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• This Composer Created An Entire Week-Long Piece Specifically For People’s Living Rooms

  19-11-2024 21:03 via msn.com
  “Drawing from a bank of over 7,000 ‘musical shapes, textures and gestures,’ as (Michael) Schumacher describes the mix of sampled audio, field recordings and musical fragments, Living Room Pieces assembles the sounds into 301 ‘modules’ and algorithmically arranges their playback through seven ‘modes,’ one for each day.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• London’s Royal Opera Explores What It Means To Have A Voice (And Lose It)

  19-11-2024 20:15 via theguardian.com
  “When you lose your voice, it takes away more than just your ability to communicate. You also lose part of your identity, personality and persona.” – The Guardian
  
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• The ABC Sports Producer Who Pioneered Real-Time Livestreaming Of A Calamity — In 1972

  19-11-2024 20:06 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Geoffrey Mason, aged only 30, was a producer helping run coverage of the Munich Olympics when terrorists from the Black September group took hostage, and eventually murdered, 11 Israeli athletes. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Yo-Yo Ma And Kathryn Stott: A 40-Year Musical Partnership Comes To An End

  19-11-2024 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Friends before they started playing together, Ma and Stott met in 1978 in rather unusual circumstances. – The New York Times
  
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• African Musicians Sound Off About Using AI In Music

  19-11-2024 19:17 via bbc.com
  
  “My problem with AI is the ownership. Once you have taken some music from Ghana or Nigeria, who owns that music? How would you find out where the original creators are and ensure they are credited? It’s theft for me through the backroom.” – BBC
  
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• Airbnb Wants To Stage Gladiator Battles In The Actual Colosseum. Romans Are Appalled.

  19-11-2024 19:04 via cnn.com
  
  Airbnb and the Colosseum Archaeological Park have signed a $1.5 million deal to offer 16 tourists a chance to “unleash their inner gladiator.” Colosseum officials say it will pay for site maintenance; many Romans object to both the bad taste of the idea and the company’s contributions to overtourism. – CNN
  
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• How Technology Has Reshaped The Ways We Talk To One Another

  19-11-2024 18:44 via newyorker.com
  
  The kinds of speech that strike us as authentic, satisfying, and desirable change with time, and depend on our position in the world and on the conversations happening around us. – The New Yorker
  
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• Let’s Get Real: What AI Does Is Not Speaking Language

  19-11-2024 18:32 via thedial.world
  
  To invoke language when talking about LLMs is to misunderstand the nature of language and miss its fundamentally lived and embodied character. LLMs may get better and better at sourcing certain kinds of information or completing certain kinds of tasks, but they are finders, not creators. – The Dial
  
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• Bay Area Museums Are Struggling To Survive

  19-11-2024 18:15 via msn.com
  More than half a dozen nonprofit arts and cultural institutions reviewed by the Chronicle have experienced significant revenue decreases, most say attendance remains below pre-pandemic levels and some have had issues with fundraising in recent years. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• What You Get When You Train AI On Werner Herzog Movies

  19-11-2024 18:02 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  You get a film titled About a Hero, interspersing an AI-written narrative starring Herzog (as a character) investigating a mysterious death with interviews with artists, philosophers, and scientists on AI issues. Yes, Herzog is (in a way) involved, and no, he doesn’t like the film. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• The Prado Museum Casts Itself In The Role Of Literary Muse

  19-11-2024 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Since last year, the Prado has been bringing novelists to live in an apartment overlooking the museum. They stay for periods ranging from three to six weeks, but they are not expected to write there. All they have to do is look at the art — and draw inspiration from what they see. – The New York Times
  
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• How Do Humans Understand Direction? With Language, Of Course

  19-11-2024 17:31 via lithub.com
  
  The configuration and language of the four directions is common to many—though not all—cultures. – LitHub
  
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• Russian Ballet Dancer Critical Of Putin Falls From 5th Floor To His Death

  19-11-2024 17:15 via thedailybeast.com
  
  Multiple Vladimir Putin adversaries have died after falling from windows. The term “Sudden Russian Death Syndrome” was born after many notable Russian figureheads who have spoken out against Putin’s reign died in puzzling ways. One of the most common causes of the deaths are window falls. – The Daily Beast
  
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• Federal Judge In Texas Temporarily Halts The Onion’s Purchase Of Infowars

  19-11-2024 17:05 via variety.com
  
  “The bankruptcy judge overseeing the Chapter 7 liquidation of Infowars and Jones’ assets on Thursday temporarily halted the transfer of Infowars to The Onion and ordered an evidentiary hearing to review the auction — in which bids were submitted secretly.” – Variety
  
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• Barry Le Va review – smash hits from the danger-loving king of ‘floor art’

  19-11-2024 16:56
  
  Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
  The police may have said no to firing gunshots into the walls, but Le Va’s retrospective still invites viewers to take a walk on the wild sideThe gallery is quiet. Perhaps too quiet. I can’t hear the gunshots or the sledgehammer. The bullet-holes peppering the wall, the glass smashed on the floor and the taped-off area by the doorway, demarcated “Slow Death”, are all a kind of evidence, but of what? Watch where you tread. Mind those ball-bearings an
  
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• Even Northern California Has Issues With Censoring High School Plays

  19-11-2024 16:33 via msn.com
  School district officials cancelled Santa Rosa High School’s production of Dog Sees God, which depicts the characters of the comic strip Peanuts in high school and deals with themes of bullying, gun violence, and homophobia. A privately-owned theater nearby hosted the production instead. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Director Of Smithsonian’s American Art Museum Was Removed After Years Of Staff Complaints

  19-11-2024 16:01 via msn.com
  Stephanie Stebich raised more than $100 million for the museum in her seven years there and maintained good relations with the board and senior Smithsonian officials. But former and current staffers describe her decision-making as confused and her management style as anger and recrimination. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• A Keith Haring carousel, a Basquiat ferris wheel: long-lost pop art carnival gets new life in New York

  19-11-2024 16:00
  
  In 1987, the great and good of the art scene designed rides for an avant garde ‘theme park’ in Hamburg. Decades later, Luna Luna has been lovingly resurrectedFive years ago, the creative director Michael Goldberg was working from home when he spotted a reference to Luna Luna on an obscure website. “I may have yelled on my couch,” he laughs now.Goldberg had chanced upon the lost world of Luna Luna, an avant garde “theme park” staged in Hamburg in 1987, created
  
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• Arthur Frommer, Who Pioneered The Budget Travel Guide, Has Died At 95

  19-11-2024 15:36 via apnews.com
  
  Beginning in 1957 with “Europe on $5 a Day,” Frommer’s philosophy changed the way Americans traveled abroad. His advice became so standard that it’s hard to remember how radical it seemed in the days before discount flights and backpacks. – AP
  
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• Shen Yun Under Investigation By New York State For Labor Practices

  19-11-2024 15:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The company is alleged to use underage student performers to work on and off stage for workweeks of well over 40 hours, with extremely busy touring schedules, for only nominal pay. – The New York Times
  
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• The Case for Support: Arts Capacity Walks the Walk Among Nonprofit Arts Organizations

  19-11-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  First, they define the community. Then ask what they need, not what they want. Finally, they don’t confuse it with some irrelevant “artistic vision.” Why isn’t yours doing that?One of the great bugaboos of the nonprofit arts industry is that, while it must be responsive and responsible to the communities in which each individual charity operates, the definition of community can sometimes be purposely made vague to suit the organization’s operations.
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• James Sewell Ballet Will Close After 35 Years

  19-11-2024 14:32 via startribune.com
  
  The Minneapolis-based company will shut down next March. “It’s the latest blow to the Twin Cities dance community, less than a year after … Minnesota Dance Theatre announced in February it would pause its performing company, and the Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts went dark.” – The Minnesota Star-Tribune
  
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• Giller Prize, Canada’s Top Literary Award, To Anne Michaels For “Held”

  19-11-2024 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The jury described the book as “a novel that floats, a beguiling association of memories, projections, and haunted instances through which the very notion of our mortality, of our resilience and desires, is interrogated in passages as impactful as they can be hypnotic.” – CBC
  
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• LL Bean heiress’s $3m collection of Wyeth paintings up for auction

  19-11-2024 13:22
  
  Twenty works owned by late Linda Bean go under hammer in New York alongside Rockwell painting valued at $3-5mTwenty Wyeth paintings from the estate of one of LL Bean’s granddaughters are set to go up for auction on Tuesday.The collection from Linda Bean is valued at more than $3m and is part of a larger auction, American Art, by Bonhams in New York. It includes paintings and illustrations by Andrew Wyeth, his son Jamie Wyeth and his father, the illustrator NC Wyeth. Continue reading...
  
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• Noodles, AI skyscraping and survival: inside Kowloon Walled City – in pictures

  19-11-2024 08:00
  
  Before its demolition, the towering Hong Kong neighbourhood was home to gangs, entrepreneurs, families and addicts. A new exhibition explores it using vintage photos and AI creations Continue reading...
  
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• Finance Consultant – Arts FMS

  19-11-2024 02:49 via artsjournal.com
  As a financial management firm that integrates with nonprofit arts organizations, Arts FMS empowers organizations to focus on their mission while they focus on the long- term fiscal health and sustainability of the organization. By providing a comprehensive scope of full financial management services, Arts FMS is able to bring stability, efficiency, and reliability to an organizations’ financial operations.Arts FMS is seeking a Finance Consultant who is a highly motivated and self-directed
  
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