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• Who Would Want To Run The Kennedy Center Now?

  10-02-2025 20:32 via theberkshireedge.com
  
  “As a headhunter for large performing arts centers, don’t you think it will be difficult recruiting the next CEO to the Kennedy Center now that Trump is taking on the Chairmanship?” My irreverent but scarily realistic answer is, “There are plenty of people at Fox News who would be perfect for the job.” – Berkshire Eagle
  
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• Strad Sells At Auction for $11M

  10-02-2025 20:02 via npr.org
  
   Sotheby’s said it could not share information about the identity of the buyer. The auction house had expected the instrument to sell for $12 to $18 million. – NPR
  
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• Study: Music Has Become More Simplified

  10-02-2025 19:43 via musicradar.com
  
  The team’s first discovery was that classical music has always been more complex than modern pop. However, they also discovered that all of the music genres they analysed have become less complex – that’s classical, jazz, hip hop, electronic, rock, and pop. – Music Radar
  
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• The End Of Our Algorithm Overlords?

  10-02-2025 19:15 via aurora.dawn.com
  
  Let’s just say it: Algorithms are officially uncool. Remember when they were the ‘it’ thing – those mysterious forces that seemed to know what we wanted before we did? We would open our favourite app and boom – content that felt crafted just for us. Well, that golden age is over. – Aurora Dawn
  
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• NEA Announces Shift In Priorities

  10-02-2025 18:44 via deadline.com
  
  “Under the updated guidelines, the NEA continues to encourage projects that celebrate the nation’s rich artistic heritage and creativity by honoring the semiquincentennial of the United States of America (America250),” the NEA said. – Deadline
  
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• What A Major New Prize Says About Dance Right Now

  10-02-2025 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The new biennial competition with a £40,000 bounty for the victor is initially guaranteed to run for 10 editions, by which time it hopes to be on a par with the Booker or Turner prizes, boosting dance’s profile accordingly. – The Guardian
  
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• People Can No Longer Tell What Art Is AI-Created

  10-02-2025 18:15 via psypost.org
  Studies show that humans tend to perceive AI-generated paintings as human-made more often than actual human-created paintings. Similarly, AI-generated humor is found to be as funny as jokes written by humans. Another study found that people perceive AI-generated faces as real human faces at a higher rate than actual photos of human faces. – Psypost
  
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• The Painfully Self-Conscious World Of The Alt-Fiction World

  10-02-2025 18:08 via thepointmag.com
  
  They’re trying to carve out their own space, away from the prissy bullshit of the mainstream literary world, where they can write something real. They’re enraptured by the surging raw nowness of the internet, and they think literature that tries to rise above that is blinding itself to the way we actually live today. – The Point
  
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• Scrappy Melville House Publishes Jack Smith Reports

  10-02-2025 17:31 via theguardian.com
  Founder Dennis Johnson said such “crash publishing” required hard work and help from printers, retailers and more. But the Jack Smith Report, he said, would “launch into a very different book culture than the last time we were in this predicament, in 2016. People are very afraid.” – The Guardian
  
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• What’s Your Writing Worth To An AI Company?

  10-02-2025 17:15 via bloomberg.com
  “They’re trying to establish the idea that the rights to train on books are worth $5,000. You can’t do that by going to the latest bestseller. So you do that by going to the backlist — to people who aren’t collecting royalties — and telling them, ‘Look, would you like some free money?’” – Bloomberg
  
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• How Does Portland’s Jazz Station Stay Alive?

  10-02-2025 17:00 via orartswatch.org
  
  “The mistake that I’ve seen a lot of jazz stations make is that they’re too close to the music to be broadcasters. When we talk about broadcasting, we talk about casting a wide net and trying to find a lot of people.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• How Does ‘Hamilton,’ Now A Decade Old, Hold Up?

  10-02-2025 16:30 via seattletimes.com
  “It all felt so good. The comfort of self-mythologizing, of thinking of ourselves as a nation of revolutionaries — delicious.” But, ouf, times have changed. – Seattle Times
  
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• What Makes For A Perfect Episode Of TV?

  10-02-2025 16:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  Funny? Surprising? Weaves together various plot threads? Mentions death? “For some, a perfect episode tells a story that reverberates throughout their life.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The First Dog In Space, And A Random Meeting In Norway, Inspired Ireland’s Eurovision Entry

  10-02-2025 15:45 via irishtimes.com
  
  Irish Eurosong winner Emmy says that Laika’s story “is really sad, so I wanted to create a scenario where she doesn’t die, but is having her own party in the sky.” – Irish Times
  
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• Rutherford Chang, Conceptual Artist Who Made His Collections Art, Has Died At 45

  10-02-2025 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Chang “turned his collection of the Beatles’ White Album into a meditation on the aging of a vinyl classic,” for instance, and also, “melted down 10,000 pennies into a copper block to make a statement about the value of each red cent.” – The New York Times
  
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• How The Trans Fantasia Batman Movie, AKA The People’s Joker, Came About

  10-02-2025 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “‘It started as a joke,’ says Vera Drew. ‘I just took it a little too far.’”  – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Directors And Producers Guilds Make Anora The New Oscars Frontrunner

  10-02-2025 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  “More than a month after Anora lost every award it was nominated for at the Golden Globes, the Sean Baker-directed comedy took top honors at awards shows held by the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Dancer Syreeta Hector Kept Her Ballet Dream Alive During COVID-19

  10-02-2025 15:00 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  “She was committed to keeping the project alive, so she rented a shipping container and used it as a rehearsal space, continuing to improve her work despite the limitations. … Black Ballerina was performed via live stream, reaching audiences remotely” – including artistic directors. – Globe and Mail
  
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• Tom Robbins, Author Of Novels Including Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Has Died At 92

  10-02-2025 14:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “With their meandering plots, pop-philosophical asides and frequent jabs at social convention and organized religion, Mr. Robbins’s books were the perfect accompaniment to acid trips, Grateful Dead shows and weekend yoga retreats, long before those things became middle-class and mainstream.” – The New York Times
  
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• As Predicted By The New York Times, Netflix Has Deep-Sixed Its Documentary On Prince And Accusations Of Abuse

  10-02-2025 14:30 via usatoday.com
  
  “The nine-hour, bombshell documentary was in development at Netflix for five years before the streamer reportedly pulled the plug in a deal with the superstar’s estate.” – USA Today
  
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• Our Condiments Are About To Change Radically, But Can The United States Handle It?

  10-02-2025 14:15 via slate.com
  “Regardless of what the one percent are slathering on toast points in their backseats, if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years writing about food, it’s that Americans are loyal to brands, especially when it comes to condiments.” – Slate
  
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• That Time Hemingway And Ford Madox Ford Started A Paris Literary Journal

  10-02-2025 14:00 via lithub.com
  
  “The original name of the magazine was to be the Paris Review. The name was switched [to Transatlantic Review] because the first serial advertisement was from Compagnie Transatlantique.” – LitHub
  
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• Barbara Kingsolver Took Her Profits From The Massive Hit Demon Copperhead And Built A Rehab Center

  10-02-2025 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  In the novel, Demon and his people experience a full range of opioid addictions. With the money she made from her Pulitzer prize-winning (and hugely bestselling) book, Kingsolver “has founded a recovery house for women in Lee County, where the novel is set.” – The New York Times
  
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• Meta’s War On Leakers

  10-02-2025 13:30 via theverge.com
  
  “Employees are on edge about Zuckerberg’s next round of ‘low-performer’ layoffs that are arriving on Monday. And many are still reeling from his politically-charged changes to content moderation and DEI programs.” – The Verge
  
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• Three Men Convicted In Ring Of Multiple Museum Thefts

  10-02-2025 13:15 via nytimes.com
  
  “For two decades, a crew from Lackawanna County in Pennsylvania traveled to a dozen small museums across the country, where its ringleader smashed through security systems to strip them of art and precious memorabilia.” – The New York Times
  
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• As The New Conductor Of Cologne’s WDR Funkhaus Orchestra Settles In, He Still Worries About Dublin

  10-02-2025 13:00 via irishtimes.com
  
  “Celebrating his new job over pints in a Cologne Irish pub, orchestra members told Brophy that his confident versatility was why they chose him.” – Irish Times
  
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• ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled

  10-02-2025 10:32
  
  Letter says many of works being sold by Christie’s are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licenceThousands of artists are urging the auction house Christie’s to cancel a sale of art created with artificial intelligence, claiming the technology behind the works is committing “mass theft”.The Augmented Intelligence auction has been described by Christie’s as the first AI-dedicated sale by a major auctioneer and features 20 lots with prices
  
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• ‘I was always obsessed with death’: how Linder turned pornography and trauma into art

  10-02-2025 06:00
  
  At 70, Linder is having a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery – after years of being overlooked by the art establishment. She discusses punk, porn and politicsIn 1977, the punk band Buzzcocks released a single called Orgasm Addict, with a record sleeve as jolting as the song’s title. It depicted a lean and muscular, oiled-up naked woman with an iron for a head and smiling, lipsticked mouths for nipples. The collage was scary, sexy and shocking – especially since it was mass pr
  
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