Arts news

• Cancellation Of New London Concert Hall Adds To UK Musicians’ Woes

  19-02-2021 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s a further confirmation of the parochialization of British music and the arts,” said Jasper Parrott, a co-founder of HarrisonParrott, a classical music agency, in a telephone interview. The mood among musicians was low, Parrott said, especially because of changes to the rules governing European tours that came about because of Brexit. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• American Shakespeare Center Loses Director, Will Be Actor-led

  19-02-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ethan McSweeny has served as artistic director of the American Shakespeare Center since 2018. He announced his resignation effective Feb. 11, 2021. – Washington Post
  
  Read more

• When Anthony Haden-Guest Met The Christos

  19-02-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was during the Running Fence project that Christo and Jeanne-Claude took me to meet the Charles Schulz, the late creator of Peanuts, who had a home in the county capital, Santa Rosa. We had coffee in Snoopy mugs and wiped our lips on Charlie Brown and Lucy napkins. This was before the explosion of branding, he was just fond of his creations. He liked the Christos too, indeed had spoken up at one of the hearings to say he was surprised by the local opposition to the p
  
  Read more

• Consider The Ushers…

  19-02-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Usher is a variant of the French huisier, from the Latin ostiarius, a custodian of the doors. The role comes from early modern theater, where Randle Cotgrave’s 1611 dictionary also has them as “audiencers.” The Gentleman Usher would be among the most active figures running an aristocratic house, supervising honored guests in performances, courtly masques, or other entertainments. – Van
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Breakthrough: Scientists Figure Out How To Talk To Dreamers In Their Sleep

  19-02-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  An international team of researchers was able to achieve real-time dialogues with people in the midst of lucid dreams, a phenomenon that is called “interactive dreaming,” according to a study published on Thursday in Current Biology. – Vice
  
  Read more

• Freelance Graphic Designer / Museum of North Craven Life / Yorkshire

  19-02-2021 21:27
  Working with a partnership of local history organisations in the Craven area of the Yorkshire Dales, you will responsible for the design of materials  to promote and celebrate the centenary of...
  
  Read more

• Pigs Have Learned To Play Video Games

  19-02-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a research lab at Penn State, “four pigs — Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory — were trained to use an arcade-style joystick [with their snouts] to steer an on-screen cursor into walls. … And the pigs even continued playing when the food reward dispenser broke — apparently for the social contact.” – BBC
  
  Read more

• How Hollywood Has Shaped Our Views Of The Presidency

  19-02-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the idea and the office of the president was regarded with a sort of reverence, presidential representations were more heroic, historian Dean J. Kotlowski writes, pointing to the “schmaltzy, character-themed biographies” of the 1930s through early ’60s. And in a sort of reversal, where a fictional representation led to a very nonfictional one, researchers Michael P. Rogin and Kathleen Moran note that the political film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington had a strong influence o
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• When Thornton Wilder Came Up With An Act Four Of ‘Our Town’

  19-02-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Following his enlistment in the military in World War II, only ten days before he would age out of eligibility for active service, Wilder reported for training in Miami, Florida, on June 27, 1942, having completed the screenplay for Shadow of a Doubt. In what was surely a most unusual training exercise, Wilder quickly participated in what was referred to as Act 4 of Our Town for the program Contact, broadcast out of WKAT in Miami on July 8.” – Literary Hub
  
  Read more

• Creative Workspaces now available at Carvall Warhouse, N15 / Projekt / London

  19-02-2021 20:03
  Two studios have become available at our Carvall Warehouse space in Tottenham, N15.
  The workspaces are ideal if you are looking for an affordable space to set up your business as part of our tight...
  
  Read more

• The Real Failures Of Our Cultural Policies

  19-02-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The hidden costs of socially engaged arts practice is inextricably connected to the crisis of social care and service provision. It is also a result of the unwillingness of commissioners of publicly funded socially engaged practice to accept responsibility for the care that participants of the activities they support need, both during and after the project.  This amounts to a moral failure of cultural policy: poorly funded projects are often relied upon to provide the evidence, case
  
  Read more

• Creative Workspaces available now in Gaunson House, N15 / Projekt / London

  19-02-2021 19:28
  A couple of studios have become available at Unit 3 in our Gaunson Warehouse space in Markfield Road, South Tottenham.
  The workspaces are ideal if you are looking for an affordable space to set up...
  
  Read more

• Sales and Events Manager / The 99 Club / London

  19-02-2021 19:25
  The 99 Club is an independent Comedy Club that has been successfully running live comedy shows in the West End for 17 years, having won Best London Comedy Club in the Chortle Awards for 9 years...
  
  Read more

• Trustee / The Untold Orchestra / North West

  19-02-2021 19:20
  The Untold Orchestra is Manchester’s genre-bending orchestral collective. Over the past 4 years, we have gained a reputation for delivering large scale musical events - curated and produced...
  
  Read more

• Applications open MA/MFA Creative Practice / Independent Dance / London

  19-02-2021 19:05
  Delivered by Independent Dance in partnership with Trinity Laban and Siobhan Davies Dance, MA Creative Practice : Dance Professional enables experienced...
  
  Read more

• Why Do We Have Such Trouble Getting Monuments Of Women Right?

  19-02-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Consider, for instance, the new, widely derided “For Mary Wollstonecraft” monument in London. “Why couldn’t a statue of Wollstonecraft, the individual woman, be seen as universally inspiring and iconic? It was hard not to view the monument as a victim of its own good intentions, inadvertently becoming yet another example of a female form as emblem of an abstract idea, such as the Statue of Liberty or Marianne, a symbol of the French Republic, or any number of nameless an
  
  Read more

• Schools Programme Manager / Artworks CIC / Yorkshire

  19-02-2021 18:54
  Opportunity Overview
  Job Title: Schools Programme Manager
  Location: Artworks, The Everybody School of Art, Halifax
  Type: 3 months fixed term, hourly paid contract
  Salary: 0.4 FTE, pro rata...
  
  Read more

• Chief Executive / St George's Bristol / South West

  19-02-2021 18:48
  St George’s Bristol is one of the UK’s leading concert halls, welcoming 120,000 visitors to the building each year and staging 500 events through its artistic, learning and commercial...
  
  Read more

• Assistant HR Manager / British Film Institute / London

  19-02-2021 18:42
  Assistant Human Resources Manager
  Salary £36,747 - £43,422
  The BFI is an internationally recognised cultural body, and the lead organisation for film in the UK. We are a Government...
  
  Read more

• Sculptor / 3D Designer / ZSL London Zoo / London

  19-02-2021 18:37
  ZSL London Zoo are opening a new giant Galapagos tortoise exhibit this summer and we're looking for a sculptor to deliver a giant tortoise sculpture announcing the exhibit in our central court at the...
  
  Read more

• Why “Noisy” Brains Are So Attractive (And More Difficult)

  19-02-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The use of antidepressants has inadvertently left many of us less able to feel empathy toward others, laugh, cry, dream, and enjoy life just when we need those things the most: in the middle of a global pandemic.” – Nautilus
  
  Read more

• Account & Community Manager (Maternity Cover) / The Audience Agency / England

  19-02-2021 18:17
  We are looking for an individual with exceptional client handling and data driven marketing and insight skills as maternity cover to work within our client...
  
  Read more

• How To Spot A Forged Dead Sea Scroll Fragment

  19-02-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 2009, the Green family, owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and- crafts stores, began acquiring a series of weathered fragments advertised as Dead Sea Scrolls, including this one, … [which] were displayed at the Museum of the Bible. … Last spring, however, scientific analysis proved what a number of biblical scholars had begun to suspect: the sixteen fragments the Greens purchased were forgeries.” Here, in one of Harper’s trademark Annotations, Madeleine
  
  Read more

• Communications Director / National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain / South West

  19-02-2021 17:58
  Despite the ongoing challenges of the pandemic, it is a deeply exciting and rewarding time to join NCO. This new role is an opportunity for the right person to create a communications strategy from...
  
  Read more

• Finally, The Obama Presidential Center Is Underway

  19-02-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This month, in the wake of an appeals court decision favorable to the city and the recent completion of federal reviews, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that the Obama Presidential Center, including a 235-foot tower and major taxpayer-supported infrastructure, would finally be getting underway.” – Chicago Reader
  
  Read more

• Piano Teacher, Guitar Teacher / Greenwich Music School / London

  19-02-2021 17:26
  We are looking for inspiring, experienced teachers to join our team!
  • Guitar: Saturday mornings, plus optionally Saturday afternoons.• Piano: Saturday mornings, pus optionally Saturday...
  
  Read more

• Heritage Outreach and Volunteers Officer / Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust / London

  19-02-2021 17:25
  With the National Lottery Heritage Fund's award of £247200 to Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust, our long-awaited project to conserve the grotto and to restore Alexander Pope to public awareness...
  
  Read more

• Numismatist/Cataloguer / Pax Romana Auctions / London

  19-02-2021 17:17
  Pax Romana Auctions- NUMISMATIST/CATALOGUER-GREEK, ROMAN AND BYZANTINE COINS
   As a growing auction house, here at Pax Romana we want to maintain the highest possible ethical standards in the...
  
  Read more

• Thousands Are Angry About New Bronze Doors For 800-Year-Old Cathedral

  19-02-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Plans to mark the 800th anniversary of Burgos’s magnificent Gothic cathedral with three enormous new bronze doors have ushered in an unholy row, with UNESCO advising against the project and critics attacking the €1.2m portals as an ‘artistic outrage’. … More than 31,000 people have signed an angry petition attacking the new doors as ‘an eyesore however you look at them’ and claiming ‘no anniversary warrants such ill treatment of our heritag
  
  Read more

• Head of Antiquities Department - Auction House / Pax Romana Auctions / London

  19-02-2021 17:01
  Pax Romana Auctions-FULL TIME HEAD OF ANTIQUITIES DEPARTMENT
  As a growing auction house, here at Pax Romana, we want to maintain the highest possible ethical standards in the antiquities trade by...
  
  Read more

• Could This Series Be The ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ For The 14th Amendment?

  19-02-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The new Netflix series Amend: The Fight for America, produced by Will Smith and Larry Wilmore, seeks to [teach] not through song, but extended, sleek, bingeable verve. … Amend, which focuses solely on the importance and liberties granted by the 14th Amendment, stretches across six hour-long episodes, each devoted to a different area of interest: citizenship, love, women’s rights, immigration, resistance to the amendment, and the Civil Rights Movement. Within these episodes a
  
  Read more

• What’s At Stake For Chicago With The Sale Of Second City (To A New Yorker)

  19-02-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chris Jones: “The issue now is the future of an institution that is not just a major tourist draw to Chicago but one of the very few avenues for diverse, Chicago-based comedic talent to move to a national stage. A decades-long success record needs no reiteration here, nor does the entertainment-industry dominance asserted by the coastal cities that typically see Chicago as a market or a location, not a generator of content.” – Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune)
  
  Read more

• Online Shop Officer / Art UK / Anywhere in the UK

  19-02-2021 15:56
  Are you passionate about bringing art to everyone? Do you believe in the power of digital to transform lives?We’re looking for a highly motivated Online Shop Officer to join our friendly and...
  
  Read more

• Dolly Parton To Tennessee: Please Don’t Put A Statue Of Me In The State Capitol

  19-02-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I am honored and humbled by their intention but I have asked the leaders of the state legislature to remove the bill from any and all consideration. Given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time. … Perhaps after I’m gone if you still feel I deserve it.” – CBS News
  
  Read more

• Paid art writing opportunity / Rame Projects CIC / South West

  19-02-2021 15:17
  Rame Projects is an artist-led project space on the Rame Peninsula in South-East Cornwall. Thanks to support from Arts Council England; Cultivator; The Box, Plymouth; and Plymouth College of Art, we...
  
  Read more

• The SceneMakers Filmmakers Award Programme / The Albany / London

  19-02-2021 15:11
  Are you an emerging filmmaker aged between 16-30, based in South East London with an idea for a short film? Do you need financial support in bringing your passion project to life? 
  The...
  
  Read more

• Paid residency opportunity for Cornwall based emerging artist / Rame Projects CIC / South West

  19-02-2021 15:09
  Rame Projects is an artist-led project space on the Rame Peninsula in South-East Cornwall. Thanks to support from The Box, Plymouth; Arts Council England; Cultivator; and Plymouth College of Art, we...
  
  Read more

• City Of London Abandons Plan For New Concert Hall

  19-02-2021 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An ambitious £288m concert hall that was supposed to be ‘the Tate Modern of classical music’ has been scrapped by the City of London Corporation, which said the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic made the plan impossible to complete.” The recently-announced departure from London of the project’s highest-profile advocate, Simon Rattle, probably made this decision inevitable. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• New Concert Hall For London Was A Doomed Project

  19-02-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Martin Kettle: “Justifying the cost, the priority, the location and the uses to which the hall would be put were all delicate tasks in any case. It was hard not to see it as an elite project, only distantly connected with wider public need at a time when funding was being squeezed.” Then came Brexit, followed by COVID. “It was a nice idea in some ways, but the case for it was never strong.” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Paid residency opportunity for Devon based emerging artist / Rame Projects CIC / South West

  19-02-2021 15:00
  Rame Projects is an artist-led project space on the Rame Peninsula in South-East Cornwall. Thanks to support from The Box, Plymouth; Arts Council England; Cultivator; and Plymouth College of Art, we...
  
  Read more

• A security camera tour of London and madcap chain reactions – the week in art

  19-02-2021 15:00
  
  Frida Kahlo is laid bare and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg saves bees, while Lindesay Mendick is one to watch – all in your weekly dispatchLindsey Mendick
  You don’t know what to expect from this beguiling artist – it could be lovely ceramic sculpture of food or a violent installation about power and abuse. Mendick has talent and imagination to spare and is, as they say, one to watch. She will be in a show at Carl Freedman Gallery curated by Russell Tovey when lockdown ends – m
  
  Read more

• Paid residency opportunity for emerging visual artist / Rame Projects CIC / South West / All

  19-02-2021 14:54
  Rame Projects is an artist-led project space on the Rame Peninsula in South-East Cornwall. Thanks to support from The Box, Plymouth; Arts Council England; Cultivator; and Plymouth College of Art, we...
  
  Read more

• Last chance to join! In It Together: free creative workshops / Total Insight Theatre / London

  19-02-2021 14:51
  Aged 16 - 21? We've got a space for you!
  In It Together is a series of workshops led by different facilitators that allow you to use your voice and what matters to you to explore the arts, get...
  
  Read more

• Chief Financial and Operating Officer / Shakespeare's Globe / London

  19-02-2021 14:39
  Chief Financial and Operating OfficerSalary: Competitive
  Location: London
  Founded by inspirational actor and director, Sam Wanamaker, and opening in 1997, Shakespeare’s Globe now welcomes...
  
  Read more

• Arts Groups Get Snagged In Facebook’s Australia News Ban

  19-02-2021 14:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the Australian government pushed the social media giant, along with Google, to pay news outlets there for use of their material for links, the search engine made deals, while Facebook decided to block all news links in the country as of Thursday. That morning, more than 250 Australian cultural organizations found their Facebook pages wiped clean: it seems they qualified as “news publishers” under the company’s definition. Facebook is making them fill out an appeal form onli
  
  Read more

• ABT Alum Takes Reins At Uruguay’s National Ballet

  19-02-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2012, a different ABT alum, Julio Bocca, was named director of the Ballet Nacional del Sodre in Montevideo with the remit to raise the company’s level. One of the first things he did was recruit his colleague, ABT soloist Maria Riccetto, to come back to her hometown and join the company; so she did, and she became a major celebrity in Uruguay, nearly as big as soccer stars. She retired from dancing at the end of 2019 at age 39, and as of the beginning of 2021, she is the BNS’s ar
  
  Read more

• Cafe/Bar Supervisor / New Wolsey Theatre / East

  19-02-2021 14:04
  If you love your working day to fly by because you’re busy doing what you’re really good at, you’ll be a great match for this role. The café/ bar supervisor is a hands-on...
  
  Read more

• Orchestra Manager/PA to the Artistic & Executive Director / Chineke! Foundation / London

  19-02-2021 14:03
  The Chineke! Foundation is seeking a committed, self-motivated Orchestra Manager/PA to the Artistic & Executive Director to join our small, dynamic team of management staff. As Orchestra...
  
  Read more

• Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) Manager Fixed Term Contract / The Lowry Theatre / North West

  19-02-2021 14:00
  Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) Manager, Maternity Cover (12 month fixed term contract starting in June 2021) - 37.5 hours per week, £26,000 per annum plus staff benefitsThe Lowry is an...
  
  Read more

• Assistant Relationship Manager (Maternity Cover) / New Wolsey Theatre / East

  19-02-2021 13:53
  If you can pay attention to the detail and see the bigger picture of managing relationships, you could be a great candidate for this role. Your working week is likely to include Duty Management for a...
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!