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• Cavern by Julie F Hill / Glass Cloud Gallery / London

  14-07-2020 23:35
  16 July - 16 August 2020
  Camden Peoples Theatre windows
  Hampstead Road NW1 2PY
  View daily from the street until dark
  For Glass Cloud Gallery, Julie F Hill likens the window gallery to the void of...
  
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• Why The US Constitution Doesn’t Work Without Local News

  14-07-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To hold public officials accountable, in other words, “intelligent men”—all people, in fact—need reliable reporting about the activities of government and politicians. But these days, local news is withering in many places across America. – The Atlantic
  
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• Open Call / New Emergence Art / London

  14-07-2020 23:24
  The New Emergence Art Unity Award is an open call for works that depict an idea of ‘unity’. We are particularly interested in works from LGBTQ+ and BAME artists, although this is NOT a...
  
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• Man Convicted Of Trying To Steal Magna Carta From Salisbury Cathedral

  14-07-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In October 2018, Mark Royden, 47, went equipped with a claw hammer, gloves and safety goggles, tampered with a CCTV camera and set off a fire alarm to cause a distraction before smashing the document’s protective case. – The Guardian
  
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• How I Learned To Be An Art Critic

  14-07-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How did I learn to judge between one work and another? By looking and reading and looking and reading and looking. It is not a matter of mere subjectivity. You acquire the skill to transmit your excitement before a work, feel its pulse, recognize why it comes alive, pinpoint the source of its visual allure.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Virus In Canadian Publishing

  14-07-2020 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The COVID-19 lockdown, which has caused overall unit sales to drop by 27 percent, places Canadian publishers under huge financial pressure. Indigo’s continued delays in payment could push them to the brink. At the moment, their revenue is largely dependent on shuttered independent bookstores, which are limping by on online orders, Indigo-style diversification into gift sales, and home delivery. Indigo, by contrast, can’t afford to limp by; its shareholders demand a profit. – T
  
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• How Music Lessons Have Adapted Online

  14-07-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was a novelty for a week or two,” said Catherine Keen. “But it was really tough on the kids. They were on their computers all day with their home classes. And then to have to come to an online voice lesson was really hard. Some of them did well. But others . . . “ She doesn’t go into specifics. But clearly, some of her students were struggling. – Movers & Makers
  
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• How Classical Crossover Ran Amok And Ran Aground

  14-07-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Three Tenors franchise was hardly great opera, but it was effective, and Yo-Yo Ma’s various crossover projects are genuinely good. So how did we get from The Silk Road Project to Hildegard von Bingen club remixes to The Shirtless Violinist and the quartet Well-Strung? Basically, writes James Bennett, II, blame the suits. – WQXR (New York City)
  
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• The Arts in America — Is the Pandemic a Perfect Storm?

  14-07-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At a moment when culture could vitally contribute to national pride and resilience, the arts are newly challenged financially. The reverberations, internationally, disclose a sudden, naked disparity in the role of long-inherited culture as a component of the national experience in the US compared to attitudes abroad. – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• Garrulous Gary Garrels: The Thought-Police Nab Another Unguarded Curator

  14-07-2020 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’m again risking the wrath of the thought-police by coming to the defense of another consummate museum curator who has had the misfortune of wandering into the cancel-culture crosshairs. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Architecture’s Existential Crisis

  14-07-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Suddenly, the profession was at a crossroads. Was this a time for quick, targeted, pragmatic responses to a built environment that no longer felt safe, or was this a revolutionary moment, a call to rethink everything? – Washington Post
  
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• Invitation to Tender | Website design and development / ArtReach Trust LTD / East Midlands

  14-07-2020 20:15
  Invitation to Tender: Website design and development for European arts programme – LIBERTY EU
  LIBERTY is an exciting international arts programme exploring and celebrating freedom, led by...
  
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• Maybe The People Who Signed The Harper’s Letter Have Forgotten About The Real Danger To Free Speech

  14-07-2020 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tom Scocca: “The promoters of the letter cast themselves as persecuted heroes, putting their names on the line to defend an embattled conception of liberty. The people putting themselves in front of police lines have a more expansive vision of what freedom means, and what risks they’re prepared to take for it.” – Slate
  
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• It’s Too Late For Good-Faith Debate Online Anyway

  14-07-2020 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Blaming people on the internet — as most of us are, helplessly — for not engaging in ‘good-faith debate’ doesn’t just misdiagnose the problem; it’s stunningly naïve. Have you met the internet? … Political discourse has been warped less because of ‘cancel culture’ or ‘illiberalism’ than by the way social media platforms have been poisoned, like wells, that poison us in turn.” And, argues Lili Loofbourow, it&rsqu
  
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• Communications Manager (freelance, part-time) / Magical Women / London

  14-07-2020 19:56
  £15 p/h 
  Launched in 2019, Magical Women is an Arts Council funded project run by and for a collective of ADHD/autistic (ASD) women artists. Its mission is to create empowered and relaxed...
  
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• Huge Atlas statue to guard Sicily's Temple of Zeus once more

  14-07-2020 19:46
  
  Eight-metre statue built in 5th century BC had been buried among ancient ruinsA colossal statue of Atlas, buried for centuries among ancient ruins, will soon take its rightful place among the ancient Greek temples of Agrigento on Sicily.The city’s archaeological park announced that the artwork, one of the most celebrated sculptures on the island, will be raised upright in front of the Temple of Zeus. Continue reading...
  
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• Jazz South Commissions / Jazz South / South West / South East

  14-07-2020 19:41
  Jazz South has launched Jazz South Commissions, a new programme offering over £30,000 towards commission projects for artists working in jazz and improvisation in the Jazz South...
  
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• The Problem With The “Right” Kind Of Theatre Fans

  14-07-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What is wrong with the theatre fandom is the belief that objectively, some musicals are better than others, and that if you like a certain show, you aren’t the right kind of theatre fan. Gatekeeping is the practice of musical theatre fans who feel that they have the authority to determine who belongs and who doesn’t belong based on whether or not someone is a “true fan.” – OnstageBl31
  
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• Your living room's a stage: the best arts, crafts and theatre for kids in lockdown

  14-07-2020 19:30
  
  Make family lockdown fun with immersive audio, DIY crafts and short scripts to perform from Australia’s arts community
  We’re all feeling the effects of uncertainty and isolation. Children doubly so. As well as experiencing anxiety in the present, many kids will find this Covid-19 era shapes or shadows their futures. For artists and theatre companies working in the children’s sectors, this is something new to grapple with.“We forget sometimes that kids live in the same wor
  
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• Trustee of arts & health charity (Cambridgeshire) / Arts & Minds / East

  14-07-2020 19:14
  We are a micro-charity recruiting for 2/3 Trustee roles. The candidate will bring high-level experience and we have identified the following areas of expertise that we are interested in adding to our...
  
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• Why COVID Demands Our Best Design Thinking

  14-07-2020 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You may not think of architects as the problem-solvers we need now. But now that interacting with people in any enclosed space is fraught, they are who you need. Though we have been living in a world ruled by public-health experts, few doctors and scientists can interpret their mandates in three dimensions, or understand the dynamic movement of people (and the hazardous droplets they spew) through a busy airport or sports stadium. – Medium
  
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• Assistant Producer / Sussex Dance Network / South East

  14-07-2020 19:04
  The Assistant Producer will assist the Artistic Director to deliver Sussex Dance Network’s Arts Council England’s Emergency Response funded digital programme, with the potential of this...
  
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• Those Viral Videos Of People Melting Down Because They Have To Wear Masks? They’re Performances — Bad Ones

  14-07-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dan Kois: “What are these displays? Whatever they are, they are not authentic expressions of rage. … Rather than citizens pushed too far by onerous mask policies — finally sent over the edge — the people in the videos are recognizably acting, delivering tiny one-person shows. Perhaps they’ve rehearsed these lines in their head for weeks, cooped up at home, seething about the news. … And here, in the grocery store, finally granted an audience — the lig
  
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• Trustee / Mainspring Arts / London

  14-07-2020 18:58
  We are looking for talented, passionate and enthusiastic new trustees to join our board.
  Mainspring Arts is a registered charity dedicated to increasing neurodiversity in the arts. We do this by...
  
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• Assistant Theatre Facilitator / Angel Shed Theatre / London

  14-07-2020 18:56
  Angel Shed is an inclusive theatre company based in Islington, North London, with the objective of providing every child and young person, regardless of ability or background, the opportunity to...
  
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• Project Manager (Moves) / Natural History Museum / London

  14-07-2020 18:37
  The Natural History Museum (NHM)  has been awarded a substantial government investment of £182m, over 6 years, to create a new science and digitisation centre at the Harwell Science and...
  
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• FREE Learning Workshops Online: Myriads of Things / Transparent Domain / London / Online

  14-07-2020 18:35
  Myriads of Things is a participatory programme featuring four online artist-led workshops from July to August 2020. The programme is inspired by Chapter 42 o fDao De Jing that reads, “The Dao...
  
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• Human Cell Atlas: ArtSci Salon I The New Normal / / North East

  14-07-2020 18:33
  The Human Cell Atlas: ArtSci Salon series of conversations and provocations aim to explore ways to improve the value and trust people place in pioneering scientific research by fostering...
  
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• Was Washington Ballet’s Virtual Fundraising Gala A Bad Idea After All?

  14-07-2020 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Organizers of the June 18 event, for which the company’s dancers gathered to tape performances which were streamed for attendees, say they followed all CDC and local health guidelines. Nevertheless, artistic director Julie Kent and one of the performers contracted COVID. “These human costs are devastating,” writes Sarah Kaufman, “and there is another victim here: trust. … Did the ballet make the right choices to fundraise in this way, and how much can we trust it
  
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• Banksy creates mask-themed work on London Underground

  14-07-2020 17:43
  
  Coronavirus-inspired stencils on tube train feature rats with surgical face masks and hand sanitiserCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBanksy has entered the mask debate with his latest typically playful work: a series of stencils on the London Underground that feature his trademark rats struggling to come to terms with surgical masks.In a video posted on his Instagram page, the street artist is seen entering an underground train carriage while dressed as a member
  
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• Montreal Museum Fires Chief Curator

  14-07-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) says it is immediately terminating the contract of director general and chief curator Nathalie Bondil following what it describes as “disturbing testimonies from employees reporting an obvious deterioration in its workplace climate.” – Global News
  
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• Musical Theatre Teaching Staff / Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance / London

  14-07-2020 17:26
  Contract: Permanent, Part-time, Hourly-Paid TeacherSalary (Including LWA): £40.01 - £46.97 per hour depending on experience
  Integral to the Faculty of Music are the learning...
  
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• Researchers turn to art for clues about changing fruit and veg

  14-07-2020 17:21
  
  Public urged to send in snaps of paintings to help unpick how produce has evolvedFrom the juicy grapes depicted by Clara Peeters to Cézanne’s colourful apples, fruit and vegetables have appeared on myriad canvases over the centuries. Now researchers want the public to send in their snaps of such paintings to help unpick how our produce has evolved.The duo behind the idea say harvesting such images could help shed light on the shapes and colours fruit and vegetables have taken over t
  
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• Jane Walentas, Philanthropist Who Helped Transform Brooklyn’s DUMBO Neighborhood, Dead At 76

  14-07-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An accomplished artist and creative director, Walentas played a critical role in nurturing DUMBO’s artistic renaissance for more than 30 years.” As her husband, David, redeveloped the district’s old warehouses, “she sponsored local artists, brought arts programs to the Brooklyn neighborhood, and dedicated her life’s work to restoring the 1922 carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park that’s named in her honor.” – Brooklyn Paper
  
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• Personal Assistant / Project Manager (Freelance) / Magical Women / London

  14-07-2020 16:52
  £15 p/h
  Launched in 2019, Magical Women is an Arts Council funded project run by and for a collective of ADHD/ASD women artists. Its mission is to create empowered and relaxed spaces for...
  
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• Digital Marketing Support / Alexander Whitley Dance Company / London

  14-07-2020 16:49
  Alexander Whitley is a UK-based choreographer working at the cutting edge of British contemporary dance. He has developed a reputation for a bold interdisciplinary approach to dance...
  
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• Did #PublishingPaidMe Uncover A Real Problem Of Underpaying Black Authors?

  14-07-2020 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “PW reached out to dozens of literary agents, authors, and editors to ask. While all the editors contacted declined to respond, many agents and authors were willing to speak on the condition of anonymity and had differing views on whether there’s a problem and how dire it is.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Artist Open Call for Commissions / Mela Partnership / London / Nationwide

  14-07-2020 16:23
  Mela Partnership: Open Call for Commissions
  £10,000 is available from the Mela Partnership to commission an artist to produce an installation artwork. The application form can be...
  
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• Remains Of Aztec Palace Discovered Near Mexico City’s Main Square

  14-07-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While carrying out renovation work on the Nacional Monte de Piedad building – which dates back to 1755 and is now a historical pawnshop on Mexico city’s central plaza – workers came across unusual basalt slab floors underneath the building. According to the archaeologists, the floors had been an open area in the palace of Aztec ruler Axayacatl — father of Moctezuma, one of the final rulers of the Aztec empire — between 1469 and 1481.” – Deutsche
  
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• Lead Practitioner (maternity cover) / Odd Arts / North West

  14-07-2020 15:41
  Odd Arts is looking for a dynamic, creative, socially aware, community focussed and experienced individual to become a Lead Practitioner (maternity cover).  We strive to have a team that...
  
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• Venice Completes First Test Of €6 Billion Flood-Blocking System

  14-07-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The huge yellow floodgates immediately started to work after being activated on Friday, rising simultaneously to separate the Venetian lagoon from the sea. More tests will be carried out over the coming months and the barrier will not be fully functional until the end of 2021.” – The Guardian
  
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• Creative Coastal / Artizan Collective / South West

  14-07-2020 15:27
  We’re sure we are not alone in having been particularly appreciative of the place we call home after the past few months, being locked down by the sea feels like slightly less of a hardship...
  
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• Cultural Co-Producer, Freelance contract / Yorkshire Visual Arts Network (YVAN) / Yorkshire

  14-07-2020 15:12
  A freelance post to continue to build & support artist networks across region & co-produce projects to enable sector resilience & relevance.Terms: 10 months (10/2020-07/2021)
  Fee:...
  
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• Citing ‘Toxic’ Workplace, Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts Fires Director

  14-07-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The museum’s press] release cites a ‘toxic’ work environment and ‘several departures of key employees’ over the last year — as well as an external evaluation of the museum’s internal climate and what it calls [Nathalie] Bondil’s ‘inflexibility’ in finding a solution. … The decision also follows a week of public controversy … not only [over] the work environment complaints … but also [over] a hiring decision
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe Announces Plans For Virtual 2020 Festival

  14-07-2020 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society will offer an online hub with workshops and panel discussions as well as a guide to the streamed performances offered by independent Fringe venues; Fringe Pick ‘n’ Mix, where viewers can choose among 60-second videos uploaded by performers; and “Fringe on a Friday, a 60-minute independently curated variety show that will be ticketed and streamed, presenting the best of the festival across a range of genres.” – The Guardian
  
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• Leader of BA Acting programmes for Screen and Stage and Screen / boomsatsuma / Bristol

  14-07-2020 14:35
  Salary:  In the range of Professor Scale points 1-3 (up to £69,000)
   Closing date for applications. 26  August 5pm
  Interviews.  week commencing 6th September
  Start Date....
  
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• Research, Learning & Evidence Lead - Freelance contract / Yorkshire Visual Arts Network (YVAN) / Yorkshire

  14-07-2020 14:32
  A freelance post to lead the research & learning component of YVAN’s programme.Terms: 10 months (10/2020-07/2021)
  Fee: £4,100 including VAT.
  About YVAN:...
  
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• Residency Open Call - Platform 21 / Site Gallery / Yorkshire / Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley

  14-07-2020 14:24
  Calling all contemporary artists in the Sheffield City Region.
  The third call for artists to apply for a Platform residency is now open. Each year, five artists from the region are...
  
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• AR Designer / Milton's Cottage Trust (CIO) / South East / Chalfont St Giles

  14-07-2020 14:22
  Milton’s Cottage – the only surviving residence of John Milton and place where he completed Paradise Lost - wishes to appoint an experienced Augmented Reality Design Consultant to create...
  
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• Colson Whitehead Wins Library Of Congress Prize For American Fiction

  14-07-2020 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Whitehead, 50, is the youngest winner of the lifetime achievement prize, which the library has previously given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Denis Johnson, among others. He is the first author to win Pulitzers for consecutive works of fiction — The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, for which he won in April.” – Yahoo! (AP)
  
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