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• Decision To Delay Guston Show Divides The Art World

  25-09-2020 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What those who criticize this decision do not understand is that in the past few months the context in the U.S. has fundamentally, profoundly changed on issues of incendiary and toxic racist imagery in art, regardless of the virtue or intention of the artist who created it.” – The New York Times
  
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• Emergency 2020 - Call for proposals / ha…b/Word of Warning & Contact / North West

  25-09-2020 23:52
  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...
  
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• Is Restoration Versus Opportunity A False Choice For The Arts?

  25-09-2020 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of the things we’re learning in the Covid-19 era is that is that community is not defined only by proximity, or space. It’s defined by interest, and I think a lot about the music that we have in our repertoire and the music that should be more a part of the traditional canon of our repertoire.” – Medium
  
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• Hybrid Theatre – Virtual And In Person

  25-09-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Institute for Counterfeit Memory” cannily employs the devices it provides to bring you back to the feeling of being in a room with other spectators, even as it reminds you that you are alone. Its ministrations so impressed me that when I turned over the final cue card instructing me to applaud, I actually did. – Washington Post
  
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• IFAI – Director of Development

  25-09-2020 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The International Festival of Arts & Ideas (Festival) celebrates and builds community, engages with vital issues, and promotes the arts. Each year, the Festival highlights the City of New Haven’s diverse and culturally rich community with events featuring world-class artists, thinkers, and leaders. Its additional programs include the annual Visionary Leadership Award and educational opportunities like the High School Fellows Program. The Festival was established in 1996 by Anne Calabre
  
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• Artistic Director – Magic Theatre

  25-09-2020 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Magic Theatre invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become its next Artistic Director. With a history of advocating for important playwriting voices – Shepard, Fugard, Cruz, Solis – among many others, The Magic’s impact goes beyond the San Francisco Bay Area, with many dozens of its productions moving to other important theatres across the country. The Magic has impressive longevity and artistic accomplishments.Since its founding in 1967 by visionary John Lion,
  
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• Blockbuster Philip Guston Show Postponed Over Concerns About KKK Imagery

  25-09-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Monday, the National Gallery quietly posted a joint statement signed by directors of all four museums set to host the show: Kaywin Feldman (National Gallery), Frances Morris (Tate Modern), Matthew Teitelbaum (MFA Boston), and Gary Tinterow (MFA Houston). The statement said the exhibition was being pushed “until a time at which we think that the powerful message of social and racial justice that is at the center of Philip Guston’s work can be more clearly interpreted.” &ndas
  
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• Our Consumption Of Music Is Largely Virtual Right Now. Is This A Threat?

  25-09-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Are these experiences an authentic way of experiencing live music? Or do they indicate a transition towards a dystopian cultural milieu? In this scenario, we might end up losing sight of the multi-sensory and collective aspects of live music and experience it instead alone at home through a VR headset or a similar technological device.” – The Conversation
  
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• How Zoning Laws Change The Course Of Cities

  25-09-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  How? Michael Kimmelman takes a tour of 42nd Street in New York City to understand how the street became what it is. – The New York Times
  
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• A Sculpture Park For Art From Burning Man

  25-09-2020 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  No, not all the art on the Playa goes up in flames. In fact, Burners face a real problem: how do they get these enormous sculptures out of the Black Rock Desert and what do they do with them afterward? Now one longtime Burner has provided an option in the desert just outside Las Vegas: Area15, where artworks from the festival are put on display and offered for sale. – Artnet
  
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• Trustees / Wasafiri / London

  25-09-2020 20:51
  Wasafiri, the UK’s leading magazine of international contemporary writing, is seeking new Trustees to expand their board.
  We are looking for experienced professionals with expertise in the...
  
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• A Kinder Gentler Social Medium?

  25-09-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a landscape of social networks, Telepath stands out because it’s more about your interests than who you know, and it requires real names for the conversations. It’s also positioning itself as a kinder, more inclusive network by making a point to establish ground rules and moderation up front. – Protocol
  
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• Reconceiving Classical Music For The (COVID-Safe) Great Outdoors

  25-09-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Playing chamber music in a midtown Manhattan park? Sure, you can (especially if you’re playing Florence Price), but folks are getting way more creative these days. David Patrick Stearns reports on the Ellen Reid/New York Philharmonic app configured for Central Park, The Crossing dispersing its singers and a specially designed speaker system across a wildflower preserve, and a multi-composer “immersion” in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. – WQXR (New York City)
  
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• John Latham: Now Forget Everything You Ever Knew / Chelsea Space / www.chelseaspace.org

  25-09-2020 19:59
  Preview on Zoom: Thursday 1 October 2020, 4pm BST – Sign up here
  Exhibition on www.chelseaspace.orgPlease note that the gallery is currently closed to the public in light of...
  
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• Trustee / Berkeley Ensemble / London

  25-09-2020 19:55
  The Berkeley Ensemble's acclaimed performances and recordings celebrate contemporary chamber music, especially by British composers. Since its founding in 2008 the ensemble has premiered over 40...
  
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• Further your ceramics knowledge on our Glazing Techniques course / London Sculpture Workshop / London

  25-09-2020 19:40
  This is a wonderful opportunity to develop your ceramic skills and learn from an RCA graduate!
  This short course will unlock the mystery of how a glazed surface is created and take your ceramic work...
  
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• Wood Furniture Design workshop - limited places available / London Sculpture Workshop / London

  25-09-2020 19:33
  Are you fed up of throw away, flat pack culture?
  Why not make something you're proud to sit on and learn some carpentry skills at the same time.  We're offering a fabulous opportunity to...
  
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• Choir Practice In Spain Infects 30 Of 41 Members

  25-09-2020 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  After one member of the chorus tested positive following the Sept. 13 performance, more than 40 other members and their close contacts went into isolation, the chorus said. Since then, at least 30 singers have tested positive, the Sallent municipal government said. – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• Learn some fundamentals on our Metal Fabrication short course / London Sculpture Workshop / London

  25-09-2020 19:29
  Looking for a creative outlet? This exciting two day ‘hands on’ workshop will explore a wide variety of metal construction techniques including cutting, bending and welding.
  Book your...
  
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• Stainless Steel Welding for Artists - weekend short course / London Sculpture Workshop / London

  25-09-2020 19:25
  Spend a wonderful weekend developing a small project or sculpture whilst learning the art of Stainless Steel Welding. 
  Our classes are small in size meaning you will get the most out of...
  
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• PRESIDENT, AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA

  25-09-2020 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  An exceptional leadership opportunity. American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is the only orchestra in the world dedicated to the legacy and future of orchestral music by American composers. Through concerts, readings, professional development and education programs ACO identifies today’s brightest emerging composers and champions prominent established composers. ACO increases regional, national and international awareness of the infinite variety of American orchestral music, reflecting gender
  
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• Introduction to Sculptural Ceramics - weekend course / London Sculpture Workshop / London

  25-09-2020 19:14
  We are offering just three limited places left on our popular Introduction to Sculptural Ceramics course in November.
  Interested in making functional items like tableware to conceptual sculpture?...
  
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• Arts in Libraries Officer / St Helens Borough Council Library Service / North West

  25-09-2020 19:13
  St Helens Library Service became an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation in 2018, one of only six Library Services in the country to receive this status.
  The Arts in Libraries...
  
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• Even Rio’s Carnival Has Been Ruined By The Pandemic

  25-09-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Rio’s League of Samba Schools, LIESA, announced Thursday night that the spread of the coronavirus has made it impossible to safely hold the traditional parades that are a cultural mainstay and, for many, a source of livelihood. … And while the decision is being characterized as a postponement of the event, no new date has been set.” – AP
  
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• Assistant Collection Manager: Care and Access (Middle East) / The British Museum / London

  25-09-2020 18:50
  Assistant Collection Manager: Care and Access (Middle East)
  Collection Care
  Full time
  Permanent
  £22,580 per annum 
  Application deadline: Midday on Friday 2nd October 2020
  The...
  
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• Poetry & Writing w/shop for Womxn & non-binary people of colour / Creative Futures / London

  25-09-2020 18:42
  Join Collage Arts for our second Creative Futures event of 2020; Unlocked - Poetry and Writing workshop.
  Sometimes there are words, and sometimes there are no words to describe 2020. It can be a...
  
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• Fundraising Officer / Bucks County Museum Trust / South East / Aylesbury

  25-09-2020 18:42
  Bucks Museum has an exciting opportunity for an experienced fundraiser with an understanding of fundraising in heritage settings to join our dedicated team at a key time to help create...
  
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• Uncertainty Can Be A Good Thing

  25-09-2020 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The examined human life reflects, we suggest, a new kind of relationship with our own expectations and uncertainty. Yet it is one that we have somehow constructed within the inviolable bounds of a biologically bedrock drive to minimise long-term prediction error. How is this neat trick possible? – Aeon
  
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• It’s A Horrible Time For British Theatre, But It Could Be Great For Circuses

  25-09-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With many circuses sustained by performers and backstage crew from outside the UK, Brexit is a cause for concern. But as the UK’s leading circus directors tell Douglas McPherson, it is also a chance for them to make their mark.” Why? “Circuses thrive in a recession.” – The Stage
  
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• Professional Development Officer / The Institute of Conservation / London

  25-09-2020 18:00
  Job title: Professional Development Officer
  Location: Icon office London
  Responsible to: Training & Development ManagerHours: Part-time, 21 hours per weekSalary: £25,000 3 days per...
  
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• Casual FOH Staff / Siobhan Davies Studios / London

  25-09-2020 17:46
  Siobhan Davies Studios is an artist-led organisation that advances the most compelling dance and choreography being made today. We connect artists and audiences through investigative, collaborative...
  
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• 'New' England rethought, hot tantric tickets and rodeo's queer makeover – the week in art

  25-09-2020 17:42
  
  Plymouth’s Box considers early American settlers, the British Museum reveals Tantra treasures and LGBTQ+ cowboys ride out – all in your weekly dispatchMayflower 400: Legend & Legacy
  Native American art, including a work by contemporary Wampanoag artist Nosapocket/Ramona Peters, is set beside early settler documents and artefacts in this exhibition about the Puritan refugees from Stuart England who created a “New” England across the Atlantic.
  • The Box, Plymouth.
  
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• The Botanical Mind review – an overgrown garden of the subconscious

  25-09-2020 17:39
  
  Camden Art Centre, LondonFrom intricate drawings to films that branch unexpectedly, this show on the all-pervasive influence of the plant kingdom on human imagery brims with ideas, but needs pruning Clicking and clattering, whistling, whirring and churring, composer David Tudor’s 1968 evocation of the rainforest (composed to accompany a dance by Merce Cunningham) fills the air, as you climb the stairs to enter The Botanical Mind at Camden Art Centre. With more than a hundred exhibits, dati
  
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• Not Some Vow Of Poverty – Getting Paid In The Arts

  25-09-2020 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The money being made in the cultural sector isn’t being made by artists. It is being made by digital platforms and corporate conglomerates. These are deliberate transfers of wealth, not unintended consequences. – ArtsFuse
  
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• Fifty Years Too Early: This 1970 Flop Is Just The Satire For 2020

  25-09-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, a British film that featured Peter Cook, Graham Chapman and John Cleese of Monty Python, and Harold Pinter (as a vicious talk-show host), ended up coming out about six months too late for the British election it was meant to skewer. “[But] for today, the film’s observations on the intersection of media and politics seem uncannily prescient, anticipating the triumph of two populists on opposite sides of the pond: Donald J. Trump and Boris Johnson.
  
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• F. Scott Fitzgerald In 1920 Was The Prophet Of 2020

  25-09-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We should look anew at 1920 not because centenaries have magical properties but because Fitzgerald’s remarkably sensitive inner ear helped him register, before almost anyone else, when America started losing its balance.” – The New York Review of Books
  
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• Visitor Experience Assistant (Annualised contract - 624 hours) / Royal Air Force Museum / London

  25-09-2020 16:28
  Visitor Experience Assistant (Annualised hours contract)Fixed Term (6 months)Annual Salary: £6,123.80 per annum – 624 hours London
  The Museum is looking for a pro-active and...
  
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• Visitor Experience Assistant (Annualised contract - 216 hours) / Royal Air Force Museum / London

  25-09-2020 16:24
  Visitor Experience Assistant (Annualised hours contract)Fixed Term (to 31 January 2021)Multiple roles availableAnnual Salary: £2,119.77 per annum – 216 hours London
  The Museum is looking...
  
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• Casting Highly Skilled Puppeteers for an international show / Theatre-Rites / London / Vienna

  25-09-2020 16:22
  Theatre-Rites are looking for a Lead Puppeteer and a Support Puppeteer/Physical theatre Performer for a new international theatre production Autumn/Winter/Spring 2021/22 based in Austria.
  This...
  
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• Fire Destroys Moldova’s National Philharmonic Hall

  25-09-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Firefighters worked for seven hours to put out the fire on Thursday afternoon and were still there on Friday morning. According to the Emergency Situations Inspectorate, the flames burned an area of about 3,500 square metres, reducing much of the interior to ashes.” – Balkan Insight
  
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• Casting Highly Skilled Puppeteers for a new immersive production / Theatre-Rites / London / Manchester

  25-09-2020 15:40
  Theatre-Rites are looking for a highly skilled puppeteer and physical theatre performers for an exciting new immersive production with an international UK festival in...
  
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• Casting Highly Skilled Dancers for a new immersive production / Theatre-Rites / London / Manchester

  25-09-2020 15:36
  Theatre-Rites are looking for highly skilled D/deaf, disabled and non disabled dancers for an exciting new immersive production with an international UK festival in 2021.
  South African...
  
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• Interim MA Advanced Dance Performance Programme Leader / Dance City / North East / Newcastle upon Tyne

  25-09-2020 15:34
  Dance City is seeking to appoint an Interim MA Programme Leader to undertake the management of the delivery of our MA Advanced Dance Performance programme. The role would suit an experienced Higher...
  
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• Things Seem Genuinely Hopeful At Baltimore Symphony For First Time In Years

  25-09-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Only a year ago, musicians and management were just ending a very bitter lockdown-turned-strike, and unflattering details of the orchestra’s severe money troubles had been splashed across the media. Now, despite the pandemic, there’s a new five-year contract in place and a spirit of cooperation. “It’s an astonishing reversal of fortune,” says the co-chairman of the players’ committee; “We’re working together in ways we haven’t in many, many
  
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• Marketing and Communications Officer / The New Room, Bristol / South West

  25-09-2020 15:14
  The New Room is an award-winning heritage attraction nestled in Bristol’s city centre and welcomes 50,000 visitors annually from across the world to an ‘oasis of calm’ in the busy...
  
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• BAFTA Overhauls Its Awards System To Make It More Diverse

  25-09-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[The package of changes] includes adding 1,000 new members to its committee and limiting the amount that studios can spend campaigning for nominations, in a bid to recognise more diverse talent. The wide-ranging changes … are the result of a seven-month review process, which was triggered by heavy criticism over the lack of diversity in its major awards earlier this year.” – The Guardian
  
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• Uffizi Gallery Says TikTok Has Doubled The Number Of Its Young Visitors

  25-09-2020 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Since moving onto multiple social media channels, including TikTok, during the lockdown, the Uffizi’s online presence has exploded. In an apparently related trend, young visitors (as a proportion of the total) have nearly doubled since the museum [in Florence] reopened over the summer.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• At 86, Sophia Loren Is Returning To The Screen

  25-09-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[She] stars in upcoming Netflix drama The Life Ahead, which is directed by her son, Edoardo Ponti. In the film, Loren plays Madame Rosa, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who helps raise the children of deceased sex workers with whom she once walked the streets. She then strikes up an enduring friendship with Momo, a 12-year-old Senegalese orphan who tries to steal her candlesticks.” – The Guardian
  
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• Creative Learning Manager (Out of School programmes) / Grimm & Co / Yorkshire

  25-09-2020 13:12
  Grimm & Co’s story destination is looking for an organised, passionate Creative Learning Manager to oversee, develop and deliver an inspiring learning programme for our out-of-school...
  
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• Could you be our Artist of Change? / The Albany / London

  25-09-2020 12:52
  Become our Artist of Change and make work directly with and for our local community. For each commission we are offering up to £10,000, plus a £4,000 budget to be spent on the delivery of...
  
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