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• The Writers’ Strike Settlement Was Good. But Not Good Enough Concerning AI

  29-09-2023 23:29 via wired.com
  
  Studios are already busy developing myriad uses for machine-learning tools that are both creative and administrative. Will they halt that development, knowing that their own copyrighted product is in jeopardy from machine-learning tools they don’t control and that Big Tech monopolies, all of which could eat the film and TV industry whole? – Wired
  
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• Writers’ Settlement Tries To Define Streaming Subscriber

  29-09-2023 23:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  A “view” in this case means the total viewing time divided by its running time, a metric that can be applied fairly easily across streaming services. Importantly, those success bonuses will rely not only on the “view,” but on subscribers as well. And that’s where things get tricky. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Does Academic Pursuit Need a Goal, A “Completed-By” Date?

  29-09-2023 22:32 via aeon.co
  
  If we want the university to remain a viable space for knowledge production, then scholars across disciplines must be able to identify the goal of their work – in part to advance the Enlightenment project of ‘useful knowledge’ and in part to defend themselves from public and political mischaracterisation. – Aeon
  
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• UK’s Northern Ballet Drops Its Orchestra To Cut Costs

  29-09-2023 22:01 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  The Musicians’ Union (MU) said it is “deeply concerned” about “this cultural vandalism” as there will be less work for orchestral musicians. – Yorkshire Post
  
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• Are Theatre Ticket Prices Just Too High?

  29-09-2023 21:29 via americantheatre.org
  
  Nearly all artistic and managing directors polled saw their company’s price increases as marginal. But for many Americans, an increase of a few dollars per ticket can be significant, especially when piled on top of every other rising cost for goods and services. – American Theatre
  
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• This Promising African Novelist’s Career Evaporated When He Was Accused Of Plagiarism. But Is That What It Was?

  29-09-2023 20:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Yambo Ouologuem insisted he had done nothing wrong in writing his 1968 novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Violence). But he refused to explain why and stalked away from Paris back home to Mali to stew in his fury. Were his borrowings actually a literary technique? – The New York Times
  
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• Just When Did Art Come To Be Called “Content?” Really? Content?

  29-09-2023 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s just a rude word for creative people. I know there are students in the audience: You don’t want to hear your stories described as ‘content’ or your acting or your producing described as ‘content.’ That’s just like coffee grounds in the sink or something.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Men Who Saved Half Of Shakespeare’s Plays From Complete Loss

  29-09-2023 20:05 via lithub.com
  
  Not only did Henry Condye and John Heminges assemble and publish the First Folio, they almost certainly helped lead the rescue of Shakespeare’s plays (many of which had not yet been published) from the 1613 fire that destroyed the Globe Theatre. – Literary Hub
  
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• A Changing Of The Guard On Broadway?

  29-09-2023 19:25 via thestage.co.uk
  While the six Broadway houses controlled by these four companies may be dwarfed by the Shubert Organization, the Nederlander Organization and the recently merged ATG-Jujamcyn bloc, their presence on Broadway is somewhat outsized in a way that many don’t realise. – The Stage
  
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• Rachel Heller obituary

  29-09-2023 19:20
  
  Artist whose vivid works were lauded by the likes of David Hockney and Maggi HamblingIn 1995, when she was 22, Rachel Heller had her first solo show, at the John Jones Art Centre in London. The exhibition sold out. This was not her first success, nor would it be her last. In 1986, when Heller was 13, a selection of her drawings was shown to the television grandee Jeremy Isaacs, who promptly bought one. In 2006, her figure study Lady Sleeping in Bed won the Hugh Casson drawing prize at the Royal
  
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• King Lear Is A Strenuous Role, But Not Such A Difficult One

  29-09-2023 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Laurence Olivier said, “Frankly, Lear is an easy part … He’s like all of us really: he’s just a stupid old fart.” Tom Courtenay relayed that “I had a much jollier time with it than playing Hamlet.” Michael Billington surveys the approaches various actors have taken. – The Guardian
  
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• NYCity Ballet Cancels Performances After Orchestra Members Insist On Wearing Contract Shirts

  29-09-2023 18:29 via broadwayworld.com
  
  The musicians’ contract with the ballet has expired. Sticking points include management’s failure to agree to a wage adjustment that would compensate for the musicians working without pay for 15 months, taking a 15% pay cut in 2021, and currently working for 9% below their 2019 compensation. – Broadway World
  
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• How To Memorialize Dawn Powell When We Can’t Find Her Grave?

  29-09-2023 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “She now inspires the kind of devotion that might include pilgrimages to her gravesite — had her body not wound up in an unmarked grave in New York City’s potter’s field, on Hart Island off the coast of the Bronx.” Should there be a monument there, or elsewhere in New York? – The New York Times
  
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• Having Just Lost Its Artistic Director, Cincinnati Ballet Loses Its Executive Director

  29-09-2023 17:32 via cincinnati.com
  
  Scott Altman, president and CEO of Cincinnati Ballet, announced Thursday that he is leaving the company to take on those same positions with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. The news comes just six days after artistic director Jodie Gates stepped down from her position following just 14 months on the job. – Cincinnati Enquirer
  
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• Was Christian Thielemann A Wise Choice To Succeed Daniel Barenboim In Berlin?

  29-09-2023 17:03 via van-magazine.com
  
  “Thielemann’s personal canon consists of a handful of German-speaking composers, mostly from the mid-19th to the early-20th centuries, all of whose music benefited massively from the invention of the volume knob. It’s not just that we can’t expect Saariaho from Thielemann; even non-German composers like Janáček and Debussy … seem a stretch.” – Van
  
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• Life As A Dancer At The Moulin Rouge

  29-09-2023 16:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  “There aren’t many jobs in which a cartwheel can make or break your dreams.” – The Independent (UK)
  
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• A Surprise Candidate Beat Damien Hirst As Last Year’s Bestselling Artist At Auction

  29-09-2023 16:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “Aboudia, aka Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, 40, whose art is inspired by street culture in his hometown of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, heads the Hiscox Artist Top 100, … based on the number of artworks sold at auction.” The bestselling artist by cash value? You’ve heard of that one … – The Guardian
  
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• Major Financial Mismanagement Uncovered At Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio As University Takes Over Control

  29-09-2023 15:32 via insideradio.com
  
  California State University Sacramento, the official licensee for CapRadio’s two outlets (news/talk KXJZ 90.9 and classical KXPR 88.9), has assumed control of the stations from CapRadio’s management and board after an audit revealed the irregularities that led to a financial crisis. – Inside Radio
  
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• Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio Nearly Went Bust And Shut Down. What Happens To It Now, Post-Takeover?

  29-09-2023 15:04 via sacbee.com
  
  Cal State U. Sacramento came to the rescue with a cash infusion this summer as CapRadio’s unpaid bills, rent and NPR dues piled up. Here’s a report on who’s owed money and whether NPR programs will keep airing as CSU Sacramento assumes control of operations. – The Sacramento Bee
  
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• This Museum Employee Committed An Unusually Brazen Theft

  29-09-2023 14:30 via cnn.com
  
  The unnamed, now-former collections management staffer at the Deutsches Museum in Munich took one painting right off the gallery wall, replaced it with a forgery and sold it at an auction house. He also stole three artworks from storage and sold two of them. Then he bought himself a Rolls-Royce. – CNN
  
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• Founder Of Philly Fringe Festival Is Stepping Down After 27 Years

  29-09-2023 14:06 via msn.com
  Nick Stuccio established the Philly Fringe in 1997, inspired by a visit to the Edinburgh Fringe. Over the years, the festival has grown from a five-day event to a four-week, thousand-performance bonanza (plus other presentations through the year). Stuccio will depart next April. – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Guernsey museum brings Renoir’s art to island that inspired him

  29-09-2023 12:02
  
  Exhibition honours French impressionist whose landscapes have helped create jobs on island and forge global tiesThe island of Guernsey may be best known as a tax haven for the super-wealthy, a pleasant holiday destination and for the rich milk its docile cows produce.But thanks to a brief sojourn by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 140 years ago, and the bold thinking of culture lovers on the island, it is becoming a draw for art fans. Continue reading...
  
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• American anxiety, Georgian fireworks and a Black British pioneer – the week in art

  29-09-2023 11:55
  
  Philip Guston paints an unhinged States, Claudette Johnson’s haunting drawings get a big show and a magical light is shone on the 18th century – all in your weekly dispatchPhilip GustonCartoon Klansmen smoke and stare in Guston’s grotesque satires on American madness.• Tate Modern, London, 5 October-25 February Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Nature embraces queer people’: inside the Kew show about the LGBTQ+ side of plants

  29-09-2023 11:00
  
  Queer Nature celebrates the astonishing diversity of plants – and looks at how they have inspired LGBTQ+ groups. Our writer enters a world of bisexual flowers and asexual treesThe Ruizia mauritiana is a large green shrub with cascading leaves shaped like lovehearts. There’s one just off the main walkway through the magnificent Temperate House in London’s Kew Gardens, a Victorian marvel nearly 200 metres long. Among all the surrounding greenery, the plant looks unassuming &ndash
  
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• ‘They don’t want to give power to girls’: the women shaking up Colombia’s graffiti scene

  29-09-2023 08:00
  
  In the once war-torn suburb of Medellín, murals draw thousands of tourists a day. Now a group of female artists is challenging the male grip on street art, one wall at a timeA drug-smuggling route runs straight through the Comuna 13 neighbourhood on the outskirts of Medellín, which was once one of the most dangerous places in Colombia. Over the past decade it has been transformed, and is now better known for its colourful murals than for gang warfare.Graffiti tours of the neighbour
  
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• Scotland’s national galleries have ‘long way to go’ to be inclusive, says outgoing chief

  29-09-2023 06:00
  
  Exclusive: Sir John Leighton says galleries still need to broaden audience beyond Edinburgh middle classes and touristsScotland’s national galleries, which house some of the country’s greatest works of art, need to do far more to make themselves accessible and inclusive, their outgoing director general has said.Sir John Leighton, who is retiring in February after 17 years as head of the National Galleries in Scotland (NGS), said the organisation “still has a long way to go&rdqu
  
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• Why AI Companies Are Hiring An Army Of Writers

  29-09-2023 00:01 via restofworld.org
  
  A string of job postings from high-profile training data companies, such as Scale AI and Appen, are recruiting poets, novelists, playwrights, or writers with a PhD or master’s degree.  – Rest of World
  
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• Is Homework Good For Kids?

  29-09-2023 00:01 via thewalrus.ca
  
  “Homework is seen to benefit time management, self-discipline, [and] organizational skills, but there have been no studies that really have shown that homework actually either develops those skills or reinforces them.” – The Walrus
  
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