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• Muti Opens Live Summer Festival In Italy

  23-06-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 78-year-old renowned conductor said the coronavirus had ‘’destroyed music,‘’ with shuttered venues depriving the world of ‘’spiritual food” as it faced a pandemic that still threatens uncalculated economic repercussions beyond the lives lost. Even during two world wars, Muti noted, theaters stayed open to provide cultural relief except during the worst of the bombings. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Press Release Claims Seattle Art Museum Is Dissolving

  23-06-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The release, sent from an email address that appeared to be the same as that used by the organization’s public-relations department, looked like the real thing — but it was fake.  – Seattle Times
  
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• Culture Is A Major NY Industry. What Happens When It Shuts Down?

  23-06-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, film, TV, theater, music, advertising, publishing, and digital content in New York provide 305,000 jobs, and an annual economic output of $104 billion. What happens when the very things that bring so many people to New York are forced to shut down? When we’re banned from congregating in sanctuaries of art, drama, dance, comedy, literature, and music, where does the culture go? – National Geographic
  
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• A Netflix For The Performing Arts?

  23-06-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Doing digital isn’t a quick-fix Band-Aid for anyone,” says Kathleya Afanador, Marquee’s co-founder and head of content. “It’s a fundamental layer of their overall business that needs to be prioritized.” – Washington Post
  
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• Thousands Of Arts Educators In London Are Losing Their Jobs

  23-06-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arts lecturers tend to be employed on casual contracts. With universities closing in-person classes, these lecturers are being laid off en masse. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• As America’s Orchestras Remain Closed, In Other Countries They’re Getting Back To Work

  23-06-2020 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From Taiwan to Germany to Spain to Quebec, lockdowns are lifting and orchestras are figuring out ways to make music again. David Patrick Stearns looks into what they’re trying, from Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Beethoven symphony cycle with the (carefully spaced) Orchestre Métropolitain in a largely empty Montreal hall to Prague’s Collegium 1704 performing Baroque music with masks on (even the woodwinds and singers) to an opera in Salzburg where the characters a
  
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• Announcing: Telephone, a live online performance by Coney / / London / Online

  23-06-2020 20:36
  Telephone is a live storytelling performance, with some very gentle (and optional) interaction, and conversations over a drink.
  It weaves together stories and games about connection across all...
  
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• We Have To Rethink Arts Funding

  23-06-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gone are the days of monolithic support. The philanthropic field is diverse, dispersed, and interconnected. As such, funders must collaborate in order to move forward. These alliances should also include partnerships between for-profit and not-for-profit businesses. They have the same stakeholders; why not bring them to the table? – Artsy
  
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• John Bolton’s Tell-Not-Quite-All Officially Hits Stores, And Booksellers Are …

  23-06-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One might say that they’re conflicted. Barnes & Noble says that The Room Where It Happened is already at the top of its bestsellers list. “In contrast, a survey of participants in PW‘s Bxsellers Facebook group indicated that a slight majority of the approximately 30 respondents intend to stock the book, although many of them expressed caveats. Almost half of the indie booksellers responding to PW‘s query are opting to fulfill special orders only, while three booksell
  
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• Tunde Jegede selected as Mayflower 400 music commission composer / Turner Sims / South East

  23-06-2020 19:31
  Turner Sims Southampton and its project partner Southampton City Council are delighted to announce that composer and musician Tunde Jegede has been chosen to create the music for a special project as...
  
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• Does Toppling Statues Make Sense?

  23-06-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is easy to destroy; it is hard to build. The American edifice that imperfect men and women have built over the past two centuries is a solid foundation for the just nation in which we live and seek to improve. We must not burn it down in the vain hope that a better future can emerge from its bonfire. – Washington Post
  
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• Appeals Court Revives Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘The Shape of Water’

  23-06-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals … says that additional evidence, including expert testimony, is needed to weigh similarities between the Academy Award-winning film and a play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Paul Zindel.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Virtual Art Hotel Opening Video Call Out / Art B&B CIC / North West

  23-06-2020 19:00
  Ever wanted to officially open a venue?
  Now you can!
  ART B&B, a new artist designed hotel and mini-arts centre in Blackpool UK, is inviting anyone to submit a video, up to 30 seconds, for its...
  
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• A Socially-Distanced Concert Outside. How Did It Work?

  23-06-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Much like those nervously gathered to listen, the program was a little all over the place; but the intimacy of the experience — and our collective hunger to hear just about anything — gave the feeling that audience and performers were conducting the same experiment: just being there. Even before the first notes were played, I found myself getting lost in the music of chitchat and laughter — our own birdsong. – Washington Post
  
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• Write & Shine summer programme / / London / Yorkshire

  23-06-2020 18:12
  Write & Shine offers early morning writing workshops (currently via Zoom) and an online library of courses designed to help you start your day with a burst of creativityThe summer programme...
  
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• See Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’ Online Far More Clearly Than It Looks In Person

  23-06-2020 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When he painted it, Leonardo used an experimental technique using egg tempera and oil paint on plaster, so it began to fade soon after it was completed. Luckily, Leonardo’s pupils created a copy using oil paint on canvas that has better stood the test of time. Now, that oil painting is available online after a partnership between England’s Royal Academy of Arts and Google Arts & Culture.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Barcelona Opera House Reopens For An Audience Of Plants

  23-06-2020 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Gran Teatre del Liceu filled its 2,292 seats with plants for a performance by the UceLi Quartet, which it called a prelude to its 2020-2021 season. The string quartet serenaded its leafy audience with Giacomo Puccini’s “Crisantemi,” in a performance that was also made available to human listeners via livestream. – NPR
  
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• Director/Writer/Theatre Maker / Strike A Light / West Midlands

  23-06-2020 17:19
  I Stand For What I Stand On
  (working title) 
  Initial timeframe: July-October 2020Closing date: Monday 13 July 9am
  Email your application...
  
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• Glyndebourne Festival Opera Will Do An Outdoor Season This Summer

  23-06-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Offenbach’s 1858 Mesdames de la Halle is the first opera to be announced. It will be staged with 12 singers but no chorus, with 13 orchestral musicians instead of the usual 40, and with a limited audience of 200 people [spaced apart outdoors]. … Taking place throughout July and August, the series will include concerts from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and London Philharmonic Orchestra.” – Classic FM
  
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• BBC Pledges To Spend £100m To Increase Diversity In Front Of And Behind The Camera

  23-06-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The U.K. public broadcaster is also putting into place a mandatory 20-percent diverse-talent target for all new commissions as it plans ‘bold steps that will help make the BBC an instrument of real change.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Art Tutor (part time, Bexleyheath) / The Seasons Art Class / South East

  23-06-2020 16:42
  Opportunity for an animated, energetic, talented instructor in Bexleyheath (Greater London)
  Easy to follow curriculums.
  1 day per week (with the possibility of another day at a later...
  
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• In This Pandemic Summer, Dance Companies Reconceive Their Work For The Outdoors

  23-06-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We all know it’s safer to be outside and socially distanced, but that doesn’t mean we are confined to an outdoor stage with chairs placed six feet apart.” Here’s a look at what companies in Tampa Bay, Houston, Seattle, and rural Connecticut (yes, Pilobolus) are coming up with. – Dance Magazine
  
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• ‘Drive-Thru Drama’: Another Solution To The Theatre-In-The-Age-Of-COVID Problem?

  23-06-2020 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the usual model of theatregoing currently out of the question most everywhere, a handful of theatres have taken a cue from an old concept: medieval pageant wagons. Only this time, instead of the artists driving from audience to audience, the audience drives from artist to artist.” – American Theatre
  
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• Joel Schumacher, Who Directed A Series Of Hollywood Hits, Dead At 80

  23-06-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A journeyman director who shepherded a new generation of young stars to the big screen in St. Elmo’s Fire and steered the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, … he established himself as a filmmaker of great flair, if not often good reviews, in a string of mainstream films in the 1980s and ’90s. To the frequent frustration of critics but the delight of audiences, Mr. Schumacher favored entertainment over tastefulnes
  
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• Trustees / Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod / Llangollen

  23-06-2020 15:31
  Are you passionate about arts and culture? Would you like to use your skills and expertise to make a real difference as a Trustee?
  Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is looking for new...
  
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• Philadelphia City Council Partly Reverses Zeroing-Out Of Arts Funding

  23-06-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “City Council has put money for the arts back into the administration’s revised COVID-19-ravaged 2021 budget, including full restoration of the subsidy for the African American Museum in Philadelphia. But the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the city’s key funding apparatus for arts support, has been restored to only about one-third its pre-COVID-19 level of $3 million.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Online Summer Makers Market / FarGo Village / West Midlands

  23-06-2020 14:34
  The Makers Markets are back, and this time, we're going online! Join us on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July for a weekend packed with the very best independent makers, artists and designers.
  We're...
  
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• Another Bungled Art Restoration In Spain

  23-06-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First there was the world-famous fiasco “Beast Jesus,” then there was St. George painted to look like a toy. Now an early copy of Murillo’s Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables has been wrecked because a collector tried to have it fixed up for only €1,200 by a furniture restorer, and there are calls in Spain for the entire field of art restoration to be regulated. – The Guardian
  
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• Collaboration: Place: Change Project Assistant / National Centre for Writing / East

  23-06-2020 14:06
  Collaboration: Place: Change
  A Cultural Leadership Programme for Norfolk and Suffolk
   
  Project Assistant 0.4fte (2 days a week) fixed term contract until 31 March 2022
  Salary £18,000...
  
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• Artist, Content Contributor / NoLabel / London

  23-06-2020 14:05
  NoLabel:Invisible State is an online art exhibition project which celebrates the creativity and imagination of dyslexic people. 
  We are convinced that art is a great way to share thoughts,...
  
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• Chief Executive / Big Difference Company (Leicester Comedy Festival) / East Midlands / All UK

  23-06-2020 13:54
  Chief ExecutiveBig Difference CompanyLeicesterc£40,000 per annumClosing date: 5pm Friday 3 July 2020
  The UK’s Official Comedy Party – celebrating comedy since 1994Big Difference...
  
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• 'The sculptures chew at space, blunder and bulge': Crushed, Cast, Constructed review

  23-06-2020 13:43
  
  Gagosian Grosvenor Hill Gallery, London
  Masked and slathered in hand sanitiser, our critic ponders new realities, proximity and space at the reopened gallery’s sculpture show Crushed, Cast, ConstructedLife during lockdown has meant that we have had to make our own amusements. How about some clay? We could model something. Or some old boxes to muck around with – we could build a hidey-hole, an obstacle course or a space ship. Or how about a truck, or some kind of tractor? We could go
  
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• Admin Assistant / Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation / London

  23-06-2020 13:35
  To run social media accounts including Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.
  To create new content for these accounts including social media adverts via design platform Crello.
  To design and manage...
  
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• Publishing Assistant / SAGE Publications / London

  23-06-2020 13:11
  Do you have a passion for academic publishing and excellent communication skills? If so, apply now to this brilliant opportunity with a world leading publisher...
  Sage Publishing is looking for an...
  
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• Marketing & Communications Manager (Learning) / Guildhall School of Music & Drama / London

  23-06-2020 13:02
  Guildhall School of Music & Drama is a vibrant, international community of young musicians, actors and production artists in the heart of the City of London. We produce outstanding graduates...
  
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• Art Tutor (part-time, Essex) / The Seasons Art Class / South East

  23-06-2020 12:36
  Opportunity for an animated, energetic, talented instructor in Wickford, Essex.
  Easy to follow curriculums.
  1 day per week (with the possibility of another day at a later stage)
  Fabulous...
  
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• Trustees / Leicester Print Workshop / East Midlands

  23-06-2020 12:17
  Leicester Print Workshop is seeking applications for new Trustees
  Leicester Print Workshop (LPW) is the regional development centre for fine art printmaking and an active member of a national and...
  
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• Graduate Internship - Audiovisual (AV) Support / Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance / London

  23-06-2020 11:23
  This exciting and varied training role offers a wide-ranging introduction to the technical and creative aspects of supporting teaching and contemporary performance with audiovisual technologies. The...
  
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• National Gallery of Australia to shed staff and slash acquisitions from 3,000 to 100 a year

  23-06-2020 09:44
  
  NGA calls for voluntary redundancies as it grapples with big budget shortfallThe National Gallery of Australia plans to slash future acquisitions from 3,000 to about 100 annually as it announces it will shed at least 10% of its staff by the end of the year to grapple with a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall.NGA management issued a call for voluntary redundancies on Tuesday as staff were told that the organisation would be undergoing a restructure to “modernise” the gallery and ens
  
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• Why were these Dutch ships a catch for Scarborough? The great British art quiz

  23-06-2020 09:00
  
  Scarborough Museums set today’s brainteasers, in our quiz series designed to explore the art collections of British museums closed due to Covid-19This quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 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 Scarborough Museums Trust. The trust manages Scarborough Art Gallery and th
  
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• 'Ordinary people become stars': the best street photography – in pictures

  23-06-2020 08:00
  
  From drive-in cinemas to butchered pigs, these images were all acclaimed at this year’s LensCulture street photography awards 2020 Continue reading...
  
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• Time To Rethink The Arts

  23-06-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One problem is that our arts palaces lock in comparably palatial costs. In this grave new world, bigness, in fact, is actually a bug, not a feature. Producing in mega-venues like Portland5 or the Hult Center is so expensive that they discourage artistic risk as well as affordable tickets. The unviability of the centralized, large-scale approach will be exacerbated by the new virus-imposed restrictions coming down the pike if this crisis proves to be more than a one-time aberration. – Oreg
  
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