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• How Chaotic Will Tonight’s Virtual Emmys Actually Be?

  20-09-2020 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Creative Arts Emmys wrapped with an awards snafu after five nights of awards, but Primetime Emmys are coming to the screen, or screens, on Sunday night. Picture 130 video feeds at once, many of them operated remotely or by the nominees. “It’s honestly pretty nifty, but it contains the potential for so, so much chaos.” – Vox
  
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• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Loved Opera, And Opera Loved Her Back

  20-09-2020 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Justice Ginsburg’s death was reported Friday night, tributes poured in from everyone associated with the art form. “She saw her first opera — a condensed version of La Gioconda — in 1944, when she was 11, and was immediately hooked, becoming the kind of aficionado who goes to dress rehearsals, and then opening nights, and then closing nights, too, for good measure.” – The New York Times
  
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• While TikTok Makes A Deal, A Judge Keeps WeChat Around, For Now

  20-09-2020 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Early Sunday morning, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco said in an order that the Commerce Department’s prohibitions against the popular Chinese messaging app “burden substantially more speech than is necessary to serve the government’s significant interest in national security, especially given the lack of substitute channels for communication.” – Reuters
  
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• Best Seller Inception Loop

  20-09-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  How do you write a best seller? Long years of hard work and editing? Sheer lightning and writing skill? All of this, and also by getting published by Penguin Random House. – The New York Times
  
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• Royal Academy Claims It Needs To Sell A Michelangelo To Fund 150 Jobs

  20-09-2020 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Should the Royal Academy sell the “Taddei Tondo,” nickname for Michelangelo’s The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John? “The 515-year-old sculpture had been given to the London gallery in 1829 following the death of its owner, Lady Margaret Beaumont, as an inspiration to students in the academy’s schools.” The debate is contentious. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Early Years Ballet, Tap and Street Dance teachers in SE London / Eos Dance / South East / London

  20-09-2020 21:11
  Due to expansion, Eos Dance is recruiting new EARLY YEARS Ballet, Tap and Street Dance teachers in SE London. Weekdays after-school (Mon to Fri), Saturday and Sunday morning slots...
  
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• Anne Stevenson, Poet And Biographer Of Sylvia Plath, 87

  20-09-2020 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The poet completed 16 poetry collections and won prestigious prizes, including from the Lannan Foundation for lifetime achievement. But she’s most well-known for a biography of Sylvia Plath, which veered from the accepted narrative of Plath’s husband, poet Ted Hughes, “portraying Ms. Plath as ‘a wall of unrelenting rage’ prone to outrageous behavior, while depicting Mr. Hughes as generous and caring.” – The New York Times
  
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• Can You Spot A Social Media Troll?

  20-09-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s getting harder and harder. “As the tools for online media evolve faster than the public’s visual and media literacy, this was bound to happen.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Writing and Mindfulness Workshops for Women / Women MAKE Stories / London

  20-09-2020 20:27
  ONLINE WRITING AND MINDFULNESS WORKSHOPS
  Saturday 17 October 2020 at 10 am (BST)
  This online 90 minute workshop is all about grounding you in the present moment and stimulate your imagination...
  
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• RBG’s Filmmakers Reflect On Their Access To Her Extraordinary Life

  20-09-2020 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Julie Cohen and Betsy West spent years making the documentary RBG. Cohen learned a lot: “When you think of power and toughness, you expect that you’re talking about a big, loud, forceful man and Justice Ginsburg was none of those things. … She was tiny, she had a soft voice, she was an introvert. And yet there was just no question that she had power and that power came both from the wattage that was her brain but also from her level of determination.” – Los Angele
  
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• The Guardian view on good style: it makes life better | Editorial

  20-09-2020 19:25
  
  Design is all around us – let it be beautiful and feed our soul“Art,” wrote William Morris in the socialist newspaper Commonweal, in April 1885, “is man’s embodied expression of interest in the life of man; it springs from man’s pleasure in his life.” Of course, life was not all pleasure. There was grief and pain in abundance, but there was also memory, hope and, above all, the attention that could be paid to the unavoidable business of daily living: &ld
  
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• Art Tutor - Newbury, Berkshire / Creative Art Classes / South East

  20-09-2020 18:25
  Art Tutor - One day per week - Thursday
  Must be able to get to Shaw, Newbury, Berkshire
   
  Are you a sociable, warm, friendly and nurturing artist/art teacher who can teach art to...
  
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• Taiwanese art and Thai protests: Best photos of the weekend

  20-09-2020 15:40
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Creative Infrastructure Labs / In Certain Places / North West

  20-09-2020 12:04
  Throughout autumn, In Certain Places (an artistic research project at the University of Central Lancashire) is running a series of public events exploring creative approaches to community...
  
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• Danh Vo: Chicxulub; Flow review – artists of the floating world

  20-09-2020 10:00
  
  White Cube Bermondsey, London; Modern Art Oxford
  Danh Vo lights fires in the gallery with his moving new meditation on God and nature. And what does it mean to be lost in the moment?My heart stopped to see a familiar letter in this deeply affecting new show by Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo. It was written in 1861, by a French missionary imprisoned in Vietnam. He is in a cage and about to be beheaded. Yet he wishes to reassure his dear father back home that this is nothing: only the cutting of
  
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• Royal Academy's cruel dilemma: sell a Michelangelo or lose 150 jobs

  20-09-2020 09:31
  
  The cash-strapped London gallery is to debate the sale of a Renaissance masterpiece that could fetch more than £100mWhen the British artist John Constable first saw Michelangelo’s marble masterpiece, known as the Taddei Tondo, in the Royal Academy, he said it was “one of the most beautiful works of art in existence”.The 515-year-old sculpture had been given to the London gallery in 1829 following the death of its owner, Lady Margaret Beaumont, as an inspiration to student
  
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