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• Canada Needs To Rethink Humanities Education

  06-06-2024 23:31 via theconversation.com
  
  While students continue to seek and enjoy advanced study of the social sciences and humanities, the question of “What can you do with that?” resonates far too much. – The Conversation
  
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• Roy Lichtenstein At 100

  06-06-2024 23:01 via observer.com
  
  Roy Lichtenstein, a luminary of the Pop Art movement alongside Andy Warhol, would have celebrated his hundredth birthday last October. His legacy reverberates through the annals of 20th-century art history, leaving a lasting mark on the creative landscape. – New York Observer
  
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• Sales Of Audiobooks Are Solidly Growing

  06-06-2024 22:26 via publishersweekly.com
  
  Robert Thompson, CEO of HarperCollins parent company News Corp, has repeatedly called Spotify a game changer for the audiobook market; the 14% rise in audiobook sales at the publisher in its most recent financial quarter, which accounted for about half of HC’s digital revenue, seemingly proving his point. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• New Zealand’s Creative Sector Is Becoming Financially Unviable

  06-06-2024 22:01 via thebigidea.nz
  A Creative New Zealand report in 2023 revealed creatives earn considerably less than other wage earners: $37,000 a year compared to a general median of $61,800. This will no doubt get worse. – The Big Idea
  
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• Costco To Stop Selling Books

  06-06-2024 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Beginning in January 2025, the company will stop stocking books regularly, and will instead sell them only during the holiday shopping period, from September through December. – The New York Times
  
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• Zines: A Brief History

  06-06-2024 21:04 via qz.com
  
  “The zine — that unruly riff on the glossy magazine, often handmade, always self-published — has long been associated with revolution. DIY dabblers and political thought guerrillas, superfan scenesters and couriers of counterculture have all found a home (therein). … Small presses, indeed, can turn over heavy pages of history. Let’s rifle through them.” – Quartz
  
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• Prominent Publisher Lays Off Seven

  06-06-2024 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The layoffs, which the company described as part of a corporate restructuring, come as major publishing companies have been buffeted by sluggish print sales and rising supply chain costs, and have struggled to find new ways to get books in front of customers who have migrated online. – The New York Times
  
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• Paris Opera Ballet Is Creating A Junior Company

  06-06-2024 20:05 via pointemagazine.com
  
  “Led by director of dance José Martinez, the inaugural … cohort will include 18 dancers — 9 males and 9 females — ages 17 to 23. The paid contracts will be for two seasons, and they are open not just to current Paris Opéra Ballet School students but to dancers from all backgrounds.” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Two Seattle Companies Say They Will Merge

  06-06-2024 19:29 via seattletimes.com
  
  Seattle’s ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company — two of the city’s most enduring theater companies — may soon become one entity, the companies announced Wednesday. – Seattle Times
  
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• This Brave Choreographer Has Created The Fourth Movement Of “Jewels” That Balanchine Never Got Around To

  06-06-2024 19:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Mr. B’s initial plan for Jewels included, along with the now-standard “Emeralds,” “Rubies,” and “Diamonds,” a section titled “Sapphires.” Balanchine said he never finished “Sapphires” because the blue was too hard to get across onstage. Yet Lincoln Jones, director of American Contemporary Ballet, is giving it a try. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Is AI A Threat To Our Egos And Sense Of Self Worth?

  06-06-2024 18:29 via psychologytoday.com
  As artificial intelligence systems outpace human performance on an increasing array of cognitive tasks, they risk undermining the intellectual supremacy upon which we have long staked our self-worth. – Psychology Today
  
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• Strengthening Adoption of Arts/Health Practices through Research: A Five-Point Plan 

  06-06-2024 18:19 via artsjournal.com
  At an event last weekend, I spoke at the invitation of that rarest of entities—a coalition of brain scientists, foundations, and venture capitalists. This group, BrainMind, held a forum inspired by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross’s bestselling book, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.
  Sessions at the forum covered such topics as the neurophysiology of one’s brain “on art,” the arts and physical and mental health, and the arts and learning—but the conver
  
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• Here Comes AI That Will Let Viewers Create Their Own Episodes Of TV Shows (Uh-Oh)

  06-06-2024 18:06 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Fable Studio … (has) announced Showrunner, a platform the company says can write, voice and animate episodes of shows it carries. Under the initial release, users will be able to watch AI-generated series and create their own content — complete with the ability to control dialogue, characters and shot types.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Is Technological Change Outrunning Our Ability To Evolve?

  06-06-2024 17:31 via phys.org
  The modern world is replete with things that make our once-adaptive instincts go awry. – Phys.org
  
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• How Spotify Got Itself Into Several Great Big Messes At Once

  06-06-2024 17:03 via msn.com
  “(CEO Daniel) Ek probably isn’t too bothered by the lawsuits, or the burdens of running a (post-massive-layoffs) operation, or outrage … over a more expensive plan to ‘justify adding things (they) don’t want’ that undercuts the artists whose work makes Spotify what it is. At least the stock price is resurging.” – Slate
  
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• Broadway Box Office Grosses And Attendance Are Basically Flat From Last Season. That’s Worse Than It Sounds.

  06-06-2024 16:32 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “‘Every year our expenses go up at least five percent, if not more, because we so outpace inflation,’ says Ken Davenport, producer of the Neil Diamond musical A Beautiful Noise. ‘So flat is terrible.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• When Seven Artists Withdrew Their Work From An Exhibition, San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum Had A … Er, Thoughtful Response

  06-06-2024 16:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The artists demanded control of their works’ presentation and that the Contemporary Jewish Museum both boycott Israel and divest from companies doing business there; they withdrew when the museum said it couldn’t comply. What the museum did instead is either strikingly gracious or brilliantly passive-aggressive (or both). – The New York Times
  
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• Ben Vautier, Fluxus Co-Founder Who Declared “Everything Is Art,” Commits Suicide At Age 88

  06-06-2024 15:31 via artforum.com
  
  The artist, who usually styled himself as simply “Ben,” was known primarily for enigmatic slogans, scrawled in white or bright-colored paint, which he sometimes hung en masse on walls. He took his own life just hours after his wife of 60 years died of a stroke. – Artforum
  
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• The Kind Of Job “Most Artistic Leaders Only Dream Of”

  06-06-2024 15:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “The support (Barry) Diller has pledged to Little Island’s programming, millions of dollars with no end in sight, is the kind most artistic leaders only dream of. (Zack) Winokur does not have to spend his days courting (funders) or securing residencies; instead, he can provide money and space.” – The New York Times
  
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• Israel Museum’s Roof Damaged By Fire In Possible Arson

  06-06-2024 14:36 via news.artnet.com
  
  A bushfire that started in Jerusalem’s Valley of the Cross spread quickly to the museum — home to, among other archaeological riches, the Dead Sea Scrolls — damaging the roof of the youth wing. Firefighters stopped the blaze before it reached the building’s interior. Both natural causes and possible arson are being investigated. – Artnet
  
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• Two More Brit-Lit Festivals Give Up Sponsorship By Baillie Gifford

  06-06-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Following the decisions by the Hay Festival and Edinburgh International Book Festival, both prompted by withdrawals and boycott threats by participating writers, the Borders Book Festival and Cheltenham Literature Festival have cut ties with the financial firm, Cheltenham at Baillie Gifford’s suggestion. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Language is a massive exclusionary tool’: Delaine Le Bas, the Turner prize nominee battling Romany discrimination

  06-06-2024 09:00
  
  A new exhibition shows how the acclaimed artist uses mixed media where words usually fail – in unravelling misconceptions about Traveller communitiesI’ve created a world, and it’s called Delainia,” says Delaine Le Bas, speaking ahead of the opening of her oeuvre-spanning Glasgow exhibition Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding. Working with textiles, sculpture and performance art, the British Romany artist has been making politically charged art for most of her life. “It sta
  
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• French artist Ben dies aged 88, hours after wife’s death

  06-06-2024 02:17
  
  Ben and Annie Vautier’s children say in statement their father killed himself just after their mother died of a stroke on WednesdayFrench artist Ben, best known for his ironic painted slogans, has died aged 88, killing himself just hours after the death of his wife of 60 years, his family said Wednesday.His wife Annie suffered a stroke on Monday evening and died on Wednesday, the couple’s two children, Eva and Francois, said in a statement.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be con
  
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• Adobe Called Out For Selling Ansel Adams-Style AI Work

  06-06-2024 00:01 via theverge.com
  
  “We don’t have a problem with anyone taking inspiration from Ansel’s photography,” said the Adams estate. “But we strenuously object to the unauthorized use of his name to sell products of any kind, including digital products, and this includes AI-generated output. – The Verge
  
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