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• What Art Restoration Might Have To Teach Us About Repairing The Environment

  16-12-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I discovered that there are important parallels between the theory and practice of repairing damaged art and that of repairing damaged nature. But there’s an important difference. The environmental sciences investigate processes of nature that have endured billions of years, and yet scientific thinking about the repair of ecosystems is but decades old. Artistic production is, on the other hand, of relatively recent origin, yet systematic thinking and writing about the repair of tar
  
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• The Double Bind For Writers Of Color

  16-12-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The writer of colour is thus trapped in a double bind. Racism must be investigated and challenged, but what does it mean if there is only one acceptable framework for addressing the issue? What does it mean if diversity initiatives laud only one kind of story? – The Walrus
  
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• A Historic Detroit Music Venue To Become An Amazon Factory?

  16-12-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Amazon, you’re building a new $400-million, 3.8-million-square-foot distribution center on the old State Fair site. The area where the bandshell sits is slated to become a parking lot. The bandshell is an important piece of American music history, as well as Detroit music history. It would be a tragic loss if it were to end up, like so many historic Detroit buildings, as a parking lot. The music industry has suffered greatly in 2020 due to COVID-19 and we’re not out of the wo
  
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• NYC’s 4,500 Teaching Artists Are Out Of Luck

  16-12-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Department of Education’s arts budget was $21.5 million in the last school year. The line item pays cultural organizations that find and pay artists to go into classrooms and teach kids how to dance, act, sing, paint, write, and learn all kinds of other creative skills. The arrangement works pretty well because New York City has two things in abundance: public school students and artists with both creative expertise and rent coming due. So business was booming for the city’s 4,5
  
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• Giant, Centuries-Old Headless Buddha Discovered In Chinese City

  16-12-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 9m-high (30-foot) statue, with its head missing, was uncovered on a cliff between two high-rise residential buildings in the Nanan district of Chongqing. It is not clear when the statue was carved” — it’s believed to date to the Qing dynasty — “and local authorities are still investigating its cultural value.” – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  
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• Frick Tricks: Reinvention to Convention, as Peripatetic Displays Move from Brutalist to Beaux Arts

  16-12-2020 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  While many museums are experimenting with quirky new ways of organizing their permanent-collection displays, the Frick Collection is going in the opposite direction: It will use its planned temporary occupation of the Breuer building to unveil a more conventionally coherent presentation of its holdings than was seen in its flagship building. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Are Movie Studios Killing Theatres In Favor Of Streaming?

  16-12-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Wall Street imperative now is too strong to resist. The conglomerates are sacrificing the future of moviegoing for the pandemically friendly practice of moviestaying. We were heading that way before COVID. Now we’re there. Outside the river of streaming content, for most studios the rest is just sentiment and small potatoes. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• SHORTS Festival 2021 call for submissions / Pants on Fire / London

  16-12-2020 20:07
  SHORTS is a collaborative festival of performer-created 15 minute solo theatre pieces presented by Pants on Fire 
  We are looking for eclectic and diverse submissions from performers who want to...
  
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• The Source Story For ‘King Lear’ Had A Happy Ending. Why Did Shakespeare Make It A Tragedy?

  16-12-2020 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Basically, because of all the plagues everyone had been through, says Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran. “There is a big change in tone in his later work. Academics have speculated that this was to do with political unrest and change, the wake of the gunpowder plot, but experiencing the pandemic this year has made it clearer to me what lies behind it. Shakespeare just could no longer write straightforward comedies, or give a happy ending to Lear.” – The Ob
  
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• Short-term CRF Creative Project Officer / Museum of Royal Worcester / West Midlands

  16-12-2020 19:48
  The Museum of Royal Worcester is an independent museum and charitable trust looking after and making accessible the largest collection of Worcester porcelain in the world and the important factory...
  
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• Social Media / Marketing post - freelance / Yorkshire Visual Arts Network (YVAN) / Yorkshire

  16-12-2020 19:34
  Yorkshire Visual Arts Network (YVAN) is looking to recruit a freelance Marketing post: January – March 2021 (with potential to extend)
  9 hours a week. Self employed basis - £1,500.00 (3...
  
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• Calls Grow For Americans For The Arts’ CEO To Resign

  16-12-2020 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Volunteer members of an AFTA advisory council on Friday publicly called for Robert Lynch and his senior executives to resign, saying that after three months of working behind the scenes for reform, they realize AFTA is an “organization with no desire to change.” At the same time, current and former staff have alleged that senior leaders “created and condoned a hostile work environment . . . rife with bullying, intimidation, retaliation, and harassment.” &nd
  
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• Cultural Education Partnership Manager / Ealing Council / London

  16-12-2020 19:20
  Fixed term contract for external candidates or secondment opportunity for Ealing Council employees for 18 months
  Equivalent of 3 days per week, up to 21 hours per week
  Ealing Council's arts and...
  
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• The Birth Of America’s Penny Press

  16-12-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When Benjamin Day came up with the plan of selling newspapers to the poor in 1833, he did so with the ravenous maw of poverty threatening to swallow him up…. Within four months [of its first issue on September 3, 1833], The Sun‘s circulation was 5,000; within a year, 10,000. In two years, 19,000 copies of The Sun were sold every day, making it the best-selling newspaper in the world.” – The New York Review of Books
  
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• Filmmaker / Blueprint Film / London / South East

  16-12-2020 19:02
  Blueprint Film have a fantastic opportunity for a filmmaker to join a small but well established creative agency. You will support our expanding range of social media content clients and work under...
  
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• City Of Seattle Starts An Arts Real Estate Company

  16-12-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In an effort to combat cultural displacement and gentrification, the city is taking the rare step of creating a “mission-driven” real estate development company so that it can create, purchase, manage and lease property for arts and cultural spaces — which could include a wide range of venues and organizations, including galleries, bookstores, nonprofit dance companies and cultural community centers. The new entity would likely also develop and manage a new “Creat
  
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• Makers Lab Lead Facilitator at Outdoor Holiday Camps / The Hive / London

  16-12-2020 18:25
  Founded in May 2014, The Hive is a fast-growing education company focused on Outdoor Learning. We run workshops for children, families and grown-ups. The Hive is unique in the UK, bringing together...
  
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• Box Office Sales Supervisor (35 hours) / Theatre Royal Windsor / South East

  16-12-2020 18:12
  Theatre Royal Windsor is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Sales Supervisor (35 hours) as part of the Box Office Team to help support the Marketing & Sales Manager and Box Office...
  
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• Trump And The Culture Wars, The Source Of His Power

  16-12-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Poniewozik: “[His] campaign, as much as it was about wall-building or Islamophobia or ‘law and order,’ was also about a promise to defend and uphold his followers’ culture over the enemy’s. … To an audience that had been told for years that showbiz celebrities disdained their values, here was one of their celebrities, a real celebrity from TV, taking their side. … The message: Your stars are being canceled. Your shows are being canceled. You are
  
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• Trustee / The Reader / North West

  16-12-2020 17:34
  “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very...
  
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• AI Can Now Translate Movie Dialog In The Actors Voices

  16-12-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Deepdub, which came out of stealth on Wednesday, has built technology that can translate a voice track to a different language, all while staying true to the voice of the talent. This makes it possible to have someone like Morgan Freeman narrate a movie in French, Italian or Russian without losing what makes Freeman’s voice special and recognizable. – Protocol
  
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• Exploring outsider & mainstream art worlds / / South East / Nationwide

  16-12-2020 17:28
  Could your contribution help lead to a greater understanding of diversity of artists and artwork in UK exhibitions? 
  My name is Kate Davey and I am a PhD student at the University of...
  
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• Trust and Foundations Manager / Art Fund / London

  16-12-2020 17:18
  Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum
  Art Fund is the national fundraising charity for art. We believe that art can make you see, think and feel differently, and through our work we help...
  
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• Targeted Work Associate Director (freelance role) / Lyric Hammersmith Theatre / London

  16-12-2020 17:11
  The Lyric Hammersmith is one of the UK’s leading producing theatres. The Lyric produces world class theatre from the heart of Hammersmith, the theatre’s home for more than a hundred and...
  
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• Producer / Lyric Hammersmith Theatre / London

  16-12-2020 17:05
  The Lyric Hammersmith is one of the UK’s leading producing theatres. The Lyric produces world class theatre from the heart of Hammersmith, the theatre’s home for more than a hundred and...
  
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• Discovered: Earliest Known English Church Anthem Composed By A Woman

  16-12-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  This setting of the Christmas hymn “Whilst Shepherds watch’d their flocks by night” for unison girls’ voices and organ was written ca. 1785 by Jane Savage, a composer and the daughter of one of Handel’s bass soloists, himself a composer and church musician. She created the piece for the choir of London’s Asylum for Female Orphans; as in Venice at the same time, the English capital in the 18th century had a number of institutions for abandoned or orphaned girl
  
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• Singing Tutor / Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts / South East / London

  16-12-2020 17:00
  Singing Tutor
  £30,000 to £33,500 per annum
  Full time or part time
  Barbican/GuildfordAre you an experienced Singing Tutor with a background teaching at FE or HE level?
  Have you...
  
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• Programme Manager, Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme / Britten Pears Arts / East

  16-12-2020 16:40
  The Producer, BPYAP, is responsible for the delivery of all projects run within the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and leads on its annual audition process. The post holder will develop close...
  
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• Creative Producer - Opera and Music Theatre / Britten Pears Arts / East

  16-12-2020 16:37
  Opera and music-theatre, particularly the creation of new works, has been at the very heart of our work since the foundation of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948 and continues to be central to our...
  
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• Assistant Curator: Engagement / Create London / London

  16-12-2020 16:36
  The Assistant Curator: Engagement supports Create’s Senior Curators and the White House Curator on the development and delivery of public realm infrastructure commissions and the National...
  
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• How Nikki Giovanni Has Remained A Household-Name Poet (!) For 50 Years

  16-12-2020 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Her staying power over half a century comes from a stream of acclaimed work, her proclivity for a punishing schedule of tours and readings, and a fearlessness born of not caring what foolish people think.” – The New York Times
  
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• Development Assistant / Britten Pears Arts / East

  16-12-2020 16:32
  Britten Pears Arts is a pioneering music, arts and heritage charity based on the Suffolk coast.  Our Development  team is responsible for raising over a third of our annual revenue from a...
  
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• Producer, Community / Britten Pears Arts / East

  16-12-2020 16:29
  The Britten Pears Arts Community programme is central to our national leadership role in the field of music for health and wellbeing. 
  A wide range of music-based projects are delivered by the...
  
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• Management Accountant / Freelands Foundation / London

  16-12-2020 16:23
  Freelands Foundation was set up in 2015 to give an increased number of people the chance to engage with and enjoy the arts in the UK, with a particular focus on education. Our ambition is...
  
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• Equality Advisory Board Member / Disconnected Bodies / London

  16-12-2020 16:17
  Disconnected Bodies are an Arts Marketing Practitioners, Audience Engagement Consultants and Arts Audience Researchers.
  As cis, white and non-disabled we recognise our privilege and the...
  
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• Director / Blaze Arts / North West

  16-12-2020 16:15
  Blaze Arts supports the next generation of creative producers and artists to imagine, build and invent the future world they want to see. From training creative producers to developing socially...
  
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• Director of Operations / National Theatre Wales / Cardiff

  16-12-2020 16:08
   Are you someone who believes in the power of placing people and processes at the heart of an organisation’s culture?
   
  Do you believe in the role that culture, specifically arts...
  
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• All Hollywood Is Furious At Warner Bros. (Nobody Blames The Streamers)

  16-12-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the aftermath of WarnerMedia’s decision to put its entire 2021 slate of films on its HBO Max streaming service the same day the titles open in theaters, the AT&T division seems to recognize the need for damage control — but not quite how to go about it.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• DISRUPT 2021: Open call for creative proposals / Guildhall School of Music and Drama / London

  16-12-2020 16:02
  DISRUPT is a brand new digital arts festival taking place 8-9 July 2021. The event will explore how the performing arts has supported and collaborated with communities during the...
  
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• Yves Tanguy Painting Rescued From Airport Dumpster

  16-12-2020 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  An anonymous businessman had been planning to bring the surrealist work, worth an estimated $340,000, with him from Düsseldorf to Tel Aviv last week — but he mistakenly left the painting behind at the airport, where cleaners saw the cardboard carton containing the painting and put it in the recycling bin. And that is where the piece was found the following day. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Production Manager / Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance / London

  16-12-2020 15:17
  Production Manager (Transitions Dance Company) & In-house Technical Support 
  An opportunity has become available to work in this dynamic, creative and responsive environment. We are seeking...
  
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• Mexico’s Museums Are Desperate — And Afraid To Say So: Commission

  16-12-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  This isn’t even about COVID. According to the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, the austerity measures that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador introduced in May of 2019 have led to budget cuts of 50% in the capital’s museums and 75% in regional museums; many staffers haven’t been paid for weeks or even months. And museum directors won’t raise this with the public or high officials for fear of reprisal. – Artnet
  
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• State of Flux - Projects Assistant Internship / Ludus Dance / North West

  16-12-2020 15:01
  We are looking for an enthusiastic young person between the ages of 16-21 for a 7-month paid internship on an arts and health initiative.
  Hours: 22.5 hours per week, Flexi Time (specific...
  
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• Lady Gaga wellies and an inflatable Scream? Perfect! It's the culture Xmas gift guide 2020

  16-12-2020 15:01
  
  Need present ideas? We have 25 cultural crackers, including the Martin Parr breakfast tray, a guide to real-life Wes Anderson locations – plus socks inspired by Europe’s most popular brick-laying patternInflatable ScreamFew works of art better catch the mood of the year than Munch’s masterpiece. Now you can exorcise the demons of 2020 by placing one of these 18-inch versions in the corner of your bedroom/office/prison. For extra life-like ghoulishness, fill it with water and wa
  
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• Stock Supervisor / Cass Art / North West

  16-12-2020 15:00
  We have an opportunity for a Stock Supervisor to join our Liverpool store. Working with the Store Management team along with the Merchandising and Buying departments, this role maintains stock...
  
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• Special Online Short Courses - Music & Dance / The Bhavan / London

  16-12-2020 14:50
  The Bhavan is committed to ensure that we continue doing what we do best – indulge in Indian Classical Arts and bring others with us on the journey. As 2020 comes to a close and a brand new...
  
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• Creative Director and Chief Executive / Diorama Arts Centre / London

  16-12-2020 14:48
  Diorama Arts Centre are seeking an inspirational & effective Creative Director & CEO. The Creative Director will have overall responsibility for the leadership of the organisation and will...
  
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• Ecommerce & Retail Supervisor / Museum of the Home / London

  16-12-2020 14:43
  Are you a talented ecommerce professional with a proven track record in exceptional customer service?
  We are recruiting a driven Ecommerce and Retail Supervisor to deliver a first-class retail offer...
  
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• Retail Assistant / Museum of the Home / London

  16-12-2020 14:38
  Do you love interacting with customers? Do you have a flair for sales?
  The Museum of the Home is recruiting a highly motivated and talented team to deliver a first-class retail...
  
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• French Arts Workers March Against Extension Of COVID Restrictions

  16-12-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cinemas, theatres, museums and concert halls had been set to reopen, but days in advance Prime Minister Jean Castex announced a change of heart in response to France’s stubbornly high infection rate. No reopening will take place now until at least 7 January. … Holding slogans like ‘we’re going to die, and not even on stage’, some of the demonstrators told the BBC of their anger and distress at the lockdown.” – BBC
  
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