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• Scientists Are Trying To Measure Our Emotional Reaction To Art

  10-04-2024 23:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  New scientific investigations into the embodied experience of viewing art point us toward more concrete answers, but also more questions. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Claim: YouTube Is The Most Consequential Technology In America

  10-04-2024 23:02 via washingtonpost.com
  Maybe you don’t know that YouTube is also the most popular way to hear music and one of the country’s largest cable TV providers. YouTube is the healthiest economy on the internet. And it has been rocket fuel for artificial intelligence. – Washington Post
  
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• AI Companies Are Running Out Of Data

  10-04-2024 22:32 via wsj.com
  Ever more powerful systems developed by OpenAI, Google and others require larger oceans of information to learn from. That demand is straining the available pool of quality public data online at the same time that some data owners are blocking access to AI companies. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Meta Considered Buying Simon & Schuster To Train Its AI

  10-04-2024 22:29 via theguardian.com
  
  According to the recordings, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s vice president of generative AI, told executives that the company had used almost every book, poem and essay written in English available on the internet to train models, so was looking for new sources of training material. – The Guardian
  
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• Motion Picture Association Ramps Up Anti-Piracy Plan

  10-04-2024 22:01 via theverge.com
  
  If the MPA’s plan sounds familiar, it’s because it has tried this before. It helped hatch the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2012, which would’ve restricted access to websites containing pirated content. – The Verge
  
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• UMG’s Fight With TikTok Is Hurting Musicians

  10-04-2024 21:32 via variety.com
  
  “TikTok is how you get the word out about a new song — and now you’re muting someone’s entire catalog? The labels say TikTok is so important and push their artists to [be active on the platform], and now they can’t?” – Variety
  
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• Now That Breakdancing Is An Olympic Sport, Could Pole-Dancing Be Next?

  10-04-2024 21:05 via reuters.com
  “With breaking making its first Olympic appearance at the Paris Games later this year, pole dancers feel it could soon be their turn to be in the limelight, although it could come at the cost of losing the spirit of the discipline.” – Reuters
  
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• Spotify Has Demonetized Music Tracks With Fewer Than 1000 Plays

  10-04-2024 20:31 via euronews.com
  In an attempt to tackle fraudulent activity on the platform, the digital music service now also requires a minimum number of unique listeners for royalties to be generated. In addition, the length of play-time required for so-called “functional content” (such as white noise) to generate royalty payments has increased. – Eurozine
  
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• Hindu Nationalism And The Taj Mahal

  10-04-2024 20:04 via daily.jstor.org
  
  “How does the Taj Mahal’s history — one that has come to visually represent the period of the Mughal Empire, an Islamic empire — sit within the narrative of a contemporary India during a period when the Hindu nationalist movement is seeking to minimize, or perhaps erase, its Islamic past?” – JSTOR Daily
  
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• Fraud Fail: Musicians Are Seeing Their Music Being Taken Down From Streaming Services

  10-04-2024 19:32 via artsjournal.com
  Although distributors and streaming services frequently use language that places the blame on the artist for fraudulent activity detected on their accounts, it has become clear that artists are often caught in the middle of a crossfire between streaming services, distributors and fraudsters attempting to game the system for their own financial gain. – Variety
  
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• “Master And Margarita” Film Is A Major Hit In Russia. Its American Director Is Getting Death Threats From Putinists.

  10-04-2024 19:06 via msn.com
  “The film’s themes struck a chord in a country where dissent had been criminalized and fear of arbitrary arrest was pervasive. … Still, the backlash was swift. Putin’s propagandists … denounced (Michael Lockshin) as a traitor to his adopted country. They called for the film’s banning and the director’s prosecution.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Apps That Summarize Books Are A Multi-Threat Danger To Publishing

  10-04-2024 18:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Since these digital services first promised to boil down a title, usually a nonfiction work, a decade ago, the marketplace has become crowded. So much so that authors and publishers are concerned about the damage to sales, as well as to the habit of concentrated reading. – The Guardian
  
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• Can Italy Demand Licensing Fees For The Use Of Leonardo’s “Vitruvian Man”?

  10-04-2024 17:58 via nytimes.com
  
  In 2004 Italy adopted a law allowing museums to request payment for commercial reproduction of “cultural properties.” So the Italian government and the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice (which holds Leonardo’s original) are suing the German manufacturer of a “Vitruvian Man” puzzle. Is the claim valid beyond Italy’s borders? – The New York Times
  
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• ‘It’s our job to change it for the better’: can artists influence the US election?

  10-04-2024 17:48
  
  A new campaign brings together major names in the art world, including Shepard Fairey and Carrie Mae Weems, to urge voters to choose democracy over fascism“I think what we’ve learned is that one man’s hope is another man’s fear,” broadcaster Alex Wagner observed in the final episode of the Showtime channel’s The Circus. “Barack Obama was the embodiment of hope for a lot of people and the embodiment of fear for a sizable portion of this country. And the s
  
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• Librarians Under Threat Of Jail, Lawsuits In Trump 2nd-Term Agenda

  10-04-2024 17:31 via apnews.com
  
  In the foreword to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a possible second Donald Trump administration, it says “people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders.” – AP
  
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• Trevor Griffiths, Screenwriter And Playwright Dedicated To Social And Political Change, Is Dead At 88

  10-04-2024 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “(He) was the most politically literate working-class dramatist and screenwriter of our times, a scholar of Marx, Gramsci and Trotsky, who translated his passion into a series of plays and television dramas without equal.” – The Guardian
  
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• Richard Serra: Six Large Drawings review – planes of black that pull you under

  10-04-2024 17:00
  
  David Zwirner, London
  The artist’s posthumous show features dramatic drawings on delicate paper, etched with thick oil sticks – a magisterial play on ideas of weight and lightImpenetrable as an asteroid or a moon in full eclipse, and as scabbed and pitted as a rusty cannonball, a black circle looms from the darkness. The disc has a mass and heft you can feel; I don’t know whether it is about to bowl me over or suck me in. The disc leans a little to the right of the square sheet
  
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• $5 Billion Rescue Package For Struggling Nonprofit Theaters Introduced In U.S. Congress

  10-04-2024 16:34 via nytimes.com
  
  The STAGE Act of 2024, sponsored by three Senators and one Congresswoman (all Democrats), “would direct $1 billion annually to the struggling industry for five years. That money could be used for payroll and workforce development, as well as other expenses like rent, set-building and marketing.” – The New York Times
  
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• Mattel Introduces A New, Less Intimidating Version Of Scrabble

  10-04-2024 16:02 via bbc.com
  
  “The new double-sided Scrabble board will still feature the original game. … But the new game on the flip side will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system and be quicker to play. The new board, Scrabble Together, will also allow people to compete in teams.” – BBC
  
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• Conductor Edo De Waart Suddenly Announces His Retirement

  10-04-2024 15:35 via www-nporadio4-nl.translate.goog
  Said the 82-year-old this morning, “I woke up at 5:30 yesterday morning to get ready for rehearsal and I thought, what am I even doing? I was wobbly on my feet, and then I thought, I just shouldn’t do it anymore.” – NPO Radio 4 (Netherlands) (via Google Translate)
  
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• Not For The First Time, People Look To The Arts To Revive Downtown L.A.

  10-04-2024 15:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The pandemic and the shift toward remote working have hit Los Angeles as hard as they have other cities. That includes performing and visual arts, whose attendance numbers are (mostly) not back to 2019 levels. Yet several downtown cultural institutions are keeping hope alive, investing in major expansions. – The New York Times
  
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• Finally, Some Good News For Orlando Museum of Art: A Major Gift Of Artworks

  10-04-2024 14:36 via msn.com
  “(The donation) of more than 300 pieces, including works by Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, greatly diversifies the permanent holdings. The gift also opens a relationship with a New York City museum, sparks new educational opportunities and offers the beleaguered institution a morale-boosting sign of support.” – Orlando Sentinel (MSN)
  
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• Oakland Symphony Names Music Director To Succeed Late Michael Morgan

  10-04-2024 14:00 via oaklandside.org
  Kedrick Armstrong, a 29-year-old “Black queer kid from Georgetown, South Carolina,” starts the job immediately, but his first concert will be next October’s season opener. In this Q&A, he compares conducting to cooking his favorite dish, shrimp and grits. – The Oaklandside
  
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• CFO- Arena Stage

  10-04-2024 01:10 via artsjournal.com
  Arena Stage is seeking qualified candidates to serve as its next Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The CFO is a critical member of the Senior Management Team and important ally to Arena’s co-leaders providing operational leadership and oversight in all matters of ongoing financial management, accounting and strategic business development.
  As a decisive “big picture” thinker, the CFO will be a collaborative and forward-thinking leader, someone who positively engages with people, al
  
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• Does Science Fiction Help Define The Future?

  10-04-2024 00:01 via nautil.us
  
  Science fiction prides itself on being visionary, but like any literary genre, it just ends up examining whatever issues the author is working through in the present. We just do it more allegorically.  – Nautilus
  
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