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One day at Disney : meet the people who make the magic across the globe
On a Thursday in 2019, photographers and videographers in locations across the globe captured what goes on in the Disney empire. All the photos in the book were taken on that one day, beginning early in Tokyo and following the sun around the world through Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris, Madrid, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, and dozens of places throughout the United States, ending in Hawaii. The photographs and text in this large volume cover actors, anchors, designers, hosts, artists, theme park employees, executives and more.
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Contemporary identities of creativity and creative work
Creative workers have been celebrated internationally for their flexibility in new labour markets centred on culture, creativity and, most recently, innovation. This book draws on research with novice and established workers in a range of specializations in order to explore the meanings, aspirations and practical difficulties associated with a creative identification. It investigates the difficulties and attractions of creative work as a personalized, affect-laden project of self-making, perpetually open and oriented to possibility, uncertain in its trajectory or rewards. Employing a cross-disciplinary methodology and analytic approach, the book investigates the new cultural meanings in play around a creative career. It shows how classic ideals of design and the creative arts, re-interpreted and promoted within contemporary art schools, validate the lived experience of precarious working in the global sectors of the creative and cultural industries, yet also contribute to its conflicts. 'Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work' presents a distinctive study and original findings which make it essential reading for social scientists, including social psychologists, with an interest in cultural and media studies, creativity, identity, work and contemporary careers.
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The tontine caper
Eleven-year-old Nico lives as an unpaid servent and virtual prisoner at the Precipice Inn in the Pocono Mountains, whose innkeeper he believes killed his artist grandfather--until the surviving members of a tontine check in for a meeting.
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Narva Art Residency: Engaging With the Border Town Through the Artist's Gaze
Restructuring of the economy and neoliberal reforms disproportionately affected the Russian-speaking minority in terms of unemployment and poverty5, while Estonia's post-Soviet identity politics pushed the Russophone population out of the public sphere and politics6, causing many of them to distrust the Estonian state and government7. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, conflict-seeking journalists have extensively covered the contrasting opinions of the local people regarding the aggression, re-enforcing a language-based dualism of 'us' and 'them'. Established in 2015 in the post-industrial Kreenholm district, in the impressive residence of a 19th-century director of the Kreenholm Textile Factory,8 the artist-in-residency institution has evolved into one of the most active cultural spaces in town, with a strong emphasis on community engagement.9 Designed to facilitate a 'synergy of cultures',10 NART was born as a collaboration among the Estonian Academy of Art, the Estonian Ministry of Culture, and Narva Gate OÜ, the owner of the former industrial complex. The second section introduces both the methodology of this research and the Narva Art Residency as my case study and explains some relevant details about its functioning. The Artist's Gaze In my analysis of the Narva Art Residency and its artists-in-residence, I employ the notion of an artist's gaze, which is based on the notion of the tourist's gaze15 and framed by the lens of artistic biotope, the environment necessary for sustainable development.16 Historically, artists have sought isolation from everyday life to maintain good working conditions for individual development and experimentation.17 However, the 21st century has been characterised by process-oriented art practices, where traditional methods of producing artworks are combined with artistic research, experimentation and networking, through which the artist's work can be undertaken either inside or
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Juan de Pareja : Afro-Hispanic painter in the age of Velázquez
\"This exhibition offers an unprecedented look at the life and artistic achievements of seventeenth-century Afro-Hispanic painter Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608-1670). Largely known today as the subject of The Met's iconic portrait by Diego Velázquez, Pareja was enslaved in Velázquez's studio for over two decades before becoming an artist in his own right. This presentation is the first to tell his story and examine the role of enslaved artisanal labor and a multiracial society in the art and material culture of Spain's so-called \"Golden Age.\" Representations of Spain's Black and Morisco populations in works by Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and Velázquez join works that chart the ubiquity of enslaved labor across media, from sculpture to silver. The Met's portrait, executed by Velázquez in Rome in 1650, is contextualized by his other portraits from this period and the original document whereby Pareja was freed upon return to Madrid. The exhibition culminates in the first gathering of Pareja's rarely seen paintings, some of enormous scale, which engage with the canons of Western art while reverberating throughout the African diaspora. Harlem Renaissance collector and scholar Arturo Schomburg was vital to the recovery of Pareja's work and serves as a thread connecting seventeenth-century Spain with twentieth-century New York, providing a lens through which to view the multiple histories that have been written about Pareja.\"-- Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2023/juan-de-pareja
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“Knowing That I’m Not Necessarily Alone in My Struggles”: UK Autistic Performing Arts Professionals’ Experiences of a Mentoring Programme
This research examined whether professional mentoring could have a positive effect on the occupational self-efficacy of autistic performing arts professionals. We compared the outcomes of one group who received mentoring to a waitlist control group. 26 participants took part in this study: 15 autistic mentees and 11 mentors, three of whom were also autistic. The mentoring programme was well received and felt to be beneficial by the participating mentees and mentors, particularly regarding gains in mentees’ occupational self-efficacy. Professional mentoring also addressed several work-oriented challenges identified by autistic performing arts professionals such as feelings of isolation in the industry and need for consultation and advice on both a professional level, and for mentees with autistic mentors, also a neurodivergent one.
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“The Real Thing I Struggle with is Other People’s Perceptions”: The Experiences of Autistic Performing Arts Professionals and Attitudes of Performing Arts Employers in the UK
This research examined in-depth the employment experiences of autistic performing arts professionals and the attitudes and adjustments of performing arts employers. We interviewed 18 autistic performing arts professionals and 19 performing arts employers. Autistic performing arts professionals described facing challenges in the workplace. Some autistic professionals had access to support, but the majority felt that there was not enough available and highlighted many ways in which they could be better supported. Performing arts employers varied in their experiences of working with autistic people, many had limited knowledge about autism-specific support or relied on other professionals to provide it. These findings shed light on current unmet support needs of autistic performing arts professionals, and provide key recommendations for research and practice.
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Fashion Projects
Fashion Projects: 15 Years of Fashion in Dialogue anthologizes the New York–based journal Fashion Projects. The book is an index of a particular time within the fashion studies landscape and the attendant fields of fashion writing, fashion curation, and critical fashion practice during which the field witnessed a meteoric rise.
The long-running non-profit journal Fashion Projects was described by The Paris Review as \"a journal devoted to critical discourse in fashion,\" Fashion Projects was founded in New York in 2005 as a zine. It gradually morphed into a larger journal straddling the academic and general interest worlds, with international distribution and an ardent readership. It served as a platform to highlight the importance of fashion within current critical discourses through longform interviews with a range of curators, critics, artists and designers. This book collects together the best articles from the journal, most issues of which are now unavailable.
From exploring the rise of digital fashion media with Penny Martin (the founding editor-in-chief of SHOWstudio) to the continued importance of connoisseurship with Harold Koda (former Curator in Chief of the Met's Costume Institute), the anthology records the increasing centrality of fashion to contemporary critical discourse.
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Lives in Architecture
Terry Farrell is one of Britain’s most influential architects of the twenty-first century. Offering a compelling personal account of his life in architecture as an influential postmodern designer, architect-planner and principal of a leading global practice, this autobiography includes anecdotes and invaluable insights into Terry’s life and work from the 1940s to the present day. An inside view of what it’s like to be an architect at the top of his profession, this book also highlights what it takes to develop a successful international practice.
Offers the inside view of what it is like to be an architect at the top of his profession, including insights into the defining projects and watershed moments of Sir Terry Farrell's career
Provides the inside story on some of Terry Farrell’s most significant buildings and projects, including Charing Cross Station, The MI6 Building, Alban Gate and Beijing South Railway Station
Abundantly illustrated with over 80 images, including personal photos and images of key buildings.
1. A family background 2. The 1940s 3. The 1950s 4. The 1960s 5. The 1970s 6. The 1980s 7. The 1990s 8. The 2000s 9. The 2010s onwards
Sir Terry Farrell CBE is an award-winning international architect and town planner and was one of the pioneers of the postmodern style. One of the five architects featured in the BBC series The Brits who Built the Modern World (February 2014), his notable UK buildings include Vauxhall Cross (the MI6 building), Charing Cross (Embankment Place) and the Home Office in London. He was awarded a CBE in 1996 and a knighthood in 2001.
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Spacefunk! Building Futures in Full Color at Georgia Tech, Across Atlanta, and Around the World
[...]on Thursday, September 17, 2024, we gathered science fiction fans, Black art aficionados, and space enthusiasts in the Georgia Tech Library's Crosland Tower Stairs event space for \" Space fink' A Science Fiction Reading Meet 'N' Greet\" which I hosted with support from the Georgia Tech Library (be sure to check out our world-class science fiction collection and reading lounge!). Afterward, attendees broke into small groups with featured authors and poets Balogun Ojetade, Bryant O'Hara, Jessica Cage, Kyoko M, and Dr. Glenn Parris, who read from their Space funk' contributions and then talked with their group members about their processes for understanding and representing outer space in art. Most histories of space flight in modern science fiction begin with speculative pioneers Edgar Allen Poe and Jules Verne before moving on to space opera luminaries such as E.E. \"Doc\" Smith and hard science fiction authors such as Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.
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