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• Neuroscientist Predicted 25 Years Ago Science Would Unlock Consciousness. He Loses Bet

  27-06-2023 23:31 via artsjournal.com
  Despite a vast effort, researchers still don’t understand how our brains produce it, however. “It started off as a very big philosophical mystery. But over the years, it’s gradually been transmuting into, if not a ‘scientific’ mystery, at least one that we can get a partial grip on scientifically.” – Nature
  
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• Cormac McCarthy Was A Literary Star. He Couldn’t Happen Today

  27-06-2023 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  This improbable trajectory — writer toils for decades in obscurity before finding international renown — is the stuff of legend. But it did not occur by accident or happenstance. Mr. McCarthy’s career was made possible by a tectonic shift that was happening in the publishing industry. – The New York Times
  
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• Another Director Quits The Much-Troubled Royal British Columbia Museum

  27-06-2023 22:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  In the wake of the recent resignation of Alicia Dubois, the chief executive of the Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) in Victoria, British Columbia, 16 months after she was hired, concerns remain about the future of the beloved but troubled institution. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Why Divas Have The Right To Be Difficult

  27-06-2023 22:01 via bbc.com
  
  Diva status depended, back then as now, on being the author of your own career – creatively and financially – and driving it forward. If this meant being labelled as difficult, it was the price performers needed to pay. – BBC
  
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• What Ails Publishing Can’t Be Fixed By AI

  27-06-2023 21:31 via slate.com
  
  Authors know that the idea that “good books” will prevail in the marketplace is a cruel joke. Publishers are very, very bad at connecting readers to books. The industry essentially survives on megahits that are tolerable to many but thrill few, and which don’t owe their success to literary quality. – Slate
  
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• A Bronislava Nijinska Bio-Ballet

  27-06-2023 20:58 via bachtrack.com
  
  The Ballet de Santiago in Chile commissioned Spanish choreographer Avatâra Ayuso to create Nijinska, Secreto de la Vanguardia for this year, the centenary of Nijinska’s most famous work, Les Noces (set to Stravinsky’s score). Ayuso says that Lynn Garafola’s biography of Nijinska last year saved her years of research. – Bachtrack
  
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• Rita Reif, Art And Antiques Columnist For The New York Times, Is Dead At 94

  27-06-2023 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “After starting out in some of journalism’s lowest-rung jobs, (she) spent decades covering the worlds of antiques and auctions, … and (she) made news herself in the late 1990s when she challenged the ownership of an Egon Schiele painting thought to have been stolen … by the Nazis.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘It’s just magical’: the Met celebrates New York public school artwork

  27-06-2023 18:10
  
  At the museum’s annual PS Art exhibition, the best pieces of art made by children between 5 and 18 are put on display“It’s like seeing an all-star roster, and there are no bad choices. You’re seeing amazing, amazing, beautiful artwork. And you’re having to vote the best of the best of the best. We don’t have any quotas, like we can only choose five kindergarteners, we just choose the best art.”Alison Scott-Williams, the president of Studio in a School NY
  
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• ‘Complex. Unsettling. Creepy’: Jarvis Cocker, Colm Toíbín and more on the disturbing genius of Artangel

  27-06-2023 17:22
  
  From prison cells to department stores, for the past 30 years the visionary commissioning body has created unforgettable artworks in unlikely spaces. Famous fans pick their favourite worksA solitary figure crossing between three Glasgow tower blocks on a narrow metal wire 90 metres up. A converted library, with ice and water instead of books, looking out at the south-west coast of Iceland. A 1,000-year-old musical composition projected across the Thames in a beam of light …Nothing is too
  
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• ‘Complex. Unsettling. Creepy.’ Jarvis Cocker, Colm Tóibín and more on the disturbing genius of Artangel

  27-06-2023 17:22
  
  From prison cells to department stores, for the past 30 years the visionary commissioning body has created unforgettable artworks in unlikely spaces. Famous fans pick their favourite worksA solitary figure crossing between three Glasgow tower blocks on a narrow metal wire 90 metres up. A converted library, with ice and water instead of books, looking out at the south-west coast of Iceland. A 1,000-year-old musical composition projected across the Thames in a beam of light …Nothing is too
  
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• ‘If artificial intelligence creates better art, what’s wrong with that?’ Top Norwegian investor and art collector Nicolai Tangen

  27-06-2023 09:00
  
  The head investor of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund worries more about AI affecting the country’s portfolio than his own collection of paintingsFor a prolific art collector, Nicolai Tangen is remarkably relaxed about the prospect of masterpieces created by robots. The threat of AI-made paintings, impossible to distinguish from human brushstrokes, has sparked soul-searching and paranoia in the art world, but not with Tangen.“Hey, if it creates better art that’s fantastic,&
  
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