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• Is AI Ruining Facebook?

  26-04-2024 23:31 via fastcompany.com
  The Meta AI experience has so far been a spam-filled one. Nowhere is that clearer than on Instagram where the search function, once a place to look up a friend’s account, now exists seemingly to usher users into conversation with a chatbot. – Fast Company
  
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• Report On Misogyny In The UK Music Industry Is Rejected

  26-04-2024 23:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The report was widely heralded as a turning point. Finally, the boys’ club of the music industry was laid bare. But on Friday, April 19, the government issued its response to the report’s recommendations – a wholesale rejection. – The Conversation
  
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• German University Study Center Named Best New Building In Europe

  26-04-2024 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The architects describe the building as acting like a microchip on a circuit board, a central meeting point connected to all parts of the university campus. There is no front or back, but nine equal entrances all around the 1,000 square metre (10,760 sq ft) building, making it feel like an open hub. – The Guardian
  
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• No One Is Going To Buy Your Book

  26-04-2024 21:32 via elysian.press
  
  The DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies. – The Elysian
  
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• “The Movie Critic” Was Supposed To Be Quentin Tarantino’s Final Film. Why Did It Fall Apart?

  26-04-2024 21:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  He reportedly had major stars attached and very enthusiastic studio (Sony) behind the project. Yet he dropped it all last week; he’ll still make a 10th film, but it won’t be this one. He’s not saying why, but some observers have ideas. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Exit Interview: Chicago Lyric Opera’s Anthony Freud

  26-04-2024 20:32 via van-magazine.com
  
  I think the simplistic stereotype of my European colleagues assuming that American general directors are kicked around mercilessly by unconscionable wealthy donors is as wrong as the American perspective of European general directors dreaming about art and waiting for the next public funding check to drop through the letterbox. – Van
  
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• Has Tamara Rojo Pulled Off A Miracle At San Francisco Ballet?

  26-04-2024 20:06 via sfstandard.com
  
  A new ballet so popular it got an extra seven performances at the end of the season. Big — and younger — crowds. Conga lines in the lobby at after-parties. In her first four months of programming, Rojo has transformed the vibe at War Memorial Opera House. – The San Francisco Standard
  
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• FCC Fines Non-Profit WBAI For Broadcasting Commercials

  26-04-2024 19:28 via insideradio.com
  FCC Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer says they negotiated a consent decree with Pacifica in which the broadcaster acknowledges that it has violated the underwriting laws and sponsorship ID rules. – Inside Radio
  
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• Over the Stage of Kansas A Lifetime of Charles Plymell’s Inspired Poetry

  26-04-2024 19:12 via artsjournal.com
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• With DeSantis’s Feuds Fading, Government At Disney World Is Blessedly Boring Again

  26-04-2024 19:07 via apnews.com
  
  “What made this (latest) meeting different from most during the past year or so was that it came a month after Disney and DeSantis’s board appointees reached a deal to end their state court lawsuits over DeSantis’s takeover of the district.” – AP
  
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• Is TikTok Going Away Soon? Short Answer: No!

  26-04-2024 18:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Should the court-y things not go in ByteDance’s favor, then? They could always push the next Congress, and the next president, to repeal the law. Or they could simply abide by the legislation and sell this popular asset for scads and scads of cash. – Yahoo!
  
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• Journalists At Italy’s National Broadcaster Plan A Strike Over Political Interference

  26-04-2024 18:04 via reuters.com
  “Journalists at Italian state broadcaster RAI will strike next month in protest against the ‘suffocating control’ over their work by Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government. The reporters’ trade union … criticised political attempts ‘to turn RAI into a mouthpiece for the government’ among … grievances behind the 24-hour strike scheduled for May 6.” – Reuters
  
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• A Moral Obligation To Disrupt On Behalf Of The Planet?

  26-04-2024 17:31 via aeon.co
  
  As a citizen waking up to this terrible truth, as the situation becomes more and more desperate, does the obligation to take desperate measures – in terms of the tactics we’re prepared to undertake, not just the policies we’re looking to bring about – increase? – Aeon
  
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• After 20-Odd Years, Shelley Duvall Has Returned To Acting. Here’s Where She’s Been All This Time.

  26-04-2024 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  She returned to her home state, Texas, and settled in a rural town not far from Austin. Yes, there have been struggles with mental illness and mobility (from a longstanding foot injury), but, at 74, she’s happy to be acting again, and her director praises her work. – The New York Times
  
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• Jazz Is Pulled From Phoenix Public Radio Station KJZZ

  26-04-2024 16:35 via azcentral.com
  
  A statement from station management said, “After years of observing audience data, it is clear that listeners are not staying for music programming. The KJZZ news and information programming has greater loyalty.” (A separate jazz service remains available online and on high-definition radio.) – Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
  
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• A Bad Omen: At Le Moulin Rouge In Paris, The Blades Fell Off The Red Windmill

  26-04-2024 16:02 via bbc.com
  
  “The blades fell onto the street below in the early hours of the morning. The cause of the collapse is not clear. Police say there were no injuries. The first three letters of the Moulin Rouge sign also fell off.” – BBC
  
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• The Onion Has Been Sold To A Very Apt Buyer

  26-04-2024 15:36 via huffpost.com
  
  “Chicago-based firm Global Tetrahedron — which shares a name with a mock corporation that served as a long-running gag on the satirical news site and was featured in its staffers’ 1999 book Our Dumb Century — has purchased The Onion (from) G/O Media.” – HuffPost
  
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• Godard Finished This Film The Day Before He Died. It’s Premiering Next Month At Cannes.

  26-04-2024 15:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “Scénarios is an 18-minute short that the film-maker finished in 2022 the day before he died via an assisted suicide procedure in Switzerland. Godard also made an accompanying 34-minute introduction which is a combination of ‘still and moving images, halfway between reading and seeing’ that will be screened alongside it.” – The Guardian
  
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• Esperanza Spalding, Chay Yew, Nataki Garrett Among Winners Of $525,000 Doris Duke Artist Awards

  26-04-2024 14:38 via dorisduke.org
  The MacArthur-like prizes, given annually to up to six artists working in contemporary dance, theater, and jazz, go this year to theater directors Chay Yew and Nataki Garrett, dance artists Shamel Pitts and Acosia Red Elk, and jazz musicians esperanza spalding and Miguel Zenón. – Doris Duke Foundation
  
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• ‘Massive and exciting impact’: show celebrates Spain’s first abstract art museum

  26-04-2024 14:09
  
  Exhibition explores how a Spanish-Filipino artist in 1966 opened a trailblazing cultural outpost in Cuenca’s ‘hanging houses’In July 1966, as the Beatles were preparing to release Revolver and Spain was approaching the 30th anniversary of the coup that birthed the Franco dictatorship, a Spanish-Filipino artist called Fernando Zóbel threw open the doors of an improbable but visionary cultural outpost.Based in a clutch of 15th-century houses overhanging a precipitous gorge
  
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• The Louvre Is Considering Moving Mona Lisa To Its Own Underground Room

  26-04-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  “A recent survey showed tourists did not enjoy the experience (of seeing the famous portrait), with comments ranging from ‘never been so disappointed’ to ‘torture.'” Says the museum’s director, “Moving the Mona Lisa to a separate room could put an end to public disappointment.” – The Telegraph (UK) (MSN)
  
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• Hairy paint, boozy sculpture and Michelangelo’s final years – the week in art

  26-04-2024 13:24
  
  The Renaissance master dazzles, Rasheed Araeen goes for drinks and Peppi Botrop really mixes media – all in your weekly dispatchMichelangelo: The Last Decades
  Passionate and confessional drawings by one of the greatest artists of all time.
  • British Museum, London, from 2 May until 28 July Continue reading...
  
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• Experience: I’m making a lifesize replica of the Bayeux tapestry

  26-04-2024 11:00
  
  It’s been eight years since I started, and I’m now 44 metres in. It’s taken its tollI first set eyes on the Bayeux tapestry thanks to a wrong turn. My husband was driving us across France, missed an exit, and we accidentally ended up in the town of Bayeux.I live in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, but having grown up in Sweden, I’d only been vaguely aware of the tapestry. I knew 1066 was a significant date for the English, but history lessons had bored me at school. I’d alw
  
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• The Recycle Wars: When Literature Begets Literature

  26-04-2024 00:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The rewriting of old books is hardly a new practice, though it’s one that critics often like to complain about. Doesn’t anyone have an original idea? Can’t we just leave the classics alone? – The New York Times
  
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