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• The (Largely Untapped) Potential Of Reaching People With Physical Disabilities

  30-12-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is simply a lack of awareness of the need and a misunderstanding of the public benefit that could result from reaching out to this population, not to mention the financial benefit that might be gleaned from this untapped market. But fiscal considerations aside, there is simply no good reason why a person with a physical disability must also be culturally disadvantaged.” – Equal Entry
  
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• What Happens When Independent Machines Make Mistakes (And They Will)?

  30-12-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Products and services that make decisions autonomously will also need to resolve ethical dilemmas—a requirement that raises additional risks and regulatory and product development challenges. Scholars have now begun to frame these challenges as problems of responsible algorithm design. They include the puzzle of how to automate moral reasoning.” – Harvard Business Review
  
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• What “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” Teaches Us About Copyright Failings

  30-12-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The composer of the catchy tune, South African Solomon Linda, died destitute in 1962. While US artists were at loggerheads over the lucrative melody, he had been in and out of hospitals and suffering from kidney failure. – BBC
  
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• Our Robot Overlords Have Learned To Dance… (Better Than I Can)

  30-12-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The video sees Boston Dynamics’ entire lineup of robots — the humanoid Atlas, the dog-shaped Spot, and the box-juggling Handle — all come together in a bopping, coordinated dance routine set to The Contours’ “Do You Love Me.” – The Verge
  
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• Are Museums An Education Or An Experience?

  30-12-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It has made me unexpectedly nostalgic for an idea of museums as spaces where the individual can go and explore on their own without being told what to think; spaces to contemplate works of art which express and demonstrate a different set of ideas and beliefs from the present. I don’t want constantly to be badgered and made to feel guilty that my ancestors have travelled the world collecting objects in order better to understand and interpret the world. I don’t necessarily re
  
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• When Boys Were Kidnapped And Forced To Sing

  30-12-2020 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Master of the Choristers at England’s Chapel Royal had the legal right to travel the land in search of the most talented young men and take them away to London to sing at the monarch’s religious services. This was, of course, a situation ripe for abuse, and in the days of Elizabeth I, Master Nathaniel Giles would conscript boys for his pal Henry Evans’s acting company at the Blackfriars Theatre — or they’d split the bribes from parents desperate to keep their f
  
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• How The COVID Relief Bill Will Help Performing Arts Venues

  30-12-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The bill gives priority to those who have lost at least 90% of their revenue between April and December 2019 and the same period this year; they can apply for funding in the first two weeks that grants become available. Second priority goes to those who have lost at least 70% of their revenue in the same period; they can apply in the second two weeks. Administrators can allocate up to 80% of the funds during those first four weeks; after that, anyone can apply. Individual grants are capp
  
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• A Family At The Heart Of The Hawaiian Language Revival

  30-12-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kekoa and Pelehonuamea Harman fell in love while undergraduates in the first class of the Hawaiian-medium degree program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Now they’re part of a new generation of instructors teaching the language, and the associated culture, to young people across the state, leading to the first increase in the number of fluent Hawaiian speakers in generations. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• First Step: Scott Cantrell Admits His CD Problem

  30-12-2020 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Dallas music critic has thousands of CDs accumulated over a long career. Of course he’s not going to give them up. Is it just habit, or is there something better about listening to music on plastic discs. Well, the first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem… – Dallas Morning News
  
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• What’s The Word Of The Year For 2020? In The U.S. Art World, It’s ‘Deaccession’

  30-12-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the pandemic forced American museums to close their doors and give up all earned income, the Association of Art Museum Directors agreed to temporarily relax its strict rule that museums may sell their art only to fund the purchase of other art. A number of deaccessions (as the practice is euphemized) promptly ensued, followed swiftly by arguments over them and the cancellation of a few (notably in Baltimore). Matt Stromberg looks back at the year’s battles. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Ken Hughes obituary

  30-12-2020 18:33
  
  My father, Ken Hughes, who has died aged 93, was a sculptor and lecturer.His speciality was extremely lifelike and well observed portrait heads. But he also explored other ways of making sculpture, using colour in a long series of works that were often reminiscent of scenes in plays and which, stylistically, owed much to German Expressionist painters such as Paul Klee and Max Beckmann and contemporary painters such as Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon. Continue reading...
  
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• Could The Arts Help Unify Our Fractures?

  30-12-2020 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In European nations, “save our cultural institutions” is widely regarded as a necessary cause. In the United States, the same cry is not heard. What is going on? Were the arts always a negligible component of the New World experience, insufficiently cultivated? Or did they become negligible? Are we as a nation simply too young to dig deep expressive roots? Too diverse? Too much crippled by our original sins of slavery and the Indian Wars?” – American Purpose
  
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• Lamenting A Brave Little Theater And Its Big Shakespeare Cycle, Both Killed By COVID

  30-12-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the course of this year and next, Brave Spirits Theater in Alexandria, Va. was going to be “first professional American theater company to mount full productions of Shakespeare’s two history play tetralogies” — that’s Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V, then Henry VI Parts 1, 2, and 3 and Richard III — “and perform them in repertory.” Maya Phillips was going to report on it all; as she begins her account, “I’ve written
  
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• Big Entertainment Versus Big Tech – The COVID Relief Bill And Its Copyright Bomb

  30-12-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Passage of the measure is one of the clearest public signs yet of longstanding tensions between the tech and entertainment industries and who’s winning the battle for control. Big Entertainment (Disney et al) has benefited enormously from technology in producing content and getting it to consumers in new ways, but Big Tech (Google et al) has also given consumers (and upstart content producers) the means of accessing that content on their own terms, which Big E sees as a threat.&rdq
  
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• Apprentice Globemaker / Bellerby & Co Globemakers / London

  30-12-2020 17:06
  The full job listing can be found here : https://blog.bellerbyandco.com/uncategorized/apprentice-globemaker/
  The company has been organically growing over the years.. and we are currently...
  
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• Evan Hopkins Turner, Former Director Of Philadelphia And Cleveland Museums Of Art, Dead At 93

  30-12-2020 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following a Ph.D. in art history at Harvard and five years at the helm of Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts, he came to the Philadelphia Museum (1964-78), where he created new departments for American and 20th-century art and for photography and hired several important curators (notably Anne d’Harnoncourt, who eventually became director herself). In Cleveland (1983-93), he transformed the museum from a respected but staid institution into a regional powerhouse that helped fuel cultural
  
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• Lamenting All The Wacky, Creative Stuff We’re Losing With The End Of Flash Animation

  30-12-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, it isn’t really viable as software anymore: it’s been superseded technically and has too many security vulnerabilities. But a lot of delightfully oddball things were created with Flash, Carolina Miranda reminds us, and they’re worth celebrating and (where possible) saving. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Senior Research Fellow (IIIF-TNC) / The National Gallery / London

  30-12-2020 16:08
  We’re looking for a highly motivated individual interested in pursuing innovative research to highlight and demonstrate how we can share and re-use our rich image...
  
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• Knoxville Symphony Will Proceed With Spring 2021 Season

  30-12-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The musicians’ union and management have agreed on terms for rehearsing and performing from February to May, wth players receiving 80% of their previous salary for 20 weeks beginning Jan. 4. Management will have increased flexibility (compared to the previous contract) to change programming and personnel and to record and stream concerts. – Arts Knoxville
  
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• Open Call: To Portray or To Portrait / Rooftop Arts Centre / East Midlands / Online

  30-12-2020 15:42
  This February, the Rooftop Arts Centre will be doing a third online exhibition with the open concept theme of “To Portray or To Portrait”. This exhibition will run for four...
  
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• 10 Hairy Legs, All-Male Contemporary Dance Company, Goes Out Of Business

  30-12-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New Jersey-based troupe, which presented seasons around the state and in New York City and toured abroad as well, commissioned and performed 17 new works over its eight-year history. The pandemic forced the group to go on hiatus as of April 1; with no performance fees or ticket income, its board decided to dissolve the company as of Dec. 31. – NJArts.net
  
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• Call for Submissions: "In Praise of..." New Writing Night / Red Hair Theatre / London / Online

  30-12-2020 15:24
  Has something ever made you feel like you just had to make a public declaration of love? Or lust? Indifference? Hate? 
  How did it go?  
  If you’re a writer, actor, comedian, singer,...
  
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• U.S. Book Publishers End This Godawful Year In Good Shape

  30-12-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With so many people stuck at home and activities from concerts to movies off limits, people have been reading a lot — or at least buying a lot of books. Print sales by units are up almost 8 percent so far this year, according to NPD BookScan. E-books and audiobooks, which make up a smaller portion of the market, are up as well.” Says the CEO of Penguin Random House, “I expect that … when you look at the final numbers, it will have been the best year in a very lon
  
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• Fou Ts’ong, China’s First Internationally Known Classical Pianist, Dead Of COVID At 86

  30-12-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Born to a pair of French literature scholars who were later driven to suicide during the Cultural Revolution, Fou went to Warsaw to study at age 19 and two years later won a prize in the Chopin Competition. Not long after, he escaped to western Europe and eventually settled in London, where he taught and maintained an international concert career. – BBC
  
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• Despite New COVID Outbreak, Sydney Goes Ahead With Indoor Performances

  30-12-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s more, at two of the major ones — Rent and The Merry Widow at the Sydney Opera House — masks will not be mandatory. Audiences will be at 75% of capacity, with checkerboard seating and other distancing measures; masks are “strongly recommended.” Rules are similar for the presentations at the Sydney Festival’s main outdoor stage. Most other theatre companies in the city are performing as well, though they’re making the audience mask up. – The
  
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• Online Exhibition - Resident Artists 2020 / Rooftop Arts Centre / East Midlands / Online

  30-12-2020 13:44
  This year’s show sees a selection of work from some of our resident studio artists at the Rooftop Arts Centre. With work from 10 artists featuring painting, drawing, photography, textile,...
  
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• Sports Coach/Sports Manager / Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios / London

  30-12-2020 11:25
  We are looking for a sports coach! If you are the ideal candidate, you will have- proven experience working as a coach and experience developing new ways to bring audiences to sports, seeing the...
  
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• Aerial Instructor / Aerial Dance Academy / South East

  30-12-2020 09:56
  Aerial Dance Academy are looking for Aerial & Circus Instructors to join their team. 
  Ideal candidates:
  - Are commutable to Portsmouth
  - Hold an instructor training/certification
  - Have...
  
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• Revisited: Leonardo da Vinci and the mystery of the world's most expensive painting. Podcast

  30-12-2020 04:00
  
  Salvator Mundi was sold for a record $450m at auction in 2017 to an anonymous bidder. But the painting’s provenance as the work of Leonardo has been called into questionThis week we are revisiting some of our favourite episodes from throughout 2020. This episode was first released on 22 May 2020A long-lost painting authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci was sold for a world record price of $450m in a dramatic auction in New York in 2017. The price stunned the art world and created
  
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• Tasmania's Mona gets a major revamp – but will it lure the locals?

  30-12-2020 03:22
  
  With a collection rehang and more kid-friendly public art, the gallery – which boosted tourism in the before-times – now hopes to bring in the neighbours
  As the old saying goes, or perhaps it was Belinda Carlisle, “Honey, leave a light on for me.”During Hobart’s lockdown, the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) did just that with Spectra – Ryoji Ikeda’s 15km tower of white light. A semi-regular fixture at the museum, now it loyally pierced the sky every Sat
  
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• Daniel Meikle and Fergus Boylan named Young Cartoonists of the Year

  30-12-2020 01:01
  
  Judges including the Guardian’s Martin Rowson praised Meikle, just 11, in the under-18s category and 29-year-old Boylan, who picked up the under-30 prizeIf a cartoonist’s job is to raise a smile in the bleakest of times and to provoke a laugh in adversity, then 2020 has certainly provided rich material.Two young cartoonists have captured the spirit of this annus horribilis by doing just that, sharing the title of Young Cartoonist of the Year. Continue reading...
  
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