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• Sandy Elliott obituary

  21-04-2021 19:07
  
  As a teacher of art in Herefordshire schools, my friend and colleague Sandy Elliott, who has died aged 71, encouraged her pupils to become more than they felt they could be and many owe the development of their careers to this early encouragement.However, her talent for inspiring the young was not confined to the classroom. She was also a formidable fencing coach as well as an excellent fencer herself, and led teams from school at national and international level. Continue reading...
  
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• Kristy Edmunds On The Moral Imperative/Opportunity Of Continuing

  21-04-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How do you support artist relief, raise money, how do you help people still feel like they haven’t disappeared? It has been a huge effort. When I posited the idea of how best to create continuity with what we have in a rapid economic decline, [the answer was not], “Why don’t we just stop because everything stopped?” No, we have a moral obligation, and that’s a gift.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Ballet In America Is Having A COVID-Induced Baby Boom

  21-04-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A career in ballet lasts only as long as a dancer’s body does. If they’re lucky, dancers can perform into their 30s — or in rare cases, into their 40s. When every season counts, taking time off to get pregnant, give birth, and recover is daunting. … [But since] they were already losing valuable career time to COVID-19. Why not have a baby now and avoid another major career disruption?” – Glamour
  
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• Why Is Howard University Closing Its Classics Department?

  21-04-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amid a move for educational “prioritization,” Howard University is dissolving its classics department. Tenured faculty will be dispersed to other departments, where their courses can still be taught. But the university has sent a disturbing message by abolishing the department. – Washington Post
  
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• The Tech That Lets Opera Singers Rehearse With Accompanists Remotely

  21-04-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Says San Francisco Opera general director Matthew Shilvock of the platform, called Aloha, “It allows a singer and a pianist to essentially be in the digital space together making real-time music — which is just transformational for us. A pianist can now hear a singer breathe, and that may sound very basic, but those breath cues are the things that allow the pianist to really mold their sounds to what the singer is doing.” – Fast Company
  
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• Harriet Tubman’s Lost Family Home Discovered In Maryland

  21-04-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The site, on land recently added to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore, includes ten acres that Tubman’s father, Ben Ross, was given when he was freed. What’s been discovered are the remains of Ross’s cabin, where he brought his wife (whose freedom he purchased) and sheltered Harriet, when she was aged 17 to 22, and several of her siblings who were still enslaved. – The Washington Post
  
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• Chicago Says It Will Spend $60 Million On Arts Throughout City

  21-04-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The initiative, called Arts 77 (referring to Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods), takes in multiple programs spread over several departments of the municipal government. Along with plans to bring performance and visual work to parks, libraries, and other neighborhood locations, Arts 77 will see the annual budget for public art rise from $100,000 to $3 million — with an extra $3.5 million dedicated to artworks for the international terminal under construction at O’Hare Airport. –
  
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• Richard Wright, Who’s Been Dead For 60 Years, Has A New Novel Coming Out

  21-04-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In July 1941, Richard Wright, then America’s leading Black author, began writing the novel he felt was his masterpiece. Written ‘at white heat,’ … The Man Who Lived Underground was drafted in just six frenzied months. … Following a crushing rejection from Wright’s publisher and a truncated publication as a short story, the novel was shelved for eighty years — until now.” – Esquire
  
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• Chiefs Of ‘The Gold Standard Of Art Film Studios’ Retire After 21 Years

  21-04-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley have been at the helm of Searchlight Pictures since the turn of the millennium, and one could argue that the films they’ve produced have (as Brooks Barnes puts it here) “shaped global culture.” They’ve won four Best Picture Oscars in the past dozen years (for Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman, and The Shape of Water); if Nomadland wins this Sunday, that will make five. – The New York Times
  
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• With The Castros Gone, Will The Arts In Cuba Be Any Freer?

  21-04-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since Raúl Castro’s government had recently had another period of censoring art and arresting artists, there’s some hope — off the island, at least — that there might be a Khrushchev-style cultural thaw coming. In Cuba itself, not so much: “Nothing has changed,” says one artist, “nor does there seem to be a will for change within the new leadership.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Entire Board Of New Zealand’s National Organization For Museums Resigns

  21-04-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The entire board of Museums Aotearoa has abruptly quit after concerns about its governance and management. The organisation’s remaining executive director, Phillipa Tocker, is refusing to comment on the situation, despite being implicated in a report that the board resigned over ‘fundamental disagreements’ with her.” – Stuff (New Zealand)
  
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• ‘When I paint, all the voices in my head go still’: Juliet Stevenson on how art got her through lockdown

  21-04-2021 07:00
  
  Painting has helped one of Britain’s most revered actors survive Covid restrictions and the loss of a child. We join the actor for an art class that never quite happensIf you go down to the woods today, you may just come across Juliet Stevenson dangling from a branch, fumbling to photograph the light falling through a caterpillar hole on a particularly disobliging leaf, with her partner Hugh chuckling, resigned, as yet another quick stroll turns into a day trip. Upside down Juliet Stevenso
  
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