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• It Means Something Different To Be A Polymath Today

  02-10-2020 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We have moved from an age of institutionalized specialization in the second half of the nineteenth century to an age of institutionalized anti-specialization in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond.” – Washington Post
  
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• Why We Need To Understand Aristotle’s Three Kinds Of Knowledge

  02-10-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The reason that Aristotle bothered to outline these three kinds of knowledge is that they require different styles of thinking—the people toiling in each of these realms tend toward habits of mind that serve them well, and distinguish them from the others. Aristotle’s point was that, if you have a phronetic problem to solve, don’t send an epistemic thinker. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Art Designer for Exhibition Piece / Bertie Douglas Perschky / London

  02-10-2020 23:20
  I am seeking a designer to collabrate with me on a private exhibiton project. I need somebody who can design and build a specific object according to my guidlines, you will be rensponsible for...
  
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• How Ordinary Germans Let Naziism Creep In

  02-10-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Consumerism boomed in the early years of the Third Reich (and even, for a time, during the war). For all that Nazism was a dictatorship, ordinary non-Jewish Germans felt they had choices they had not had before. As the economy improved, Germans travelled widely, a process supported by Nazi organisations such as Strength Through Joy, which offered a range of affordable holidays. Travel-writing journalism developed as a form. The Nazis made theatre and concerts available to wider audiences
  
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• Analysts Warn AMC Movie Theatres Has Only Six Months Without Turnaround

  02-10-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The stock mostly shrugged off the news, down 0.4% to $4.63. But that’s half of where it was trading a year ago as exhibition has been the entertainment sector hardest hit by COVID-19, aside from theme parks. – Deadline
  
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• China’s Curious Fascination With Sherlock Holmes

  02-10-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sherlock Holmes was first introduced to Chinese readers in 1896, with translations of four stories appearing in Current Affairs newspaper. So popular were they with readers that in 1916 the Zhonghua Book Company published The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, featuring 44 stories that rendered Conan Doyle’s prose into classical Chinese. Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Hard Not To Be Jealous Of Tom Stoppard

  02-10-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stoppard can’t write women? He gives us Night and Day. Emotion? The Real Thing. Competitiveness is evidently one of the many sources of his creativity, albeit competitiveness of a patient, five-day-test-match kind. He worries quite a lot about the amount of time he spends writing and revising a play. ‘If the next gap is as long as the last one,’ he said in 2017, ‘I will be 103 and no doubt ready with blue pencil and blue-black ink as usual.’ – Literary Review
  
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• The Ethics Of Euphemism In News Reporting

  02-10-2020 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What some studies have found is that people are actually more likely to use euphemisms to save face socially than in consideration of the feelings of others. This, coupled with the desire to sound neutral, objective, and authoritative, can lead journalists to use euphemistic language to reframe a story obliquely, even when the facts themselves are indisputable.” (For instance, collateral damage or officer-involved shooting or misrepresentation.) “Such tentative reporting not
  
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• How The Meritocracy Has Separated Us

  02-10-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Looking back at the last four decades, it’s clear that the divide between winners and losers has been deepened, poisoning our politics and driving us apart. This has partly to do with deepening inequality of income and wealth. But it’s about more than that. It has to do with the fact that those who landed on top came to believe that their success was their own doing, the measure of their merit — and by implication that those left behind had no one to blame but themselves. &nda
  
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• Assistant Director for site-specific/ immersive production / Theatre-Rites / London / Manchester

  02-10-2020 20:20
  Theatre-Rites are seeking an Assistant Director on a new site-specific/immersive production with Manchester International Festival.We are looking for someone who is London or Manchester...
  
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• Taking The ‘Ology” Out Of Musicology: A Dozen Scholars Talk About Where The Field Is Headed

  02-10-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ever since the 1980s, and the 1985 release of Joseph Kerman’s hallmark Contemplating Music, the traditionally separate fields of musicology and ethnomusicology have been undergoing a reinvention. Today, music scholars (note the conspicuous absence of terminology) are grappling with the field’s complex, colonial history, its purpose and articulation, and even its name in novel ways. Their work is a reflection of the field’s proverbial coming of age.” – WQXR (
  
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• Social Media Manager / Curious Pheasant Theatre / South West

  02-10-2020 19:40
  We are hiring! We are looking for a Social Media expert to manage our platforms during our next project! We have been lucky enough to secure funding for our R&D of ‘Dorian Gray’ and...
  
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• Artist Assistant / Claire Morgan Studio / North East

  02-10-2020 19:33
  Freelance artist assistants required for assembly of fragile artworks 
  Location: Gateshead, UK
   
  Freelance artist assistant role available to work with artist in Gateshead, UK....
  
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• Unemployed Actors Have One More Thing To Worry About: Qualifying For Medical Insurance

  02-10-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Currently, professional actors and stage managers have to work 11 weeks to qualify for six months of coverage. But starting Jan. 1, they will have to work 16 weeks to qualify for a similar level of coverage. – The New York Times
  
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• The Guardian view on Artemisia Gentileschi: triumph of a trailblazer | Editorial

  02-10-2020 19:25
  
  An old master takes her place in the National Gallery. But this should be only the beginning of a rebalancing of the canonThere is a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, the 17th-century Roman artist, of Clio, the muse of history. The figure stands defiant, chin tilted upwards, gaze set into the distance. On the desk before her rests an open book – a work, we can assume, of historiography. On its pages, Gentileschi has painted her own name. It is her signature; but she is also writing hersel
  
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• Digital content for Union Chapel`s digital programme / Union Chapel Project / London

  02-10-2020 19:11
  Up to £2,000 + reasonable expenses (to be agreed in advance) for 2 month projects We are looking for artists addressing the issues of today, producing content with and for the...
  
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• Operations Coordinator / Chisenhale Gallery / London

  02-10-2020 19:09
  Chisenhale Gallery seeks to appoint an Operations Coordinator who will work across departments to ensure the smooth running of the Gallery. The post holder will be a ‘go to’ person within...
  
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• Marketing, Events & Social Media Manager / Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts Ltd. / South East

  02-10-2020 19:05
  *This post is based at Italia Conti Arts Centre, Guildford, GU1 2RE*
  Do you have a background in arts marketing with a particular flair for organising events?
  Would you relish taking the lead on...
  
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• Producer: Local & Online / Chisenhale Gallery / London

  02-10-2020 19:04
  Chisenhale Gallery seeks to appoint a Producer: Local and Online, a new role responsible for delivering Chisenhale Gallery’s future community-based projects, both in real life and through...
  
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• Quino, Who Created Spanish-Speaking World’s Favorite Cartoon Character, Dead At 88

  02-10-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She was a wise and idealistic young girl, a cartoon kid with a ball of black frizz for hair, a passionate hatred of soup and a name, Mafalda, inspired by a failed home appliance brand. Although her creator, a cartoonist [named Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón and] known as Quino, drew her regularly for just nine years, the Argentine comic strip Mafalda became a cultural touchstone across Latin America and Europe, examining issues such as nationalism, war and environmental dest
  
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• Community Coordinator / Union Chapel Project / London

  02-10-2020 18:44
  To oversee and coordinate the successful delivery of Union Chapel’s new Re-Union programme of creative activity, community engagement and empowerment, alongside our In Union digital programme...
  
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• Heritage Marketing Manager / Bath and North East Somerset Council / South West

  02-10-2020 18:40
  Job vacancy: Heritage Marketing Manager
  Hours: 37 per weekContract Type: PermanentClosing date: 18 October 2020Salary £39,880 - £42,821 per annum
  An amazing opportunity has arisen in...
  
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• Virtual Autumn Tours / Birth Rites Collection / London

  02-10-2020 18:36
  Virtual Tour of Birth Rites Collection, Guys Campus, Kings College London.
  £7
  November 2nd 2020
  10-11.30am 
  Virtual tours of the Birth Rites Collection onsite at Guys Campus, Kings...
  
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• Activists Call For Boycott Of All US Museums

  02-10-2020 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The group’s demands, issued on its Instagram page with the hashtag #NoMuseumOctober, stipulate that until every institution publicly announces that frontline workers will be provided hazard pay and benefits for their labour until a Covid-19 vaccine is available, the museum-going public should “refrain from providing these ‘democratic’ institutions the admission dollars they so desperately crave”. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Deputy Technical Manager (Maternity Cover) / Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts Ltd. / London

  02-10-2020 18:06
  Are you an experienced Technical Manager with a solid background in leading and planning the construction and execution of set builds and overseeing the technical aspects of theatre...
  
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• How Exactly Should We Define ‘Book’ In 2020? (Or Anytime, For That Matter?)

  02-10-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Considering] this great variety of materials and uses that define books over some 5,000 years and in every part of the globe, … how adventurous can we be in attributing to material objects — from clay to digital tablets — the characteristics which make them books? … And as forms of print and print in conjunction with script and illustration increased in complexity, how catholic does our definition of ‘book’ become? Do we include maps and sheets of m
  
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• Opera giving veterans a voice to premiere on Remembrance Sunday / Opera Sunderland / North East

  02-10-2020 17:40
  When the UK went into lockdown in March, Opera Sunderland had just recruited a 40-strong intergenerational community chorus to take part in the world premiere of The Soldier's Return. With venues...
  
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• Evaluation Consultant / Wensleydale Railway Association Trust / Yorkshire

  02-10-2020 17:38
  Wensleydale Railway is looking to appoint an experienced freelance evaluation consultant to lead the evaluation of the Stage 2 delivery phase of the Leeming Bar Station House restoration as funded by...
  
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• Smithsonian Lays Off 237 Staff

  02-10-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The layoffs are the first permanent staff cuts made by the world’s largest museum organization since it was forced to close its sites March 14 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Smithsonian lost $49 million — from store and restaurant revenue as well as canceled ticketed events, classes and tours — between March and September, spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas said. – Washington Post
  
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• Assistant Producer / Big Ideas / London

  02-10-2020 17:22
  Big Ideas is looking for a full-time Assistant Producer to help develop and deliver creative projects to school children, community groups and the public at large. 
  Big Ideas is a community...
  
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• Business Analyst (12 month fixed term contract) / Royal Air Force Museum / London

  02-10-2020 17:09
  Business AnalystFixed Term (12 months)Full-time London £32,000 per annum
  The Museum is seeking a Business Analyst to enhance its future decision-making with a focus on commercial analysis and...
  
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• NPR Wants To Broaden Its Audience. What Could It Learn From The BBC?

  02-10-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The BBC eventually had to succumb to the public’s demands to hear what it wanted, not what [BBC founder John] Reith wanted them to hear. … In the United States, public radio never attracted an audience near as diverse as NPR’s founding purposes hoped. Public radio sincerely welcomed all, but those who chose to listen represented such a narrow type that ‘NPR listener’ became a meaningful term.” – Current
  
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• In It Together: virtual support scheme for 16-21s in Kent / Total Insight Theatre / London / Kent

  02-10-2020 16:51
  In It Together is a free, virtual creative scheme launching in October, for young people aged 16-21 years old in London and Kent. The scheme will consist of eight workshops, held once a week via...
  
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• In It Together: virtual support scheme for 14-16s in Leeds / Total Insight Theatre / Yorkshire / West Yorkshire

  02-10-2020 16:48
  In It Together is a free, virtual creative support scheme launching in September, for young people aged 14-16 years old in Leeds. The scheme will consist of eight workshops, held once a week via...
  
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• Free talk and online exhibition with artist Mahlia Amatina / Free Space Project / London / nationally

  02-10-2020 16:46
  The Free Space Project is pleased to support an online virtual exhibition by artist Mahlia Amatina. This is the third and final exhibition in the Free Space Project’s commissions for artists to...
  
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• Finance Director/Controller / Komedia Bath / South West

  02-10-2020 16:43
  Komedia Bath is a vibrant, innovative, community owned arts venue in the heart of Bath.  We are looking for a hands-on Finace Director/Controller to join our small but dedicated operational...
  
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• Unheard Recording Of Ella Fitzgerald’s 1962 Berlin Concert Rediscovered

  02-10-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These tapes” — of Fitzgerald’s return to Berlin two years after her 1960 debut there, a concert which became a Grammy-winning bestseller — “come from impresario and Verve Records founder Norman Granz’s private collection. As Ella’s manager, he had a habit of recording Ella live – sometimes for radio broadcast, sometimes for later release, sometimes just to have. He also had another habit of focusing on his next project rather than harnessin
  
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• Open Call for Artists and Writers / Contemporary Questions Colonial / London

  02-10-2020 16:10
  Theme: Contemporary Questions Colonial
  Closing Date: 6th November 5pm BST
  This open call invites anyone with colonial resonance to question the existing paradigm of visual control. Question what...
  
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• Britain’s National Theatre Has Been Closed For Six Months, But What’s Left Of Its Staff Has Been Working Hard

  02-10-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Rufus Norris, the theater’s artistic director, has been spending his time lobbying Britain’s government for extra funding and putting together a reopening plan. Its digital team has been running NT at Home, a streaming service of recorded plays from the theater’s archive, some of which have been viewed millions of times. Other staff members have been working out how to run the theater in a world changed by the coronavirus. Even the theater’s pest controller has be
  
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• ‘Confederate Monuments’ In The Arts: What Do We Do With Once-Admired Works That Now Seem Unacceptable?

  02-10-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Simple public [statues are] one thing. Real art is complicated. An artwork, such as a film or play, an opera or a pop song, can contain many ideas, some that we may endorse wholeheartedly, others that we might argue about, and still others that we might all find repellent, offensive or even painful. Thus, [ten Chronicle writers] look at some of the ‘Confederate monuments’ in various arts disciplines and ask: What should be our response?” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Inspiring People Activity Plan Coordinator / National Portrait Gallery / London

  02-10-2020 15:24
  The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or are currently contributing to British history and culture; the collection is the...
  
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• Call for artists for a new professional development programme / Project on a Bus / London

  02-10-2020 15:18
  We are seeking 10 emerging artists, graduates or companies (1-3 members) that 
  live, work or study in Newham to take part in an exciting REHEARSAL AND DEVELOPMENT...
  
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• Meditation for Writers 6 week course / Natural Health With Mel / London / Global on Zoom

  02-10-2020 15:09
  Six-week course October 29-December 3, 2020
  Thursdays 10am-10.50am
  Are you a writer who struggles with writers’ block? 
  Would you like to learn some techniques to increase your creative...
  
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• Joffrey Ballet Cancels All Of Its 2020-21 Season

  02-10-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Joffrey said that the decision, sparked by the COVID-19 crisis, will cost the non-profit institution in excess of $9 million at the box office. … [The company] also announced a new virtual programming initiative, the Joffrey Studio Series, … [and] said it was beginning a new ’25 for 25,’ a year-long series of ‘free performances, programs, and partnerships with peer organizations’ from around the city, celebrating 25 years since the company arrive
  
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• Freelance Creative Practitioner (Museums) / Museums Northumberland / North East

  02-10-2020 15:04
  Museums Northumberland (MN) is seeking to appoint a freelance Creative Practitioner/Facilitator to co-develop and co-deliver new museum tours, resources and activities with and for young...
  
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• Gentileschi's shocking genius and Bruce Nauman's Clown Torture – the week in art

  02-10-2020 15:00
  
  The RA has a starry summer exhibition, Nauman’s black humour is on full display and a knock-out Artemisia Gentileschi show opens at the National Gallery – all in your weekly dispatchArtemisia
  The genius of Artemisia Gentileschi is so immediate, shocking and moving that it is hard to believe she died more than 350 years ago. She takes the modern art world by storm in this extraordinary exhibition that reunites all her great paintings – they’ve come from German castles, Ita
  
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• Spray Booth Facility / Blackhorse Workshop / London

  02-10-2020 14:59
  We are very excited to announce that we have a brand new Spray Booth for all your spraying needs. The room provides a safe and dust free space for applying all types of paintwork at our...
  
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• Engagement Curator (Maternity Cover) Bridget Riley Art Foundation / Drawing Room / London

  02-10-2020 14:34
  Drawing Room is seeking maternity cover for the Engagement Curator. The position is funded by the Bridget Riley Art Foundation to lead our ground-breaking programme which...
  
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• Whitney Biennial Postponed Until 2022

  02-10-2020 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The enormous contemporary art show that had been planned for next spring was put off for the sake of the artists themselves (the pandemic has interfered with their access to materials and studio space) as well as to make room in 2021 for the major shows — of work by Julie Mehretu, Salman Toor, Dawood Bey, and the Kamoinge Workshop — that had been scheduled for this year and for the big Jasper Johns retrospective. – The New York Times
  
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• World’s Biggest Film Industry Will Finally See Its Theaters Reopen

  02-10-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  After seven months of pandemic shutdown, “India’s Ministry of Home Affairs has decreed that cinemas and multiplexes can reopen [on Oct. 15] at 50 percent of their seating capacity, a full month before the all-important Diwali holiday, which in normal times is a box office bonanza.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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