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• The Glenn Lowry Years: The Mixed Record of MoMA’s Mega-Builder (and who should succeed him)

  30-10-2024 21:56 via artsjournal.com
  When Philippe de Montebello announced his intention to retire after three decades as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of
  
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• Blogging Platform Medium Is Flooded With AI Postings

  30-10-2024 20:54 via wired.com
  
  Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine and other executives at the company have described the platform as “a home for human writing.” But there is evidence that robot bloggers are increasingly flocking to the platform, too. – Wired
  
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• New UK Culture Budget: Film Wins, Music Loses

  30-10-2024 20:47 via variety.com
  
  While the film and TV sector welcomed an increase in the tax incentive for VFX spend, grassroots music venues have been hit by a huge reduction in the amount of tax relief they enjoy, potentially putting a number at risk. – Variety
  
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• When The Frick Will Reopen

  30-10-2024 20:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The renovation — designed by Selldorf Architects with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners as executive architect — has reinstalled masterworks in new and restored spaces on the first floor and a new suite of galleries on the mansion’s previously private second floor, which will open to the public for the first time. – The New York Times
  
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• Staging A Musical In A Working Swimming Pool Onstage

  30-10-2024 20:04 via playbill.com
  
  No, this isn’t a site-specific production at an outdoor pool or the Y. Flint Rep in Michigan actually installed onstage a working swimming pool — complete with filters, temperature control, pool noodles, squirt guns, and rubber duckies — for its staging of Godspell. – Playbill
  
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• NYC Mayor Announces Possible Expansion Of Whitney Museum

  30-10-2024 19:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  The development would include up to 300 affordable housing units, a public open space, and 45,000 square feet set aside for a possible Whitney and High Line office expansion, according to the mayor’s office. – Hyperallergic
  
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• What Is It About A Work of Art That Gives A Person Genuine Chills? And Why Does That Seem To Happen So Rarely With Visual Art?

  30-10-2024 19:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  A two-part essay by Ben Davis in which he considers (Part One) what exactly it is about a work that can give someone the physical response he calls “aesthetic chills” and (Part Two) why visual art doesn’t seem to induce those chills as often as other art forms do. – Artnet
  
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• Sotheby’s Gets An Injection Of $1 Billion From Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund

  30-10-2024 18:15 via artnews.com
  
  While the exact terms of the deal—or the company’s new valuation—were not disclosed, a Sotheby’s spokesperson said that $800 million of the cash injection has been earmarked for paying down the auction house’s $1.65 billion long-term debt. – ARTnews
  
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• A Look At The New Version Of The Chicago Manual Of Style

  30-10-2024 18:03 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  The 18th edition of the now-118-year-old guide has expanded sections on copyright, inclusive language (yes, it endorses the singular “they”), and how to credit non-text-based media and material generated by artificial intelligence. – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Online Recommendations Are Deeply Broken (Compromised). We Can Fix That

  30-10-2024 17:44 via newyorker.com
  
  Today’s automated social-media feeds deliver increasingly indistinguishable content now sometimes generated by artificial intelligence; in the face of this onslaught, we crave content with evidence that a real person actually stands behind the products or works being touted. – The New Yorker
  
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• Archaeology Student Finds Lost Ancient Mayan City By Accident

  30-10-2024 17:32 via bbc.com
  
  The team discovered three sites in total, in a survey area the size of Scotland’s capital Edinburgh, “by accident” when one archaeologist browsed data on the internet. – BBC
  
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• Our Cultural Record Stored Digitally Is At Risk

  30-10-2024 17:15 via blog.archive.org
  When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal—whether by design or by attack—our collective memory is compromised, and the public’s ability to access its own history is at risk. – Internet Archive
  
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• Maurizio Pollini’s Final Recording, With His Son By His Side

  30-10-2024 16:58 via nytimes.com
  
  “Dedicated to Schubert, it marks a welcome return to a composer whose music Pollini had not taped since the 1980s. But what makes the program so remarkably poignant is that Pollini is joined by his son. … Daniele Pollini discussed the new Schubert album in an interview.” – The New York Times
  
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• What You Can Tell From An Imagined Audience

  30-10-2024 16:30 via niemanlab.org
  
  As researchers have noted, the less an actual audience is visible or known, the more communicators depend on their imaginations. Because journalists can never know precisely who consumes their work and why they do so, they instead form mental constructions of audiences. That has material consequences. – NiemanLab
  
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• There’s No Way To Reach The Top Of Hollywood’s Corporate Ladders Because The Boomers Already There Won’t Leave

  30-10-2024 16:03 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Unlike their bosses, some of whom ascended to the heights of authority in their 30s …, young professionals today … see no clear path to the top. Not one that isn’t blocked by an all-powerful boomer who’s been perched in a corner office since the Bush administration. The first one.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Some True-Crime Podcasters Are Trying Something Different: Focusing On The Victims

  30-10-2024 15:31 via niemanlab.org
  
  “In a saturated and unregulated landscape, some creators — with little to no training on how to cover crime — try to humanize the people who have suffered. I spoke to four creators for this story, all women. … They prioritize empathy for victims and their loved ones.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Contemporary Artist Chosen To Supply Bayeux Tapestry’s Missing Panel

  30-10-2024 15:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  Most scholars believe that the enormous embroidery, which depicts the Norman Conquest, is missing a key scene: the coronation of William the Conqueror as King of England on Christmas Day 1066. Hélène Delprat has been selected to create what she describes as “neither a restoration nor a reconstruction.” – Artnet
  
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• ‘Things got a bit edgy’: artist Tony Clark on painting with punks, drugs and Nick Cave

  30-10-2024 15:00
  The Australian artist taught Rowland S Howard, dodged heroin in Melbourne and painted cover art for the Bad Seeds. He reflects on the past 50 yearsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThere is a universe in which Tony Clark is not about to have a major retrospective in Melbourne. Fifty years ago, he took breaks from studying art history at Reading University to tour the UK in a Ford Transit. While his long white hair could betray a prog-rock past, he sheepishly admits, “I actually fe
  
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• How Choreographers Are Experimenting With AI

  30-10-2024 14:32 via theguardian.com
  “The impact of artificial intelligence … can already be seen across film, television and music, but to some extent dance seems insulated, as a form that so much relies on live bodies performing in front of an audience.” Yet several choreographers (most notably, Wayne McGregor) are working with the technology. – The Guardian
  
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• Odesans Fight Back As Regional Governor Tries To Erase City’s Russian-Language History

  30-10-2024 14:04 via prospectmagazine.co.uk
  
  “Where the governor sees Russian imperialism, Odesan artists, writers, musicians and scholars and their friends in Ukraine and across the world see a high-handed cancellation of cultural figures who are integral to the city’s 230-year history.” – Prospect (UK)
  
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• The Baltimore Sun Eliminates Its Entire Features Department, And With It Most Arts Coverage

  30-10-2024 13:30 via yahoo.com
  
  “(This will be) the first time since at least 1888 the newspaper won’t have even one reporter dedicated to covering the city’s cultural life,” said the paper’s union. “The Sun will continue to cover news developments in the arts and food industries, but … (not) the soul of features reporting.” – TheWrap (Yahoo!)
  
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• Actress Teri Garr Has Died At 79

  30-10-2024 13:06 via msn.com
  She began her career as a backup dancer in Elvis Presley movies and made countless guest appearances on TV series, but she’s best remembered for brilliant comedic turns in the films Young Frankenstein, Mr. Mom, and Tootsie, for which she received an Oscar nomination. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• ‘Majestic brightness’: Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art finds a new permanent home

  30-10-2024 08:00
  
  After decades of nomadic existence, the Polish capital’s art temple is open for permanent business in an inspirational, light-filled new buildingWhen Poland joined the European Union 20 years ago, our world changed. I was a student in Warsaw, and spent my savings on a train ticket to Berlin – not for migrant work, but to see the 200 masterpieces at the Neue Nationalgalerie on loan from the New York Museum of Modern Art.In 2017, while in the US, I rushed to the San Francisco Museum of
  
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• Fright club! Hollywood’s golden age goes ghoulish – in pictures

  30-10-2024 08:00
  
  Spectres of real-life horrors haunt Raphaël Neal’s uncanny self-portraits – from a femme fatale covered in cockroaches to a leading man with blood-covered hands Continue reading...
  
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• Public Art Manager – City of Eugene Cultural Services

  30-10-2024 05:33 via artsjournal.com
  Position ProfileThe City of Eugene Cultural Services team is seeking a Public Art Manager.Our CommunityEugene — Oregon’s second largest city — has an excellent mix of recreation, education, scenic beauty and passion for arts and culture.Located in the heart of wine country and within an hour’s drive of the Pacific Ocean and Cascade Mountains, Eugene is the county seat for Lane County.The city boasts a plethora of parks, hundreds of miles of bicycle trails and numerous lak
  
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• Executive Director – Maestra Music

  30-10-2024 05:28 via artsjournal.com
  Maestra Music is seeking an Executive Director committed to deepening the organization’s ongoing work to support women and nonbinary individuals in the professional musical theater field. The Executive Director will harness the energy and activities of a rapid movement that has grown exponentially since Maestra’s founding in 2019. Advocating for equity for women and nonbinary musical professionals will be the guiding light for the Executive Director, and the means to that end will be
  
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