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• Freelance Piano Tutor / Islington Piano Teachers / London

  04-10-2020 23:12
  Islington Piano Teachers is a local piano school embedded in the community of Islington. We provide premium-quality piano lessons tailor-made for each individual learner. Operating across Islington...
  
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• Two Trustees / The Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) / South East

  04-10-2020 22:14
  MOOP is an award-winning, activist pop-up museum based in Brighton that celebrates the ripples we all leave behind, finding the magic in the mundane. We encourage those who have been traditionally...
  
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• Last Straw: Movie Chain Closes All Its Theatres After James Bond Movie Postponed

  04-10-2020 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cinemark is the largest circuit in the U.K with more than 120 sites, and the second-largest in North America, where it operates roughly 540 locations under the Regal Cinemas banner. While many of its U.K. theaters had reopened at the end of July, a substantial number of its U.S. sites had remained shut after being forced to go dark because of the coronavirus pandemic. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• How People’s Taste In Music Is Changing In The Pandemic

  04-10-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While listeners gravitating to loud, aggressive, and fast-paced music during the pandemic was a common response to my inquiry, answers from people who instead went to ambient, jazz, and soothing instrumental music were just as popular.” – Vice
  
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• Open Call: Multidisciplinary Residency in Rye / Climate Art / South East

  04-10-2020 21:28
  Climate Art and Bridgepoint Rye, in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust announce a call for applications from artists, creative practitioners, and environmental researchers to work on a...
  
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• Alexa, can I keep on learning in my 70s? | Brief letters

  04-10-2020 19:24
  
  Your editorial (2 October) rightly celebrates the National Gallery’s new Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition, but refers to her as “a female old master”. Surely a change in this terminology is overdue – why not describe artists as Renaissance or 17th century, with gender specified if necessary?Clive SykesLondon• Your Ranked! feature has cast its net rather too wide in the past to cover a whole aspect of cinema via 10 films, but you went altogether too far with 20 Africa
  
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• Social Practice Programme Producer (Maternity Cover - 10 Months) / Open Eye Gallery / North West

  04-10-2020 15:31
  The Social Practice Programme Producer will be responsible for producing a series of live and in development socially engaged photography residencies across 10 settings. The role will include...
  
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• Online talk: The first women of photography 1839-1860 / The Royal Photographic Society / Photo Oxford 2020 / South West / London

  04-10-2020 12:06
  The first women of photography 1839-1860, an online talk from Rose Teanby,in conjunction with Photo Oxford 2020, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 at 1900 (GMT)
  This online talk, delivered by one of the...
  
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• Artemisia review – overwhelmingly present

  04-10-2020 10:00
  
  National Gallery, LondonFull of vigour, purpose and drama, the extraordinary work of the 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi finally gets the blockbuster UK show it deservesArtemisia Gentileschi is painting for all she’s worth. Light flashes from her forehead and breast, and the naked white forearm where the sleeve falls back to reveal an unexpected strength. Her fingernails are dirty and her hair coming loose as she wheels towards a large empty canvas. It is a picture of passion: t
  
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• Poole High Street HAZ Project Manager / BCP Council / South West

  04-10-2020 09:56
  Salary details: £35,745 to £38,890
  Employment Status: Full Time
  Hours: 37 hours a week
  Contract Type: Temporary
  Closing date: 18 October 2020BCP Council...
  
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• Welcome to Flatland, where shallow appeal ousts substance and reason | Kenan Malik

  04-10-2020 09:15
  
  From art to politics, there is a ruinous unwillingness to engage in depth
  Four international art galleries decide to “postpone” a controversial exhibition. Donald Trump and Joe Biden take part in what has aptly been called a “shitshow” of a presidential election debate. Celebrity activist Laurence Fox launches a political movement to reclaim “British values”. On the surface, these disparate events have nothing in common. However, that is also what they have in
  
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• Painting over the past is dangerous | Letters

  04-10-2020 07:00
  
  Postponing Philip Guston’s show at the Tate fails him and shames usPhilip Guston potentially risked his life by satirising a white supremacist hate group in order to expose systemic racism (“Sense or censorship? Row over Klan images in Tate’s postponed show”, News).By putting off his retrospective, we are failing him and should be ashamed of ourselves. As a Jewish painter, he had a right to defend humanity against the Klan’s evil brutality. Riding Around (1969) brav
  
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