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• Seattle Theatre Is Broken. It Might Not Survive

  19-07-2023 23:44 via postalley.org
  
  What worries me more than money at the moment is the spiritual pall hanging over the theater community – a simmering angry paralysis mirroring our city’s wandering at anchor over its mixture of astonishing wealth, desire for social justice, and more and more people living in tents. – Post Alley
  
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• Why Has Brooklyn Public Library Become A Monument To A Celebrity?

  19-07-2023 23:29 via hyperallergic.com
  
  The show’s opening last week raised further questions about its intended audience. On a hot weekday, the heavily trafficked library was closed to its constituents in preparation for a celebrity-studded evening event hosting the rapper and his VIP friends. – Hyperallergic
  
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• What’s The Point Of Eco-Art? (It Won’t Save Us)

  19-07-2023 23:00 via artreview.com
  
  What feels different about ecocritical art is that the very topic it engages with proposes widespread ruin and demands that action be immediately taken to counteract such an apocalypse.  – Art Review
  
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• NYC’s Commercial Real Estate Market Is Collapsing. This Will Significantly Change Manhattan

  19-07-2023 22:28 via curbed.com
  
  Last year, a team of academics from Columbia University and NYU published a paper with the eye-catching title “Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse.” In it, they estimated that New York office buildings had lost 39 percent of their long-term value. Now, It’s 44 percent. – Curbed
  
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• When The Biggest Indie Stars Sell Out It’s Bad For Everyone

  19-07-2023 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Writer and actor strikes in the US show that selling out is not just a question of personal ethics, but an industry-wide concern. A director’s decision to align themselves with Goliaths of entertainment has consequences; money for the big guy in opposition to an industry where smaller films and creators have more opportunities. – The […]
  
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• What Are The Rules For Ghost-Written Celebrity Novels?

  19-07-2023 21:29 via theguardian.com
  
  What about literature’s latest trend: the celebrity novel? Do the rules that apply to the celebrity memoir remain the same when it comes to celebrity-authored fiction that has been ghostwritten? Isn’t there a difference between a ghostwritten memoir and a ghostwritten novel? – The Guardian
  
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• Explosions, Radiation Sickness, And A Love Song To The Periodic Table: Simon Mayo On How His YA Novel “Itch” Became An Opera

  19-07-2023 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “The head of Opera Holland Park, James Clutton, … approached Jonathan Dove to compose the music and Alasdair Middleton to write the libretto. The result is (and you can trust me on this) astonishing. An opera that is a thriller is a rare beast.” – The Guardian
  
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• A Next-Generation Orchestra?

  19-07-2023 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The Cornwall Youth Noise Orchestra is the brainchild of Matt Ashdown and Liz Howell of Moogie Wonderland, which began as a club night and now bills itself as “a participatory arts organisation”. – The Guardian
  
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• Explaining “Situation Deepfakes”. How They Could Affect Elections, And How To Guard Against Them

  19-07-2023 20:06 via theconversation.com
  
  “The idea and technology of a situation deepfake are the same as any other deepfake, but with a bolder ambition: to manipulate a real event or invent one from thin air. Examples include depictions of Donald Trump’s perp walk and Trump hugging Anthony Fauci, neither of which happened.” – The Conversation
  
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• An AI App For Musicians To Help Them Create

  19-07-2023 19:29 via ludwig-van.com
  
  Alex Mubert’s vision is of an app that will allow people to easily experiment and create music on their own. Because of licensing complications — i.e. AI-generated music does not fall under conventional copyright rules — the music people create using Mubert cannot be released on Spotify or other streamers. – Ludwig Van
  
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• The Little Red Barn Where Some Of The World’s Best Ballet Dancers Grow

  19-07-2023 19:09 via msn.com
  The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet was founded in Carlisle, a college town in the south-central part of the state, in 1955. The school has produced so many good performers that people joke that there’s something in the water. – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Analyst: Hollywood Strikes Could Cost $450M-$600M

  19-07-2023 18:32 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Moody’s debt analyst Neil Begley wrote in a July 17 report, “we believe this standstill could be a relatively long strike, with the stakes being larger than they have been in many years” and estimated the potential cost of the new contracts. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Amsterdam Is Trying Very Hard To Shed Its Reputation As A Party Destination

  19-07-2023 18:01 via dw.com
  
  “To combat the excess of party tourism, new rules (began) this February — among them, a law that window brothels, bars and pubs in the red light district must close two hours earlier. Several months ago, the city also launched a ‘Stay away’ campaign to deter rowdy visitors.” – Deutsche Welle
  
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• The Remarkable Resurgence Of Otto Klemperer

  19-07-2023 17:31 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  From the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, Klemperer was among the most prolific conductors on record. Yet around 1950 everyone thought he was finished. His story, thanks to daughter Lotte, is one of the most remarkable music resurrections. – The Critic
  
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• At 50, Carlos Acosta Is Returning To The Stage Of London’s Royal Ballet

  19-07-2023 17:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “I was playing with doing the balcony pas de deux of Romeo and Juliet but that would have been way too much. I have to do it in a way that I can still walk off, and you don’t have to call an ambulance.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Harriet Choice, A Pioneering Female Jazz Journalist, Is Dead At 82

  19-07-2023 16:32 via msn.com
  “Thousands of people knew Harriet Rosenfeld Choice by the words she wrote for this newspaper, decades worth of her enthusiastic and influential coverage of the jazz scene, which compelled her to be one of the founders in 1969 of the Jazz Institute of Chicago.” – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Standup Comedians Aren’t Terribly Worried About The Threat Of AI (For Now)

  19-07-2023 16:05 via yahoo.com
  
  “‘Writing jokes will be one the very last tasks AI will be able to do convincingly and effectively,’ predicts Conan vet Matthew Broussard. ‘Meaning, against all logic, I chose the career with the most stability.'” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Translating Manga For The US Market Has Been A Complicated Business

  19-07-2023 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Since manga was first introduced to the U.S. in the 1980s, American companies have wrestled with how to adapt the genre for their readers. It requires taking into account not only art and visual concepts unique to Japanese, but also an entirely different system of reading.” – The New York Times
  
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• The National Youth Orchestra Of The United States, A Decade On

  19-07-2023 15:03 via apnews.com
  
  “Carnegie Hall’s initiative to train the next generation turned 10 this year. After arriving July 1 for intensive instruction … at suburban Purchase College, performers gathered at America’s premier concert hall to play for conductor Andrew Davis in a 2,800-seat auditorium filled with many family members and friends.” – AP
  
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• Actors’ Union Gives Approval For More Than Three Dozen Films To Shoot During Strike

  19-07-2023 14:36 via artsjournal.com
  “SAG-AFTRA has granted approval to 39 independent productions to shoot during the strike, after confirming that they are not tied to AMPTP companies. The list includes two projects from A24, the independent production company.” – Variety
  
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• Israel Lent Some Artifacts To President Trump. Now It Can’t Get Them Back From Mar-a-Lago

  19-07-2023 14:09 via forward.com
  The antiquities were lent for a 2019 Hanukkah event at the White House but, due to a “bureaucratic difficulty,” were never displayed. They were supposed to be returned to Israel within weeks but never were, partly due to the pandemic, and have now been located at Trump’s Florida residence. – The Forward (Haaretz)
  
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• Reimagining “Miss Saigon.” Possible?

  19-07-2023 00:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Yet it’s hard to shake the suspicion that Orientalist kitsch was integral to the show’s commercial appeal. Remove the defamiliarizing frisson of the exotic and you have, essentially, a love triangle with an immigration paperwork angle. It’s still a heart-rending tale, but is it as much of a spectacle? – The New York Times
  
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