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• Editions Assistant / Unit Drops / London

  28-03-2021 23:36
  Since its inception in 2013, Unit London has been firmly committed to the identification and championing of unique and distinctive artistic talent from across the globe. The gallery’s ambition...
  
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• How Will Machines Choose To Tell Stories?

  28-03-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sure, Gmail offers to fill in text on your messages – but things are getting more complicated. “AI’s capacity for creativity—one of those supposedly sacrosanct human attributes—is becoming more and more of an existential sticking point as humans learn to live alongside intelligent machines.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Covid Supervisor for Easter Holiday Camp - Hounslow / Skipz Productions cic / London

  28-03-2021 22:28
  We are delighted to announce we will be delivering an Easter Holiday Programme for Free School Meals children at a primary School in Hounslow. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Covid...
  
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• As Animal Crossing Turns One, A Writer Contemplates How Its Look And Sounds Have Accompanied The Pandemic

  28-03-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amal El-Mohtar: “While the animal-people of the game speak incomprehensible approximations of their textual dialogue — not unlike hearing language in a dream — and the jaunty soundtrack provides comedy noises when you get stung by wasps or bitten by mosquitoes, the sounds of your character moving physically through the island are astonishingly immersive. … The visual cues may be cartoony, but the sound’s realism translates the green triangles of grass into vividly
  
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• Assistant Facilitator required Easter Holiday Camp - Hounslow / Skipz Productions cic / London

  28-03-2021 21:59
  We are delighted to announce we will be delivering an Easter Holiday Programme for Free School Meals childen at a primary School in Hounslow. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced...
  
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• Hey Amazon, What’s Your Problem Admitting That Leonardo Was Gay?

  28-03-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amazon Prime Studio’s use of a fictional woman (“a complete piece of tosh, invented by a 19th century Romantic”) to bring Leonardo and his life to the small screen isn’t just fiction, it’s flat-out wrong. Suggestion: “Why not go to the National Gallery when it reopens and look at Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks. The most hypnotic figure in it is an angel whose long curly hair matches Vasari’s description of Salaì and whose tender pale f
  
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• Fake News From Assyria, 2700 Years Ago

  28-03-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It all comes down to the earring. “The arresting piece of jewellery, which bursts from the borders of itself with piercing radiance like a celestial orb, transforms the static action from a callous chronicle of recurring cruelty, however impeccably wrought, to something more sympathetically mythic: a meditation on the interconnectedness of all things” – and the supposed godlike powers of King Ashurbanipal, wearer of the earring. – BBC
  
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• Yseult Is A Chanson Singer Whose Very Existence Is Riling Up The French

  28-03-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The singer Yseult, a Parisian whose parents are from Cameroon, won the award for Best Newcomer at the French Grammys in February, and she has millions of fans and YouTube views. But when she won and said, “This is not just a victory for me, it’s a victory for my brothers and sisters. We have snatched this, our freedom, our independence, this space. We deserve it,” traditional French media – which is freaked out, to put it mildly, about what it sees as identity politics &
  
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• The Pandemic Was, For Some, An Inadvertent Artist Residency

  28-03-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fact that freelancers could (finally) tap into unemployment through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance programs changed, well, everything. Sarah Rose Sharp: “In my experience, the best conditions for making art involve getting paid to make art where I’ve already built the infrastructure that enables me to make art. Since March of 2020, that’s what I’ve done, and it’s been a productive year.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Marketing and Development Manager / Brixton Chamber Orchestra / London

  28-03-2021 19:47
  Brixton Chamber Orchestra (BCO) is a small charity based in Lambeth with a mission to provide fantastic orchestral experiences for the widest possible audience in Brixton and beyond....
  
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• Beverly Cleary Taught Kids Vital Life Lessons Through Ramona, The Grubby Little Pest

  28-03-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ramona is messy, makes extremely normal kid mistakes, is impulsive, and always, always demands that her parents love her – not anyway, but as is. This might seem usual now, but “in 1950, when Ramona made her first appearance, they were not unremarkable; they were trailblazing. Cleary took every attribute that girls were then warned away from — bossiness, brashness, hot temper — and she tucked them all into one character. And then she made that character into an inspirati
  
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• New York Theatres Are Dark, But Their Windows Aren’t

  28-03-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  While the interior is idle (or getting a revamp, in some cases), the windows to the street have a thing or two to say about art, poetry, and the power of words – and, in some cases, even dance. The Brooklyn Ballet performed 20-minute “jewel-box dances” from The Nutcracker in its street-level windows in December, using barriers to prevent crowds. “It was a way to bring some people back to something they love that they enjoyed that they might be forgetting about. …
  
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• Hint To BAFTA: You Can’t Fix A Diversity Problem With Racist Casting Directors

  28-03-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yikes: “India Eva Rae, who joined Bafta’s Elevate programme in 2019, told the BBC that a casting director told her she was an ‘exotic talent,’ and that they ‘can’t understand the English coming out your mouth.’ Rae also said that she had been told not to report the incident by a ‘mentor’ on the scheme: ‘This mentor told me and other members of the group that we will never work again if we speak up.'” – The Guardia
  
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• Now We Truly Have Everything, Including A Playlist Of Jane Austen’s Favorite Music

  28-03-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Music was inextricably linked to Austen’s creativity – she practiced, when she had access to a piano, every day, and copied friends’ sheet music note by note. During the times her family didn’t have a piano? As far as scholars can tell, she wasn’t writing. – Colorado Public Radio
  
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• Even As Life Shifted Dramatically Thanks To The Virus, Mariachi Bands Played On

  28-03-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  How? With weddings, quinceñeras, and life’s joyful moments generally canceled, mariachi bands’ calendars have filled with funerals for friends, family members, and even fellow band members. “As the caskets go into the ground, many mariachi bands in California, Texas, Illinois and elsewhere have turned to playing songs of pain and sorrow to ease the passing. Even for the bands used to playing at funerals before the pandemic, the sweep of death has been overwhelming.&rdqu
  
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• Plant Press Zine - CALL OUT / PPZ / London

  28-03-2021 17:25
  Submit work to our new publication, which will showcase art and writing inspired by the nonhuman world.
  With the natural world under ever-increasing threat, the need to address these concerns...
  
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• With More Than 7000 Languages In The World, Google Translate Is Next To Useless

  28-03-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  That is, for most of them, because Google Translate (and Bing) relies on written translations – which works well for French, Spanish, English, German, and other often-translated languages. “No such data mountain exists, however, for languages that may be widely spoken but not as prolifically translated” – languages such as Wolof, Luganda, Twi and Ewe, not to mention many indigenous languages in the Americas. Can “neural networks” be retrained to learn from sm
  
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• Hollywood Stylists Want Their Zoom Oscars Back

  28-03-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some of the fashion world is really not happy with the guidelines for the in-person Oscars. One fashion writer, echoing many stylists who enjoyed their freedom: “Honestly, all it’s done is make me wish that all the invitees would show up en masse in flannel nightgowns and Ugg slippers, just to thumb their noses at it.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Craig muMs Grant, Actor And Poet, Dies Suddenly At Age 52

  28-03-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The actor and poet, also a playwright, had his most visible recurring role on the HBO series Oz. He once told an Indianapolis paper, “The problem with poetry is, a lot of the audience sometimes has a short attention span. … So poetry has to have rhythm to capture people who can’t listen for so long. They’ll just close their eyes and ride the rhythm of your voice.” – The New York Times
  
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• In Isolated, Dark, Solitary Times, Lighthouse Keepers Know How To Survive

  28-03-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Truly. Well, except for the occasional disappearance, murder, and the like. But in pandemic times, we might feel like we understand them. “All they had was each other and the sea. Rooms piled one on top of the other, a couple of strides across and that’s it, no way out, nowhere else to go.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Hollywood Has Failed Asian American Women For Decades

  28-03-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  And, they say, it’s past time for a change. Netflix has been particularly good at offering changing depictions this year, but the history of Asian women’s depictions in Hollywood is far from fixed. Film scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu: “The notion of a self-sacrificing, suicidal, servile, suffering, sexually available Asian woman is a prison from which we need to be liberated. … I’m looking forward to the vast expanse of other characters and other stories w
  
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• The Boom And Bust Of The TikTok Artist Life

  28-03-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The app is garnering millions of views, and some artists earn thousands (or more) for each short video they post. Some young artists are even “bypassing art schools and student loans, quitting their survival jobs and pursuing careers as full-time artists on TikTok. But the app’s insatiable demand for content is also bending their aesthetics in unexpected ways. What happens when viewership plummets, copycats encroach and fans start dictating an artist’s taste? Fortunes can sudd
  
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• Some Artists Actually Made Money During The Pandemic

  28-03-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  To be fair, not that many. But a few found real success while every other vehicle for their work was shut down. For instance, some of those “who pulled out such things as sewing machines and cookie cutters in an effort to make money over the last year were met with unexpected success. Hundreds of budding entrepreneurs started selling homemade face masks on Etsy, for example. Others found a market for artisan foods, including fancy cookies and charcuterie boar
  
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• The Globe Will Reopen This Summer, With Strict Protocols Including No Intermissions

  28-03-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arrival times will be staggered, drinks and snacks must be pre-ordered, and the audience can go to the bathroom when it needs to – but there will be absolutely no stopping a play once it begins. Shakespeare might feel a bit too real. Consider Romeo and Juliet. There will be no need “to deny the hell of that play, the dystopia of that play, the broken society, the police brutality. Shakespeare does not shy away from the difficult conversations and neither will we.” – The
  
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• General & Academic Manager, Tileyard Education North (Wakefield) / Tileyard Education / Yorkshire / North West

  28-03-2021 13:27
  Tileyard Education is a postgraduate and professional education company based at Tileyard London, the largest independent music community in the world and, from January 2022, Tileyard North,...
  
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• Event Coordinator / The Y Theatre, Leicester YMCA / East Midlands

  28-03-2021 13:15
  The Y is a vibrant and diverse charity offering a 300 seat professional theatre, supported accommodation for young people, education, conference and sports facilities.
  We are looking to recruit an...
  
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• Drama Teacher / The ARC Community Space / London

  28-03-2021 12:37
  The Arc Community Space is a safe, fun, friendly and inclusive space in the heart of Islington, offering a range of services for local people. You can read more about us here:...
  
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• Movement / Acro / Trick Teacher / The ARC Community Space / London

  28-03-2021 12:33
  The Arc Community Space is a safe, fun, friendly and inclusive space in the heart of Islington, offering a range of services for local people. You can read more about us here:...
  
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• Saved: portrait of the queen of dance who changed the course of ballet

  28-03-2021 11:26
  
  Donors contribute to buy painting of Tamara Karsavina, co-founder of the London ballet schoolA rare and valuable portrait of the Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina, Anna Pavlova’s great rival and one of the key dancers behind a revolution in ballet, has been bought for the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD). Karsavina presided over the London teaching school, which she co-founded, for many years, instilling a modern emphasis on expressive movement over stiff tradition.“This is such a ravis
  
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• Mayfair Art Weekend Friday 25 - Sunday 27 June / / London / Mayfair

  28-03-2021 10:54
  MAYFAIR ART WEEKEND WELCOMES VISITORS BACK TO SEE ART IN REAL LIFE WITH A PROGRAMME OF FREE EVENTS CELEBRATING THE WORLD-FAMOUS GALLERY DISTRICT 25 – 27 JUNE 2021Mayfair Sculpture Trail | 2...
  
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• Stalin statue site reveals chilling remains of Prague labour camp

  28-03-2021 10:45
  
  Archaeologists have discovered foundations of the previously unknown structure in the city’s Letná parkThe colossal monument to Joseph Stalin that towered over Prague at the height of the cold war stood as a frightening reminder of the Soviet dictator’s tyranny and communism’s seemingly unshakeable grip on the former Czechoslovakia.Nearly 60 years after its demolition, the brooding 15.5-metre (51ft) shrine retains a hold on the popular imagination, with locals referring
  
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• Yinka Shonibare: ‘You don’t want the next generation to be full of hate'

  28-03-2021 10:30
  
  The artist on fostering hope, why he doesn’t want a retrospective, and making work inspired by Picasso’s African art collectionThe British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare makes work – often in sculpture, painting and tapestry – that looks unflinchingly at race, class and colonialism. The 58-year-old, who is partly paralysed after contracting a virus of the spine in his late teens, was one of the original YBAs and was shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2004. His 2010 scul
  
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• Honey, they shrunk the art … top artists create works for tiny gallery

  28-03-2021 09:00
  
  Creative giants from Hirst to Hambling have produced masterpieces a few centimetres across for a scaled-down showLife has been reduced in scale for most people over the past 12 months, but now an extraordinary line-up of British artists, including Damien Hirst, Tacita Dean, Edmund de Waal, Grayson Perry, John Akomfrah and Rachel Whiteread, have taken it a step further by miniaturising their art.Taking up an invitation from Pallant House Gallery in West Sussex, more than 30 leading British artist
  
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