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• War, Love, And Impressionism: The Story Of Eduard And Berthe

  12-09-2024 21:05 via msn.com
  In an excerpt from his new book, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, Sebastian Smee writes about the partnership, both romantic and artistic, between the great Impressionist painters Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Billionaire Composer And His Ability To Buy High-Profile Performers

  12-09-2024 20:44 via van-magazine.com
  
  The composer had seemingly appeared from nowhere. Now he was engaging the world’s best soloists to perform his music—compositions that some musicians and critics found amateurish at best and soulless at worst. – Van
  
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• ‘The UK is invited’: Bradford reveals 2025 City of Culture lineup

  12-09-2024 20:30
  
  West Yorkshire city to host magic, music, film and theatre performances celebrating local talent, plus Turner prizeA city centre magic show, the Brontës as you’ve never seen them before, and a bassline house symphony are all part of Bradford’s City of Culture lineup, which its organisers call a celebration of everything that makes the West Yorkshire city great.Shanaz Gulzar, the creative director of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, said the whole of the country was invited to c
  
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• The Internet Archive Court Loss Traps Libraries In Untenable Position

  12-09-2024 20:15 via technologyreview.com
  
  This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse. It leaves local communities’ reading habits at the mercy of curatorial decisions made by four dominant publishing companies thousands of miles away. – MIT Technology Review
  
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• NaNoWriMo Suggested Using AI To Write Novels, And Actual Novelists Are Furious

  12-09-2024 20:02 via msn.com
  The organization argued that AI helps disabled or marginalized writers who don’t have industry connections. As one of many now-former members put it, “It’s pretty insulting to imply that the only way members of marginalized communities can get their foot in the door is through the use of a plagiarism machine.” – Slate (MSN)
  
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• How Grassroots Advocacy Remade Arts Funding In St. Petersburg, Florida

  12-09-2024 19:44 via 83degreesmedia.com
  
  “We’re calling ourselves the ‘City of the Arts’ in St. Pete so it’s just the right thing for the city to contribute to that and not just leave it up to the free market economy because the free market economy does not necessarily provide for diverse programming.” – 83 Degrees Media
  
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• Could A Proposed New California Law Rein In AI Development?

  12-09-2024 19:14 via theverge.com
  
  Critics have painted a nearly apocalyptic picture of its impact, calling it a threat to startups, open source developers, and academics. Supporters call it a necessary guardrail for a potentially dangerous technology — and a corrective to years of under-regulation.  – The Verge
  
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• New York Indicts Harvey Weinstein On New Rape Charges Ahead Of Retrial

  12-09-2024 19:05 via apnews.com
  
  “Prosecutors retrying Weinstein’s overturned rape conviction disclosed last week that they had begun presenting to a grand jury evidence of … three additional allegations against Weinstein, dating as far back as the mid-2000s. … The indictment will remain under seal until Weinstein’s arraignment on the new charges, which is scheduled for Sept. 18.” – AP
  
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• Spotify Wins Eminem Royalty Fight Over “Billions Of Streams”

  12-09-2024 18:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A judge in Tennessee has ruled that Spotify will not be liable for any lost royalties, despite finding that Spotify did not have a license to stream the tracks. – BBC
  
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• How Disney Turned Deadpool And Wolverine Into A Global Phenomenon

  12-09-2024 18:32 via fastcompany.com
  Brand partnerships saw the Deadpool and Wolverine characters shilling for everything from Xbox and Heineken, to Adidas, Aviation Gin (natch), Old Spice,  DiGiornio pizzas, and more. – Fast Company
  
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• Google Will Create “Fake” Podcasts From Your Notes, Including Hosts Who Banter

  12-09-2024 18:14 via theverge.com
  
  Google isn’t making things up when it says the AI hosts will “banter” with each other, either. When trying out Audio Overview for myself, I plugged in one of the sample notebooks about the invention of the lightbulb, and the results were… a bit uncanny. – The Verge
  
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• How Do You Make An Audiobook Out Of A Graphic Novel?

  12-09-2024 17:58 via publishersweekly.com
  Often the adaptation is in the style of a radio play, with sound design providing context for the original’s dialogue. Sometimes the original visuals are replaced with newly-written narration. dialogue read by actors. In any case, a job which seemed near-impossible to audio publishers 20 years ago is becoming commonplace. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Can We Bio-Engineer Higher IQs?

  12-09-2024 17:48 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  Historically, eugenics and racism have operated in tandem, but neither is reducible to the other. Eugenics attributes socioeconomic inequality—both within and between racially defined groups—to varying levels of intelligence, which it defines as a biological quality shaped largely by our DNA. – LA Review of Books
  
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• Ray Kurzweil: We’re Very Close Now To Merging With Machines

  12-09-2024 17:32 via newrepublic.com
  
  “We will extend our minds many millions-fold by 2045,” writes Kurzweil. “We are finally getting to the steep part of a fifty-year-old exponential trend…. Humanity’s millennia-long march toward the Singularity has become a sprint.” – The New Republic
  
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• Can Gen Z Save Wikipedia From AI And Chatbots?

  12-09-2024 17:14 via theguardian.com
  
  As Wikipedia’s visibility diminishes, reduced to mere training data for AI applications, it also loses prominence in the minds of readers and potential contributors. – The Guardian
  
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• Jesse Green On What Makes Classic Plays Classic

  12-09-2024 17:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “There’s a reason, aside from name recognition, that they keep coming back. Though products of vastly different times and cultures, they dig so deep into their specific truths that they reach a common, eternal one, from which many others may spring.” – The New York Times
  
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• A snapshot of contemporary Australia: the 2024 Bowness photography prize – in pictures

  12-09-2024 17:00
  Robert Fielding has won the $30,000 2024 Bowness photography prize for his work Sacred Earth/Manta Miil Miilpa, a celebration of Yankunytjatjara land and culture. Here is a selection of works from other finalists in the Museum of Australian Photography’s prestigious annual survey of contemporary photographyThe 2024 Bowness photography prize is on at the Museum of Australian Photography in Wheelers Hill, Victoria until 10 November Continue reading...
  
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• Milwaukee’s Arts Organizations Are Dangerously Dependent On Philanthropy, Finds Study

  12-09-2024 16:31 via urbanmilwaukee.com
  
  For most groups, the proportion of their budgets coming from earned income (mostly ticket sales) has fallen by a third to a half from 2012 levels (let alone the levels of the 1990s). With the trend of philanthropy turning away from the arts, the outlook in the city appears grim. – Urban Milwaukee
  
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• Broadway Melody: Jack Viertel’s Love Letter to Broadway, New York, and the Great, American Epic

  12-09-2024 16:09 via artsjournal.com
  I was so pleased to get back to Call Time after some time off (for both work and pleasure) and to get to come back to it with the amazing Jack Viertel. As some of you might know, Jack was one of my original guests on Call Time when it was in its infancy as a YouTube show. Some of you might also know that Jack is one of the greatest theatre minds we have these days, as responsible for shaping the landscape of late twentieth/early twenty-first century musical theatre as, say, Jason Robert Brown,
  
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• Indianapolis’s Arts Agency Asks City Council To More Than Double Its Funding

  12-09-2024 16:05 via wfyi.org
  
  For a decade until 2019, local lawmakers kept Indy Arts Council’s budget stagnant at $1 million, and there were only small increases and some federal money added during the pandemic. From that budget, over 100 organizations must share grants. So IAC is requesting a budget increase from $1.3 million to $3 million. – WFYI (Indianapolis)
  
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• The Industry Told Gabriela Ortíz Her Music Was Too Exotic. Now It Seems To Love Her.

  12-09-2024 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  For most of the past 40 years, teachers told the 59-year-old Mexican composer her works were too exotic. Critics found it too big and messy. Major orchestras ignored her when giving commissions. Now, thanks to some major breaks, especially from Gustavo Dudamel, she’s hit the big time. – The New York Times
  
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• Microsoft Announces Big Layoffs At Xbox

  12-09-2024 15:07 via variety.com
  
  “Microsoft Gaming will lay off approximately 650 employees, or 3% of the Xbox owner’s global workforce, in a new round of eliminations following last year’s completion of its Activision Blizzard acquisition.” – Variety
  
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• For The First Time In Centuries, You Can Walk The Walls And Ramparts Of This Medieval French City

  12-09-2024 14:35 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “Visitors to Carcassonne in south-western France will be able to walk a full 1.3 km circuit of its upper ramparts — the first time this has been possible in centuries. The route has been opened up thanks to a 31-month, €5.6m restoration programme by the national heritage agency.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• After 30-Year Hiatus, London City Ballet Makes Successful Return

  12-09-2024 14:08 via bbc.com
  
  One of director Chris Marney’s plans is to spend considerable effort and time touring regional Britain, where ballet companies rarely appear. “What we’re finding on the road,” he says, “is that audiences want it and audiences are coming to see us.” – BBC
  
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