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• Study Science, Fine. But Arts And Humanities Are The Future Of Work

  08-04-2021 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the rise of artificial intelligence, machine programming, and the ever more rapid automation of technical skills, many companies are seeking just the creative and humanist thinking that emerges from a study of the liberal arts. – Forbes
  
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• Canada’s New Opera Champion Bob McPhee, 65

  08-04-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  As head of Calgary Opera he was one of the most innovative champions of the art form. “I think he truly changed opera in Canada. I think there was Before Bob and there is After Bob.” – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
  
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• Diversity Lessons From The 1990s Culture Wars

  08-04-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What David Lang wrote in 1989 was not wrong: no senators took to the floor to tear up scores by Philip Glass or John Cage. New music was ultimately collateral damage in the Culture Wars, not directly targeted by congressional Republicans but still subject to the same devastating public funding cuts that the controversies over Serrano and Mapplethorpe inaugurated. But the controversies over NYSCA’s funding of new-music organizations—relatively tame in comparison to what unfold
  
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• How American Theatre Marginalizes Asians

  08-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Just as Asian shows are seen as exotic oddities rather than universal, Asian American theatres aren’t considered national theatres by funders, even though it is companies like Ma-Yi, Theater Mu, and East West Players that have historically nurtured Asian American artists when white theatres would not work with them, and told Asian American stories before there was a financial imperative.” – American Theatre
  
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• George W. Bush, Painter (What Does His Art Say About Him? About Us?)

  08-04-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bush’s painting style is inelegant: his subjects’ eyes are often misaligned, his colors are sometimes muddied, and even though he attempts to create depth and shadow, the facial features ultimately fail to convey anything resembling human warmth. The book, providing an honorific framing, bestows a dignity upon his subjects that his presidential policies did not.” – ARTnews
  
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• Rock Musicians Are Getting Into NFTs. It’s Going To Be Messy.

  08-04-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At the end of February, Grimes sold 10 pieces of digital artwork as NFTs for $6m, while Deadmau5 has offered bundles including music and collaborative artwork. The Weeknd generated $2.2m by selling digital artworks with clips of a new track. … Despite the clear traceability, there remains enormous uncertainty about just how the rights and ownership of the original creators – from songwriters and producers to session musicians – apply in an NFT sale that includes music.
  
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• Science: Turns Out Musical Taste Corresponds To Personality

  08-04-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  It turns out that there is more to the question than appears on the surface, and multiple psychological studies have supported the idea that musical preferences are actually linked to our cognitive styles, or the way we think about, and react to, the world around us. – The Hill
  
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• Choreography With Water And Fire (This Is Not A Metaphor, This Is Actual Fluids And Flames)

  08-04-2021 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Billy Bell, who is a visual spectacle designer and computer engineer as well as a dancer and choreographer, combines movement, architecture and computer code to create fire-and-fountain displays for the likes of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. “”When you’re choreographing on a fountain, the equipment itself is your dancer,” he says. “However, that dancer, that equipment, is fixed in space. It’s not going to move. It’s hundreds and hundreds of pounds and bolt
  
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• Prices For NFTs Swoon (Collapse?)

  08-04-2021 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps, according to recent figures published by Nonfungible.com, which show that the average price of NFTs plummeted almost 70% from a peak of around $4,000 in mid-February to around $1,400 earlier this week. Since Bloomberg first reported the price crash on 3 April, sales have continued to decline. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Don’t tar fives with public school brush | Brief letters

  08-04-2021 19:05
  
  Wallball and fives | Lancashire creamy | Steve Bell | Brexit gift | ShtiselExcellent news about the latest wallball court (Report, 8 April), but please don’t think that fives is cobwebbed in a public school niche. There are public fives courts under the Westway in London, and our sturdy local pensioners’ group, Bunch of Fives, restarts this month, along with many others. Covid has been spent practising against church walls, a national pastime going back to the 12th century.Martin Wai
  
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• Why Wouldn’t Saudi Arabia Lend ‘Salvator Mundi’ To The Louvre? Spite, Basically

  08-04-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  History’s most expensive artwork, purchased by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2017 for $450 million, was supposed to be part of the Louvre’s blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition in 2019 and then go on long-term loan to the new Louvre Abu Dhabi. But Salvator Mundi hasn’t been seen in public since its auction (and is rumored to be on a royal yacht). Why? It seems there was a battle of wills between His Royal Highness and the Louvre’s specialist curators over
  
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• Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Anounces A Fifty Percent Expansion

  08-04-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The expansion would add nearly 100,000 sq. ft to the museum’s current 200,000 sq. ft pavilion complex, which features concrete walls, bands of red cedar and copper roofs that all react to light and moisture in a forested Ozark setting. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Wisconsin School Works To Save Ojibwe Languages Before Native-Speaker Elders Disappear

  08-04-2021 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation, near Lake Superior in the northwestern corner of the state, is a K-8 school called Waadookodaading (“a place where people help each other”), where Ojibwe children are taught, in their ancestral language, a curriculum that combines federal and state educational requirements with traditional culture. For instance, the kids study biology using fish they’ve speared, and the wild rice harvest becomes a way to learn how to measure volumes. But
  
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• ‘They were survivors’: the Jewish cartoonists who fled the Nazis

  08-04-2021 17:58
  
  A new exhibition celebrates the work of three Austrian artists who escaped their country as Nazis took over and created daring work in the years afterIn 1938, Nazi troops invaded Austria, subsuming the country into the Third Reich in an event known as the “Anschluss”, bringing official antisemitism, along with political violence, to the small, German-speaking nation.A new exhibition in New York features artworks by three Jewish artists who fled Vienna during the Anschluss, survived a
  
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• Valery Gergiev, Politics and Putin

  08-04-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  By arranging himself with the powers that be, Gergiev has maneuvered his way to a singular position in Russian cultural politics. On January 30, 2018, he led a performance at the Russian National Defense Control Centre, viewing with Putin the weapons systems deployed by Russian forces in Syria. – Van
  
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• The Black Violinist Who Premiered Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata

  08-04-2021 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Born in 1778, in Biała Podlaska, Poland, [George Polgreen] Bridgetower started playing the violin at an early age. His father John Frederick Bridgetower (probably of West Indian descent) was a servant of Joseph Haydn’s patron: the Hungarian Prince Esterházy. And the young Bridgetower was tutored by Haydn himself. … Later, Bridgetower went on to give the first public performance of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 (‘Kreutzer’),
  
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• Painting that was nearly sold for €1,500 could be Caravaggio worth €50m

  08-04-2021 16:46
  
  Spanish government imposes export ban on oil painting as experts study it to determine authorshipBefore it was pulled from sale, lot 229, a small but luminous oil painting of the scourged Christ attributed to the circle of the 17th-century Spanish artist José de Ribera, had been due to go under the hammer in Madrid on Thursday with a guide price of €1,500 (£1,300).Closer inspection, however, has raised suspicions that the Crowning with Thorns may be the rather more valuable wor
  
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• Hong Kong’s New M+ Wants To Be One Of The World’s Great Contemporary Art Museums. Politics May Make That Impossible.

  08-04-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The [West Kowloon Cultural District Authority] has set M+ the target of being the first museum of its kind in Asia and to be ranked among the top five museums in the world for visual culture. … To achieve such lofty ambitions, M+ needs international credibility. But given growing ideological tensions between China and the West, it is going to be hard for the museum to meet the expectations of its political master as well as an international art world based on the values of liberal
  
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• Lois Kirschenbaum, New York’s Most Beloved Opera Superfan, Dead At 88

  08-04-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Night after night, through multiple performances of a production’s run at the Met or New York City Opera, Lois (the city’s entire opera community referred to her as Lois) was in the audience, and more often than not went backstage afterwards to solicit autographs and talk to singers. “She could tell you anything going on in your performances on any given night — this or that particular phrase and what it meant,” says soprano Aprile Millo. “For a singer, it ga
  
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• What Killed L.A. Stage Alliance? It Wasn’t That One Dumb Mistake

  08-04-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Los Angeles sound designer and playwright Howard Ho — the boyfriend of actress Jully Lee, who was the subject of the dumb mistake at LASA’s Ovation Awards — writes that the last thing he and Lee expected was for the organization to shut itself down (they initially laughed off the mistake, which wasn’t even the only error that night, and were surprised that it got so much attention) and goes on to look at how the controversy unfolded inside Southern California’s Asi
  
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• Spain blocks export of painting thought to be a lost Caravaggio

  08-04-2021 15:18
  
  Crowning with Thorns was due to be sold by auction in Madrid on Thursday with guide price of €1,500Before it was pulled from sale, lot 229, a small but luminous oil painting of the scourged Christ attributed to the circle of the 17th century Spanish artist José de Ribera, was due to go under the hammer in Madrid on Thursday with a guide price of €1,500 (£1,300).Closer inspection, however, has raised suspicions that the Crowing with Thorns may be the rather more valuable wo
  
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• Spain blocks export of painting that could be a lost Caravaggio

  08-04-2021 15:18
  
  Crowning with Thorns was due to be sold by auction in Madrid on Thursday with guide price of €1,500Before it was pulled from sale, lot 229, a small but luminous oil painting of the scourged Christ attributed to the circle of the 17th-century Spanish artist José de Ribera, had been due to go under the hammer in Madrid on Thursday with a guide price of €1,500 (£1,300).Closer inspection, however, has raised suspicions that the Crowning with Thorns may be the rather more valua
  
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• Enormous Golden Modernist Mobile Removed From Lincoln Center Will Be Installed At LaGuardia Airport

  08-04-2021 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was a minor uproar in December when Lincoln Center announced that Richard Lippold’s Orpheus and Apollo, which had dangled in the multi-story upper atrium of Philharmonic Avery Fisher David Geffen Hall since the 1960s, had been removed as part of the venue’s renovation and would not be returning. Following a suggestion by former New York Times and New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger, the work will have a new home in the newly renovated Terminal B at LGA. – Goth
  
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• It’s 2021, And Italy Is Finally Abolishing Film Censorship

  08-04-2021 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It will now no longer be possible to block the release of a new film or demand edits for moral or religious reasons. Filmmakers will instead classify their own movies based on the age of the audience. Their decisions will be verified by a new commission made up of 49 members chosen from the film industry, but will be experts in education and animal rights.” – Yahoo! (AFP)
  
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• Protestors Occupying French Theatres Carefully Dance Through A Minefield

  08-04-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After trade union representatives in Paris entered the shuttered Odéon Theater, a movement to occupy playhouses spread rapidly. … Yet with the infection rate rising, the movement finds itself facing difficult options. Protesters can’t be seen to flout restrictions or draw large crowds, so there have been no impromptu plays or theatrical tableaux. … Yet public actions are needed to rally support. As a result, the occupiers have walked a fine, often awkward line
  
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• HCEP Creative Producer/s / Hertfordshire Cultural Education Partnership / East / Hertfordshire

  08-04-2021 13:06
  HCEP is Hertfordshire’s Cultural Education Partnership; represented by education providers, local authorities, cultural providers and other stakeholders. HCEP aims to enable children and young...
  
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• Commission Opportunity: Art Leading Wayfinding / Thame Town Council / South East

  08-04-2021 12:59
  We are seeking creative expressions of interest for a series of wayfinding markers across the Town. This commission should celebrate the heritage and history of Thame using the theme of...
  
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• Interpretation and Design Manager (1 Year FTC / 0.8 FTE) / ZSL / London

  08-04-2021 12:58
  We’re ZSL, an international conservation charity. Our vision is a world where wildlife thrives and we’re working every day to achieve this. From investigating the health threats facing...
  
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• Front of House / Pembroke House / London

  08-04-2021 12:36
  The Front of House position is a new role at Pembroke House, a dynamic, growing charity. We are making a number of changes to our operations and public welcome over the next two years. As part of...
  
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• Choir Manager - London / The Choir with No Name / London

  08-04-2021 12:20
  Our London choir manager will hold overall responsibility for facilitating our rehearsal, gig and workshop delivery in the capital. We are looking for an enthusiastic, entrepreneurial leader who...
  
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• Creative Support Worker / North Tyneside Art Studio / North East

  08-04-2021 12:04
  North Tyneside Art Studio (NTAS) is seeking a Creative Support Worker to join our team.  Here at NTAS we work with people experiencing a wide range of mental health issues.   We use...
  
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• Arts Development Officer x2 / Qube / West Midlands

  08-04-2021 12:00
  Two exciting opportunities have arisen at Qube-OCA to develop our expanding arts and creative programmes.
   
  You will bring demonstrable experience of success working in arts / creative...
  
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• Social Media Community Assistant / Boundless Theatre / London / Remote Working, UK Wide

  08-04-2021 11:34
  We’re looking for a Social Media Community Assistant to support us during the promotion of season two of our fiction podcast Radio Elusia, launching in Spring 2021.
  We are welcoming...
  
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• Marketing & Audience Associate / Boundless Theatre / London

  08-04-2021 11:32
  We are looking for an innovator, a passionate marketing and audience development expert and someone who wants to prove that 15-25 year olds can socialise and engage around theatre.  We’re...
  
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• Associate Producer (Creative Development) / Boundless Theatre / London

  08-04-2021 11:29
  We are looking for a highly organised, self-motivated and ideas driven producer to lead on the creative development of two Boundless Theatre commissions and to produce a series of in-progress...
  
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• Music Producer / Boundless Theatre / London

  08-04-2021 11:27
  We are looking for a highly organised, self-motivated and ideas driven Music Producer to lead on the creative development, delivery, and in-progress presentation of music / an EP for a Boundless...
  
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• Graphic design commission / Manchester Art Gallery - Platt Hall / North West

  08-04-2021 11:09
  Working in partnership with local residents, Platt Hall is seeking a graphic designer, or design team, to develop a new visual identity to engage residents and communities in the...
  
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• MAW2021 Volunteers: 25 - 27 June / Mayfair Art Weekend / London

  08-04-2021 10:16
  Calling for MAW2021 Volunteers 
   
  Are you passionate about the arts? Are you a sociable, enthusiastic art-lover? If so, we’d love to have you on our team! Please...
  
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• Supervisor / Cass Art / South West

  08-04-2021 10:14
  As a Supervisor in our Bristol store you will be working as part of the wider store management team assisting in operational excellence and sales growth. This role is also responsible for the day to...
  
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• ‘It’s going to be inspiring’: the Ghan’s transformation into a moving painting

  08-04-2021 08:53
  
  Australia’s famed continent-crossing train has received a colourful makeover at the hands of Arrernte artist Chantelle MulladadWhen painter Chantelle Mulladad saw her artwork Crossroads scaled up and wrapped in vibrant colour around three carriages of a world-famous train, she says she was “shaking”.Mulladad is an Arrernte woman from the remote Indigenous community of Ltyentye Apurte, where she works with the Keringke Art Centre that her mother co-founded. Related: The Ghan exp
  
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• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – Artistic Director, Ailey II

  08-04-2021 06:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Founded in 1958 by the pioneering dancer, choreographer, and cultural leader Alvin Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) has grown to become one of the world’s premier dance companies and the largest modern dance company in the country.Organization
  Founded in 1958 by the pioneering dancer, choreographer, and cultural leader Alvin Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) has grown to become one of the world’s premier dance companies and the largest modern dance co
  
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• Atlanta Ballet – Executive Director

  08-04-2021 06:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Atlanta Ballet is one of the premier and oldest dance companies in America and the official state ballet of Georgia.Organization
  Atlanta Ballet is one of the premier and oldest dance companies in America and the official state ballet of Georgia. Established in 1929 by dance visionary Dorothy Moses Alexander, Atlanta Ballet is currently led by Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin. A Bolshoi trained former principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet, Nedvigin was recruited to Atlanta Ballet in 2016 t
  
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• Survey: How Students Attitudes About Arts Education Are Changing In The COVID Era

  08-04-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Student responses show that their biggest concerns are the high cost of tuition for remote classes and the changes to their social lives on campus. But students interested in the arts say they have embraced the difficulties of virtual arts learning by pivoting to digital showcases, as well as platforms like Instagram and TikTok. – American Theatre
  
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