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• What Scientists Are Learning About Language From The Grammar Of Artificial Intelligence

  21-10-2022 23:32 via artsjournal.com
  The overwhelming majority of the output of these AI language models is grammatically correct. And yet, there are no grammar templates or rules hardwired into them – they rely on linguistic experience alone, messy as it may be. – The Conversation
  
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• The Growing Book-Banning Coalition

  21-10-2022 23:01 via newrepublic.com
  Predicated on “protecting our kids” from the “scourge” of sexual progressivism, the anti-democratic right is forming a powerful religious alliance against secular liberalism.  – The New Republic
  
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• How Social Media Is Changing How We Engage With Art

  21-10-2022 22:28 via artshub.com.au
  The internet has always had an expansive capacity to reach some pretty strange and inexplicable places, but with the ever-evolving nature of social media, its strangeness is more readily available than ever before. – ArtsHub
  
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• Criticize The Show You’re In? What Does It Accomplish?

  21-10-2022 22:01 via thestage.co.uk
  Is the mainstream media the place to debate the process of theatremaking? Or does honesty, however it cuts, break the compact of the rehearsal room, of the backstage? – The Stage
  
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• When An Actor Criticizes The Show They’re In…

  21-10-2022 21:29 via seattletimes.com
  I’ve had artists and members of the theater community reach out after a review — yes, even ones where I didn’t care much for the show — and extend grace and understanding for my point of view on their work. As I sit here, I can’t fathom why some can’t extend that same hand to their colleague. – Seattle Times
  
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• This Play About Abortion And Birth Control Is A Century Old And In Yiddish

  21-10-2022 20:59 via tabletmag.com
  Lena Brown’s play Sonia Itelson, or, A child, a Child was written, and set in, the 1910s; it was almost certainly not produced then, being against the same anti-obscenity laws under which Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger were prosecuted.  Then it sat in a drawer for decades, until … – Tablet
  
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• Is The Live Entertainment Capital Of America Really Branson?

  21-10-2022 20:28 via washingtonpost.com
  Few places in the country host a professional show-business destination as quirky and expansive as this Missouri mountain town a few dozen miles north of the Arkansas border. Singer Andy Williams opened a theater here. So did comedian Yakov Smirnoff. – Washington Post
  
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• A High School Kid Paints A Mural, And Some Parents Freak Out, Alleging Hidden Anti-Christian And Satanic Messages

  21-10-2022 20:03 via npr.org
  “School district officials and a high school student in Michigan have drawn the ire of parents who allege that a painted mural contains LGBTQ propaganda, a depiction of Satan and a message of witchcraft. The painting covers a wall inside a teen health center (in southwestern Michigan).” – NPR
  
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• Chess Computers Are Now So Dominant, Are Humans Even A Factor In High-Level Play?

  21-10-2022 19:32 via theatlantic.com
  In an era when chess engines entirely dominate the game—when they’ve so monopolized human players’ thinking, strategy, and preparation that chess has, in certain ways, come to resemble poker—is it really possible to disentangle creativity from computing? – The Atlantic
  
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• Archaeologists Find Original 4th-Century Mosaic Floors That The Real St. Nicholas Walked On

  21-10-2022 19:02 via news.artnet.com
  “Archaeologists excavating the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, have uncovered the original stone mosaic floors where the saint … would have stood during mass, and where his tomb was first located within the house of worship.” – Artnet
  
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• The Viral Tyranny Of TikTok

  21-10-2022 18:32 via washingtonpost.com
  This new era of instant, inexplicable attention has also come at a price. In interviews with more than three dozen TikTok creators, many noted that the app’s reach often brings with it relentless demands: from angry commenters, from audience expectations, even from the algorithm itself. – Washington Post
  
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• Dalit Standup Comics In India Have A Few Things To Say About Caste

  21-10-2022 18:04 via csmonitor.com
  “A small but growing number of Dalit comedians (is) breaking into India’s Brahmin-dominated comedy scene. Onstage, they’re finding that examining caste through humor not only makes for better comedy, but is also personally empowering.” Says one, “If you don’t laugh at my jokes, I’ll touch you.” – The Christian Science Monitor
  
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• Art attack: can vandalism be justified to save the planet? | Letters

  21-10-2022 17:55
  Readers on the protest by Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup at a Van Gogh painting in the National GalleryI am fully supportive of the Just Stop Oil campaign, and acknowledge the need for rousing tactics to counteract a business-as-usual mentality. However, the attack on Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting was misguided (Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, 14 October).Van Gogh cared deeply for nature, and for humanity; he was a missionary before he be
  
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• How The Denver Art Museum Removed Columbus From Its Stories

  21-10-2022 17:31 via nytimes.com
  It is easier to understand objects created during the current downfall of Columbus and those who followed him, if you can see the art created before they arrived and while they reigned. – The New York Times
  
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• Cerith Wyn Evans review – lose yourself in broken windscreens and neon scribbles

  21-10-2022 17:05
  Mostyn gallery, Llandudno, Wales
  The longer you stay the more there is to experience in this giddying, transporting exhibition that comes with a dash of danger“Neon in daylight is a great pleasure”, wrote Frank O’Hara in one of his celebrated poems, written on his lunch break from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. So it is for Cerith Wyn Evans, whose entanglements of white neon hang beneath the skylights at Mostyn gallery. Llandudno is not Times Square, but I feel suspended
  
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• Camille A. Brown May Be About To Dance With Her Company For The Last Time

  21-10-2022 17:01 via nytimes.com
  “Our last show was March 2020. I was 40, and I was already feeling like, OK, my body is changing. I’m not sure that I can sustain this. … So I don’t want to say I’m stopping dancing. But it does require a shift of thought.” – The New York Times
  
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• Can A Powerful Book Really Rewire Your Brain? A Neuropsychologist Tried To Find Out.

  21-10-2022 16:35 via lithub.com
  Certainly a book can cause a temporary change, which was all that most researchers had thought of measuring with fMRIs.  Dr. Gregory Berns wanted to learn if the changes that reading a powerful book caused might remain after the book had been finished and the stimulus was gone. – Literary Hub
  
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• South Broad Street Became Philadelphia’s “Avenue Of The Arts”. Can The Same Thing Happen To North Broad Street?

  21-10-2022 16:03 via inquirer.com
  The concentration of arts institutions around Broad Street south of City Hall transformed that portion of the city, but the street north of City Hall has lagged behind.  Now, with the Philly Pops joining PAFA, the Met Philadelphia and Philadelphia Ballet in expanding there, North Broad could catch up. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• How Toni Morrison Bored A Tunnel Through Writer’s Block And Got To Work Writing “Jazz”

  21-10-2022 15:31 via nytimes.com
  “‘I know this woman!’ she kept thinking. ‘Angered by my inability to summon suitable language,’ she writes, ‘I threw my pencil on the floor, sucked my teeth in disgust.’  Sth.  ‘So that’s what I wrote’ she says, and it became the novel’s first line.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Public Radio Really Is Filling Important Gaps In Local And Regional News Coverage

  21-10-2022 15:04 via insideradio.com
  “A just-released study of public radio from National Trust for Local News … shows that the medium is poised to fill the void left by other local news sources, based on its commitment to spending and hiring newspeople.” – Inside Radio
  
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• “Paradise Square” Producer Garth Drabinsky Sues Actors’ Equity For Defamation

  21-10-2022 14:31 via variety.com
  “Broadway producer Garth Drabinsky is suing Actors’ Equity for $50 million, accusing the theater union of defamation after he was placed on its ‘Do Not Work’ list following his tumultuous production of Paradise Square.” – Variety
  
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• Jury Finds Kevin Spacey Not Liable For Sexual Assault Of Anthony Rapp

  21-10-2022 14:05 via apnews.com
  “A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star’s career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays in 1986.  The verdict in the civil trial came with lightning speed.” – AP
  
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• ‘Lascivious’ Titian masterpiece set to fetch up to £12m at auction

  21-10-2022 13:25
  Painting by 16th-century old master regarded as among greatest achievements of his careerA Titian masterpiece once considered excessively lascivious is expected to fetch up to £12m when it is sold in December.The painting by the celebrated 16th-century old master was one of a series depicting the tragic story of Venus and Adonis told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It is the most important work by Titian to be sold this century, according to the auction house Sotheby’s. Continue readi
  
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• Banksy, Breughel’s boy and a house of Britain’s horrors – the week in art

  21-10-2022 13:00
  The muralist hits Salford, peasant life comes to Birmingham’s Barber Institute and Somerset House gets with the Halloween ghost theme – all in your weekly dispatchThe Horror Show!
  Bauhaus, Helen Chadwick, Susan Hiller, Juno Calypso and many more in a ghost train tour through the story of modern Britain.
  • Somerset House, London, 27 October to 19 February. Continue reading...
  
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• Pieter Brueghel the Younger review – weighty works from son of revolutionary artist

  21-10-2022 12:10
  Barber Institute, Birmingham
  Snogging, dancing and streams of excrement abound in a show that proves Brueghel’s boy was equally keen to depict the joys and squalor of peasant life A man releases a stream of brown excrement as he sits on a window ledge with his naked apple-like buttocks bulging out. Welcome to the world of the common people as painted by the great artistic revolutionary Pieter Bruegel the Elder – but with a twist. The window-shitter, like the man who sticks out his fa
  
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• Hannah Starkey: In Real Life review – women from all angles

  21-10-2022 11:30
  Hepworth Wakefield
  The Belfast-born photographer exhibits 25 years of painterly images that capture overlooked moments – and demand a different way of looking at womenThere’s an image Hannah Starkey describes as her calling card, and it’s displayed at the entrance to her exhibition. Made in May 1997, it shows a young woman in a cafe with her hand on a mirror; initially it seems as if she is looking at herself, but on closer inspection she’s holding a moth against the glas
  
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• Edinburgh suffragist statue put on hold after bitter row over sculptor

  21-10-2022 10:31
  Anger erupts after open contest to design statue of Elsie Inglis scrapped and royal sculptor commissionedProposals to honour one of Edinburgh’s most famous feminists with a statue on the Royal Mile have been put on hold after a bitter row about the choice of sculptor.Campaigners planned to erect a bronze statue to Dr Elsie Inglis, a suffragist and medical pioneer who established hospitals for poor women and children in Edinburgh, near the site of a maternity hospital she founded. Continue
  
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• Edinburgh suffragette statue put on hold after bitter row over sculptor

  21-10-2022 10:31
  Anger erupts after open contest to design statue of Elsie Inglis scrapped and royal sculptor commissionedProposals to honour one of Edinburgh’s most famous feminists with a statue on the Royal Mile have been put on hold after a bitter row about the choice of sculptor.Campaigners planned to erect a bronze statue to Dr Elsie Inglis, a suffragette and medical pioneer who established hospitals for poor women and children in Edinburgh, near the site of a maternity hospital she founded. Continue
  
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• The death of the American shopping mall – in pictures

  21-10-2022 07:22
  Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the last stages of life of a New Jersey mall in a sad and insightful set of images showing how shopping has shifted from the physical to the digital. His work is being showcased at an exhibition entitled Malls of America, now on display at Footnote in Gowanus, Brooklyn, until 18 NovemberWords and photographs by Phillip Buehler Continue reading...
  
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