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• Which Statues Stay, Which Go?

  18-06-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Asking where this is all going to end is a very effective means of whipping up panic. But slippery slope arguments are themselves slippery and need to be treated with caution. They force us to take one of two extreme, polarized positions and do not allow anything more nuanced. – Times Literary Supplement
  
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• Between Crossed Circuits Of The Brain And Creativity

  18-06-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is a neurological event where excitation of one of the five senses arouses a simultaneous reaction in another sense or senses (the Greek roots for “synesthesia,” also spelled “synaesthesia,” translate as “joined perception”). Some 4 percent of the population experiences this kind of cross-sensory linking, and studies have shown it’s more prevalent in creative people.  – Nautilus
  
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• Drive-in Performing Arts Gigs Are Catching On In The UK

  18-06-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have an extraordinary opportunity to still mount a show in a way that we fully expected to, not only without compromise, but actually potentially even with enhancements. We’re able to do things from a compliance point of view that feel like they are quite Big Brother.” – The Guardian
  
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• Actors for Online Sensory Show / Concrete Youth / Yorkshire / East, North East, North West, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East, South West, London

  18-06-2020 22:27
  We are looking for 2 actors for Shebaa's Adventure to Jopplety How - an online multi-sensory show for young audiences living with PMLD.
  Concrete Youth is an award-winning theatre company creating...
  
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• Call for Entries: Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022 / / London

  18-06-2020 22:24
  The Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022 are a major opportunity for UK-based moving-image artists in the first five years of developing their professional practice. Jerwood Arts and Film and Video Umbrella...
  
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• Why Satie Might Be The Perfect Composer For Now

  18-06-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It might seem an extraordinary thing that a late 19th/early 20th century French composer — and one whose music has had a history of having been dismissed for its seeming simplicity, seeming naiveté and seeming single-mindedness — resonates so effectively in our confused, upside-down world. But, then, in his strange music, his irreverent prose, his inexplicable mannerisms, his radical attitudes and his incomprehensible inconsistencies, Satie may just be what we need. – L
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe, On Brink Of Insolvency, Gets A Rescue

  18-06-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has announced a £1 million interest free loan and £149,000 in funding from a “resilience” fund for the Fringe Society, which runs the official website, box office and programme for the event “to enable its return next year.” – The Scotsman
  
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• PHILADANCO At 50

  18-06-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Movers & Makers sits down with Founder & Artistic Director Joan Myers Brown for an engaging discussion on how she dealt with overwhelming bias to attain success in the world of dance as a ‘Black Ballerina’ in the era of segregation. We also talk with Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of a biography on Brown.” (video) – WHYY (Philadelphia)
  
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• Library Use Is Dramatically Up Since The Lockdown

  18-06-2020 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Weekly library e-book lending across the country has increased by nearly 50 percent since March 9, according to data from OverDrive, a service used by many libraries to let patrons check out media for e-readers, smartphones and computers. Audiobook check-outs are also up 14% — not quite as large a shift, likely because fewer people are in their cars commuting to work. – NPR
  
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• To This We’ve Come: A Reality Show Where Men Compete To Impregnate A Woman

  18-06-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jessa Crispin: “Despite being pretty in a Getty-stock-image kind of way, and despite being a successful holistic health and beauty expert, Kristy has not yet found her fantasy husband. So she has turned to reality television programming to help her out. That’s the premise of the new show Labor of Love, in which 15 men compete to be the ‘one’ honored with impregnating the show’s heroine. As I watched her journey toward motherhood unfold, I thought, finally. Finally,
  
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• Lockdown Lounge #5 - Online Support Group for Freelance Artists / Guildhall Coaching Associates / London / Online Support Group

  18-06-2020 19:58
  Habits: love them, hate them, use them, change them
  Calling freelance musicians, actors, dancers, technicians, creators and directors. 
  Has your work been cancelled?
  Searching for direction,...
  
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• Measuring The Pandemic Effects On Pittsburgh Arts

  18-06-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jill Robinson, CEO of TRG Arts, said that in North America there is an active “engine of income” from new subscription purchases and philanthropy that has limited some of the financial impact of COVID-19. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Freelance Marketing / Queens Hall Arts / North East

  18-06-2020 19:07
  The Queen’s Hall is a beautiful arts centre in the heart of Hexham providing performances and workshops in the venue and outreach to communities in rural Northumberland.  The Queen’s...
  
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• What Other Governments Are Spending To Save Their Nations’ Arts Sectors From COVID Collapse

  18-06-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From prosperous Germany (a €1 billion rescue package) to destitute Madagascar (distributing bags of rice to out-of-work artists), here’s what ten countries are doing to mitigate the damage that the pandemic and shutdown have done to cultural institutions and arts workers. – The Guardian
  
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• Turns Out There Are Benefits To Teaching Harp Online

  18-06-2020 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With most of the room cut out, there are fewer distractions. When three dimensions collapse into two, there’s a weird intimacy. You can get up close, like ballroom dance partners. You can demonstrate without replacing students in the chair. And you can take copious notes while they play, marking the music like an over-caffeinated octopus. They can’t see that.” – WBUR
  
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• Van Gogh theft: Dutch police investigate photos of painting

  18-06-2020 18:05
  
  Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was snatched from a museum in Laren in MarchDutch detectives are investigating two apparent “proof of life” photographs of a £5m Vincent van Gogh painting stolen from a museum during the coronavirus lockdown.The images appear to show Van Gogh’s Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring alongside a copy of the New York Times published on the day of the painting’s theft. Continue reading...
  
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• Dutch art detective says he has 'proof of life' of stolen Van Gogh painting

  18-06-2020 18:05
  
  Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was snatched from a museum in Laren in MarchDutch detectives are investigating two apparent “proof of life” photographs of a £5m Vincent van Gogh painting stolen from a museum during the coronavirus lockdown.The images appear to show Van Gogh’s Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring alongside a copy of the New York Times published on the day of the painting’s theft. Continue reading...
  
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• How I Co-Wrote An Opera About A Black Policeman’s Son Shot By Another Policeman

  18-06-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tazewell Thompson, creator, with composer Jeanine Tesori, of Blue, which the Music Critics Association of North America has named best new opera of the year: “I wrote it from an obsessive need and sense of responsibility to tell an intimate story behind the numbing numbers of boys and men who are killed. But here we are now: art imitating life, life imitating art. Unfortunately, the themes in Blue have no expiration date. … Our eyes will never be free of tears.” – The N
  
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• Gloucester Looking Up Digital Commissions / Gloucester History Festival / West Midlands

  18-06-2020 17:50
  Gloucester Looking Up is a city-wide heritage venue response to Covid-19 inspiring communities to look up at the buildings, look up online, look up their heritage and ensuring the city’s built...
  
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• Senior Arts Programme Officer / Centrepoint / London

  18-06-2020 17:39
  Centrepoint’s engagement programmes use an innovative and inspiring approach, one that is proven to transform young lives positively; engaging, inspiring, motivating, stabilising… and...
  
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• How Dallas Opera Became A Facebook Star

  18-06-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Basically,” he says, “we needed to create something like ESPN or The Food Network.” You mean, I ask, you talk to chefs about the politics of food, but you don’t do the cooking? “Exactly, that was the premise.” – Art and Seek (KERA)
  
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• Which Way Now? With Mark Devereux / Clayhill Arts / South West

  18-06-2020 17:21
  Mark from Mark Devereux Projects will lead ‘Which Way Now?’ an online short course designed to help you consider the future direction and opportunities for your arts...
  
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• Has Somebody Really Figured Out How To Decipher The Voynich Manuscript This Time?

  18-06-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Any attempts to decipher the manuscript’s unique text, made up of a mixture of handwritten Latin letters, Arabic numbers, and unknown characters, have so far failed. … Now, after three years of analysis, the German Egyptologist Rainer Hannig … believes he has cracked the code to translating the work, and found the manuscript’s language to be based on Hebrew.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Tom Gamble obituary

  18-06-2020 17:03
  
  Tom Gamble’s highly individual watercolours of familiar places such as Brighton, York, London and Venice were popular and eagerly awaited contributions to the Bankside Gallery’s annual exhibitions of the Royal Watercolour Society, of which he was elected an associate in 1987 and a full member in 1989.Taking giddying angles, focusing on curious shapes and making unexpected juxtapositions, Tom, who has died aged 96, was able to add atmosphere and life to topographical truth in an insta
  
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• Relieved Yet Wary, Customers Start Returning To London’s Bookshops

  18-06-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week book retailers in England have reopened to the public (with limits on how many people may be on the premises at a time) for the first time since the pandemic-induced shutdown began three months ago. Alex Marshall visited half a dozen bookstores around the capital to check on the mood. – The New York Times
  
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• Koenraad van Linden Tol obituary

  18-06-2020 16:17
  
  Through his art, my father, Koenraad van Linden Tol, who has died aged 81, shared wondrous visions with the world. His pioneering work with fibreglass and liquid crystal paint in the early 1970s was featured on the television programme Horizon. His intuition and respect for materials allowed him to flow with them, revealing the inner magic of wood, metal or glass. His work could be bold, with graphic and vibrant colour, or sensual with curves and twists, sensitivity discovered through the use of
  
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• Here’s The Group That Created The Google Spreadsheet Showing How Much Museum Employees Actually Make

  18-06-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Founded at the end of May 2019 by a ‘nonhierarchical group of arts and museum workers who are friends and colleagues,’ Art + Museum Transparency prefers to answer questions collectively. ARTnews contacted the group to inquire about what it took to put the spreadsheet together, and the good they believe it can do.” – ARTnews
  
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• Writing with Children: hang onto your creativity! (webinar) / in partnership with the British Library / London / any (online)

  18-06-2020 15:32
  Becoming a parent is a great adventure, but often leaves little time for your own creative pursuits. If you love creative writing but now feel you have no time to write and have lost the creative...
  
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• Performing Arts Graduate Assistant / Rugby School / West Midlands

  18-06-2020 14:44
  Academic year 2020/21 £12,000 pa (£10,000 for the fixed term) Accommodation included
  We seek to appoint a Performing Arts Graduate Assistant to assist with the successful delivery of the...
  
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• #reconstructionwork: Gary Younge and Lola Olufemi / Stuart Hall Foundation / London

  18-06-2020 14:38
  As part of our new #reconstruction work programme, Stuart Hall Foundation is launching a series of online one-to-one conversations. 
  Bringing together writers, artists and activists, the...
  
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• Project Director / Newbridge Memo / South East Wales

  18-06-2020 14:19
  The Trustees of Celynen Collieries Institute and Memorial Hall and Newbridge Memo Ltd (the Memo) are looking to appoint a dynamic Director to lead Newbridge Memo: A Way Forward. Thanks to support...
  
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• Fundraising Consultant / Arts Gateway MK / South East / East and East Midlands

  18-06-2020 14:12
  The Client
  ArtsGatewayMK  is a volunteer-led arts charity working to support, nurture and promote the arts and artists in and around Milton Keynes.  We offer collaborative workspaces for...
  
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• Programmes Assistant / Total Insight Theatre / South East

  18-06-2020 13:49
  Total Insight Theatre is an award-winning arts charity that provides arts and cultural opportunities for children and young people, particularly those experiencing disadvantage.
  We are looking for a...
  
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• Programmes Assistant / Total Insight Theatre / East Midlands

  18-06-2020 13:48
  Total Insight Theatre is an award-winning arts charity that provides arts and cultural opportunities for children and young people, particularly those experiencing disadvantage.
  We are looking for a...
  
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• Programmes Assistant / Total Insight Theatre / London

  18-06-2020 13:46
  Total Insight Theatre is an award-winning arts charity that provides arts and cultural opportunities for children and young people, particularly those experiencing disadvantage.
  We are looking for a...
  
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• Organisational Development Consultant / Arts Gateway MK / South East / East and East Midlands

  18-06-2020 13:46
  The Client
  ArtsGatewayMK  is a volunteer-led arts charity working to support, nurture and promote the arts and artists in and around Milton Keynes.  We offer collaborative workspaces for...
  
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• Creative Producer / Total Insight Theatre / South East

  18-06-2020 13:42
  Total Insight Theatre is an award-winning arts charity that provides arts and cultural opportunities for children and young people, particularly those experiencing disadvantage.
  We are looking for a...
  
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• Creative Producer / Total Insight Theatre / East Midlands

  18-06-2020 13:41
  Total Insight Theatre is an award-winning arts charity that provides arts and cultural opportunities for children and young people, particularly those experiencing disadvantage.
  We are looking for a...
  
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• Project Coordinator / Total Insight Theatre / London

  18-06-2020 13:39
  Total Insight Theatre is looking for a proactive and committed Project Coordinator to help us launch and run a digital creative support scheme for 20 young people aged 14-16 from Hackney...
  
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• Creative Producer / Total Insight Theatre / London

  18-06-2020 13:37
  Total Insight Theatre is an award-winning arts charity that provides arts and cultural opportunities for children and young people, particularly those experiencing disadvantage.
  We are looking for a...
  
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• Freelance Contributor - Community Education Pack / The PurpleDoor / North West / Nationwide

  18-06-2020 12:56
  Mission:The PurpleDoor is a new community arts and social space opening in Liverpool in 2021. Building on PurpleCoat’s theatre work for working-class artists and communities over the last 10...
  
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• Studio Administrator / Turner Works / London

  18-06-2020 12:45
  Turner Works has an opportunity for a studio administrator to join its team in London.
   
  We are an energetic, collaborative studio of architects, urban designers, thinkers and makers. We...
  
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• Work in Progress, with talk by ;a place, of their own / NN Contemporary Art / East Midlands

  18-06-2020 12:33
  Saturday 27th June 2-4 pm, taking place online via Zoom.
  Organised by Jessica Piette. 
  NN Contemporary Art is delighted to present our second digital Work in Progress, with a talk by ;a place,...
  
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• ICT Helpdesk Technician / Museum of London / London

  18-06-2020 11:00
  The ICT team is responsible for managing and maintaining the museum’s network infrastructure and ICT systems.  Working as one of two Helpdesk Technicians with the Senior ICT Team and the...
  
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• How did 'Mam Cymru' dispatch lovers she was bored with? The great British art quiz

  18-06-2020 09:00
  
  Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales 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 set by Amgueddfa
  
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• What's that coming over the hill? Photo Basel 2020's monster virtual art show – in pictures

  18-06-2020 08:00
  
  From melted cars and stampeding dinosaurs to a time-travelling bungalow, here are the highlights from the first ever virtual exhibition of Photo Basel 2020Continue reading...
  
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• Shaun Tan: 'We’re not being mean to animals – but there is evil in obliviousness'

  18-06-2020 07:00
  
  What would happen if bears sued humanity and fish left the sea? The author-illustrator of Tales from the Inner City on animal rights, veganism and winning the Kate Greenaway medalIn the days, weeks and months after the world went into lockdown, we marvelled as animals began to venture out into the habitats we had deserted. Schools of fish were suddenly visible in Venice’s cruise-ship-free waters. Flamingos flocked to Mumbai. A herd of fallow deer peacefully grazed on a London housing estat
  
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• Katie Waggett's best photograph: Sunday worship with Joy

  18-06-2020 07:00
  
  ‘Joy was dancing in church with her children in London. She was in her element – her dress speaks to her sense of cultural pride’Her name is Joy and I photographed her outside one of the many African churches in south-east London. I had just finished photographing a mosque on the same bland industrial estate when I found the blue wall, then spotted Joy dancing in the church with her children. I thought: “That’s a portrait I’ve got to get,” and asked if s
  
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• Picasso's eleven epochs: a London exhibition – archive, 18 June 1931

  18-06-2020 06:30
  
  18 June 1931 It is of colour one thinks as one takes leave of Picasso. It is permanent throughout his epochsWhat has come over French art in these days when Picasso, the most experimental and incalculable of French painters, though barely fifty, is the most belauded and best rewarded of modern artists in Paris? Méryon, Millet, and Corot lived and died in poverty, Degas and Monet only reached popularity at the end of their long lives, Cézanne would have starved had he not had privat
  
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