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• How Might We Communicate With Aliens? Understanding AI Might Help

  18-11-2024 19:45 via singularityhub.com
  
  Unlike bones, we can’t dig up ancient languages to study how they developed over time. While we may be unable to study the true evolution of human language, perhaps a simulation could provide some insights. That’s where AI comes in—a fascinating field of research called emergent communication. – Singularity Hub
  
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• News Service AP Will Cut Eight Percent On Its Staff In Restructuring

  18-11-2024 19:32 via deadline.com
  
  The bulk of the changes will come in the U.S., where we remain committed to our 50-state footprint but must evolve to align with changing customer and market needs. – Deadline
  
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• Study: People Can’t Tell The Difference Between Human And AI Writing

  18-11-2024 19:15 via theconversation.com
  
  Ten poets, from the medieval Geoffrey Chaucer to modern writer Dorothea Lasky, were successfully impersonated by AI chatbots, with most of the 696 participants slightly preferring the imitation to the real thing. – The Conversation
  
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• Restoration Of Rembrandt’s “Night Watchman” Begins In Public

  18-11-2024 18:44 via artnews.com
  
  The restorers are working in a specially-designed glass chamber in the Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honor in full view of the public. – ARTnews
  
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• Claim: More Music Is Released Now In A Typical Day Than In All Of 1989

  18-11-2024 18:32 via musicradar.com
  
  In business analyst MiDiA’s recent ‘State of the music creator economy report‘, they found that the overall number of music creators was around 75.9 million – a 12 percent increase over the previous year. – Music Radar
  
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• Barnes & Noble Announces Its 2024 Book Of The Year

  18-11-2024 18:15 via bookriot.com
  
  A twist on an American classic. – BookRiot
  
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• Barnes & Noble Making A Big Comeback

  18-11-2024 17:44 via cnn.com
  
  In a move that’s perhaps more symbolic than business-minded, Barnes & Noble, America’s largest retail bookseller, has reclaimed the flagship store it vacated in 2013. It’s just one of over 60 new locations opening this year as part of an ambitious expansion plan that seemed impossible before CEO James Daunt took over in 2018. – CNN
  
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• How Immersive Dining Shows Became A Popular Art

  18-11-2024 17:32 via thestage.co.uk
  “Food is a very grounding thing in itself; you want to have a shared experience with people while you’re eating it. When you think about immersive dining, it is very important that that feeling doesn’t get overshadowed by anything else.” – The Stage
  
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• American: Robin de Puy’s portraits of people at a time of division – in pictures

  18-11-2024 17:30
  
  Dutch photographer Robin de Puy travelled across the US to find underrepresented voices during a turbulent time for a new project examining a country under strain. The portraits will be displayed in a series of billboards across Nevada’s Route 50, highlighting the path that was taken to find the Americans on showContinue reading...
  
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• Major Test For The State Of The Art Market This Week

  18-11-2024 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Buyers will compete to own more than 1,600 lots that are estimated to raise at least $1.1 billion. That includes a $1 million banana. The expected total is down more than a third from last November, with 16 percent fewer works headed to the auction block. – The New York Times
  
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• Hollywood Writers Wonder If Their Work Is Training Large Language Models, Or What We Call AI

  18-11-2024 17:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  It sure is. “Many AI systems have been trained on TV and film writers’ work. Not just on The Godfather and Alf, but on more than 53,000 other movies and 85,000 other TV episodes. … The files within this data set are not scripts, exactly. Rather, they are subtitles.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Seven Days In The Cultural Life Of A Broadway Stage Manager

  18-11-2024 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “When you create art for a living, sometimes you take for granted how much more art is out there,” says Cody Renard Richard. Still, New York gives him a broad canvas to discover. – The New York Times
  
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• Listen To The Victorians

  18-11-2024 16:00 via openculture.com
  
  Literally – here are some famous (and not as famous) voices of the 1880s. – Open Culture
  
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• Please Label All Portraits, Royal Portrait-Makers

  18-11-2024 15:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Otherwise you end up with a miniature mislabeled for nearly half a millennium. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Two Climate Activists Are Charged After A Protest At Stonehenge

  18-11-2024 15:30 via salon.com
  
  The climate activists sprayed orange powder paint on some of Stonehenge’s monuments in June. The English Heritage chief claimed that despite there being no permanent visual damage, the act caused distress “to those for whom Stonehenge holds a spiritual significance.” – Salon
  
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• Why More Women Than Men Enjoy True Crime

  18-11-2024 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  True crime, also known as “murder shows” and “murder podcasts,” really appeal to more women than men. Why? “Most of the true crime I watch reflects a black and white moral universe where victims ultimately get justice, even if it is delayed.” – The New York Times
  
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• What It’s Like To Be A Queer Artist Under Turkey’s Increasingly Repressive Regime

  18-11-2024 15:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  It’s not that easy. “A government ban on a trans rights exhibition at Depo in Beyoğlu this summer, coming in the wake of anti-LGBTQ+ protests at a separate art show last year, has rattled artists and cultural workers in Turkey.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Let’s Take A Deeper Look At Those So-Called Brain Training Games

  18-11-2024 14:45 via fastcompany.com
  Turns out playing a game makes you smarter – but only at playing that game. – The Conversation (Fast Company)
  
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• Russian Dancer Vladimir Shklyarov Has Died At 39

  18-11-2024 14:30 via bbc.com
  
  Shklyarov, a principal with the Mariinsky Theatre, fell from the fifth floor of a St. Petersburg building, “while on painkillers.” Federal authorities in Russia are investigating the death. – BBC
  
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• World Of Warcraft Has Changed The Ways Humans Relate To Each Other

  18-11-2024 14:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Yes, even if we don’t play, or know anything about it. The massive game has been a campaign tool, an academic study subject, one of the first social networks, and a test run for subscription services and micropayments. – The New York Times
  
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• The Importance Of A Great Editor

  18-11-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  How Jeanette Winterson sold Oranges Are not the Only Fruit: Randomly, because she met at editor at a job interview. “Philippa said: ‘If you can write it the way you tell it, I’ll buy it.’” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

  18-11-2024 13:46
  
  A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncannyGreat actors have always attracted artists. I think of Edmund Kean looking wild-eyed and demonic as Sir Giles Overreach painted by George Clint; Ellen Terry as a green-gowned Lady Macbeth preserved by John Singer Sargent; and Ruskin Spear’s study in oils of Laurence Olivier as a tormented, guilt-haunted Macbeth. For well over
  
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• The Musical Tammy Faye Feels Like A True Redemption

  18-11-2024 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Tammy Faye “is getting perhaps the gayest tribute a person can have: a Broadway musical,” one composed by Elton John. – The New York Times
  
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• Trying To Rebuild The Oregon Shakespeare Festival After Some Extremely Rough Years

  18-11-2024 13:30 via orartswatch.org
  
  What worked in the past, that is, pre-pandemic, is coming around again – more marketing, more membership drives, more discounts, more repertory theatre. Can it work? – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• One Of Frank Sinatra’s Mansions Comes With A Whole Lot Of History

  18-11-2024 13:15 via english.elpais.com
  
  “Sinatra celebrated his return to bachelorhood by turning Farralone into the official headquarters of the Rat Pack’s poker games. During these alcohol-fueled gatherings, huge fortunes changed hands in the blink of an eye.” Then there’s the guest house, where Marilyn Monroe may have hung out with JFK. – El País
  
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• Yes, We Can Save Opera In The United States

  18-11-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  And everywhere – by making it feel new again. Peter Gelb: “The solution to sustaining opera is through artistic reinvention, both with new operas by living composers, and reimagined productions of classics that can resonate with audiences of today.” – The New York Times
  
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• Cutting-edge labs, a rainforest gallery and guesthouse: Nigeria to open art museum for 21st century

  18-11-2024 09:00
  
  With a campus-style layout inspired by ancient Benin City, the Museum of West African Art has the potential ‘to be amongst the best in the world for holding returning objects’Benin City in modern-day Nigeria was once the capital of a bustling kingdom which left a magnificent artistic legacy of plaques and sculpture in cast bronze which were looted by British colonial forces in 1897.Now, as an increasing number of western museums are returning artefacts, or pledging to repatriate them
  
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