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• How Poker Helped Start (And Then Nearly Snuffed Out) The New Yorker Magazine 100 Years Ago

  13-02-2025 21:06 via theconversation.com
  
  The magazine’s primary financial backer at its launch was one of founding editor Harold Ross’s poker buddies, who was a yeast magnate. A few months in, Ross very nearly lost the magazine after a poker binge; fortunately, the yeast magnate (ahem) rose to the occasion. – The Conversation
  
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• Florida Lawmakers Debate Restoring Arts Funding DeSantis Cut

  13-02-2025 20:44 via floridapolitics.com
  
  Gov. Ron DeSantis’ $32 million line-item vetoes stripped away funding for local theater groups, arts festivals, museums and more, sparking outrage in Florida last year. Now, a House work group is one of several convening to review line-item vetoes from the 2024-25 budget DeSantis signed last year. – Florida Politics
  
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• Want To Accomplish Big Things? Here’s How Scientists Made The Moon A Destination

  13-02-2025 20:15 via aeon.co
  
  It can be easy to take our maps, images and story of the Moon for granted. But over the past six decades, our cultural and scientific relationship with the Moon has been radically altered. – Aeon
  
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• Female Surrealists Are Finally Getting The Attention They Deserve

  13-02-2025 20:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “Last year was the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, … so it’s unsurprising that we saw such interest in the movement. But it is striking that the centennial prompted a flurry of interest in the women – who were actually excluded from those groups. Why the sudden broadening of the lens?” – The Guardian
  
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• The Book Blurb Announcements, Explained

  13-02-2025 19:44 via vox.com
  
  One big author and one major publisher announced within weeks of each other that they were through with the practice of blurbs, and the resulting conversation threw publishing into a tizzy. In the process, it provided a new lens on who has access to clout and resources in an increasingly precarious industry. – Vox
  
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• Spotify’s Illusion Of Music Discovery And Choice

  13-02-2025 19:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  You may not agree with Mood Machine that Spotify’s mixes are an existential threat to the way people discover music, but you may marvel at how much effort goes into recommending a song that sounds like a different song you liked three months ago. – The Atlantic
  
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• How Trump’s Tariffs Will Disrupt The Art Market

  13-02-2025 19:15 via artnews.com
  
  “If you’re spending 10 million on a work of art and you’re paying $1 million or $2 million, or even $2.5 million in tariffs because it was imported, you’d say, ‘No way. Forget it. It’s a write-off of $2.5 million. I can’t do that. I’ll go for real estate, or I’ll go for stocks and shares.’” – ARTnews
  
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• Ibsen’s “An Enemy Of The People” Is Just The Play For These Times

  13-02-2025 19:01 via msn.com
  “That’s not just because President Donald Trump has repeatedly weaponized the phrase of the title against his own critics. … It’s also because the 1882 play … seems to express the micro and macro ethical dilemmas that have become a daily fixture of the second Trump term.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Chappell Roan’s Grammy Speech For Helping Artists Was… Naive

  13-02-2025 18:44 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Roan gets respect and true appreciation for her artistry and gumption but is far too green and too uninformed to be the agent of change she aspires to be today. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• The Real Problem With Trump’s Edict About Building Classical Buildings

  13-02-2025 18:31 via thenation.com
  
  Like its 2020 predecessor, the new order has little to do with classical architecture in any meaningful way—which itself has been decontextualized from its ideologies, aesthetics, spatial origins, and material conditions and flattened into a kind of “Deus vult” meme for people overly concerned with their haplogroup type. – The Nation
  
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• Romance Fiction Is Hot. Here’s How It Works

  13-02-2025 18:15 via newyorker.com
  
  According to Leah Koch, just two things make a romance novel: a central love story and a happy ending. “A criticism I hear a lot is, ‘Well, how is that interesting?’ The whole point to me is how we get from point A to point B,” she said. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Hollywood Now Releases Almost All Romcoms Directly To Streaming

  13-02-2025 18:04 via variety.com
  
  “‘The bloom is off the rose of rom-coms,’ says Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst. ‘There was a period in which they couldn’t miss. But then there were a number that were absolutely awful, and streaming changed things. Now you need spectacle to get audiences into theaters.'” – Variety
  
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• Arts Organizations Have Heavily Invested In DEI Initiatives. Will New NEA Rules Lock Them Out?

  13-02-2025 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The new N.E.A. rules require applicants to agree not to operate diversity programs “that violate any applicable federal anti-discrimination laws” and call on grant applicants to pledge not to use federal funds to “promote gender ideology.”
  
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• Study: Reliance On AI May Erode Critical Thinking Skills

  13-02-2025 17:30 via 404media.co
  
  “The data shows a shift in cognitive effort as knowledge workers increasingly move from task execution to oversight when using GenAI,” the researchers wrote. “Surprisingly, while AI can improve efficiency, it may also reduce critical engagement, particularly in routine or lower-stakes tasks in which users simply rely on AI.” – 404 Media
  
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• Reuters Wins First Copyright Lawsuit Over AI

  13-02-2025 17:15 via wired.com
  
  In the complaint, Thomson Reuters claimed the AI firm reproduced materials from its legal research firm Westlaw. Today, a judge ruled in Thomson Reuters’ favor, finding that the company’s copyright was indeed infringed by Ross Intelligence’s actions. – Wired
  
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• “Nutcracker” Choreography In The US Is Still Almost Entirely By Men

  13-02-2025 17:03 via dancedataproject.com
  
  “The findings reveal an overwhelming dominance of male choreographers, particularly in the Largest 50 ballet companies, despite some growth in opportunities for female choreographers in mid-sized and smaller companies.” – Dance Data Project
  
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• Charlotte, NC Adopts New Model For Arts Funding

  13-02-2025 16:36 via charlotteobserver.com
  “The City Council voted 8-2 on Monday to become part of a new governance system for distributing millions in arts grants that will also include Mecklenburg County, the Foundation for the Carolinas and the group formerly known as the Arts and Science Council.” – The Charlotte Observer
  
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• Dave Tomlin obituary

  13-02-2025 16:07
  My dad, Dave Tomlin, who has died aged 90, was a musician, writer and figure of the British counterculture underground from the 1960s.In 1976, he was one of those who took over the unoccupied former Cambodian embassy in London and established a community of artists, musicians, poets, artisans and radical metaphysicians who called themselves the Guild of Transcultural Studies. Continue reading...
  
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• Elon Musk’s DOGE Has Voice of America And Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty In Its Crosshairs

  13-02-2025 16:02 via insideradio.com
  
  “Musk commented on a social media post by U.S. Special Envoy Richard Grenell, … who said the radio networks are ‘state-owned media’ and ‘are a relic of the past.’ ‘Yes, shut them down,’ Musk wrote in his reply to the post. “Europe is free now … Nobody listens to them anymore.” – Inside Radio
  
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• More Resonant Than Ever Heathcote Williams’s ‘The United States of Porn’

  13-02-2025 15:47 via artsjournal.com
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• California’s Two Flagship Classical Radio Stations Will Merge

  13-02-2025 15:35 via msn.com
  KUSC in Los Angeles and KDFC in California, both owned (as of 2011) by the University of Southern California, are merging their organizations into a single entity called Classical California with a single programming feed. Current on-air staff will be retained, as will the two broadcast studios. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Court Throws Out Insurance Lawsuit Over Burned Monets Worth $45 Million

  13-02-2025 15:01 via mlive.com
  
  “A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit over insurance payments for five artworks destroyed in a 2022 house fire in west Michigan, among them three paintings by the French impressionist Claude Monet collectively worth more than $45 million.” – MLive (Michigan)
  
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• Filmmaker Lars Von Trier Moves Into Care Center For Parkinson’s Disease

  13-02-2025 14:34 via nydailynews.com
  The controversial Danish director announced in 2022 that he’d been diagnosed with the neurological disorder but that he intended to maintain his career. This year he was working on a film about death and the afterlife; it’s evidently unclear whether he’ll be able to continue the project. – New York Daily News
  
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• Soprano Edith Mathis Is Dead At 86

  13-02-2025 14:00 via prestomusic.com
  
  On the opera stage, she was known mainly for Mozart, but she was particularly active as a recitalist and concert soloist, and she built up a very large discography in Lieder and vocal-orchestral works from the 1960s into the ’80s. – Presto Music
  
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• ‘She kept pushing the boundaries’: Paule Vézelay, the British abstract pioneer who found fame in interwar Paris

  13-02-2025 09:00
  
  A new exhibition celebrates the life and work of the maverick British artist beloved by Miro, Hemingway and Mondrian, who had to flee to Paris to realise her true artistic visionWhichever art historian first had the chance to leaf through Paule Vézelay’s personal archive after her passing in 1984 must have audibly squealed. The archive revealed that Vézelay, the British abstract painter who changed her name from Marjorie Watson-Williams shortly after moving to Paris
  
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• Filoli seeks Chief Development Officer

  13-02-2025 06:36 via artsjournal.com
  The Chief Development Officer (CDO) will be responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing Filoli’s comprehensive development strategies to support the organization’s mission, vision, and long-term sustainability. The CDO will report to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and will serve as a key member of the Executive Team. The CDO will represent Filoli’s philanthropic goals to all constituencies, will foster a culture of philanthropy and will advance ambitiou
  
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• Chamber Music Society Seeks Director of Marketing and Communications

  13-02-2025 00:49 via artsjournal.com
  The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) invites applications for the role of Director of Marketing and Communications, a pivotal leadership position at the world’s premier chamber music institution. CMS is renowned for its innovative performances, global reach, and dedication to elevating the art of chamber music both on stage and in the digital sphere–the Director will play a critical role in shaping our public face, building on our legacy of excellence while charting new
  
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