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• A Christmas Carol as an Arts Marketing Parable

  22-12-2024 23:59 via artsjournal.com
  
  The marketing plan was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. You’re the marketing director of a theater. It was your plan, but you knew it was dead. It’s a Wednesday afternoon and the mid-week matinee happening in the theater two floors down was half-full. You can hear over the monitors the actors trying desperately to get the audience to laugh, but it just wasn’t working. You check the sales dashboard in your CRM and the social media accounts. Your Insta
  
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• Four Things Humans Still Do Better Than AI

  22-12-2024 22:01 via hbr.org
  
  In speaking to hundreds of experts, consumers, and skeptics of AI over the past few years, four strongholds for humans keep coming up. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Skyscrapers Are Sinking Into The Sand In Miami

  22-12-2024 21:31 via dezeen.com
  
  It examined many large buildings built on the strip, half of which were built in 2014 and after, and found that 35 had been affected by sinking or “subsidence” of between  two to eight-centimetres. – Dezeen
  
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• Should The BBC Scrap Its License Fee And Go Subscription?

  22-12-2024 21:02 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  The successful roll-out of fast broadband in the UK has allowed streaming services — led by the US giants, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Apple TV+ — to demonstrate the dynamic power of subscription as a funding mechanism. – The Critic
  
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• The Curious Incuriosity Of Multi-Culturalists?

  22-12-2024 20:31 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  For all they like to talk about the “enrichment” that diversity brings, pro-immigration liberalism in Britain often insists on a studied lack of curiosity or observancy about either the individuals or their cultures; or the new cultures that emerge as they mix in our cities. – The Critic
  
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• Diversify Curriculum? Aren’t The Classics Diverse?

  22-12-2024 20:02 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  One of the wellsprings of the English canon is, of course, classical literature. Where does this start? With Homer, who, if he existed, was a blind poet born on the shores of Asia Minor. The Iliad: battles between Mediterranean warlords and an Asiatic king with many children, and intense love between two male warriors. – The Critic
  
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• Did You Know You Could Buy The Oldest Ten Commandments Stone Tablet?

  22-12-2024 19:31 via artnews.com
  
  Expected to sell for an estimated $1 to $2 million, the tablet fetched a whopping $5 million. – ARTnews
  
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• Reconsidering Schoenberg @150

  22-12-2024 19:02 via latimes.com
  
  We still don’t quite know how to sell Schoenberg. There is the scary modernist Schoenberg — inventor of the 12-tone system, replacing traditional harmony with the democratic notion that all notes are equal — who reputedly drives audiences away. But there is also the Schoenberg who carried on from the 19th century Romantic tradition. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Year And Reading About Dance

  22-12-2024 18:32 via orartswatch.org
  
  As in last year’s column, a couple of these books were published recently; the others earlier in the century. All, in one way or another, are about dancing and dance, the people who make it, practice it, teach it, and, no small thing, the passion that drives them. – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2024

  22-12-2024 14:00
  
  Black art moved centre stage, sculpture couldn’t keep still, Francis Alÿs captured the power of child’s play – but the year belonged to Van Gogh1. Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers National Gallery, London; September (runs until 19 January 2025)
  Show of the year, if not the decade: electrifying, mesmerising, intensely affecting, every brushstroke alive with joyous energy. From the Yellow House in Arles to the asylum at Saint-Rémy, 61 works from the final two years of Van G
  
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• Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami review – the opposite of refinement

  22-12-2024 10:00
  
  Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London
  The Tokyo-born pop artist who has worked with Louis Vuitton, Billie Eilish et al juxtaposes ancient art, modern politics and his own logos to surprisingly anodyne effectThe phenomenon of Takashi Murakami – global brand recognition, relentless market complicity – is so synonymous with money that it is hard to look at his new show without seeing merchandise before all else. There is a vigilant bodyguard for every two paintings at Gagosian. Enormous, glea
  
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