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• Margaret Keane obituary

  12-07-2022 19:14
  
  Artist whose popular paintings of wide-eyed children were promoted by her husband as his own workMargaret Keane, who has died aged 94, was one of the world’s most popular artists. Her paintings of children whose big eyes seemed to express a fearful innocence and vulnerability were so popular that they were hung in museums and galleries across the world, generated endless publicity and spawned an industry of countless reproductions. At the height of her success, in the mid-1960s, they also
  
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• Lads Not on Tour review – Barnsley quartet purge their demons

  12-07-2022 12:53
  
  The Civic, Barnsley
  Unemployment, addiction and piles of bodies … four artist friends exorcise the excesses of their past in a show that goes from cocaine-fuelled carnage to hopeLads Not on Tour at Barnsley Civic is going nowhere. That is to say, it is stationary, static, inward-looking – train tickets out are rolled up and tossed into a pile, mobile phones are smashed into oblivion and the re-creation of an inviting sitting room pulls me in, tells me to sit awhile. The Barnsley-bor
  
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• Killer heels and dancehall queens: Brent biennial brings queer cheer to a brutal city

  12-07-2022 12:25
  
  Given the title In the House of My Love, the London borough’s second biennial is a celebration of home, boasting a Jamaican takeaway, a reggae choir and a group of young queer friends bonding in precarious timesLocal museums can only dream of the audience appeal achieved by artist Linett Kamala’s exhibition Disya Dancehall. Kamala has taken over the defunct Cod’s Plaice fish and chip shop opposite Kilburn station in north London and hung it with her paintings of the area’
  
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• Wild waves, perfect pipes: Milton Avery, inventor of abstract America – review

  12-07-2022 11:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  As this brilliant exhibition shows, Avery was an experimental dreamer whose sublime landscapes and beach scenes paved the way for Rothko, Pollock and NewmanIt doesn’t take long to start seeing the Rothkos hidden in Milton Avery’s beach scenes and landscapes. They loom as eerie empty vistas of sea and sky, turning what seem to be figurative compositions into abstract masterpieces. Man With a Pipe, for instance, is a deliberately bizarre scene painted in 1935. But
  
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• Music that changes the world – one catacomb at a time

  12-07-2022 05:15 via artsjournal.com
  Music – it is often said – is about one thing: Music. It only conveys itself. But it has magical adhesive qualities when in the company of words, ideas, subtexts, which is why the classical world has evolved into a medium for social justice. If the Supreme Court won’t stand up for saving the planet, the composers will – but with an abstraction that, in its best instances, hits the gut rather than the brain.
  The most surprising development, for me, is how the text of the R
  
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• Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, New York City Center

  12-07-2022 02:59 via artsjournal.com
  Company Overview:
  New York City Center has played a defining role in the cultural life of the city since 1943—making the best in the music, theater, and dance accessible to all audiences. Championed by a staff of passionate arts lovers, this commitment continues through celebrated dance and musical theater series including the Fall for Dance Festival, the Tony-honored Encores!, and the newest series Artists at the Center and City Center Dance Festival. The distinctive neo-Moorish theater i
  
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• Deputy Director, Arts & Business Council of Miami

  12-07-2022 02:51 via artsjournal.com
  The Arts & Business Council of Miami is seeking a Deputy Director to become a member of the organization’s leadership team to advance our mission and goals. We are searching for an experienced and dynamic visionary candidate with exceptional and proven fundraising and leadership skills.The Arts & Business Council is leading the movement to build a sustainable cultural ecosystem in Miami-Dade County through advancing high-impact partnerships between business, entrepreneurs and the a
  
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• She Came As A Last-Minute Replacement Conductor. Two Months Later, She’s That Orchestra’s Music Director

  12-07-2022 00:02 via kentucky.com
  
  On a Tuesday in May, just arrived in town, Mélisse Brunet started rehearsing the Lexington Philharmonic in Kentucky for the season’s final concert.  By Thursday, musicians were texting the board president about how good she is.  By Friday, the whole search committee was watching rehearsal.  And now … – Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader
  
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