Arts news

• Banks Have Continued To Collect Art As Museums Retreat

  20-11-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  As pandemic-related shutdowns have entered their ninth month, and as public collections around the world dramatically scale back programming—if not the collections themselves—banks and other large corporations have continued to collect, lend, and exhibit art. By comparison, 1 in 3 American museums never reopened after shutting down in March, according to a survey released on Tuesday by the American Alliance of Museums. – Bloomberg
  
  Read more

• “Wonder Woman” Plan Threatens Movie Theatres

  20-11-2020 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “By now, you’ve read a million paeans to the magic of sitting in a darkened theater, but it’s not just the evanescent experience of the silver screen that’s been whisked away. On a purely practical level, theaters act as a filter, a way of separating out a small handful of the hundreds of movies released every year, and although the system by which they end up there is riven with biases and blind spots, on balance, the movies that end up there are better than the ones th
  
  Read more

• Update: What Americans For The Arts Is Doing During COVID

  20-11-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The urgency of this vision has never been more apparent than in 2020—amid a global pandemic, heightened focus on social justice and racial equity, a huge economic downturn, and a contentious presidential election. These issues have impacted every community across the country and devastated artists, nonprofit and for-profit creative businesses, educational systems, healthcare, and trust in government. And because of long-term systemic inequities, these challenges have more severely affecte
  
  Read more

• Why Science Isn’t Just About Data

  20-11-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before I drag you any further down what might strike you as a rocky, obscure and unpromising path, let me furnish an illustration of scientific censorship in action: the case of beauty.” – Aeon
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Apple TV Relents And Allows “Charlie Brown Christmas” To Air On TV

  20-11-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Wednesday, Apple bowed to the backlash, announcing it had teamed up with PBS for ad-free broadcasts of “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” (on Nov. 22) and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (on Dec. 13). – PBS
  
  Read more

• Baryshnibot: Ballerina Physicist Invents Ideal Dance Partner For Quarantine

  20-11-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few weeks after the lockdown started back in March, Merritt Moore — who danced with ballet companies in Oslo, London and Boston before getting a Ph.D. in physics from Oxford — hit on the idea of using a robot as a partner for dance training while in isolation. So she ordered an industrial model and started programming it to do 15-second ballets with her for TikTok and Instagram. The pair has since racked up about 15 million views. (And yes, the machine’s name, which was crow
  
  Read more

• Remembering Ellis Marsalis And His Outsized Influence

  20-11-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Happy endings don’t happen often during a novel coronavirus pandemic. Marsalis, eighty-five, died in New Orleans of complications from the virus on April 1. But when the crying is over and Marsalis gets the jazz funeral he deserves, even the most sober study of his contributions to music might begin with a celebratory cork popping from a bottle of champagne. Jazz spoke to him early, in a way that no music had before, and in its service, his character was revealed. – Oxford American
  
  Read more

• Australia Gets Ready To Restart Live Performance As (Almost) Normal

  20-11-2020 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Live performance venues and events will be allowed to reach capacity of up to 75% in states that have recorded no new locally acquired coronavirus cases in 14 days. … In what has been labelled the ‘Covid normal’ of the near future, indoor events and seated outdoor events will still be ticketed only, and additional restrictions will still apply to large-scale multi-day outdoor music festivals.” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Arts and Culture during Lockdown: The Surge of Online Art Events / ArtRabbit / London

  20-11-2020 19:42
  In response to the first lockdown, ArtRabbit began working on an extension to their listings platform that would cater to online art and cultural events. They launched Online Events a few months ago,...
  
  Read more

• The Rock Critic Who Decided To Rewrite Classical Music History

  20-11-2020 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul Morley “still writes about rock today, when asked, but his focus has shifted. His current mission is to inspire rock fans to explore and love classical music. An admirable aim, as far as it goes.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Nominations for Marsh Awards 2020 / Engage / London / UK wide

  20-11-2020 19:29
  Do you know someone doing excellent and inspirational work in gallery or visual art education and learning?
  The awards recognise and celebrate the achievements of those working in learning and...
  
  Read more

• International Youth Arts Festival 2021 - Applications Now Open / Creative Youth / London

  20-11-2020 19:21
  International Youth Arts Festival is the UK’s largest multi-arts festival for and by people under 27, featuring some of the most exciting new work by emerging young talent. Applications are now...
  
  Read more

• Open Call for Digital Artists / Art Gene / North West / Online

  20-11-2020 19:19
  Paid online exhibition opportunity
  Art Gene invites applications from artists working in digital media including film, animation, performance and sound to exhibit on our online exhibition...
  
  Read more

• Pavement Picassos: the locked-down artists showing work in their windows

  20-11-2020 19:16
  
  Galleries are closed due to Covid – so a group of artists have taken to displaying their work from their houses for passersby. Our writer takes to the streetsIt is not a good time for art lovers. The second lockdown has closed galleries once more – I’m imagining portraits waiting moodily in the National Gallery in London to be admired again; Van Gogh’s sunflowers wilting further – and so it is not a good time for artists.Artists Walk is an initiative that aims to im
  
  Read more

• Digital Artist-Curator / Art Gene / North West / Online

  20-11-2020 19:16
  Fee £1,500 
  4 months commission starting January 2021
  Closing 16th December 2020
   
  Art Gene is seeking a Digital Artist with an interest in curation to produce a series of...
  
  Read more

• Character Dance Used To Be An Integral Part Of Ballet, And Just As Popular. What Happened To It?

  20-11-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Most full-length classical ballets feature several character dances — troupes of dancing peasants, parades of visiting princesses. Today, those dances are often seen as ‘filler,’ interludes to give the principals a breather between classical variations. But back in the 19th century, … character dances had deep cultural significance. … (Picture a Paris opera house full of cheering crowds, demanding multiple encores after their favorite star performs a knock
  
  Read more

• Performer/Puppeteer / Smoking Apples Theatre Company / London

  20-11-2020 18:54
  We are looking for a neurodivergent Puppeteer/Performer, to work with us on the R&D of our brand new show, Kinder.  The show is inspired by the real-life historical events of the...
  
  Read more

• Free Weekly Photography Briefs, Monthly Prizes / Sam Ivin / International

  20-11-2020 18:44
  Sign up for free Weekly Photography Briefs to get creative with your camera! Suitable for all ages and abilities. Submit your pictures by 11:59pm each Sunday to be in with a chance of winning Photo...
  
  Read more

• Call Out for Stories and Photos of Migration to Keele / Arts Keele / West Midlands

  20-11-2020 18:33
  We are inviting you to share your stories of migration as part of Sam Ivin’s Settling exhibition, which explores the individual stories and photographs of human migration to Keele and the local...
  
  Read more

• California Designates Those Who Work In Entertainment As Essential Workers

  20-11-2020 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  On that list of exemptions, under “Industrial, Commercial, Residential, and Sheltering Facilities and Services,” there is essential worker designation 15 which reads, “Workers supporting the entertainment industries, studios, and other related establishments, provided they follow covid-19 public health guidance around physical distancing.” – Deadline
  
  Read more

• Hallmark Has Been Broadcasting Christmas Shows Since Before Halloween — And It’s Ruling Cable TV With Them

  20-11-2020 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What’s most striking about Hallmark’s continued yuletide success is that the network hasn’t suffered the same ratings erosion as most of its cable peers. … It’s harder than ever to get holiday TV commercials in front of holiday viewers, but Hallmark is still doing so with relative ease.” – Vulture
  
  Read more

• Freelance Project Manager / Sparks Communities CIC / London

  20-11-2020 17:58
  Sparks Communities CICSparks Communities is a Community Interest Company (CIC) that inspires, educates and empowers children and young people through participatory film and media arts activities. Our...
  
  Read more

• AI-Powered Virtual Sheet Music Could Be Game-Changer For Musicians

  20-11-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artificial intelligence experts working with musicologists at a Berlin startup have spent years gathering hundreds of thousands of published scores and creating digital editions of each of them. The Enote app will give musicians the chance to interact with sheet music by instantly transposing it, switching between movements or measures, turning pages, changing the size of scores, and printing them on the go. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Policy Officer, Thames Estuary Production Corridor / Greater London Authority / London

  20-11-2020 17:08
  As part of the GLA’s Culture and Creative Industries Unit, you will help shape the Thames Estuary Production Corridor programme, one of the ambitious programmes in the Mayor’s Culture...
  
  Read more

• Artist-Mathematician Anthony Hill Dead At 90

  20-11-2020 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An artist under two names, and a mathematician and writer under more than one alias, he was a member of the constructionist group of geometrical abstract artists that emerged in Britain in the mid-1950s, and was its leading theoretician.” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Paper Doll Challenge / Fashioning our History - Funded by Brent Council and The Mayor of London / London

  20-11-2020 16:47
  Welcome to the @Foh.brent Lockdown Paper Doll Challenge. For those of you who need some creative inspiration during this dark and wet winter lockdown, let's introduce some colour and...
  
  Read more

• A Virtual Wander - live streamed event / Fruitcake Creatives / London

  20-11-2020 16:45
  A Virtual Wander - 11/12/2020, 19:00-20:00
  A live streamed walk through London, guided by Michelle Baharier of Fruitcake Creatives and friends.
  Free tickets:...
  
  Read more

• Fashioning Our History Programme Free for ages 12 - 22 / Fashioning our History - Funded by Brent Council and The Mayor of London / London

  20-11-2020 16:44
  CALLING ALL FASHION AND ART ENTHUSIASTS:.Are you Aged 12 - 22 and interested in a career in Fashion and/or Art? Do you know someone else who is? This is Fashioning Our History and we are here to...
  
  Read more

• Most Musicians Earn Tiny Pittances From Streaming. China May Have A Solution

  20-11-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On several streaming platforms under the umbrella of China’s Tencent Music … micropayments from fans help compensate artists where royalties fall short. This has partially allowed artists to do some smaller-scale hustling every time they release a new album. In part it’s given them a digital tip jar. But it hasn’t been all small change. … [And] there’s no reason why Tencent Music’s model can’t be applied beyond China.” – Slate
  
  Read more

• What if Hitchcock directed lockdown? – the week in art

  20-11-2020 16:30
  
  With its online Rear Window show, the White Cube is letting you ‘spy’ on works by Jeff Wall, while Cardiff celebrates Welsh national treasure Richard Burton, and Mary Quant goes back to the 60s – all in your weekly dispatchRear Window
  Stuck indoors for lockdown? This witty online show suggests it’s a bit like being James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. In this cinema classic, Stewart plays an ace photographer trapped in his apartment with a broken leg. L
  
  Read more

• Open Call For Emerging Artists/Creatives In Leicestershire / No Jobs in the Arts / East Midlands

  20-11-2020 16:26
  No Jobs in the Arts (NJITA) wants to shine a light on some of the amazing visual artists working in Leicestershire today. We are now taking entries for the fifth edition of the zine which will be...
  
  Read more

• New Trustees / Pedestrian Limited / East Midlands

  20-11-2020 16:17
  Pedestrian is a leading arts organisation specialising in music and arts education based in the heart of Leicester's bustling city centre.   We are seeking to appoint new trustees, who have...
  
  Read more

• Actors Equity And SAG-AFTRA Settle Bitter Turf War Over Streamed Theater

  20-11-2020 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Under the agreement, which is tentatively scheduled to last until Dec. 31, 2021, the two unions agreed that Equity will cover work recorded for digital distribution that replaces, or supplements, a live audience.” But, by god, it had better be as close as possible to a live, in-person performance: SAG-AFTRA has put some very specific restrictions on what qualifies. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Director Of Cantor Museum At Stanford Ousted Over Management Style

  20-11-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Susan Dackerman, director of Cantor Arts Center, has resigned under pressure after a lengthy investigation revealed a toxic work culture with heavy staff turnover and low morale at the Stanford University museum.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
  Read more

• BuzzFeed Is Taking Over HuffPost

  20-11-2020 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Verizon Media had been reportedly trying to offload HuffPost for more than a year and has been in negotiations with BuzzFeed for several months about a sale.” The two sites will continue to operate separately, each with its own newsroom. – Variety
  
  Read more

• Art & Craft Project Assistant / Sydenham Garden / London

  20-11-2020 15:01
  Role: Project Assistant x 2
  Location: Our main sites (Wynell Road and De Frene Road) in Forest Hill/Sydenham with some remote working from home
  Hours: Part-time (18.75 hours per week or 2.5...
  
  Read more

• Academy of Ancient Music, Leading Baroque Orchestra, Names New Director

  20-11-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Under its founder, the late Christopher Hogwood, the AAM made many pathbreaking recordings, including the first period-instrument releases of the complete Mozart symphonies, Bach’s Magnificat, and four Handel oratorios, including Messiah; with Hogwood and his successor, Richard Egarr, the orchestra has built up a discography of more than 200 titles. Taking the reins from Egarr in the fall of 2021 will be harpsichordist/conductor Laurence Cummings, currently director of the International H
  
  Read more

• Illusionarium 2021! Up to Gbp 3,000 per artwork available / The NO Collective / London

  20-11-2020 14:10
  Illusionarium, the Havering festival of illusion and light will return for 2021 and there are commissions of up to £3,000 available to support you in creating and displaying your artwork as...
  
  Read more

• Booker Prize 2020 Goes To Douglas Stuart’s ‘Shuggie Bain’

  20-11-2020 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Scottish-American writer’s debut novel follows the title character, an impoverished boy in 1980s Glasgow, “as he attempts to care for his alcoholic mother, Agnes, whose descent into alcoholism coincides with her youngest son’s growing awareness of his sexuality. The novel is dedicated to Stuart’s mother, who died of alcoholism when he was 16.” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• FREE Writing Prompt Advent Calendar / Derbyshire Writing School / East Midlands / National

  20-11-2020 13:18
  Countdown to Christmas with Derbyshire Writing School!
  What starts the Christmas season for you? Do you get your decorations unpacked? Do you write a letter to Santa or hang your advent...
  
  Read more

• Mohamed Melehi obituary | Oliver Basciano

  20-11-2020 13:01
  
  Artist whose paintings took inspiration from the craft culture of his native MoroccoIn 1963 the artist Mohamed Melehi, then living in New York, was included in the Museum of Modern Art show Hard Edge and Geometric Painting and Sculpture.If he had stayed in the city, Melehi, who has died aged 83 of Covid-19, might have gone on to enjoy a similar level of fame to American peers painting in the same style, such as Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland. Instead, compelled to return to Mor
  
  Read more

• Assistant Producer / Jumped Up Theatre, Peterborough / East Midlands

  20-11-2020 12:42
  Are you passionate about inspiring others to celebrate and explore their creativity?
  Do you have an interest in Peterborough arts and culture, particularly for young people and new audiences?
  Can...
  
  Read more

• Youth Music Co-ordinator / Hoxton Hall / London

  20-11-2020 12:36
  Hoxton Hall is a Victorian grade II* listed music hall built in 1863. The venue also houses adjoining music rooms and recording space, meeting and rehearsal rooms, dance studio, art studios and...
  
  Read more

• Sketchup Technician / Cinecentre / London

  20-11-2020 12:28
  We are looking for somebody highly skilled with the design software: Sketchup. Working closely with the CEO, you'll create 3D visualizations for a four-storey office refurbishment in Covent Garden....
  
  Read more

• 2 week creative and collaborative online course / Proper Job Theatre Company / North West

  20-11-2020 12:04
  Have you been affected by the impact Covid-19 has had the Arts sector? Would you like to connect with people who may have had similar experiences to you? Would you like to build emotional resilience...
  
  Read more

• Data-Driven Marketing Online Course / Independent Cinema Office / London

  20-11-2020 11:57
  Across seven lessons, you’ll hear from leading experts in marketing, with a specific focus on how you can use data to better engage with your existing audience, or approach new audiences that...
  
  Read more

• Marketing & Communications Officer / Lawrence Batley Theatre / Yorkshire

  20-11-2020 11:34
  We are looking for a passionate and creative Marketing & Communications Officer to join our dedicated Marketing & Communications team. Working directly with the Head of Marketing &...
  
  Read more

• Community Engagement Coordinator / IRIE! dance theatre / London

  20-11-2020 11:18
  IRIE! dance theatre has a long and proud history of excellent community engagement working with diverse communities, with a particular focus on people of African and Caribbean heritage. For over 30...
  
  Read more

• Trustee / Theatre Royal Wakefield / Yorkshire

  20-11-2020 10:35
  Could you be a Theatre Royal Wakefield trustee? We are keen to meet dynamic and passionate individuals who share our belief that the arts can inspire and enrich people’s lives. Being a trustee...
  
  Read more

• Fools at Fawlty Towers 29/01/2021 Maidstone / Comedy Dining / London

  20-11-2020 09:36
  Comedy Dining are pleased to bring together two iconic shows, after our success with Only Fools and 3 Courses and Fawlty Towers, we now have Fools @ Fawlty Towers!Four professional actors will...
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!