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• Management Committee Members / Tannery Arts and Drawing Room / London

  27-09-2020 21:13
  Tannery Arts/Drawing Room – a studio provider and public gallery - is recruiting voluntary, non-executive members to join its management committee.
  We are seeking individuals...
  
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• Creative Schools Programme Manager (Maternity Cover) FREELANCE / Stratford Circus Arts Centre / London

  27-09-2020 16:58
  Contract: Maternity Cover until March 2021, part time 2 days a week
  Reporting to: Interim CEO
  Responsible for: relevant freelancers
  Salary range: £200 per day
  Deadline for applications:...
  
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• Ancient sculpture put up for auction in UK to be returned to Iraq

  27-09-2020 16:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Archaelogists say the Sumerian plaque dating from around 2400BC may have been lootedAn ancient sculpture is to be returned to Iraq after it was secretly smuggled out of the country and offered for sale in the UK – only to be seized by the Metropolitan police.The previously unknown Sumerian temple plaque – dating from about 2400BC – is being repatriated with the help of the British Museum, which first tipped off the police after spotting its planned sale in 2019. Continue readin
  
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• Live Performance Art Event: `D I S T A N C E D 2` / Performance Platform / London

  27-09-2020 15:57
  Performance Platform Presents…
   ‘D I S T A N C E D 2’
   VIVIAN CHINASA EZUGHA & JOSEPH MORGAN SCHOFIELD
  Friday 16th October, 7-10pmOPEN Ealing Arts CentreUnit...
  
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• Margate Bookie autumn programme - talks, chats, authors, ideas / / South East

  27-09-2020 11:28
  Nights are drawing in, air is crisp, and there's nothing better than wrapping your hands around a cup of cocoa (or something stronger). It's the perfect time to gather together and talk books - and...
  
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• Tantra: From Enlightenment to Revolution review – shock and awe

  27-09-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  British Museum, London
  Ecstasy, passion and violence: the sacred power of female sexuality shapeshifts down the centuries in tantra’s unexpectedly radical philosophy There is a statue in this staggering show of the tantric god Bhairava, famous for his rages. Wild hair flows in rivulets from his carved granite face and his smile is alarmingly fanged. One of his four hands holds a noose, and another – now missing – used to brandish the skull of the creator god Brahma, which he ha
  
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• Rebel US artist puts black lives in the Renaissance frame

  27-09-2020 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  A new exhibition by African-American painter Titus Kaphar challenges its audience to see pictures in a new way – by literally adding black faces In his painting for the cover of the June edition of Time magazine, published in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, American artist Titus Kaphar portrayed the pain of the grieving African-American mother.Eyes closed, a black woman in a pose evocative of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus, holds an outline where her child should be. The pai
  
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• Sydney's Sculpture by the Sea exhibition postponed due to Covid restrictions

  27-09-2020 03:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Organisers say social distancing can’t be maintained along 2km coastal path from Bondi to TamaramaFollow the live blogFull Australian Covid stats; Covid restrictions state by stateSign up for Guardian Australia’s coronavirus email
  Sydney’s popular Sculpture by the Sea exhibition has been postponed, with organisers concerned about proximity of attendees during the Covid-19 pandemic.The 2km trail of art along Sydney’s eastern beaches and clifftops has become an annual fixtu
  
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