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• Spotting AI Fakes: Can Art Historians Help?

  27-08-2024 23:29 via artnews.com
  
  One issue is that every image is worth scrutinizing as a cultural object that conveys values—but only if we can be certain about its origins. How can we interpret a photograph of an event from 1924 if the photograph was digitally fabricated in 2024? – Art in America
  
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• How ChatGPT Is Transforming Blind People’s Relationship With Visual Art

  27-08-2024 23:01 via artnews.com
  
  Be My AI noted that DALL-E does not “‘see’ in the human sense; it processes data and identifies patterns within that data.” I countered, “But the human brain also does not see. The eyes feed signals to it for interpretation. AI and human perception do not seem so dissimilar to me.” – ARTnews
  
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• Themes From This Year’s Edinburgh Festivals

  27-08-2024 22:32 via theconversation.com
  
  From climate anxiety to Gaza and the culture wars, here are some of the most talked-about shows and themes from the festival. – The Conversation
  
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• Wrestling With Graffiti As An Artistic Intervention

  27-08-2024 22:01 via lithub.com
  
  This devotional, graphomaniac, filibustering dimension of graffiti haunts me. It suggests tagging as a version of call-and-response, within a city whose cacophony of advertising, decay, and squabbling vernacular voices begs reply. – LitHub
  
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• Artists Take To Edinburgh Fringe Stages To Protest Scottish Funding Cuts

  27-08-2024 21:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Protest messages were read out after performances, including at the Traverse, Lyceum, George Square, Summerhall and Church Hill theatres, to loud applause from audiences, as thousands of artists and performers signed an open letter calling for the cuts to be reversed. – The Guardian
  
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• King Charles Appoints A New Master Of The King’s Music

  27-08-2024 20:32 via bbc.com
  
  Errollyn Wallen succeeds Dame Judith Weir, the first woman to hold the role, who was chosen by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2014. In recent years the role has a fixed term of 10 years, and is comparable to the position of poet laureate. – BBC
  
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• How To Write A Headline Readers Want To Click On? Keep It Simple, Finds Study

  27-08-2024 20:06 via niemanlab.org
  
  “Our research … shows that simple headlines significantly increase article engagement and clicks compared with headlines that use complex language. … But importantly, we found that those who actually write headlines — journalists themselves — did not.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• What Happens When Your Essential Creative Collaborator Dies?

  27-08-2024 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The experience of grieving Adam was going to be braided with the thing that could bring me closest to him, which was a gift. – The New York Times
  
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• Artistic Director Fired At South America’s Leading Opera And Ballet Company, Replaced By Ballet Star

  27-08-2024 19:02 via operawire.com
  
  The ministry of culture of Buenos Aires dismissed Jorge Tetelman as director of the Teatro Colón, and the following day hired in his place Julio Bocca, a Buenos Aires native who was a world-famous dancer in the 1980s and ’90s and director of Uruguay’s national ballet from 2010 to 2017. – OperaWire
  
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• Yuval Sharon: Opera As Revolutionary Force

  27-08-2024 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  For every composer affirming authority in their work, opera’s history offers counterexamples: creators so committed to establishing a new world order in sound that they resisted all conventions and invented their own instruments, their own ensembles or their own theaters. – The New York Times
  
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• Melbourne Symphony Chief Out After Musicians’ No-Confidence Vote

  27-08-2024 18:04 via limelight-arts.com.au
  
  The turmoil began after the MSO canceled a concerto appearance by a pianist who made a statement about Gaza from the stage. Musicians objected to that move but also called for the resignation of managing director Sophie Galaise for more general “poor communication, a lack of accountability and declining morale.” – Limelight (Australia)
  
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• Ukrainians Turn To Culture As Russia Attacks

  27-08-2024 17:31 via bbc.com
  
  The destruction of so much of their culture has not just pushed Ukrainians farther away from the Russian-dominated cultural space they shared for decades under Soviet rule. It has also awakened a hunger for their own culture, described by one daily newspaper as a “Ukrainian cultural boom”. – BBC
  
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• LACMA, MOCA, And Hammer Museum To Jointly Own Collection Given By Former CEO Of NPR

  27-08-2024 17:05 via msn.com
  “The collection — consisting entirely of works by L.A.-based artists — has been accumulated by (Jarl and Pamela Mohn) over the last two decades and is being called the Mohn Art Collective: Hammer, LACMA, MOCA, or MAC3. The gift is accompanied by a $15-million to $20-million endowment.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Two Dancers Sue San Francisco Ballet Over Injuries

  27-08-2024 16:31 via msn.com
  Company soloist Ellen Hummel filed suit earlier this month against SF Ballet and a volunteer physician, alleging medical negligence and “reckless disregard” for her condition, resulting in career-ending injury. Former principal Mathilde Froustey filed a similar lawsuit, still in discovery, last year. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Opera Philadelphia Makes All Seats For This Coming Season $11

  27-08-2024 16:03 via whyy.org
  
  New company director Anthony Roth Costanzo has raised over $7 million since he took over on June 1, and he says, “That fundraising is not only subsidizing this ticketing model, but a lot of it is inspired by this ticketing model.” (Patrons who can afford more have a pay-what-you-wish option.) – WHYY (Philadelphia)
  
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• Edgar Bronfman Calls Off His Bid To Buy Paramount Global

  27-08-2024 15:36 via variety.com
  
  “The decision came as the clock ticked down on the time frame within which his group had to finalize a firm offer” — last week he bid $4.3 billion, then raised it to $6 billion — “that could be a viable alternative to Skydance Media’s pending ($8 billion) takeover agreement.” – Variety
  
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• Newfields-Indianapolis Museum of Art Appoints Third CEO In Four Years

  27-08-2024 15:02 via mirrorindy.org
  
  Le Monte G. Booker, currently CFO of Chicago’s Field Museum, follows Charles Venable, who resigned in 2021 after controversy over one astoundingly ill-chosen word in the job description for the museum director, and Colette Pierce Burnette, who was hired to succeed Venable and abruptly resigned last November after 15 months. – Mirror Indy
  
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• Composer Alexander Goehr Has Died At 92

  27-08-2024 14:34 via theguardian.com
  
  “If Goehr’s own music has come to seem less significant than his importance as a teacher of some of the leading British composers of subsequent generations, then his role in creating what became a genuinely new force in British music after the second world war cannot be overestimated.” – The Guardian
  
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• Anna Netrebko Can Sue Met Opera Only For Gender Discrimination, Court Rules

  27-08-2024 14:00 via apnews.com
  
  Last summer, the Russian soprano sued the company for cancelling all her engagements after she refused to denounce Putin following his invasion of Ukraine. A Federal judge has tossed out her claims for breach of contract, defamation, and discrimination due to national origin, permitting only her gender claim. – AP
  
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• Actors At Edinburgh Festival Are Protesting From The Stage Over Scotland’s Arts Funding Cuts

  27-08-2024 09:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “It emerged on the eve of this year’s festival that Creative Scotland faces cuts of up to £10m this year, amid widespread spending reductions across the public sector following the general election.” Protest messages have been read onstage at both the International Festival and the Fringe. – The Guardian
  
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• Houston Symphony seeks Executive Director & CEO

  27-08-2024 03:12 via artsjournal.com
  The Houston Symphony, one of the finest and most dynamic symphony orchestras in the United States, invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer. The position is available in late 2024.John Mangum, who has served in this position since 2018, has recently been appointed General Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Lyric Opera of Chicago. The Houston Symphony has appointed a Search Committee to identify the Orchestra’s
  
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• Head of Exhibitions, Museum of Fine Arts – Houston

  27-08-2024 03:06 via artsjournal.com
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of Houston with diverse histories of art spanning 5,000 years and six continents. Through our permanent collections, special exhibitions, learning and interpretation programs, studio instruction, publications, conservation and scholarly research, we strive to inspire appreciation and understanding of the broadest spectrum of human achievement.In this context, the museum seeks a
  
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• Is There A Seventh Generation Of Chinese Filmmakers?

  27-08-2024 00:01 via newleftreview.org
  
  It has not materialised in any formal sense, and the term is not in use. – Sidecar
  
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