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• Row X Wrapped

  06-12-2024 21:58 via artsjournal.com
  
  Everyone’s seeing their end of year summaries of their year in music listening on their Spotify Wrapped or Apple Music Replays this week.It’s a fun feature that these companies do each year, a great engagement point for those companies and their customers. I’ve also seen some arts organizations building on the trend with their own Wrapped features, like Blumenthal Arts in Charlotte, NC, that highlighted the highest attended shows, and the top selling drink from their concessio
  
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• How We Got To Brain Rot

  06-12-2024 20:51 via theatlantic.com
  
  Brain rot is marked by a “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Americans Aren’t Reading Memoirs. Why?

  06-12-2024 20:32 via thewalrus.ca
  
  This paucity of first-person storytelling is striking. Among the best writing of our current century, have so few people written well enough about their lives to qualify? Where are all the memoirs? – The Walrus
  
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• Deal Close On Return Of Parthenon Marbles To Greece?

  06-12-2024 20:15 via bbc.com
  
  It came as Sir Keir Starmer and his Greek counterpart met for talks in Downing Street on Tuesday – though it is unclear whether the Elgin Marbles were discussed. – BBC
  
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• The Life Of Simone Weil — And How It’s Put To Use In America

  06-12-2024 20:06 via thedriftmag.com
  
  In the late 20th century she was seen as an exemplar of well-meaning but extreme ascetic mysticism. Now she’s either a prophet of, and antidote for, American political and spiritual malaise or “a mascot for misguided youths seeking to blend a fetishized Catholic ritualism with aestheticized eating disorders.” – The Drift
  
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• The Amazon Review Artist

  06-12-2024 19:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Kevin Killian published over a million words on Amazon, across almost twenty-four hundred reviews, before his death, in 2019. The products he evaluated included DVDs of classic twentieth-century cinema, literary biographies, and experimental poetry collections—but also toiletries, Halloween costumes, and a chestnut tree. – The New Yorker
  
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• How Games Are Shaping Our World

  06-12-2024 19:15 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  Play is something that predates humans. It’s fundamental to how animals engage in and understand the world. It’s how we test and figure out the rules of our environment, how social relationships work. – LA Review of Books
  
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• A Theatre Troupe Struggles On Amid The Murderous Chaos Of Port-au-Prince

  06-12-2024 19:02 via theguardian.com
  “‘Every day (there’s shooting),’ sighed the director, Eliezer Guérismé, as his company took a break from their read-through to the all-too familiar sound of gunfire. ‘But even with the shooting, we keep on working because that’s our mission. We don’t want to stop.'” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘I’m challenging the narrative’: what to expect at this year’s Art Basel Miami

  06-12-2024 18:50
  
  The annual gathering of artists and those within the art world takes place at a precarious time politicallyArt has a very inconstant relationship with politics – ask an artist if they want to make a political statement and they are likely to bristle. Yet, look beneath the surface of any interesting piece, and you’ll almost certainly find definite connections to larger social structures and conversations that are in fact very, very political.Scanning the offerings of Art Basel Miami B
  
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• Writers Demand Giller Prize Funder Divest From Arms Company

  06-12-2024 18:44 via theconversation.com
  
  Some Giller winners state that “the only way to remedy what has been a deeply divisive period in Canadian arts is for the chief funders of so many arts prizes and organizations in Canada — banks such as Scotiabank — to divest from companies whose products are currently being used in mass killing.” – The Conversation
  
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• How Did We Lose Our Excitement For The Future?

  06-12-2024 18:31 via worksinprogress.co
  
  As a child, I felt lucky to be born in 1960. I’d be only 40 in the year 2000 and might live half my life in the magical new century. By the time I was a teenager, however, the spell had broken. The once-enticing future morphed into a place of pollution, overcrowding, and ugliness. – Works in Progress
  
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• Is The Era Of AI, Is There A Future Teaching Writing?

  06-12-2024 18:15 via plough.com
  
  It turns out that there is some benefit to working in an industry that is clearly contracting but has not yet died. It forces you to think. Which is anyway your job, if you’re a teacher. As Samuel Johnson said of the death penalty, it concentrates the mind. – Plough
  
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• Italian Police Present An Exhibition Of Artworks Seized From The Mafia

  06-12-2024 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  “Eighty works, confiscated by the Italian authorities, went on show at Milan‘s Palazzo Reale this week. The exhibition, ‘Save Arts: From Confiscations to Public Collections,’ features paintings, graphic works, and sculptures by Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo, and other prominent artists.” – ARTnews
  
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• Sending Off 2024—A Bumper Year for Cross-Agency Collaborations through the Arts

  06-12-2024 18:00 via artsjournal.com
  The January 2024 “Healing, Bridging, Thriving” summit at the NEA celebrated an ethos of cross-sectoral partnerships involving the arts in federal government. Memorable outcomes were an interagency working group led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the NEA, an impassioned speech by the Surgeon General, and an artists-in-residence pilot program at the Environmental Protection Agency. 
  In addition, in this year alone, the NEA has expanded its data-
  
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• U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Law Requiring Sale Or Ban of TikTok

  06-12-2024 17:44 via businessinsider.com
  
  “A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Friday that a law designed to force a TikTok sale or ban is constitutional.” – Business Insider
  
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• If You Can’t Tell If The Music Is Created By AI, It Doesn’t Matter

  06-12-2024 17:31 via shellypalmer.com
  
  Background music for commercials, once the domain of human composers, can now be generated by AI in minutes, meeting technical and emotional requirements at a fraction of the cost. Why would a business pay a premium for human creators if AI can deliver similar or better metrics? – Shelly Palmer
  
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• Has BookTok Passed Its Prime?

  06-12-2024 17:15 via bookriot.com
  
  We’ve had enough of endless, disappointing BookTok recommendations that promise payoff, not to mention its other cons. So are we finally at the end of BookTok’s chapter? – BookRiot
  
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• The Most Arts-Vibrant States, Ranked 1 To 50

  06-12-2024 17:05 via artsjournal.com
  “In its second annual release, our State of the Arts: Arts Vibrancy Rankings analyzes measurements of arts-vibrancy for all 50 states, using a comprehensive, data-driven approach that considers factors like supply, demand, and public support for arts and culture, along with adjustments for cost of living and population size.” – SMU DataArts
  
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• Report: Podcast-Listening Continues Strong Growth

  06-12-2024 16:31 via insideradio.com
  
  While podcasts’ popularity grows overall, the strongest momentum is with watchable podcasts. The data shows four in ten say they like actively watching a podcast, while another 29% prefer listening to a podcast while the video is minimized or playing in the background — for what one might consider an audio-like experience. – Inside Radio
  
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• New Black-Centered Arts Center Is Coming To Boston

  06-12-2024 16:03 via wbur.org
  
  “Castle of Our Skins, an arts institution that celebrates and aims to generate curiosity in Black music, cut the ribbon on Thursday … at its new location,” to open in 2027. “The 2,491-square-foot space, which will be called Gold Hall, will function as a performance and community space.” – WBUR (Boston)
  
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• Yuval Sharon Is Leaving The Industry, The Experimental L.A. Opera Company He Founded

  06-12-2024 15:36 via yahoo.com
  
  “The company’s executive director, Tim Griffin, who came on board in summer 2023, will … become both executive and artistic director. Co-artistic directors, Ash Fure and Malik Gaines, who joined forces in an artistic director cooperative with Sharon in 2021, will form a new artistic advisory council.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Bayreuth Festival Makes Deep Cuts To Its 150th Anniversary Season

  06-12-2024 15:02 via apnews.com
  
  Blaming its cash shortfall on the public-service sector employee contracts it has with staff and an inability to raise more revenue, Bayreuth management cut four productions from the summer 2026 schedule, leaving only Rienzi and the Ring cycle along with a concert performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.. – AP
  
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• “The Nutcracker” Is Saved! San Francisco Ballet Dancers’ Union And Management Agree On Contract

  06-12-2024 14:30 via msn.com
  “San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker season will kick off as planned, despite concerns that opening night would be canceled due to a stall in contract negotiations. Ballet management … reached a tentative two-year agreement with its union members on Thursday.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• The Guardian Approves Sale Of The Observer To Tortoise Media

  06-12-2024 14:04 via msn.com
  “Tortoise agreed to invest £25 million ($31.9 million) in the British title over the next five years and has pledged to keep publishing the print edition of the approximately 230-year-old paper. Under the terms of the deal, the Scott Trust will become a key shareholder in Tortoise Media.” – Bloomberg (MSN)
  
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• A French revolution in science, Japanese art remixed and Everest re-ascended – the week in art

  06-12-2024 13:58
  
  A blockbuster show of Versailles’ experiments, Takashi Murakami’s cheeky spinon classic paintings and Mallory and Irvine remembered – all in your weekly dispatchVersailles: Science and Splendour
  The palace of the Sun King was the birthplace of the modern world, says this blockbuster.
  • Science Museum, London, 12 December-21 April Continue reading...
  
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