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• Turmoil At SFMoMA As Chief Curator Resigns

  17-07-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gary Garrels is the fifth senior official at SFMOMA to depart over the past few weeks. Also gone are Nan Keeton, deputy director of external affairs; Marisa Robisch, director of human resources; Cindi Hubbard, manager of recruitment; and Ann von Germeten, chief marketing and communications officer. But the departures are not enough to assuage an activist group that calls itself xSFMOMA. In an open letter published Wednesday, July 15, the group of unnamed former employees demanded that the board
  
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• Music Junction Coordinator & Marketing/Development Administrator / London Chamber Orchestra / London

  17-07-2020 22:48
  Apply here:- https://www.lco.co.uk/work-for-us
  In this cross-functional role, you’ll be joining the LCO family and becoming part of a passionate, creative team getting...
  
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• Pilobolus Meets Augmented Reality (Mm, Isn’t This Like Pokemon Go?)

  17-07-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[There’s] a new class of augmented reality (AR) technologies like the Magic Leap, a headset that allows users to superimpose digital media atop their seen reality, innovatively combining recorded dance with real space. Director and founder of the MAP Design Lab Melissa Painter recently collaborated with Pilobolus to produce a bonkers AR choreography called YouDanceWeDance. This project, which began its life on the Magic Leap, allows viewers to use their smartphones to observe (from
  
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• Let’s Use COVID Shutdown To Bring Major Reforms To Theatre, Criticism

  17-07-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bad habits may be broken. Theater companies large and small will be weaned off the conservative commercial values of Broadway, freed of the timidity of white theater artists and audiences who are interested in seeing shows that assert their rectitude. Enough stage works that chronicle families under pressure. Where are the innovative scripts that explore thorny issues of race, corruption, income inequality, starvation, gender, global warming, philosophy, metaphysics?” – Arts
  
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• Minnesota Museum Fires Longtime Director

  17-07-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Kristin Makholm took the helm in July 2009, the museum was virtually bankrupt and had been closed for about 18 months after losing its lease at the Ramsey County Government Center. But she soon found a new space at the historic Pioneer Endicott building, where it celebrated a grand reopening in December 2018. – The Star-Tribune (Mpls)
  
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• Reckoning On Race In Classical Music

  17-07-2020 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The systemic racism that runs like rot through the structures of the classical music world exists somewhere between broad statistical data and intimate personal disclosure. And right now, in what seems like a promising turn, a range of responses to it — individual, artistic and institutional — feels, at long last, audible.” – Washington Post
  
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• The Weird Conspiracy Theories Around The Art At Denver’s Airport

  17-07-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You may have heard of the Blue Mustang, the infamous giant blue equine sculpture outside Denver International Airport. But the Blue Mustang is only one of many conspiracy theories circling the DIA’s artwork. When Leo Tanguma painted a series of murals for the Denver International Airport, he had no idea that they would become a lightning rod for conspiracy theories and controversy over the murals’ perceived meaning; despite his attempts to explain the true meaning behind the
  
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• New Waves Of Arts Layoffs In Chicago – A Profession Dismantling

  17-07-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You might argue that furloughs are inevitable, given the inability of theaters to perform indoors in front of more than 50 people under current city and state guidelines. But it’s not the furloughs that have been so surprising: It’s the permanent layoffs, indicating that the boards of non-profit organizations just don’t see any imminent return to normal operations. Time and time again, I’ve heard that the job losses were necessary to protect the future of the institution
  
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• How We Moved An Entire Dance Festival Online

  17-07-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cameron Ball, Festival Manager of the UK’s U.Dance National Youth Dance Festival: “The energy of sharing a studio space and the buzz of a live audience is hard to imitate, so inevitable compromises have to be made when access is via video conference or social media stream. But this jolt into a new format has some benefits and has revealed some ways to work technology into future events, which will be retained once the industry rebuilds.” – Arts Professional
  
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• Voice Practitioner (freelance) / Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company / London

  17-07-2020 19:41
  Fourth Monkey are looking for a talented Voice Practitioner to join our passionate team of freelance practitioners in the delivery of our training across both our BA (Hons) Acting and One Year Actor...
  
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• Uta Hagen Practitioner (freelance) / Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company / London

  17-07-2020 19:40
  Fourth Monkey are looking for a talented Uta Hagen Practitioner to join our passionate team of freelance practitioners in the delivery of our training across both our BA (Hons) Acting and One Year...
  
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• Meisner Practitioner (freelance) / Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company / London

  17-07-2020 19:38
  Fourth Monkey are looking for a talented Meisner Practitioner to join our passionate team of freelance practitioners in the delivery of our training across both our BA (Hons) Acting and One Year...
  
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• Leonard Slatkin: Here’s How I Would Change Orchestra Auditions

  17-07-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a way, the screen now represents a bit of an insult to those who are making the decision as to who will join the orchestra. Do we really believe that today’s musicians cannot come to a fair conclusion because they have seen who is playing?” – Leonard Slatkin
  
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• Acting Practitioner (freelance) / Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company / London

  17-07-2020 19:28
  Fourth Monkey are looking for a talented Acting Practitioner to join our passionate team of freelance practitioners in the delivery of our training across both our BA (Hons) Acting and One Year Actor...
  
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• External Evaluator / Made With Many / East Midlands

  17-07-2020 19:09
  External Evaluator
  We are looking for an individual or organisation who will work closely with the Made With Many team to conduct evaluation of our programme, in both Corby & Wellingborough,...
  
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• Portland Artist Space Suspends, Turns Its Building Over To Native Americans

  17-07-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Under its new ownership, Yale Union will be christened the Center for Native Arts and Cultures, serving as the new national headquarters for the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. “This repatriation is symbolic in that it’s not often, or perhaps has never happened, where the owners just hand over a building to a Native organization,” T. Lulani Arquette, the CEO of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, told Artnet News. – Artnet
  
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• Security Manager - 12 month fixed term contract / Horniman Museum / London / London

  17-07-2020 18:48
  The Horniman Museum and Gardens in south east London has been open since Victorian times, when the tea trader and philanthropist, Frederick John Horniman first opened his house and extraordinary...
  
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• Online Relaxed Singalong for SEN/D children & families / Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust / East Midlands

  17-07-2020 18:46
  On Thursday 27th August at 2:00pm, we will be hosting our next ONLINE RELAXED SINGALONG for SEN/D children and their families!The session will be exactly the same as usual, but we'll just be hosting...
  
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• Jazz Trumpeter Eddie Gale Dead At 78

  17-07-2020 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Gale walked on jazz’s cutting edge from his childhood. He was taught to play trumpet by bebop legend Kenny Dorham; as a teenager in the 1950s, he jammed with such titanic figures as Art Blakey and Jackie McLean; and he joined the Sun Ra Arkestra at 21. In addition to Ra, with whom he would work until the mid-1980s, Gale appeared on iconic and important recordings by Cecil Taylor and Larry Young before releasing two highly acclaimed albums of his own in the late 1960s on Blue Note R
  
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• Where Classical Crossover Is Headed Now

  17-07-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  James Bennett, II: “First, we looked at the technology and market realizations that set crossover up for a late 1980s-90s boom. Then we explored how that bubble burst. But crossover today isn’t dead — it’s just assumed a new form, as it’s done throughout its long history. Now, it’s less opera-pop and more chamber covers of popular music. And if recent pre-COVID concerts are any indicator, concerts centered around popular film and television scores might be se
  
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• Removing the statue of Black Lives Matter activist Jen Reid was a mistake | Letters

  17-07-2020 17:59
  
  Jon Bloomfield on claims that the statue is an appropriation, because the artist is white, Lyn Howard on what the empty plinth now says, while Clive Sykes has a suggestionYour report (The day Bristol woke up to a new statue, 15 July) and feature (G2, 15 July) on the Bristol statue of Jen Reid created by the artist Marc Quinn were marred by the comments of Thomas J Price in a different article (Allyship or stunt? Marc Quinn’s BLM statue divides art world, 15 July). He claims that Quinn has
  
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• In search of a new economics for Covid-19 era | Letters

  17-07-2020 17:57
  
  John Marsh on modern monetary theory and David Cockayne on doughnut economics and artThe Guardian has done us all a service with this editorial (The Guardian view on Covid-19 economics: the austerity con of deficit hysteria, 14 July). I am reading Stephanie Kelton’s book and I believe that it may start a revolution in economic policy.Prof Kelton’s concern is not the government financial deficit – the balance between taxes and government spending – but the deficits and imb
  
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• Public Radio Ratings Plunge

  17-07-2020 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Broadcast ratings for nearly all of NPR’s radio shows took a steep dive in major markets this spring, as the coronavirus pandemic kept many Americans from commuting to work and school. The network’s shows lost roughly a quarter of their audience between the second quarter of 2019 and the same months in 2020. – NPR
  
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• Head of Foundation / ALRA / London

  17-07-2020 17:31
  ALRA are looking for a Head of Foundation to join our small team. Very recent graduates have played leading roles in Hangmen (Broadway), The Jungle (Broadway), Bridgerton (Netflix), Coronation Street...
  
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• Commission for Ambitious Online Performance (Extended Deadline) / Knaive Theatre / North West

  17-07-2020 17:22
  Knaïve Theatre are looking for ambitious proposals for a new piece of work made specifically for online engagement. The budget is £5000 and comes with dramaturgical support from...
  
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• BA Acting Course Leader / ALRA / North West / Wigan

  17-07-2020 17:22
  ALRA are looking for an BA Acting Course Leader (North) to join our small team. Very recent graduates have played leading roles in Hangmen (Broadway), The Jungle (Broadway), Bridgerton (Netflix),...
  
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• BA Acting Course Leader / ALRA / London

  17-07-2020 17:22
  ALRA are looking for an BA Acting Course Leader to join our small team. Very recent graduates have played leading roles in Hangmen (Broadway), The Jungle (Broadway), Bridgerton (Netflix), Coronation...
  
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• The Trump Organization And Insurance Companies Kept This Film Off U.S. Screens For Four Years. Now It’s Finally Coming Out

  17-07-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Documentarian Anthony Baxter writes about how his 2016 film You’ve Been Trumped Too — which shows how the seizure of land for and the construction of Trump’s Scottish golf resort affected nearby residents, including one farm family whose water supply has been cut off ever since — was suppressed by legal threats from the Trump Organization and the exorbitant premiums demanded by companies for providing errors-and-omissions insurance. – The Guardian
  
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• Call for entries : OPEN20 SOLO / Photo Fringe / South East / worldwide / online

  17-07-2020 17:01
  Solo digital exhibition opportunity for an early-career photographer. 
  Photo Fringe invites emerging artists to respond to the question: “How can photography make a difference?” We...
  
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• Cut & paste 6 month Painters Residency / Platform Southwark / London

  17-07-2020 16:50
  Cut & paste is a new 6 month studio residency for up to four artists who:
  (a) can show a sustained engagement with painting and/or drawing, and(b) have been adversely affected by the pandemic...
  
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• Curriculum & Pathway Officer / The Complete Works / London

  17-07-2020 16:44
  We are looking for a Curriculum and Pathway Officer to join our innovative education team! 
  The Complete Works Independent school (TCW) is an innovative alternative education provider that...
  
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• Even Country Music Is Facing A Reckoning These Days

  17-07-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How does a genre in love with routine respond to a moment in which everyone’s lives have been disrupted?… Country fetishizes the day-after-day realities of homes, highways, and beer halls. There are exceptions, but typically it’s a genre in which work and family and place all are held up as things that must be defended. … As a slew of recent scandals and scuffles have demonstrated, however, not even Nashville can maintain the status quo anymore.” – T
  
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• Writer / The Creative Pandemic / London

  17-07-2020 16:26
  Created just as the UK lockdown began, The Creative Pandemic is a space to encourage and build community with writers from around the world. 
  Content on this site is driven by whatever each...
  
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• Creative Class Assistant / South Side Theatre Academy / London

  17-07-2020 16:26
  Working Arrangements: Tuesday’s during term time from 4pm-8pm
  Job PurposeThe successful candidate will support the running of all rehearsals and weekly workshops on a Tuesday from...
  
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• Programme Assistant / National Centre for Writing / East / Norwich

  17-07-2020 16:19
  National Centre for Writing
  Programme Assistant
  Full time. Permanent
  £18,106-£22,194
   
  National Centre for Writing (NCW) is a leading literature organisation committed to...
  
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• Promotional Videographer and Photographer / Take 2 Academy / London

  17-07-2020 16:05
  ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  Take 2 Academy is London’s most exciting performing arts school aimed at children aged 3-16 years old. We are seeking a filmmaker to film and produce a short...
  
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• Weaver (digital) needed for temporary role / Mr. Grieves Originals / London

  17-07-2020 16:04
  Mr. Grieves Originals is a textile design studio specializing in woven and print design across fashion and interiors markets. We are unique to market as a (mainly) menswear focused studio, known for...
  
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• France Begins Process Of Returning Looted Artworks To Benin

  17-07-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The government examined the first draft of a law … which legislates that specific items known to have been looted must be returned permanently to their places of origin within one year. … The objects the law would see deaccessioned from French collections include 26 objects taken from the royal palace of Abomey in 1892, which are currently held at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac.” (There is also a historically important sword that would be returned to S
  
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• 'The Speaking Dancer' - Free Online Workshops / Dance Research Studio / London / Nationwide

  17-07-2020 15:55
  ‘The Speaking Dancer’ online workshops offer students coming from a professional and or performing arts degree background the opportunity to rethink their relationship to their practice,...
  
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• Outreach and Administration Assistant / Outside Edge Theatre Company / London

  17-07-2020 15:53
  Outside Edge Theatre Company is the UK’s only theatre company and participatory arts charity focused on addiction. For twenty years, our groundbreaking workshops and acting ensemble have...
  
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• Gallery Assistant / Maud & Mabel / London

  17-07-2020 15:36
  Looking for a part time, mid week assistant for our gallery in Hampstead. Will be able to work Thursdays and able to cover staff absences. Also having the flexibility to work additional days for...
  
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• One Of Off-Broadway’s Top Theatres Announces A Season With Artists But Without Plays

  17-07-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In place of what most theatergoers have come to regard as a ‘season,’ the New York Theatre Workshop — the birthplace of Rent [and Slave Play], among other landmarks — is offering what you might call a 2020-21 un-season. A programmatic embodiment of the possible, fueled by the percolating brains of more than two dozen playwrights, directors, actors and performance artists.” Peter Marks explains how it will work. – The Washington Post
  
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• Open for applications - Sarabande Studios / Sarabande Foundation / London

  17-07-2020 15:20
  Studios range from 5m2 - 17m2, £56 - £170 per month.
  This cost includes heating, cleaning, Wi-Fi, communal areas, use of the 2,000sq ft main space, visits from leading journalists,...
  
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• Dancer Support and Programmes Officer (Maternity Cover) / Dancers' Career Development / London

  17-07-2020 15:14
  DCD are looking for a Dancer Support and Programmes Officer (Maternity Cover) in a rare opportunity to join our dynamic team.
  We recognise the benefits of a more diverse team and are actively...
  
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• Matinee Outreach Artists / Arts Derbyshire / East Midlands

  17-07-2020 15:09
  The Matinée project is a Derbyshire based scheme that initially focussed on providing dementia friendly film events in community settings to provide  access to cultural events for...
  
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• A trippy take on the magic of mushrooms and Marc Quinn's pop-up protester – the week in art

  17-07-2020 15:05
  
  The works that gave the civil rights movement an artistic punch plus Picasso’s passion for paper – all in your weekly dispatchWe Will Walk
  This timely exhibition explores a forgotten history of African American resistance. In 1960s Alabama, yard exhibitions and homely assemblages gave the civil rights movement an artistic punch. Bessie Harvey, Emmer Sewell and Thornton Dial are among the artists.
  • Turner Contemporary, Margate, 22 July until 6 September. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Everything Is Up For Change, And Will Change’: New Wave Of Bosses May Finally Make Publishing More Diverse

  17-07-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the last year, deaths, retirements and executive reshuffling have made way for new leaders, more diverse and often more commercial than their predecessors, as well as people who have never worked in publishing before. Those appointments stand to fundamentally change the industry, and the books it puts out into the world.” – The New York Times
  
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• China Starts Reopening Movie Theaters (For The Second Time)

  17-07-2020 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “China will begin reopening cinemas in ‘low-risk regions’ from July 20, the China Film Administration announced Thursday, ending nearly six months of closures that left thousands of theaters bankrupt. … When a small portion of cinemas reopened briefly in March, business was dismal. Venues were unable to attract much of a crowd by offering stale local titles that most people had already seen. Fresh content will now be crucial to getting people through the door.” &n
  
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• London’s Southbank Centre Will Lay Off Up To Two-Thirds Of Its Staff

  17-07-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The job losses are expected to affect all areas of the organisation, which comprises venues including the Hayward Gallery and Royal Festival Hall, as well as being home to eight orchestras, the National Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection. The [Centre] has furloughed the majority of its 600 employees, and in May predicted it could face a £5.1m deficit for the 2020-21 financial year.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Power and The Glory / Artizan Gallery / South West

  17-07-2020 13:28
  In 2019, Sarah Vaci presented 'Pest', a destructive and ironic work featured in The Guardian, and an ode to the forces of the minuscule in the face of ultimate power. Pompously, gloriously presented...
  
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