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• Teen Who Threw Child Off Tate Modern Sentenced To 15 Years

  26-06-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Old Bailey heard how Bravery spent more than 15 minutes stalking possible targets at the art gallery viewing platform before fixing on a young visitor who had briefly left his parents’ side. The teenager, who is from Ealing, was said to have “scooped (the victim) up and, without any hesitation, carried him straight to the railings and threw him over”. – Local Guardian (UK)
  
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• 'A Life In Lockdown' Exhibition: Memories of Covid-19 / The Museum of Gloucester / South West / Gloucestershire

  26-06-2020 23:09
  ** 'A Life In Lockdown' Exhibition: Memories of Covid-19 in Gloucestershire 2020 **
  Your Museum needs you! The Museum of Gloucester is inviting everyone in the county to capture their...
  
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• Louvre To Reopen With A Fraction Of Its Usual Visitors

  26-06-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the museum reopens, 70 percent will be accessible, including the large galleries of French and Italian paintings, the sculpture courtyards and the Egyptian antiquities section. But with France’s borders still closed to travelers from outside the European Union, visitor numbers will be a fraction of what they usually are in the peak summer season. – New York Times
  
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• American Nursing Homes Have Been Exposed As A Design Catastrophe

  26-06-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even when there is no pandemic to worry about, most of these places have pared existence for the long-lived back to its grim essentials. These are places nobody would choose to die. More important, they are places nobody would choose to live. “People ask me, ‘After COVID, is anyone going to want to go into a nursing home ever again?’ The answer is: Nobody ever wanted to go to one.” – New York Magazine
  
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• COVID-As-Opportunity: Enough With Utopias, We Need Practical Ideas

  26-06-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Maybe I’ve missed the more nuanced views, but if feels like the only people out there – in my echo chambered world at any rate – who admit that they can’t be sure are those with the most wisdom to express some degree of certainty – our epidemiologists and other medical scientists. Too many other people are using this crisis to justify their own existing view of the world’s dystopia, and already-formed hopes for a future utopia.” – Cultural
  
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• Australia is at a turning point in the diversity conversation. Apologies are no longer enough | Shirley Le

  26-06-2020 22:00
  
  Across the arts, the racially marginalised carry the burden of exposing entrenched problems, while institutions stay silent In May, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age announced the recipients of a $150,000 arts criticism funding initiative from the Copyright Agency and the Judith Neilson Institute: five white-Australian culture critics. As a creative producer at Sweatshop Western Sydney Literacy Movement, where we oversee StoryCasters – a Diversity Arts Australia initiative that support
  
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• Writers & Creatives of Colour Online Social / Writing Our Legacy / South East / All (online event)

  26-06-2020 21:56
  Join Writing Our Legacy and special guest Catherine Johnson for an online social and networking event. This is a space for writers and creatives of colour to come together and share experiences. The...
  
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• Weekly Creative Writing Workshops (online) / Writing Our Legacy / South East / All (online event)

  26-06-2020 21:47
  Join Farah Edwards Khan and Writing Our Legacy for a series of four weekly creative writing workshops throughout July.
  Workshop One: Mother TongueDATE: Monday 13 July 2020TIME: 6.30 –...
  
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• Travel By Webcam: Without The Tourists Places Look Real Again

  26-06-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What the lens of the Piazza di Spagna webcam reveals, in its own intimate way, is that so-called bucket-list destinations are, and always have been, real places where real people live. With most of the world locked down, these public live streams offer a new perspective; with the tourists gone, places appear all the realer. – The Walrus
  
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• Poets, Playwrights, Novelists, And A Swashbuckling Conquistador Nun: The Women Writers Of The Siglo De Oro

  26-06-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The polymath Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was only one of numerous women in Spain and its New World colonies who became accomplished authors during the 16th and 17th centuries (and who should be better known today). Many of them were, in fact, nuns, and one of them really did run away from the convent, dress and pass as a man, and had some hair-raising adventures in New Spain. – Public Radio International
  
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• CEO Of Hal Leonard On The Future Of Music Publishing

  26-06-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Larry Morton: “I thought that digital would completely replace things like physical phone books and all that. Certainly digital is a huge part of the business, and it’s growing quickly. But there’s something unique about that physical touch between musicians and their music books. There’s something about that relationship. if you’re learning a difficult piece and you’re really scrutinizing that score… you know we have nearly all of it available digital
  
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• How The Virus Turned This Ballet Master Into A Real-Life Phantom Of The Opera

  26-06-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Curtis Foley, who danced with the Royal Winnipeg ballet and Les Ballets Grandiva, was, until this year, a ballet master at the Polish National Ballet He had just arrived to coach the ballet company at the opera house in the Czech city of Ostrava when the COVID lockdown struck — and he’s ended up spending four months, much of that time alone, living inside the theater. – Dance Magazine
  
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• What It’s Like To Be The Only Black Dancer In A Company

  26-06-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former Atlanta Ballet dancer Kiara Felder: “The ballet’s audience, typically, are overwhelmingly white. “It’s important to engage with the community, and it’s tough when the community looks one way and your company looks another,” Felder said. “That may be one reason the audience was what it was. It would be amazing to see the demographics of the company reflect the demographics of the city. I wish those correlated more in the arts. It’s not that
  
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• Photographer Li Zhengsheng, Who Captured The Cultural Revolution On Film, Dead At 79

  26-06-2020 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At great personal risk [he] documented the dark side of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, producing powerful black-and-white images that remain a rare visual testament to the brutality of that tumultuous period, many of them not developed or seen for years.” – The New York Times
  
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• Creative Producer / HERA / UK-wide

  26-06-2020 18:50
  'A Reasonable Adjustment' (working title)  is a new electronic opera by composer Amble Skuse. A verbatim opera about disabled people’s experiences under austerity in the UK, written for an...
  
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• Sales & Customer Services Assistant (Remote working available) / Jackson's Art Supplies / London

  26-06-2020 18:48
  Vacancy: Sales & Customer Services Assistant. 
  Hours: Full Time (Monday to Friday, 9am – 5.30pm)
  Closes: Monday 13th July 2020
  As one of the largest dedicated fine art suppliers in...
  
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• Why You Don’t Need To See The New Film Version Of “Hamilton”

  26-06-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is in part because Hamilton is a sung-through musical, meaning there aren’t any scenes of spoken dialogue in between the songs. Everything in the show is right there on the album—with the exception of one very brief scene in which Hamilton learns of the death of his friend (and in countless fan fictions, his lover) John Laurens. – Slate
  
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• Executive Assistant / Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) / London

  26-06-2020 18:21
  This is a rare opportunity for an exceptional candidate, to join our core Central Operations team in supporting the founder and director of TVF Media and the IAI (Institute of Art and...
  
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• Fully Half Of The Dramas On US Broadcast TV Are About Cops

  26-06-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Perhaps one reason why America’s national reckoning on police brutality took so long to arrive is because TV is conditioning its citizens to view cops as reliable heroes. Of the 69 scripted television dramas that aired on the big four US broadcast networks (CBS, NBC, Fox, and ABC) in the last year-and-a-half, 35 were about law enforcement.” (And that’s not counting comedies like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, reality shows like Cops, or syndicated reruns.) “Numerous academic
  
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• Imagine an Imaging Centre: art & design for healthcare / rb&hArts / London / online

  26-06-2020 17:47
  Join rb&hArts, the arts team at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, and Between Art & Technology Studio (BAT) for an online discussion on art and design for healthcare and...
  
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• Google's strangest street views, and other creepy wonders – the week in art

  26-06-2020 17:37
  
  Jon Rafman scours Google’s photo archive, the National Gallery gives kids a lesson on insects, and there are online shows for Lucas Cranach, Annie Leibovitz and Helmut Newton – all in your weekly dispatchJon Rafman: Nine Eyes of Google Street View
  Images appropriated from Google Street View give an eerily intimate and creepily intrusive vision of life on Earth.
  • Sprüth Magers online until 25 July. Continue reading...
  
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• A Plan To Diversify American Orchestras

  26-06-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Catalyst Fund, a three-year, $2.1 million program launched in 2019 by the national support organization, is designed to help its members identify, confront and ultimately correct what Jesse Rosen, the League’s president and chief executive officer, called built-in “systems of inequity.” – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Uffizi Gallery Becomes High Art’s Top TikTok Jester

  26-06-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Until just a few years ago, the august Florence museum “acted like the internet didn’t exist”: it didn’t even launch a website until 2015 and only got itself a Facebook page after the COVID lockdown started this past spring. At the end of April, in an effort to reach young people, the Uffizi opened a TikTok account and started posting inventively humorous videos incorporating art in its collection — for instance, Botticelli’s Medusa turning a coronavirus to s
  
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• Desk and Private Offices available in local Coworking Space SE17 / Hotel Elephant / London / Southwark

  26-06-2020 16:52
  Hotel Elephant has dedicated desk units and private offices available in our coworking space at Spare Street, SE17. 
  Now, more than ever a smaller workspace with low occupancy rates which you...
  
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• ‘The Black Experience in the Concert Hall’

  26-06-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Classical musicians of African descent have existed on the margins of obscurity for centuries — in the classroom, the concert hall, the record industry, and on the radio,” says Terrance McKnight, evening host at New York classical radio station WQXR. In this radio special for Juneteenth, he talks to Wynton Marsalis, Martina Arroyo (one of the great operatic sopranos of the 1960s and ’70s), composers Alvin Singleton and Leslie Dunner, Nashville Symphony principal oboist
  
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• Studios Available Now in SE17 / Hotel Elephant / London / Southwark

  26-06-2020 16:28
  Hotel Elephant has studio units available now at Spare Street, SE17. Spare Street is made up of five newly refurbished, glazed fronted railway arches. Providing 24 studio spaces for recent...
  
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• Studio Available Now in SE1 / Hotel Elephant / London / Southwark

  26-06-2020 16:23
  Hotel Elephant has one studio unit available now at our Harper Road building in SE1. 
  Unit 58b 
  £286.00 + VAT PCM 
  Service charge: £20 + VAT PCM
  Hotel Elephant has two...
  
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• New Studios Available in Borough, SE1 / Hotel Elephant / London / Southwark

  26-06-2020 16:19
  Hotel Elephant has two studio buildings in SE1, just a short walk from Borough and Elephant and Castle tube station. We are pleased to be able to add 13 additional units to our space provision at...
  
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• After Years Of Criticism, An Off-Broadway Institution All At Once Agrees To Pay Its Actors

  26-06-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the Flea Theater was founded by Sigourney Weaver, playwright Mac Wellman and two others in 1996, it was intended to have no stable location and to shut down after five years. Twenty-six years later, the Flea is still here, and in its own $21 million, three-theater building. Yet it continued to operate like a shoestring enterprise, requiring its actors to work for free both on- and offstage. Helen Shaw reports on how the current moment of racial reckoning shocked the Flea into addressing it
  
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• Theatre Gym Membership Available / / London

  26-06-2020 15:51
  Need more creativity in your life?Want to learn new things every week?Want to play with new friends?Want to do all this in lockdown time?
  You can now sign up for a membership and take an acting...
  
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• Please (Don’t) Touch (Without Hand Sanitizer): How Children’s Museums And Interactive Exhibits Are Trying To Reopen Safely

  26-06-2020 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As states ease restrictions, many museums and animal attractions are next in line to reopen, if they haven’t already. Like other businesses, they must enforce social distancing rules and reduce touch points, measures that run counter to their high level of interactivity. … To better understand how attractions are reimagining their experiences, we reached out to several museums, aquariums, zoos and wildlife centers in the country. Here is a snapshot of their look-Ma-no-hands
  
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• Online Play Session - Open to All! / Theatre Gym / London

  26-06-2020 15:30
  We meet every Tuesday during lockdown for an hour of play, being silly, meeting new people, laughing and feeling like you've left the house for a bit.It's true that we can’t physically meet...
  
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• Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Hires New CEO

  26-06-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steven Brosvik comes to Utah from the Nashville Symphony, where he was Chief Operating Officer. He has previously worked in management at the Baltimore, Houston, and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras. – Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
  
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• Director Kirill Serebrennikov Convicted Of Embezzlement In Case Many See As Trumped-Up

  26-06-2020 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 50-year-old Russian, celebrated at home and overseas for his productions of theatre, film, and opera, is artistic director of the Gogol Center, Moscow’s most celebrated stage for avant-garde and dissident work. (He is also a frequent critic of Vladimir Putin.) He and two colleagues were convicted of stealing 129 million rubles ($1.8 million) in government funding designated for projects that, prosecutors alleged (and the judge agreed), never took place — even though many people
  
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• Boris Johnson’s Government Releases ‘Roadmap’ To Restarting Live Performance; Arts World Says, Is That All There Is?

  26-06-2020 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden published the five-stage plan for a ‘phased return’, which will initially let performances take place outdoors, with indoors performances to follow later.” The plan is being widely dismissed as inadequate: one theatre exec called it “as useful a map as a snakes and ladders board,” and the chair of the Writers’ Guild said that “a road map is only any use if you have enough petrol to get you where you ne
  
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• Dwell Time Issue 2 Online Launch / Dwell Time / Yorkshire / Huddersfield

  26-06-2020 14:13
  Dwell Time launch the second edition of their award winning art publication reflecting on mental wellbeing.Dwell time: The time a train spends at a scheduled stop without moving. Typically, this...
  
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• The Bhavan`s Summer School 2020 / The Bhavan / London

  26-06-2020 13:28
  The Bhavan Summer School is back!  Our resident teachers will be conducting three weeks of intensive training at the highest level available in the UK. If you want to improve your skills,...
  
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• Open call for Live Artists: CHASM / CLAY and East Street Arts / Yorkshire

  26-06-2020 13:25
  CLAY and East Street Arts have an Open Call out for 5 co-commissions This is an opportunity for Live Artists across the UK to engage in a programme of remote performances called CHASM: a...
  
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• Ten Stories to Make a Difference: Writing Competition / Pop Up Projects / London

  26-06-2020 12:27
  In January 2021 Pop Up Projects celebrates 10 years of transforming children’s lives through literature. To mark this special occasion, we’re commissioning and publishing ten original...
  
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• Studios Available / Euroart Studios / London

  26-06-2020 12:22
  Euroart is a not-for-profit organisation providing 70 affordable studio spaces for artists and makers.
  Pro-actively managed, Euroart promotes the work of its resident artists/creative businesses....
  
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• Public Engagement Officer (Exhibitions) / The Francis Crick Institute / London

  26-06-2020 12:07
  This is a full-time, temporary position (up to 12 months FTC to cover maternity leave) on Cricks Terms and Conditions of Employment.
  One of the Francis Crick Institute’s strategic priorities...
  
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• What happened here that made the French surrender? The great British art quiz

  26-06-2020 09:00
  
  Carmarthenshire Museums set today’s quiz, which lets you explore the art collections 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 Amgueddfeydd Sir Gâr/C
  
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• Architectural photographer at THISS Works / THISS Works / London

  26-06-2020 02:53
  THISS Works is seeking an architectural photographer to generate documentation for residential projects in London.
  About us
  THISS Works is a RIBA chartered, east London based architecture and...
  
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• Singing & Music Lecturer/Music Director / Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts / London

  26-06-2020 00:29
  Italia Conti Academy of Theatre ArtsSinging & Music Lecturer/Music Director£competitiveFull time. Permanent.Barbican/Guildford Are you an experienced Singing & Music Lecturer with a...
  
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• Dixie Chicks Drop The “Dixie”

  26-06-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The band’s social media accounts and website were changed Thursday to reflect the new name for the band, which is made up of Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Strayer. “We want to meet this moment,” read a statement on The Chicks’ website, which also noted that the trio recognizes the name was already in use by a band in New Zealand. – CBC (Reuters)
  
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