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• How Museums Use Consultants To Hide Behind Their Biggest Problems

  26-02-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Consultants are hired to tell museums the truth,” says Adrienne Horn, the president of Museum Management Consultants and a former executive board member for the American Association of Museums. But a series of missteps and hollow promises from institutions that have relied on third-party advice are bringing new scrutiny to the influx of for-profit strategies in a nonprofit world. – Artnet
  
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• New Director Takes Control Over Pompeii Site

  26-02-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He was among the first crop of foreigners picked to direct an Italian museum or cultural site as part of what was a contentious drive to revamp the management of the country’s heritage. Not only was he foreign but he was the youngest person in charge of a major site.” – The Guardian
  
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• What Will Happen If Publishing Giants Merge?

  26-02-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Perhaps the industry’s biggest concern about the merger, especially among agents and authors, is what it will mean for book deals. An agent representing a promising author or buzzworthy book often hopes to auction it to the highest bidder. If there are fewer buyers, will it be harder for agents to get an auction going for their clients, and ultimately, will it be harder for authors to get an advantageous deal?” – The New York Times
  
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• How Memory And The Passage Of Time Fold On Top Of One Another

  26-02-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has wrung meaning from time. Each day is so like the former. April disappeared entirely; Thanksgiving feels as close, or faraway, as last June. I no longer can keep track of the dates; time has become a pool of standing water. – Psyche
  
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• Grayson's Art Club review – a heartening, lockdown-era tonic

  26-02-2021 22:00
  
  Celebrity guests and talented members of public get creative as the hit series returns, with the irrepressible artist beautifully guiding us through their storiesBeing irrepressible without making people want to kill you is a rare and valuable life skill, even under normal conditions. Under lockdown, it makes you a pearl beyond price. So praise the Lord and pass the clay and canvas that Channel 4 have found enough in the coffers to commission Grayson Perry for another series of Grayson’s A
  
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• London School Of Contemporary Dance Overhauls Everything To Become More Diverse

  26-02-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The drive to create a more diverse dance curriculum and the aim to harness digital capabilities to prepare graduates for a post-Covid world means the way we teach dance needs to radically change, in order to better prepare graduates for the cultural landscape in which contemporary independent dance artists forge their career and which many of them go on to shape,” said Clare Connor, the Place’s chief executive. – The Stage
  
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• Rajie Cook, Who Designed The Pictograms We See Everywhere, Dead At 90

  26-02-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1974 Cook & Shanosky Associates, a design firm started by Mr. Cook and Don Shanosky a few years earlier, won a contract to develop a set of symbols that could be universally understood, and that would efficiently convey the kinds of information people in a public place might need. … The signage the two came up with, 34 pictographs (with others added later), is still in use today.” Later in life, he became an “art activist” making sculptural assemblages. &n
  
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• How Novels Can Help Plan Our Way Through COVID Recovery

  26-02-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As sources for possible future scenarios capable of providing strategic foresight, or producing alternative future plans, novels can also help businesses create dialogue on difficult and even taboo subjects. Novels are, therefore, capable of helping managers become better, providing them with creative insight and wisdom. Science fiction can provide a means to explore morality tales, a warning of possible futures, in an attempt to help us avoid or rectify that future. – The Conversation
  
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• Public Art Artist - Trinity Academy, Lockleaze, Bristol / Bricks / South West

  26-02-2021 20:04
  OPEN CALL ARTIST OPPORTUNITY
  We are commissioning a new public art programme at Trinity Academy, Lockleaze, Bristol.
  We are excited to receive artwork proposals from individual artists or creative...
  
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• The History Of ‘Madama Butterfly’ In Japan

  26-02-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was not the ‘alien’ music that disturbed the Japanese audience” at the Tokyo premiere in 1914 (there had been a Western music school in the city since 1890), “but the threat to traditional hierarchies between men and women. Later, in the 1930s, feminist writers such as Ichiko Kamichika and Akiko Yosano criticised the opera for promoting a ‘victim’ like Butterfly as something of a Japanese ‘paragon’. Somewhat ironically, Butterfly thus pr
  
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• Uncanny alley: grocery store made out of plastic trash debuts in Adelaide’s Rundle Mall

  26-02-2021 20:00
  
  The Adelaide festival embraces the plastic fantastic with a grocery store with a differenceAt a first glance, Robin Frohardt’s New York installation appears to be more of a celebration than an excoriation of the pernicious plastic bag.From a distance, the cheerfully lit grocery store entices pedestrians in Adelaide’s Rundle Mall with a lurid cornucopia of edible produce, with its own dinky bakery, fruit and veg section, salad bar, dairy and shelves of packaged dry goods. Related: Sou
  
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• Public Art Artists - Moxy, St Paul's, Bristol (5 commissions) / Bricks / South West / Bristol

  26-02-2021 19:59
  OPEN CALL. Bricks are commissioning five new public artworks at the Moxy hotel, St Paul's, Bristol.
  We are excited to receive proposals from artists who have strong personal connections to St...
  
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• A Life Listening To Jazz: W. Royal Stokes

  26-02-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No one could have predicted Stokes’s zigzag jazz life, including him. Born in D.C. in 1930, he was a teen obsessed with boogie-woogie records; then a student turned professor of Greek and Latin languages and literature and ancient history; then a turned-on-tuned-in-dropped-out hippie roadtripper; then a volunteer radio DJ; then a voracious music scribe who published his first jazz review at age 42; thena freelance jazz critic for The Washington Post and, later, an editor at JazzTimes maga
  
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• General Manager (Hayward Gallery) / Southbank Centre / London

  26-02-2021 19:30
  We are looking for a General Manager (maternity cover) to work closely with the Director of Hayward Gallery as well the wider Hayward team. The General Manager will oversee the financial and...
  
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• The World’s Largest Bach Website, Brought To You By A Computer Engineer In Tel Aviv

  26-02-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Bach Cantatas Website, founded 20 years ago by Aryeh Oron, includes texts from Bach’s sacred works in multiple languages, discographies, history and analysis of each piece, and many other resources. It gets 15,000-20,000 hits a day and is used even by the likes of John Eliot Gardiner and Masaaki Suzuki, two of the world’s leading Bach conductors. – Haaretz (Israel)
  
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• Marketing Manager / Unexpected Places / Light UP / South East

  26-02-2021 18:38
  We are seeking an energetic, creative and persuasive marketer who has the drive and experience to fulfil our charitable aims and mission.
  ​We are looking for an exceptional, confident,...
  
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• Is It Time… Finally… To Kill The Book Blurb?

  26-02-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 1936, George Orwell claimed that “the disgusting tripe that is written by the blurb-reviewers” was causing the public to turn away from novels altogether. “Novels are being shot at you at the rate of fifteen a day,” he wrote in an essay, “and every one of them an unforgettable masterpiece which you imperil your soul by missing.” – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Contracts and Helpdesk Administrator / Royal Academy of Music / London

  26-02-2021 18:18
  Full-Time: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
  Salary range: £22,962 – 26,067 per annum including London Allowance
  18 months fixed-term contract
  Reference: 21/005The Royal...
  
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• Imaginative lessons and teacher-awarded exam grades | Letters

  26-02-2021 18:13
  
  Rob Watling thinks an education secretary with imagination could transform this summer for children, while Philip C Stenning calls for moderation. Plus letters from Dr Cary Bazalgette and Sarah JamesIf we had someone with imagination as secretary of state for education, we would be looking forward to a summer of active, creative and inspiring activities for our youngsters. They would harness the skills of under-employed actors, writers, artists, musicians and technicians to run a festival of lea
  
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• Literature Is A Technology, And It Should Be Taught Like One

  26-02-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Neuroscientist-turned-English-professor Angus Fletcher: “It’s a machine designed to work in concert with another machine, our brain. The purpose of the two machines is to accelerate each other. … We’ve been taught in school to interpret literature, to say what it means, to identify its themes and arguments. But when you do that, you’re working against literature. I’m saying we need to find these technologies, these inventions, and connect them to your head,
  
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• Gwen Carr obituary

  26-02-2021 17:57
  
  My mother, Gwen Carr, who has died aged 85, was well-known for her pioneering work as education officer at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne and later as group education officer for Tyne and Wear Museum Service. In 1994 she received the Gulbenkian award for the most imaginative education work from Lord Gowrie, the then chairman of the Arts Council, at the National Portrait Gallery.Her approach and philosophy were always to make art accessible to as wide a range of audiences as possibl
  
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• Ceramics Instructor and Technician (Freelance) / HAUSOF Furniture and Ceramics / London

  26-02-2021 17:54
  We are a small two person art studio based in Camden looking to expand this year! We are looking for a hardworking and creative individual who wants to grow with us as we develop a range of ceramics...
  
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• Race, Privilege, And Values Collide At Smith College

  26-02-2021 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is a tale of how race, class and power collided at the elite 145-year-old liberal arts college, where tuition, room and board top $78,000 a year and where the employees who keep the school running often come from working-class enclaves beyond the school’s elegant wrought iron gates. The story highlights the tensions between a student’s deeply felt sense of personal truth and facts that are at odds with it.” – The New York Times
  
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• Projects and Events Coordinator / BEAF Arts Company Ltd / South West

  26-02-2021 17:12
  PART-TIME JOB VACANCY with The Outsiders Project Giving a voice to the unheard...
  3 DAYS PER WEEK, 2 YEAR CONTRACT WITH OPPORTUNITY TO EXTEND PRO RATA £35,000
  Are you an energetic and...
  
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• Podcasting Is Becoming Big Business. Will That Ruin It?

  26-02-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even as media companies pour billions into the industry, “its formats and business practices are still developing, leading producers, executives and talent to view the medium as akin to television circa 1949: lucrative and uncharted territory with plenty of room for experimentation and flag-planting. … But along with the optimism come worries that big money may stifle the D.I.Y. spirit vital to podcasting’s identity.” – The New York Times
  
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• A.P.T Studios & Gallery and Fenton Arts Trust Mentoring Award / / London

  26-02-2021 17:04
  Funded by The Fenton Arts Trust, the A.P.T & Fenton Arts Trust Mentoring Award will provide mentoring for one year for two emerging artists or recent graduates,...
  
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• A New York Times Reporter Tries To Learn ‘Podcast Voice’

  26-02-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexis Soloski: “It’s recognizable enough that Portlandia and Saturday Night Live can parody it. It suggests intimacy, a rumpled authenticity. Because if someone were faking it, they would, like, definitely cut out the filler words and upspeak. I mean, right? But the most seemingly unstudied performances are often the result of relentless rehearsal and calculation. So I wanted to know how this podcast voice was done. And I wanted to know if I could do it.” – The New York
  
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• Curatorial Specialist / British Film Institute / East

  26-02-2021 16:58
  Fixed term contract until March 2022
  We are seeking a Curatorial Specialist to join the BFI’s Curatorial department on a fixed term basis until March 2022 to work on the Heritage 2022 project;...
  
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• Freelance Facilitator - Tea Talks Project / Oxford Playhouse / South East

  26-02-2021 16:50
  Are you an Oxfordshire-based freelance arts facilitator with a warm and engaging phone manner?
  If so, Oxford Playhouse would like to hear from you! We are looking for a new arts facilitator to join...
  
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• Director / Leicester Print Workshop / East Midlands

  26-02-2021 16:46
  Leicester Print Workshop (LPW) is seeking a new Director who can collaborate with staff and trustees to harness the organisation's potential and develop an inspiring and ambitious vision for the...
  
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• Events Officer / Selby District Council / Yorkshire

  26-02-2021 16:35
  Selby District Council is looking for a dynamic Events Officer to fill an exciting new post which will support the delivery of the District’s new Cultural Development Framework, as well as help...
  
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• Lessons From The Explosion Of Online Dance During The Pandemic

  26-02-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With audiences and funders generally letting dancers decide what (and how much) to produce while distancing requirements are in place, the incentive to go virtual appears almost wholly self-imposed. … More than anything else, peer pressure is what led so many companies to produce so much content so early — setting a pace difficult to sustain as the pandemic wore on.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• National Poetry Day Manager / Forward Arts Foundation / London

  26-02-2021 16:27
  This is an opportunity for a meticulous, efficient, and highly organised project manager to join the Forward Arts Foundation creative and dynamic team. The National Poetry Day (NPD) Manager is...
  
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• Office Manager / Production Assistant / Mission Digital / London / Shepperton

  26-02-2021 16:21
  Mission is expanding. Our DIT, digital dailies and video playback services have never been in greater demand, and to continue offering the same unique level of support, guidance and innovation that...
  
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• California Lost 175,000 Creative Sector Jobs In 2020

  26-02-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The latest edition of an annual study from the Otis College of Arts & Design found that “the creative economy lost more than 13 percent of its job in California, and more than 25 percent in Los Angeles County.” Two studies on the economic impact of the pandemic from Californians for the Arts are similarly dispiriting. – Artnet
  
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• Filmmaker, Editor, Designer / Half Moon Theatre / London

  26-02-2021 15:44
  We’re looking for artists with experience of working collaboratively in participatory settings to work with us on the filmmaking for Happened in 1990.
  Each of the five films will be...
  
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• Lincoln Center To Open 10 Outdoor Spaces This Spring

  26-02-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The broad initiative, known as ‘Restart Stages,’ … [includes] plans for a cabaret-style stage, a dedicated area for families that will feature arts activities for children, rehearsal venues that will be open to the public, an outdoor reading room created in partnership with the New York Library for the Performing Arts and an outdoor space for another kind of Lincoln Center ritual: public school graduations held each spring and summer.” – The New York Times
  
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• Senior Client Advsior / Plowden & Smith Limited / London

  26-02-2021 15:20
  Plowden & Smith is the largest fine, decorative and contemporary art and object restoration company in the UK. We are looking to recruit a Senior Client Services Advisor on a full-time contract...
  
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• Project Manager / Oxford Cultural Anti-Racism Alliance / South East

  26-02-2021 15:18
  Responding to the Black Lives Matter movement during 2020, arts and cultural organisations in Oxford came together to explore how they could work collaboratively to dismantle systemic racism in the...
  
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• Was This Picture Painted By A Human Or By AI? Most Folks Can’t Tell, Finds Study

  26-02-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A majority of respondents were only able to identify one of the five AI landscape works as such. Around 75 to 85 percent of respondents guessed wrong on the other four. When they did correctly attribute an artwork to AI, it was the abstract one.” – Artnet
  
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• A dance with Rothko plus Gilbert and George explore Covid chaos – the week in art

  26-02-2021 15:00
  
  Mark Rothko’s chapel turns 50, the British Museum examines the male and female lives of the Chevalier d’Éon and Britain’s favourite odd-couple artists capture the new normal – all in your weekly dispatchGilbert and George: The New Normal Pictures
  Psychedelic hallucinations of the London streets in lockdown that capture the sheer strangeness of our time.
  • White Cube online from 2 March (and later at White Cube Mason’s Yard) Continue reading...
  
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• Crafting Business Programme for Makers - Call for applications / Crafts Council / East / UK wide

  26-02-2021 14:52
  Crafting Business is a training programme for emerging makers. Have you got a business idea you need support with? This programme is here to help you.
  Crafting Business is part of a...
  
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• Producer / Relish Theatre / London

  26-02-2021 14:46
  Relish Theatre is looking for a Producer to lead on fundraising and R&D for our latest project, Acid's Reign. 
  We’re looking for a dynamic, creative, forward thinking Producer,...
  
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• Major Layoffs Coming At London’s V&A Museum

  26-02-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Vast cuts at the Victoria and Albert Museum are feared to be imminent, with curators and conservators in the line of fire. … Details of the museum’s ‘recovery strategy’ were briefed to unions on Thursday. Staff are expecting to hear news of redundancies within days. One insider expressed dismay that the curatorial division may have to make 20% cuts.” – The Guardian
  
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• UK and Irish galleries reach new truce in tug of war over Lane collection

  26-02-2021 14:24
  
  London and Dublin have been at odds for a century over last will of art collector Sir Hugh LaneA new chapter has been agreed between Britain and Ireland in an acrimonious century-old dispute over the ownership of 39 priceless masterpieces by artists including Manet, Monet, Degas and Renoir.In 1915 the Irish art collector Sir Hugh Lane was among more than 1,000 people who died when the Lusitania, an ocean liner, was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. Related: How Irel
  
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• Stage Actors In Paris Offer ‘Poetic Consultations’ By Phone

  26-02-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I am calling you for a poetic consultation,’ said a warm voice on the telephone. ‘It all starts with a very simple question: How are you?’ Since March, almost 15,000 people around the world have received a call like this. These conversations with actors, who offer a one-on-one chat before reading a poem selected for the recipient, started as a lockdown initiative by a prominent Paris playhouse, the Théâtre de la Ville, in order to keep its artists wo
  
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• General Manager (fixed term) / British Youth Opera / London

  26-02-2021 13:54
  Fixed Term April - August 2021
  We’re looking for a general manager to oversee our summer season of two operas as well as our ongoing Serena Fenwick Programme and a programme of singer...
  
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• Artist Opportunities: Dewsbury Creative Town / Beam / Yorkshire / Kirklees

  26-02-2021 13:54
  Beam is pleased to launch an open call for 3 temporary artist opportunities as part of the Dewsbury Creative Town arts programme.
  We’re looking for -
  artists or artist collectives based...
  
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• Development Manager / English Folk Expo / North West

  26-02-2021 13:11
  English Folk Expo are seeking applications for a new role of Development Manager to deliver our fundraising strategy in line with our ambitious plans for new activity.
  If you would like to join our...
  
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• Curator / The Design Museum / London

  26-02-2021 12:48
  The Design Museum’s temporary exhibitions programme is the central focus of its activities. The exhibitions include monographs and thematic exhibitions on every aspect of contemporary design...
  
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