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10m ago ( June 4, 2020 at 2:01 PM ) “Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, told the press [last week] that he thought many religious works of art currently in Italy’s museums and stores should be returned to the churches from which they came. … This idea is part of the Uffizi’s reaction to the coronavirus crisis, in which it is thinking about diversification and the distribution of its works of art in order to create a ‘wider’ [diffuso] museum beyond the immediate premises of the gallery.” – The Art Newspa... Tags: VISUAL, 06.03.20
1h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 1:05 PM ) Believe it or not, writes Dr. Jin Lee, it was a by-product of the First Opium War, after which Shanghai turned from a little river town into a huge, prosperous international port city. – Literary Hub Tags: Art, Shanghai, Words, Jin Lee, 06.02.20, Shanghai Become China57 people like this. Like
2h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 12:02 PM ) “Last week in [a small] city in eastern France, the residents and staff of a nursing home watched from a safe distance — some from windows and balconies — as five actors appeared in the building’s courtyard in front of a makeshift red curtain” to perform Cabaret sous les balcons (“Cabaret Under the Balconies”). “While most live events in Europe and the United States remain on forced hiatus, the relief of the cast was palpable as they performed.” – The New York Times Tags: Art, Europe, France, Theatre, United States, 06.04.2073 people like this. Like
1h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 12:31 PM ) The clap serves the same purpose as the clapperboard used on TV and movie sets. You, too, will be editing the audio and video separately; the clap creates a visual and sonic marker that helps you realign the two later. It also lets you align all the players’ videos with each other. Tags: Art, Music, 06.03.2062 people like this. Like
4h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 10:01 AM ) “Frank Almond, concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony for the last 25 years, has stepped down from his role. The violinist originally announced last year that this would be his last season with the orchestra, but, owing to the coronavirus lockdown, he has been forced to leave it incomplete.” – The Strad Tags: Art, Music, Frank Almond, Milwaukee Symphony, 06.04.20, Milwaukee Symphony Retires137 people like this. Like
3h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 10:33 AM ) “There’s a long-running adage about working for free in the performing arts. ‘The problem with working for exposure,’ it goes, ‘is you can die from exposure’.” With arts companies all over the world pouring free content onto the web as their venues are closed during the pandemic, creative industries scholar Caitlin Vincent issues a warning. – The Conversation Tags: Art, Issues, Audience, Caitlin Vincent, 06.03.2064 people like this. Like
3h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 11:04 AM ) “After weeks of planning, registration is now underway for the UBC Virtual Competition Experience, which will run from June 12–14. The competition is two-fold: Participants will submit videos to be played during the livestream and judged, and they will have the chance to participate in master classes via Zoom, and receive comments and corrections in real time.” – Pointe Magazine Tags: Art, Dance, UBC, 06.02.20143 people like this. Like
2h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 11:31 AM ) According to ICOM, out of the 1,600 international museums that were surveyed, 13 percent reported that they had plans to close permanently, and another 19.2 percent said the future of their museums were uncertain. As for the museums that reported they would open their doors again, 83 percent said that they would reopen with reduced programming. – Travel and Leisure Tags: Art, Visual, ICOM, 06.01.20138 people like this. Like
5h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 8:34 AM ) “Artistic director Thierry Frémaux picked a total of 56 films for the Cannes 2020 selection, many of which had planned to premiere on the Croisette. Instead, they will now screen at different partner festivals around the world. The titles will be gathered together in a single list, not split up into the traditional festival categories of competition, Un Certain Regard, out of competition, Midnight Screenings, and special screenings. There is no competition, no jury and no prizes will be awarded... Tags: Art, Media, Thierry Fremaux, 06.03.2064 people like this. Like
4h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 9:35 AM ) “Grist, a 20-year-old nonprofit online magazine that focuses on climate and environmental coverage, has taking full ownership of all the assets of what’s left of Pacific Standard, an award-winning magazine that closed in 2019.” – Axios Tags: Art, Words, Pacific, 06.02.20, Pacific Standard Magazine Now103 people like this. Like
6h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 8:03 AM ) It’ll be to an empty house, though; social distancing isn’t over yet. The Live from Covent Garden series, streamed over the Royal Opera House’s YouTube and Facebook pages, begins on June 13 with a program including a brand-new dance by Royal Ballet resident choreographer Wayne McGregor and music by Handel, Britten, Butterworth and Turnage sung by Royal Opera soloists Louise Alder, Toby Spence, and Gerald Finley. – London Evening Standard Tags: Art, Facebook, Music, London, Dance, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Wayne McGregor, Turnage, Royal Opera, Gerald Finley, 06.03.20, Handel Britten Butterworth, Louise Alder Toby Spence82 people like this. Like
5h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 9:02 AM ) “In an Instagram statement that explicitly mentioned the Black Lives Matter movement and Floyd’s death, the museum wrote, ‘The Walker will no longer contract the services of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) for special events until the MPD implements meaningful change by demilitarizing training programs, holding officers accountable for the use of excessive force, and treating communities of color with dignity and respect. Enough is enough.'” – ARTnews Tags: Art, Minneapolis, Visual, Floyd, Walker, MPD, Minneapolis Police Department MPD, 06.03.20148 people like this. Like
10h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 4:00 AM ) Of all the work that made Christo and Jeanne-Claude the most famous installation artists of the past fifty years, none still exists. If you wanted to see the Reichstag wrapped in silver fabric, you'd have to have been in Berlin in the summer of 1995. If you wanted to see Central Park threaded with Shinto shrine-style gates, you'd have to have been in New York in the winter of 2005. If you wanted to see an enormous Mesopotamian mastaba made out of 7,506 oil barrels, you'd have to have bee... Tags: Google, Art, Facebook, New York, London, College, Berlin, World, Paris, Seoul, Central Park, Christo, Facebook Twitter, School of Life, Colin Marshall, Beautiful San Francisco73 people like this. Like
10h ago ( June 4, 2020 at 4:10 AM ) The artists shares how his practice has evolved: initially he was an oil painter, but now he works in mixed media, marrying painting with collage
The post The Portfolio: Neo Matloga appeared first on The Mail & Guardian. Tags: Art, Collage, Painting, Drawing, Amsterdam, Friday, Portraits, Portfolio, Black Collages, Neo Matloga102 people like this. Like
21h ago ( June 3, 2020 at 4:33 PM ) Executives’ job descriptions are changing under their feet, requiring skills in handling not only a global health crisis but also issues of racial equity. – The New York Times Tags: Art, Issues, 06.03.2071 people like this. Like
21h ago ( June 3, 2020 at 5:06 PM ) Amid mass demonstrations against structural racism spurred by George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis, Minn., activist-created book lists have been widely shared across social media for would-be allies to educate themselves on white privilege, systemic racism and the history of being black in America. Sales of such titles have spiked in recent days, and retailers are trying to meet the demand, with orders for some titles jumping fivefold from a week prior. – CBC Tags: Art, America, Words, Minneapolis Minn, George Floyd, 06.03.20108 people like this. Like
22h ago ( June 3, 2020 at 4:05 PM ) Now, at most 450 people at one time are allowed in the Uffizi’s many galleries, chock full of some of the art world’s greatest masterpieces. – Washington Post Tags: Art, Europe, Audience, Visual121 people like this. Like
20h ago ( June 3, 2020 at 5:58 PM ) French art institutions—including the Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Grand Palais—revealed this week that they are planning to welcome visitors again in June and July. Some museums in Germany and Italy, with the Haus der Kunst in Munich and Galleria Borghese in Rome among them, reopened in May. – ARTnews Tags: Art, Germany, Rome, Munich, Italy, Louvre, Visual, Galleria Borghese, Grand Palais, Musee D'Orsay, 06.03.2095 people like this. Like
20h ago ( June 3, 2020 at 5:29 PM ) The fund comes amid backlash against entertainment companies that have shared messages of support for the Black Lives Matter movement on social media, without putting actions behind their words. – Los Angeles Times Tags: Art, Music, Black Lives Matter, Warner Music Group, 06.03.2054 people like this. Like
June 3, 2020 at 2:02 PM “Short as it is, [Jamar Roberts’s] video, Cooped, released last week, is one of the most powerful artistic responses yet to the Covid-19 crisis. And as that crisis changes shape, as the anxiety over disease and confinement is compounded by violence and protest, the resonance of the work only expands.” – The New York Times Tags: Art, Dance, Jamar Roberts, George Floyd, 06.02.2068 people like this. Like
23h ago ( June 3, 2020 at 2:31 PM ) A couple of architects are 3D printing using organic materials – a project to support coral reef restoration via protective clay ‘coral seeding units’, and a prototype cabin built from ceramic and sawdust tiles to help solve California’s affordable housing crisis. – Aeon Tags: Art, California, Ideas, 05.28.2062 people like this. Like
23h ago ( June 3, 2020 at 2:55 PM ) In a striking departure from their customary reluctance to take strong political stands that would alienate some visitors, art museums around the country, speaking separately but with one voice, responded to the asphyxiation of George Floyd. – Lee Rosenbaum Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 06.03.2076 people like this. Like
23h ago ( June 3, 2020 at 3:03 PM ) “[She] first became known in Cambridge when she started selling her photos in a pushcart in Harvard Square. When police tried to chase her away, [her husband], a civil rights attorney, successfully argued that photographs are not ordinary merchandise that required a peddler’s license but were an intellectual product protected by the First Amendment. … Far from a pushcart, at the height of her career a 20-by-24 inch Polaroid portrait by Dorfman cost thousands of dollars.” – WBUR (Boston) Tags: Art, People, Cambridge, Polaroid, Harvard Square, Dorfman, Elsa Dorfman, 05.31.2067 people like this. Like
22h ago ( June 3, 2020 at 3:31 PM ) “I don’t understand the point of asking people who were already posting non-stop about George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and protests and racism and police brutality and links to financial and community resources and anti-racist reading guides to pause all of that just to fill their timelines with…black squares. And now our “protest” is the same protest as the San Fran Fucking 49ers’s protest? If the point of the campaign was to do literally the opposite of what it was intended to do, mission acc... Tags: Art, Issues, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, 06.03.20133 people like this. Like
June 3, 2020 at 1:04 PM “‘I can’t make my characters exist without interaction,” [one novelist] says. ‘While, for instance, I can edit out cheek kisses because this may no longer seem the norm, my characters need to meet, to row, to fight, to make love – and in a thriller, to murder. There will be insufficiently little exciting plot, in other words, if they can’t interact as they did pre-Covid.'” – The Guardian Tags: Art, Words, 06.01.20101 people like this. Like
June 3, 2020 at 1:31 PM The absence of a tactile literary culture—one that happens in real time rather than on a screen—meant an uncomfortable cultural silence. And yet, during early morning walks through an empty city in April, paying attention in a wholly new way, I became acutely aware of being surrounded by literature, of how it manifests on many of Washington’s streets in the places where writers once wrote and lived, their words etched in stone. – VQR Tags: Art, Washington, Words, Summer 2020136 people like this. Like
June 3, 2020 at 12:01 PM “Hoffman was one of the first book retailers to employ aggressive marketing techniques in the service of creating mass market bookselling. Despite occasional criticism from authors and publishers that Walden emphasized the sales of commercial books over more literary ones, Hoffman never backed down on his belief that more books should be published with mass appeal.” – Publishers Weekly Tags: Art, People, Walden, Hoffman, 05.29.20, Harry Hoffman116 people like this. Like
June 3, 2020 at 12:28 PM What then can we expect of the contemporary artistic community by way of helping us digest this experience of physical confinement and anxiety? Some have already shared their creations during confinement through social media. – The Art Newspaper Tags: Art, Issues, 06.02.2059 people like this. Like
June 3, 2020 at 11:31 AM “Without the availability of insurance policies to cover future COVID-19 risks, most production in Canada will not resume. A government-backstopped insurance program will provide confidence to the marketplace, encouraging insurers to offer COVID-19 coverage, allowing producers to purchase policies, and ultimately allowing Canada’s production sector to re-open, once it is safe to do so.” – Variety Tags: Art, Media, Canada, 06.02.20116 people like this. Like
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