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• Just How Well Does AI Score In Creativity Tests?

  17-08-2023 23:56 via scitechdaily.com
  Recent findings from the University of Montana and partners indicate that artificial intelligence can rival the creative abilities of the top 1% of human participants based on a standard test for creativity.
  
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• Why Streaming Subscriptions Are Getting So Expensive

  17-08-2023 23:32 via theverge.com
  
  After years of burning through mountains of cash to fill their catalogs with original programming, the big SVOD services are now charging their subscribers more than ever because it’s increasingly difficult to draw in new customers — and because the mere perception of growth is no longer enough to keep their shareholders happy. – The Verge
  
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• Defining How/What Creativity Is In The Brain (Kinda Hard and Maybe Not What You Think)

  17-08-2023 23:01 via scitechdaily.com
  Modeling the creative process as a sequence of operations involving distinct brain networks does not correspond to a popular conception of creativity, which is usually represented as a momentum that seizes, transports, and surpasses us. – SciTech Daily
  
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• Traditional TV Is Dying At An Accelerating Rate

  17-08-2023 22:15 via theverge.com
  
  Traditional TV isn’t just competing with Disney Plus and Max; it’s competing with YouTube and TikTok, and other video providers that can rely on creators to churn out content faster and more cheaply. So Nielsen’s news of declining viewership isn’t a surprise as much as it was always a somewhat depressing inevitability. – The Verge
  
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• Unionization Of Museum Workers Spreads – Chicago Art Institue Employees Approve Contract

  17-08-2023 21:30 via artforum.com
  
  Under the four-year agreement, the more than five hundred workers, who in January 2022 unionized under the auspices of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), will receive raises of between 12.25 and 16.25 percent, with the lowest-paid workers seeing the greatest gains. – ArtForum
  
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• In Popular Culture, An Explosion Of Out-And-Proud White Gay Male Villainy (And That’s A Good Thing)

  17-08-2023 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “As members of two dominant cultures in a world in which everyone’s hyperconscious of identity, we have enough clout to be labeled part of the problem without that critique being racist or sexist. That itself is an indication of how far we’ve journeyed.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Hard-Knocks Roblox: Metropolitan Museum’s Child-Oriented Tech Venture (plus: Its No-Go Van Gogh)

  17-08-2023 20:26 via artsjournal.com
  I know that I risk annoying CultureGrandson and his 10-year-old peers by casting doubt on the Metropolitan Museum’s latest
  
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• Composer György Kurtág At 97

  17-08-2023 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “The concentrated brevity of Kurtág’s output means that his entire published works could be heard in approximately 10 hours. He has a reputation for being uncompromising and difficult, but musicians who follow him, disciple-like, rhapsodise about his versatility, as well as the challenges he sets them.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Meaning Of America (As In – Why Have We Been Getting So Much Meaner?)

  17-08-2023 19:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  “The most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest: We inhabit a society in which people are no longer trained in how to treat others with kindness and consideration.”  – The Atlantic
  
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• Ailey’s Most Iconic Work: Why “Revelations” Is So Extraordinary

  17-08-2023 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “In general we get in trouble if we don’t do it. I’ve heard that even Alvin himself at some point asked if we could take Revelations out. But they told him what the box office numbers looked like with Revelations and without, and that was a sobering moment.” – The Guardian
  
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• Inside LA’s Lavish TikTok Content Clubhouses (Totally Fun Read)

  17-08-2023 18:32 via harpers.org
  
  Also known as content houses or TikTok mansions, collab houses are grotesquely lavish abodes where teens and early twentysomethings live and work together, trying to achieve viral fame on a variety of media platforms. – Harper’s
  
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• Here’s The Longtime Curator Said To Have Stolen And Sold British Museum Treasures

  17-08-2023 18:29 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Peter John Higgs is suspected to have operated for years without detection and to have spirited away uncategorised items from the museum’s collection before selling them on the e-commerce site eBay. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Can Graphic Novels Really Teach College-Level Math And Physics?

  17-08-2023 18:03 via theconversation.com
  
  Two professors who use them explain how the format — visual information via image as well as text, in a form (comics) that very few people find intimidating — can get complex concepts across even to people with math anxiety. – The Conversation
  
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• The Concert Archive Treasures Of Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium, Hidden In Plain Sight

  17-08-2023 17:31 via sfcv.org
  “The challenge has been to transfer it all. I’d say we’ve preserved at least 100 performances. And we’re certainly not done. We are well aware that it is a remarkable collection and a historic documentation of that period. That’s why it’s one of our high priorities.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Are Hollywood’s Writers And Actors Right To Be Freaking Out Over Generative AI?

  17-08-2023 17:06 via variety.com
  
  Here, for instance, is Justine Bateman: “I stress that this is an existential threat. And if they can do this with actors, they can do it with writers, directors, cinematographers — everyone. We’ll be replaced with Frankenstein spoonfuls of our own work.” Todd Spangler considers how serious that threat really is. – Variety
  
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• Talking High Art and Late-Stage Capitalism with Jacob Kerzner

  17-08-2023 17:04 via artsjournal.com
  This week on the podcast I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with music director, orchestrator, pianist, educator, scholar, and my music director for the show I just directed, The Secret Garden, Jacob Kerzner.As I say at the top of the episode, it was a somewhat unique moment for the podcast because it was my first time interviewing a music director about his life and career for the show, hoping to shed some light on that area of the musical theatre industry.
  But Jacob is unique for many re
  
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• The Sitter by Angela O’Keeffe review – separating the wife from the artist

  17-08-2023 17:00
  
  This compelling and playful novel is narrated from beyond the grave by Marie-Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, wife and frequent subject of the French painterGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe Sitter opens with a tableau, a scene detailed meticulously from both sides of a window in a hotel room in Paris. It’s not clear, at first, precisely who is looking, registering these details, nor where they might be positioned: all the reader is given is the image, piece by piece.This only lasts a
  
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• Meet The Lady Who Provides The Fabulous Gowns For The Leading Pro Ballroom Dancers

  17-08-2023 16:31 via msn.com
  Julie Wilson’s home-based business in suburban northern Virginia is “considered the ballroom dance industry’s leading consignment and consignment-rental dress company. Competitive dancers come here from far and wide, as do the frocks. The abiding aesthetic is more is more: feathers, sequins, fringe, crystals.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Designer And Architect Thierry Despont Is Dead At 75

  17-08-2023 16:04 via architecturalrecord.com
  
  His design work on restoration of two New York landmarks, the Statue of Liberty and the Woolworth Building, first brought him renown. He went on to do the Ritz in Paris, the Getty Center in L.A., and the homes of the rich and famous from Calvin Klein to Bill Gates. – Architectural Record
  
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• Audience Development and Community Outreach Director – Richardson Symphony Orchestra

  17-08-2023 15:52 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Audience Development and Community Outreach Director (Director)’s goal is to increase attendance for the Richardson Symphony Orchestra’s concerts.The Director oversees subscription campaigns as well as the solicitation and analysis of patron data. The Director develops and executes strategies, programs, and events designed to deepen relationships with the greater community to ultimately produce longer-lasting engagement marked by additional ticket purchases and ph
  
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• Theater In Chicago Is Facing A Lot Of Problems. Here’s One Of The Least Talked About.

  17-08-2023 15:32 via chicagotribune.com
  
  Besides the much-discussed problems facing most American theaters, and that leadership at many of the city’s companies has changed virtually all at once, there’s this: “what once were internal disputes, such as debates over hiring, programming and the allocation of scarce resources, (have spilled) over into the public sphere.” – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Cambodia, Laos, And Vietnam Say Denver Art Museum Still Has Works Looted From Their Historic Sites

  17-08-2023 15:05 via denverpost.com
  
  “Representatives from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam sent letters to the museum, via U.S. investigators, in May and June, saying the prized relics had no legal export permits to lawfully leave their countries. The museum, they said, did not respond.” – The Denver Post
  
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• It’s Time To Stop Blaming The Pandemic For People’s Bad Behavior

  17-08-2023 14:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Yes, COVID lockdowns and all that time at home certainly played a part, writes Mary McNamara, but there are other factors at work, especially this long after things have reopened. She also has an idea or two for addressing the problem. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Another Museum Joins The $30 Admission Fee Club: SF-MOMA

  17-08-2023 14:06 via artnews.com
  
  “The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the latest US institution to raise its admission fees to $30, making it one of the most expensive art museums in the country. … Other museums, like the Guggenheim, Whitney, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, have recently taken similar measures.” – ARTnews
  
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