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• The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Extraordinary 50 Years

  30-08-2024 23:28 via theguardian.com
  
  In the decades since Richard Tognetti became ACO artistic director at just 25, he has amassed some of the world’s most valuable instruments and talented musicians. – The Guardian
  
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• Stanford Is Laying Off Creative Writing Lecturers. The World Protests

  30-08-2024 22:56 via sfchronicle.com
  Stanford University’s announcement that 23 creative writing instructors will be pushed out of their jobs and replaced has set off a national backlash in the literary community and among students in the program. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Major Funder Of London’s National Gallery Expansion Left A Secret Note Inside A Pillar Objecting To The Design

  30-08-2024 22:29 via news.artnet.com
  
  The eldest brother, John Sainsbury, despised aspects of the design, in particular the false columns in the foyer. Despite concerted pushback and the fact that the Sainsburys were footing the reported £40 million ($53 million) bill, the development went ahead. – Artnet
  
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• Hollywood — Creator Of Worlds (And Explanations)

  30-08-2024 22:01 via msn.com
  We live in the era of the “explainer movie” — a creation like those in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Dune ecosystem, Star Wars constellation and, on the television side, the Game of Thrones series that has sweeping and sophisticated fictional worlds, extensive background lore and complex (or, at least, many) narrative arcs. – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• How To Find New Music In The Age Of The Algorithm

  30-08-2024 21:20 via washingtonpost.com
  Some tastemakers say today’s music scene is a soulless algorithmic wasteland — others say it’s more vibrant than ever. However you find it, don’t just rely on your Spotify or Apple Music algorithm to introduce you to new artists. – Washington Post
  
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• Candy-Colored Video Games That Critique India’s History And Politics

  30-08-2024 21:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “The rain-soaked video game on (lead designer and writer Dhruv Jani’s) computer screen, Folds of a Separation, is just one of many that Studio Oleomingus has created about India’s postcolonial history and its contemporary political climate.” – The New York Times
  
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• Artists Struggle In Absence of Rules Of The Road For AI

  30-08-2024 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “We see these celebrity replicas happening all the time, but our own data – us, the small people of the world – is being harvested at exactly the same rate … It’s not really the capacity of the technology [that’s bad], it’s the way flawed, dumb, evil people choose to wield it.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Inhabitants Of Le Bloc, Once The Biggest Squat In Paris

  30-08-2024 20:04 via theparisreview.org
  
  “They had begun making their lives there around a date in December 2012 coinciding with the 5,125-year cycle of an ancient calendar, widely reported as a ‘Mayan apocalypse.’ … Le Bloc had begun at the world’s end, they would say. The squat picked up where the world had left off.” – The Paris Review
  
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• Academic Publishers Protest New Rule That Federally-Funded Research Must Be Freely Available

  30-08-2024 19:29 via insidehighered.com
  
  Although open-access advocates and library groups support the move, opponents argue the new policy will limit researchers’ ability to maintain control of their published work—and cut into the $19 billion academic publishing industry’s profit margins. – InsideHigherEd
  
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• Is AI Going To Change The Field Of Art History?

  30-08-2024 18:58 via artnews.com
  
  “AI is already curating museum shows and biennials. Could it change how we approach, study, or regard art of the past, too? When it comes to AI and art history, it’s important to remember that, for many, this is not just a technological question, but an urgent ideological one too.” – ARTnews
  
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• Police Bust World’s Largest Pirate Movie Site

  30-08-2024 18:32 via engadget.com
  
  Fmovies launched in 2016 and racked up 374 million monthly visits more than 6.7 billion visits from January 2023-June 2024. Data from SimilarWeb ranked Fmovies as the 280th most visited website in any category and the 11th most popular TV, movies and streaming website. – Engadget
  
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• What, So Soon? The Brooklyn Museum’s Hasty Do-Over of Its 2016 American Art Reinstallation

  30-08-2024 18:23 via artsjournal.com
  When this brief press release about the Brooklyn Museum’s “transformative reinstallation of the American Art galleries” hit my inbox two
  
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• Carole Rothman, Founder Of Broadway’s Second Stage Theater: Exit Interview

  30-08-2024 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  As she approaches her not-entirely-amicable departure after 45 years, the 73-year-old artistic director discusses the challenges she faced as a woman in the industry, her favorite memories (and her biggest disaster) and what her future in the theater may look like. – The New York Times
  
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• How Democrats And Republicans Are Using Music In This Campaign

  30-08-2024 17:25 via theconversation.com
  
  In 2024, both main parties recognise the positive power of music. While campaign songs and rally playlists encourage a sense of unity, they also send important messages to the wider electorate, reinforcing and differentiating the identity of the party and leader. – The Conversation
  
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• What Dancers And Choreographers Should Consider When Presented With Non-Disclosure Agreements

  30-08-2024 17:03 via dancemagazine.com
  
  There are very legitimate concerns which such agreements can protect against, so an NDA shouldn’t be rejected on general principle. Here’s what to look for to make sure that the document is safeguarding creative product and personal security rather than covering up malfeasance. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Opera Australia’s Artistic Director Is Out After Only Nine Months

  30-08-2024 16:31 via theguardian.com
  
  “The chair of the OA board, Rod Sims, said that Davies’s contract was prematurely severed by mutual agreement … due to ‘differences of opinion about how Opera Australia should successfully balance artistic innovation, audience development and commercial imperatives moving forward’.” Sources say a mediator had to be brought in. – The Guardian
  
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• The lady’s not for returning – but where has No 10’s Thatcher portrait gone?

  30-08-2024 16:28
  
  Painting that hung in former PM’s study since 2009 no longer there – but aides are tightlipped as to whereaboutsIn a summer punctuated by an election and then riots there has not really been a “silly season”, the traditional news-light period when holidaying MPs become worked up about trivialities. That is until now – thanks to a row about a portrait of Margaret Thatcher.What is known is that the slightly austere painting of the former prime minister by the artist R
  
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• NPR Is Hiring A “Joy Czar”

  30-08-2024 16:05 via bloomberg.com
  “Embedded in the newsroom throughout the year, the person will aim to ‘ratchet up our ‘joy’ quotient across platforms,’ according to an internal memo.” – Bloomberg
  
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• About 96 Percent Of NFTs Are “Dead”: Study

  30-08-2024 15:32 via nftevening.com
  After examining over 5,000 NFT collections and collecting 5 million transactions from NFTScan, researchers found that the overwhelming majority are dead (zero trading volume or social media activity), 43% of NFT holders have lost money on them, and the average loss is 44.5%. – NFTevening
  
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• University Of The Arts Rescue Plan, A Merger With Temple University, Is Scuttled

  30-08-2024 15:04 via inquirer.com
  
  “The Hamilton Family Charitable Trust, which contributed about half of UArts’ $62 million endowment, is not in favor of that money going to Temple as part of the deal, which largely appears to be sinking it. … Temple did not want to engage in a legal battle with a charitable trust.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Publishers File First Amendment Lawsuit Against Florida Over School Library Law

  30-08-2024 14:30 via msn.com
  “Florida’s statute … requires districts to set up a process for a parent or resident of the county to contest school and classroom library materials that they believe contain pornographic or sexual content. The country’s largest publishing houses say Florida has unleashed a wave of censorship.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• Ticket Sales At Bayreuth Rebound, Special 150th Anniversary Ring Cycle Announced

  30-08-2024 14:06 via apnews.com
  
  After a worrisome dip in attendance in 2023 (to 97%), ticket sales to the summer Wagner mecca were up to a total of 58,000 this year. The festival’s 2026 sesquicentennial will feature a special performance of the Ring tetralogy, the first Bayreuth production of Rienzi, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. – AP
  
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• Van Gogh v the ’gram, word sculptures and Japanese ceramics – the week in art

  30-08-2024 13:11
  
  The great masters’ Instagrammable portraits, Ian Hamilton Friday’s poetic visions, the folk craft of Mingei and more – all in your weekly dispatchArt of the Selfie
  Self-portraits by the likes of Rembrandt and Van Gogh, seen alongside the 21st-century selfie.
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• Keir Starmer ‘gets rid of’ 10 Downing Street’s Thatcher portrait

  30-08-2024 00:58
  PM’s biographer says portrait of predecessor commissioned by Gordon Brown no longer hangs in the Thatcher RoomKeir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from No 10 Downing Street, according to his biographer.Tom Baldwin said that after Starmer took office he had spoken with the prime minister in Thatcher’s former No 10 study, unofficially known as the Thatcher Room, where a portrait of her was on display. Continue reading...
  
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• The Latest Takedown: ABBA Asks Trump Not To Play Their Music At Rallies

  30-08-2024 00:01 via bbc.com
  
  “Together with the members of Abba, we have discovered that videos have been released where Abba’s music has been used at Trump events, and we have therefore requested that such use be immediately removed and taken down.” – BBC
  
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