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• Scientists Believe Neural Networks Have Cracked Critical Essence Of Intelligence

  30-10-2023 22:01 via livescience.com
  
   Since the 1980s, a subset of cognitive scientists have argued that neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), aren’t viable models of the mind because their architecture fails to capture a key feature of how humans think.  But with training, neural networks can now gain this human-like ability. – Live Science
  
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• New Yorker Magazine’s Most-Popular Cartoon Ever Breaks Record For Sale Of A Cartoon

  30-10-2023 21:08 via news.artnet.com
  
  That comic, which has gone on to be the most reprinted in the magazine’s history, proves so enduringly popular that it recently sold at auction for a whopping $175,000, the highest price for a single cartoon on record. – Artnet
  
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• The Cultural Cold War Revisited — and Cultural Diplomacy in Africa Today

  30-10-2023 20:53 via artsjournal.com
  
  Leonard Bernstein at a USIA exhibit in Moscow in 1959
  The vanishing presence of the arts in
  
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• Neuro-Study: Why We Communicate Less Well Over Video Conference

  30-10-2023 20:03 via neurosciencenews.com
  
  The research suggests online faces, with present technology, don’t engage our social neural circuits as effectively. – Neuroscience News
  
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• Why AI Doesn’t Understand Slang

  30-10-2023 19:12 via theatlantic.com
  
  Language models, in the most basic sense, represent our 26-letter alphabet in strings of numbers. Those digits might efficiently condense large amounts of information. But that efficiency comes at the price of subtlety, richness, and detail—the ability to reflect the complexities of human experience, and to resist the prescriptions of formal society. – The Atlantic
  
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• Roger Owen obituary

  30-10-2023 19:08
  
  My husband, Roger Owen, who has died of cancer aged 66, was a talented artist and potter who spent much of his life teaching and inspiring others.After his retirement from City of Bristol College in 2015, he was able to concentrate on making things again. He combined his talents of craftsmanship and mark making to create huge platters, beautifully decorated with large brushwork designs. These he sold in the Potters, an artist-led co-operative in Bristol, and in many galleries throughout the sout
  
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• A Portland Oregon Theatre Lays Off Staff (Including Its Artistic Director) But Is Still Opening Its New Space

  30-10-2023 18:20 via orartswatch.org
  
  It’s certainly arguable that the company overreached in pursuing such an extensive rebuild, rather than limping along in what was left of the old space. – Oregon Arts Watch
  
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• Expanding An Orchestra’s Mission To Community

  30-10-2023 17:34 via pbs.org
  
  At a time when many classical music and other traditional arts organizations are facing major challenges, a young conductor in Louisville, Kentucky, is expanding the playbook. – PBS NewsHour
  
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• Biologist Turns Amateur Art Sleuth And Cracks An Art History Puzzle

  30-10-2023 16:44 via theguardian.com
  
  “I would love it if someone published a paper about one of the three paintings confirming or refuting my findings, so we could start a high level academic discussion about this.” – The Guardian
  
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• What Happened To Dawn Powell’s Books, And Her Body?

  30-10-2023 16:00 via npr.org
  
  “A generational talent of New York was buried in its heart, but lost to the world and those who knew her.” – NPR
  
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• London City Ballet Went Silent In The 1990s, But It’s Back

  30-10-2023 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  This is an ambitious time to revive a ballet company, but on the other hand – crucially, when you’ve already secured the first three years’ funding – why not? – The New York Times
  
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• The New York Times’s First-Ever Mixtaper

  30-10-2023 15:00 via niemanlab.org
  
  “In the age of digital streaming platforms, the act of discovering music … has become streamlined and anonymized,” says Lindsay Zoladz. “I wanted to put some of the spontaneity and human connection back into that experience.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• When Collectors Die

  30-10-2023 14:45 via bbc.com
  
  The BBC has recovered three missing episodes of shows from the 1960s – episodes it had probably thrown out. Luckily, collectors “saved them from the skip.” – BBC
  
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• The longer you look, the darker it gets: reassessing Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss

  30-10-2023 14:36
  
  Is the woman unconscious? Could the man’s embrace be violent? A new film invites us to challenge our preconceptions about the gilded masterpieceSome paintings become so iconic that it is difficult to remember that they are in fact paintings, not just posters on the walls of dorm rooms stained with Blu-Tack. Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss is a prime example. Because we encounter it most often in tattered poster form, or on mugs or keychains or some other kind of tat, it has ascended (or desc
  
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• There Is No Oppenheimer Without This Austrian Jewish Woman Physicist

  30-10-2023 14:30 via lithub.com
  
  But there’s no $1 billion-grossing biographic movie about Dr. Lise Meitner. – LitHub
  
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• When A Small-Town Story Goes To New York

  30-10-2023 14:15 via klcc.org
  
  It’s not easy to get one of the slots at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Music, but this countries-spanning musical beat hundreds of others on its way to the show. – KLCC (Oregon)
  
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• The Lure Of, And Fight Against, Fake Art

  30-10-2023 14:15 via english.elpais.com
  
  “Sometimes it involves millions of dollars. It could be the plot for a series on Netflix. They falsify the certificates, even using real notary seals and use typewriters with ink from the fraudulent time of certification to recreate them.” – El País
  
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• No, Book Bans Don’t ‘Help’ Authors

  30-10-2023 14:00 via bookriot.com
  
  One or two banned and censored books doing well on bestseller lists means little to the hundreds of other authors, and topics, that kids in some areas will never get to see. – Book Riot
  
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• The Singing Star Finally Getting Her Due

  30-10-2023 13:45 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s been 50 years since Peruvian singer Lucha Reyes – who’s now often compared to Piaf – died. But technology, and devoted fans, has her name on everyone’s lips.– The Observer (UK)
  
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• When Cookbooks Start To Tell The Truth

  30-10-2023 13:30 via slate.com
  
  The final part of cooking comes after the meal – and in one cookbook, “the absolute last bit of instruction in the book is titled ‘How to Mostly Love Doing the Dishes.'” – Slate
  
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• Studios, Actors Still Talking After A Weekend Of Negotiations

  30-10-2023 13:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Caveat to optimistic studio press releases: “Issues remain unresolved with the actors, including protections around the use of artificial intelligence technology to create digital replicas of their likenesses without payment or approval.” – The New York Times
  
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• Was Roy Lichtenstein’s Art All About Theft?

  30-10-2023 13:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  A “radical leftist” cartoonist weighs in. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Meg Ryan Would Like To Talk About What Happens After The Rom-Com Ends

  30-10-2023 12:45 via nytimes.com
  
  She rode a wave of 1980s and 1990s rom-coms to superstardom, and that no longer interests her. Now, she wants a story that asks “vulnerable, wounded questions.” – The New York Times
  
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• Taylor Swift’s Re-Recording Of A 2014 Album Smashes A Spotify Record

  30-10-2023 12:30 via latimes.com
  
  Though her movie fell to second at the box office, Swift still set a record over the weekend, as fans streamed her re-recorded 1989 like none before in Spotify’s 15-year history. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A CBC Investigation Claims Buffy Sainte-Marie Isn’t Indigenous At All

  30-10-2023 12:15 via cbc.ca
  
  “Her account of her ancestry has been a shifting narrative, full of inconsistencies and inaccuracies.” – CBC
  
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• The Owl Who Got Stuck In A Big Typewriter Eraser

  30-10-2023 12:00 via washingtonpost.com
  In early October, an injured barred owl was found in the National Gallery’s iconic Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. – Washington Post
  
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• Stanley Spencer’s ‘village in heaven’: an arty weekend in Cookham, Berkshire

  30-10-2023 08:00
  
  The bucolic banks of the Thames, dotted with fine pubs and historic locations, make a picturesque setting for exploring the life and times of one of England’s greatest artistsCookham, a Thames-side village in Berkshire, was described as “a village in heaven” by the artist Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), who lived there most of his life. He is best known for his paintings of biblical events transposed to Cookham’s streets, gardens and riverbanks. Today the village houses the
  
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• Apolonia Apolonia review – artist and film-maker evolve together in artworld memoir

  30-10-2023 08:00
  
  The hypocrisies of the art world are exposed in this epic undertaking that sees the development of both the film’s subject and its directorFilmed over the course of 13 years, Lea Glob’s dynamic and intimate portrait of figurative painter Apolonia Sokol also charts the twin evolution of two women: the one in front of the camera and the one behind it. Having grown up in a bohemian Parisian theatre founded by her parents, Sokol seems destined to make her name as an artist, though her jo
  
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• ‘This is our reality’: the Ukrainian artist putting bomb-blasted roads in a gallery

  30-10-2023 06:00
  
  Some artists use paintbrushes. Zhanna Kadyrova uses an AK-47. And for her latest show, she braved unexploded mines to turn the shrapnel-hit roads of a formerly occupied town into astonishing artViewed from a distance, Zhanna Kadyrova’s latest works might seem like abstract and very heavily impastoed paintings. Close up, however, they soon reveal themselves for what they are: sizeable rectangles of asphalt – actual bits of road – pitted and scarred from violent showers of shrapn
  
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