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• What’s Lost When Film Festivals Go Virtual

  28-08-2020 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Festivals can serve as coronations, bestowing status or, even better, controversy. (Almost inevitably, “Joker” took home Venice’s top prize, the Golden Lion.) More valuably, they can channel the conversation toward worthier less-shiny objects. At a festival, you find yourself talking to strangers: in lobbies, shuttles, at bars, in snaking lines or seated next to you, as a way of sharing enthusiasm. – The New York Times
  
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• Eight Trends In Recent Book Cover Art

  28-08-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These days, book covers are all about nature; they’re festooned with flowers, swirling with birds and littered with leaves. Those aren’t the only trends we’ve noticed, however. Here’s a look at eight, with a couple of samples from each category. – Washington Post
  
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• “I Didn’t Realize How Much I Missed Applause”

  28-08-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the past several months, I’ve really only heard applause in small, sporadic outbreaks, and it’s only hitting me lately how much I miss the stuff.” – Washington Post
  
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• The Former Judge Who Writes Angry Letters To Journalists

  28-08-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A little over a year into my tenure at The Chronicle, I’d been initiated. For journalists, receiving an angry handwritten letter about usage from Quentin Kopp is a rite of passage, badge of honor and battle scar… His second letter to me, from December 2018, protested my use of “spaz” as a verb and any use whatsoever of “grok,” which he called “self-devised.” He concluded with a backhanded compliment: “But, don’t worry: Some quasi-lite
  
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• Why Do Writers Get So Little For Movie Rights?

  28-08-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How realistic is it for writers to get rich from selling adaptation rights? “It’s just not,” says Joanna Nadin, whose YA novel Joe All Alone was adapted into a Bafta-winning 2018 television series. “It’s unrealistic to think any aspect of writing can make you rich.” – The Guardian
  
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• David Hallberg Looks Back On His Final Days At The Bolshoi

  28-08-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2011, Hallberg joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a principal, the first American (and one of the few foreigners) ever to do so. In 2019, he danced what would turn out to be his final performances there, and perhaps anywhere. A New York Times photographer followed him over his last months at the Moscow theater, and here he talks with Roslyn Sulcas about some of the photos. – The New York Times
  
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• Meet The Musicians Who Are Going To The Scenes Of Tragedies to Play

  28-08-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Twenty volunteer musicians, all Black and Latinx string players from in and around Milwaukee, make up the Black String Triage Ensemble. When a tragedy occurs, they bring their instruments to the scene and play a concert. They go to shootings, suicides, overdoses, house fires, car accidents. They organize their concerts around the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. – Chicago Tribune”
  
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• Invigilator / AirSpace Gallery / West Midlands

  28-08-2020 20:24
  AirSpace Gallery is working with L-13 Light Industrial Workshop to bring Jimmy Cauty's ESTATE - the follow-up to 2016's ADP RIOT TOUR - to Stoke-on-Trent for a World Premiere.ESTATE is...
  
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• Why Won’t Publishers Fact-Check Their Nonfiction Books?

  28-08-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Without widespread consumer awareness that most books are not fact checked, or about which imprints publish which books, there’s no real reason for publishers to care about fact checking. If it comes to light that a book contains major errors, it’s the author, not the publisher, whose reputation takes the hit. … Meanwhile, the stakes of not fact checking books only continue to get higher, as it’s become easier and easier to destroy a book’s credibility with
  
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• What Ancient Statues Tell Us About Universal Facial Expressions

  28-08-2020 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Previous research on universal facial expressions has centered largely on similar responses by people from different modern communities. These studies seems to suggest that individuals across cultures classify emotions in similar ways—but the fact that many non-Western communities have interacted with Western cultures (often through colonialism) raises the possibility that participants share surveyors’ understanding of facial expressions not because they’re universal human kno
  
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• Should Critics Be Reviewing Movies Showing In Theaters While COVID Is Still Rampant?

  28-08-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richard Lawson: “If the reason for my hesitancy to go to a restaurant or, when New York theaters are open, go see a movie is safety, then is it a bit, I don’t know, morally compromised to review a movie that is coming out, thus offering a tacit encouragement for people to go watch the thing, out where it’s still dangerous?” – Vanity Fair
  
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• Creative Director for Children's Storytelling Project / The Story Museum / South East

  28-08-2020 19:02
  The Story Museum is seeking an expression of interest from creative directors with a background in children’s television, digital media and theatre for a storytelling project subject to...
  
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• As Movie Theatres Reopen, Audiences Weigh The Safety Calculation

  28-08-2020 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As high-profile titles like Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic “Tenet” and “The New Mutants” gear up to hit the big screen, marking the first major films to open since theaters were forced to close in March, audiences are faced with the choice of whether or not to return to the movies. Sure, they’re desperate for some entertainment and eager to do something more social after months of relative isolation, but do the risks associated with indoor activities justify
  
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• Outreach and Engagement Coordinator / Starling / North West

  28-08-2020 18:18
  Starling works with neurodivergent young people in Greater Manchester to provide engaging and empowering creative projects that develop positive identity and promote connections, conversations and...
  
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• Freelance Fundraiser / Fluid Motion Theatre Company / South West

  28-08-2020 18:15
  Fluid Motion are seeking an experienced fundraiser to work with the directors on an Arts Council England funded development project. The fundraiser will join us in stage two of the project, working...
  
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• Was Last Summer’s ‘South Pacific’ At The Aspen Festival Racist?

  28-08-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A number of students playing in it thought so — and they felt dismissed, stonewalled, and sometimes threatened when they brought their concerns to festival management. (One student, not long after meeting with administrators, got a message from his private teacher saying, “You need to apologize for the sake of your career.”) – Van
  
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• Shakespeare's Dark Royals - Online Acting Workshop, Sept 12 / Theatre Gym / South East

  28-08-2020 17:43
  Theatre Gym is a school that teaches non-actors different classes and courses around theatre and performance.
  This week we are looking at some of Shakespeare's darkest characters.
  In this workshop...
  
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• How to Work on a Scene - Online Acting Workshop, Sept 12 / Theatre Gym / West Midlands

  28-08-2020 17:39
  Theatre Gym is a school that teaches non-actors different classes and courses around theatre and performance.
  On Saturday, Sept 12 we are looking at scene work. 
  To be in a play you’ll...
  
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• Online Creative Mentoring & Strategic Business Coaching / Miss Led Studio / London

  28-08-2020 17:36
  Our very successful creative mentoring programme, which offers intuitive and collaborative business brand coaching has expanded to offer 2-4 more places depending on the frequency of...
  
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• Working with Lorca, Blood Wedding - Online Acting Workshop / Theatre Gym / East Midlands

  28-08-2020 17:34
  Theatre Gym is a school that teaches non-actors different classes and courses around theatre and performance.
  This Saturday (5th Sept) we are looking at Federico Garcia Lorca.
  “Ever since my...
  
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• Devising: Secrets of Creating Theatre - Online Acting Workshop / Theatre Gym / North West

  28-08-2020 17:32
  Theatre Gym is a school that teaches non-actors different classes and courses around theatre and performance.
  This week explore putting together a narrative and creating your own work.
  This is a...
  
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• Powell’s Books Says It Will Stop Selling Through Amazon

  28-08-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For too long, we have watched the detrimental impact of Amazon’s business on our communities and the independent bookselling world,” Powell wrote. “We understand that in many communities, Amazon — and big box retail chains — have become the only option. And yet when it comes to our local community and the community of independent bookstores around the U.S., we must take a stand.” – Geekwire
  
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• Project Curator: Peru Exhibition / British Museum / London

  28-08-2020 17:02
  Project Curator: Peru Exhibition Africa, Oceania and the Americas Full-Time Fixed Term (18 Months)£25,918 per annum Application Deadline: 12 midday on 13 September 2020
  The British Museum is...
  
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• The Nonprofit That Sends Books To Young Prisoners — And Pushes To Abolish Prisons

  28-08-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We do not think we should exist, because we do not believe prisons should exist,” says a member of Liberation Library, founded in 2015 in Chicago and serving incarcerated young people in Illinois, “but as long as they do, we will continue sending books to young people inside.” – Vogue
  
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• Applause Is The Crucial Thing We Lack In Performances Without An Audience

  28-08-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So reflexive is applause, it can be easy to forget how powerful it is, what makes it important enough to fake” in performances and sports events without live audiences. “Applause is a marvel of atonal expressiveness. A spontaneous projection of unity. And much like the art it responds to, we are worse off without it; it’ one of those things we do to make us less afraid of each other.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Driven to Abstraction: the inside story of a $60m art forgery hoax

  28-08-2020 16:12
  
  For 15 years, one of New York’s most prestigious art galleries sold forged paintings – a new film explores how the art world fell for itIn November 2011, the arthouse Knoedler & Company – an Upper East Side mainstay and one of modern art’s most trusted and elite shops – shuttered in the middle of a show. The venerable gallery, founded in 1846, had weathered the civil war, two global conflicts, bankruptcy, the expansion of the American art market, purchase by the
  
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• Grayson Perry gets crafty and Georg Baselitz goes for gold – the week in art

  28-08-2020 16:11
  
  Two major museums reopen, Elizabeth Price comes to London and Picasso’s studio is remade – all in your weekly dispatchGrayson Perry: Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
  As the British Museum reopens, Perry explores the universal human themes of death and mourning in its global exhibits.
  • British Museum, London, ongoing. Continue reading...
  
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• Bill Arnett, Dead At 81, Brought Unknown Southern Black Artists To The World’s Attention

  28-08-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Among the artists whose works he bought, exhibited, and donated to museums (and to some of whom he paid regular stipends) were Thornton Dial Sr., Lonnie Holley, Bessie Harvey, Mose Tolliver, and the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama — and he would compare their art to that of Rauschenberg, Johns and de Kooning. His efforts did not go without criticism, though, including accusations of white paternalism and enthusiasm to the point of pushiness. – The New York Times
  
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• What Came Out Of The First-Ever ‘Opera Hack’? This

  28-08-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Just over a year ago, San Diego Opera gathered 40 opera industry artists and cutting-edge technology designers from around the country for a first-of-its-kind Opera Hack weekend, with the goal of finding 21st century ways to modernize the 400-year-old art form. On Wednesday, the public finally got a look at the three ideas that earned the green light to move forward.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• Graduate Project Assistant / INK / London / London

  28-08-2020 15:10
  Overview
  We’re on the lookout for a Project Assistant who is looking for their first steps in the creative producing industry. 
  This is a great entry level position for a recent graduate...
  
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• Old Dutch Master Painting Stolen For Third Time In 32 Years

  28-08-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Frans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer (1626) was taken by robbers from a small museum south of Utrecht in 1988 and was not recovered for three years; it was pilfered again in 2011 and was missing for six months. At around 3:30 Wednesday morning, thieves got it again. Amsterdam-based Arthur Brand, the world’s only star art detective, says it was likely “stolen to order.” – BBC
  
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• Major Broadway Theater Operator Sues Insurers For Coronavirus Payments

  28-08-2020 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jujamcyn Theaters, the operator of five Broadway houses, has sued its insurers for denying it millions of dollars that the theater company says it deserves as payment for the losses suffered during the monthslong coronavirus pandemic shutdown.” – The New York Times
  
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• Black British Poets - 1945-1970 (online poetry course) / Live Canon / Online

  28-08-2020 14:20
  This course explores the incredibly vibrancy of black British poetry in the wake of the windrush. The course will be packed with interviews with keys poets, and literary historians specialising in...
  
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• Writing Poetry for Children (online poetry course) / Live Canon / Online

  28-08-2020 14:17
  Explore the history of poetry for children, and embark on writing your own work - with weekly feedback (including feedback from a panel of young readers!)
  This is a six-week course, running from...
  
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• Bolsonaro Gov’t Is Dismantling South America’s Largest Film And TV Archive

  28-08-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo houses more than 250,000 rolls of film and employed some of the continent’s best film-restoration technicians. Over the 19 months since Bolsonaro abolished Brazil’s Ministry of Culture, his government has fired the technical staff, stopped paying other employees and then fired them as well, terminated the contract with the foundation that managed the archive, and left it without security, air conditioning, or fire protection. – Art
  
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• Supporting Mental Health in the Arts and Cultural Sector / Artswork / National

  28-08-2020 13:46
  With the Coronavirus pandemic exacerbating an already alarming mental health crisis in young people, supporting the mental wellbeing of those you work with has never been more critical than it is...
  
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• Rag Paper Riches Exhibition by David James Kearney / Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery / West Midlands

  28-08-2020 13:22
  Enjoy some moments of tranquillity amongst the beautiful paintings of Warwickshire based artist David James Kearney.
   
  Depicting local scenes you will recognise as well as views from further...
  
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• Interpretation Developer / Science Museum Group / Yorkshire

  28-08-2020 12:57
  The National Railway Museum (NRM), as part of the Science Museum Group (SMG), exists to inspire the next generation with the past, present and future of the railways. As we embark on the biggest...
  
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• Gallery Assistant / Pi Artworks London / London / London

  28-08-2020 12:50
  Maintain day to day routine for  upcoming shows at the London Gallery
  First point of contact for all gallery visitors
  Liaise between director and curators, exhibiting artists,  and...
  
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• Musical Facilitator, The Music Lab / Sound Connections / London

  28-08-2020 12:46
  Sound Connections are delighted to announce that we are launching The Music Lab an action research project with Dr Anna Bull, University of Portsmouth and Lewisham Music.
  The Music Lab project will...
  
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• Nightingale 2020 Film Project Volunteer / The Florence Nightingale Museum / London

  28-08-2020 12:29
  The Florence Nightingale Museum celebrates the life and work of the world’s most famous nurse. Located on the banks of the river Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament, the Museum attracts...
  
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• Exhibitions Project Manager / Science Museum Group / Yorkshire

  28-08-2020 12:07
  The National Railway Museum (NRM), as part of the Science Museum Group (SMG), exists to inspire the next generation with the past, present and future of the railways. As we embark on the biggest...
  
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• Assistant Collection Manager: Storage and Moves / British Museum / London

  28-08-2020 11:40
  Assistant Collection Manager: Storage and Moves Collection Projects and Resources     Full time Fixed Term, 18 months£22,580 per annum Application Deadline: 11 September...
  
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• Calling all artists and creatives! / Rural Arts North Yorkshire / Yorkshire / Thirsk

  28-08-2020 11:22
  Calling all artists and creatives!
   
  Rural Arts is looking to widen and diversify its pool of artists teaching creative workshops across North Yorkshire.
   
  Whatever visual arts...
  
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• Impact and Evaluation Officer / Charnwood Arts / East Midlands

  28-08-2020 11:06
  Charnwood Arts is seeking an Impact and Evaluation Office, and the overall purpose of this role is to design and implement a new and unique way of capturing, interpreting and feeding back internal...
  
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• It’s a brutal time for London’s National Gallery, but also a brilliant time to visit

  28-08-2020 10:11
  
  Tickets to the famous museum are selling well, but with capacity reduced masterworks remain gloriously uncrowded
  Plus London galleries to visit this bank holiday weekendOn 10 July at 10.55am there were 20 people in the queue for the National Gallery, which had just reopened after 111 days of Covid-related closure. The Sainsbury Wing entrance bristled with the now-familiar precautions – extended barriers, hand sanitiser, extra staff – and we passed through to a movingly warm welcome.S
  
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• Snapshot of a strange year: Portrait of Britain 2020 – in pictures

  28-08-2020 08:00
  
  The nation’s biggest photography exhibition is viewed by millions. This year’s images include a pampered pooch, a Hindu wedding and life under lockdownSee the British Journal of Photography’s 100 winning entries, which will be on display around the UKContinue reading...
  
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• Hundreds Of Canadian Radio And TV Stations Warn They’ll Have To Close

  28-08-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As many as 40 local television outlets and 200 Canadian radio stations could be forced to close in the next three years as the financial pressures faced by media companies intensify under the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests a new study from an industry advocacy group. – CBC
  
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