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• AI Is Creating Art. But Is It, Really?

  10-05-2022 23:31 via theconversation.com
  
  What discussions about AI and creativity often overlook is the fact that creativity is not an absolute quality that can be defined, measured and reproduced objectively. The Conversation
  
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• How Big Data “Nudges” Our Decisions

  10-05-2022 23:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  The combination of Big Data and the success of nudging could thus be conceived of not only as aid to our decision-making, but also as a threat. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• How Ukraine Is Protecting The K’yiv Symphony Orchestra

  10-05-2022 22:32 via theworld.org
  
  The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense granted special permission for the male musicians to leave the country, calculating that the world will be more motivated to protect Ukraine if it sees its culture as something precious and worth saving. – The World
  
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• What’s Happened To Fundraising Costs In The Pandemic

  10-05-2022 22:01 via culturaldata.org
  
  Whereas fundraising efforts in 2019 raised $6.22 for every fundraising dollar spent, return on fundraising increased to $7.35 in 2020, driven mostly by fundraising expense reduction. SMU Data Arts
  
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• How American Discourse Got To Be So Stupid

  10-05-2022 21:24 via persuasion.community
  
  We all know what we’re doing in a classroom; we’re putting on a class and we all share the same script as to what this is. But what began to happen in 2015—and I now realize it’s because of social media—is that it’s very difficult to have everyone in the same story. – Persuasion
  
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• A Visit To The Independent Art Republic Of Užupis

  10-05-2022 21:03 via euronews.com
  
  For much of the past six centuries, the neighborhood was the Jewish quarter of Vilnius.  Following World War II, the district was badly neglected by the Soviet occupiers; after Lithuanian independence in 1991, Užupis was cheap, and artists flocked there. The “Republic” was an April Fool’s gag that never ended. – Euronews
  
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• Stephen Colbert Will Chair New 15-Member Board Of Stars Advising Second City Theatre

  10-05-2022 20:28 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  Colbert, who performed at the Old Town theater in the 1990s, will chair the board. He said in a statement Monday that his recruits “all believe that comedy is better off with a vital Second City. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• How Moonbug Became The Titan Of Children’s Shows On YouTube

  10-05-2022 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “The London company produces 29 of the most popular online kids’ shows in the world, found on more than 150 platforms in 32 languages — and with 7.8 billion views on YouTube in March alone.”  And those shows are very carefully and intensely market-researched and engineered. – The New York Times
  
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• Dr. Seuss Decides To IPO

  10-05-2022 19:32 via axios.com
  
  Dr. Seuss Enterprises is one of the most prized collections of intellectual property in the world, and nearly every major Hollywood heavyweight is likely to show interest. – Axios
  
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• Shivkumar Sharma, Pathbreaker In Indian Classical Music, Dead At 84

  10-05-2022 19:04 via bbc.com
  
  His great innovation was to turn the santoor, a hammer dulcimer which Indians had heard only in Kashmiri folk music, into a full-fledged solo instrument in high-art Hindustani classical music. He was especially known for his duos with bamboo flute superstar Hariprasad Chaurasia, with whom he collaborated on several Bollywood soundtracks. – BBC
  
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• Now There Are Calls For Artistic Director Patricia Barker To Follow Her Husband Out Of Royal New Zealand Ballet

  10-05-2022 18:02 via stuff.co.nz
  
  A week after Michael Auer was reportedly terminated as ballet master over abusive conduct toward company members, two dancers who performed with RNZB in the 1980s have said publicly that Barker should resign as artistic director. The RNZB board says she has their full confidence. – Stuff (New Zealand)
  
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• What This Year’s Tony Nominations Tell Us About Broadway

  10-05-2022 17:32 via latimes.com
  
  So we’re back to normal, right? Not exactly. Broadway remains an economic conundrum and a contested cultural question. – Los Angeles Times 
  
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• Golden-Age Stradivarius Named For Leonardo Could Sell For $20 Million

  10-05-2022 17:05 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  The “da Vinci” Stradivarius violin, made in 1714, is also called the “ex-Seidel” after former owner Toscha Seidel, who gave Albert Einstein lessons and played (in addition to concerts and recordings) on many film soundtracks, possibly including The Wizard of Oz. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Sex & Death & Rodgers & Hammerstein

  10-05-2022 16:31 via bbc.com
  
  Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, Carousel, The Sound of Music — they can seem corny today. Yet they deal with loaded issues — persecution of outsiders, racism, exploitation and oppression of women, and escape from fascism — and a new generation of directors is bringing those themes out. – BBC
  
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• How You Know When You’ve Entered A “Real” Bookstore

  10-05-2022 16:03 via washingtonpost.com
  While authors can be colorful, book dealers are often notably cranky and eccentric. One conducting business in fashionable Cecil Court put up a sign that read, “Do not mistake courtesy on my part as an invitation to stay all day.” – Washington Post
  
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• $195 Million: Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn” Is Now The Most Expensive American Painting Ever Sold

  10-05-2022 15:34 via artnews.com
  
  Indeed, the work — full title Shot Sage Blue Marilyn and dating from 1964 — is also the highest-priced 20th-century artwork and the second-most expensive artwork of any kind ever sold, trailing only Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi ($450 million). – ARTnews
  
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• This Year’s Pulitzer Winner For Drama Hasn’t Even Had A Live Staged Performance Yet

  10-05-2022 15:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Fat Ham, which transmutes Hamlet from a tragedy in Denmark into a comedy at a Southern Black family’s cookout, was produced for streaming last year by Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater, where playwright James Ijames is one of several artistic co-directors. (Live performances start this week in New York.) – The New York Times
  
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• Raven Chacon’s “Voiceless Mass” Wins 2022 Pulitzer Prize For Music

  10-05-2022 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Chacon, 44, a member of the Navajo Nation who lives in Albuquerque, set out to use the sounds of the organ, accompanied by winds, strings and percussion, to explore themes of power and oppression.” – The New York Times
  
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• Here Are The Winners Of The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes For Books

  10-05-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Fiction: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen.  History: Covered With Night by Nicole Eustace and Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer.  Biography: Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert.  Poetry: frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss.  General nonfiction: Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott. – The New York Times
  
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• Andy Warhol’s iconic Marilyn Monroe portrait sells for record $195m

  10-05-2022 11:43
  
  Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, made after the actor’s death in 1962, becomes most expensive piece of 20th-century art ever soldPop artist Andy Warhol’s image of Marilyn Monroe, one of his best known portraits, has smashed records after selling for $195m in New York in less than four minutes of bidding.Warhol’s 1964 silk-screen image of Marilyn Monroe, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, created after the film star’s death two years earlier, has become the most expensive piece of 20th-centur
  
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• Hats off! How Frank Horvat changed fashion photography - in pictures

  10-05-2022 08:00
  
  The Italian-born photographer took models out of the studio and shot them in inventive locations, as a new exhibition at Photo London 2022 shows Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Absolutely enthralling’: why Matisse’s Red Studio still packs a punch

  10-05-2022 07:36
  
  From a little-known painting to the artist’s most celebrated, the ‘creative courage’ of a game-changing piece of art is being celebrated in a new exhibitionThe artist’s studio is their world. It’s among their most private places, and in Henri Matisse’s case, it’s as intimate a portrait as viewers can get of an artist who very rarely portrayed himself.“The studio is the heart of the artist’s life,” says Ann Temkin, the Museum of Modern A
  
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• ‘I don’t want to be a little Englander’ – Cornelia Parker on BP, bombs and becoming a German

  10-05-2022 07:00
  
  She is a politically charged artist whose work can be literally explosive. Ahead of a huge show, Parker talks about ‘cartoon violence’, recreating a corridor in Parliament – and why she may apply for German citizenshipIt’s been 50 years since Cornelia Parker first said to herself: “One day, perhaps I’ll have a show at the Tate.” As a schoolgirl, she had a propensity for art because it allowed her to go off-piste. “I wasn’t overly academic,&rd
  
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• Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery Director (Annapolis)

  10-05-2022 07:00 via artsjournal.com
  REPORTS TO: Vice President for AdvancementSALARY: Grade 14 (base pay $ $65,040.00)ROLE: The Director is responsible for overall strategic planning, programming, operations, and budgeting for the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery. The Director oversees the annual exhibition schedule and a suite of program offerings that advance the Mitchell Gallery’s mission as a cultural resource and a center of learning for the visual and creative arts for the campus and the larger Annapolis community.
  
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• ‘People laugh but think twice’: Belgian cartoonist takes on plastic pollution

  10-05-2022 06:00
  
  Pieter De Poortere is putting his best-known character, Dickie, to work to help galvanise opposition to a giant plastics plant in AntwerpBelgian cartoonist Pieter De Poortere was trying to do his bit for the environment: eating less meat and diligently sorting his rubbish – glass, paper, plastics. He realised it wasn’t enough. “I thought if we all sort out our trash, then everything will be recycled, everything will be OK, then we are doing great. But actually that is not true
  
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• Andy Warhol’s famed Marilyn Monroe portrait sells for record $195m at auction

  10-05-2022 04:04
  
  The Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is one of a series made after the actor’s death in 1962 and has become the ‘pinnacle of American pop’Andy Warhol’s famed 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe has sold for $195m at auction, setting a new a record for a work by an American artist.Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is one in a series of portraits Warhol made of the actress following her death in 1962 and has since become one of pop art’s best-known pieces. Continue reading...
  
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• A New And Thriving Genre Of AI-Generated Poetry

  10-05-2022 00:01 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Dozens of websites, with names like Poetry Ninja or Bored Human, can now generate poems with a click of a key. One tool is able to free-associate images and ideas from any word “donated” to it. – The Walrus
  
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