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• Tennessee Performing Arts Center seeks Vice President of Marketing & Communications

  06-02-2025 22:54 via artsjournal.com
  Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) values staff diversity and actively encourages people from a variety of backgrounds with different experiences, perspectives, skills, and stories to apply to advance our nonprofit mission and enrich our organizational culture. All staff will work with others throughout the organization to implement and exemplify policies as part of TPAC’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, access, and equity. TPAC is a nonprofit performing arts organization and cult
  
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• All About Screen Savers (Remember Those?)

  06-02-2025 21:02 via tedium.co
  
  “Today’s Tedium ponders the screen saver, including how we got it and what it represents today. The toasters are flying.” – Tedium
  
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• ‘Silence is a very obscure sound’: Christine Sun Kim on her sound art

  06-02-2025 19:54
  
  The artist’s new survey at the Whitney shows how she has found a way to create work involving sound as a deaf artist Existing somewhere in the overlap between the worlds of conceptual and representational art, Christine Sun Kim has developed a rich expressive language by examining the interesting questions around language, music and her personal expression as a deaf person. Informed by her experiences living in a world where most take the ability to hear for granted, Kim’s art is str
  
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• Monkeys, clowns and bottles hidden in Jackson Pollock’s paintings, study says

  06-02-2025 17:43
  
  New paper suggests abstract expressionist may have been unaware of the images because of his bipolar disorderMonkeys, clowns, self-portraits, elephants and bottles of alcohol are among the things that could be hidden within the work of Jackson Pollock, one of the giants of 20th-century abstract expressionism, according to new research.The American painter, who used a “drip technique” to pour or splash paint on to a horizontal surface, once said he stayed away from “any recognis
  
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• Museum turns up the dial on pioneering art collector Joséphine Bowes

  06-02-2025 17:03
  Frenchwoman ‘had a bigger role than we’ve ever made visible’, says curator at County Durham’s Bowes Museum“We would not be stood here if it were not for Joséphine Bowes,” said Vicky Sturrs, a curator, in a stupendously grand building that has one of the most enviable collections of art, ceramics and fashion to be found outside the UK’s capital cities. “I wouldn’t be employed in this job, this museum would not exist.”The Bowes Mus
  
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• Noah Davis review – thrilling strangeness from a painter brimming with ideas and adventure

  06-02-2025 11:05
  
  Barbican, LondonFrom Egyptian mythology to the bear pit of reality TV, this show captures a mere eight years of dazzling work from the restless American who lit up LA before dying at the age of 32A kid is being spanked across his mother’s lap, his face all scream and indignation. She’s blowing out her cheek with the effort and the wallpaper stripes march by as regular as her slaps. She’s looking out at us from the picture and her one hand raised could almost be waving hello. Ev
  
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• The British Council will trash a precious national asset if it sells its art collection

  06-02-2025 09:55
  
  Plans being considered to put on sale 9,000 works owned collectively by the public place a vital cultural asset in jeopardyLast month we all saw striking images of Emmanuel Macron standing in front of the Mona Lisa to announce plans for the major renovation of the Louvre. France is immensely proud of its national collection. The Louvre “renaissance” will cost an estimated €700-800m (£583-£666m). The five-year renovation of the Pompidou Centre, housing an extensive mo
  
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• John Lyons: ‘Painting is an adventure in creative uncertainty’

  06-02-2025 09:00
  For decades, the Trinidadian artist has used the folkloric imagery of his homeland to examine notions of identity. As a new exhibition of his work opens, the 91-year-old says he is too busy moving forward to look backAs a child growing up in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1930s and 40s, John Lyons’ imagination was electrified by his homeland’s folklore, beliefs and rituals. There was the jumbie-owl, a ghost bird or harbinger of death, who flew between the world of spirits and the living,
  
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• ‘He wanted to have a wing of the Tate named after him’: remembering the groundbreaking art of Donald Rodney

  06-02-2025 09:00
  
  A new show celebrates the pioneering, polemical artist who inspired a generation of Black British creatives – and whose works are as relevant today as they’ve ever beenFor many reasons, 1981 stands as a landmark year in Black British history. That January, the New Cross Fire claimed the lives of 13 young Black people. Amid widespread suspicion that the fire had been a targeted attack by violent racists, the police concluded otherwise after a lacklustre investigation. In April came th
  
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