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• Comcast Unloading Its Cable Channels Signals A Major Shift In The TV Business

  25-11-2024 20:14 via cnn.com
  
  “This is a very clear, direct statement by Comcast” that “they are exiting the cable network business. This is them saying ‘We don’t want to be in this business. This is no longer a growth business.’ – CNN
  
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• Spotify Says Music Created With AI Is Welcome

  25-11-2024 20:02 via musictech.com
  
  “We’re a tool for creators, and if creators want to use AI to enhance their music, as long as we follow the legislation and copyright laws, we want them to be able to monetise their music and pay out.” – MusicTech
  
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• How The Internet Archive’s Fair Use Argument Lost At The Court

  25-11-2024 19:44 via freethink.com
  
  Copyright law is a jagged rock on which many seemingly promising ideas have been wrecked. In this particular case, the perilous legal provision turned out to be Section 107 of the Copyright Act, which governs “the fair use of a copyrighted work.” – FreeThink
  
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• Tracing The Lives Of The 20th Century American Novel

  25-11-2024 19:32 via latimes.com
  
  Taking Alex Ross’ 2007 book “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century” as a model, Frank’s book makes the case for what, exactly, a 20th century novel is, what its authors’ methods and goals were, and how the unprecedented events of an ever more interconnected world shaped it. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Circus That Bought An Old West Town In The Desert

  25-11-2024 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Spiegelworld, an entertainment and circus company based in Las Vegas, bought the entire town in 2022 for $2.5m. This isolated plot of land, roughly an hour’s drive from Vegas and the same distance from the nearest grocery store, is now known as Spiegelworld’s “global headquarters” or, more simply, the “circus town”. – The Guardian
  
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• Study: UK Artists Earn Average Of £12,500 Per Year

  25-11-2024 18:44 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Visual artists in the UK take home a median annual salary of only £12,500 a year, a 40% decrease since 2010, a new survey commissioned by the Design & Artists Copyright Society (DACS) has found. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Outside Some High-Profile Sales (Banana Anyone?) Art Auction Market Is Down 40 Percent This Season

  25-11-2024 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The auction market “continues to sag behind its 2022 sales records, when a pent-up supply of masterpieces during the pandemic pushed the fall sales to $3.2 billion.” – The New York Times
  
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• New Book Publisher Says It Will Publish 8000 Books Next Year Using AI

  25-11-2024 18:31 via thebookseller.com
  Spines, founded in 2021 but which published its first titles this year, is a startup technology business which—for a fee—is offering the use of AI to proofread, produce, publish and distribute books. – The Bookseller
  
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• George Stubbs dog painting expected to reach up to £2m at auction

  25-11-2024 18:15
  
  The Spanish Pointer has not been seen by the public since 1972, when it sold for £30,000George Stubbs’s celebrated painting of a Spanish pointer dog is to be auctioned at Sotheby’s for the first time since 1972.The 18th-century painting is being offered for auction at £1,500,000-2,000,000. It was last auctioned for £30,000 in 1972, and fetched £11 when it was auctioned in 1802. Continue reading...
  
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• Valencia’s Artists And Cultural Institutions Dig Out After Floods

  25-11-2024 18:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  In Spain, regional governments are responsible for disaster management, including heritage protection. The co-operation between the central government and Valencia’s to respond to the catastrophe has come under heavy scrutiny, with accusations of negligence on both sides. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Writing A Recipe Versus Writing Fiction

  25-11-2024 17:15 via vittlesmagazine.com
  
  Michèle Roberts, author of French Cooking for One, says, “Writing a recipe is very close to writing a poem, which is about choosing words and ingredients and things. The right thing in the right place and so on, the time, the narrative.” – Vittles
  
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• A Graphic Novel About Elon Musk Is Having A Very Hard Time Finding A US Or UK Publisher

  25-11-2024 17:00 via artsjournal.com
  France? Sure, France published the book. But, the book’s author says, “I’m told that there was interest from various international publishers at the recent Frankfurt book fair, but there was concern over possible legal consequences.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Google Empire Is Under Assault From All Sides

  25-11-2024 16:30 via theverge.com
  
  “For many years, Google’s sprawling empire has faced little legal scrutiny, allowing the company to freely build up its search engine, browser, operating systems, and line of hardware products that all intersect to bolster one another.” But all empires must fall. – The Verge
  
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• The Blue Man Group Is Leaving New York, And Chicago Too

  25-11-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s been more than three decades and more than 17,000 performances Off-Broadway. But apparently, it’s time to head to Florida. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Are Adults Returning To Ballet?

  25-11-2024 15:45 via latimes.com
  
  “I’d always been curious about ballet,” says one woman who started taking classes “after a major life shift.” She’s far from alone. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A Real-World Lesson From This Season Of Yellowstone

  25-11-2024 15:30 via variety.com
  
  Never mess with a showrunner who can destroy your character and your legacy. – Variety
  
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• Eileen Diss, Set Designer Who Collaborated With Pinter And Won Six BAFTAs, Has Died At 93

  25-11-2024 15:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Aside from the many, many collaborations with playwright Pinter, “her influence on BBC design work, ‘a slightly crazy mix of boarding-school perfectionism and free-spirited iconoclasm,’ was baked in.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Evaluating Wunderkind Conductor Klaus Makela

  25-11-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “It is safe to say that no conductor in modern history has been entrusted with so much at such a young age. Does he deserve it?” – The New York Times
  
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• Why This Weekend’s Two Blockbusters Arrived At A Perfect Time

  25-11-2024 14:45 via artsjournal.com
  Both movies tell similar stories. And both arrived on the same day, “at a moment when stories of crumbling empires plundered by deceitful despots feel distinctly apropos.” – Slate
  
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• What It’s Like To Write About The Science Behind Being Human

  25-11-2024 14:30 via niemanlab.org
  
  Sarah Zhang of The Atlantic: “Sometimes, before I understand intellectually why a story is interesting or good, if I feel myself emotionally gravitate to a story, it probably means there’s something there.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• How Public Libraries Can Prepare Themselves For The Incoming Administration

  25-11-2024 14:15 via bookriot.com
  
  Well, this is a cheery article. “There are fewer than two months—and honestly, about one month with the holidays—to shore up your institutions to make them as strong and solid for the community as possible.” – Book Riot
  
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• Just Give Denzel Washington His Third Oscar Statue Now

  25-11-2024 14:00 via vulture.com
  
  OK, it’s still a bit early, but the race to the Academy Awards has definitely kicked into higher gear. – Vulture
  
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• Lessons The Art World Is Learning At Auction, Post-Election

  25-11-2024 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “Some analysts expected that Donald J. Trump’s victory in the presidential election would cast a glow over the art market after seeing the prices of some stocks, cryptocurrencies and the dollar lift shortly after his win.” And yet, no. – The New York Times
  
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• Oscar Winner Cillian Murphy Buys His Childhood Cinema

  25-11-2024 13:30 via irishtimes.com
  
  Murphy and his wife bought the building, “the sole cinema on the Dingle Peninsula,” which had been closed since 2021. – Irish Times
  
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• Bryn Terfel Says Meat Loaf Should Play Him In A Biopic

  25-11-2024 13:15 via theguardian.com
  Also, the opera singer lies about being on time to the airport, and other details. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Cable TV Is Dying, And Comcast Is Helping Kill It

  25-11-2024 13:00 via slate.com
  “Traditional TV has been declining for decades now, for myriad obvious reasons. But the NBC/SpinCo situation may be representative of an even grimmer media trend: powerful corporations choosing to expedite the devaluation of the cable industry altogether.” – Slate
  
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• The surreal deal: the exhibitions celebrating the revolutionary, illogical art of the absurd

  25-11-2024 09:00
  Rising as a rebuttal to fascism, sexism and war in the 1920s and 30s, surrealism was a response to ‘a world gone mad’. As the movement marks its centenary, two new shows are celebrating its past and futureOne hundred years ago last month, the 28-year-old poet André Breton penned the Surrealist Manifesto, shucking off “the reign of logic”, calling out “the pretence of civilisation and progress” and heralding “the omnipotence of dream”. Breton
  
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• See the light pour through: how art can free us from the exhaustion of smartphone addiction

  25-11-2024 09:00
  
  As tech giants hook us into endless scrolling, we are becoming less engaged, less creative, less connected, less human. Art reminds us to look outwards at the things that truly matterHow often do you look up at the sky, rather than down at the black mirror on which you might be reading this column? Will you read to the end of this page? How many tabs have you opened today? If you’re on a train, how many people are interacting with fellow humans rather than looking at their phones? I am not
  
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• Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale to highlight ‘life in the midst of death’

  25-11-2024 08:00
  
  Project involves showing work in Gaza but also sending works across Israeli siege lines for exhibiting worldwidePalestinian artists in Gaza plan to stage a “biennale” exhibition as an act of defiance against Israel’s military onslaught and to focus attention on the plight of the territory’s 2.3 million people under more than 13 months of bombardment.About 50 artists from Gaza will exhibit their work within the besieged coastal strip, and are looking for art galleries to h
  
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• Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale as ‘act of resistance and survival’

  25-11-2024 08:00
  Project involves showing work in Gaza but also sending works across Israeli siege lines for exhibiting worldwidePalestinian artists in Gaza plan to stage a “biennale” exhibition as an act of defiance against Israel’s military onslaught and to focus attention on the plight of the territory’s 2.3 million people under more than 13 months of bombardment.About 50 artists from Gaza will exhibit their work within the besieged coastal strip, and are looking for art galleries to h
  
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• Britain faces ‘talent drain’ of visual artists as earnings fall by 40% since 2010

  25-11-2024 06:01
  Report says funding cuts, inflation and rise of AI contributing to median income dropping to £12,500Earnings for visual artists in Britain have plunged by 40% since 2010, with experts predicting a “talent drain” from the UK because EU countries offer more attractive working environments.A report commissioned by the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS), found that visual artists had a median annual income of £12,500, with 80% of the 1,200 creatives surveyed saying t
  
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