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• Behind The Scenes, Artists Confronted MoMA Leadership About Board Chair’s Iraq War Ties

  21-03-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And the confrontations – and revelations about who on MoMA’s board and who on MoMA PS1’s board are implicated in “security firms” in Iraq, not to mention ties to Jeffrey Epstein – are ongoing. Iraqi American art scholar Rijin Sahakian: “The denial of the artists’ right to peacefully protest through their work — on an active war actively accumulating profit for the museum’s lead funder — is as resounding as the museum’s refu
  
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• Selling Books With Some Tears On TikTok

  21-03-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  TikTok might not be the place we think of immediately for book reviews – but a lot of bookbuyers – that is, young women – do. “Miriam Parker, a vice president and associate publisher at Ecco, which released The Song of Achilles [in 2012], said the company saw sales spike on Aug. 9 but couldn’t figure out why. It eventually traced it to a TikTok video called ‘books that will make you sob,’ published on Aug. 8 by @moongirlreads_. Today, that video, which
  
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• The Gender-Based Lawsuit Against Disney Expands To Include Pay Secrecy

  21-03-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  California labor law doesn’t allow for pay secrecy. Disney denies the claims by the plaintiffs that “Disney prohibits employees from disclosing their own wages, discussing the pay of others or inquiring about another employee’s compensation. … Some of the plaintiffs also claim to have been instructed multiple times not to talk about their compensation, with one alleging that another employee had been disciplined for sharing their pay information with others at the compa
  
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• Indoor Dance In New York Goes On Delay Once Again

  21-03-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The plan: Audacious, but careful. The space: The Park Avenue Armory, with an extremely limited audience. The issue: “The eagerly anticipated performances, which were set to begin on Wednesday for a sold-out seven-day run, had to be postponed after several members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company tested positive for the virus.” – The New York Times
  
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• Reading Books By Black Authors Isn’t Some Kind Of Magical Medicine White People Can Take

  21-03-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And many Black authors resent the implication. Yaa Gyasi on her time touring the United States after her book Homegoing came out: “I was exhausted, not just by the travel but by something that is more difficult to articulate – the dissonance of the black spotlight, of being revered in one way and reviled in another, a revulsion that makes clear the hollowness of the reverence.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Professional arts training, without the usual price-tag / LVL/UP / London / UK WIDE

  21-03-2021 19:11
  We are on a mission to level up professional arts training by making it relevant, affordable and accessible to all. LVL/UP provides online intensive training in Producing and Managing, without the...
  
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• The Outsize Impact Of Celebrity Documentaries

  21-03-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The intense responses to the R. Kelly, Britney Spears (who, unlike the others on the list, is not portrayed a predator but rather a woman much preyed upon), Michael Jackson, and Woody Allen documentaries have surprised filmmakers – after all, most of the info was already part of the public record. One producer: “The loudest and most impactful documentaries … [have] something that can connect to the viewer on a personal level, which makes all the difference.”– Wash
  
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• How Libraries Are Dealing With, And Helping Solve, Digital Inequity

  21-03-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pandemic-related shutdowns mean that the people who need help printing, filling out, and scanning documents – “There are lots of forms, which demand lots of one-on-one help from library staff to find and complete” – can’t get it directly, but there’s still Wi-Fi in the parking lots … and long lines of people each time the libraries re-open. – The Atlantic
  
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• Van Gogh Died Penniless, But His Paintings Paid For His Sister’s Mental Health Care Decades Later

  21-03-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Van Gogh died in 1890. By 1909, Anna, the oldest Van Gogh sister, “wrote of selling a picture that he had given Willemien, enabling her to pay for medical costs: ‘I remember when Wil got the painting from Vincent, but what a figure! Who would have thought that Vincent would contribute to Wil’s upkeep in this way?'” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Cepillin, Clown Beloved Across Latin America, Has Died At 75

  21-03-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cepillín, whose non-performing name was Ricardo González Gutiérrez, was a Mexican clown with a half-century-long career. He “hosted TV shows broadcast from Mexico, sold millions of copies of his albums of children’s songs, and later drew millions of viewers to his videos on TikTok and YouTube. And he toured Mexico and the United States with circus companies including his own and Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey.” – The New York Times
  
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• Producers, Actors, And Publicists Are Keeping Pressure On The HFPA

  21-03-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even weeks after the Golden Globes, Hollywood isn’t relenting; this reckoning has been a long time coming. “Now, with the very survival of the Globes hanging in the balance, some in Hollywood remain unconvinced that the insular and notoriously fractious group has the capacity, or perhaps even the self-awareness, to undertake the sort of transformational reforms it has vowed.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Admin/Research Assistant / PRONK! Productions LLP / London

  21-03-2021 16:32
  PRONK! Productions are looking to hire a confident admin/research assistant to help pull some information together for a few projects we're working on.
  The work involves data gathering from various...
  
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• We Know Amazon Is A Danger To Workers And Retail, But Do We Care?

  21-03-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, that’s … a good question. “We know how Amazon treats its workers, how it squeezes its sellers, how it devastates small businesses, and how it extorts money out of state and local governments (and let’s not even start talking about privacy). We know that our elected officials play along. We aren’t happy about it, yet we keep on buying.” – Washington Post
  
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• A Return To Episodic TV

  21-03-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is the binge better? Or is it OK to let episodes marinate for a week before returning to a story? When Netflix first dropped entire seasons, it blew everyone’s mind. But now, perhaps, the choices are simply “one more set of storytelling tools — like shooting in front of a studio audience, or not — creatively suited to different kinds of stories.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Guy Who Possibly Found The Author Of Shakespeare’s Source Material For Hamlet

  21-03-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And other plays too. This isn’t a “Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays” theory; it’s a theory about an Elizabethan playwright named Thomas North – and Thomas North’s cousin George. – Boston Globe
  
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• March social get together / Come To The Table / Yorkshire

  21-03-2021 15:13
  Come To The TableThursday 25 March 2021, 8pm, via Zoomhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/come-to-the-table-march-2021-tickets-147405185879We invite you to our March social get together based on shared...
  
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• Beloved New York Bookstore The Strand Has Become A Union Busting Stereotype

  21-03-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is not great. “The past year … has laid bare just how perilous a job you like, or even love, can be when you’re working without the most basic of safety nets. This fragility is something that Strand employees have always known — they work in retail, after all. Before, though, the job had just enough perks, just enough meaning, to make it worth the struggle.” Now, it’s one long arbitration struggle, and certainly not enough money for the workers. (Or, pe
  
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• The New Rules Of Moviegoing

  21-03-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Start with an “electrostatic disinfectant sprayer,” add in a seat buffering system, and don’t forget prepackaged condiments for your popcorn. (But … what about air flow and vaccine requirements? Hm.) – Variety
  
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• A Paris Ballet Star Dances With Memories, And Anselm Kiefer Paintings

  21-03-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hugo Marchand’s new memoir speaks of feelings that seem to beset nearly every dancer – of not belonging, of self-doubt, and of stage fright. And his newest pandemic project brought him into close contact with artist Anselm Kiefer. “I like the way [Steve Reich’s’Duet’] loops and matches Kiefer’s work which uses recycled and repeating materials. We were lucky to meet Anselm Kiefer, and I was very touched and moved by the paintings.” – The New
  
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• Composer Hannah Peel Goes Deep Into The Trees, And Neuroscience

  21-03-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peel’s star has been ascending, with work for TV and movies, and hosting a new, controversial BBC music show – and she managed, with the help of the cosmos, Barbara Hepworth, her grandfather’s voice, and nature, to compose a new album during pandemic lockdowns and restrictions and a lot of Zoom meetings. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Marianne Carus, Founder Of Cricket Magazine, 92

  21-03-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carus believed that children should read – and see – high-quality short stories, poetry, and art. In 1982, she said in an interview, “So many people talk down to children, but you have to respect their intelligence. … Parents give them the best clothes, the best food, the best toys, when what they should be giving them is food for their little brains.” – The New York Times
  
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• Dance Development Co-ordinator & Dance Teacher / Innovation Dance Studios Ltd / London

  21-03-2021 12:40
  Exciting role for a dance teacher who would like to contribute to the running and development of dance studios.
   
  The candidate will need to be able to teach RAD Ballet (RTS essential),...
  
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• Palm Springs Art Museum’s Executive Director Resigns Just Before Museum Reopens

  21-03-2021 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Louis Grachos had a two-year stint, including a year of pandemic shutdown marred by controversy surrounding the museum’s response to George Floyd’s killing and by the deaccessioning and sale of a massive Helen Frankenthaler painting. Grachos is returning to New Mexico, where he’ll be ED of “the contemporary arts organization SITE Sante Fe, which he led from 1996 to 2003.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Maryland’s State Song Has Been Booted By Lawmakers

  21-03-2021 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The state legislature voted to scrap the state’s official song. Why? “The pro-Confederate Civil War-era tune features lyrics that denigrate Abraham Lincoln as a ‘tyrant’ and call on Maryland to join the South in fighting ‘the Northern scum.’ Penned in 1861 and set to the melody of ‘O Tannenbaum,’ it has been blasted by critics as racist and an embarrassment to the state.” – Baltimore Sun
  
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• Art + Critique: Critical & Contextual Studies in Art Practice / videomole.tv / London / International

  21-03-2021 11:31
  This online course integrates practice and theory to address our concepts of art, how they are being transformed and the problems of making art in the broader context of social conflict. The...
  
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• How Van Gogh paid for his mentally ill sister's care decades after his death

  21-03-2021 11:00
  
  The troubled artist’s paintings failed to make him a living but as a new book of letters shows, his legacy enabled his sibling to get the treatment he lackedVincent van Gogh remained penniless throughout his tragic life, which ended in suicide shortly after a stay in a mental asylum. Yet two decades later, paintings he had given to his sister were sold to pay for her stay in a psychiatric hospital, commanding such high prices that the proceeds funded years of treatment, according to letter
  
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• Gerhard Richter gives Holocaust art to Berlin

  21-03-2021 09:30
  
  Germany’s greatest living painter donates 100 works, including his Birkenau series, to capital’s new museumFans of the German painter Gerhard Richter are expected to flock to Berlin to view 100 works that he has in effect donated in a long-term loan to a new museum of modern art. The works include a series of paintings addressing the Holocaust that he has vowed never to sell.The donation by the 89-year-old, who is one of the world’s highest-priced living artists, is destined fo
  
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