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• Submissions for Visual Arts Festival now open / Underneath the Floorboards / London

  31-08-2020 23:43
  Submissions now open for the next edition of 'Underneath the Floorboards' Experimental Film/ Documentary & Visual/ Digital Arts Festival in London
  Underneath the Floorboards is a visual arts,...
  
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• Call out for submissions - work relating to Extinction Rebellion / The Rebel Zine / London / South West

  31-08-2020 23:35
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  Are you a creative person with a connection to Extinction Rebellion? Or do you have work that you are making that relates to what XR do?
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• New Documentary Examines $60 Million Art Fraud

  31-08-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For 15 years, Knoedler had procured and sold at least 40 fraudulent paintings – an astounding $60m of forged work attributed to such modern American masters as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell. It was, according to Driven to Abstraction, a new documentary on the scandal, “the greatest forgery hoax ever of modern American art”. – The Guardian
  
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• How Choruses Are Figuring Out How To Sing Together

  31-08-2020 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are few answers about this disease. But the choral community has come together to figure out how 54 million people in America who sing in a chorus can do so safely. Choral leaders have developed software for online singing and created virtual choirs. Companies are inventing face masks that can be worn for singing. Several universities, including the University of Cincinnati, are conducting studies on the spread of aerosols while singing or playing instruments, and how it can be mitigated.
  
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• A New Shakespearean Theatre Recreation In Connecticut?

  31-08-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The theater in Stratford, Connecticut, modeled on Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London, burned down in January 2019 as the result of arson. The theater building had not hosted an indoor performance in decades, though the surrounding lawn has continued to be sacred ground for Shakespeare fans, with performances by a summertime Shakespeare Academy and local outdoor Shakespeare troupes as well as community festivals. – Hartford Courant
  
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• After ISIS: Syria’s Damaged Architecture Is Being Restored

  31-08-2020 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Syria’s architectural legacy has been a well-known victim and propaganda tool of the civil war. Islamic State famously took pleasure in detonating the temples and tower-tombs of Palmyra, with the delicate paintings and sculptures that they contained, and making sure the world knew about it. – The Guardian
  
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• Diversity Diversion: Plumbing Museums’ “Pipeline” Problem in Hiring Minorities

  31-08-2020 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the persistent lag in hiring minorities is arguably a manifestation of museums’ systemic racism, it is also a “pipeline problem” — the relative scarcity of well-trained minority candidates. But if a museum official were to state this publicly, it would likely be dismissed as a cop-out. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Are Orchestras “Better than Ever”? — What Not to Tell a Young Musician

  31-08-2020 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Orchestras are better than ever” – if you mean that, literally, you mean that in terms of the role the institution plays in Minneapolis or Philadelphia or Boston, it has a bigger and more important role than it’s ever had in the past. Anybody who says that – they don’t know what an orchestra is. So this is a dangerous thing to tell young musicians. – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• Lang Lang, the Goldberg Variations and roads that were (long) not taken

  31-08-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bach isn’t exactly the kind of composer for which Lang Lang became famous. In fact, he’s known the Goldbergs for a long time now, and the piece fits him better than you might expect. – David Patrick Stearns
  
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• What Next After Zoom Fatigue

  31-08-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zoom fatigue is the feeling of utter hopelessness after your ninth video call of the day, and experts say it’s brought on because the technology overtaxes your brain. Presented with a cropped, often blurry image of a human and a few milliseconds of lag throughout the conversation, your mind splits its attention between what people are saying and what’s happening on the screen, longing for nonverbal cues that just don’t cross over. – Vox
  
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• Research: Knowledge Workers Are More Productive Working From Home

  31-08-2020 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In sum, lockdown has been positive for knowledge worker productivity in the short term. But it has also created some concerns and challenges around longer-term effectiveness, creativity, and personal resilience. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Discovery: US Teen Wrote 20,000 Wikipedia Entries In a Language They Don’t Speak

  31-08-2020 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alongside Gaelic, Scots is one of the indigenous languages of Scotland. The thousands of Wikipedia entries written in it make up one of the largest collections of the Scots language you can access online for free. The problem is an American teenager from North Carolina — who can’t speak the language — wrote 49 percent of all the entries.  – Engadget
  
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• Why Americans Are Such Terrible Writers

  31-08-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If your children are in secondary school and are not writing essays, they are being swindled of their chance to do well in college. If you are a college student who is rarely required to submit a paper, you are being cheated of your chance to do well in life. – Intellectual Takeout
  
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• Educationist Sir Kenneth Robinson, 70

  31-08-2020 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He told the audience at TED in 2006: “I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new concept of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness of human capacity. Our education system has mined our minds in the way we strip-mined the earth for a particular commodity. We have to rethink the fundamental principles in which we are educating our children.” Understandably, this was much more enticing to the education profession than it was to
  
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• The Racial Anxiety Behind Music Reaction Videos

  31-08-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sure, they’re joyful, but … “the viral popularity of this display of intergenerational sympathy — Black 20-somethings professing love for a white boomer’s pop-rock chestnut — may also tell us something else about the ambient tensions and neuroses that are, you might say, in the air.” – The New York Times
  
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• Picasso's desperate obscenities: show of late works captures a still raging genius

  31-08-2020 16:52
  
  Atelier Picasso, Bastian Gallery, London
  This thrilling, gruelling exhibition lays bare Picasso’s twilight years in a palatial villa in Cannes – outrageous, tortured and searching for the priapic energy of his youthEveryone runs out of steam eventually. In the case of Pablo Picasso, the process was lengthy and he fought it with flashes of fury, lust and wit. He obviously didn’t think of himself as old when, in his 70s, he posed bare-chested for the photograph that appears at th
  
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• The British Museum Moves A Bust Of Its Founder

  31-08-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sir Hans Sloane, whose collection first formed the basis of the museum, gained much of his wealth by enslaving people. The museum moved his bust “from a plinth to a smaller display case accompanied by text discussing the naturalist’s connections to the slave trade.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• How ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Changed Some Of Its Actresses’ Lives

  31-08-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Eight years ago, Samira Wiley and Uzo Aduba were struggling New York actors working service jobs when they auditioned for a new series from a movie-rental service-turned-streaming site called Netflix.” And Aduba isn’t taking anything for granted. “There was a lifetime of famine. The appreciation is there. It’s not like it was 50 years ago when I used to work at that restaurant. We can touch that time.” – The New York Times
  
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• She Said She Would Write The Essay Herself

  31-08-2020 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On reading, and really feeling, Virginia Woolf as a middle-aged writer. – LitHub
  
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• Fake Rembrandt May Be Fake News

  31-08-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In other words, the painting fragment consigned to the basement of the Ashmolean at Oxford may be a real Rembrandt. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Donegal locals campaign to turn beached boat into work of art

  31-08-2020 15:28
  
  Fishing vessel Bád Eddie has become a tourist attraction since being abandoned on a Gweedore beach in 1977The fishing boat came ashore for minor repairs at Magheraclogher beach near Bunbeg in 1977 but the repairs never happened and Bád Eddie – Eddie’s Boat, in Irish – never left.It stayed wedged in the sand, abandoned to the elements in this windswept patch of County Donegal on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. Continue reading...
  
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• Tracee Ellis Ross On Finding Her Way In Hollywood

  31-08-2020 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To be fair, she wasn’t lost. The system was. “Representation isn’t the same as legitimization. When Girlfriends aired, shows featuring Black casts were categorized as ‘Black,’ a label that was perceived as less serious, less substantive. (The show was often called the ‘‘urban’ version of Sex and the City‘—a descriptor that, when I reminded Ross of it, made her put her head in her hands.) By the time Black-ish&n
  
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• Open Call for 2020 MFA graduates of London Art Schools / bern69 / London

  31-08-2020 15:08
  bern69 – a nomadic artist-run space by Nadia Berri.
  I have always considered curators and exhibition-makers to be artists, playing with and creating their own worlds and telling their...
  
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• The Coming Coronavirus Changes To Museum Architecture

  31-08-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some ideas: “Study the chokepoints, bottlenecks, and pinch points that museums share—such as the entrances, queuing zones, and access area for exhibits.… Look at ways that all food may be consumed outdoors, which works for museums with the right environmental conditions. Similarly, those cultural venues may have opportunities for outdoor temporary exhibitions, if their artworks and exhibits can be properly protected.” But that’s all with the hope that this will be
  
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• How Chadwick Boseman Made Dignity Look Interesting

  31-08-2020 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s a hard task for any actor, and Boseman had to – got to – play Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and Jackie Robinson (not to mention embodying the fictional King of Wakanda, T’Challa). “I’ll confess to finding it odd that Boseman played these three roles so quickly. It seemed at first like a joke on the movies’ ongoing obsession with stories about exceptional Black Americans or like Hollywood was too lazy to imagine anyone else inhabiting the except
  
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• Banksy Funded (And Painted, Using A Fire Extinguisher) A Refugee Rescue Boat

  31-08-2020 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The boat ran into trouble over the weekend – every refugee aboard was rescued by another boat – because it was overloaded, but: “Named after Louise Michel, the 19th century French feminist and anarchist, the boat features elements of Banksy’s idiosyncratic visual language.” The refugees await what’s known as “a Port of Safety,” in official terms. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Figuring Out Love, And Intimacy, In The Middle Of A Pandemic

  31-08-2020 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Writer Akwaeke Emezi and photographer Texas Isaiah, with the help of many couples, try to figure it all out. “I have never spent this much time with myself;to become my own favorite companion is a new and strange thing for me. I was always looking for someone else, and now I’m terrified of finding them. Perhaps they don’t exist outside of my imagination.”– The New York Times
  
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