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• A New AI Worry – Its Ability To Manipulate Viewers Subliminally

  17-10-2023 23:56 via news.artnet.com
  
  A.I.-centric handwringing concerns the potential to generate images with hidden, subliminal messages. The supposed danger is that brands will start producing carefully doctored images that subtly embed their logos. Previously, the existential threat was A.I.’s looming global takeover; now the concern is that it will be used to control and manipulate the masses. – Artnet
  
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• Uncanceled: Kevin Spacey Performs At Oxford

  17-10-2023 23:29 via variety.com
  
  “In an era of cancellation and defenestration we sometimes forget that we cannot go on like this and that we have been here before. We know this because our greatest writers and artists have addressed this question in their own times.” – Variety
  
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• What Happens To An Artist’s Work When The Technology It’s Created In Goes Obsolete?

  17-10-2023 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Rather than keep stockpiles of expensive and obsolete technology in storage, museums have to find clever ways around software updates, from video game emulators to server farms to niche businesses like CTL. But they, too, have a life span as short as, or shorter than, those of light bulbs. – The New York Times
  
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• Barenboim: My Israeli/Palestinian Orchestra Found Common Ground. We Need To Move Forward

  17-10-2023 22:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Do we surrender to this terrible violence and let our striving for peace die – or do we insist that there must and can be peace? I am convinced that we have to move on and keep the larger context of the conflict in mind. – The Guardian
  
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• Generative AI And The Next Generation Of Spirituality

  17-10-2023 22:01 via wired.com
  
  We’re in a spiritual revolution. Access to astrology and other spiritual practices has proliferated across witchy corners of the internet, with many tools fully embracing artificial intelligence as part of the supernatural process. – Wired
  
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• Ukraine’s National Orchestra Regathers Its Musicians And Tours

  17-10-2023 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Many of the orchestra’s musicians scattered. Some stayed, volunteering in field kitchens, doing what they could to help the effort to push back the Russians from the capital. And it wasn’t long before the orchestra started performing again – reuniting first at La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, in April 2022. – The Guardian
  
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• The Textual Version Of Junk Food? The Selfie Of Grammar? No! In Defense Of The Exclamation Point

  17-10-2023 21:03 via themillions.com
  
  “For hundreds of years, writers enjoyed the punchy power of a well-placed !, wielding its mighty sword of ‘here be feelings!’ with aplomb and persuasiveness. Here are five ways that literature can recuperate the abused exclamation point.” – The Millions
  
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• Startling: Americans Without A College Degree Have Dramatically Lower Life Expectancy

  17-10-2023 20:29 via nytimes.com
  
  For those without college degrees, life expectancy reached its peak around 2010 and has been falling since, an unfolding disaster that has attracted little attention in the media or among elected officials. – The New York Times
  
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• Watching Jesse Green Review A Broadway Show

  17-10-2023 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  New York Times editor and culture writer Sarah Bahr tags along with the paper’s chief critic to a preview of Gutenberg! The Musical and talks to him about how (and why) he works as he does. – The New York Times
  
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• New Owner Eliminates Half Of Bandcamp’s Employees

  17-10-2023 19:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Half the staff at Bandcamp, the online music platform known for championing independent artists and labels, have been laid off following the recent purchase of the company by music licensing startup Songtradr. – The Guardian
  
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• She Was Majoring In Dance When She Had To Have Her Leg Amputated. She Still Teaches Ballet Today.

  17-10-2023 19:02 via insider.com
  
  Kara Skrubis recounts how she was diagnosed with bone cancer while in college. It was a long road to recovery, but when she got her prosthesis, she put a ballet shoe on it and went to dance class. Three years later, she danced a solo with her university program. – Insider
  
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• How We Determine Copyright Law Is An Existential Issue For AI

  17-10-2023 18:27 via slate.com
  
  Legal experts told me that copyright challenges pose a near-existential threat to existing A.I. models if the way they’re being trained isn’t aboveboard. If they can’t ingest mountains of data—which until now they’ve largely done without paying for that data—they won’t work. – Slate
  
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• This Fancy New Arts Venue Is Right Across From The Eiffel Tower. It’s Meant To Be Temporary, Just like The Eiffel Tower Was.

  17-10-2023 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The Grand Palais Éphémère, at the south end of the Champ de Mars in Paris, opened in 2021 as a short-term replacement for the Grand Palais. It’s hosting concerts and art exhibitions and will be used for several events at the 2024 Olympics. – The New York Times
  
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• The Internet Is Broken. Here’s How We Should Fix It

  17-10-2023 17:31 via technologyreview.com
  
  The internet is worth fighting for because despite all the misery, there’s still so much good to be found there. And yet, fixing online discourse is the definition of a hard problem. But look. Don’t worry. I have an idea. – MIT Technology Review
  
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• “Barbenheimer” Was So Much Work, It’s Been Driving Movie Theater Workers To Unionize

  17-10-2023 17:01 via apnews.com
  
  “‘That really pushed us to the edge,’ says Maggie Quick, a guest attendant. ‘It was just the constant understaffing and the emotional exhaustion.'” Union recognition has gone smoothly enough at some indie cinemas; Alamo Drafthouse, however, is another matter. – AP
  
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• Arundhati Roy Criminally Charged In India For A Speech She Gave 13 Years Ago

  17-10-2023 16:35 via theconversation.com
  
  The author of The God of Small Things gave a speech about Kashmir and the Indian government’s counterinsurgency campaign there at a conference in Delhi in 2010. She’s now “accused of making statements promoting social enmity, prejudicing national integration and inciting offences against the state and public tranquillity.” – The Conversation
  
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• One of Iran’s Leading Filmmakers And His Wife Found Murdered Outside Their Home

  17-10-2023 16:06 via apnews.com
  
  Dariush Mehrjui, 83, one of the founders of Iran’s “new wave,” and his wife/co-screenwriter/costume designer, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were discovered by their daughter with knife wounds in their necks. – AP
  
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• Oops! We’ve Lost Our Rodin …

  17-10-2023 15:36 via theguardian.com
  
  A plaster version of The Burghers of Calais, now thought to be worth £3 million, is one of 1,750 works owned by the museums of the city of Glasgow and now described as “unlocated.” The sculpture was last on display in 1949, when it was damaged. – The Guardian (AFP)
  
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• “The Problem Child Of International Orchestras”? Serious Issues In Philadelphia As Management And Musicians Square Off

  17-10-2023 15:04 via msn.com
  Contract negotiations drag on. Players say they want salaries that can attract top talent. Management says it wants to pay better but the cash just isn’t there. And with the orchestra having merged with the Kimmel Center in 2021, a strike could upend the city’s entire arts ecosystem. – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Bomb Threats At Louvre And Versailles Lead To Tight Security At Paris Art Museums

  17-10-2023 14:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  Both venues were evacuated on Saturday after the threats came in. Heightened security will remain in place at least through the opening of Paris+ (an Art Basel fair) on Thursday. – Artnet
  
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• Maryland Lyric Opera Has Shut Down

  17-10-2023 14:05 via washingtonclassicalreview.com
  “In an internal memo, … the group’s founder and artistic director, Brad Clark, has announced he will end the operations of Maryland Lyric Opera, effective immediately. Clark, the son of billionaire construction mogul A. James Clark, founded Maryland Lyric Opera in 2014.” – Washington Classical Review
  
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• Dutch art sleuth recovers a further six stolen paintings

  17-10-2023 11:17
  
  ‘Indiana Jones of art world’ says works taken from Medemblik town hall were dropped off at his homeEurope live – latest updatesA Dutch art detective known as the “Indiana Jones of the art world” has recovered a further six paintings, including a portrait of William of Orange and the first depiction of a 7th-century king.Arthur Brand, who made headlines around the world last month when he recovered a stolen Van Gogh stuffed in an Ikea bag, believes his widely publici
  
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• Artistic Director – Central City Opera

  17-10-2023 02:02 via artsjournal.com
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  Central City Opera (CCO) seeks a committed artistic leader with expansive vision to guide and implement the company’s artistic and educational activities with energy, commitment, and deep collaboration skills. The new Artistic Director will serve as a well-connected ambassador for the company throughout the international opera network and as the lead producer of CCO’s annual fes
  
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