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• ‘Mud-dipped masterpiece’: a creative approach to carbon farming conversations

  02-04-2022 22:00
  
  An annual pilgrimage of city artists into country NSW combines creativity and science to highlight the importance of healthy waterwaysOn a rainy day 50km west of Moree in north-west New South Wales, Brisbane artist Jane Milburn navigates through the sinking black soil quintessential to this farming region.Pure white cotton material is draped over her shoulder, the only thing to set her Driza-bone apart against the brown backdrop. With a flourish, she lays it down, painting the fabric with the mu
  
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• Stitching together a darker side of cartoon images – in pictures

  02-04-2022 18:00
  
  American artist Peter Frederiksen grew up on Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. ‘Every Saturday morning was spent watching Warner Bros cartoons with my father,’ he says. He now uses these images in his embroideries ‘because they’re instantly familiar, but for that same reason they can be made unexpected.’His work is surprisingly abstract and unsettling. ‘My main themes revolve around fears, uncertainty and expectation. These works deal with things most people experien
  
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• ‘I’d never noticed the icon before’: Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar’s best phone picture

  02-04-2022 11:00
  
  A surreal image taken in MoscowWhen Arthur Bondar came out of the metro station near Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre, he was heading to a book fair. Besides his work as a photographer, he collects second world war negatives, and there was a catalogue of work by the war photographer Olga Ignatovich he was excited to see. It was early afternoon in Moscow, a relatively mild December day of around -5 or -10C.“I was approaching Nikolskaya Street, which is usually packed with tourists, locals and
  
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• From The Bad Guys to Let’s Eat Grandma: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  02-04-2022 07:00
  
  Whether it’s an animated heist caper you’re after, or a dose of swirling art-pop, our critics have your plans for the next seven days coveredThe Bad Guys
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  You’re familiar with this format, which pops up in everything from Armageddon to The Suicide Squad: a bunch of dubious ne’er-do-wells must band together and do good for a bit. Riffing on heist movies in the same way that Shrek riffed on fairytales, there’s enough in this animated comedy to keep parents as w
  
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• Opera Lafayette Director of Development Job Posting

  02-04-2022 06:30 via artsjournal.com
  Opera Lafayette, one of the foremost interpreters of Baroque Opera, seeks a highly qualified Director of Development to fulfill Opera Lafayette’s cultivation, stewardship and contributed revenue goals. Reporting to the Managing Director and working in partnership with a dedicated board of directors, the Director of Development will establish and grow relationships at all levels with individual donors, and institutional and government funders.
  The successful candidate will be a strong opera
  
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• Development Coordinator-Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University

  02-04-2022 06:28 via artsjournal.com
  Summary of Duties:The Development Coordinator is responsible for creating meaningful experiences for members and donors while raising funds to sustain core museum activities including exhibitions, education initiatives and public programs. The Development Coordinator is directly responsible for providing support for the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) on all fundraising initiatives with emphasis on meeting the team’s development goals. The Development Coordinator is responsible for t
  
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• Lincoln Center seeks Vice President, Education

  02-04-2022 06:24 via artsjournal.com
  Lincoln Center welcomes applications and nominations for the position of Vice President, Education, available in the Spring of 2022.Lincoln Center EducationEducation has been central to the mission of Lincoln Center since its founding more than sixty years ago. Initially focused on providing students with the opportunity to experience live performance, Lincoln Center first created a Council on Educational Programs to encourage collaboration and cooperation among its constituents in developing e
  
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• Director of Development – Goodspeed Musicals

  02-04-2022 06:19 via artsjournal.com
  The Director of Development will lead the planning and execution of all fundraising efforts to achieve sustainable growth from government, foundations, major gifts, individuals, corporate, and events. The Director will be a critical member of the Leadership Team working alongside the Artistic and Managing Directors.Currently, Goodspeed Musicals has an operating budget is $11.5M. Contributed revenue currently represents 20-30% of the annual operating budget, with the aim of bringing this per
  
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• TikTok Investigates (Or Its Users Do, And It Isn’t Pretty)

  02-04-2022 00:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  In just the past half year, TikTok mobs have dived headlong into engagement-baiting investigations of recent murders, online “pedophile rings,” and the legitimacy of popular creators’ neurological or psychiatric conditions. – The Atlantic
  
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