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• San Francisco Symphony Musicians Finally Got A Contract. But There’s An Existential But

  03-10-2023 23:29 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  Like the 45-day budget bill passed by the U.S. Congress the day before, this new contract seems likely to serve as little more than a stopgap designed to tide both parties over toward a more decisive reckoning. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Why Boredom Matters

  03-10-2023 23:01 via firstthings.com
  
  Just as a person cannot be talked out of serious depression or anxiety, rational arguments against boredom seldom avail. A person must take interest in something, which requires initiative and energy. – First Things
  
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• Netflix Will Raise Subscription Price After The Actors Strike

  03-10-2023 22:32 via wsj.com
  
  The streaming service is discussing raising prices in several markets globally, but will likely begin with the U.S. and Canada, according to people familiar with the matter. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• We Need A Lot Better Thinking On AI And The Arts

  03-10-2023 22:01 via thegig.substack.com
  
  I’m not foolish or backward enough to think that AI is a passing fad. It’s a tool that we’ll see incorporated and integrated, like the synthesizers Miles invoked. But — But! — we have the power to prevent a future where the bots run the show. – The Gig
  
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• A Letter To North Carolina Classical Radio: Banning Opera Broadcasts Is An Odd Logic

  03-10-2023 21:56 via current.org
  
  These “time-tested and great operas” that you tout in your letter are rife with misogyny, violence, racism and casual pedophilia. You say you are “happy to broadcast” them, but I suggest you think again. Just because they’re calling someone a whore in Italian doesn’t mean it’s any less offensive. – Current
  
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• There Are Two Kinds Of Science Writers

  03-10-2023 21:29 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Artists are big on literary science writing; craftsmen are big on explanatory science writing. Artists write beautiful prose; craftsmen write clear prose. Artists write relatively few books and are likely to win big book awards like the Pulitzer Prize; craftsmen are content to be merely prolific, often writing dozens or even hundreds of books. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• “The Miller’s Daughter And The Deadbeat Dad” — A Deep Dive Into “Rumpelstiltskin”

  03-10-2023 21:03 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  “There is plenty to uncover in this fairy-tale-noir story of illicit sex, betrayal, obsession, and suicide, but you have to believe it is worth digging. Perhaps if I tell you the story is older than the Bible.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Streaming Is Looking More And More Like The Old Cable Bundles (And It Costs More)

  03-10-2023 20:28 via shellypalmer.com
  The “new” media landscape is starting to look a lot like the “old” media landscape. – Shelly Palmer
  
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• What Do You Get When You Cross African Dance With Arab Dabke?

  03-10-2023 20:05 via aljazeera.com
  
  Palestinian choreographer Sharaf DarZaid decided to find out after befriending a Cameroonian dancer while studying in Paris. Now he performs and teaches Afro-Dabke in Ramallah. – Al Jazeera
  
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• Research: The Intellectual Abilities Required To Lie

  03-10-2023 19:31 via psyche.co
  
  Research suggests that, in addition to more obvious factors – such as moral beliefs about honesty and corresponding emotions such as guilt – the tendency to lie is constrained by the cognitive effort it requires. – Psyche
  
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• One of Turkey’s Major Film Festivals Is Canceled After Directors And Jury Protest The Censorship Of A Film

  03-10-2023 19:04 via cnn.com
  
  “‘I regret to inform filmgoers that we canceled this year’s Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival… due to events beyond our control,’ Muhittin Bocek, Antalya’s mayor, said in a post on X.” – CNN
  
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• Spotify Is All In On AI – Now AI-Created Playlists

  03-10-2023 18:31 via techcrunch.com
  
  Following the successful launch of Spotify’s AI-powered DJ feature and, more recently, added support for AI-translated podcasts, Spotify now appears to be developing another means of using AI in its app: AI-powered playlists. – TechCrunch
  
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• One Of Russia’s Greatest Living Stage Directors Found Himself Marooned In The US. He Got Right Back To Work.

  03-10-2023 18:06 via newyorker.com
  
  Dmitri Krymov had nine different shows running in Moscow when he left for Philadelphia to stage The Cherry Orchard. Then Putin invaded Ukraine, and Krymov’s friends warned him not to come home. Now he’s settled in New York, with his own fledgling theater company, raising the money himself. – The New Yorker
  
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• In Test Of Watermarks For AI, Researchers Were Able To Break Them All

  03-10-2023 17:32 via wired.com
  
  In addition to demonstrating how attackers might remove watermarks, the study shows how it’s possible to add watermarks to human-generated images, triggering false positives. – Wired
  
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• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Says That Social Media-Driven Sanctimony Is Stifling Today’s Literature

  03-10-2023 17:00 via msn.com
  “You can see that even in the small space of a workshop — I constantly have to say to people, ‘It’s okay. You can actually write that’. Because you can see that they’re very worried about what the people in the workshop are going to think.” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• Pianist Russell Sherman, 93

  03-10-2023 16:33 via msn.com
  “(He) was a pianist of arresting insight, majestic technique, and transfiguring grace. In his prime, he was compared with 20th-century luminaries such as Maurizio Pollini and Alfred Brendel. But (he) ultimately chose a quieter path devoted principally to the study and teaching of his art.” – MSN (The Boston Globe)
  
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• ‘What would it be like to be evil?’ Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK

  03-10-2023 16:29
  
  Delayed after the murder of George Floyd, this show has now arrived in Britain accompanied by warnings. Our critic revels in the American’s cartoonish renderings of everyday objects – and the hate groups lurking underneathIn 1970, Philip Guston, who was the most quietly painterly of the generation of abstract American artists known as the abstract expressionists, revealed a new body of work at Marlborough Gallery in New York. Instead of the aggregations of clumpy brushwork, the atmos
  
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• NFL Game Radio Broadcasts Dominate Audience Figures Like They Do On Television

  03-10-2023 16:05 via insideradio.com
  
  “New data from Nielsen shows that NFL games broadcast on the radio attract audiences so large that they outperform the top-rated stations in many markets. … A change in thinking about how radio is measured – which is by daypart, (unlike) program-focused TV – would show similar dominance by the audio broadcasts.” – Inside Radio
  
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• Chicago’s Arts Scene, Post-Pandemic, Is In Genuine “Crisis,” Says New Research Report

  03-10-2023 15:31 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  “The findings paint a picture of a cultural arts landscape plagued by: dwindling audiences and subscriptions; increased costs and shrinking budgets; declines in private funding and sponsorships; and an uncertain future in the wake of the end of government funding. … But there is hope, too.” – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• “It Was Probably One Of The Most Stressful Work Experiences I’ve Ever Had”: Allegations Against Director Roil Worcester Art Museum

  03-10-2023 15:04 via msn.com
  “In roughly 20 interviews with the Globe, former museum employees and board members described a stressful workplace, characterizing (director Matthias) Waschek as an ‘intimidating’ and ‘erratic’ leader prone to ‘lashing out’ at others for perceived social slights and other offenses.” – MSN (The Boston Globe)
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Reject Management’s Contract Offer; Strike Is Possible

  03-10-2023 14:36 via msn.com
  “A union official said that it would seek continued intervention by a federal mediator and continue negotiations, but that a strike was possible. In all, the vote was 81-8 as members of Philadelphia Musician’s Union Local 77 voted against the contract.” – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Dolled up: Design Museum to host Barbie exhibition next year

  03-10-2023 10:00
  
  The London museum has been granted special access to the world-famous toy’s archives in California and will explore her history ‘through a design lens’If this summer’s blockbuster movie has left you longing for more Barbie in your life, help is at hand. An exhibition on the history of the world-famous long-legged doll is to open at the Design Museum in London next year.The museum says it has been granted special access to the Barbie archives in California, and dozens of r
  
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