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• British artist Sonia Boyce wins Golden Lion at Venice Biennale

  23-04-2022 22:43
  
  Winning piece, Feeling Her Way, described as ‘perfect selection for this time in UK history’ British artist Sonia Boyce won the Venice Biennales’ top Golden Lion prize with her work Feeling Her Way, which combined video, collage, music and sculpture. Boyce is the first black woman to represent the UK.Her work features videos of five black female musicians who improvise and play with their voices. “The rooms of the [British] pavilion are filled with sounds – sometime
  
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• Washington (Double)Crossing the Delaware: Christie’s Offers “The Other Version” of the Met’s Iconic Work

  23-04-2022 19:11 via artsjournal.com
  I did a double-take when this Christie’s press release hit my inbox yesterday morning, seeming to indicate (until I
  
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• Lynn Tuttle talks about the importance of diverse repertoire

  23-04-2022 18:02 via artsjournal.com
  Lynn Tuttle, Executive Director and CEO of the American String Teachers Association, shares about the importance of providing a breadth of diverse repertoire to our nation’s string students.
  
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• Antony Gormley: ‘I’m inviting people to explore the conditions of their own living’

  23-04-2022 14:00
  
  His towering figures have made him the UK’s most famous sculptor. Now, in two new works, the artist is reckoning with the very essence of time and spaceAntony Gormley has hurt his knee, which is a pain in more ways than one. He’s due in Italy in a few days’ time, to install the second of two new shows, and time is too short to be hopping around on crutches. His office is up a flight of external stairs, which are made of metal and get slippery in the rain, so he won’t be c
  
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• A new Scumb Manifesto: the woman who’s reworking the photography canon

  23-04-2022 14:00
  
  Photographer Justine Kurland has sliced and collaged images from 150 renowned books by white male photographers from Brassaï to Stephen Shore. She explains whyValerie Solanas is famous for two things: shooting Andy Warhol and writing the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, perhaps the most wilfully outrageous radical feminist polemic. Initially self-published and sold by her on the streets of New York in 1967, it called upon “responsible, thrill-seeking females to overthrow t
  
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• ‘The bird was complete luck’: Josh Edgoose’s best phone picture

  23-04-2022 11:00
  
  The London-based photographer on his serendipitous avian encounter when capturing a plane and a fleeting rainbowPhotographer Josh Edgoose has always tried to capture “moments that feel a bit strange”. Until recently, photography was a hobby, and when lockdown first hit, he was limited to the area surrounding his home in Hounslow, London, for inspiration.“We live under a flight path, so planes go by every 10 minutes or so,” Edgoose says. “This beautiful rainbow appea
  
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• The artists of Ukraine find their voice in a cry of resistance

  23-04-2022 09:00
  
  Like many of their compatriots, many had to abandon their homes and work, but now they are using their talent to fight backRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesMore than 200 years after Francisco Goya commemorated Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s armies in The Third of May 1808, his groundbreaking work on the horrors of war, Ukrainian painters, illustrators and cartoonists are trying to find an artistic expression as Russian bombs fall on their country.Like other Ukrainians, many artists had
  
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• Retail Supervisor (Part-Time), Kennedy Center

  23-04-2022 07:50 via artsjournal.com
  Job Description:The Retail Supervisor provides leadership, training, direction and coaching to staff, and is actively involved in all functions related to daily retail operations and sales for Kennedy Center retail shops and and pop-ups.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Maximize store sales, and achieve sales and profit goals.Train, mentor and coach sales associates, assistant supervisor, sales lead(s) and openers/closers.Assist with staff recruitment and hiring.Measure and monitor sales pro
  
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• Assistant to the VP & Executive Producer of Theater, Kennedy Center

  23-04-2022 07:47 via artsjournal.com
  Job Description:This position will be responsible for providing project and administrative support to the Vice President & Executive Producer of Theater. The position requires an individual who will represent the Center in a professional and congenial manner in person, on the phone and in written correspondence. The duties will be administrative and project-based and include meeting coordination; organizing and compiling meeting materials; calendar oversight; preparing reports and correspond
  
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• Artistic Director- Artists Repertory Theatre

  23-04-2022 07:45 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryReporting to the Board as a co-leader with the Executive Director, the Artistic Director will provide an artistic vision and strategic direction that embraces ART’s long-standing commitment to new works and intimate, provocative community-engaged theater that ventures beyond the mainstream. This dynamic artist, who may be a stage director or active in their own artistic work in another aspect of production, will be dedicated to the concept of ensemble and embedding diversit
  
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• From The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent to Grace and Frankie: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  23-04-2022 07:00
  
  Whether you fancy a wild trip through the Nic Cage metaverse or a calming comedy for the over-70s, our critics can help you schedule the next seven daysThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
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  Strap on your metafiction goggles as Nicolas Cage plays fading star Nick Cage in a postmodern spoof of the kinds of action adventures that made his name. Tiffany Haddish is also along for the ride as the CIA agent recruiting the fictionalised version of Cage in a mission to save his loved ones and h
  
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• A Russian-less Venice Biennale Is Different

  23-04-2022 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  While the cool contemporary art crowd strolled among the exhibits, Ukraine was being pummeled by missiles, and there was hardly a Russian in sight. But curators, collectors, dealers and artists were staging plenty of events to support Ukraine, and a passionate personal address by Ukraine’s president. – The New York Times
  
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