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• The Humanities’ Credibility Crisis

  22-04-2022 23:31 via washingtonpost.com
  That problem takes two forms: first, the lack of public trust in humanities scholars’ processes of inquiry and expert conclusions. Simply put, the public doesn’t seem to trust that we are engaging in real, methodical scholarly inquiry. – Washington Post
  
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• Classical Music’s Dance Between Entrepreneur And Institution

  22-04-2022 23:01 via thebaffler.com
  
  The composer, who has accrued reputational capital on the open market, exchanges some of it for an ever-dwindling share of institutional security. The institution in exchange acquires not so much her music or her services as a teacher—though these come in the bargain—as a stake in her brand. – The Baffler
  
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• The First Philosopher Of AI

  22-04-2022 22:31 via aeon.co
  
  Virtually all modern computers are modelled on Alan Turing’s idea. However, he originally conceived these machines merely because he saw that a human engaged in the process of computing could be compared to one, in a way that was useful for mathematics. – Aeon
  
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• Who Gets Credit For Choreography?

  22-04-2022 22:01 via dancemagazine.com
  
  The accepted definition of “choreographer” is the person who composes the physical steps—not necessarily completely on their own, but the majority of the movement creation stems from that individual. So when the process is more of an exchange, other terms could help. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Actors Union Warns That AI Is Replacing Live Performers

  22-04-2022 21:30 via bbc.com
  
  “From automated audiobooks to digital avatars, AI systems are now replacing skilled professional performers” the union says. It warns of “dystopian” consequences unless copyright law adapts. Equity highlights a number of different ways actors’ voices and likenesses may be used. – BBC
  
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• Marmont, Hammer, Grauman, Getty, Norton Simon … So Who Are All These People That L.A. Landmarks Are Named After?

  22-04-2022 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Okay, you may well know about J. Paul Getty, and if you’re an ArtsJournal regular you probably recognize Eli Broad. Writer Patt Morrison introduces us to them and to Percy Marmont, Sid Grauman, Collis P. Huntington, Jack Skirball, Charles Lummis, Armand Hammer (Armie’s great-grandfather), and others. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• The Machine Invented To Digitize 100-Year-Old Wax Cylinder Recordings

  22-04-2022 20:25 via atlasobscura.com
  
  Sound restoration engineer Nicholas Bergh spent two decades designing the revolutionary new machine, known as the Endpoint Audio Labs cylinder playback machine. – Atlas Obscura
  
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• When They Dug Up The Cobblestone Streets, They Found Beautifully Preserved Roman Mosaics

  22-04-2022 20:03 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “A group of ancient Roman mosaics dating from the second century CE were hidden under the city streets of Stari Grad, on the idyllic Hvar Island in Croatia. Archaeologists discovered the stunning mosaic floors in February, before the city began construction on sewage and water pipes.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• NY Singers Remember A Beloved NY Vocal Coach, Killed Last Month

  22-04-2022 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  She had a gift for unusual metaphors that made her teachings stick. In the bedroom of her 17th-floor apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, where she gave lessons almost every day deep into her 80s, she would ask her students to build theaters inside their heads. – The New York Times
  
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• “A Political Switzerland”: Is The New York Times Book Review’s “Books As News” Approach Still Tenable?

  22-04-2022 19:02 via thenation.com
  
  With Bookstagrammers and BookTokers nearly equal in influence, and with its carefully maintained approach of relative objectivity, “the Book Review may have the luxury of being the only game in town, but that doesn’t spare it the responsibility of making sure people show up to play.” – The Nation
  
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• Latest Museum Worker Union Drive: The Seattle Art Museum

  22-04-2022 18:32 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Because the museum refused to voluntarily recognize UPAT Local 116, the SAM Visitor Service Officers have decided to go independent — this time including only the security department to avoid legal headaches. The union would include up to 60 museum guards and VSO workers. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Artist William Kentridge Has Directed Many Other People’s Operas. Now He’s Doing One Of His Own.

  22-04-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Premiered by the Rome Opera in 2019 and soon to open at the Barbican in London, Waiting for the Sibyl is a 40-minute chamber opera with a scenario (you couldn’t really call it a libretto) by Kentridge and music by composers Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Kyle Shepherd. – The New York Times
  
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• Removal Of Political Art From Hong Kong’s New M+ Fuels Worries About Censorship

  22-04-2022 17:29 via artnews.com
  
  Reports of the removal of the works fueled speculation that M+, a multibillion-dollar project billed as a cultural bridge between China and the West, would fall short of its global ambitions. – ARTnews
  
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• Egyptian Woman Gets Three Years In Prison For Tiktok Dance Videos

  22-04-2022 17:01 via apnews.com
  
  “Haneen Hossam, a social media influencer, was arrested in 2020. … Prosecutors had accused her of promoting human trafficking by allegedly exploiting minor girls to gain material benefits with dance videos. It wasn’t clear how the videos were related to human trafficking.” – AP
  
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• Emin’s nudes, Sickert’s bedroom and fictional photography – the week in art

  22-04-2022 16:49
  
  Tracey Emin’s first show since her illness, an overdue retrospective for Walter Sickert and Rodney Graham dips his toe in cubism – all in your weekly dispatchTracey Emin
  Devastating new self-portraits and nudes by one of Britain’s most exciting artists.
  • Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, 24 April to 19 June. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick Study: The Arts and Juvenile Justice

  22-04-2022 16:48 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this episode, we consider arts programming in juvenile justice settings, as well as a study of the arts’ potential to reduce antisocial or criminal behavior among youth in the general population. A transcript is available here.
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• “It Was A Real Face-Plant” — CNN+ Was Doomed

  22-04-2022 16:35 via nymag.com
  
  “CNN+ was reportedly drawing only 10,000 active users. Blog posts do better numbers than that. This one probably will. … People were calling it ‘CNN minus,’ since it couldn’t even stream the network’s live coverage due to agreements with cable carriers.” – New York Magazine
  
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• “A Disconcerting Level Of Disconnection” As College Students Return To Campus In Person

  22-04-2022 16:03 via chronicle.com
  
  “More than 100 (professors) wrote in, using words like ‘defeated,’ ‘exhausted,’ and ‘overwhelmed.’ … Far fewer students show up to class. Those who do avoid speaking when possible. Many skip the readings or the homework. They have trouble remembering what they learned and struggle on tests.” – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  
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• Royal Shakespeare Co. Artistic Director Gregory Doran Steps Down For Good

  22-04-2022 15:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Doran, who has worked with the RSC for 35 years and was its leader for nearly a decade, has been on personal leave since his husband, actor Antony Sher, was diagnosed with terminal cancer last September and passed away in December. – The Guardian
  
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• Architect Oscar Niemeyer’s Final Building Is Now Finished And Open

  22-04-2022 15:04 via dezeen.com
  The late Brazilian modernist designed this public pavilion/art gallery at the Château La Coste winery near Aix-en-Provence in 2010, when he was 102. (He died two years later.) While the building has the signature Niemeyer characteristics (it’s white and curvy), it’s somewhat subdued by his standards. – Dezeen
  
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• Creator Of “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812” Sues Producer For Unpaid Royalties

  22-04-2022 14:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Dave Malloy, who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the show, has filed a petition … (saying) he is owed ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ for productions of the musical that took place in Japan in 2019 and in Korea in 2021.” – The New York Times
  
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• Book Diary – April 22

  22-04-2022 14:09 via artsjournal.com
  I am writing a book, on the “moral foundations of public funding for the arts”. It will eventually appear in the series New Directions in Cultural Policy Research, hopefully some time in 2023. But first I have to write it. This diary will chart my progress through the year, and I will always welcome your comments and suggestions.So what is it about? Take as an example a major American orchestra. Each year, it might get $40,000 or so from the National Endowment for the Arts, around $5
  
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• World War II Killed 20th-Century Classical Music, Says Conductor John Mauceri

  22-04-2022 14:05 via post-gazette.com
  
  His idea, spelled out in a new book, is that the natural heirs of Mahler and Richard Strauss were the “degenerate” composers (e.g., Korngold, Weill) chased out of Europe by the Nazis and ended up composing film and theater music that wasn’t thought to count as “classical.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Solar system recreated in Derry sculpture trail

  22-04-2022 07:00
  
  Our Place in Space is part of £120m government-backed Unboxed festival spanning UK over coming monthsA glowing silicone sun measuring 2.3 metres in diameter and a pinhead-size Pluto have been brought down to earth in an extraordinary scale model of the solar system aimed at giving the public a true sense of the huge size of space.The six-mile (10km) riverside sculpture trail opens in Derry on Friday as part of Unboxed, the £120m government-backed celebration of creativity that spans
  
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• Executive Director – Opera Naples

  22-04-2022 05:13 via artsjournal.com
  OPERA NAPLES
  Naples, Florida
  Executive DirectorOpera Naples (ON) seeks applications for the position of Executive Director from individuals with broad practical experience in arts administration and major gift fund-raising. This is a full-time position, requiring residence in the Greater Naples area. The Executive Director works closely with the Artistic Director on business planning to build the company’s reputation for artistic excellence locally and nationally, while maintaining financi
  
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• Executive Director- Emelin Theatre

  22-04-2022 05:12 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryReporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director is responsible for the overall administration and management of The Emelin including artistic direction, programming, business operations, fundraising, and audience engagement. The Emelin Board seeks a leader to build on the foundation established during the past 50 years.
  This leader will seek ways to enhance the entertainment offerings and engagement with its existing audience base. More importantly, this leader will c
  
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• Omar Musa on using humour to talk about racism, colonialism and inequality

  22-04-2022 03:00
  
  Drawing on a printmaking technique he learned from punk-rock climate activists in Borneo, Malaysian Australian author and poet Omar Musa wrestles with race, family and isolation in Killernova, his new book of poetry and art. He talks to Zoya Patel and also performs a poem from his new bookKillernova by Omar Musa is published by Penguin Continue reading...
  
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• French Presidential Debate Gets Historically Low Ratings

  22-04-2022 00:00 via deadline.com
  
  A nearly three-hour televised debate between French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on Wednesday night scored the lowest ever ratings for such a match-up. – Deadline
  
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