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• Statues & Statutes: Feisty Cleveland Museum Fights Back in Dispute with Manhattan DA

  28-10-2023 21:42 via artsjournal.com
  I did a double-take when I saw this image (below) of a bronze statue that the museum-raiding Manhattan District
  
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• Jonathan Martin talks about how orchestras serve their communities

  28-10-2023 16:56 via artsjournal.com
  Jonathan Martin, President & CEO of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, talks about leading an orchestra in service to its community.
  
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• Typist Artist Pirate King review: warm-hearted portrait of outsider artist Audrey Amiss

  28-10-2023 16:00
  
  Carol Morley’s fictionalised portrait of an overlooked British artist is generous to its subject but disjointed as a filmCinema has an enduring fascination with troubled creatives. Films such as The Electrical Life of Louis Wain and Séraphine draw us into the overheated imaginations of their artist subjects; Alex Ross Perry’s jarring Her Smell probes the battle-scarred psyche of a drug-addled rock musician by placing us, uncomfortably, in her head. But Carol Morley’s fic
  
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• ‘Just as I reached the car, the woman appeared in her red coat’: Stéphane Arnaud’s best phone picture

  28-10-2023 11:00
  
  The French photographer on an inspired, instinctive moment on a street in Portugal‘That fraction of a second in which everything happens at once? That’s what this photo is all about,” Stéphane Arnaud says. The global photo editor-in-chief for Agence France-Presse was in the Portuguese city of Coimbra for work, walking up a whitewashed street, when his eye was drawn to the red central caps on this car’s wheels.“They were the only brightly coloured element on t
  
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• No one can draw from life like David Hockney – but more than ever are trying

  28-10-2023 09:00
  
  Growing numbers of hobbyists are attempting to emulate the artist and capture the truths of the human body at life drawing classes David Hockney draws better than anyone else alive today. There may be other fine painters around, but on paper, with charcoal, ink pen or even crayons in hand, he is incomparable. So of course his retrospective of portraits on paper opening this week at the National Portrait Gallery is called Drawing from Life.Hockney has always had a deceptively simple and absolutel
  
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• Five Nights at Freddy’s to Garth Marenghi: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  28-10-2023 07:00
  
  No time for trick or treat? Try pizza with a side order of murder in Josh Hutcherson’s new film, or go into your dark place in the company of Matthew Holness’s awful horror authorFive Nights at Freddy’s
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  Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) stars as hapless security guard Mike in this horror from director Emma Tammi, based on the video game in which animatronic mascots at the now-abandoned Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza parlour come to life and kill anyone they find lurking
  
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• EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE AND CULTURE

  28-10-2023 01:29 via artsjournal.com
  Competition number: J1023-1165
  Department: People and Culture
  Status: Full-Time continuing
  Hours: Monday to Friday
  Annual/hourly salary: $154,300 – $192,800 (position with benefits and pension plan)
  Closing date: November 26, 2023
  Anticipated start date: March 4, 2024Introducing the National Arts Centre
  The National Arts Centre (NAC) is a unique and vibrant workplace that includes artists, musicians, chefs, stagehands, box office employees, trades people, fundraisers, marketing and communi
  
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