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• The Masked Dancer? Seriously? Here’s How It Came To Be

  28-12-2020 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Enter “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which had also capitalized on the popularity of “Masked Singer” to create its own “Masked Dancer” stunt. After those segments became viral hits and the “Masked Singer” team saw how well they played, Fox alternative entertainment and specials president Rob Wade said he was finally convinced. – Variety
  
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• How Online “Superfans” Made Pop Music A Scary Place

  28-12-2020 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  While music has long been intertwined with internet communities and the rise of social networks, a growing faction of the most vocal and dedicated pop enthusiasts have embraced the term “stan” — taken from the 20-year-old Eminem song about a superfan turned homicidal stalker — and are redefining what it means to love an artist. – The New York Times
  
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• Learning To Hear Beethoven

  28-12-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Wood: “It took me some time to listen properly to Beethoven, to get past the heroic glower of his portrait, the worldwide canonicity. (Surely it didn’t help that our entire generation, like those before us, had to trudge through Für Elise and what we could manage of the Pathétique on the piano. I used to go to sleep to the broken sounds of those pieces, as my brother, five years older, toiled downstairs at his ‘homework’.) It wasn’t till my early
  
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• How Consolidation Is Killing Good Art

  28-12-2020 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The lack of options marketed to consumers has created a missing middle: the zone between mass market and niche market where experimentation is supposed to proliferate and engender variety. Worse, the consolidation of the country’s vast creative sector into fewer, more powerful production and publishing companies has come at the direct expense of the quality of their product.” – The New Republic
  
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• How Rich Corporate Publishers Are Gouging Public Schools

  28-12-2020 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the past decade, Silicon Valley’s tech behemoths have discreetly and methodically tightened their grip on American schools, and the pandemic has given them license to squeeze even tighter. – The New Republic
  
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• Gustavo Dudamel And His New Virtual Reality Symphony

  28-12-2020 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dudamel takes on the role of virtual guide on a tour that takes us from the creation of instruments and how they vibrate and channel sound to the synapses of the brain where sound is processed as the orchestra plays around us. – BBC
  
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• How TV Fundamentally Changed in 2020

  28-12-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  2020 wasn’t just about bigger numbers for the streaming industry. We also got to see an acceleration of cord cutting as viewers migrated by the millions from legacy cable; a shift in power as device-makers emerged as the new gatekeepers; and the erosion of long-established theatrical release windows. – Protocol
  
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• An Argument For “Canceling” Beethoven?

  28-12-2020 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He was the most performed composer in America in 2019-20, with over double the number of performances of Mozart (the second most performed). Being a guaranteed ticket-seller and donor pleaser, he keeps reappearing in concert programmes to the exclusion of other, more diverse composers. In the neo-liberal world, where audiences prefer the familiar, such attitudes to programming are unlikely to change unless there is a mass cultural boycott (i.e. ‘cancelling’) of composers like
  
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• Why A Charlie Brown Christmas Is So Enduring

  28-12-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Charles Schulz had what Maurice Sendak had: respect for children. He understood the way they think and feel, not the way adults want them to think and feel. He understood that there’s a point in children’s growing up when Christmas doesn’t work its magic as reliably as it once did. Schulz let them explore a taboo subject, Christmastime unhappiness, while still reassuring them that Christmas is a good and fun and wonderful thing.” – The Atlantic
  
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• What To Look Forward To In The Arts In A Biden Administration

  28-12-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Proposed actions include an expansion of existing workforce hiring programs to include artists and creative workers, launching a program of federal arts commissions, developing an ArtistCorps within AmeriCorps, continuing CARES Act policies that extended benefits to the self-employed, and the creation of a new leadership position to coordinate federal arts policy. – Forbes
  
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• Events Manager / Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust / Yorkshire

  28-12-2020 17:07
  Events at Wentworth Woodhouse are key to our success, as we expand our innovative events programme. We are seeking an energetic, creative and effective Events Manager.Working with our in-house team...
  
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• Digital Programmes Manager / Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust / Yorkshire

  28-12-2020 17:05
  The Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust (the Trust) is committed to embracing technological and digital innovation to deliver high quality, creative and relevant visitor experiences, effective,...
  
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• Fundraising Manager / Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust / Yorkshire

  28-12-2020 17:03
  The Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust (the Trust) is committed to raising significant sums to support it ambitious programme of development over the coming decade and fundraising is one of the...
  
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• Our Meta-Moviegoer Hearts Were Filled With A Void In 2020

  28-12-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  And that’s because we couldn’t check the box office receipts obsessively. “Early on in the pandemic, I would feel a phantom curiosity every Sunday afternoon. Isn’t there something I’m supposed to do right about now? It was a tiny, unscratchable itch that has since numbed to almost nothing. But it’s still there. I miss the feeling of a continuous curiosity regularly sated, and I know I’m not alone.” – Fast Company
  
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• Jeff Koons Has Joined The MasterClass List

  28-12-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s right, Koons could be your art teacher. Or, well, your something. “While the chef Thomas Keller demonstrates how to cook scrambled eggs on MasterClass and the tennis star Serena Williams walks viewers through groundstrokes, Mr. Koons is here as a life coach and a salesman. He wants us to succeed, and he wants us to be happy.” – The New York Times
  
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• Has Thomas Becket’s ‘Little Book’ At Very Long Last Been Found?

  28-12-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The book was important enough that, in 1164, he sent his closest confidant to do something about it as he fled trial in England for exile in France. But he never named it. Fast-forward to 2014 (and later), and a tale of academic adventure and record-keeping that began over coffee. – BBC
  
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• The Preserving Machine / Digital Artist Residency X Implied Gallery / London / south east

  28-12-2020 15:28
  The Preserving Machine
  Digital Artist Residency X Implied Gallery
  4th Jan - 11th April 2021
  https://www.digitalartistresidency.org/the-preserving-machine/
  https://implied.gallery/
  The Preserving...
  
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• Producing - Proper Job - Honest / workshop 15th Jan / CGO Institute / London / UK, Scotland & International

  28-12-2020 15:15
  Fri 15th Jan 4-6pm: A 2hr zoom workshop open to anyone who is thinking about being a producer – whether a student or a current self-producing-artist (SPA) who is interested in producing other...
  
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• Diploma in Creative Producing - appl open for April21 course / CGO Institute / London / Scotland & International

  28-12-2020 15:11
  Applications are open for the 2nd cohort on the new cloud-based international Diploma.
  From April 2021, a 16-week intensive programme of classes, seminars and tutorials for up to 12 producers, led...
  
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• Norwich Fringe Festival 2021: Open Call for Applications / / East

  28-12-2020 14:54
  Applications close: Midnight on Saturday 9 January 2021Programme finalised by 16 JanuaryNorwich Fringe Festival 2021: Mid-March
  • Any art form is welcome to apply.• In-person, online...
  
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• Bookbinding Workshop [Online] / We Make Books! / London

  28-12-2020 14:54
  EXPERIMENTAL BOOKBINDING
  Monday 11th January 2021   18:00pm – 19:30pmHosted on Zoom
  In this online workshop, you’ll be introduced to the magical world of experimental...
  
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• Online Bookbinding Workshop [Includes materials kit] / We Make Books! / London

  28-12-2020 14:47
  LEARN HOW TO MAKE A HARDCOVER NOTEBOOK
  Saturday 9th January 2021   
  2pm – 5pm
  Hosted on Zoom
  In this online hands-on workshop, you will learn how to make a single section...
  
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• Artists / Primal Media / East / UK wide

  28-12-2020 14:19
  Primal Media are looking for artists who can design and create epic pieces of public art.
   
  The winner will receive a money- can't - buy prize: the opportunity to build the next great...
  
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• Country diary: nature shakes and shimmers in this watery world

  28-12-2020 06:30
  
  Slapton Ley, Devon: After drawing for an hour I have only a page of scribbles – pathetic attempts to describe this placeThis is a disappearing watery world – always on the verge of surrender to the churning belt of brine beyond the shingle bank.The path in midwinter is flooded and, standing with my sketchbook, feet like the reeds’ in the clear dark water, I think of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem Sandpiper: “… that every so often the world is bound to shake”.
  
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