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• New Technologies Usually Arrive In Clusters. So What’s Coming With AI?

  13-10-2023 23:58 via artsjournal.com
  The potential — and hype — surrounding machine learning, artificial intelligence, and especially generative AI is everywhere. Some are predicting a full suite of “this changes everything” advances in all industries, for all professions, and for people in their public and private lives. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Disney Is 100-Years-Old: Its Business Smarts Have Been Its Superpower

  13-10-2023 23:32 via theconversation.com
  
  The business acumen of those behind the scenes at Disney have been central to the peaks and troughs of the company’s enduring presence in the film industry and popular culture at large. – The Conversation
  
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• When Public Art Is Funded By Corporate Interests (Yes, There Are Issues)

  13-10-2023 23:01 via metrotimes.com
  
  While publicized as an investment in art and beautifying the city, the location, impact, and funding sources of these murals seem to correspond closely with private real estate and corporate investments. – Metro Times Detroit
  
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• Why Disney Is Going All In On Sports Betting

  13-10-2023 22:28 via wsj.com
  
  Sports betting company Penn Entertainment will pay Disney $1.5 billion in cash while ESPN will receive warrants worth about $500 million to purchase shares in the gambling company. Penn will operate the app and Disney will help market it. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• What It Costs When A Big Concert Is Canceled

  13-10-2023 22:01 via wsj.com
  
  Generally speaking, a sudden cancellation could mean an arena loses out on roughly $500,000 in revenue, according to some estimates. For music’s largest shows—stadium events—a dark night could mean the venue misses out on up to $1 million or more. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• The Lines Between Galleries And Museums Has Blurred

  13-10-2023 21:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  In an increasingly difficult fundraising climate, dealer involvement in museum shows has become ever more prevalent. This begs the question: are the works we see on museum walls actually for sale? – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Why Does Ukraine’s National Ballet Perform For Only 400 People At A Time?

  13-10-2023 21:04 via thestar.com
  
  Because that’s how many people the bomb shelter at their home theater in Kyiv can hold. (No, this is not a joke.) – Toronto Star
  
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• The Movie “Oppenheimer” Versus The Opera “Dr. Atomic”: Is Opera Better At Ambiguity?

  13-10-2023 20:31 via van-magazine.com
  
  Is musical drama better suited than film to represent tragedy without manipulating its audience? – Van
  
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• The Block On Enforcing Florida’s Anti-Drag Law Remains In Place For Now, Rules Appeals Court

  13-10-2023 20:05 via apnews.com
  
  “A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s granting of a preliminary injunction stopping the law from being enforced until a trial is held in Orlando to determine its constitutionality.” – AP
  
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• Public Radio’s Largest Station Steps Back (A Bit) From Podcasts

  13-10-2023 19:28 via theverge.com
  
  Last week, 6 percent of New York Public Radio’s workforce was let go — with most of the cuts targeting its podcast vertical, WNYC Studios. – The Verge
  
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• AI Has Helped Read The First Word Deciphered From Ancient Scrolls Carbonized By Mt. Vesuvius

  13-10-2023 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  The scrolls, intact but carbonized and impossible to unroll, came from a library in Herculaneum destroyed by the 79 AD eruption that both wiped out and preserved Pompeii. Thousands of 3D X-ray images were released, and computer scientists took up what’s called the Vesuvius Challenge to decipher them. – The Guardian
  
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• Best Buy On The Leading Edge: Will (Finally) Stop Selling DVDs

  13-10-2023 18:31 via variety.com
  
   “To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today than it was decades ago,” a Best Buy spokesperson said. – Variety
  
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• New York’s Under The Radar Festival, Canceled By The Public Theater, Is Revived By New Partners

  13-10-2023 18:06 via playbill.com
  
  The January festival of new and experimental theater has been reassembled by founder/director Mark Russell, indie production company ArkType, and over a dozen theater companies ranging from La MaMa and Mabou Mines to St. Ann’s Warehouse and Soho Rep to the Japan Society and Lincoln Center. – Playbill
  
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• Coming To A Mall Near You: Bricks-And-Mortar Netflix Stores

  13-10-2023 17:32 via engadget.com
  
  The stores will sell merchandise based on hit Netflix shows, so you can finally snag that Lincoln Lawyer coffee mug you’ve always dreamed of. – Engadget
  
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• Painting Stolen From Glasgow Museum 30 Years Ago Has Been Returned

  13-10-2023 16:59 via bbc.com
  
  In 1989, a group of thieves disabled an alarm system and broke into the Haggs Castle Museum of Childhood and stole a cache of items, all missing until now. Robert Gemmell Hutchison’s painting Children Wading (1918) was located after being consigned to a Yorkshire auction house by unsuspecting owners. – BBC
  
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• Kharkiv’s Opera House Has Been Wrecked By Russian Missiles, But Its Company Continues To Make Music

  13-10-2023 16:31 via theguardian.com
  
  “In this, the 148th season of the company, the tiny core of remaining artists” – most of them escaped to Lithuania and are touring Europe to earn cash – “is battling on in Kharkiv to bring live music, song and dance to the city.” – The Guardian
  
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• Chicago Seems Unable To Keep A Period-Instrument Orchestra. So It’s Adopting Cleveland’s.

  13-10-2023 16:04 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  The city’s own Baroque-instrument ensembles seem to run out of energy and money after no more than ten years. (The venerable Music of the Baroque persists in playing modern instruments.) But Cleveland-based Apollo’s Fire now has a growing concert season and school residency in Chicago. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• “Extraordinary. And Exhausting.” How The Staff Is Coping With Management Chaos At Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio

  13-10-2023 15:32 via msn.com
  “An audit showing unpaid bills. More than half of CapRadio’s board later resigned. Potential conflicts of interest came to light. News from competitors … was how staff members said they often first learned about each instance. … Sadness, worry and exhaustion poured out from employees.” – MSN (The Sacramento Bee)
  
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• PBS’s Fall Schedule Is Almost Completely Unaffected By The Strikes. How Did They Pull That Off?

  13-10-2023 15:05 via variety.com
  
  “In fact, according to PBS’s chief programming executive, … just one program on its fall lineup was impacted by the strikes: John Leguizamo’s American História: The Untold History of Latinos. PBS replaced it with another docuseries, Becoming Frida Kahlo.” How’d they manage that? Separate union contracts. – Variety
  
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• The Gettysburg Review Is Abruptly Shut Down By Gettysburg College

  13-10-2023 14:33 via insidehighered.com
  
  The college’s president granted that the Review is “a superb literary journal, does really extraordinary work … (but) its purpose is not the education of students.” Many former interns at the Review disagree. Others say the college has done little do leverage the magazine’s high reputation. – Inside Higher Ed
  
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• Japan’s floating world, Britain’s lakes of paint and California’s sculpted light – the week in art

  13-10-2023 14:22
  
  Also, a newly restored first world war masterpiece and a 400-year-old portrait of one of the world’s first professional female artists – all in your weekly dispatchJapan: Myths to Manga
  Something genuinely innovative – a proper art historical show for the kids, from the floating world to modern manga.
  • Young V&A, London, from 14 October Continue reading...
  
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• Scrotum-Nailing, Bank-Burning Russian Refugee Artist Sentenced To Prison In France For Leaking Sexts

  13-10-2023 14:06 via tinyurl.com
  
  Pyotr Pavlensky was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and fined €20,000 for broadcasting sex videos of politician Benjamin Griveaux, this driving him out of the Paris mayoral race. (Background: Eight months after claiming political asylum in Paris, Pavlensky set fire to the Bank of France.) (in English) – Le Monde (France)
  
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• Disassembled tents, shadow forests, and giant bats: meet the finalists of Wales’s biggest art prize

  13-10-2023 12:00
  
  Unabashedly political, the 10th run of the Artes Mundi contest sees artists reflecting on environmental damage, contested territories, and dark fantasies against the patriarchyWhen the Artes Mundi Prizelaunched in Wales 21 years ago, it was an outlier, and not just because of its uniquely large £40,000 award. Its unabashedly political remit for awarding international art that explores “social realities” and “the human condition” made it an anomaly in a UK that was s
  
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• Robot Fido Scours Pompeii And Finds Work As Tour Guide

  13-10-2023 00:01 via news.artnet.com
  After Learning to Paint and Patrolling the Ruins of Pompeii, a Robot Dog Is Helping Humans Visit an Abandoned Monument in a State of ‘Curated Decay’ – Artnet
  
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