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• The Worst Thing About Using AI To Write?

  11-11-2026 19:46 via ArtsJournal
  Above the chaos is a question: Why did this novel, thematically rote and stylistically bland as it is, receive such acclaim in the first place? – The Atlantic
  
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• NY Phil’s First European Tour With Dudamel Hit Some Bumps In The Road, But It Was A Hit

  11-11-2026 21:04 via ArtsJournal
  “The tour … was striking in its ambitions: 17 days, four countries, 10 performances and an army of 147 musicians, backup conductors, sound technicians, librarians, stagehands, donors, executives and a tour doctor. They traveled on trains, bus caravans, and chartered and commercial airplanes.” – The New York Times
  
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• Art Basel To Discount Gallery Fees After Paris Show Closed Early

  11-11-2026 20:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  “We will exceptionally be extending a 20 percent reduction on booth fees to all galleries that participated in the Paris fair, in recognition of the closure,” on October 24–25, Art Basel chief executive Noah Horowitz told ARTnews in an interview. – ARTnews
  
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• AI Has Become The Next Generation’s Way Into The Film Biz

  11-11-2026 20:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  While it can seem like a daunting time for students to enter an industry grappling with contraction and AI-driven shifts, many educators who have embraced AI remain optimistic. They choose to focus on the emerging opportunities for the next generation of talent. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Vatican Has A Huge, Little-Known Collection Of Indigenous Art. Should It All Be Repatriated?

  11-11-2026 20:02 via ArtsJournal
  “The Anima Mundi, formerly the Ethnological Museum, (is) home to around 80,000 objects from across the globe, many of which were ‘gifted’ to the Catholic church in Rome by Indigenous peoples at a time when its missionaries were powerful, and sometimes dubious, figures in their far-flung communities.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why We Are Not Our Brains

  11-11-2026 19:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  Remember that the brain itself is merely another object in the world. To talk about it at all is to have already accepted a level of objective existence which cannot be reduced to sensory experience. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Rethinking What Biographies Are For

  11-11-2026 19:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  On its face, biography is the genre of the integral subject—a person interacting with others but distinct from them, not dissolving in a sea of substance. For Carlisle, though, the “metaphysical selfishness” of a world composed of discrete human beings “reinforces moral selfishness, and vice versa.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Could Chicago’s South Side Become The Hub Of Black Theater It Used To Be?

  11-11-2026 19:03 via ArtsJournal
  
  Some of the first Black theater companies in the country were in South Side Chicago, and the scene flourished into the 1970s. Then, for economic and systemic reasons, the drama mostly dried up. Now, with some fresh talent and an influx of grant money, a revival is tentatively emerging. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• The Death Of Online Search?

  11-11-2026 18:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  Even Google may not be too big to fail, as pessimism mounts about the possibility of Search ever again working the way it used to. – The New Yorker
  
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• We Need To Change Our Approach To Digital Life

  11-11-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  It’s increasingly clear to me that we will not survive as a society without some seismic intervention that separates us from our screens, our algorithms, and our little simulacra of social life. – The New Yorker
  
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• Waves Of CNN, CBS Veterans Take Skydance Buyouts

  11-11-2026 18:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  At CNN, according to two of these people, buyouts were offered to people who were in vice president roles or levels below and had more than 15 years of service. – Variety
  
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• Gary Fisketjohn, One Of American Fiction’s Most Influential Editors, Is Dead At 72

  11-11-2026 18:01 via ArtsJournal
  “Fisketjon stayed with Knopf for 29 years, where he worked with many of the novelists who would come to define the American literary canon of the late 20th century” — among them Don DeLillo, Donna Tartt, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Dillard, Bret Easton Ellis, Patricia Highsmith, and Tobias Wolff. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Skydance Disses Warner Performance, Says It Will Be More Selective With Projects

  11-11-2026 17:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Warner Bros film has underperformed this year and will weigh on Q4 results. We’ll apply the same playbook we did at Paramount: greenlighting more selectively, prioritizing profitable streaming growth over subscriber count, optimizing linear and driving efficiency through the cost structure.” – Deadline
  
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• Claim: AI Has Made It Almost Impossible To Assess Students

  11-11-2026 17:31 via ArtsJournal
  Universities should go back to traditional exams and in-person presentations to grade students after lecturers complained that AI has made it “close to impossible” to assess coursework, according to an investigation by England’s higher education regulator. – The Guardian
  
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• Met To Stream Its Sold-Out “Lincoln in the Bardo” On YouTube

  11-11-2026 17:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  This broadcast—the first of its kind for the Met on YouTube—will support the company’s $1.5 billion Make the Met Forever fundraising campaign. Beginning November 20, the recording will be available on Met Opera on Demand through a range of paid viewing options. – TheatreMania
  
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• One Of New L.A. Mayor’s Big Challenges Will Be Bringing Hollywood Production Jobs Back To City

  11-11-2026 17:02 via ArtsJournal
  “Nithya Raman’s connections to Hollywood were a key part of the coalition that fueled her upset victory. … Now, they and hundreds of thousands of entertainment workers and business owners that rely on the film-and-TV industry will look to Raman to find a way to stop the decline in employment opportunities.” – TheWrap (MSN)
  
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• Met Opera To Livestream “Lincoln In The Bardo” For Free

  11-11-2026 16:34 via ArtsJournal
  
  The Missy Mazzoli/Royce Vavrek adaptation of the George Saunders novel sold out most of its run, including the final performance on November 14. That performance will be streamed live on the Met’s YouTube channel. The video will remain available on YouTube until midnight NYC time on Wednesday, November 18. – Playbill
  
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• In Default Judgment, Court Orders Pirate Site To Pay Publishers Millions In Damages

  11-11-2026 16:06 via ArtsJournal
  “A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered the pirate site WeLib to pay 13 publishers $19.5 million in statutory damages. Judge Victor Marrero also directed the companies that register and host its domains to take it offline, after the site’s operators failed to respond to the publishers’ copyright infringement suit.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Scholars Announce Two Caravaggio Rediscoveries In Two Days

  11-11-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  One historian announced his authentication of a previously unattributed painting at a conference this past Saturday, while another revealed on Sunday that the original of a painting known only from copies had been located. – Artnet
  
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• Actor Stacy Keach Has Died At 85

  11-11-2026 15:05 via ArtsJournal
  “Though he was considered a preeminent interpreter of Shakespeare and a favorite of such legendary directors as John Huston, Keach was indelibly linked with his take on the hard-boiled Mike Hammer, the fictitious TV private detective created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane.” – AP
  
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• Kari Lake’s Firing Of Voice Of America Director Was Illegal, Appeals Court Rules

  11-11-2026 14:33 via ArtsJournal
  
  “A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Kari Lake and other Trump administration officials unlawfully attempted to fire Voice of America director Michael Abramowitz, upholding a lower court decision that blocked his removal without approval from an independent oversight board.” – TheWrap
  
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• Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company To Close At End Of Next Year

  11-11-2026 14:01 via ArtsJournal
  “The Company’s final year will feature Memory Palace, a retrospective project (beginning) with a two-week festival at New York Live Arts in March 2027, followed by a final tour through December 2027. Beyond the Company’s conclusion, Memory Palace will continue to evolve through exhibitions and the creation of a legacy film.” – BroadwayWorld
  
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• A Science Fiction Novel Wins the Booker Prize

  11-11-2026 03:02 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,M John Harrison, 81, has won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on the Kent coast. He is the prize’s oldest winner and the first from the science-fiction world, after decades of arguing that good SciFi is literary fiction (The Guardian).A Desert Storm memorial opened last month just north of the Lincoln Memorial, and a Global War on Terrorism memorial is planned next to it. Philip Kennicott, the Post’s architecture critic, says a landscape me
  
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• Project To Make Downtown Chicago A “Cultural Stadium” Takes A Step Forward

  10-11-2026 21:03 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Former Michigan state representative Donna Lasinski was announced Wednesday as the initiative’s inaugural president. … The project has been discussed in abstract for years but is now moving from idea to reality with the appointment of Lasinski, who has served as the Cultural Stadium’s senior adviser since April.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• How Did Equality Come To Mean Different Things?

  10-11-2026 20:31 via ArtsJournal
  Today, it’s evident that the word ‘equality’ means very different things to different people. What once seemed capable of providing common ground is now just another source of controversy. What explains this shift? – Aeon
  
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• The National Mall In DC Is Getting Too Full, And The Reason Why Is Not A Happy One

  10-11-2026 20:01 via ArtsJournal
  “The sylvan landscape around the Lincoln Memorial is a mess, and it will only get worse. … A landscape that was meant to symbolize peace and reconciliation after the Civil War is becoming cluttered mainly with memorials devoted to war” — too many to fit in this one place. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Ethics Of Entertainment Values

  10-11-2026 19:45 via ArtsJournal
  “Is the value of my experience at Disney World undermined by the fact that it is, at the end of the day, a production of the Walt Disney Company? Can I trust a profit-hungry corporation to teach my children universal values? – Psyche
  
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• “Art Is The Great Democrat”

  10-11-2026 19:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Art is the great democrat,” wrote Kennedy, “calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color.” He saw art as a means of transcending difference, as both a product of democracy and a contributor to its flourishing. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Anime Could Become Japan’s Number-One Export Industry — If Its Business Culture Can Manage It

  10-11-2026 19:04 via ArtsJournal
  The international demand for anime is certainly big enough, and the struggling Japanese economy could really use the extra earnings from abroad. But the country’s corporate culture is not exactly known for nimbleness, and it may not be able to reallocate resources quickly enough to meet demand with supply. – The New York Times
  
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• The Trap Of Optimization

  10-11-2026 18:46 via ArtsJournal
  We usually assume that more of it must be better. But we can become so focused on improving one thing that we lose sight of the others. You can try to arrange your calendar so that every minute is accounted for, but you’ll soon start running over and end up behind.  – The Guardian
  
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