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• Inside 150 Years Of Paris’ Opulent Palais Garnier Theatre

  24-01-2025 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  At a 150th anniversary gala on Friday, before guests reach the marble staircase, the baroque sculptures, the inlaid golden mosaics and the elaborately painted ceiling, they will pass two giant mirrors set on the ground floor. – The New York Times
  
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• Christopher Stowell Is New Artistic Director Of Royal Winnipeg Ballet

  24-01-2025 19:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  A former principal at San Francisco Ballet and artistic director of Oregon Ballet Theatre, he was most recently Karen Kain’s associate artistic director at the National Ballet of Canada. He takes up his new position in June. – Winnipeg Free Press
  
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• Longtime Baltimore Symphony Concertmaster Resigns: A Complicated Legacy

  24-01-2025 18:44 via thebaltimorebanner.com
  
  Allegations of inappropriate behavior first surfaced in 2006, when principal oboist Katherine Needleman told a union rep and orchestra personnel staff that Carney made a 3 a.m. visit to her hotel room while the orchestra was touring Spain. – Baltimore Banner
  
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• Ways To Think About Being Stupid

  24-01-2025 18:31 via cjr.org
  
  We should embrace conscious ignorance—an intellectual humility that helps us recognize our own limitations while remaining receptive to the knowledge of others. This form of ignorance, like the Socratic “I know that I know nothing,” is the foundation of true competence. – CJR
  
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• A Library Of Textures, Materials, Things…

  24-01-2025 18:15 via worksinprogress.co
  
  It’s “a place where people could browse, handle, and borrow stimulating materials, a place where playing with material could spark new ideas and make unexpected connections.” – Works In Progress
  
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• Sleep Tourism Is Becoming A Thing

  24-01-2025 18:04 via bbc.com
  
  “Sleep-deprived travellers are choosing their hotel on the basis of its pillow menu or booking themselves into away-from-it-all sleep retreats with tailored sleep-inducing activities. Sweden has a different, more natural approach to sleep tourism.” – BBC
  
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• The Angel Blue Story

  24-01-2025 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, said that he expects Blue would remain a major presence at the Met. Already, he added, she has “made a mark as one of the great Aidas of our time.” – The New York Times
  
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• Giant Publisher Bertelsmann Strikes Deal With OpenAI

  24-01-2025 17:31 via publishersweekly.com
  
  In addition to using ChatGPT Enterprise to increase the efficiency in its daily work processes, “experts and creatives from [Bertelsmann’s] content businesses will work with OpenAI to develop new ways of creating and distributing video, audio, and text content,” the announcement said. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Music Streamer Deezer Reports 10,000 AI-Created Songs Are Uploaded To Its Site Every Day

  24-01-2025 17:15 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  Deezer has been among the most aggressive digital service providers (DSPs) when it comes to detecting AI-generated content, “noise” tracks meant to skim royalty revenue, and other low-quality content. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• The Gwyneth Paltrow Skiing Trial Has Become An Off-Broadway Musical

  24-01-2025 17:05 via gothamist.com
  The show, titled Gwyneth Goes Skiing, has already played in London, the Edinburgh Fringe, and Park City, Utah, where the actual events took place. The audience serves as the jury, and the show has three different endings depending on the verdict. (In real life, Paltrow won $1 in damages.) – Gothamist
  
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• Hollywood Composers, Whose Work Is Drying Up, Find Solace In Home Concerts Of Their Chamber Music

  24-01-2025 16:31 via msn.com
  “One surprising thing,” says one of the co-founders of the free-with-RSVP series, called Night Temple, “is how these really accomplished film composers, who have music on big movies and big shows, say there’s something really vulnerable about writing for this. There’s a bit of danger to it.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• A Play About TikTok Performed In Person And Online At The Same Time

  24-01-2025 16:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “‘If you get me to 20,000 likes, I’ll do something amazing.’ That is what the performance artist Louise Orwin promises audiences in Famehungry, a TikTok-set existential crisis about being an entertainer in the digital age. – The New York Times
  
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• Daniel Libeskind Has Designed A Low-Income Housing Project, And It’s Good

  24-01-2025 15:32 via msn.com
  “His global brand would seem like an odd choice for the most basic tier of New York’s urban shelter, sort of like handing out food-bank groceries in Louis Vuitton bags. … (Yet) the pairing of high-design auteur and low-income residents meets an assortment of needs and isn’t just noblesse oblige.” – Curbed (MSN)
  
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• Insurance Cos. Want To Deny $19.7 Million Claim For Fake Basquiats

  24-01-2025 15:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  Liberty Mutual and Great American are refuting the claim submitted by the owners of the 25 paintings which were on display at the Orlando Museum of Art in 2022 until the FBI seized them and they were revealed to be forgeries. – Artnet
  
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• Penguin Random House Parent Announces “Strategic Collaboration” With Open AI

  24-01-2025 14:34 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann has agreed to a ‘strategic collaboration’ with OpenAI to use ChatGPT technology across many of its operating units. … The agreement not only includes employees’ use of ChatGPT, but the ‘development of new products and services’ as well.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Chicago Public Media Begins Offering Buyouts

  24-01-2025 14:00 via msn.com
  “Struggling with declining revenue in its groundbreaking nonprofit radio/newspaper model, Chicago Public Media is offering voluntary buyouts for Chicago Sun-Times journalists and business employees at WBEZ. The WBEZ newsroom will not be affected by the buyout announcement Wednesday, but more cuts could be on the way.” – Chicago Tribune (MSN)
  
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• Pop hits, ordinary wonders and perfumed parables – the week in art

  24-01-2025 13:00
  Sixties art stars reconsidered, 70 years of working-class British life on camera and a multisensory meditation on Indonesian art – all in your weekly dispatchIconic: Portraiture from Francis Bacon to Andy WarholAn excellent visual essay on painting, photography and fame in the 1960s that makes you see pop art with fresh eyes. Read the five-star review here.• Holburne museum, Bath, until 5 May Continue reading...
  
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