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• This Artist’s 2014 Paintings Perfectly Envisage The Pandemic Lockdown

  23-08-2020 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thuy Van Vu’s empty classrooms feel eerily familiar right now, almost photographic. “The spaces she portrays are vast and full of potential, and also of a great, yawning absence. Where are the children? Their teachers? The chairs are piled awkwardly on top of the desks, everything pushed together, as if those who left were in a rush. There’s a sense that these desks and chairs have been lingering and might never be used again.” – Catapult
  
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• How To Make A Four-Part Rom-Com During Hollywood’s Lockdown

  23-08-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It wasn’t easy to film Love in the Time of Corona. But it was doable, with a lot of care – and a lot of house-cleaning for the actors whose homes hosted the shoots. Some of the details: “Filming over two-plus weeks in July, Johnson worked with a crew of seven who were tested before spending three days at each location. The showrunner monitored scenes from a van parked outside the actors’ homes, and gave direction via walkie-talkie.” – Vulture
  
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• Netflix Screws Up The Advertising For A Movie About The Problems With Sexualizing Young Girls

  23-08-2020 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So here we have a movie, Cuties, that “has been praised for questioning how society and social media pressure young children into acting in sexually explicit ways.” Best way to advertise it, Netflix, probably isn’t with ” a picture of four young girls posed provocatively, some twerking while wearing hot pants.” (The streaming service learned that quickly, and changed things.) – The New York Times
  
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• It’s Definitely Time To Go Back To Absolutely Safe Movie Theatres, Say Multiplex Owners

  23-08-2020 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reassuring: “The theaters are pushing hard the argument that moviegoing is safe more broadly, or at least as safe as going to a restaurant, flying on an airplane or worshiping in a church.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Museum Director Who Wouldn’t Certify Belarus Election Found Dead

  23-08-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kanstantsin Shyshmakou, the 29-year-old director of a military history museum in Vawkavysk, refused to sign anything certifying the re-election ofLukashenko – and was found dead in a river after disappearing. Authorities claim there’s nothing criminal about his death. – KHPG (Ukraine)
  
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• The Artistic Legacy Of LA’s Chicano Moratorium Against The Vietnam War

  23-08-2020 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Police tear-gassed the gathering before the march began, killing L.A. Times columnist and KMEX news director Ruben Salazar (two others also died during the tear-gassing and shooting). “The Moratorium shifted creative paths for those who were present and those who heard about it on the news or from friends. It fueled an urgency to make visible the Chicano experience, one that had largely been left out of the history books — an urgency that remains resonant.”– Los Angeles
  
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• Social Media Companies Must Flatten The Spread Of Dangerous Disinformation

  23-08-2020 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Can they? Yes. Will they? Hm. – Slate
  
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• A Six-Part Play, Delivered By Postcard

  23-08-2020 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shutdown theatre cool idea number 458: “A postcard slips through the letterbox and lands lightly. While rural touring can’t take place, Nottingham-based company New Perspectives have created Love from Cleethorpes, a six-part postcard drama delivered to audiences’ homes.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Ai WeiWei Directed, From Europe, A Film About Wuhan’s Drastic Shutdown

  23-08-2020 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His team sprang into action and got censor-free footage that seems impossible. “The hardest footage to shoot was inside the I.C.U., Ai said, but he could not divulge how it was filmed. He said much of it was done with hand-held video cameras about the size of a smartphone that are able to stabilize images. It helped, he said, that many people were wearing masks: That made them feel less nervous about getting in trouble for speaking on camera.” – The New York Times
  
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• Minnesota Finally Recognizes A Native Author With Its State Literary Award

  23-08-2020 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And what an author – Marcie Rendon, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is an “award-winning poet, playwright, author of children’s books, short stories and the popular Cash Blackbear mystery series.” – St. Paul Pioneer Press
  
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• Zoom Theatre After The Pandemic

  23-08-2020 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Assuming that it ever ends – with a vaccine or some kind of terribly expensive, in human life terms, herd immunity – Covid-19 may leave a theatrical legacy that’s hard to shake, at least for a while. And there are some small advantages. “One benefit of staging productions on Zoom, Ridgely says, is the ability to reach a much larger audience than is generally possible with live theater.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  
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• British Women Artists Are Still Massively Underrepresented On UK Radio

  23-08-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s bad from the singer side – 51 percent of the top 100 songs were by solo male acts, and only 19 percent were by solo female acts – but it’s shockingly horrible from behind the scenes, where 80 percent of the songwriters were male. One songwriter: “To see that women feature so low across the board in this industry is devastating and something I feel every day working in music.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• No One Is Listening To The Radio, But Everyone Is Listening To NPR

  23-08-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The drivetime listeners are gone, sending NPR’s radio ratings into the sub-sub-basement. Yet NPR is reaching 10 percent more people than at the same time last year. What gives? “Bringing a younger, more diverse audience into the NPR fold means reaching listeners on the platforms they’re already on — whether that’s putting podcasts on Spotify, music on YouTube, or newsy explainers on TikTok. …Executives are putting two and two together from the
  
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• The National Trust’s Popularization Plans Are Worrying Some In Britain

  23-08-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Turns out not everyone loves mansion tours, or even castle tours. “The trust’s visitor experience director proposes putting thousands of artworks and other items into storage in order to ‘flex our mansion offer to create more active, fun and useful experiences.’ Specialist exhibitions for ‘niche audiences’ should be scaled back, and ‘new sources of experience-based income’ developed.” The National Trust’s decline, one respondent said,
  
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• In France, Live Theatre Returns With Voiceovers And A Lot Of Acting In The Eyes

  23-08-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And then there are the outdoor performances, with masks: “When a performer speaks a lot onstage, … masks become damp and stick to the skin, so each cast member goes through four or five of them over a two-hour performance.” – The New York Times
  
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• Producer / LWE / London

  23-08-2020 15:22
  I'm looking for a Producer to take on my upcoming short film drama based on a Chinese family struggling to make ends meet and living in a basic home compared to today.
  Must have experience as a...
  
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• Call for Entries: 'In-Between' Exhibition / Independent Art Space / East / London

  23-08-2020 15:07
  In-Between will be an examination of the landscape of immigration and in particular of the impact on second-generation immigrants. 
  This exhibition will explore the complex perspectives of...
  
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• Are Suburbs Inherently Scary?

  23-08-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Horror movies sure seem to think so. A lot of them seem to exhibit “this idea that if you have enough free time, you’re going to just start rounding people up and killing them.” – Wired
  
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• The LA Phil Tries The Online Route

  23-08-2020 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Hollywood Bowl couldn’t have audiences – but the musicians could be there, distanced, and the orchestra took advantage of its city’s geographical advantages. The concerts were only “possible in the age of the novel coronavirus because the [Hollywood Bowl] stage is about 5,700 square feet— more than twice the size of the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage — and completely outdoors, but for the partial cover of the shell. All participants, including artists and
  
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• Try A Summer Getaway With Italo Calvino

  23-08-2020 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Unless you already live in Venice, in which case, sorry, you’ll have to read something other than Invisible Cities. – The Economist
  
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• Live Music, And Music Venues, Won’t Survive The Virus Without A Lot More Help

  23-08-2020 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the UK, for instance, with social distance requirements in full force as they should be, “only around 100 of the country’s 900 small music venues would be able to operate.” And it’s not as if music venues can expand. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Nothing, Absolutely Nothing, Can Beat Live Music

  23-08-2020 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first concert since lockdown is definitely special (not that it’s weird to be masked and distant anymore; it’s simply exciting to be there). “It’s been difficult but clarifying to see how mightily classical music struggles in an online-only format. Experiencing sound in person, among others, turns out to be even more essential than I’d assumed. This art form has long been devoted to recordings — but always as a counter, an implied (or screamed) comparison
  
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• Barnett Freedman: Designs for Modern Britain review – a master of all trades

  23-08-2020 10:00
  
  Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
  This genial contemporary of Eric Ravilious flourished both as a war artist and as a prolific designer for everyone from Faber & Faber to the Milk Marketing Board“If you see a man turning a wheel,” Barnett Freedman told the BBC in June 1945, “you can tell immediately whether he cares for machines or not. If he doesn’t, he looks separate. But if he understands and loves them, then he and the machine have a strange look of being one.&rdq
  
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• re:rural- 4 contemporary artists un-learn & re-imagine the rural / Haarlem Artspace / East Midlands

  23-08-2020 02:21
  Haarlem Artspace Gallery : Annalee Davis, Wild Plant Series, F is for Frances and Sweeping the Fields in the gallery, and outside (Bush) Tea Plot - A Decolonial Patch for...
  
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