Arts news

• Women Directors Made Almost Half The Films At This Year’s Venice Festival

  04-09-2020 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is an unprecedented percentile which we hope augurs well for a future cinema that is free of any sort of prejudice and discrimination.” – Toronto Star
  
  Read more

• Thank Goodness For Caremongering

  04-09-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over decades and centuries, mutual aid has helped people pay rent, buy groceries, and acquire medicine; it has given workers something where there is so much nothing to be had, and it has given luckier people a way to help out in desperate times. So why weren’t we doing mutual aid before—everybody, all the time? Well, Black people were. – The Walrus
  
  Read more

• What Sources Will Historians Of The Future Use To Make Sense Of 2020?

  04-09-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A child today will be a historian of 2020 in the future. What sources will they turn to? How will they verify scattered memories? How will people tell the story of the tumultuous times that we’re living in today? 2020 may be a year for the history “books” but of course, the record we leave behind will be digital in manner. – The Conversation
  
  Read more

• The Duke review – art thief takes one for the common man

  04-09-2020 22:15
  
  Roger Michell’s warm take on the true story of how Kempton Bunton acquired the National Gallery’s new Goya features a glorious performance by Jim Broadbent
  All rise for The Duke, a scrappy underdog yarn that makes a powerful case for the rackety English amateur, the common man who survives by his wits with the odds stacked against him. Kempton Bunton of Byker, for instance, is about as far removed from the Duke of Wellington as a frog is from a prince. But now the Duke is trapped beh
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• How To Explain How New Yorkers Talk?

  04-09-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To an outsider, someone from, say, Toronto or Seattle or London, a conversation among New Yorkers may resemble a verbal wrestling match. Everyone seems to talk at once, butting in with questions and comments, being loud, rude and aggressive. Actually, according to the American linguist E J White, they’re just being nice. – Literary Review
  
  Read more

• Why Does Time Seem To Speed Up As We Age?

  04-09-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To a ten-year-old child a year is a tenth of her existence, and thus feels like something of a stretch. For someone who’s twice her age a year is only a twentieth of the time they’ve already had, and by the time you get to 60, well, I’d say it doesn’t bear thinking about were it not for the fact that thinking about it is all you do once you get to a certain age … – The Critic
  
  Read more

• How A Speech Coach Saved Janet Malcolm’s Bacon In Her Libel Trial

  04-09-2020 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first time that Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s lawsuit against Malcolm and The New Yorker went to court, she writes, the personal manner she and her colleagues at the magazine had cultivated turned out to be disastrous: the jury ruled against her, and it was amazing luck that they deadlocked on how much to award Masson and the judge declared a mistrial. So she went to see speech coach Sam Chwat, and she recounts here how the things he taught her changed everything the second time around.
  
  Read more

• Cancel Culture? This Too Shall Pass

  04-09-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So what to make of the apparent growing strength of cancel culture and affiliated movements? Here is the fundamental point: With the rise of social media and low-cost communications, virtually everything that can be said, will be said. – Bloomberg
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• There’s One Country In The Americas Where An Indigenous Language Is Still In Constant Use

  04-09-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Paraguayan Guaraní – a language descended from several indigenous tongues – remains one of the main languages of 70% of the country’s population. And unlike other widely spoken native tongues – such as Quechua, Aymara or the Mayan languages – it is overwhelmingly spoken by non-indigenous people.” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Could Changing Our Work Weeks Mitigate Layoffs?

  04-09-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One potential avenue to spare redundancies is a move to a four-day workweek. While the idea has been toyed with for decades, new and adaptable working situations ushered in by Covid-19 have sparked an entirely new conversation on the subject. So much so, in fact, that MPs in the UK are pushing for a four-day workweek to cut costs and mitigate redundancies. – Artnet
  
  Read more

• Facilitator / Storyteller / take stock exchange / London

  04-09-2020 19:17
  Details:- Part time: October/November 2020 (begins: 2nd October)- Fee: £900 (6 days @ £150/day)
  How to apply:- Deadline: Mon 21st September, 12pm. Interviews: 24th - 30th...
  
  Read more

• New Online Courses available / Bishopsgate Institute / London

  04-09-2020 19:12
  Are you looking to test your photography skills? Or maybe write your life story? Perhaps you're itching to learn more about the history of London? Whatever your passion,...
  
  Read more

• ‘Patriotism Ain’t No One Song’ — A Classical Critic Considers America’s Anthems (Plural)

  04-09-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Andor Brodeur looks at the NFL’s decision to add “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” to “The Star-Spangled Banner” before games, and ponders other anthems (because that’s what they are) ranging from “God Bless America” to “This Land Is Your Land” to “The Times They Are A-Changin'” to “Born in the U.S.A.” (and maybe even “Strange Fruit”). “However varied these many musical visions of patri
  
  Read more

• Tate cuts all ties with controversial patron Anthony d'Offay

  04-09-2020 18:43
  
  Move comes after criticism over racist imagery and allegations of sexual harassmentThe Tate has cut all ties with its controversial benefactor and patron Anthony d’Offay after criticism over racist imagery and allegations of sexual harassment.The Tate, which runs four internationally renowned art museums in London, Liverpool and St Ives, has also agreed to remove all public signage citing the 80-year-old collector’s name. Related: Arts workers on South Bank in London rally against Co
  
  Read more

• Marketing & Digital Officer / London Philharmonic Orchestra / London

  04-09-2020 18:41
  The London Philharmonic Orchestra is looking for a creative-thinking Marketing & Digital Officer.  This is an excellent opportunity to play an active role in promoting the Orchestra's events...
  
  Read more

• Report: Global Movie Box Office Down 66 Percent For 2020

  04-09-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the U.S., the firm’s annual study projects a 65.7 percent decline from $11.4 billion in 2019 to $3.9 billion this year. The firm warned that “the whole cinema ecosystem will be dramatically affected,” with cinema revenue, comprised of box office and cinema advertising (but excluding concession sales in cinemas and movie merchandising), set to contract globally at a 2.4 percent compound annual rate from 2019 to end 2024 with $39.9 billion. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
  Read more

• Freelance - National Campaign: Guild / East Street Arts / North East

  04-09-2020 18:28
  Guild is a four year Arts Council England funded programme in support of the development and resilience of artists spaces.
  We are looking for an artist, artist collective or organisations to work...
  
  Read more

• The Museum of Gloucester has re-opened! / / South West

  04-09-2020 18:14
  We are very excited to announce that the Museum of Gloucester and Gloucester Tourist Information Centre have re-opened!
  From Tuesday 1 September 2020, our new opening hours will...
  
  Read more

• Art thief's story The Duke steals limelight at Venice film festival

  04-09-2020 18:14
  
  Jim Broadbent plays Kempton Bunton, the ex-bus driver accused of carrying out one of the most infamous heists in British historyThe story of an ex-bus driver and cabbie from Newcastle upon Tyne who was accused of executing one of the most infamous heists in British history has been given a starring role at this year’s Venice film festival.The Duke, which stars Jim Broadbent as the unlikely art “thief” Kempton Bunton and Helen Mirren as his wife, premiered on the Lido on Friday
  
  Read more

• Jazz Was Born As Resistance Music. It Got Institutionalized. Can It Get Its Protest Mojo Back?

  04-09-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As it evolved, jazz remained a resistance music precisely because it was the sound of Black Americans building something together, in the face of repression. But at the end of the 1960s, … schools and universities across the country began welcoming jazz as America’s so-called ‘classical music,’ canonizing its older styles and effectively freezing it in place. … Partly as a result, the music has become inaccessible to, and disconnected from, many of the ver
  
  Read more

• Trustee 3x / GEM, Group for Education in Museums / London

  04-09-2020 17:44
  GEM is a thriving and vibrant membership network of over 1,500 museum and heritage professionals. 
  At this time, the GEM Board is looking to co-opt three new Trustees with experience and...
  
  Read more

• How Creative Workers Are Adapting During Shutdown

  04-09-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged all parts of the economy, and culture workers are among the hardest hit. Yet some have managed to keep their jobs — and even thrive — while others are still struggling or have pivoted to new roles. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• The First Live Musical On The West End Since Lockdown Will Be —

  04-09-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  — Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World, which will get matinee and evening performances (socially distanced, of course) on Sunday, October 11 at the London Palladium, the theatre where Andrew Lloyd Webber presented a trial show in July. – WhatsOnStage (London)
  
  Read more

• Trustee / Spike Island / South West / Bristol

  04-09-2020 16:39
  Spike Island is looking for new Trustees to join our Board
  Spike Island is a dynamic arts centre that supports, produces and presents contemporary art and culture. We engage audiences in our work...
  
  Read more

• David Graeber, Author Of ‘Bullshit Jobs’ And Co-Organizer Of Occupy Wall Street, Dead At 59

  04-09-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years was an anti-capitalist analysis that struck a chord with many readers in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Graeber’s rigorous, readable radicalism was showcased again in the 2018 book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory.” A longtime activist, he was with the Occupy movement from its very earliest stages; calling themselves, and most of the rest of us, “the 99%” was his idea. – AP
  
  Read more

• Freelance consultant for Impact and Evaluation Study / Foundation for Future London / London

  04-09-2020 16:24
  Tender Invite for Impact and Evaluation Study of the Westfield Stratford City Programme
  The Foundation for Future London is seeking to appoint consultants or a consortium of consultants to design,...
  
  Read more

• Have A Look At L.A.’s New Streetlights

  04-09-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Team names and locations were not attached to the submissions when a panel of six professionals … judged them, so it was with surprise and delight that the jury discovered it had selected a design from a small, L.A.-based collective called Project Room.” – Los Angeles Times
  
  Read more

• Producer / Take Me Somewhere Festival / Glasgow, Scotland

  04-09-2020 16:00
  Take Me Somewhere is looking for a Producer to work across Take Me Somewhere and Tramway. The post is funded and supported by Creative Scotland for one year. The role will encompass planning,...
  
  Read more

• Diploma Tutor (Jewellery Manufacturing/CAD/Design) / British Academy of Jewellery / London

  04-09-2020 15:49
  The British Academy of Jewellery aims to be a jewellery school where technical training is not an afterthought. Where technical skills are not seen as a hindrance to creativity, but where knowledge...
  
  Read more

• The Speaking Dancer - online workshop / Dance Research Studio / London

  04-09-2020 15:32
  Free online workshop led by Jacky Lansley and Sally E. Dean
  During the pandemic crisis we have all been severely challenged while struggling to maintain emotional and physical equilibrium within the...
  
  Read more

• Funding available now for East London residents & organisations / Foundation for Future London / London

  04-09-2020 15:31
  New Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund launches small grant scheme for East LondonA small grant scheme to kickstart projects, business and start ups and people’s employment...
  
  Read more

• Colorado Ballet Furloughs All Its Dancers

  04-09-2020 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Virtual rehearsals had been running for five weeks when [company members] got the news: Colorado Ballet’s PPP loan had run out, and [all] of Colorado Ballet’s dancers were being furloughed.” – Denverite
  
  Read more

• Domestic - call for proposals / hÃ…b/Word of Warning / North West

  04-09-2020 15:11
  Domestic
  What can you make when your kitchen table is the stage + your camera is the audience?An online beta-test platform for new live art + contemporary performance from your...
  
  Read more

• Emergency 2020 - call for proposals / hÃ…b/Word of Warning & Contact / North West

  04-09-2020 15:09
  Emergency
  A live, socially-distanced walkthrough event for durational and/or looping live art and contemporary performance.
  On Sat 21 November, the 21st Emergency will take place in its seventh...
  
  Read more

• Early-Stage Dementia Awareness Training for Arts Organisations / Arts 4 Dementia / London / Online event available world-wide

  04-09-2020 15:09
  Thursday 10 September, 10:00 - 17:00 via ZoomThis interactive early-stage dementia awareness training is specifically for arts facilitators and learning teams from arts organisations. The...
  
  Read more

• New BBC Boss Rules Out Change To Subscription Model

  04-09-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the old-yet-new-again debate over the licence fee (charges to every UK household that owns a TV) that funds the national broadcaster — and appointed by a Conservative government that doesn’t much like the fee or the BBC itself — incoming director general Tim Davie rejected the option of making the network a cable-style subscription-only offering: “I do not want a subscription BBC that serves the few.” – BBC
  
  Read more

• Spooky spirits and pandemic portraits – the week in art

  04-09-2020 15:00
  
  Chichester raises a pint to a London Underground poster designer, Danh Vo explores where Catholicism and consumerism meet, and artists pay heartfelt tribute to Covid sufferers – all in your weekly dispatchNot Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium
  The Victorian medium Georgiana Houghton created swirling abstract artworks that record her encounters in the spirit world. She and William Blake, who portrayed the spirit of Milton from “life”, are among the artists past and present
  
  Read more

• The Biggest Problem BBC’s New Chief Has To Solve

  04-09-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s funding, of course. Over the long term, it’s probably increasing income from exported BBC programming. But in the near term, it’s what to do about the TV licence fee that funds the whole operation — and getting his decision past “a government that has a big majority, is a bit vengeful and not very strategic.” – Variety
  
  Read more

• IT Service Manager / Royal Museums Greenwich / London

  04-09-2020 14:29
  The post holder will be responsible for managing and developing the day to day operations of the Museum Service Desk function and team ensuring an effective, efficient and best value IT Service is...
  
  Read more

• Online lecture series: Looking to the present / The Royal Photographic Society / South West / London

  04-09-2020 14:15
  This first, of a three-part series, led by Colin Pantall, consists of eight lectures. It will introduce you to the contemporary practice of photography through examples that link the historical,...
  
  Read more

• Conference: the collodion process past and present / The Royal Photographic Society / South West / London

  04-09-2020 14:11
  The announcement in The Chemist (March, 1851) of Frederick Scott Archer’s wet-collodion process transformed how photography was practiced professionally and by amateur photographers...
  
  Read more

• Why Australia’s $75 Million Arts Rescue Package Is A Mess

  04-09-2020 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The recipients will be selected by Department [of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications] officials. Their proposals must be ‘efficient, effective, economical and ethical’.” (Which means … ?) “And, perhaps most crucially, … the final say on where the grants go will be placed in the hands of the federal minister for the arts” rather than any arm’s-length panel. – The Conversation
  
  Read more

• Collections Project Officer / National Collections Centre, Science Museum Group / South West

  04-09-2020 13:46
  Do you want the opportunity to work with one of the world’s greatest science, technology and medicine collections? Have you got excellent attention to detail, organisation and team-working...
  
  Read more

• Board of Trustees / The PurpleDoor / North West

  04-09-2020 13:40
  About UsThe PurpleDoor is a new theatre space opening in Liverpool, where all tickets will be free. We are proposing a truly revolutionary model of 'new' theatre, where there are no tickets, were all...
  
  Read more

• Conservator / National Collections Centre, Science Museum Group / South West

  04-09-2020 13:01
  Do you want to help SMG provide unprecedented public access to our incredible collection? Have you got a passion for the conservation of meaningful objects?
  We are recruiting for a Conservator to...
  
  Read more

• Workshop manager & making facilitator / Making It Out CIO / South East / Brighton

  04-09-2020 12:50
  Making It Out was established in 2018 to address lack of meaningful regular activity for people who have recently left prison or are at risk of going there. We work by engaging individuals in...
  
  Read more

• Design Age Institute Senior Design Manager / Royal College of Art / London

  04-09-2020 12:37
  The Royal College of Art is setting up a new design institute dedicated to supporting the UK Government’s Grand Challenge on Ageing. The new centre, the Design Age Institute (DAI), will provide...
  
  Read more

• Design Age Institute Impact Manager / Royal College of Art / London

  04-09-2020 12:34
  The Royal College of Art is setting up a new design institute dedicated to supporting the UK Government’s Grand Challenge on Ageing. The new centre, the Design Age Institute (DAI), will provide...
  
  Read more

• Chief Operating Officer/ Deputy Chief Executive / Kent Music / South East / Maidstone

  04-09-2020 12:31
  Chief Operating Officer/ Deputy Chief Executive
  £45,000 - £50,000 plus pension contribution of up to 3% of salary
  This is an exciting new role in the organisation with responsibility...
  
  Read more

• Frame Designer / Fletcher Gallery Services / London

  04-09-2020 11:58
  Fletcher Gallery Services is a bespoke conservation picture framing company, established in 1979 and based in Smithfield in the City of London.
  We currently have a full time position available for...
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!