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• An All-AI Bot Radio Station Hits The Airwaves

  25-10-2024 20:57 via apnews.com
  
  “Weeks after letting its journalists go, OFF Radio Krakow relaunched this week, with what it said was ‘the first experiment in Poland in which journalists … are virtual characters created by AI.’ The station … said its three avatars are designed to reach younger listeners by speaking about cultural, art and social issues.” – AP
  
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• Why Is The Art World Focusing On Photography Just As AI Images Are Becoming Harder To Detect?

  25-10-2024 20:26 via nytimes.com
  
  Many of the largest and most powerful art dealers are dedicating significant attention and real estate to photography. It is part of a broader renaissance for the medium that is arriving, perhaps counterintuitively, just as images produced by artificial intelligence become virtually indistinguishable from real documentation. – The New York Times
  
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• Call Of Duty? The Long And Symbiotic Relationship Between The Video Game Industry And The Pentagon

  25-10-2024 20:04 via thenation.com
  
  “In fact, when the modern gaming industry was coming online, the Department of Defense already had skin in the game. … And Call of Duty might be the culmination of the digital marketing world’s efforts to capitalize on real-world military planning.” – The Nation
  
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• Is Cultural Tourism Growing Up?

  25-10-2024 19:45 via artshub.com.au
  
  While in the past, we may have been cynical that cultural tourism was just a watered-down ‘sell-y’ option parcelled up by cruises or tour group operators, this tainted perception seems to have matured into a specialist industry that calls on arts professionals to lead the experiences. – ArtsHub
  
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• Study: How Arts Agencies Helped Local Arts Communities Through The Pandemic

  25-10-2024 19:31 via culturaldata.org
  
  External and Internal advocacy work solidified support for the sector and gave funding agencies “seats at the table” within local government funding deliberations that were not available prior to the pandemic and that LAAs will work to retain.   – SMU Arts
  
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• The Case Against The Idea That Computers Will Ever Be Able To Think

  25-10-2024 19:15 via aeon.co
  
  It is one thing to appreciate the ways we make and remake ourselves through the cultural transformation of our worlds via tool use and technology, and another to mystify dumb matter put to work by us. – Aeon
  
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• There’s A Whole New Wave Of Contemporary Dance In Museums And Galleries

  25-10-2024 19:06 via artbasel.com
  
  It’s nothing new for visual art institutions to host new and experimental dance works, but there’s been a real uptick in recent years. Why? Opinions differ (not least because the boundaries between choreography and performance art are sometimes blurry). – Art Basel
  
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• Warsaw’s New Museum Of Modern Art Tries To Transcend Poland’s Communist Legacy

  25-10-2024 18:44 via apnews.com
  
  The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw sits like a bright white box on a major city street. Inside, a monumental staircase with geometric lines rises to upper floors, where large windows flood the gallery rooms with light. – AP
  
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• Critic Gary Indiana, 74

  25-10-2024 18:31 via artnews.com
  
  Although he was widely known as an art critic for the Village Voice during the mid-1980s, and even though he has continued to write literature and art criticism in the decades since, Indiana had by the beginning of the 21st century faded into relative obscurity, with many of his books going out of print. – ARTnews
  
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• New poop statue displayed near US Capitol to ‘honor’ January 6 rioters

  25-10-2024 18:19
  
  Artwork satirically commemorates people who broke in to the Capitol and defecated on the House speaker’s deskUS politics – live updates A new temporary bronze installation depicting a pile of feces on Nancy Pelosi’s desk was erected in Washington DC this week across from the US Capitol, appearing to satirically “honor” the people behind the January 6 insurrection.The scatological statue, which was installed on Thursday, features a swirl somewhat resembling the commo
  
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• Grandparents Organizing To Fight Book Bans

  25-10-2024 18:15 via msn.com
  “I want to make sure my grandchildren grow up in a world where they can read and form opinions based on knowledge, not on a narrow truth.” – The Cut (MSN)
  
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• Artists And Performers In Republic Of Georgia Wonder If They’ll Have To Leave The Country

  25-10-2024 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “Two new laws — cracking down on organizations that receive international funding and what the government calls L.G.B.T. propaganda — and the violent response by security forces to protests this year have many artists and others working in cultural organizations reconsidering their livelihoods, or even their futures in the country.” – The New York Times
  
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• Stepping Inside A Painting (And Into History)

  25-10-2024 17:44 via brooksriley.substack.com
  
  The Night Revels blasts through that flimsy structure of history to show us a work of detailed authentication that is nearly 1200 years old. This painting may be the first documentary in history: We know who these people are; we know their names, their professions and their relation to each other. – Brooks Riley
  
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• Is This The Reason Some Of The Books We Buy Now Are Of Terrible Quality?

  25-10-2024 17:31 via lithub.com
  
  Many consumers likely don’t know the difference between a print-on-demand book and a traditionally produced paperback, at least not at first. But once you do notice, you can’t unsee it. – LitHub
  
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• How America’s Poet Laureate Collaborated With NASA On Its Mission To Jupiter

  25-10-2024 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  It isn’t the first poem to slip the surly bonds of Earth and it won’t be the last. But its origin story is a reminder of the link between art and science, and the way inspiration flows in both directions. – The New York Times
  
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• Ten Years After An Aborted Shutdown, San Diego Opera Announces Ambitious Five-Year Expansion Plan

  25-10-2024 17:05 via msn.com
  “How ambitious? It will require raising an additional $10.5 million over the next five years to fund the expansion of live performances; the re-establishment of the resident artist program; the commissioning of new operas; the reimagining of its audience engagement programs, and more.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
  
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• From Rupert Murdoch to Thom Yorke: the growing backlash to AI

  25-10-2024 16:45
  
  Media mogul and leading artists join fight to stop tech firms using creative works for free as training dataIt is an unlikely alliance: the billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and a panoply of leading artists including the Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, the actors Kevin Bacon and Julianne Moore, and the author Kazuo Ishiguro.This week, they began two very public fights with artificial intelligence companies, accusing them of using their intellectual property without permission to build the inc
  
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• That Banana-Duct-Taped-To-The-Wall Artwork Seems To Have Been A Very Good Investment

  25-10-2024 16:31 via cnn.com
  
  One of three “editions” of the piece, titled Comedian, by prankster conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan (he of the gold toilet titled America) sold five years ago for $120,000. The Sotheby’s estimate for the work’s upcoming resale is about ten times that. – CNN
  
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• A Brain Abscess Left Alison Stewart Unable To Speak. Here’s How She Worked Her Way Back To The Radio Mic.

  25-10-2024 16:03 via nytimes.com
  
  She had spent decades as a TV and public radio journalist and host, and, this past February, she suddenly found herself unable to utter anything but gibberish. Here’s how her neurosurgeon identified and remedied the problem and how she and the therapists recovered her ability to speak. – The New York Times
  
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• Pig Iron’s MFA Program In Devised Theater, Left Orphaned By Collapse Of UArts, Finds New Home

  25-10-2024 15:30 via whyy.org
  
  “The Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training will become part of Rowan University in New Jersey, almost four months after it was cast adrift following the sudden closure of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.” – WHYY (Philadelphia)
  
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• San Diego Museum of Art Reveals Initial Design For Redesigned West Wing

  25-10-2024 15:04 via msn.com
  “The proposed design is likely to please critics who feared the renowned English firm (Foster + Partners) would build a glass dome, high-rise tower or modern-looking structure that would be out of sync with (Balboa) Park’s historic Spanish Colonial Revival style.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
  
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• Metropolitan Opera Settles Decade-Long Case With Mezzo Who Was Injured Onstage

  25-10-2024 14:36 via nytimes.com
  
  During a 2011 performance of Gounod’s Faust, Wendy White was injured when a piece of scenery collapsed and she fell eight feet. In 2013 she sued for negligence, seeking compensation for lost wages, medical care, and pain. Days before the trial was to begin, the parties have settled. – The New York Times
  
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• Is The Arts Sector Preparing For A Possible Trump Victory?

  25-10-2024 14:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Can they take action now to mitigate its potentially serious consequences? Calling around, I found that many people were not eager to discuss the matter on the record, which is perhaps not surprising. But some people were willing to chat.” – Artnet
  
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• Tim Burton’s bestiary, Vivienne Westwood’s baroque and fashionable figuration – the week in art

  25-10-2024 13:00
  
  The film-maker reveals his visual secrets, the great designer goes rococo and George Rouy gets fleshy – all in your weekly dispatchThe World of Tim BurtonEnjoyable tour through the goth film-maker’s imagination, though short on surprises.• Design Museum, London, until 21 April Continue reading...
  
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• ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Australian National Academy of Music 

  25-10-2024 09:22 via artsjournal.com
  The Australian National Academy of Music provides artistic and professional development for the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand.The Board of ANAM is seeking to appoint an exceptional individual to be its next Artistic Director from mid-2026. The Artistic Director will:
  appoint, lead and manage the teaching faculty;oversee students’ musical development;lead the development and delivery of training programs, including professional, creative, and per
  
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