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Art News from Around the World
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Visual Arts | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:02 |
Remembering America’s Most Notorious Art Heist
The legacy of the heist is always apparent to museum visitors who, decades later, still confront vacant frames on the gallery walls where paintings once hung. – The New York TimesSource:
Visual Arts | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:45 |
Minnesota Sculpture Park Sells Sculpture For Scrap
“The artist, John Hock, said he thought it was a theft and reported it to the Chisago County Sheriff’s Office.” (The Franconia Sculpture Park, unsurprisingly, has a different story.) – Minnesota Public RadioSource:
Visual Arts | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:45 |
Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth Will Be Filled With Every Woman
Actually, that’s spelled Everywoman, a sculpture that will adorn London’s public art playground. The deputy mayor: “The sculpture prize has entertained and brought out the art critic in everybody for 25 years, and I have no doubt these two very different pieces will continue that fine tradition.” – The Guardian (UK)Source:
People | Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:32 |
Andrew Crispo, Gallery Owner Involved With Murders And Financial Crimes, Is Dead At 78
“Though he lacked formal training in art, he was widely respected for his exacting eye, which he used to identify promising young painters. … (Yet he was) brought low by a long series of tabloid-worthy scandals, including tax evasion, extortion and implication in (a) grisly 1985 murder.” – The New York TimesSource:
Issues | Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:00 |
EU Passes Landmark AI Legislation, And Will Regulate Use Of Copyright Material
The act places a number of legal and transparency obligations on tech companies and AI developers operating in Europe, including those working in the creative sector and music business. – BillboardSource:
The World | Tue, 19 Mar 2024 05:42 |
ABA Seeks Senior Director of Business Development
The Advisory Board for the Arts is looking for a highly motivated Senior Director, Business Development, to join our dynamic team and play a crucial role in growing our network of clients. As Senior Director, Business Development at ABA, you will be responsible for acquiring new clients, helping grow ABA’s footprint in North America and […]Source:
Ideas | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 21:06 |
Gen-Z’s Poor Mental Health Comes From Smartphone Culture. We Should Stop It
Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental pathways across the board. Friendship, dating, sexuality, exercise, sleep, academics, politics, family dynamics, identity—all were affected. – The AtlanticSource:
Ideas | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:32 |
AI – Understanding Versus Finding Patterns
How can these powerful systems beat us in chess but falter on basic math? This paradox reflects more than just an idiosyncratic design quirk. It points toward something fundamental about how large language models think. – The New YorkerSource:
Issues | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:44 |
Will Rethinking Liberal Arts From A Conservative Tradition Make Them Better?
Classical education is premised on the idea that there is objective truth, and that the purpose of school is to set kids on a path toward understanding it. – The New YorkerSource:
The World | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:29 |
Segerstrom Center for the Arts seeks VP of Programming & Production
Reporting to the President and CEO, the VP of Programming and Production oversees and coordinates the design and implementation of all programming across all the Center’s stagesSource:
Music | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:15 |
How Private Equity Companies Are Wrecking The Music Industry
Private equity — the industry responsible for bankrupting companies, slashing jobs and raising the mortality rates at the nursing homes it acquires — is making money by gobbling up the rights for old hits and pumping them back into our present. The result is a markedly blander music scene. – The New York TimesSource:
Words | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:33 |
Spotify Promoting Audiobooks Using Some Music Industry Techniques
Combined with the promo page and countdown clock, the feature allows authors to engage in fandom in a way that is more typical of music than publishing. It’ll launch in mid-April. – The VergeSource:
Words | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:14 |
Historical Fiction Is Hot Right Now. Why?
Can historical fiction even be considered a genre of its own? Its many varieties share few common attributes other than that they all take place in the past. Even the simplest qualities are hard to pin down: for instance, how far back do you have to go? – The DriftSource:
Words | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:01 |
Libraries Struggle to Afford Access To E-Books, Which Are More Expensive Than Paper
While one hardcover copy of a novel costs the library $18, it costs $55 to lease a digital copy — a price that can’t be haggled with publishers. And for that, the e-book expires after a limited time, usually after one or two years, or after 26 checkouts, whichever comes first. – ABCNewsSource:
People | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:26 |
Pianist Byron Janis, 95
In 1944, Janis became Horowitz’s first student and made his orchestral debut with conductor Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony Orchestra. At 18, he was signed by RCA Victor Records as its youngest artist. – The Hollywood ReporterSource:
Ideas | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:01 |
The Ideas Behind The Harlem Renaissance
That aggregation of talent, energy and audience created what felt like a moment of rupture and renewal, a chance to reinvent Black life and Black consciousness, to escape the self-imprisoning consciousness that Du Bois anatomized and the even more debilitating quiescence and accommodation advocated by Booker T. Washington. – Washington PostSource:
Music | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:00 |
Germany Adds Berlin’s Techno Scene To UNESCO Heritage List
A German nonprofit, Rave the Planet, hoped for years to add techno to the intangible cultural heritage list. Five other new German entries “include fruit wine and mountaineering[, and] a parade in Bavaria known as the Kirchseeoner Perchtenlauf, where attenders dress as furry monsters.” – The Guardian (UK)Source:
Issues | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:30 |
Tech Bros Are Such Drama Kings
“It’s hard to know whether this performative strain in tech culture reflects something essential about the industry.” But … could they just, please, for the rest of us, stop? (Maybe join a community theatre?)- The AtlanticSource:
Words | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:00 |
Publishing Should Not Rely On Gig Workers
“Look a little more closely, and ‘growing pool of freelancers’ is a terrible euphemism for ‘jobs are disappearing and more and more of us are fighting for scraps by competing for freelance gigs.’” – LitHubSource:
Issues | Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:30 |
A Second Man Has Been Charged In The Theft Of Judy Garland’s Ruby Slippers
And it’s appropriately dramatic: “The indictment says [Jerry Hal] Saliterman knew they were stolen, and that he threatened to release a sex tape of a woman and ‘take her down with him’ if she didn’t keep her mouth shut about the slippers.” – Seattle Times (AP)Source:
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