All posts tagged: heads

Talking Heads Release the First Official Video for “Psycho Killer”: Watch It Online

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[ad_1] On social media, the Talk­ing Heads teased a major announce­ment on June 5th, lead­ing fans to won­der if a reunion—41 years after their last tour—might final­ly be in the off­ing. As one fan put it, “If this is a tour announce­ment, I am going to freak out!” Alas, we did­n’t quite get that. (Maybe next time!) Instead, we got the first offi­cial music video for “Psy­cho Killer.” Direct­ed by Mike Mills and star­ring Saoirse Ronan, the video helps com­mem­o­rate the band’s first show at CBGB 50 years ago. You can watch the video above, and footage from CBGB in 1975 here. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. It’s a great way to see our new posts, all bun­dled in one email, each day. If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers …

Storied Collection of Museu de Arte Moderna’s Founder Heads to Auction

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[ad_1] On April 10, Sotheby’s Paris will hold a sale dedicated to Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt, a Brazilian businesswoman and journalist and the founder of Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro. Bittencourt, who died in 2003, was a prodigious collector of mid-century Modernist masterpieces, including works by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Max Ernst, as well as leading Brazilian artists of the era including Almir Da Silva Mavignier and Franz Krajcberg. For those unfamiliar with Bittencourt, that may soon change. Later this year, according to Sotheby’s, a biography by author Ricardo Cota will be released. Titled A Mulher que Enfrentou o Brasil (The Woman Who Faced Brazil), the book will tell how Bittencourt both shaped Brazil’s modern art scene and courageously defied the Brazilian military dictatorship of the ’60s and ’70s. Related Articles In the 1940s, while Brazil’s cultural establishment remained skeptical of modernism, Bittencourt founded the MAM with little funding and against stiff resistance. Through sheer force of will, she was able to secure support from artists and patrons across the …

Heads open up about torrent of issues

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[ad_1] More from this theme Recent articles School leaders have been confronted outside their homes, spat at and “offered out” for fights as abuse from parents surges, a Schools Week investigation can reveal. One school has even installed cameras outside the homes of worried staff, while a traumatised primary head admits they are too scared to leave work alone late at night. The head of another – who has been the focus of toxic social media campaigns – thinks online abuse led to one pupil wrongly branding him a paedophile. Abuse cases ‘almost beyond belief’ Paul Whiteman, the general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT), says some of the cases are “almost beyond belief”. A poll this week found 82 per cent of 1,600 NAHT leaders surveyed said they had been abused by parents in the past 12 months. Verbal attacks were the most common, followed by posts online. Two-thirds of heads said they had experienced threatening behaviour and nearly a quarter were subject to discriminatory language, including racist, sexist or homophobic terms. …

Trust broke rules over head’s Botox and aromatherapy courses

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[ad_1] More from this theme Recent articles An academy trust broke funding rules after paying for its head to go on Botox and aromatherapy training courses, documents detailing the findings of a government investigation state. The government probe into Dorrington Academy trust in Birmingham also found “excessive spending” on gifts – such as a Harrods’ hamper – and “luxury hotel stays”. Staff were also given “aromatherapy treatments”. Recent annual accounts for the single-academy trust also show that a £120,000 consultancy contract had an “indemnity” linked to it that protected the “recipient against costs” incurred in connection with “any potential proceedings” over the deal.  Auditors say this also broke funding rules. The trust has been issued with a government notice to improve on “financial management and governance grounds”, seen by Schools Week and due to be published today. The school informed staff of the notice this morning. The notice to improve said the trust’s former headteacher and accounting officer, Loretta Barratt, had “failed to uphold their personal responsibility to parliament by not ensuring high standards of probity in …

Heads snub pilot as ‘we can’t run at loss’

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[ad_1] More from this theme Recent articles Primary schools invited to trial Labour’s flagship free breakfast clubs have pulled out or are having to take a financial hit after being told that the basic funding rate is just 60p per pupil. Up to 750 primary schools will be funded as part of an early adopter scheme to roll out free breakfasts for all pupils from April. The government has set aside £315 million for the full roll-out. But impact assessment documents for the schools bill state that “exact are costs being finalised and agreed”, and suggest that any extra “costs will then fall to schools”. Heads involved in the pilot scheme are already saying that funding does not cover costs. ‘We just can’t afford it’ Paul Bertram, a headteacher at Buxworth Primary School, says his school currently charges £2.75 for its own hour-long breakfast club with a sports teacher on site, with 30 pupils attending on average. He told Schools Week he had to pull out of the trial because it would leave him with …

Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America

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[ad_1] Portrait of Hadrian, c. 130 CE. Photo: Lorenzo De Masi. © Torlonia Foundation.   One of the world’s largest and most important private collections of ancient Roman sculpture is making its North American debut. Next spring, a traveling exhibition of the rarely-seen Torlonia Marbles will head to Chicago, Fort Worth, and Montreal. Many of these centuries-old sculptures will leave Rome for the very first time.   Myth and Marble Opens March 2025 in Chicago Statue of Artemis Ephesia, c. 2nd century CE. Photo: Lorenzo De Masi. © Torlonia Foundation.   Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection is curated by Lisa Ayla Çakmak, Chair and Curator of Arts Greece, Rome, and Byzantium at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Katharine A. Raff, Curator of Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition showcases 58 of the 620 sculptures that make up the Torlonia Marbles collection. It spans nine centuries across six curated sections, starting with the collection’s most famous objects. “The primary thesis of the …

’Isolated’ schools miss out on effective heads

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[ad_1] Study reveals which areas are unable to attract the best headteachers Study reveals which areas are unable to attract the best headteachers More from this theme Recent articles Schools in the north west are the most likely to be “isolated” and shut out from attracting the best headteachers, a new report claims. An Education Policy Institute report found current and future headteachers tended to work only in connected “communities” – groups of schools often within the same region – and were unlikely to move for work outside of those areas. EPI said this creates “isolated” schools which are left without access to the best headteachers. The north west had the largest proportion of isolated primary schools (20 per cent), while isolated secondary schools are concentrated in the West Midlands, east of England, and south east (all around 15 per cent). Meanwhile, London attracts more than half of the most effective primary heads, although fewer than half develop their leadership skills there. The north east is also revealed as “disproportionately successful in developing and attracting …

New Psychiatric Technique Asks Schizophrenics to Engage in Dialogue With the Voices in Their Heads

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[ad_1] Image by Getty / Futurism Researchers have come up with an ingenious new approach to treating psychosis: creating an “avatar” for the often upsetting voices in one’s head and talking to them like they’re real, living people. As The Guardian reports, there have now been multiple clinical trials displaying the power of this so-called “avatar therapy.” Case in point, a new paper in the journal Nature Medicine demonstrates that giving voice and face to the dark forces inside the heads of people who suffer from auditory hallucinations can be a promising treatment strategy. Like customizing a character in a video game, people who undergo this experimental treatment create digital avatars that resemble or symbolize the voices they hear. Some people are talked down to by cruel authority figures and others are menaced by demons — and by creating an externalized avatar on a screen and having a therapist simulate the things they say, those persecuting voices can often be controlled. It’s a deceptively simple scheme that has time and again borne out promising results. These digitally-assisted …

Frieze VIP Program Lead by Regional Heads in the US, EMEA, and Asia

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[ad_1] Last summer, Frieze surprised the art world by announcing that it was adding two of the biggest art fairs in the US, The Armory Show and Expo Chicago, to its roster of major market events in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seoul.  As Kristell Chade, executive director of Frieze Fairs, told ARTnews recently, that growth lead the art fair organizers to restructure and expand their VIP leadership team. In the past, there had been only one global director of VIP relations. Now, starting with Frieze London, which opens Wednesday, there are regional heads for the US, Europe, and Asia, which Chade said will help Frieze more effectively manage VIP outreach and experiences. Related Articles In 2022, Frieze London’s first VIP day suffered interminably long, seemingly motionless lines that led to frustration for the fair’s most important attendees. As one art advisor in attendance told ARTnews, the situation seemed to result from a faulty or disorganized ticketing system, leading some collectors to threaten to abandon the fair altogether. “It was like waiting for a sneaker drop,” …

Job share trailblazers say two heads are better than one

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[ad_1] More from this theme Recent articles Trust leaders Heather McNaughton and Caroline Pusey have shared job roles since meeting in a bunker during the Second Gulf War. They think more school staff should follow suit … “There’s nobody more interested in you talking about your work than your job-share partner,” says Heather McNaughton. She has spent most of the last two decades sharing her job with Caroline Pusey, including in military bunkers for the Ministry of Defence and during strike negotiations as directors at the Department for Education. The pair earlier this year took up the position of joint chief operating officers at the River Learning Trust, which has 29 schools across Oxfordshire and Swindon.  With teacher wellbeing at its lowest level for five years, and stress, insomnia and burnout all continuing to rise – it’s not the easiest time to work in schools. But McNaughton says sharing the burden means there is an “inbuilt support and therapy”. So close is their connection, in fact, that McNaughton’s husband refers to Pusey as her “other …