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• Bristol Removes BLM Statue Erected To Replace Racist

  16-07-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The sculpture of Jen Reid was erected on Wednesday but removed by Bristol City Council just over 24 hours later. Ms Reid had been photographed standing on the empty plinth after the Colston statue was pulled down during protests. Mayor Marvin Rees said it was up to the people of Bristol to decide what would replace Colston’s statue. – BBC
  
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• When “Plague” Ceases Being A Metaphor… What To Say?

  16-07-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Early in the spring-2020 semester, I had planned to say quite a bit about Homer’s figurative use of disease and the literary tradition it initiated. But as we concluded February in exhausted anticipation of spring break, Covid-19 made the artistry of that metaphor abruptly beside the point. It seemed — and still seems — futile to talk about what plague means in the history of human discourse when plague quite literally is the current defining condition of homo sapiens.&
  
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• The Problem With Open Letters

  16-07-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Perhaps because I spend a lot of time listening to people with crazy opinions, I am sympathetic to the view that the only way to live a healthy intellectual life is to expose oneself constantly to weird or detestable opinions. But I never sign petitions or open letters. I told the letter’s organizers that if I have something to say, I will write my own damn letter. Open letters are terrible, and you should never write one or sign one.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Line Between Cancel And Unpopular

  16-07-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a difference between a harassment campaign and suffering the consequences of hateful behaviour. Clearly, we all understand that there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed, a point in which a person should no longer be in a position of power and influence. The problem is that we disagree on where, exactly, that line is. – Forbes
  
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• Submissions wanted for online exhibition A Landscape in Lockdown / Wayland Dragonfly Gallery / East / All parts of the UK

  16-07-2020 21:31
  Open Call: Free to enter. Now looking for submissions for our online summer exhibition: A Landscape in Lockdown. We are particularly interested in photographic responses documenting experiences...
  
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• Yes, Enjoy Quibi Schadenfreude And Do Not Feel Guilty

  16-07-2020 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kate Knibbs: “Occasionally, circumstances arise where someone or something so high and mighty takes such a ludicrous tumble that the pratfall practically begs for a gleeful response, even from the most generous of spirits. Case in point: the disastrous debut of Quibi, a lavishly funded new streaming service that may currently have more jokes made at its expense than loyal subscribers. … [And laughing is] not sinful. In fact, there’s something akin to virtue in recognizing why
  
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• Garrels Quarrels: BlogBacks on My Defense of SFMOMA’s Deposed Curator

  16-07-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After posting my contrarian defense on Tuesday of Gary Garrels, I ducked, anticipating a pile-on of invective. Instead, I got confirmation of what I’ve always known: I’ve got a classy readership — intelligent, civil and reasonable, even while contesting my contentious views. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Canadian Choreographer, Dance Pioneer Anna Wyman, 92

  16-07-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For much of the 1970s and 1980s the Anna Wyman Dance Theatre was regarded as one of Canada’s foremost modern-dance companies. In 1975 it became the first modern dance troupe to tour Canada and went on to become one of the most travelled companies in North America. It took Canada-made modern dance to India, Southeast Asia, Australia, Europe and Mexico. It made TV specials, appeared in films and headlined at the National Arts Centre. – Vancouver Sun
  
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• No Sooner Does ‘The Great Gatsby’ Come Out Of Copyright Than —

  16-07-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  — a prequel is hitting the shelves. Fitzgerald’s novel enters the public domain next New Year’s Day, and on January 5 Little, Brown is releasing Michael Farris Smith’s Nick. “The publishers say Nick Carraway will ‘step out of the shadows and into the spotlight’, with the story focusing on his life before his meeting with the enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby.” – The Guardian
  
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• Art Tutor / Chelsea Fine Arts / London / London

  16-07-2020 19:59
  We are looking for candidates to teach observational drawing and painting skills to students, aged from 8 years to 18 years on a part time basis in the afternoons after school and on the weekends and...
  
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• Open Call: Stockton Globe Seeks Talented Artists and Makers / Stockton Globe / North East

  16-07-2020 19:52
  Stockton Globe, the historic 3000+ capacity North East venue, currently being restored to its former Art Deco glory, has announced two briefs for talented artists and makers to produce artworks that...
  
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• Ethical Textiles Community Engagement Officer / Gawthorpe Textiles Collection / North West

  16-07-2020 19:41
  Fixed term to February 2022
  Ethical Textiles is an 18 month project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. We are seeking to appoint a self-motivated individual with a good knowledge of...
  
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• Commercial Development Officer / Gawthorpe Textiles Collection / North West

  16-07-2020 19:38
  Fixed term to September 2021
  Working alongside the GTC Director, this new role will support the charity to develop its commercial potential. GTC is seeking a self-motivated and proactive individual...
  
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• Statues As Political Acts

  16-07-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If such monuments do have a connection to history, it is because they attempt to shape it, not reflect it. To believe we can learn history from them is like a judge choosing only to hear testimony from the defence. Public statues are political acts; when the politics change, so must the statues. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Digital and Communications Manager / National Opera Studio / London

  16-07-2020 19:26
  We are seeking an imaginative, motivated individual to join our team, to look after our external-facing communications, develop new audiences for our work both live and online, and deliver...
  
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• Producer / English Touring Opera / London

  16-07-2020 19:22
  English Touring Opera is recruiting an energetic, entrepreneurial and highly numerate candidate in the new role of Producer. The role would initially be a fixed term, six month contract ideally...
  
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• How A Group Of Students Convinced The Fokine Estate To Get Rid Of The Blackface Moor In ‘Petrouchka’

  16-07-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The character as passed down from the Diaghilev Ballets Russes original is not only painted in outlandish blackface makeup, he is, as Wendy Perron puts it, “mean and aggressive [and] prodigiously stupid.” In the ’90s, the Oakland and then San Francisco Ballets decided to make the character’s face blue (“the Avatar solution”), and both Perron and Michel Fokine’s granddaughter (and Petrouchka rights holder) Isabelle had thought that was an excellent solut
  
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• Creative Associate (Early Years/Families) / Modern Art Oxford / South East

  16-07-2020 19:03
  Modern Art Oxford is inviting expressions of interest for the new freelance role ofCreative Associate (Early Years/Families) for the delivery of Make Play, our early years...
  
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• Call for Entries: Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open 2021 / Jerwood Arts / London

  16-07-2020 19:01
  Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open 2021 is a major award for five early-career UK-based artists and makers to develop and present ambitious new works.
  The award offers a supported, high-profile national...
  
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• Exhibition Coordinator / London Metropolitan Archives / London

  16-07-2020 18:37
  London Metropolitain Archives is seeking an experienced Exhibition Coordinator to co curate and deliver a grass roots community exhibition, showcasing and celebrating the stories, lives and...
  
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• Study: Snapshot Of Black Dance In America

  16-07-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the numbers of Blacks in dance has continued to grow, the corresponding increase in the overall presentation of Blacks in dance has been relatively nominal and stagnant. To date, companies of Blacks in dance still face the all too often, “only one per year, and maybe a few more if it’s in February during Black History Month” syndrome. Now, as financial resources have tightened, not only do these companies face the “only one per year” syndrome but find that pr
  
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• Between Heaven and Hell / Artizan Gallery / South West

  16-07-2020 18:16
  Presenting a series of works completed in the last two years, artist Keith Frake joins Artizan for a showcase of dark, mixed media works in his exhibition, Between Heaven and Hell.Having studied Fine...
  
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• Toward An Anti-Racist American Theatre

  16-07-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This moment and movement did not come out of nowhere but emerges from longstanding frustration among BIPOC theatremakers … [who] have never truly felt welcome in an industry geared toward and run by white theatremakers and audiences, into which they have only fitfully been invited to do work, and even then under terms that have been variously exploitive, unequal, and harmful.” – American Theatre
  
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• Making Matters: Call out for childrens artwork / Artworks / Yorkshire

  16-07-2020 18:01
  Are You A Young Person Aged 5-11 ? We Want To Know What Matters To You.
  What are the issues, large or small, personal or global that need our attention? 
  Make something about what matters to...
  
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• Free training in Video and Motion Graphics (Tottenham) / Collage Arts / London

  16-07-2020 17:44
  Are you a creative business or freelancer based in Tottenham?  N17 Creative Callings is for you!
   We are looking for creatives who want to boost their creative practice, get their skills...
  
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• Free training in Content Creation (Tottenham) / Collage Arts / London

  16-07-2020 17:38
  Free online training and accreditation in CONTENT CREATION 
   
  Are you a creative business or freelancer based in Tottenham?  N17 Creative Callings is for you!
   
  We are looking...
  
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• How Your Heart Helps Shape Cognition And Perception

  16-07-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the heart, lungs, gut and other organs transmit information to the brain, they affect how we perceive and interact with our environment in surprisingly profound ways. Recent studies of the heart in particular have given scientists new insights into the role that the body’s most basic processes play in defining our experience of the world. – Quanta
  
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• The Detroit Institute Of Arts Borrowed An El Greco From The Director’s Father-In-Law. Ethics Violation?

  16-07-2020 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Because the display of a painting in a prestigious museum can increase its value, the loan can be seen as breaking conflict-of-interest and self-dealing rules and a complaint was filed with the IRS and the Michigan attorney general. The director says that all procedures were properly followed, being shown at the museum wouldn’t really affect the value of an Old Master, and, basically, if you can get the long-term loan of an El Greco, why wouldn’t you? – The New York Times
  
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• Corporate Partnerships Manager / Natural History Museum / London

  16-07-2020 16:59
  As a Corporate Partnerships Manager, you will be responsible for securing new sponsorships and partnerships with a wide range of brands and companies to support the Natural History Museum’s...
  
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• Wider Opportunities Leader - Strings / St Helens Council Music Service / North West

  16-07-2020 16:52
  St.Helens Council Music Service is looking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced string tutor to join their team from September 2020. Work will be across 4.5 days per week in schools and...
  
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• Digital Producer - Freelance / Take A Part CIC / South West / Plymouth

  16-07-2020 16:51
  Take A Part is keen to support Socially Engaged Practice and the needs of practitioners in a time of great change.  To support approaches, relationship, networks and talent development and share...
  
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• Calling on all creatives in Cornwall / Cornwall Council / South West

  16-07-2020 16:51
  We are keen on launching a campaign to highlight the importance of culture and creativity in Cornwall.
  During this free event, we will explore how Cornwall Council can help you setting-up a...
  
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• Marketing Coordinator, New Releases / MUBI / London

  16-07-2020 16:38
  MUBI is a rapidly growing global streaming service curating the world’s best cinema. We are seeking a creative and passionate marketing professional with a keen eye for detail to join our team...
  
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• Joanna Cole, Author Of ‘Magic School Bus’ Series, Dead At 75

  16-07-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “She originally created The Magic School Bus in 1986 with illustrator Bruce Degen. The core idea of a sweet and nerdy crew of schoolchildren taking field trips into scientific concepts, bodily parts, into space and back to the age of dinosaurs — and always led by their teacher, the intrepid Ms. Frizzle — eventually spun out into dozens of tie-ins and more than 93 million copies in print, plus a beloved television show that aired for 18 years in more than 100 countries.”
  
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• Free Creative Retreats at The Forge / Wild Rumpus / North West

  16-07-2020 16:35
  Wild Rumpus are opening up The Forge, their woodland creation centre, this summer to offer a small number of free creative retreats for artists, makers or small organisations working in the cultural...
  
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• Distribution Coordinator / MUBI / London

  16-07-2020 16:30
  MUBI is a rapidly growing global streaming service curating the world’s best cinema. We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team in London. As the Distribution Coordinator you...
  
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• Where are the bones of Hans Holbein? I spent lockdown solving art's grisliest mystery

  16-07-2020 16:07
  
  He was a star of the Renaissance, an unflinching painter of death and horror in a time of rampant plague. Yet he ended up in an unmarked grave in London. Or so it has always been believed …Baking sourdough, binge-watching Normal People or Mrs America, learning origami. People have dealt with lockdown in many ways. Personally, I went looking for the bones of Hans Holbein, the German artist who died almost 500 years ago and was dumped in an unmarked grave in the City of London. Or so it has
  
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• When COVID Hit, Arts Groups Put Loads Of Free Content Online. Has It Connected With People?

  16-07-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Concerts, conversations, classes, collages, child-friendly shorts and more filled arts websites and social media channels daily as institutions and individuals worked to preserve relationships and remind audiences of the arts’ societal importance. Was anybody watching?” Jeremy Reynolds checked in with the performing organizations in Pittsburgh and reports that “not all content is created equal.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Artist Leader / Dance4 / East Midlands

  16-07-2020 15:35
  From its international Centre for Choreography in Nottingham, Dance4 is exploring new territories in dance and choreographic practices by providing inspirational artistic experiences by artists from...
  
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• Nine Black Classical Musicians Talk About How To Change The Field

  16-07-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conductors Thomas Wilkins and Roderick Cox, clarinetist Anthony McGill, bassoonist Monica Ellis of Imani Winds, singers Lawrence Brownlee and Latonia Moore, and composers Tania León, Jessie Montgomery and Terence Blanchard offer their ideas. – The New York Times
  
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• Stop Blind Auditions, Says New York Times Chief Critic, Or Orchestras Will Never Become More Diverse

  16-07-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anthony Tommasini: “The status quo is not working. If things are to change, ensembles must be able to take proactive steps to address the appalling racial imbalance that remains in their ranks. Blind auditions are no longer tenable.” – The New York Times
  
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• Opera Must Stop Ignoring Its Race Problem, Offstage As Well As On

  16-07-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 20 years, I’ve never been hired by a Black person; I’ve never been directed by a Black person; I’ve never had a Black C.E.O. of a company; I’ve never had a Black president of the board; I’ve never had a Black conductor,” says bass Morris Robinson. “I don’t even have Black stage managers. None, not ever, for 20 years.” – The New York Times
  
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• Structuring your Novel with Joanna Courtney 16/09/20 / LoveLit (Arts Derbyshire) / East Midlands

  16-07-2020 14:41
  Do you have the idea for a fantastic novel burning away at your brain? Have you perhaps fleshed out the characters, thought about the setting, toyed with the plot or even started writing?...
  
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• XTRAX/Stockton International Riverside Festival ONLINE Showcase / XTRAX / North East / National

  16-07-2020 14:36
  Friday 31 July 2020 will see us team up with Stockton International Riverside Festival once again to bring you our unique online Showcase programme of sector knowledge-sharing and...
  
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• Writing Psychological Thrillers with Sophie Draper 05/09/20 / LoveLit (Arts Derbyshire) / East Midlands

  16-07-2020 14:36
  Join Sophie Draper, author of Cuckoo and Magpie, for a morning exploring the key elements of a psychological thriller. With flawed characters and atmospheric settings, to...
  
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• Smithsonian’s National Museum Of African Art Accused Of ‘Culture Of Racism’

  16-07-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A two-page letter sent by former employees and board members to Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III “alleges that more than 10 former or current Black employees have ‘reported or experienced incidents of racial bias, hostile verbal attacks, retaliation, terminations, microaggressions and degrading comments,’ all of which have been ignored by management when raised formally. … The letter’s signatories are calling for the resignation of the NMAfA’s deput
  
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• Artist-in-residence / Wigan STEAM / North West

  16-07-2020 14:20
  Artist Fee: £1000
  Materials Budget: £200 As we go into the third year of our artist development programme, we are excited to announce five residency opportunities, intended to...
  
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• Key Figure In Islamic Extremist Occupation Of Timbuktu Now On Trial In The Hague

  16-07-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The man who functioned as the chief of police for the Ansar Dine extremists who took over the historic Malian city in 2012, destroying medieval shrines and manuscripts and terrorizing the city’s inhabitants, has been formally indicted at the International Criminal Court. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoude declined to enter pleas on 16 charges. – BBC
  
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• Just Announced - Nonclassical Academy / Nonclassical / Online and international

  16-07-2020 13:50
  Gain first-hand insights into a broad spectrum of approaches to creating sound and music. Wherever you are in the world, Nonclassical Academy gives you the chance to start or develop your creative...
  
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• On Point - Illustration Open: Call for Submissions / Surface Gallery / East Midlands

  16-07-2020 13:42
  Deadline: 14th August 2020
  Online Exhibition opening 28th August 2020
  Surface Gallery invites artists, illustrators, and designers to enter On Point, an online illustration exhibition and...
  
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