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• Klaus Makela Conducts the Philharmonic — Take Two

  11-12-2022 23:22 via artsjournal.com
  I am of course grateful for the torrent of comments I have received in response to my previous
  
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• BBC Medical Drama Ditches Scripts To Improvise Chaos Of The Medical System

  11-12-2022 22:01 via bbc.com
  Casualty is the world’s longest running medical drama, and it is the first time in its 36-year history that scripts have been ditched and every scene improvised. – BBC
  
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• Whooping it Up At The Opera (And Making It Fun)

  11-12-2022 21:32 via thestar.com
  Opera Revue is part of a growing cadre of Toronto arts organizations looking to make opera more accessible and challenge the art form’s stuffy reputation. – Toronto Star
  
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• Co-Creating with a Conscience: Or, Why Study Leadership at an Art & Design College?

  11-12-2022 21:27 via artsjournal.com
  Seven years ago I was in the process of completing an essay in which I brought forward an argument for teaching beauty in a business school—a document that would form the basis for a 12-week course for business students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was to be a visiting guest artist/lecturer. At the […]
  
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• The Parasite Companies Killing Creative Artists

  11-12-2022 21:01 via theatlantic.com
  Books on Amazon are cheap and arrive quickly. Spotify offers tens of millions of songs and podcasts for less per month than what we pay for a single CD. But for creators, chokepoint capitalists—the firms that control access to their work—are an exploitative nightmare. – The Atlantic
  
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• This Year’s Top Pop Culture Moments

  11-12-2022 20:31 via baltimoresun.com
  The pandemic was over in 2022, phew! Well, of course it wasn’t. But live entertainment pushed forward, with mask mandates dropping, and people rushing to buy things like, oh, Taylor Swift tickets! – Baltimore Sun (AP)
  
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• How Screenshots Created A New Form Of Storytelling

  11-12-2022 20:02 via theconversation.com
  A closer look at the screenshot tells us interesting stories about not only how media transforms over time, but also how even the humblest technical operation may give rise to sophisticated cultural forms. – The Conversation
  
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• Annals Of Downsizing: Ye Olde Village Maketh Ye Painful Cuts

  11-12-2022 19:31 via newyorker.com
  “After ample reflection and prayer, I have made the painful decision to downsize our blessed hamlet. Lord be praised, not all is lost. The petting zoo will continue to prosper, and the gift shop will actually be receiving an expansion. However, we will be purging many of the village’s less popular features.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Originalist Readings Of The Constitution Are A Fraud

  11-12-2022 19:02 via lareviewofbooks.org
  Originalists and non-originalists agree that constitutional interpretation must begin with the text of the document. But originalists pretend that their method of interpretation is value-free. “This desire for value-neutral judging is an impossible quest. Balancing of competing interests is inescapable.” – LA Review of Books
  
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• The Purposes Of Grief

  11-12-2022 18:28 via nautil.us
  Philosophically, the most important thing about grief is that it’s not always a form of self-pity. It’s not selfish. There are aspects of grief that are completely other-directed, that are just about the loss of the person you love. Extinguishing grief would be a failure to appreciate reality. – Nautilus
  
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• Holiday Season Used To Be Hollywood’s Biggest Box Office. Now It’s Vying To Be The Lowest

  11-12-2022 18:01 via deadline.com
  We’ll see if Saturday night business is so bad that that this weekend becomes the lowest of 2022, unseating that of Jan. 28-30 when all movies grossed $34.87M per Comscore. – Deadline
  
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• Social Media Is In Disarray. Want A Better Model? Look To Coffeehouse Culture

  11-12-2022 17:32 via newstatesman.com
  Everything about discursive social media is suddenly open to question. What sort of news and discussion should it host and encourage? What should be its attitude to participation, networking, user rights and free speech? What should be its business model? What societal role should it seek to play? – New Statesman
  
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• Why AI Chatbots Can Easily Take Over Creative Work

  11-12-2022 17:00 via newyorker.com
  “The Internet itself is just patterns—so much of what we do online is just knee-jerk, meme reactions to everything, which means that most of the responses to things on the Internet are fairly predictable. So this is just showing that.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Ukraine Calls On World’s Dance Companies To Forego “Nutcracker” This Year. (They’re Not)

  11-12-2022 16:32 via npr.org
  “We’re not talking about canceling Tchaikovsky, but rather about pausing performances of his works until Russia ceases its bloody invasion. Ukrainian cultural venues have already done this with him and other Russian composers. We’re calling on our allies to do the same.” – NPR
  
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• Hollywood’s Existential Crisis: Audiences Are Not Going To Their Most Critically-Acclaimed Movies

  11-12-2022 16:01 via nytimes.com
  Hollywood sees this an affront to its identity. Film power players have long clung to the fantasy that the cultural world revolves around them. That delusion is hard to sustain when the masses can’t be bothered to come. Hollywood equates this with cultural irrelevancy. – The New York Times
  
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• Broadway’s KPOP Tried To Market Itself Online Like K-Pop. Didn’t Work

  11-12-2022 15:28 via theverge.com
  KPOP marketed its characters over social media, leveraging some of the same tools and tactics that brought K-pop’s biggest names to widespread fame. Unfortunately, KPOP’s fictional groups haven’t yet reached the same success. Creating internet fandom, it turns out, is hard to do. – The Verge
  
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• Worry Escalates Over Fate Of The English National Opera

  11-12-2022 15:02 via nytimes.com
  For the past month, the fate of the E.N.O. has made headlines here. Musicians, critics and politicians have been arguing over whether the decision to cut the company’s funding is a sensible response to a declining interest in opera, or an act of cultural vandalism. – The New York Times
  
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• Australian artists accuse popular AI imaging app of stealing content, call for stricter copyright laws

  11-12-2022 15:00
  Developer of Lensa denies allegations, saying software learns to create portraits just as a human would – by learning different artistic stylesFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralian artists say Lensa, the app that uses artificial intelligence to generate self-portraits, is stealing their content and are calling for stricter copyright laws that keep up with AI-generated art.But the parent
  
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• How Twitter Changes Our Sense Of Time

  11-12-2022 14:35 via nytimes.com
  The concept of entrainment points to the ways in which our experience of time can be affected by so much more than the number of hours we have in a day. – The New York Times
  
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• Met Opera Scrambles To Replace Its Website, Ticket Portal

  11-12-2022 14:02 via nytimes.com
  The attack has wreaked havoc as the Met prepares for a string of holiday productions. At this time of year, the company’s ticketing systems typically handle about $200,000 in sales each day. – The New York Times
  
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• At last the Turner prize gets it. Artists improve with age | Martha Gill

  11-12-2022 10:30
  Veronica Ryan is the ‘oldest ever winner’ at 66. Here’s to more recognition of decades spent honing a skillAt 66, Veronica Ryan has become the oldest ever winner of the Turner prize. Heartening news – and not just for fans of Ryan, the sculptor who created the first permanent public artwork commemorating the Windrush generation. There is something universally cheery and comforting about the phrase “oldest ever winner” – designed to put a glint in the mid
  
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• Grace Ndiritu: The Healing Pavilion; Jim Naughten: Objects in Stereo review – what next at the Wellcome?

  11-12-2022 10:00
  Wellcome Collection, London
  After the controversial recent closure of its permanent Medicine Man exhibition, the Wellcome’s two latest shows uniting art, life and medicine mine the collection’s capacious history and contents with varying successThe Wellcome Collection announced the closure of its Medicine Man gallery at the end of November with something approaching triumphalism. “Goodbye Henry,” waved the collection’s director, opposite a picture of its founder, Si
  
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