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• Book Cover Designer / Forward Arts Foundation / London / UK wide

  07-10-2020 22:56
  We are looking for two designers, one to create a cover for the Forward Book of Poetry 2022 and one to create a cover for Poems of the Decade 2011-2021.
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• The Movie Problem: No Blockbusters, No Business

  07-10-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The top 50 best-performing films in the UK box office take nearly 90% of the total box office. With more than 700 films released every year, that leaves little space for smaller, foreign language and independent films. Cinemas have high fixed costs and need a certain number of hit films to keep afloat. – The Conversation
  
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• Why India’s Government Is Trying To Demonize Bollywood

  07-10-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you had switched on news television in India in the past two months, you would have found a country obsessed with a singular subject: the taming of Bollywood, supposedly a wild, drug-addled place where horrible things happen to outsiders; India’s Gomorrah, infested with vile liberals and Muslims. This hysterical campaign of vilification and the persecution of numerous actors is an attempt to distract people from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s failure to handle the coronavirus pan
  
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• How Whitney Balliett Created A Blueprint For Writing About Jazz

  07-10-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  He retained the enthusiasm of a fan, but it was married to the expressive virtuosity of a master writer who could extract from his typewriter something akin to what others drew from their saxophones and trumpets. It was almost as if he were a jazz musician himself, but one who wrote essays for The New Yorker instead of soloing over “I Got Rhythm” chords. – City Journal
  
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• How Museum Gallery Design Will Change Post-COVID

  07-10-2020 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the future, experts anticipate bigger galleries that will be purpose-built to allow for social distancing, with the option to divide up the space with partitions as needed. Adjustable gallery architecture “is going to be important”, says Bruce Davis, a partner with the New York architects Cooper Robertson. “You’ll want spaces that can easily be changed and can adapt to changing trends in the display of art as well as the pandemic.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• ‘He Had A Ringside Seat For Many Of The Towering Works Of Postwar American Cinema’: Cinematographer Michael Chapman Dead At 84

  07-10-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  He started as a camera operator for such landmarks as Klute, The Godfather, and Jaws; he went on to be cinematographer on movies ranging from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Personal Best to Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid to All the Right Moves (one of three titles he directed) to the big-screen remake of The Fugitive (his second Oscar nomination). His most admired work, perhaps, was in four films by Martin Scorsese: American Boy, The Last Waltz, Taxi Driver, and (his first Oscar nomination)
  
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• Viability

  07-10-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arts and culture organizations that can learn to grow their audiences and leverage these connections into long-term financial stability may learn that a successful pivot is often one that turns toward their neighbors. – Doug Borwick
  
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• Deplorable in Baltimore: Careening Down the Slippery Slope of Collection Monetization

  07-10-2020 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Call me Cassandra. The “slippery slope” of monetizing museum collections, which I previously prophesied would get more dangerous under the Association of Art Museum Directors’ temporarily relaxed guidelines, has just been greased. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Artistic Workspace in Hackney Road / Apiary Studios / London

  07-10-2020 20:54
  We have two large studios available in our creative warehouse in the heart of East London. We are offering great rates for new tenants across Creative Businesses across Fashion,...
  
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• “Nothing Left to Lose” — My First Orchestra Job, etc.

  07-10-2020 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harvey Lichtenstein took me out to lunch and informed me that the Brooklyn Philharmonic had lost over two-thirds of its subscribers in two years. Would I be interested in taking over? I said yes, provided I could do what I wanted. And what is it you want? Harvey asked. Cross-disciplinary festival programming, I replied. Harvey said OK – he had nothing left to lose. – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• Why The Mellon Foundation Is Investing In Rethinking Monuments

  07-10-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is not a Confederate monuments project; it is a monuments project,” says Mellon Foundation president Elizabeth Alexander. That means addressing the larger issue of what values and ideas about identity are embedded in this country’s public architecture of history and memory. What is preserved, what is forgotten and what is suppressed? – Washington Post
  
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• Build your own movement practice / Alexandra Baybutt / London / Online

  07-10-2020 20:30
  Why build your own movement practice?To prepare and recover for and from your day, to mark transitions, to find ritual practices for health and embodied reflection, to work creatively through injury...
  
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• Laban/Bartenieff Movement System for dance improvisation / Alexandra Baybutt / London / Online

  07-10-2020 20:21
  Learn about the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System for dance improvisation through dance improvisation. Improvisation in dance is used for choreography, for performance, for training/technique,...
  
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• The Little Piece Of Papyrus That Rewrote The History Of Christianity (Until It Didn’t)

  07-10-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dr. Karen Leigh King had become a very rare thing: a theology professor whose speaking engagements could sell out a venue. Her work on the Gnostic Gospels, in particular a fragmentary Coptic manuscript called the Gospel of Mary (referring to Mary Magdalene), had brought to light the real possibility that women could real influence and authority in the earliest centuries of Christianity. Then, in 2010, she received an email with the subject line “Coptic gnostic gospels in my collection&rdq
  
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• Creative Attentive Studio (CREiA):::ROOT-HOME / msdm / London

  07-10-2020 19:44
  Creative Attentive Studio (CREiA) is an online platform where we bring together  different perspectives delivered by practitioners into the contemporary being and creative process. It is a...
  
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• Open Call for Videographers / Royal Society of Literature / London / National, International

  07-10-2020 19:25
  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the RSL has suspended all live events until further notice. As a result, we are looking at different, innovative ways to showcase the fantastic writers...
  
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• Canadian Opera Company Shuts Down For 20/21 Season

  07-10-2020 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Earlier this summer, our team made a promise to ourselves — and to our audiences — to explore every possible option for going ahead with our season. Since then, however, the changing local health situation has made it clear that cancelling our original winter and spring programming is the only safe decision for our staff, artists, and audience members.” – Ludwig Van
  
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• Community Projects coordinator / New Brewery Arts / South West

  07-10-2020 19:08
  We’re looking for somebody to get out into our communities, in particular vulnerable communities and individuals facing increasing social inequality, and to encourage and enable...
  
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• Theater Company SITI Will Disband After 2022

  07-10-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After 30 seasons, Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki’s famed experimental New York theater company, … the Saratoga International Theater Institute, better known as SITI, announced today that it will stop touring and performing shows after its 30th and final season, which it anticipates will run through Fall 2022.” – The New York Times
  
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• Chief Executive Officer / University of Atypical / Northern Ireland

  07-10-2020 18:53
  Closing: 4pm on Friday 23rd of October 2020
  This position is part time (24 hours) fixed term for 3 year (renewable subject to funding)
  Salary: £25,646 per annum (£42,743 for full-time...
  
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• Administrator & Projects Co-ordinator / Lancashire 2025 / North West

  07-10-2020 18:39
  Lancashire 2025 is a creative regeneration organisation, engaging the people of Lancashire in a bold new vision for commerce, culture and creative communities. Forging new ideas, and cross sector...
  
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• Citizen Engagement Manager / Lancashire 2025 / North West

  07-10-2020 18:36
  Freelance Contract December 2020-June 2021
  Fee: £17,500 (inclusive of VAT, reasonable expenses for travel and costs will be reimbursed)
  Lancashire 2025 is a creative regeneration...
  
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• Contemporary Artist/Illustrator / Museum of Colour / London / UK wide

  07-10-2020 18:34
  The Museum of Colour is building a digital platform that recognises and celebrates the contributions that people of colour have made to Britain’s creative Industries, specifically film,...
  
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• Projects Producer / Lancashire 2025 / North West

  07-10-2020 18:32
  Freelance Contract November 2020 - January 2022
  £22,200 (inclusive of VAT, reasonable expenses for travel and costs will be reimbersed)
  Lancashire 2025 is a creative regeneration...
  
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• Gagosian Gallery Creates Virtual Openings With Celebrities

  07-10-2020 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new initiative was devised as a way to create buzz about Gagosian exhibitions even as the gallery faces an extended period with limited in-person attendance. The online celebrity programming also helps to keep artists from feeling shortchanged by the moratorium on glitzy opening parties and swanky artist dinners that traditionally help woo collectors. – Artnet
  
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• Programme Manager / Lancashire 2025 / North West

  07-10-2020 18:24
  Lancashire 2025 is a creative regeneration organisation, engaging the people of Lancashire in a bold new vision for commerce, culture and creative communities. Forging new ideas, and cross sector...
  
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• Gods, nipples, Warhol and wickedness – Sin review

  07-10-2020 18:21
  
  National Gallery, LondonFrom provocative Renaissance nudes to church-goer Andy Warhol’s pleas for repentance, this absorbing show reveals how western attitudes to desire became so tangledThis free exhibition, which peppers up works from the National Gallery collection with a handful of spunky loans, reveals how much has changed since the 19th century, when the dazzling Venus – lit up in this show by a Tracey Emin neon – had her erect nipple painted out.In Bronzino’s Alleg
  
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• A Day In The Life Of India’s Dance Village, Still A Haven From Coronavirus

  07-10-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘We have been living our lives exactly as if nothing has happened,’ [said] Surupa Sen, Nrityagram’s artistic director of 23 years. … [The village] continues to be what it always has been, but more so: a dance haven, self-contained and single-minded in its focus, at a remove from a chaotic and sometimes frightening world. … For this piece, we asked the dancers to document their day, from dawn to dusk, capturing moments and places with disposable cameras.&rd
  
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• Learning and Impact Manager / Voices Foundation / London

  07-10-2020 17:47
  The Impact and Learning Manager is responsible for leading evaluation and research for the charity and distilling learning into key insights that will help to set our policy agenda and inform future...
  
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• How One Regional Foundation Smartly Diversified Its Support

  07-10-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seven years into its “racial equity journey,” support for BIPOC organizations has increased 670%, from $75,000 in 2013 to $578,000 in 2020. The foundation’s rapid evolution is an illuminating case study of a regional funder closing the funding equity gap while providing what Foundation president Gary Steuer referred to as “continued support and respect for the largest institutions that have sucked up the largest share of the philanthropic pie—mostly Eurocentric art
  
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• Freelance Production Managers (Open Call Out) / Manchester International Festival / North West

  07-10-2020 17:28
  We’re looking for a number of Freelance Production Managers to work with us on Manchester International Festival (MIF) in 2021. We are particularly looking for people with experience...
  
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• Are Societies With Gendered Languages Really More Sexist?

  07-10-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  With respect to grammatical gender, there are three kinds of languages: gendered (e.g., Spanish, Arabic), where virtually all nouns are designated masculine, feminine, or, in some cases, neuter; genderless (e.g., Chinese, Turkish), with no grammatical or lexical distinction between male and female; or “natural gender” (e.g., English, Swedish), where only people and animals who possess a biological gender get gendered nouns and pronouns. Do speakers of gendered and genderless languag
  
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• Board Member / OperaUpClose / London

  07-10-2020 16:36
  OperaUpClose is an ambitious, innovative opera company with the mission of creating opera which is thrilling, relevant and accessible for current opera lovers and those of the future. We are a small...
  
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• Chair of the Board / OperaUpClose / London

  07-10-2020 16:34
  OperaUpClose is an ambitious, innovative opera company with the mission of creating opera which is thrilling, relevant and accessible for current opera lovers and those of the future. We are a small...
  
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• A Deacquisition Binge At American Museums?

  07-10-2020 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “During the height of lockdown in April, the Association of Art Museum Directors … loosened its guidelines on how members could use the proceeds of art sold from their collections. Now, … museums in the United States are likely to make more than $100 million through the sale of art this fall, according to an analysis by Artnet News. Some welcome this result as a sign that institutions are taking practical steps to change systems that were long considered intractable; others
  
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• Frieze fair goes virtual as art crowd stays home due to Covid

  07-10-2020 16:20
  
  Frieze thinks outside of tent with online-only events and African art fair at London’s Somerset HouseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLondon’s art world usually comes alive in the first week of October as the international art fair crowd arrives in the capital for Frieze week. Last year, 125,000 visitors attended Frieze and Frieze Masters. But in 2020 the parties aren’t happening; the jet-setters are – for the most part – staying awa
  
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• Netflix Indicted By Rural Texas Grand Jury For ‘Cuties’

  07-10-2020 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The court filing [in Tyler County] claims Netflix knowingly promoted work that ‘depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child … which appeals to the prurient interest in sex.'” The French film, which contains no nudity but shows some very suggestive dance moves which have attracted controversy, is about an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant who joins a teen dance team. – The Texas Tribune
  
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• Relevo - a digital platform to support art professionals / Relevoarts / London / Online

  07-10-2020 15:43
  Relevo is a digital platform aimed at supporting and empowering art professionals through the development of independent curatorial projects. 
  Relevo was founded as an immediate and alternative...
  
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• Brian Adams' best photograph: three men in an Inuit steam house

  07-10-2020 15:40
  
  ‘Many Inuit villages don’t have running water so most homes have a steam house. They go in and just sweat it out’This was taken in Quinhagak, Alaska, in 2015. I was documenting daily Inuit life. The idea was to travel from Quinhagak, on the south-western coast, to Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) way up in the north, then across to the Canadian border in the east. I’m from Alaska and have been working as a photographer across the state since I was 20. I had a bank of imag
  
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• Brief - creative activity packs for families with under 5s / Made With Many / East Midlands / UK wide

  07-10-2020 15:34
  Call out for creative challenges/activity packs for families with under 5s – Practitioner brief
  Made with Many are working with Home-Start Wellingborough & District and the...
  
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• Second City Has Put Itself Up For Sale

  07-10-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The announcement comes toward the end of a difficult year for (arguably) the world’s most famous improv comedy institution: in addition to the crippling effect of the COVID-19 epidemic (which saw two-thirds of the company’s staff laid off), The Second City has been shaken by accusations of institutionalized racial discrimination which saw co-owner and executive producer Andrew Alexander resign in June. – Variety
  
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• Ancient Villa With Mosaics Unearthed Under Apartment Block In Rome

  07-10-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The remains of the series of ornately decorated rooms were discovered when engineers were carrying out the earthquake-proofing of the 1950s residential building in 2014. Archaeologists were called in to undertake €3 million excavations funded by BNP Paribas Real Estate, the company that owns the apartment block. The archaeologists found a complex of lavish rooms with black and white mosaic flooring. The site will soon be accessible to the public as a subterranean museum.” &nda
  
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• Laban/Bartenieff Movement System for Musicians online workshop / Alexandra Baybutt / London / online

  07-10-2020 14:53
  This online workshop is for musicians of all styles, genres, instruments, voices, including electronic musicians, and levels of experience. It will introduce you to the Laban/Bartenieff Movement...
  
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• Finance Manager / Rural Arts / Yorkshire

  07-10-2020 14:51
  The Finance Manager manages the finance function of Rural Arts, undertaking both day-to-day and strategic duties to contribute to the smooth running of the charity and its subsidiary trading arm. It...
  
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• Gramophone’s Record Of The Year Is Mirga’s Weinberg Symphonies Disc; Igor Levit Is Artist Of The Year

  07-10-2020 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The English-speaking world’s most prestigious classical recording prize goes to DG’s release of Mieczysław Weinberg’s Symphonies No. 2 and No. 21, with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting the City of Birmingham SO and Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer playing the violin solos. Notable among the other awards is the rehabilitation of the Philadelphia Orchestra: 12 years after being pointedly left off the magazine’s list of the world’s 20 greatest symphoni
  
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• Studio & Production Manager / Wolf & Moon / London

  07-10-2020 14:16
  Click here for full job description and application details. 
  We are looking for a passionate, motivated and organised people-person to join our senior leadership team in the role of Studio...
  
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• Giant refugee puppet to walk from Syria to UK in public art event

  07-10-2020 14:12
  
  Co-production from The Jungle and War Horse teams aims to dramatise refugee children’s stories A giant puppet of a nine-year-old refugee girl will travel 4,971 miles (8,000km) from the Turkey-Syria border through Europe to the UK in what is being billed as one of the most ambitious public artworks ever attempted.The Good Chance team behind The Jungle, the celebrated dramatisation of refugee life in Calais, is teaming up with the creators of the War Horse puppets to present an adventurous w
  
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• British Gov’t Considers Selling Off Channel 4

  07-10-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Said minister John Whittingdale, “Unlike the BBC, Channel 4 survives as an advertising-funded model. … We do need to think about Channel 4 and whether there is still a need for a second publicly owned public service broadcaster, or what function it should fulfill.” Founded in 1982 as a home for risky and experimental programming commissioned from independent producers, the station is currently best known for The Great British Bake-Off. – The Guardian
  
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• BSL experts needed for LUTN digital conference / Light Up the North / Yorkshire / North East and North West

  07-10-2020 13:59
  We are looking for a BSL expert(s) to interpret our conference content over the two days of Weds 9 to Thurs 10 December. 
  Light Up the North will be hosting their first online conference this...
  
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• New Online Exhibition Exploring Breath and Breathlessness / Durham University / North East / All

  07-10-2020 13:51
  New online exhibition open now!
  Catch Your Breath
  Everyone breathes. From a baby’s first cries to a dying gasp, breath is an ever-present companion on the journey through life. Breathing...
  
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