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• Our Five Senses (Wait, We Actually Have Seven?)

  09-12-2022 23:31 via theconversation.com
  Beyond the traditional five senses, neuroscientific research also examines proprioception (sensing your muscles, their location, and their movements) and the vestibular system, which regulates the sense of orientation and balance in space. – The Conversation
  
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• Do We Have Free Will? (And How Does It Shape Our Identity?)

  09-12-2022 23:02 via wsj.com
  Human beings may make choices that are not predictable or even completely determined. The hard question of free will is whether, at the time of making a choice, we could have done otherwise (leaving aside randomness or chance). – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• How Did The Things Around Us Get So Ugly?

  09-12-2022 22:29 via nplusonemag.com
  It occurs to us, strolling past a pair of broken BuzzFeed Shopping–approved AirPods, that the new ugliness has beset us from both above and below. – n+1
  
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• Being An Old Artist (It Can Be Liberating)

  09-12-2022 22:01 via washingtonpost.com
  Many artists have found that old age, for all its physical and emotional burdens, can be a moment of creative liberation comparable to, even superior to, anything in youth. – Washington Post
  
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• Czech Museum Returns Beethoven Manuscript To Heirs

  09-12-2022 21:33 via abcnews.go.com
  The Moravian Museum in the Czech city of Brno has had the original manuscript for the fourth movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet n B-flat Major, Op. 130 in its collection for more than 80 years. – ABCNews
  
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• Battlefield Memories From The Culture Wars Of The 1990s

  09-12-2022 20:58 via artsfuse.org
  John Killacky, performing arts curator at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis 1988-1996, presented much of the work attacked by right-wingers: Holly Hughes, Ron Athey, Tim Miller, Bill T. Jones, and Karen Finley, whose We Keep Our Victims Ready at the Walker was a lightning rod. – The Arts Fuse (Boston)
  
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• ChatGPT Elevates Interactive Artificial Intelligence To A New Level

  09-12-2022 20:32 via nytimes.com
  ChatGPT feels different. Smarter. Weirder. More flexible. It can write jokes (some of which are actually funny), working computer code and college-level essays. It can also guess at medical diagnoses, create text-based Harry Potter games and explain scientific concepts at multiple levels of difficulty. – The New York Times
  
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• Dance At The World Cup: Brazilian Soccer Would Not Be What It Is Without Samba

  09-12-2022 20:03 via theguardian.com
  It’s not just the dances the players do to celebrate: samba steps have worked their way into the Brazilians’ game technique. For instance, says Domingos da Guia, a leading player from the 1930s, “I invented the short dribble by imitating the miudinho, a form of samba.” – The Guardian
  
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• Alfred Chester, a Double Reading

  09-12-2022 19:47 via artsjournal.com
  Who reads Alfred Chester these days? Anyone? His huge, posthumous volume of Moroccan letters is worth every page (even the ones I felt like skipping).
  
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• Does This New Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Spell The End Of The Student Essay?

  09-12-2022 19:31 via theatlantic.com
  The essay, in particular the undergraduate essay, has been the center of humanistic pedagogy for generations. It is the way we teach children how to research, think, and write. That entire tradition is about to be disrupted from the ground up. – The Atlantic
  
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• What Learning To Read Braille Did To My Brain

  09-12-2022 19:02 via bbc.com
  “‘Surely the part of my brain that I used to read with shut down at the same time as my sight?’ asks Red Szell in this video. (He) lost his sight several years ago due to Retinitis pigmentosa – and … earlier this year, Szell decided to learn Braille, with unexpected results.” – BBC
  
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• Denver Post’s Investigative Series Into A System That Enables Looted Art Trade

  09-12-2022 18:32 via denverpost.com
  The series highlights the cozy nature between curators, scholars, museums and dealers — and how incentives align to allow the dirty world of the international art market to proliferate. – Denver Post
  
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• The Lit Critics Who Really, Really Hated “The Waste Land”

  09-12-2022 18:04 via lithub.com
  “Reviews were often pitched at nonspecialist general interest readers. … To come to Eliot’s poem with a few platitudes about decency, intelligibility, and ease of access to poetic chestnuts was to be brutally confronted with something not only unknown but perilously close to the unknowable.” – Literary Hub
  
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• Arts, Analytics, Action – Master of Arts Management

  09-12-2022 17:53 via artsjournal.com
  The Master of Arts Management (MAM) program at Carnegie Mellon University puts collaborative and experiential learning at the forefront. Our innovative approach centers on the intersection of people, policy, and technology with an arts focus, preparing students to face the challenges of the digital age and have a lasting impact on the communities they serve. […]
  
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• Penguin Random House CEO Steps Down After Failed Takeover

  09-12-2022 17:31 via nytimes.com
  As the head of the largest publisher in the country, Markus Dohle oversaw the attempted acquisition of Simon & Schuster, a deal the Justice Department sued to stop on antitrust grounds. – The New York Times
  
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• Ukrainian Soldiers’ Dance Videos Are The Latest Social Media Hit

  09-12-2022 17:01 via insider.com
  “One comment with over 1,800 likes said, ‘Damn! These Ukrainians do have a sense of humor. I’m rooting for you,’ while a comment with over 200 likes said, ‘You can’t break a brave soldier’s spirit. Keep on dancing.'” – Insider
  
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• You Think It’s Taken A Long Time For Hollywood To Pay Women And Men Equally?  Look At Bollywood

  09-12-2022 16:35 via bbc.com
  Priyanka Chopra says that in a 20-year career, “I’ve never had pay parity in Bollywood. I would get paid about 10% of the salary of my male co-actor,” and that the first time she got equal pay was for her work on the series Citadel in the US. – BBC
  
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• George Newall, Last Surviving Co-Creator Of “Schoolhouse Rock,” Is Dead At 88

  09-12-2022 16:03 via deadline.com
  He was creative director of an ad agency when the boss complained that his sons could remember rock lyrics but not multiplication tables and asked Newall to have the tables set to music. Newall gathered a songwriting team, the agency’s art director made cartoons, and the rest is TV history. – Deadline
  
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• Turner winners of the future, Mr Turner himself and our favourite dinosaur returns – the week in art

  09-12-2022 15:51
  The ones to watch from the class of 22, Turner’s masterpieces get an immersive soundtrack and female printmakers take centre stage – all in your weekly dispatchBloomberg New Contemporaries 2022
  Spot the Turner prize winners of the future in this showcase for young artists fresh out of college.
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• This Director May Have Figured Out How To Rescue Sondheim’s Most Notorious Flop

  09-12-2022 15:32 via nytimes.com
  For four decades, the consensus has been that — despite some excellent songs, and despite repeated adjustments during revivals — there’s just no way to make Merrily We Roll Along into a good piece of musical theater. Then the director Maria Friedman, who’s uniquely qualified, had a go. – The New York Times
  
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• The Blue Man Group Has Been Running For 30 Years — Longer Than “Phantom Of The Opera” — And It’s Still Going Strong

  09-12-2022 15:04 via msn.com
  Indeed, Phantom is ending its long Broadway run this spring, but the Blue Man Group (granted, in a smaller house) just keeps on — not only in New York, but in touring shows on at least three continents. Peter Marks considers the secrets of their success. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Your ultimate Brisbane events guide: what’s on this weekend, and the best things to do through December

  09-12-2022 15:00
  Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s handpicked guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals happening around the country. Here, we’ve selected some highlights for Brisbane in December; to view the full interactive list, click hereGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailSign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Everyone wants to smell it’: a seedy university art project finds order in chaos

  09-12-2022 15:00
  In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Anna Mathilda shows us the project she made as a student years ago – and has recently unearthedGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailNearly two decades ago, Anna Mathilda painstakingly stuck hundreds of seed samples and spices to framing offcuts for a university project. For years it was packed away, its decorative morsels becoming fodder for hungry mice. But recent rental security has given Mathilda a chance to revisit the 32-panel &ldqu
  
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• BBC’s Boss Predicts It Will Be Online-Only In Ten Years

  09-12-2022 14:31 via theguardian.com
  Director general Tim Davie: “Imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite. A switch-off of broadcast will and should happen over time, and we should be active in planning for it.” – The Guardian
  
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• English National Opera May Keep Performing In London If It Makes Its Base Somewhere Else, Says Government Funder

  09-12-2022 14:05 via thestage.co.uk
  Arts Council England head Darren Henley told a parliamentary committee, “We are saying we would like to see an organisation with a base outside of London, but we absolutely recognise, with its business plan going forward, that the Coliseum is an important part of that.” – The Stage
  
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• ‘People wouldn’t show my work – or even reply to me’: Veronica Ryan on her Turner prize triumph

  09-12-2022 12:30
  The oldest artist ever to win the Turner spent years feeling as if she was invisible. Now, her quiet, contemplative sculptures have finally been rewarded with the British art world’s biggest prizeIt’s the morning after Veronica Ryan won the Turner prize, a moment celebrated with her name being projected triumphantly on Liverpool’s vast Radio City tower, and it still hasn’t sunk in. “It feels as though there’s this separate person, who might be me, who’s
  
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• Director of Communications and Development – New Hazlett Theater

  09-12-2022 06:21 via artsjournal.com
  The New Hazlett Theater is seeking an experienced professional to lead a comprehensive communications and fundraising program. Our Director of Communications and Development works closely with the Executive Director and the senior team, developing strategies to establish and deepen connections with audiences and donors. The person in this leadership role, along with their team, will […]
  
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• The artists defying Putin’s war on Ukrainian culture – podcast

  09-12-2022 04:00
  From poetry to pop music, Ukrainians are using art to take a stand against Russia – and Putin’s assault on their identity. From dancers to documentary makers, they explain how work they have created in the conflict zone is a weapon of resistanceThe war in Ukraine is not just over land but identity too. Before the invasion Vladimir Putin published an essay arguing that modern Ukraine is essentially a product of the Soviet era, both culturally and spiritually. Since the war began, the
  
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• A Wordle Allegory: We Can’t Wait

  09-12-2022 02:03 via artsjournal.com
  How are Wordle players and arts audiences similar? They both feel strongly about change. But arts leaders can't stay stuck in the past if they want to do right by their art form and organizations.
  
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• Now That It’s Safe, Gustavo Dudamel Visits Home Again

  09-12-2022 00:00 via latimes.com
  This was also his first trip to Venezuela in six years. Inciting the wrath of President Nicolás Maduro, Dudamel had become politically persona non grata after speaking out about the violence and repression he felt was not being addressed by the government. – Los Angeles Times
  
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