<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Arts - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Arts news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your profession!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:46:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Kids Are Fine. Check On Grandpa.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning,Every few years America convenes a panic about young people abandoning culture. Today&rsquo;s stories suggest we&rsquo;ve been watching the wrong generation. Since 2003, daily reading time among older Americans has nearly halved. BUT it&rsquo;s the young whose reading habits are growing (New York Times). And they&rsquo;re not just holding: Gen Z is choosing culture that puts bodies in rooms together, movie theaters included (New York Times), buying novels by the pallet because BookT]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/the-kids-are-fine-check-on-grandpa/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/the-kids-are-fine-check-on-grandpa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surrealists Were The Original Antifa]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;While Surrealism is figured as a style in popular imagination &mdash; trippy, dreamy, and escapist, detached from reality in every way &mdash; (the exhibition) &lsquo;In the Very Bowels of Change: Surrealism and Antifascism&rsquo; reminds just how much the movement was formed in response to the politics of its time.&rdquo; &ndash; Art in America]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/surrealists-were-the-original-antifa/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/surrealists-were-the-original-antifa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-Created Music – What We Can Learn From Copyright History]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI can now generate songs, images, novels and artworks in seconds. Many of these works are already being streamed, licensed and sold. This raises an increasingly important question: should works produced without direct human authorship receive copyright protection? &ndash; The Conversation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/ai-created-music-what-we-can-learn-from-copyright-history/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/ai-created-music-what-we-can-learn-from-copyright-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How The Pedant Became A Stock Character In Theater]]></title><description><![CDATA[Going all the way back to before 1600, the cantankerous, pompous, book-smart nincompoop has been a figure of mockery on European stages, a target for venting people&rsquo;s dislike for know-it-all behavior. Some of the stereotypes associated with the character, however, were rather nasty. &ndash; The Public Domain Review]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/how-the-pedant-became-a-stock-character-in-theater/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/how-the-pedant-became-a-stock-character-in-theater/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Should Worry About How AI Might Change Us With Its Use]]></title><description><![CDATA[How, then, could an automated oracle help? It cannot tell you what to feel, because feeling is not something you can summon by obedience. But neither can it settle the matter by telling you what to do. Reasons matter, and to be a morally responsible agent you must reason for yourself.&nbsp;&ndash; Humanist Review]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/we-should-worry-about-how-ai-might-change-us-with-its-use/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/we-should-worry-about-how-ai-might-change-us-with-its-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What If Smartphones Are Not Responsible For What Ails Our Kids?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Which change that happened 15 years ago was the&nbsp;real&nbsp;source of so much misery for children? &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t run experiments on history,&rdquo; Haidt said, so we&rsquo;ll never be able to&nbsp;prove&nbsp;that smartphones and social media caused the steep decline in youth mental health. &ndash; The Atlantic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/what-if-smartphones-are-not-responsible-for-what-ails-our-kids/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/what-if-smartphones-are-not-responsible-for-what-ails-our-kids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooklyn Man Sentenced To 20 Years For Fatal Stabbing Of Dancer O’Shae Sibley]]></title><description><![CDATA[Though Dmitriy Popov, now 20, was acquitted of murder, he was convicted of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime and other charges for attacking Sibley &mdash; a Black and visibly gay man &mdash; with a knife and puncturing his heart while Sibley and friends were dancing outside a Brooklyn gas station in 2023. &ndash; Gothamist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/brooklyn-man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-fatal-stabbing-of-dancer-oshae-sibley/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/brooklyn-man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-fatal-stabbing-of-dancer-oshae-sibley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FCC Will End Ownership Caps On Local TV Companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Today, national programmers can distribute their programming to 100 percent of the country &mdash; either through their own streaming services or through deals they cut with nationwide &lsquo;virtual cable companies,&rsquo; like YouTube TV. The cap no longer constrains their control over distribution in this respect,&rdquo;&nbsp;FCC&nbsp;Chairman&nbsp;Brendan Carr&nbsp;wrote. &ndash; Variety]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/fcc-will-end-ownership-caps-on-local-tv-companies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/fcc-will-end-ownership-caps-on-local-tv-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why TikTok Has Become A Force In Book Buying]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the reasons TikTok&rsquo;s book-review videos, known collectively as BookTok, have become so popular&mdash;and powerful in the publishing world&mdash;is that they offer a human-based, quasi-critical recommendation portal for fans and genre devotees to connect, commiserate, and promote their favorite work. &ndash; The New Yorker]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/why-tiktok-has-become-a-force-in-book-buying/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/why-tiktok-has-become-a-force-in-book-buying/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen Z Has Big Nostalgia For Eras Before They Were Born]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a nationally representative&nbsp;survey&nbsp;conducted by our team at the Archbridge Institute&rsquo;s Human Flourishing Lab, 68% of Gen Z respondents reported feeling nostalgic for eras before their lifetime, and 73% said they are drawn to media, styles, hobbies, or traditions from earlier periods. &ndash; Big Think]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/gen-z-has-big-nostalgia-for-eras-before-they-were-born/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/gen-z-has-big-nostalgia-for-eras-before-they-were-born/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brenda Fricker, First Irish Actress To Win An Oscar, Has Died At 81]]></title><description><![CDATA[She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1990 for playing the mother of disabled painter/writer Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) in My Left Foot. She&rsquo;s remembered by a (mostly) different set of moviegoers as the Central Park Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. &ndash; The Hollywood Reporter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/brenda-fricker-first-irish-actress-to-win-an-oscar-has-died-at-81/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/brenda-fricker-first-irish-actress-to-win-an-oscar-has-died-at-81/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who’s Reading Less? It’s Older Americans, Not Younger]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2003, older Americans read on average just under an hour each day &mdash; 58.5 minutes. By last year, that had fallen nearly by half, to roughly 32.4 minutes each day, a drop that represents the lion&rsquo;s share of overall reading declines.&nbsp;&ndash; The New York Times]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/whos-reading-less-its-older-americans-not-younger/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/whos-reading-less-its-older-americans-not-younger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Trump Is Fixated On Smithsonian History]]></title><description><![CDATA[People often joke about how Trumpism would like to return us to some version of the 1950s, when America supposedly was &ldquo;great.&rdquo; In this report, the administration has done just that. The report would prefer that nothing had ever happened since the &rsquo;50s to mar the White House&rsquo;s polished, superficial, puerile version of America&rsquo;s past. &ndash; The New York Times]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/why-trump-is-fixated-on-smithsonian-history/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/why-trump-is-fixated-on-smithsonian-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture Shift: Why Young People Are Choosing Culture That Brings Them Together]]></title><description><![CDATA[We human beings remain stubbornly, beautifully starving for one another. More surprising &mdash; and heartening &mdash; we are looking upward and outward, and returning to one another after being tethered for so long to our screens. This all portends well for the entertainment business, no doubt. &ndash; The New York Times]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/culture-shift-why-young-people-are-choosing-culture-that-brings-them-together/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/culture-shift-why-young-people-are-choosing-culture-that-brings-them-together/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Vanderbilt University Made Itself Competitive With The Ivy League]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, the school&rsquo;s acceptance rate was 38%; now it&rsquo;s under 5%, roughly equivalent to Yale&rsquo;s, and its undergraduates are reportedly the happiest in the country. The change is the result of deliberate, planned effort by two successive presidents over 20 years. &ndash; New York Magazine (MSN)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/how-vanderbilt-university-made-itself-competitive-with-the-ivy-league/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/how-vanderbilt-university-made-itself-competitive-with-the-ivy-league/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Government Gives Ominous Warning To Booksellers]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Hong Kong&rsquo;s top security official said Thursday that booksellers should ensure the titles they sell do not harm national security, a day after five people linked to two bookstores&nbsp;were arrested. The police operation on Wednesday was the third round of arrests&nbsp;targeting independent bookstores&nbsp;within four months.&rdquo; &ndash; AP]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/hong-kong-government-gives-ominous-warning-to-booksellers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/hong-kong-government-gives-ominous-warning-to-booksellers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madison Symphony Appoints Laura Jackson Music Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jackson is currently music director of the Reno Philharmonic in Nevada &mdash; a position she&rsquo;ll keep through 2028-29 &mdash; and will officially take up this post as of the 2027-28 season. She succeeds John DeMain, who retired in June after 32 years. &ndash; The Cap Times (Madison, WI)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/madison-symphony-appoints-laura-jackson-music-director/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/madison-symphony-appoints-laura-jackson-music-director/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House May Bring US Government Into Trump’s Lawsuit Against BBC]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;According to filings seen by the FT, the US government told the court in Florida &lsquo;that it is considering participating in this litigation&rsquo;. &hellip; The &lsquo;conflict of interest is clear and stark&rsquo;, the BBC said in a filing responding to the US government&rsquo;s submission.&rdquo; &ndash; Financial Times]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/white-house-may-bring-us-government-into-trumps-lawsuit-against-bbc/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/white-house-may-bring-us-government-into-trumps-lawsuit-against-bbc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Drops A Portion Of His Defamation Case Against The BBC]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Trump is&nbsp;demanding damages from the corporation, claiming a Panorama documentary defamed him because of an allegedly misleading edit of footage of one of his speeches. &hellip; However, while (he) is pressing on with the case as a whole, he has dismissed defamation claims against &hellip; the broadcaster&rsquo;s commercial and production arms.&rdquo; &ndash; The Telegraph (UK) (Yahoo!)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/trump-drops-a-portion-of-his-defamation-case-against-the-bbc/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/trump-drops-a-portion-of-his-defamation-case-against-the-bbc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nashville Symphony’s New CEO: Mark Cantrell Of Colorado Symphony]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Cantrell&rsquo;s appointment comes after a nationwide search sparked by the&nbsp;retirement of longtime Nashville Symphony leader Alan Valentine, who served in the role for 28 years. Cantrell, who will officially assume the position on Aug. 1., comes to Nashville Symphony from the Colorado Symphony in Denver.&rdquo; &ndash; Nashville Post]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/nashville-symphonys-new-ceo-mark-cantrell-of-colorado-symphony/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/arts/nashville-symphonys-new-ceo-mark-cantrell-of-colorado-symphony/</guid></item></channel></rss>