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• Los Angeles, City Of Opera

  07-06-2024 23:31 via msn.com
  The expected grandeur, the time and space business, the big emotions, big ideas and big voices, we’ve got it all. That’s to be expected. But what really sets opera in L.A. apart is the art form’s movement in new and profound ways can come from the unexpected sources. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• AI’s Art Style Problem

  07-06-2024 23:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  This seems like the reality that these A.I. tools will force us to reckon with: They promise to do for style what the internet did for content, dramatically eroding its value by making it easily portable. – Artnet
  
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• Neuroscience Study: Negative Artist Bio Information Influences Perception Of Their Art

  07-06-2024 22:32 via psypost.org
  Researchers found that after learning negative information about the artists, participants rated the paintings less favorably. Specifically, paintings by artists associated with negative biographical details were liked less, found more arousing, and judged to be of lower quality compared to those associated with neutral information. – PsyPost
  
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• Is AI Leading Us To Rethink Art?

  07-06-2024 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  So why are artists dabbling with A.I.? And do they risk being extinguished by it? – The New York Times
  
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• Florida Grand Opera Appoints A New Director

  07-06-2024 21:29 via msn.com
  Maria Todaro, an accomplished singer, stage director, fight choreographer and arts entrepreneur is stepping into her biggest role yet, ushering in an ambitious rebrand for Florida’s oldest opera company as the Florida Grand Opera’s new general director. – Miami Herald
  
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• The Cascade Of Calamities At Georgia Ensemble Theatre

  07-06-2024 21:05 via artsatl.org
  For over 20 years, co-founders Bob and Anita Farley successfully ran the company in an inner suburb of Atlanta, and they made plans to pass the reins and retire 18 months apart. But Bob suddenly died, and his successor as artistic director left town before starting the job. Then came the pandemic. – ArtsATL
  
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• San Francisco Opera, On A Financial Cliff, Looks To Asia

  07-06-2024 20:29 via sfstandard.com
  
  As the West’s oldest still-operational opera company faces a steep financial cliff, there’s another aria being sung across the Pacific Ocean—one SF Opera stands to benefit from. “If there was a big growth market for opera at the moment,” SFO Director Matthew Shilvock said, “it is in China.” – San Francisco Standard
  
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• Scenes From The Fraud Trial Of Ozy Founder Carlos Watson

  07-06-2024 20:04 via niemanlab.org
  
  “Carlos was now in the mode of trying to manage the crisis,” co-founder Samir Rao (who has confessed and is cooperating with prosecutors) testified. “He said he needed to call members of the board and say that I had a mental break or mental health episode.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Archaeologists Discover Stunning Blue Room In Pompeii

  07-06-2024 19:24 via euronews.com
  The stunning blue-ground walls are decorated with female figures representing the four seasons and allegorical representations of agriculture and pastoralism, according to experts. – Euronews
  
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• Can Saudi Arabia Really Remake Itself Into A Welcoming, Glamorous Travel Destination?

  07-06-2024 19:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The Kingdom “is now marketing itself to two sets of travelers with increasingly divergent — and sometimes contradictory — expectations: luxury tourists at ease with bikinis and cocktails, and pilgrims prepared for modesty and strict religious adherence. It’s hard to know whether the kingdom can satisfy both without antagonizing either.” – The New York Times
  
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• Book Publishing Is A Collaborative Art. Time To Acknowledge Everyone Who Works On It

  07-06-2024 18:32 via lithub.com
  
  Unseen and unacknowledged labor is as central to book publishing as Republican politicians being overpaid to write books that no one except their own political action committee actually buys. – LitHub
  
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• Hot In London: Immersive Theatre With A Meal

  07-06-2024 18:09 via artsjournal.com
  Striving for a high-level experience also means embedding accuracy into the menu itself. For The Great Murder Mystery, the team at the Lost Estate spent hours researching the cuisine and cooking styles of the 1800s, with the big inspiration coming in the form of the “Gordon Ramsay of the day”, the French chef Alexis Soyer. – The Stage
  
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• To see work by many black artists, go to the V&A | Letters

  07-06-2024 18:08
  
  Rosemary Haworth-Booth on how she started acquiring works in the late 1980s, when other galleries failed to take an interestGavin Jantjes is right to say that many British art institutions deployed kneejerk/stopgap responses in retrospective collecting (UK galleries rushed to diversify art after Black Lives Matter, artist says, 4 June). However, many provincial galleries like Bradford, Rochdale, Coventry and Birmingham were ahead of the game in either collecting or exhibiting. It was indeed the
  
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• The Astoundingly Rapid Fall Of Conductor François-Xavier Roth

  07-06-2024 18:03 via van-magazine.com
  It took about two days for this lavishly-praised maestro to lose or cancel all his future engagements, and he’ll likely be fired from his positions. Yet why was Roth’s behavior (sexting musicians) treated so much more harshly than, say, Gardiner’s or Barenboim’s (screaming and hitting them)? – Van
  
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• Finally Fed Up With Instagram, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Artists Leave For Startup Rival

  07-06-2024 17:31 via techcrunch.com
  
  Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts. – TechCrunch
  
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• Here’s Benjamin Millepied’s First Big Event With His Paris Dance Project

  07-06-2024 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Paris Dance Project, which Millepied formed last year with Solenne du Haÿs Mascré, is not a dance company, but an organization that creates educational programs and accessible performances. La Ville Dansée (‘the dancing city’), part of the Cultural Olympiad …, is its biggest splash yet.” – The New York Times
  
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• Folks In Portland, Maine Can’t Agree On Whether Or How To Expand The Museum Of Art

  07-06-2024 16:34 via msn.com
  The museum’s director, backed by the city council, thinks it’ll take the amenities in a new $100 million building to attract visitors back to pre-COVID levels. Others think such a building doesn’t belong in Portland’s historic district and worry the museum can’t afford to operate and maintain it. – The Boston Globe (MSN)
  
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• Remember When The Berkshire Museum Sold Its Norman Rockwells And Other Art? Here’s What It’s Doing With The Money.

  07-06-2024 16:06 via msn.com
  The $53 million in proceeds from the 2018 sale is funding a major renovation and redesign of the building as the museum, located in Pittsfield, Mass., narrows its focus away from art to science and local history. – The Boston Globe (MSN)
  
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• SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practices Complaint After Layoffs At Chicago Public Radio

  07-06-2024 15:31 via msn.com
  “The charges at the National Labor Relations Board allege the nonprofit parent company of WBEZ and the Chicago-Sun-Times ‘failed and refused to provide information demanded by the union’ regarding an employee headcount and financial data.” – Chicago Tribune (MSN)
  
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• Mitsuko Uchida Gets Testy With The New York Times (And Arguably Disses Her Colleagues)

  07-06-2024 15:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Q: “Tell me what excites you about the Ojai Festival.” A: “You think I go to Ojai because I get excited? No. I go because there is music that I might want to do …, and I might do it for the people who are involved.” – The New York Times
  
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• Royal Swedish Opera Fined $300,000 For Workplace Death Of Stage Technician

  07-06-2024 14:33 via apnews.com
  
  The technician died in September of last year after falling more than 40 feet from a balcony while carrying out work. Authorities investigated the incident as a “work environment violation”; the lead prosecutor said that the company “had failed to investigate and assess the risk of the work in question.” – AP
  
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• Baillie Gifford Just Gives Up On Sponsoring Literary Festivals

  07-06-2024 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  The Hay and Edinburgh festivals ended their relationships with Baillie Gifford because participating writers threatened to withdraw unless the firm divested from fossil fuels and any company doing business in Israel. Other book festivals followed suit, and Baillie Gifford “read the room” and withdrew entirely. – The Guardian
  
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• Anti-apartheid art, Keith Haring graffiti and new life for fallen trees – the week in art

  07-06-2024 13:00
  
  A retrospective of South African artist Gavin Jantjes, new works by Zanele Muholi and Charles Lutyens’ insights as an art therapist – all in your weekly dispatchGavin Jantjes: To Be Free!
  A retrospective of the South African artist who has spent much of his life in Britain, originally as a political exile in the apartheid era.• Whitechapel Gallery, London, from 12 June until 1 September Continue reading...
  
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• Archibald prize 2024: Laura Jones wins $100,000 for portrait of Tim Winton

  07-06-2024 04:25
  
  Decision was announced at the Art Gallery of NSW, where all finalists will be exhibited to the public from SaturdayHow to win the Archibald prize: what a century of data tells usArchibald prize 2024 finalists: Julian Assange, Tony Armstrong, Chloé Hayden and more – in picturesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailLaura Jones has won the 2024 Archibald prize for her portrait of Australian author Tim Winton.Announced at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday, the winning wo
  
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• How AI Is Leveling The Field For Small Organizations

  07-06-2024 00:01 via hbr.org
  
  By using it to provide ideas, options, and solutions beyond the capabilities of a small and, perhaps limited, management team, smaller companies can overcome limitations of time, personnel, and resources. – Harvard Business Review
  
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