost feel their horizons shrinking. They can, too. – The New Yorker
  
  Read more

• Weekly Photography Briefs, Win a Photo Print & Prize / / South East / UK wide

  15-06-2020 18:14
  Each week I send out free Weekly Photography Briefs, creative photo-based tasks for children and adults to keep you creative with your camera. Submit your pictures to receive feedback and a chance to...
  
  Read more

• Community Engagement Co-ordinator (Wellingborough - f/t or p/t) / Made With Many / East Midlands

  15-06-2020 18:04
  The Community Engagement Co-ordinator will assist the staff team, and associated artists, freelance staff and community groups, on a range of projects in Wellingborough. They will lead on engagement...
  
  Read more

• Cynthia Navaretta, Women Artists’ Advocate, 97

  15-06-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Navaretta was not an artist herself, nor a gallery owner, but she was a quiet force on the art scene in New York and beyond. In the early 1970s she was immersed in various efforts by women to secure a bigger voice in the art world, and in 1975, with Judy Seigel as founding editor, she began publishing Women Artists Newsletter, covering issues and events of interest to women in that world that often went unmentioned in mainstream publications. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Tracey Emin: 'My cousin died of Covid-19'

  15-06-2020 17:49
  
  As she reveals a set of works made during lockdown, Emin describes the way the pandemic has changed her – and the artworldIn Tracey Emin’s intimate blue paintings of her life in lockdown we see her daydreaming and remembering, looking out of windows or at a familiar old sofa as the interior of her 18th-century house in London becomes a stage set for her private meditations. She depicts herself positively basking in isolation. Emin once said her favourite artist is Johannes Vermeer. T
  
  Read more

• Philosophy Born Of Isolation

  15-06-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Social isolation has given me the clear stretch of time that Descartes says is required to do philosophy. Teaching has been cancelled or moved online; birthday parties have been abandoned; the spare bedroom is warm enough once I wrap a blanket round my shoulders. But disciplined reflection is difficult, and more so when one is surrounded by those who have a claim on one’s time and attention.” – Times Literary Supplement
  
  Read more

• Stephen Threlfall appointed as new Artistic Director of LDSM / Lake District Summer Music / North West

  15-06-2020 17:21
  Lake District Summer Music is delighted to announce that, as Renna Kellaway MBE retires, Stephen Threlfall has been appointed as its new Artistic Director from October 2020.
   
  Stephen is a...
  
  Read more

• Film Festival Choice: Go Dark Or Go Virtual

  15-06-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re not going to be able to create this perfect simulacra of running around getting drinks with friends and having conversations in line.” But,watching films with hundreds of others, with filmmakers in virtual attendance and an ensuing discussion among viewers online, “is better than consuming something in a vacuum.” – Washington Post
  
  Read more

• Artists in Lockdown / Exhibition and Auction / South East / Brighton

  15-06-2020 16:31
  We have a charity event –‘Artists in Lockdown’
  Exhibition and Auction-Being held at St Marks Church in Brighton on 26th...
  
  Read more

• Protesters Try To Take African Art From Paris Museum

  15-06-2020 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The five protesters were stopped before they could leave the Quai Branly Museum with the artwork. They were detained for questioning, and the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into group theft of objects of cultural heritage. – Washington Post (AP)
  
  Read more

• Collywobblers Comedy Lockdown Online Zoom Special / SIon James / London

  15-06-2020 16:11
  Friday 19th June 2020 Collywobblers Comedy Lockdown Online Zoom Special : Boothby Graffoe, Stefano Paolini, Esther Manito, Cheekykita and MC Sion James with special guest Tony Ukulele
  Collywobblers...
  
  Read more

• UK Cinemark Cancels Purchase Of Canada’s Cineplex Theatre Chain

  15-06-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The takeover would have created North America’s largest chain of movie theaters to better compete with AMC Entertainment. It would have added 165 cinemas to Cineworld’s existing 786 sites and 9,500 screens. AMC Entertainment owns or operates about 1,000 theaters around the world. – Washington Post
  
  Read more

• The best new design, from African arcade games to art you can smell

  15-06-2020 16:00
  
  News and design stories from around the world, including seven-inch singles designed by artists and hardware fit for a galleryEverything you need to know about new products, innovative projects and creative thinking for the coming months. From art you can smell and glasses you can’t hear to new ways to navigate your city in the post Covid-19 world Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Only Fools and 3 Courses - Telford Hotel And Golf Resort / Comedy Dining / West Midlands

  15-06-2020 15:46
  Join us for the Dinner event of the year, which combines fine food and Comedy action, served up ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES style.
  Marlene and Boycie are hosting a Gala Dinner, but will things go to plan...
  
  Read more

• In-House Graphic Designer / Suffolk Libraries / South East

  15-06-2020 15:46
  Suffolk Libraries is a charitable organisation, independent of Suffolk County Council, which runs the library service throughout Suffolk.
  Our vision is to “transform lives through access to...
  
  Read more

• Comedy Club Tries To Bring Back Standup

  15-06-2020 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despite current rules limiting bars and clubs from opening to the public, the live comedy club Stand Up NY on the Upper West Side held an invite-only show for professional comics on Wednesday night. The club was not exactly sneaky about it. Outside, there was a sandwich board with the words “illegal comedy” and an arrow pointing inside. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Website designer / builder / The Bone Ensemble / West Midlands

  15-06-2020 15:16
  CALL OUT - The Bone Ensemble is looking for a Designer and Website Builder
   
  Job Role
  The Bone Ensemble is seeking a Designer and Website Builder to create a contemporary and accessible...
  
  Read more

• How Music Can Boost Your Running Performance

  15-06-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The kind of music you listen to while running matters when it comes to synchronisation. Runners who put on their earphones when they exercise tend to synchronise their pace to what they’re listening to – which is why Spotify’s running playlists contain songs that share similar beats per minute (bpm). – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• How Harry Potter Fans Are Reacting To JK Rowling’s Comments On Transgender People

  15-06-2020 14:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the past week, some fans said that they had decided to simply walk away from the world that spans seven books, eight movies and an ever-expanding franchise. Others said that they were trying to separate the artist from the art, to remain in the fandom while denouncing someone who was once considered to be royalty. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!