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• A Revisionist History Of Music File Sharing And The Music Industry Response

  14-10-2024 19:40 via nytimes.com
  
  The story they want to tell, in an emphatically triumphalist tone, is that the early pirates were David and the music industry was Goliath. But then the industry realized that David was actually pretty cool: All turned out well, and music was solved forever. – The New York Times
  
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• “Suffs” To Close On Broadway

  14-10-2024 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  The show has struggled to sell enough tickets to defray its running costs, and on Friday night the producers announced that it would close on Jan. 5. At the time of its closing, it will have had 24 previews and 301 regular performances. The show announced plans for a national tour in September 2025.– NY Times
  
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• Lionel Ziprin: ‘One of the Secret Heroes of Our Time’

  14-10-2024 19:13 via artsjournal.com
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• Haegue Yang is one of the most original artists of her generation | Letter

  14-10-2024 19:13
  
  A reader takes exception to Jonathan Jones’s negative review of the show at the Hayward GalleryIt would be a shame if Jonathan Jones’s one-star review of the Haegue Yang exhibition at the Hayward Gallery (A must-see show if the slats of venetian blinds make you cry, 8 October) deters readers from seeing work by one of the most original and interesting artists of her generation. Since her early video work, in which she wandered through the backstreets of Seoul, Yang has offered p
  
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• Study: Those Who Learn A Second Language Develop More Brain Connections

  14-10-2024 18:58 via neurosciencenews.com
  
  Scientists found that bilingual individuals have more efficient communication between brain regions, notably between the cerebellum and left frontal cortex. – Neuroscience News
  
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• Seattle’s Book-It Theatre Rises Again

  14-10-2024 18:33 via seattletimes.com
  This new incarnation of Book-It will not be a producing company. They are not hiring a staff or planning a full season. You cannot buy a subscription. They’re starting with one show, a co-production running Oct. 10-20 at Vashon Repertory Theatre. After that? They’re not sure yet. – Seattle Times
  
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• African Museum With Priceless Prehistoric Artifacts Faces Crisis

  14-10-2024 18:17 via wsj.com
  The Nairobi National Museum, flagship of Kenya’s museum system, is in trouble, overwhelmed by a bounty of specimens and a lack of money to keep them safe. Darkening the outlook are criminal charges against its former director-general for allegedly masterminding a scheme to steal $4 million from its coffers. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• A Room Of One’s Own: Creative Space For Writers

  14-10-2024 17:57 via lithub.com
  
  Every writer is different. The path to telling stories about our world is hard won, and the space that’s necessary to allow us to find our respective voices differs. The world we carry in our heads is arguably the most important space of all. It is a space whose suffocations and seductions compete for our attention. – LitHub
  
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• Robot Conductor Makes Its Concert Debut

  14-10-2024 17:44 via theguardian.com
  The artistic director of Dresden’s Sinfoniker, Markus Rindt, said the intention was “not to replace human beings” but to perform complex music that human conductors would find impossible. – The Guardian
  
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• I Was An Established Writer. Then I Went Back To School And Learned…

  14-10-2024 17:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Despite all the one-click-away distractions, my peers had insightful queries, if rather too many, interrupting lectures as if pressing every hyperlink. Rarely were they the moralizing young bores depicted by moralizing old bores in the culture wars. Mainly, they worried about finding jobs. – The New York Times
  
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• How LiveNation Has Taken Over The Australian Music Business

  14-10-2024 17:17 via abc.net.au
  
  A Four Corners investigation has found Live Nation has expanded its reach to every part of the Australian music industry and its practices are angering some of the country’s most talented musicians. – ABC
  
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• Wyoming’s Episcopal Church To Return 200 Cultural Items To Native Americans

  14-10-2024 17:00 via msn.com
  “The Wyoming Episcopal Church possessed the Northern Arapaho tribe’s artifacts for nearly 80 years — ranging from children’s toys to bows and arrows to traditional dresses. … The state’s Episcopal leadership had been reluctant to return the artifacts for decades.” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Case Against Netflix’s Baby Reindeer Hinges On One Line

  14-10-2024 16:30 via latimes.com
  
  It’s a line that most documentarians and people who write movie adaptations of nonfiction wouldn’t use: “This is a true story.”– Los Angeles Times
  
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• Our Brains On Online Reviews

  14-10-2024 16:00 via theconversation.com
  
  Yes, AI is a problem, and so are human-generated fakes. “People do a pretty poor job at discerning a fake review from a real one. It’s essentially a coin flip – studies have shown that shoppers can correctly identify a fake review only half of the time.” – The Conversation
  
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• Portland’s Seismic City Council Election Could Shake Up The Arts In Oregon

  14-10-2024 15:45 via orartswatch.org
  
  Potentially huge changes in the city’s arts funding – canceling the $35 arts tax, for instance, and downgrading the longstanding Regional Arts and Culture Council – make November’s election choices vital for the city’s and even the state’s continued “arts”creative future.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Titus Kaphar Wanted To Make A Really Big Canvas

  14-10-2024 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  As in, as big as movie screens across the world. “The paintings and the film developed in tandem. Kaphar would wake up to write at 5 a.m., drive his children to school, then come to his studio and listen to what he’d written via an app on his phone.” – The New York Times
  
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• Tampa Bay’s Signature Clearwater Jazz Festival Has Been Cancelled

  14-10-2024 15:15 via tampabay.com
  
  There was simply no way to keep the jazz fest going in the devastated region this week, organizers said. They “called the decision ‘heart wrenching and devastating,’ but said they are ‘committed to rebuilding, and carrying on the tradition.’”
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• In Kansas, A Youth Orchestra Idea Takes Flight

  14-10-2024 15:00 via kcur.org
  
  Less than a year ago, “‘my goal was 20 to 25 kids,’ Pieken said. ‘(I thought) if we don’t have at least like 15 signed up to audition … then we probably might want to rethink some things.’ … Now, the groups boasts 94 players.” – KCUR
  
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• Good News If You Like Ads

  14-10-2024 14:45 via cnet.com
  
  Or, maybe, if you enjoy free streaming: DirecTV is joining the FAST – Free, Ad-Supported TV – network game. – CNET
  
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• Gael Garcia Bernal Didn’t Want To Become An Actor

  14-10-2024 14:30 via npr.org
  
  But he finally realized there was no avoiding it. “There is this moment of incredible tension and excitement before going on stage, you know, before appearing. And then when you’re there, everything is amazing. Everything is just incredible. So I think I’m the best version of myself.” – NPR
  
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• In Leeds, England, One Big Sculpture Now Represents Hundreds Of Women

  14-10-2024 14:15 via artsjournal.com
  “We’ve got lots of old Victorian statues of men, particularly in Leeds, and I think there was an ambition to redress this gender imbalance in public art in the city.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Movie Director Morgan Neville Thought AI Could Be Cool, In 2021

  14-10-2024 14:00 via wired.com
  
  That was when he used a generated voice for Anthony Bourdain. “I was like, ‘Oh, it’d be fun to use this, and it’d be a funny thing to talk about when we do.’ … Then the shit hit the fan.” – Wired
  
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• How To Disappear All Of The Taxis From New York

  14-10-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This isn’t, like, for Uber and Lyft – but for making the city look like Southern California. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Did Warner Bros Make A Joker Musical That Didn’t Actually Want To Be A Musical?

  14-10-2024 13:45 via vulture.com
  
  This is just confusing. “The film stages each number with curious hesitancy, as though it were embarrassed to go full Sondheim. Phillips has made a jukebox spectacle that’s bold in conception but oddly cautious, even timorous, in execution.” – Vulture
  
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• The Mystery Of What Happened To The Honor Guard ‘Hat Sculpture’ Around JFK’s Grave

  14-10-2024 13:30 via msn.com
  “They came in at night. Left at night. And back then, we didn’t ask no questions.” – Smithsonian Magazine (MSN)
  
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• All Appalachian Writers Are Environmentalists

  14-10-2024 13:15 via bookriot.com
  
  Well, maybe not J.D. Vance. But everyone else, thanks to decades – a century – of devastating floods and mudslides, mountaintop removal and mining disasters. – Book Riot
  
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• Pushing Back Against That Long Atlantic Freak-Out About Students Not Being Asked To Read Books

  14-10-2024 13:00 via cmsthomas.substack.com
  
  Maybe the problem is the reporter’s clickbait comprehension? “Young readers are eminently capable of critically engaging in long form content, but they’re rightfully demanding a seat at the table where decisions about texts are being made.” – Teaching & Learning
  
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• A new start after 60: I went to art school at 66 – and now I’ve sold hundreds of paintings

  14-10-2024 07:55
  
  Carol Douglas wanted to study art as a teenager, but her parents didn’t see the point and she spent decades regretting what might have been. She now has an exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture ParkIn 2017, when Carol Douglas got the news she would be going to art school aged 66, she couldn’t have been happier. “I felt I had been given the biggest gift on the planet,” she says.Throughout her adult life, Douglas had regretted giving up art at school when she was 16. “Art
  
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