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• Anonymity As Fuel For Renegade Scholarship?

  29-12-2022 23:32 via unherd.com
  The equation of anonymity on the internet with deviance, mischief and hate has become a central plank in the global war on “misinformation”. But for many of us, anonymity has allowed us to pursue our passion for scholarly research in a way that is simply impossible within the censorious confines of modern academia. – Unherd
  
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• Generative AI Will Force Us To Rethink Human Creativity

  29-12-2022 23:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  If a computer system has no intelligence, creativity, or understanding but can mimic these qualities, when does it become a distinction without a difference? ChatGPT still falls short, but ChatGPT 2031 may be a different story. What is our place in such a world? – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• We Read Them Of Course. But What Actually Makes A Book?

  29-12-2022 22:31 via wsj.com
  The word “information” predates Gutenberg. But once printing took off and books proliferated, new kinds of books had to be invented to track, organize and summarize the relentless flood of data they generated: encyclopedias, bibliographies, dictionaries, multilingual bibles, summaries, herbals. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Data: Diversity in The Museum, Gallery And Auction Worlds

  29-12-2022 22:02 via news.artnet.com
  For the 2022 edition, we examined representation in U.S. museums and the art market for work by Black American artists, female-identifying artists, and Black American female-identifying artists, by tracing museum acquisitions (a total of almost 350,000 objects) and exhibitions (nearly 6,000). – Artnet
  
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• The Future Of Movie Special Effects

  29-12-2022 21:32 via bbc.com
  The Avatar sequel comes at a time of great debate in the VFX world about the working environment and treatment of VFX artists in the blockbuster movie space.  – BBC
  
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• “Immersive Experiences,” Handel’s “Messiah,” And The Quest To Make Classical Music “Relevant”

  29-12-2022 21:01 via msn.com
  Despite a highly misleading headline, Ivan Hewitt uses a West End show called “Handel’s Messiah: The Live Experience” to consider the various things that get added (frequently high-tech and sometimes thoughtful) and taken away (religious content) to attract younger adults to classical music. – MSN (The Telegraph, UK)
  
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• “Nutcracker” As Vehicle For Dance Injuries

  29-12-2022 20:34 via salon.com
  Accidents in “The Nutcracker” are so common there are injuries named after the ballet. A nutcracker fracture is a foot fracture of the cuboid bone. – Salon
  
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• “Die Hard” As A Low-Budget, One-Man Stage Play (It Works!)

  29-12-2022 20:03 via nytimes.com
  In Yippee Ki Yay, running through this week in London and then touring Britain, poet/playwright Richard Marsh uses just a few props and 75 minutes’ worth of verse to recreate Hollywood’s greatest big-budget fighting-terrorists-at-Christmastime movie. – The New York Times
  
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• 2022’s Movie Box Office Could Hit $9 Billion — A Healthy Rebound

  29-12-2022 19:23 via deadline.com
  On the high end, it’s a 22% jump from what Comscore is expecting 2022 to final at, that being $7.4B. This year’s domestic box office also reps a 72% surge over 2021’s $4.3 billion. – Deadline
  
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• The Pandemic Had A Surprising (In A Good Way) Effect On The Arts n Ireland

  29-12-2022 19:02 via irishtimes.com
  “The triggering effect of the pandemic, and its impact on artists’ livelihoods and careers, resulted in what had been previously been unimaginable: an almost doubling of the Arts Council budget from €75 million before COVID to €130 million for 2021, a level retained for the coming year.” – The Irish Times
  
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• Electroacoustic improv, coming or going? (Herb Deutsch, RIP

  29-12-2022 18:34 via artsjournal.com
  As the year ends/begins, I’m thinking electroacoustic music is a wave of the future. But maybe it’s been superseded by other synth-based genres — synth-pop, EDM, soundtracks a lá Stranger Things. Herb Deutsch (glasses) with Robert Moog and his synthesizer In February, I saluted Herb Deutsch, co-inventor of the Moog synthesizer, on his 90th birthday. […]
  
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• What The Invention Of Photography Has To Teach Us About The Advent Of AI Art

  29-12-2022 18:32 via wired.com
  In addition to the effects on what to see, cameras brought a new awareness to the nuances of how to see. – Wired
  
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• Telling And Retelling The Stories of The India-Pakistan Partition

  29-12-2022 18:04 via newyorker.com
  “This past year has marked seventy-five years of Partition, a process of fracturing that continues in the imagination and in memory. Each generation has posed new questions, searching for places where the stories can be found — in statistics, in stubborn reticence, in a pair of gold bangles.” – The New Yorker
  
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• How Mass Cancellations Will Re-order The Streaming Landscape In 2023

  29-12-2022 17:32 via artsjournal.com
  The story of the year was undoubtedly HBO Max; Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav made radical changes to the streaming structure and axed many in development, renewed, in production, and completed projects. – Collider
  
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• This Year’s Television Focused On The Price Of The American Dream

  29-12-2022 17:01 via nytimes.com
  “On TV, 2022 has been the year of the American dream — with a catch. For many of the hustlers, entrepreneurs and strugglers onscreen, that aspiration still exists. But … it can cost you an important part of yourself.” – The New York Times
  
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• Pointe Magazine’s Favorite Ballet Performances of 2022

  29-12-2022 16:35 via pointemagazine.com
  “Here are 12 standout onstage moments from 2022, in chronological order, from large ensemble works to surprise star turns.” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• In San Francisco, A First-Ever Sensory-Friendly “Nutcracker” For Kids

  29-12-2022 16:03 via cbsnews.com
  “The idea is for the show to be a relaxed, shush-free, shame-free environment. … House lights will be kept on (and) guests will also be free to move, talk, or dance as they please throughout the show. … Potentially startling moments during the full-length show will be removed or modified.” – CBS San Francisco
  
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• Dorothy Iannone, Whose Erotic Artworks Drove Censors Nuts, Is Dead At 89

  29-12-2022 15:32 via artforum.com
  “Iannone depicted female sexuality in a bold graphic style that drew from Japanese woodcuts, Greek vase painting, and visual themes from various Eastern religions.” As she told a magazine in 2009, “When my work was not censored outright, it was mildly ridiculed, or described as folkloric, or just ignored.” – Artforum
  
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• The Biggest Art-History Discoveries Of 2022

  29-12-2022 15:04 via news.artnet.com
  “A long-lost Renaissance painting languishing in a nursing home — check. A 200-year-old marble statue by an Italian master forgotten in a garden — check. Definitive proof that a Rembrandt ‘imitation’ is the real deal — check! Catch up on these recovered treasures and more in our year in review.” – Artnet
  
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• ‘I expected an LP, but it was a watercolour map of Melbourne’ – the Christmas present I’ll never forget

  29-12-2022 13:00
  My tough scouser grandma was a weaver of yarns, a teller of blitz stories, a bowler for Lancashire – and painter of meticulous maps as unforgettable as herEven though I was excited about them at the time, I can’t remember most of my Christmas presents. I either lost them, ate them or grew out of them. But I’ll never forget the painting my late grandmother gave me when I was 10.I was disappointed with the gift at the time. I was young and expected the giant rectangle to be an LP
  
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