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• ChatGPT Is Wildly Popular. The Site Keeps Crashing, And The AI Will Explain What’s Wrong While You Wait

  13-12-2022 23:29 via gizmodo.com
  Having only launched as a public beta on Nov. 30, ChatGPT crested well over a million users in five days. Since then, media coverage has ballooned, and its user base has only continued to grow. – Gizmodo
  
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• Apple Promised A New Classical Music Streaming App This Year. What Happened To It?

  13-12-2022 23:01 via macrumors.com
  “Apple Music plans to launch a dedicated classical music app next year combining Primephonic’s classical user interface,” said an Apple Newsroom press release shared last year. Apple has not publicly addressed the plans since and did not respond to our requests for comment over the past month. – MacRumors
  
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• Museums’ Days Of Swashbuckling Collecting Are Over

  13-12-2022 22:32 via nytimes.com
  Today many U.S. museums are facing a reckoning for their aggressive tactics of the past. Attitudes have shifted, the Indiana Jones era is over, and there is tremendous pressure on museums to return any looted works acquired during the days when collecting could be careless and trophies at times trumped scruples. – The New York […]
  
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• Yoga Practitioners Push Back Against Cultural Appropriation

  13-12-2022 22:01 via theguardian.com
  This week, practitioners in India have once again sought to draw attention to what they see as cultural appropriation of yoga, amid allegations it has been whitewashed. Vikram Jeet Singh, a yoga instructor in Goa said that “his own culture” has been “wiped out and suppressed by colonisation”. – The Guardian
  
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• The Ambitious Public Art Going Into Seattle’s New Light Rail System

  13-12-2022 21:29 via artsjournal.com
   Just the long noun “government-agency-run public art” might’ve made some of you sleepy; the adjective “taxpayer-funded” might have others wondering where you put your pitchforks. – Seattle Times
  
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• Yet Again, The Turkic Languages Of Central Asia Are Changing Their Alphabets

  13-12-2022 20:58 via daily.jstor.org
  “The question of alphabet reform is hardly new for these countries — over the last 150 years, Kazakh has been written in Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic, each prevailing at different points in the language’s history,” depending on the imperial ruler. The same is true for Uzbek, Turkmen, and Kyrgyz. – JSTOR Daily
  
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• Allegations Of Sexual Harassment At Juilliard

  13-12-2022 20:32 via van-magazine.com
  According to a 2020 survey conducted by the school, 11 percent of respondents indicated knowledge of a sexual assault that took place in a Juilliard-related context. Four percent of respondents said they had been a victim of sexual harassment at a Juilliard program or activity. – Van
  
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• Jerry Saltz Weighs In On The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals

  13-12-2022 20:02 via curbed.com
  “I wouldn’t be surprised to see (the) protest included in upcoming lists of top-ten artworks of 2022. Theirs is a form of performance art, but its message is muddled and unconvincing. … They want to have it both ways, to act out their emotions and give up nothing.” – New York Magazine
  
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• How A Seattle Dance Company Bought A Church

  13-12-2022 19:25 via crosscut.com
  “When [Whim W’Him] came in and showed us how they were going to love the space, to use it for art and dance, it was everything that Bill, in a perfect world, wanted.” – Crosscut
  
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• The Main Rival To Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre In Jacobean London Was Funded By Female Investors

  13-12-2022 19:04 via theguardian.com
  “Academics have discovered that women made up a large part of the financial force behind the Fortune Theatre, the great rival to the Globe, partly built by the actor for whom Christopher Marlowe wrote plays, and where Thomas Middleton’s dramas were first staged.” – The Guardian
  
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• Post-Mortem: English National Opera

  13-12-2022 18:32 via thecritic.co.uk
  Did it have to die? The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality. Take opera in English, a founding act of faith. In the vast Coliseum the words were hard to hear, so subtitles were screened above the stage. – The Critic
  
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• London Police Burst Into A Gallery, Thinking That A Sculpture Was An Actual Dead Woman

  13-12-2022 18:01 via news.artnet.com
  Someone reported a woman inside, hunched over a table, who hadn’t moved for two hours.  Figuring it was a heart attack or overdose, police broke in — to find Mark Jenkins’s artwork Kristina (2022), a mannequin in a hoodie and running shoes passed out in a bowl of soup. – Artnet
  
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• Principal Bans Students From Seeing “Oliver” Over Concerns About “Violence, Alcohol Use and Thievery.” 

  13-12-2022 17:31 via munroreview.com
  The Children’s Musical Theatreworks show, which opened to general audiences on Dec. 2, wasn’t some new, explicit, souped-up version of the classic Broadway musical. It’s the same old “Oliver” that community theaters and schools have been performing for decades. – MunroReview
  
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• Why The New York Times Best Seller Lists Drive The Publishing Business Insane

  13-12-2022 17:03 via esquire.com
  Basically, nobody can figure them out: the Times rankings frequently don’t match publicly available sales figures, and while the paper says it uses various sources and formulas to keep bulk purchasers from gaming the lists, nobody knows what those are. Speculation that some editorial bias is involved is rife. – Esquire
  
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• After 45 Years, The Urban Institute For Contemporary Arts In Grand Rapids Is Shutting Down

  13-12-2022 16:35 via mlive.com
  UICA, which merged with a nearby state university and art college in 2013 following earlier financial troubles, said in its announcement that it has not recovered from the pandemic closures and “was not able to maintain the funding necessary to remain operational or become sustainable.” – MLive (Michigan)
  
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• Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch’s Go-To Composer, Is Dead At 85

  13-12-2022 16:02 via msn.com
  He wrote songs for Nina Simone and Nancy Wilson, and scores for directors Danny Boyle, Jane Campion, and Paul Schrader, among others.  But he’s best known for the haunting music he provided for Lynch’s works, including Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and all the iterations of Twin Peaks. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• One Week After Being Sold, Bookforum Is Closing Down

  13-12-2022 15:34 via thewrap.com
  Just days after its parent company, Artforum International, was acquired by Penske Media, the literary journal announced that the current issue is its last. Among the other titles owned by Penske are ARTnews, Art in America, Billboard, Rolling Stone, IndieWIRE, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter. – TheWrap
  
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• Adjunct Professors At Mannes School Of Music And Parsons School of Design End Their Strike

  13-12-2022 15:01 via artforum.com
  The walkout by part-time faculty (87% of the total) at the New School University, which encompasses both Parsons and Mannes, began on November 16 and ended over the weekend with tentative agreement on a new contract which includes pay raises, health insurance, and compensation for work outside the classroom. – Artforum
  
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• Daniel Barenboim Will Return To Conducting (At Least For New Year’s)

  13-12-2022 14:33 via operawire.com
  In October, he announced that he was cancelling his performances indefinitely in order to deal with “a serious neurological condition.”  But he will make at least a brief comeback for the Berlin State Opera’s performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. – OperaWire
  
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• Oh, No!  The Golden Globes Aren’t Going All Tasteful And Serious, Are They?

  13-12-2022 14:09 via variety.com
  Owen Gleiberman: “As the nominations were announced, I thought, ‘Please, Golden Globes! Atone for your sins, fix your corrupt ways, but don’t take away the precious vulgarity that we love.'” – Variety
  
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• “The Banshees of Inisherin” And “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Lead Golden Globe Nominations

  13-12-2022 14:05 via variety.com
  “Banshees” garnered eight nominations (including picture, director, and screenplay), followed by “Everything” with six, and “The Fabelmans” and “Babylon,” each with five. – Variety
  
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• Douglas Gordon review – pop is a light that never goes out

  13-12-2022 13:12
  Gagosian Davies Street, London
  Using snatches of illuminated song lyrics, Neon Ark cleverly shows how words that aren’t our own can be intimately feltThe craft of neon sign-making is a dying art, according to Douglas Gordon, who has commissioned a dazzle of glowing texts that shine through the gallery window into the winter twilight. You could equally say Gordon, whose video installation 24 Hour Psycho made him a star in the 1990s, as did his winning the 1996 Turner prize, embodies a dying
  
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• A Nonprofit Arts Leader’s Christmas Carol

  13-12-2022 13:01 via artsjournal.com
  To the tune of “Here We Go A-Wassailing,” to kick off your nonprofit holiday season (with apologies to ...
  
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• Managing Director – Cleveland Play House

  13-12-2022 06:14 via artsjournal.com
  Cleveland Play House (CPH) seeks an experienced, ambitious, and collaborative individual to be this 107-year-old regional theatre’s next Managing Director. Working as a co-leader with the Artistic Director (who will be newly identified in the coming months), the new MD will implement strategic direction, maintain financial stability, and secure necessary resources to ensure the ongoing […]
  
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