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• How The Uffizi Is Modernizing

  12-03-2021 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is an investment in the future. We have been stepping up our education programs for kids and youth quite a lot. We continued doing that throughout the lockdown and I think that this differentiates us from many other museums that cut down on those departments, and especially on educational freelancers who were supposed to be giving seminars and tours. – Artnet
  
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• What Musicians Really Make — A Database

  12-03-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Real Music Wages Database is an anonymous, crowd-sourced list of real wage transactions reported by musicians. We track how much someone has been paid, who paid them, and how many hours of work it involved. The more entries are added to the spreadsheet, the more discernable a true economic snapshot of the new music industry is visible. – NewMusicBox
  
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• What Is “NFT Art” And Why Has It Become So Valuable?

  12-03-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why would anyone buy a piece of art just to burn it? Understanding the answer requires us to delve into the tricky world of blockchain or “NFT” art. It blends the niche subculture of cryptocurrencies with long running philosophical questions about the nature of art. No wonder people have difficulty explaining it all. – The Conversation
  
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• The Problem With The UK’s Approach To Controversial Statues

  12-03-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At first glance, the notion that controversial statues should be explained and contextualised seems like a step in the right direction. However, for many activists and museum workers, this new law might feel like a step backwards. The emphasis of this law is clearly on the museum’s “duty to the nation to conserve and preserve our heritage,” but with a very narrow view of that heritage. – The Conversation
  
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• The Shocking Case Against Private Prep Schools

  12-03-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Parents at elite private schools sometimes grumble about taking nothing from public schools yet having to support them via their tax dollars. But the reverse proposition is a more compelling argument. Why should public-school parents—why should anyone—be expected to support private schools? Exeter has 1,100 students and a $1.3 billion endowment. Andover, which has 1,150 students, is on track to take in $400 million in its current capital campaign. And all of this cash, glorious cash
  
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• Your Guide To The Nastiest Profanities In French

  12-03-2021 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A hard-R-rated primer to what gets said in the language of Molière when one is really f***ing p****d off, what you can use to affectionately tease your buddy in Bordeaux and what not to say unless you want to make an enemy for life. (And gosh, you can click here for a guide to what it’s safe to say in front of Grand-maman.) – The Local (France)
  
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• The Paris Opera “Aida” That Got Caught Up In The Culture Wars

  12-03-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Verdi’s 1871 tragedy, a love story set in a time of war between ancient Egypt and Ethiopia, is often given the treatment of a “Cleopatra”-like costume drama. But de Beer, who will become the director of the Vienna Volksoper next year, has offered a version so unusual that its Aida, the soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, pleaded on Instagram before opening night for her fans to “open your minds to something completely different.” – The New York Times
  
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• Tony Hendra, Comic Writer/Editor/Actor, Dead At 79

  12-03-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] began writing and performing comedy while a student at Cambridge University, traveling in the same circles as future members of the Monty Python troupe. In 1964 he and his performing partner, Nick Ullett, took their stage act to the United States, and from there he fashioned a steady if peripatetic career doing stand-up comedy, writing and editing for various publications” — he spent periods in the top jobs at National Lampoon and Spy magazine — “acting [most
  
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• Free online Shakespeare reading group / Shakespeare OUT LOUD! Online / London

  12-03-2021 19:53
  Are you an actor? Want to 'brush up your Shakespeare'? Then join us!
  The idea is simple - sign up via Eventbrite to our virtual table read of one of Shakespeare's (or his contemporaries)...
  
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• Call out to captions users to test a new interactive artwork / Blast Theory / South East

  12-03-2021 19:32
  We’re looking for people with a hearing impairment that use captions to help test a new interactive artwork.
  About the work
  Rider Spoke is an artwork by Blast Theory that invites audiences to...
  
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• The Identity Politics Of Translating Amanda Gorman’s Poetry

  12-03-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There has long been a debate about the ethics of translation, about how to translate not just the words but the spirit of the original, too. Today’s identity controversies, however, are not just about issues of formal translation but also about the kinds of informal translation in which we engage every day. – The Guardian
  
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• Course Leader / Identity School of Acting / London

  12-03-2021 19:24
  IDSA is a multicultural and vibrant acting school, which provides ongoing training of the highest quality whilst also preparing actors from all backgrounds for the reality of becoming a working...
  
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• Database Commission / Wiltshire Music Connect / South West

  12-03-2021 19:14
  Wiltshire Music Connect, the Music Education Hub for Wiltshire, is looking for an online database developer to work with us to create a bespoke system for our organisation.  A full brief,...
  
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• How The Revenue From Music Streaming Gets Parcelled Out To Artists (And Why It’s Bad For Classical)

  12-03-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Clearly, the ‘every track play pays the same’ model (known in the jargon as ‘platform-centric’) has the potential to seriously damage classical music and any other minority genre or one not thought appropriate for background listening. An alternative payment model has been proposed and has been trialled by French platform Deezer: the ‘user-centric’ model.” – Bachtrack
  
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• The Hidden Message In Plain View On Munch’s “The Scream”

  12-03-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The inscription has always been visible to the naked eye, but the infrared images helped to more clearly distinguish the writing from its background. Comparing it with the artist’s handwriting then clearly proved Munch’s authorship. – Scientific American
  
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• AMLD and the Art Market: Practical Training for AMPs / Creative United / London / UK wide

  12-03-2021 18:30
  Are you a gallery or artist selling goods in excess of £8.5k? Did you know that you are now classified as an Art Market Participant under the latest Anti-Money Laundering Directive -...
  
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• Freelance Producer / CPP MarketPlace / East

  12-03-2021 18:23
  MarketPlace has commissioned Dance Theatre Company Casson & Friends for a community engagement and audience development project as part of our programme for 2021. We are seeking a Freelance...
  
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• Senior Press and Digital Officer / Birmingham Repertory Theatre / West Midlands

  12-03-2021 18:20
  To apply for this post please send your CV or a completed Application form explaining how your skills and experience align with the job requirements as well as your E&D form  to...
  
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• Director of People and Operations / Birmingham Repertory Theatre / West Midlands

  12-03-2021 18:14
  Applying for this postTo apply for this post please send either a completed *Application form, or your full CV and cover letter explaining  how your skills and experience align with the...
  
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• How The Breakdancing Competition At The 2024 Olympics Will Work

  12-03-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sixteen b-boys and 16 b-girls will compete in Paris, chosen through qualifying events organized by WDSF on five continents. There will be no numbered scoring. Instead, the competition will be structured in battle format, true to b-boy/b-girl culture: tournament-style, one-versus-one. The winner of one battle moves on to face the next challenger, and the winner of that battle moves on to the next. The last dancers standing will be the Olympic champions.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Artist + Animator for EP: Glitchart, Noir, Gothic, Cyberpunk / K C Evans / West Midlands / UK wide

  12-03-2021 18:01
  Hi there,
  I would like to commission 1 artist and 1 animator to create artwork for my upcoming EP music release.
  “Bryd one Brere” is a contemporary interpretation of a sad medieval song...
  
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• Library Supervisor (Job ref: IVY006) / Libraries Unlimited / South West

  12-03-2021 17:46
  Salary: £22,708 p.a.Hours: 37 hours per weekLocation: Ivybridge Library (with responsibility for Buckfastleigh Library)Closing date: 9am, Tue 6 AprilInterview date: Tue 13 April
  We are...
  
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• Loader/Unloader / Pixipixel Rental Limited / London

  12-03-2021 17:36
  We are looking to recruit several Loader/Unloaders to join our friendly team within the Lighting Division, based in Tottenham. We are seeking motivated & driven candidates who want to learn new...
  
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• Duggie Fields obituary

  12-03-2021 17:30
  
  Artist who blended the imagery of cartoons, fashion and advertising with Dalí and MondrianQuite what the dispute between Duggie Fields and his tutor at the Chelsea School of Art was about has been long forgotten; Fields’ protest has not. Always a snazzy dresser, on that day in college in the 1960s, Fields, who has died aged 75, unpinned the Donald Duck badge attached to the lapel of his black velvet three-piece suit and stuck it through the canvas of the abstract painting he had bee
  
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• The Music School Flourishing On Remote Easter Island

  12-03-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With donated land, instruments and crowd-sourced funding, Mahani Teave, along with her partner Enrique Icka, a construction engineer, broke ground on their Toki School of Music in 2014. From the start, they envisioned a sustainable, yet stylish building – “an earth ship in the shape of an eight-petaled flower.” – NPR
  
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• Digital Communications & Community Engagement / JAM / London

  12-03-2021 17:26
  JAM (John Armitage Memorial Trust) www.jamconcert.org
  Position: Digital Communications and Community Engagement
  Location: South West London (SW16)
  Workplace: 1 day a week in the office,...
  
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• Artist & curators` talk - Loss & Transience 2 / videoclub / South East / Online

  12-03-2021 17:15
  Loss & Transience curators (VisionMix), Lucía Imaz King and Rashmi Sawhney will introduce the exhibition with videoclub director, Jamie Wyld. Followed by an artist’s talk by Gigi...
  
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• Open Call for Submissions for a Creative Spaces project / Blackburn with Darwen Council & Blackburn BID / North West

  12-03-2021 17:14
  The ‘Creative Spaces’ Open Call is aimed at supporting the post-Covid recovery of Blackburn town centre through arts and culture.
  ‘Empty’ town centre spaces from shop windows...
  
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• Heritage Apprentice for Knowsleys Borough of Culture / Knowsley Borough Council / North West / Merseyside

  12-03-2021 17:11
  Knowsley Council’s Culture Development and Events service are delighted to advertise a new Heritage Apprentice role funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.  In 2022, Knowsley becomes...
  
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• Volunteer Co-Ordinator / Knowsley Borough Council / North West / Merseyside

  12-03-2021 17:05
  The Culture Development and Events Service at Knowsley Council develops high quality culture and events programmes, partnerships, projects and initiatives which support Council priorities.
  The role...
  
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• Between Budget Cuts And COVID, Mexico’s Arts Sector Is In Full-On Crisis

  12-03-2021 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Citing corruption and waste under previous administrations, centre-left President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced hefty budget cuts across all government departments in May 2019. The ministry of culture lost 75% of its operating budget and expects to receive just $693m this year, a severe blow to arts institutions and those who depend on them for their livelihoods.” Add to that the financial blows from pandemic-related closures, and programming has been slashed,
  
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• Board Member - Director of Sponsorship and Fundraising / Irish Film London / London

  12-03-2021 17:02
  The Board of Irish Film London are seeking a new London based board member responsible for Sponsorship & Fundraising.
  Bringing expertise and enthusiasm to this unique and creative role, they...
  
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• Timetabling Manager / Leeds Conservatoire / Yorkshire

  12-03-2021 17:01
  Salary: £29,176 to £31,866 per annum
  Full Time Permanent
  Reference: 202124
  The conservatoire is seeking to recruit an expert puzzle-solver to become our new Timetabling...
  
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• Heritage Shaker / Knowsley Borough Council / North West / Merseyside

  12-03-2021 16:58
  The Culture Development and Events Service at Knowsley Council develops high quality culture and events programmes, partnerships, projects and initiatives which support Council priorities.
  This key...
  
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• Non-fungible tokens are revolutionising the art world – and art theft

  12-03-2021 16:55
  
  Artists have been dismayed to find their work ending up in the ‘control’ of othersWhen the virtual auction bell rang at Christie’s on Thursday, , a digital artist better known as Beeple, made history: he had sold a “non-fungible token” representing his piece Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, for $69.4m.But while the new cryptocurrency craze may have brought the high-end art market into the 21st century, it’s also modernising another aspect of the industry: art
  
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• Hergé's heirs sue artist over his Tintin/Edward Hopper mashups

  12-03-2021 16:42
  
  Xavier Marabout has been accused in a French court of ‘taking advantage of the reputation of a character to immerse him in an erotic universe’A French artist who imagines romantic adventures for the boy adventurer Tintin in the landscapes of Edward Hopper has been sued by the Tintin creator Hergé’s heirs, who said it was not funny to take advantage of Tintin by putting him in an erotic universe, especially as Hergé had chosen not to caricature women.In Breton arti
  
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• Junior Project Manager / Blueprint: Film Ltd. / London / Kent

  12-03-2021 16:38
  This is an exciting position for a young person (16-24) with aspirations of being a project/company manager in the Arts and Media sector.
  Blueprint Film are a small, innovative and creative video...
  
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• It Was A Mosaic From Caligula’s Pleasure Yacht. It Became A Park Avenue Coffee Table. Now It’s Finally Back In Rome.

  12-03-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Officials unveiled the mosaic at the Museum of Roman Ships, which was built in the 1930s specifically to house the treasures of two huge ceremonial ships Caligula commissioned in around AD 40. … Details [have now] emerged about the lucky break in the investigation that got it there.” – AP
  
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• The Oprah Effect: What Being Interviewed By Winfrey Can Do For You

  12-03-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[It] means being ready to expose yourself to her satisfaction, in exchange for having one of the world’s great empaths help you reshape your public image. As with the best therapists, you are exposed, but in some fundamental sense you are also safe: You bring the raw material; she helps you put the narrative together.” – Slate
  
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• Head of Development / Reading Rep / South East

  12-03-2021 15:44
  We’re looking for an experienced and accomplished fundraiser to lead our new development team and build on the fundraising successes achieved through our recent capital campaign. The successful...
  
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• Do you have what it takes to be a Creative Producer? / Mountview / London

  12-03-2021 15:36
  MA Creative Producing students spend an intensive year training for careers in the wonderful and challenging world of theatre-making. We asked some of our recent alumni about their experience on the...
  
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• Theatre In America After A Year Of The Pandemic

  12-03-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rob Weinert-Kendt: “So what happened — what changed — in this past 12 months, and how will this lost, frantic year be remembered? I asked dozens of theatre workers from all over the U.S. to answer those questions. Their responses are a panorama of grief, gratitude, frustration, affirmation, resolutions and questions.” – American Theatre
  
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• Gallery Hosted Events Manager (Maternity Cover) / The National Gallery / London

  12-03-2021 15:19
  We are looking for an experienced and driven events organiser with the ability to plan and organise high-level and logistically complex events in a unique and historic building, as well as engaging...
  
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• Artists and Art Enthusiasts / NoLabelArt / London

  12-03-2021 15:18
  We are happy to announce a Call for submissions to our project  A Tree Of Good Memories that promotes connectedness with Nature and community spirit!
  NoLabel: A Tree Of Good Memories is an...
  
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• Conversations On Ceramics: with Lulu Senft / Modern Painters, New Decorators / East Midlands

  12-03-2021 15:12
  An online talk night hosted by Modern Painters, New Decorators featuring Lulu Senft in conversation with Collective Matter.
  Conversation On Ceramics is the final event taking place as part...
  
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• Office Manager / Safe Ground / London

  12-03-2021 15:04
  We’re looking for an Office Manager to come and support us in our important work. Our General Manager is leaving after 4 and a half years and we’re looking for someone to take over some...
  
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• Executive Director / Pushkin House / London

  12-03-2021 15:02
  Pushkin House is seeking exceptional candidates for the role of Executive Director. The new Director will develop and deliver a vision for the next phase of the organisation, including maintaining a...
  
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• ‘Culture Of Fear’ At Detroit Institute Of Arts, Outside Study Found

  12-03-2021 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Detroit Institute of Arts is taking steps to improve its workplace culture following a critical review by outside investigators who said they had fielded employee complaints of retaliation by the director whose autocratic leadership style, they said, had fostered an environment that led a disproportionate number of women on staff to leave. … The museum said Monday that it had taken a number of steps in response to the findings.” – The New York Times
  
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• Prints, paradoxes and $70m for a digital collage – the week in art

  12-03-2021 15:00
  
  Let Rothko take you to the edge of consciousness and explore the high streets of Sheffield – all in your weekly dispatchOnline Print Fair
  Artists have been making prints ever since printing began. The art is still going strong as this event featuring Aliyah Hussain, Christopher Jarratt, Janet Milner, Print Wagon, West Yorkshire Print Workshop and many more proves.
  • The Hepworth, Wakefield, until 28 March. Continue reading...
  
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• What Does Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill Have For The Arts?

  12-03-2021 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The relief bill includes $470 million earmarked for cultural organizations, with $135 million each for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and $200 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The bulk of the NEA and NEH funding — 60 percent — is set aside for direct grants and relevant administrative expenses for programming related to the pandemic. The rest will go to state arts agencies and regional arts or
  
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