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• How WH Auden Used Culture To Reconsider His Place In The World

  06-11-2024 18:32 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  His work of this period combined a proclamation of the value of microcultures with a commitment to an intellectual cosmopolitanism. He celebrated the “local understanding”, but what bound the members of that salon to one another was the combination of cultural and national diversity with moral sympathy. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• Stratford Festival seeks their next Artistic Director

  06-11-2024 18:26 via artsjournal.com
  LOCATION:
  Stratford, OntarioPOSITION DETAILS:
  Full Time, PermanentREPORTS TO:
  Board of GovernorsDIRECT REPORTS:
  Director of the Birmingham Conservatory; Director of the Langham Directors’ Workshop & Associate Director, Planning; Director of Production; Executive Producer; Casting Director; Director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program; Meighen Forum Director; Head of DesignWEBSITE
  https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/ABOUT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL“Stratford is by ever
  
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• Executive Director – Kansas City Repertory Theatre

  06-11-2024 18:19 via artsjournal.com
  Kansas City Repertory Theatre (KCRep) is excited to welcome an innovative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial minded professional to serve as the company’s next Executive Director. Working in partnership with KCRep’s Artistic Director in a co-leadership relationship, the Executive Director will strengthen all operations by evaluating and implementing new systems and moving the company into a new era of independence and energy. This is a vital transformative moment as KCRep sunsets it
  
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• Should We Be Worried About Who’s Remaking The Whitney Museum’s Old Building?

  06-11-2024 18:15 via msn.com
  Breuer’s building, which has served as three museums, will lose some of its public presence no matter what, but New Yorkers still have an interest in a restrained restoration. – New York Magazine (MSN)
  
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• Indian Government Puts Heavy Pressure On Wikipedia, Alleging Bias

  06-11-2024 18:06 via techcrunch.com
  
  “Wikipedia is facing mounting regulatory pressure in India as local authorities question whether the platform should continue to enjoy legal protections as a neutral intermediary rather than being classified as a publisher. … The ministry cited concerns about concentrated editorial control and persistent complaints about bias and inaccuracies on the platform.” – TechCrunch
  
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• Threat To Our Future? An Empathy Gap

  06-11-2024 17:44 via psyche.co
  
  People find it easier to empathize with a single individual than with groups, plausibly because individuals are easier to conjure in one’s imagination. Therefore, the difference in empathy toward a present person and future others in general is likely even greater than what we’ve found. – Psyche
  
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• A New Golden Age For City Parks

  06-11-2024 17:25 via nytimes.com
  
  This is a golden age for parks, with cities sprucing up waterfronts, transforming abandoned industrial sites and bringing some green space to neighborhoods where treeless cracked-asphalt sports courts are the rule. – The New York Times
  
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• Major European Publisher Will Start Using AI To Translate Some Novels Into English

  06-11-2024 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) – the largest publisher in the Netherlands, acquired by Simon & Schuster earlier this year – is ‘using AI to assist in the translation of a limited number of books. … This project contains less than 10 titles – all commercial fiction.'” – The Guardian
  
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• Popularity Of True-Crime Podcasts And Series Can Have Real-Life Consequences, Good And Bad

  06-11-2024 16:32 via apnews.com
  
  “The proliferation of true-crime entertainment like Netflix’s docudrama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is effecting real-life changes for their subjects and in society. At their best, (they) help expose injustices and right wrongs. But because many of these products prioritize entertainment and profit, they also can have negative consequences.” – AP
  
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• ‘I’m going to sue the living pants off them’: AI’s big legal showdown – and what it means for Dr Strange’s hair

  06-11-2024 16:21
  
  AI has given us the pope in a puffer, but it is also predicted to wipe out 200,000 entertainment jobs. We report from a crucial event in Portugal, full of angry artists, digital miracles – and a surprising amount of optimismThe first piece of AI-generated video I ever made moved me to tears – tears of laughter. Given the chance to fool around with Runway AI’s Gen-3 Alpha, I dropped in an image of an eagle carrying off a wolf. Moments later, the picture sprang into life. The eag
  
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• Broadway League Will No Longer Announce Dimming Of Marquee Lights For Deceased Stars

  06-11-2024 16:04 via gothamist.com
  Following heavy pushback over the (since-reversed) decision to do only a partial dimming in memory of Gavin Creel, who died in September at 48, the League has turned over all such announcements to an outside press spokesperson for the separate Broadway Theatre Owners Committee.” – Gothamist
  
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• Co-Creator Of “UndeadApes” NFTs Convicted Of Fraud

  06-11-2024 15:31 via artnews.com
  
  “A federal jury in Tampa, Florida, recently found the cocreator of the ‘UndeadApes’ and ‘Undead Lady Apes’ NFT collections” — not to be confused with the better-known Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs — “guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.” – ARTnews
  
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• Three Charged With Hate Crimes For Vandalizing Homes Of Brooklyn Museum Director

  06-11-2024 15:05 via brooklyneagle.com
  
  Three suspects have been charged for allegedly making threats and spraying anti-Semitic graffiti on the homes of museum director Anne Pasternak, a board member, and the board chairman. The three were protesting what they assumed was the victims’ support for the Israelis in the Gaza War. – Brooklyn Eagle
  
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• David Erdos: ‘The United Hates of America’

  06-11-2024 14:34 via artsjournal.com
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• Sarah Cunningham, Fast-Rising Artist Who Went Missing In London, Is Found Dead At 31

  06-11-2024 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  She was reported missing this past Saturday, and on Monday her body was found on the tracks of the London Underground. Police said her death “is not thought to be suspicious.” – ARTnews
  
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• San Francisco Opera Orchestra Extends Contract For Seven Months

  06-11-2024 14:06 via sfcv.org
  “As the orchestra’s temporary contract extension ran out on Oct. 31, (management and the musicians’ union) have settled on another extension, one longer-range and slightly modifying the current terms. The agreement is good through May 30, 2025, just before the company’s summer season begins on June 3.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• The Long Wave: Is Kemi Badenoch’s victory a win to Nigerians?

  06-11-2024 13:10
  
  Despite initial excitement after becoming the first Black leader of any British political party, a cooling to Badenoch’s ascent is on the horizon• Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereHello and welcome to The Long Wave. I am writing to you fully refreshed following a whole two hours’ sleep after watching the US election. This week, as one Black woman’s electoral fortunes collapse in the United States, a Black woman in the UK, Kemi Badenoch, ha
  
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• The Great Mughals review – dazzling decorous delights waft you to paradise

  06-11-2024 01:01
  
  V&A, London
  Romance, bloodshed and religious curiosity is distilled in these lovely artefacts from the mighty military reign with a love of beauty and culture This exhibition wafts you to the paradise that Shah Jahan, fifth of the Muslim emperors of much of modern India and Pakistan, wanted to create on Earth. A floor-covering decorated with red poppies sets the scene for this idyll of calmness. A rippled stone panel with myriad water spouts had me dreaming of fruit trees and pavilions while
  
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