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• Should We Separate What An Artist Says From The Work They Make?

  10-07-2020 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Words are, in the end, only words. But writers, and prize committees, must know more than anyone that words have power. Words have consequences, and we act accordingly. – Irish Times
  
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• Return To College? It’s A Con

  10-07-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most dispassionate observers now recognize that return-to-campus plans are, as Juliana Gray wrote in McSweeney’s, cooked up by your university’s “Vice President for Magical Thinking.” – Inside Higher Ed
  
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• Repairs Seamstress / ProLighting Ltd / London

  10-07-2020 22:32
  ProLighting is looking for an experienced seamstress to be responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of our textiles and drapery stock.
  ProLighting was established in 2006 and has been growing...
  
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• Comedy Drive-Ins: Honking Replaces Laughter

  10-07-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Comedians are desperate to get back on stage, said Kai Humphries, and to hear the roar of laughter rather than car horns. He found that he had slipped into a familiar rhythm on stage, timing his gags around the honks signifying his audience’s laughter. “It was strange to adjust because the sound of a car horn usually has a negative connotation,” he laughed. “When I was driving back from the gig, another driver honked their horn at someone and I got a feeling of warmth fr
  
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• How COVID Is Impacting The Commercial Music Business

  10-07-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nielsen Music/MRC Data says activity on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music began 2020 up 20.4% over 2019 — then ratcheted back to an increase of only 13.8% between March 13 and July 2 as listeners spent far less time in the car or at the gym. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• David Fisk Named New Executive Director Of The Charlotte Symphony

  10-07-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fisk joined the Richmond Symphony in 2002 from the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland and has led the orchestra through many ups and downs, including the closure of the Carpenter Theatre that left the Symphony essentially homeless and performing in area churches from 2004 to 2009. – Richmond Times-Dispatch
  
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• Has So Much Ever Been Made Of So Little? A Look At Erik Satie’s ‘Vexations’

  10-07-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Patrick Stearns: “Only a minute or two long, but repeated 840 times, Vexations is alternately called minimalist, Dada-ist, or Outsider Art when it resurfaces every few years. … [Igor] Levit’s late May performance, streamed from Berlin, is perhaps the highest-profile outing for this ghostly wisp of a piece that was posthumously discovered among the composer’s personal effects. Considering that [it] could easily have been dismissed as some discarded sketch, Vexation
  
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• The Crazy-House World That Is YouTube

  10-07-2020 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The more dark, wiggy videos you consume, the darker and wiggier your playlist becomes, until you inhabit a so-called “filter bubble,” while Google makes ad money off of your addictive radicalization. – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• When Irony Died And Then Came Back To Life: An Oral History Of The Onion’s 9/11 Issue

  10-07-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[It] wasn’t the funniest issue they ever did, but it would turn out to be incredibly successful because it reflected so many of the emotions that people were feeling after the attacks. The sorrow, the anger, the utter helplessness — all of this was captured by one headline or another, giving most everyone in the audience something to identify with. … Now, nearly 20 years later, the issue is widely considered to be an important part of comedy history — even an imp
  
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• The Guardian view on arts freelancers: they must not be forgotten | Editorial

  10-07-2020 19:35
  
  The government has stepped in to protect the UK’s cultural infrastructure, but has neglected the people who make the artThe £1.57bn rescue package for the arts that the UK government announced on 5 July was both absolutely necessary and rightly welcomed. The funds ought to be sufficient to sustain Britain’s artistic and cultural infrastructure until the spring. Had they not materialised, institutions such as the Royal Opera House would have faced collapse by Christmas.Yet theat
  
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• Lucas Museum Hires Its Leadership Team

  10-07-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That five of the six new hires are people of color, and that all are women, is in line with Sandra Jackson-Dumont’s vision as the museum’s self-described “chief diversity officer.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Nicholson Baker Surfs YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithms And Winds Up In Some Ugly Places

  10-07-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re told that after the 2016 elections Google made adjustments to YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, so as not to lead impressionable gun-owning zealots frictionlessly down tunnels of paranoia. … Even so, it remains true today that the more dark, wiggy videos you consume, the darker and wiggier your playlist becomes, until you inhabit a so-called ‘filter bubble,’ while Google makes ad money off of your addictive radicalization.” – Columbia Jo
  
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• EA to the COO Office and Director of Development / National Portrait Gallery / London

  10-07-2020 18:36
  The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or are currently contributing to British history and culture; the collection is the...
  
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• Jeff Haydon Named New Director Of Ravinia

  10-07-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He currently serves as the CEO of New York’s Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, a position he has held since 2012. He also served as executive director of the Ojai Music Festival, and according to Friday’s statement, has previously worked with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and the Aspen Music Festival. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Conferencing and Events Officer / Coventry City Council / West Midlands

  10-07-2020 18:16
  We have an exciting full time opportuity for 12 months and are looking for someone with experience of working within the environment of conferencing and events,.  We need someone who is well...
  
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• Filmmaker / Beyond Face CIC / South West

  10-07-2020 18:07
  For full job advert details, please visit: www.beyondface.co.uk/news
  What are we looking for? 
  We are seeking a Filmmaker to collaborate with, to film and edit this production. We envisage the...
  
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• Production Manager (Film) / Beyond Face CIC / South West

  10-07-2020 18:04
  Production Manager Call-Out, Dance Theatre Film - The Elephant in the Room
  Fixed Fee: £3,000
  Full details: www.beyondface.co.uk/news
  We are seeking an experienced Production Manager to look...
  
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• Kevin Rafferty, Co-Director Of ‘The Atomic Cafe’, Dead At 73

  10-07-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Along with his brother Pierce and colleague Jayne Loader, “[he] gathered archival material that had been created to ease Americans into the nuclear age and turned it into The Atomic Cafe, an acclaimed, darkly comic documentary film released in 1982.” Also notable among his six directing credits are Blood in the Face (1991, about far-right groups such as the Ku Klux Klan), The Last Cigarette (about the worldwide marketing of American tobacco products), and Harvard Beats Yale 29-29. &
  
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• How Awe Motivates Scientific Discovery

  10-07-2020 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  All clear cases of awe have the following two components: an experience of vastness, and a need for cognitive accommodation of this vastness. You might feel awe for things that are physically large, but also for ideas that are conceptually vast. – Aeon
  
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• Immersive, Live, Virtual-Reality Theater Is Here (So How Is It?)

  10-07-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The show, The Under Presents: Tempest, is a technological first: a live, scripted, participatory play that you attend, from home, using a virtual reality headset. After buying a $14.99 ticket (an in-app purchase inside an esoteric virtual reality game, The Under Presents), and powering up at a set time, you arrive in a virtual theater lobby, with your avatar clad in a black cloak and glowing mask. You can’t speak, but you can gesture. A live actor … leads you and six or seve
  
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• Anish Kapoor shines in Norfolk and a load of men are dismantled – the week in art

  10-07-2020 16:54
  
  The Photographers Gallery reopens post-lockdown with portraits of humour and humanity, masculinity is on show at the Barbican, and Grayson Perry’s pots are back in Bath – all in your weekly dispatch Anish Kapoor
  Mind-bending modern sculptures, including the sublime Sky Mirror, set in the elegant park of one of Britain’s most beautiful Palladian houses.
  • Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, from 12 July until 1 November. Continue reading...
  
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• Blockbuster King Tut Show In London May Violate Egypt’s Antiquities Laws

  10-07-2020 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, a touring show conceived by “swashbuckling” Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass and U.S. management and events company IMG, was pulling in big crowds at London’s Saatchi Gallery before the COVID lockdown. But new reporting suggests that the contract between IMG and Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities to provide artifacts for the show may be illegal. – ARTnews
  
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• Why Did America’s Biggest Summer Dance Festivals Cancel Way Back In The Early Spring?

  10-07-2020 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The American Dance Festival in Durham, NC; Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, MA; and the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME all called off their summer 2020 events on the same day, March 31 — weeks before other summer festivals bowed to the inevitable. Why did those three decide so soon? As their execs tell Rachel Rizzuto, it came down to “necessity and courtesy.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• FBI Raids Alleged Art Forgery Factory Deep In The North Woods

  10-07-2020 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The raid Tuesday and Wednesday targeted … Donald ‘D.B’ Henkel, 60, a self-described artist who is accused in a sealed FBI search warrant affidavit of orchestrating a years-long conspiracy involving previously unknown paintings by well-known artists and counterfeit sports memorabilia. … Federal law enforcement officials are calling [the scheme] a national crime ring with conspirators operating in Metro Detroit and at least three other states.” – The D
  
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• Freelance Engagement and Sustainability Advisor / Milton Keynes Cenotaph Trust / South East

  10-07-2020 15:29
  The Milton Keynes Cenotaph Trust, wishes to appoint a freelance advisor to create a Strategic Action Plan for their engagement work at The Milton Keynes Rose.  The Action Plan will...
  
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• Kennedy Center And Its Resident Companies Will Commission Series Of New Anti-Racist Works

  10-07-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Led by the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera, the Cartography Project will create an unspecified number of new works from artists of color that promote healing and understanding, Kennedy Center [CEO] Deborah Rutter said Thursday. The project is named for its intention to become a kind of musical map, tracing events that have sparked marches and activism across the nation. Shorter orchestral pieces may be presented digitally as soon as this fall, while opera co
  
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• Pissarro painting once owned by Bronwen Astor to enter National Gallery

  10-07-2020 14:53
  
  Late Afternoon in our Meadow was inherited by Astor, a key player in the Profumo affair
  A Camille Pissarro painting once owned by a leading player in the Profumo affair scandal is to enter the National Gallery’s collection after being accepted for the nation in lieu of inheritance tax.Pissarro’s luminous Late Afternoon in our Meadow (1887) was owned by Bronwen Astor, who died in 2017. She inherited it from her husband, William Waldorf Astor, the 3rd Viscount Astor, heir to one of the
  
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• New artwork Jackdaw Line by Richard Long / Hestercombe Gallery / South West / Somerset

  10-07-2020 14:46
  Celebrated artist Richard Long’s newly installed artwork Jackdaw Line is set in Hestercombe’s Georgian Landscape Garden. The piece has been commissioned as part...
  
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• ‘Carpenters Without Borders’ Aims To Show That Notre-Dame Can Be Rebuilt With Real Medieval Techniques

  10-07-2020 14:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Armed with axes and hand saws, the team of 25 craftsmen and women, who belong to a collective called Carpenters Without Borders, managed to build one of the 25 trusses that made up the wooden roof of Notre-Dame that they say is identical to the original.” – France 24
  
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• How Will Notre-Dame Look When It’s Rebuilt? Exactly Like It Did Before, Rules Macron

  10-07-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Following recommendations from the architect and the retired general running the reconstruction as well as the new culture minister (and based on a rapidly solidifying consensus to stop arguing about design possibilities and get to work), President Macron has officially backed away from the idea he floated months ago of a contemporary replacement for the original roof and 19th-century neo-Gothic spire that were destroyed in last year’s fire. – Yahoo! (AP)
  
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• Festival Administrator / Lake District Summer Music / North West

  10-07-2020 14:15
  Lake District Summer Music wishes to appoint a Festival Administrator to support its new Artistic Director, Stephen Threlfall, in running the organisation and delivering its annual Summer...
  
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• As Of This Weekend, Outdoor Performances May Resume In England

  10-07-2020 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The announcement by UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden (which does not apply for Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, whose regional governments will make that decision) means that — with sanitary and social distancing procedures in place — the summer season may start at such venues as Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, and the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, where a special outdoor program has been developed. – The Guardian
  
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• Senior Trusts Officer / Open Up Music / South West / Bristol office but with UK wide remote working possible

  10-07-2020 13:37
  Open Up Music is an award-winning Bristol-based charity, delivering ambitious, national programmes to raise standards in music education for young disabled people. Our vision is a world where...
  
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• Trustee / Emergency Exit Arts / London

  10-07-2020 13:33
  Are you interested in using your skills and passion to help one of the UK’s leading outdoor arts companies continue its creative journey?​
  In 2020 Emergency Exit Arts (EEA) celebrates 40...
  
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• Join the Docks - call for submissions / Royal Docks / London

  10-07-2020 13:32
  The Royal Dock's annual celebration of culture and creativity - Join the Docks - is now open for submissions. Join the Docks is our annual celebration that takes place across the 4km stretch of...
  
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• Community Engagement and Learning Officer / Upton Country Park / South West

  10-07-2020 13:03
  Upton Country Park is looking for an experienced, passionate and dynamic Community Engagement and Learning Officer to join our dedicated team. 
   
  This fresh positon - funded through The...
  
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• The Library Presents In Your House Events in Autumn 2020 / Cambridgeshire County Council / East

  10-07-2020 12:08
  This is an open call for artists to provide a mix of digital and non-digital content for the second season of ‘In Your House’ from October to December 2020. We hope to...
  
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• Call For Artists - Digital Artbox Commission / Chester Visual Arts / North West

  10-07-2020 11:33
  Chester Visual Arts (CVA) is looking to commission two Cheshire-based artists to produce two original creative activities to be accessible through our CVA website, for our Learning programme. These...
  
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• Who was this witch's occult rival? The great British art quiz

  10-07-2020 09:00
  
  Royal Cornwall Museum host today’s quiz, setting questions to explore art collections of museums closed due to coronavirusThis 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 Royal Cornwall Museum, in Truro. The Royal Institution of Cornwall Fine Art Collection has been acc
  
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