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• Ford Foundation’s Visionary President To Step Down

  22-07-2024 22:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Darren Walker announced Monday that he would step down as the president of the Ford Foundation at the end of 2025 after what will have been a consequential 12-year tenure in which he shifted the institution’s focus to inequality and oversaw the distribution of $7 billion in grants. – The New York Times
  
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• Study: Musicians Who Are Public Advocates Increase Their Fan Base

  22-07-2024 21:30 via theconversation.com
  
  Publicly backing charity causes on both an intermittent and regular basis earned musicians more likes, shares and comments. These artists also increased music sales, whether they sent these messages occasionally or constantly. – The Conversation
  
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• 20 Years Of Introducing New Choreography

  22-07-2024 20:44 via artsjournal.com
  “There is something so special about being the first to see something. These fresh new works are in progress, developing and that draws an audience into it.” – CultureOC
  
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• The Library Of Congress Has 175 Million Works. How Does It Decide What To Collect?

  22-07-2024 20:01 via scientificamerican.com
  
  There are three principles: The first is that we should have everything that Congress needs to do its work. The second is that we should possess the materials that cover the life and achievement of the United States. And the third is that we’re not in a vacuum, and we need stuff from the rest of the world. – Scientific American
  
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• Art World Reconsiders NFTs As Market Slows

  22-07-2024 19:15 via axios.com
  “We know that there is a provenance verification opportunity here. We all know it and we all know that the art world is resisting it because it suggests transparency, which we say we want but we don’t really want.” – Axios
  
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• What Experts Said About AI At Christie’s Art+Tech Summit

  22-07-2024 18:24 via artnews.com
  
  Numerous panelists obliquely referred to the fears around AI, offering reassurances without ever saying the words automation, labor, climate change, or super-intelligence. – ARTnews
  
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• Sorry, But AI Isn’t Making Music

  22-07-2024 17:44 via theatlantic.com
  
  Anyone who expects that a program can create music and replace human artistry is wrong: I doubt that many people would line up for Lollapalooza to watch SZA type a prompt into a laptop, or to see a robot croon. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Only Lasting Truth Is Change, Say New Old Musicals

  22-07-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “One of the ways to preserve and expand the musical canon is to let everyone have a shot at it — especially the people so many classics were written about or too often ignored.” See, for example, Cats: The Jellicle Ball. – The New York Times
  
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• AI Can’t Truly Make Music, But The Use Of It Still Threatens Musicians

  22-07-2024 16:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  “What is becoming clear now is that the coming war is not really one between human and machine creativity; the two will forever be incommensurable. Rather, it is a struggle over how art and human labor are valued—and who has the power to make that appraisal.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The People Who Rebuilt Notre Dame

  22-07-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “ The devastation was immense. The spire had gone, its collapse having destroyed part of the vaults at the crossing of the transept. … The task of rebuilding Notre Dame was  herculean.”– The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Memeing And Remixing Of Presidential Candidate Harris

  22-07-2024 15:45 via vulture.com
  
  Millennials and Gen Z are taking over now. “The KHive has ditched the bee and gone coconuts now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 election and endorsed Kamala Harris. What’s more, Harris’s laugh is getting remixed into songs by just about every pop diva.” – Vulture
  
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• How Does Order Emerge From Chaos In Large Systems?

  22-07-2024 15:30 via wired.com
  
  It’s confusing and not fully theorized, but “over the past few years, a community of physicists, computer scientists, and neuroscientists has been working toward a better understanding. These researchers have developed theoretical tools for identifying when emergence has occurred.” – Wired
  
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• Long Before The Trial Was Tossed Out, Jurors Had Doubt About Alec Baldwin’s Guilt

  22-07-2024 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  One juror: “’Alec Baldwin is an actor, right?’ she said, adding that she would not have expected him to know a lot about gun safety. ‘I think he would have trusted the people, you know, on the set to do their job.’” – The New York Times
  
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• Portland’s Beloved Actor Sam Mowry Has Died At 64

  22-07-2024 15:00 via orartswatch.org
  
  Mowry, in a 40-year career, was an “actor and director known both for his personal gentleness and generosity and for his deep, profoundly captivating onstage speaking voice.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Oscar Murillo: The Flooded Garden review – my inner Pollock could not be contained

  22-07-2024 14:48
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Is it love or just a summer fling? Oscar Murillo has invited the public to add their own paint to his canvas – but I wouldn’t be tempted. Would I?Look at me – I’m Jackson Pollock! Doing action painting in the Tate Turbine Hall!I usually dread interactive art. I prefer to look at art silently, passively and, assuming it’s good enough, to absorb its nuances and meanings slowly. Why do some artists insist on making us doers rather than observers? Qu
  
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• So What Happened To The Racist, But Very Popular, South African Comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy?

  22-07-2024 14:45 via slate.com
  The movie played until the film broke at cinemas across the world. “Made by a white director with funding from the apartheid government yet starring an unusually diverse cast, … The Gods Must Be Crazy delivered an idealized, false picture of South Africa into the international marketplace.” – Slate
  
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• Esta TerBlanche, Fan Favorite Soap Opera Star, Has Died At 51

  22-07-2024 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Esta TerBlanche was a South African actress whose first language was Afrikaans, so of course she played a Hungarian princess – who ad-libbed a lot – on Days of Our Lives. – The New York Times
  
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• How Doing A Comedic Horror Movie Sent Penelope Wilton’s Fame Sky-High

  22-07-2024 14:15 via artsjournal.com
  Sure, yes, she’s the prime minister when the Daleks come in Doctor Who, but what really helped her with the Youngs was acting in Shaun of the Dead. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• On TikTok, True Crime Survivors Are Owning Their Stories

  22-07-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “True crime podcasts, movies and investigative TV series are wildly popular, often raking in profits for their producers and platforms. Many, though, are made without the consent or involvement of those most closely affected.” Now, TikTok has changed that. – The New York Times
  
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• Los Angeles’s Westwood Is Losing Two Historic Cinemas This Week

  22-07-2024 13:45 via yahoo.com
  
  One, “the Village Theatre, is expected to close only temporarily, thanks to a high-profile effort by director Jason Reitman and others to save the once stately 170-foot white Spanish Revival-Art Deco ‘wedding cake’ tower that has beckoned Westside moviegoers since 1931.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• How Do You Make A Movie About Tornadoes Increasing In Intensity But Never Mention The Climate Crisis?

  22-07-2024 13:30 via theguardian.com
  Welcome to a scared Hollywood. “’I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like [it] is putting forward any message,’ [Twisters] director Lee Isaac Chung, who grew up in Oklahoma’s tornado belt, told CNN.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Tries To Recover From Bloody Russian Destruction Of Printing Plant

  22-07-2024 13:15 via npr.org
  
  “Seven employees were dead, with more than 20 wounded, their blood on the walls that had not blown apart. And under a caved-in roof lay tens of thousands of charred books and printing machinery in smoldering heaps. … ‘The attack felt methodical and deliberate, like cultural genocide.’” – NPR
  
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• Why Did Melania Trump Choose Beethoven?

  22-07-2024 13:00 via washingtonpost.com
  
  “Serenading an audience fresh from four days of divisive rhetoric, immigrant bashing and attacks on LGBTQ people with music from a sonic icon of Europe’s post-World War II quest for peace and dignity was either brilliant in its perversity or perversely hypocritical.” – Washington Post
  
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• Coups, crackdowns and chaos: art inspired by democracy – and the despots who overthrew it

  22-07-2024 06:00
  In Athens, the birthplace of republican rule, a new exhibition is exploring art it inspired, from pop art shootings to spies lurking in the Parthenon. Ironically, dictators steal the showNo place on Earth should have more authority to speak about the enduring appeal of democracy than the place that first came up with it. But a new art exhibition in Athens seems reluctant to shout about its credentials. You have to walk right to the end of the National Gallery of Greece’s show, past 137 wor
  
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