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• What Makes AI Run?

  20-08-2023 16:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Theft. “Pirated books are being used as inputs for computer programs that are changing how we read, learn, and communicate. The future promised by AI is written with stolen words.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Artistic Programs Manager (Part Time)

  02-03-2026 02:11 via artsjournal.com
  Gibney seeks a highly organized, dance-fluent professional to support the Founder, Artistic Director & CEO across the artistic and programmatic work of the organization, spanning Company, Center, and Community Action. The role offers close exposure to artistic planning and program development conversations within a multi-program dance organization managing concurrent performances and initiatives year-round.The ideal candidate is a strong writer and critical thinker who can produce clear writ
  
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• The Actors Awards Live Stream With Updated Winners And More

  02-03-2026 01:30 via artsjournal.com
  The awards formers known as the SAG Awards stream live on Netflix on Sunday night. Though there are both TV and movie nominations, Oscar watchers are aware that “the guild’s awards are usually one of the most accurate bellwethers for the Oscars.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A Day At The Art Institute With The New 30-Year-Old Conductor Of The Chicago Symphony

  01-03-2026 21:30 via archive.ph
  Klaus Mäkelä is “stepping into one of the most visible cultural perches in the city and in classical music at large. He appears to bring to his new job in Chicago a curiosity about the arts that goes beyond his own medium of music.” – Chicago Sun-Times (Archive Today)
  
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• The Vatican Has Removed What ‘A Chalky White Film Of Salt’ Coating The Last Judgement

  01-03-2026 21:00 via apnews.com
  That is to say, people’s sweat had gotten all over Michelangelo’s masterpiece, and now it’s being cleaned off while the sweat accumulates on a screen. – Associated Press
  
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• The Debate Over What To Do With Portland’s Earthquake-Unsafe 3,000-Seat Theatre

  01-03-2026 20:30 via orartswatch.org
  Protesters have begun telling the city council exactly what they think of the idea to abandon the big theatre. “If you don’t renovate the Keller, it has no other use. … The only other choice is demolition, which would leave a hole in the heart of downtown.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• The Library Of Congress Has Found The Likely First Depiction Of A Robot On Screen

  01-03-2026 20:00 via npr.org
  “The 45-second-long, one-reel short Gugusse et l‘Automate – Gugusse and the Automaton – was made nearly 130 years ago. But the subject matter still feels timely.” – NPR
  
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• When The Reviewer Isn’t Sure If The Play Is Great Or Terrible

  01-03-2026 19:30 via culturebot.org
  “There is a way to describe this show that will make it seem, at worst, exactly like every cliché of venturing into Brooklyn to see a one man play/spoken word poem/performance piece in a small black box off the L or G train.” – Culturebot
  
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• Millions Of People Are Hooked On ‘Microdramas,’ With Episodes That Last About One Minute

  01-03-2026 19:00 via bbc.com
  On a K-microdrama set, “filming was moving at breakneck speed. Everything was shot in vertical mode, and nothing was subtle.” – BBC
  
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• How The BAFTAs And The BBC Absolutely Bungled Their Response To A Racist Slur

  01-03-2026 18:30 via nytimes.com
  “Black people and people with Tourette’s have been grappling with the ugly language and the fallout from a night that was supposed to be a celebration.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Los Angeles Olympics Logo Needs To Settle Itself Down

  01-03-2026 18:00 via torched.la
  “If you’re going through all the trouble to create what I assume will be hundreds of logos by the time the games roll around, why would you not brand LA28 using ‘LA’ as a customized emblem? Why is it only the ‘A’ that changes out?” The answer may surprise you. – Torched LA
  
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• Paul Zelevansky’s Absurdist Tale of ‘Monkey & Man’

  01-03-2026 17:57 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/03/paul-zelevanskys-absurdist-tale-of-monkey-man.html" title="Paul Zelevansky’s Absurdist Tale of ‘Monkey & Man’” rel=”nofollow”>It began as a performance piece. That was a long time ago . . . 1985, to be precise, in Brooklyn. The author presented Individual stories as performances and installations, which were videotaped. The texts also began appearing in little magazines.
  
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• Neil Sedaka, Composer And Songwriter Of So Many Pop Hits, Has Died At 86

  01-03-2026 17:30 via nytimes.com
  Sedaka “went from classical music prodigy to precocious songwriter to teenage idol to pop music fixture in a celebrated career that spanned seven decades.” – The New York Times
  
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• Dear Sony, Please Stop Trying To Make Spider-Man Happen Without The Main Character

  01-03-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  “For those fortunate enough to have missed these films, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is, or was, a series of movies about people (mostly villains or antiheroes) who have at some point met the masked wallcrawler in the comics. Spider-Man himself does not appear in them.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Snow Sculptures Of New York’s Latest Storm

  01-03-2026 16:30 via nytimes.com
  “Collaboration was key. What came first? The snow baby sitting on the bench or the lounging mermaid beside him? Did the same person who built the snow pyramid also build the snow sphinx?” – The New York Times
  
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• How, And Why, Tracey Emin’s Bed Shocked The Art World

  01-03-2026 16:00 via bbc.com
  The work “was shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize and exhibited in Tate Britain’s stately gallery: a dishevelled divan with stained sheets, strewn and surrounded with personal detritus such as contraceptives, slippers, bloodied period pants, empty vodka bottles, Polaroid selfies, an overflowing ashtray.” – BBC
  
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• Bridgerton Has Been Trying To Figure Out What To Call An Orgasm

  01-03-2026 15:30 via cbc.ca
  “It felt like ‘orgasm’ wasn’t a word that was used in that time period. … It needed to be a word that sounded right coming out of Francesca’s mouth over and over again.” – CBC
  
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• And Just Like That, 144 Year After Construction Began, Sagrada Familia’s Central Tower Is Finished

  01-03-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  “Construction is expected to continue for a decade or so, but The Guardian called it ‘nevertheless a day full of emotion for a city that has lived with Gaudí’s unfinished work for generations.’” – ART News
  
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• Cambodia Gets Back Dozens Historic Artifacts Allegedly Looted In British Art Dealer’s Scheme

  01-03-2026 14:30 via yahoo.com
  “The artifacts were described as dating from the pre-Angkorian period through the height of the Angkor Empire, including ‘monumental sandstone sculptures, refined bronze works, and significant ritual objects.”’ – Yahoo (AP)
  
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• Firefighters Rescue Rare Books From A Library On The Cliff Edge After Landslide

  01-03-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  “Firefighters drilled through the wall of a building behind the structure and entering for minutes at a time, strapped the bookcases together and hauled them backwards to reach the books.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Kentucky Optical Shop Owner Who Was Also One Of The Twentieth Century’s Best, Strangest Photographers

  01-03-2026 13:30 via undermainarts.org
  “Often dark (literally and figuratively), surreal, sometimes playful and at other times sinister, his pictures stunned and sometimes perplexed viewers with their wild, poetic strangeness.” – Undermain Arts
  
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• After Internal Consideration And Exterior Pressure, San Francisco Ballet Pulls Out Of Kennedy Center Performances

  01-03-2026 13:00 via yahoo.com
  A company representative wrote, “SF Ballet looks forward to performing for Washington, D.C. audiences in the future.” – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo)
  
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• AJ Chronicles: The Battles for Who gets to say what Culture Is

  28-02-2026 18:28 via artsjournal.com
  Evidence abounds this week that the battles for culture are intensifying.Taken together, these tests of authority over cultural institutions are probes of where the line is, of how much self-censorship the cultural sector will perform without being explicitly required to.
  
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• Flamm arts festival aims to spark interest in unsung Cornish town of Bodmin

  26-02-2026 16:00
  Eclectic event to bring contemporary art to part of peninsula usually bypassed by tourists and art loversArt lovers usually bypass the Cornish town of Bodmin as they head to the more obvious delights of seaside galleries in places such as St Ives and Newlyn.But an eclectic festival called Flamm – Cornish/Kernewek for flame or spark – is bringing contemporary art to the hinterland of the peninsula this weekend. Highlights range from a clay sculpture of jackdaws, a reference to the loc
  
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• Nova Scotia’s Arts Sector Hit Hard By “Unprecedented” Provincial Budget Cuts

  26-02-2026 15:31 via halifaxexaminer.ca
  “Nearly half of all Nova Scotia Museum sites closed. The elimination of a fund supporting local publishers. A 100% cut to funding for programs that put writers and artists in schools. Nova Scotia’s arts and culture sector was hit hard by cuts announced (late) yesterday by the provincial government.” – Halifax Examiner
  
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• David Hockney’s first English landscape on show for first time in almost 30 years

  26-02-2026 15:18
  English Garden, painted in 1965, is on display before it goes under the hammer with estimate of £2.5m-£3.5mDavid Hockney’s first English landscape, depicting a perfectly manicured Oxfordshire garden, is on show for the first time in three decades before being auctioned.Sotheby’s said the 1965 painting, English Garden, which was completed in Boulder, Colorado, was pivotal for Hockney as well as holding an important place in wider art history. Continue reading...
  
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• As The Bidding War For It Began, Warner Bros. Discovery Lost A Quarter-Billion Dollars

  26-02-2026 15:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  In the last quarter of 2025, as Netflix and Paramount Skydance began their attempts to buy it, WBD lost $252 million. Overall revenue was down 6% from the fourth quarter last year; that figure ought to satisfy Wall Street’s expectations, but an unprofitable company is generally not considered a good thing. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• ‘The sky’s the limit’: Newcastle Art Gallery unveils its ‘divisive’ $48m expansion with a blockbuster opening show

  26-02-2026 15:00
  Now the largest public gallery in NSW outside of Sydney, NAG’s new exhibition marries big names with local artists – and celebrates a changing cityGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn Friday night, the Newcastle Art Gallery (NAG) is throwing open its doors and filling the road and park with giant fluffy doughnuts, live music, dancing and art in a free-for-all street party – themed “industrial disco” – that has been 16 years in the making.For the NAG t
  
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• ‘Let me in!’ The artist inviting you to protest outside major art venues he can’t access

  26-02-2026 15:00
  In Let Me In, Let Me Out, Hugo Flavelle takes audiences on a tour of galleries and theatres he has struggled in around Perth – creating a protest crossed with a mobile raveGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt’s just after 8pm in Perth on a balmy Tuesday night and I’m yelling at a building: “WHERE IS YOUR AUDIO DESCRIPTION?” I’m not alone – 20 or so people are part of this alfresco protest. There’s a general feeling of low-key jubilation; s
  
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• Paris’s Other Wildly Popular Museum, The Musée d’Orsay, Also Has A New Director

  26-02-2026 14:30 via lemonde.fr
  The home of the city’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works will be led by 57-year-old Annick Lemoine, currently director of the Petit Palais. She succeeds Sylvain Amic, who died suddenly in August 2025.” – Le Monde (in English)
  
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