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How AI Could Change The Way We Listen To Music

As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces. Disclosure is essential not just for accountability, but to give listeners transparent and user-friendly choices in the artists they support. - The Conversation

How To Understand What We Used To Call The Idiot Savant

In the past (autism became a diagnostic category only in 1943), the ‘idiot savant’ was a paradox, who confounded categorisation because there was no unified way of comprehending how such exceptional musical and numerical skills might co-exist alongside their polar opposite: profound disability. - Aeon

Online Sales Are Changing The Market For Native American Art

An estimated one-third of Navajo Nation members make and sell art for a living, and in Zuni Pueblo, as many as 85 percent of households include a working artist. Yet for more than a century, Native artists have been subject to a marketplace that undervalues their work and rips off their designs. - Mother Jones

Smithsonian Museums Have Now Shut Down

The Smithsonian manages 21 museums around Washington, DC, and in New York, as well as the National Zoo and 14 research facilities. It had previously said it could rely on remaining funds from past fiscal years to remain open, originally for “at least” five days past the 1 October shutdown. - The Art Newspaper

What Happened to Kevin Costner?

The Oscar-winning director and actor with the most iconic American screen presence since Gary Cooper is now brawling with his castmates, getting sued by his crewmembers and, in recent months, giving paid keynote speeches at bakery and veterinarian conventions. - The Hollywood Reporter

My Letter To AI Tilly On The Meaning Of Being An Actress

Tilly, you never had to be 14, so I’ll tell you what Google can’t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema. You go from curious about this marvelous world to drowning in un-marvelous you. Who am I? How should I be? Am I alone? Your human brain answers “no one,” “invisible” and “yes.”...

Zadie Smith Ponders The Point Of Essay-Writing

My entire future rested on a few essays written in the school hall under a three-hour time constraint? Really? In the nineties, this was what we called “the meritocracy.” - The New Yorker

Libraries Scramble To Replace Industry’s Biggest Book Distributor

Given the complicated nature of library wholesaling and its existing position in the market, Ingram is well positioned to pick up a sizable chunk of B&T’s business.  - Publishers Weekly

Scientist Used Sensors To Discover How Pianists” Touch Changes Timbre

A team led by Dr. Shinichi Furuya at the NeuroPiano Institute and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. has provided the first scientific evidence showing how pianists’ touch on the keys can actually change a piano’s timbre—the tonal character of its sound. - SciTech Daily

Will AI Create A Permanent Underclass?

The idea of a permanent underclass has recently been embraced in part as an online joke and in part out of a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality. - The New Yorker

Warner Bros Discovery Rejects Paramount’s First Offer, But The Talks Are Far From Over

Chat, is this less than ideal? “The merger would lead to the elimination of one of the original Hollywood film studios, and could see the consolidation of CNN with Paramount-owned CBS News.” - Los Angeles Times

What’s Next For The Book Industry?

The CEO of Simon & Schuster has some thoughts about what will be going on a decade from now: "I fearlessly predict that the average book will be shorter.” - Boston Globe (Archive Today)

Every Portlandian Pays An Arts Tax, And Now There Are Tools To See Where It’s Going

The thing is, “music classes require ukuleles, recorders, and sheet music for every student. Visual arts classes require painting supplies –– easels, paper, paint brushes, paint. Dance classes require mirrors and bars.” How’s the $35 arts tax doing? - Oregon ArtsWatch

Gamergate’s Ghosts Keep Haunting Gaming, But The Script Is So Boring

"This issue of right-wing men attacking minority creatives and characters in video games has been going on for well over a decade at this point, and is unlikely to fade away any time soon.” Could gaming execs make a damn plan? - Slate

Actually, English Majors Are Thriving

At least, at the University of Minnesota: “Students come to our courses not only for practical career training but to fulfill their love of reading, passion for writing, and hunger to reflect on essential questions about who we are as individuals and communities.” - Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Eliza, The Best Of Wives, Was A Better Citizen After Hamilton Died

Eliza was worth a lot more than her quick summing up in two minutes at the end of a 165-minute musical. "Eliza’s widowed years a kind of breakout,” actually, and the U.S. (and Washington, D.C.) would have looked quite different without her.  - The Atlantic

No Surprise, But Oscar Winning Director Chloe Zhao Says Hollywood Isn’t Great At Nuance

Zhao, at the London premiere of her new Hamnet, said, “In Hollywood, in the film industry, we are not very good at preserving the language of ambiguity. If logos and mystery are in harmony, we would be living in a much better world.” - Variety

It Was A Nice Dream, To Turn Office Blocks Into Apartments

In Australia, that dream — borne of the pandemic — appears to have died. - The Guardian (UK)

A Small Box Office Weekend, But A Big Secret Screening

“It’s been over a decade since the New York Film Festival has deployed a ‘Secret Screening’ of a major Oscars contender — not since Martin Scorsese brought an unfinished Hugo to the festival in 2011, followed by Steven Spielberg premiering Lincoln to, appropriately, the Lincoln Center audience in 2012.” - Vulture

How The Book Writer For ‘In The Heights’ Became A Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright, And Now A Novelist

Quiara Alegria Hudes: "I think there is more space for our different communities in literature than in theater. It costs less, and you can get books for free at the library, that makes it easier.” - El País English

By Topic

How To Understand What We Used To Call The Idiot Savant

In the past (autism became a diagnostic category only in 1943), the ‘idiot savant’ was a paradox, who confounded categorisation because there was no unified way of comprehending how such exceptional musical and numerical skills might co-exist alongside their polar opposite: profound disability. - Aeon

Will AI Create A Permanent Underclass?

The idea of a permanent underclass has recently been embraced in part as an online joke and in part out of a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality. - The New Yorker

Every Portlandian Pays An Arts Tax, And Now There Are Tools To See Where It’s Going

The thing is, “music classes require ukuleles, recorders, and sheet music for every student. Visual arts classes require painting supplies –– easels, paper, paint brushes, paint. Dance classes require mirrors and bars.” How’s the $35 arts tax doing? - Oregon ArtsWatch

Actually, English Majors Are Thriving

At least, at the University of Minnesota: “Students come to our courses not only for practical career training but to fulfill their love of reading, passion for writing, and hunger to reflect on essential questions about who we are as individuals and communities.” - Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Eliza, The Best Of Wives, Was A Better Citizen After Hamilton Died

Eliza was worth a lot more than her quick summing up in two minutes at the end of a 165-minute musical. "Eliza’s widowed years a kind of breakout,” actually, and the U.S. (and Washington, D.C.) would have looked quite different without her.  - The Atlantic

New Studies Suggests That People With ADHD May Be More Creative

Researchers found “that those with ADHD may experience more frequent episodes of mind-wandering, and that that, in turn, could lead to greater creative thinking abilities.” - Fast Company

Chicago Arts Leaders Ask The Mayor For An Arts Leader With The ‘Gumption’ To Stand Up To The Federal Government

“My hope is that the administration continues to recognize how important artists and culture workers are to telling the story of Chicago and to making Chicago the kind of beautiful, vibrant place that we’re all fighting for.” - Chicago Sun-Times

Apparently, Some People In The US Have A Deep Love For The Toppled Christopher Columbus Statues

“Many of the statues have been revived with the help of Italian American groups, who cherish Columbus as a figure their ancestors embraced as a hero of the diaspora.” But generally, they’re not being returned to public lands. - The New York Times

Cleveland State University Just Closed A Decades-Old College Radio Station For No Apparent Reason

“A student-run radio station trains kids to do all sorts of things. It’s the engineering, it’s the on air, it’s the music, it’s the running it, the managing of it. And it’s all gone now.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer

Smithsonian Museums, National Zoo Close Amid Federal Shutdown

The Smithsonian museums “had been able to keep their doors open for the first 11 days of the shutdown by relying on prior-year funds, but those coffers have since run dry.” - NPR

After A Very Rough 2024-25, Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency Is Finding Its Way Back On Track

“As the Metro Arts Commission works its way back from several years of instability, it’s hoping the more than $3.2 million in grants it’s awarded for the 2026 fiscal year will be a sign of progress.” Most stakeholders seem to be relieved, though there’s one in particular which is still unhappy. - The Tennessean

How Artists Are Incorporating AI Into Traditional Work (And Ideas)

While A.I. speeds along, upending any number of careers and lives, some in the art world have chosen to embrace it while also, in a sense, subverting it. These artists integrate A.I., gaming and other tech-heavy aesthetics into their work. - The New York Times

How AI Could Change The Way We Listen To Music

As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces. Disclosure is essential not just for accountability, but to give listeners transparent and user-friendly choices in the artists they support. - The Conversation

Scientist Used Sensors To Discover How Pianists” Touch Changes Timbre

A team led by Dr. Shinichi Furuya at the NeuroPiano Institute and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. has provided the first scientific evidence showing how pianists’ touch on the keys can actually change a piano’s timbre—the tonal character of its sound. - SciTech Daily

The Cincinnati Symphony Gets Its New Music Director

Cristian Macelaru: "The work is a lot more complex and challenging here , but it’s also much more rewarding. … I’ve always had such strong beliefs about what I would do if I were a music director of an American orchestra.” - The New York Times

Take MTV, Subtract The M, And Then Most Of The TV As Well

In Britain, after December 31st, MTV will be no more - for the most part. “The flagship channel, MTV HD, will remain on air, showing reality series including Naked Dating UK and Geordie Shore.” - BBC

Judge Rules Music Publishers Can Sue Anthropic Over Copyright

US District Judge Eumi Lee on Monday ruled that Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group and ABKCO can press forward with claims that Anthropic bears legal responsibility when users of its Claude chatbot generate copyrighted lyrics. - Music Business Worldwide

Former Houston Symphony Music Director Has A(nother) Big New Job

Andrés Orozco-Estrada, who was in Houston from 2014 to 2022, will become music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony next fall. He is also music director of the orchestra and opera house in Cologne and is now in his last season as chief conductor of the RAI National Symphony in Turin. - Moto Perpetuo

Online Sales Are Changing The Market For Native American Art

An estimated one-third of Navajo Nation members make and sell art for a living, and in Zuni Pueblo, as many as 85 percent of households include a working artist. Yet for more than a century, Native artists have been subject to a marketplace that undervalues their work and rips off their designs. - Mother...

Smithsonian Museums Have Now Shut Down

The Smithsonian manages 21 museums around Washington, DC, and in New York, as well as the National Zoo and 14 research facilities. It had previously said it could rely on remaining funds from past fiscal years to remain open, originally for “at least” five days past the 1 October shutdown. - The Art Newspaper

It Was A Nice Dream, To Turn Office Blocks Into Apartments

In Australia, that dream — borne of the pandemic — appears to have died. - The Guardian (UK)

Diane Keaton Was A Tireless Campaigner To Preserve The Architectural History Of Los Angeles

The actor “had a very genuine passion for historic preservation, not only for the buildings or the cultural landscapes, but for what they mean to people and what they would mean in the future.” - Variety

The Arts Column That The Washington Post Refused To Run

“Monuments are supposed to be collective tributes to shared ideals. Like Confederate statues, would function as the opposite — broadcasting a one-way message.”  - Aesthetic Insecurity

Why Is San Francisco About To Destroy This 96-Year-Old Artist’s Defining Work?

“Destroying the Vaillancourt Fountain, its supporters say, would be erasing history and modern architecture, and counter to the city’s reputation for being weird.” But wow, has the city neglected it for years. (The city says it just sort of aged out. Yup.) - The New York Times

Zadie Smith Ponders The Point Of Essay-Writing

My entire future rested on a few essays written in the school hall under a three-hour time constraint? Really? In the nineties, this was what we called “the meritocracy.” - The New Yorker

Libraries Scramble To Replace Industry’s Biggest Book Distributor

Given the complicated nature of library wholesaling and its existing position in the market, Ingram is well positioned to pick up a sizable chunk of B&T’s business.  - Publishers Weekly

What’s Next For The Book Industry?

The CEO of Simon & Schuster has some thoughts about what will be going on a decade from now: "I fearlessly predict that the average book will be shorter.” - Boston Globe (Archive Today)

How The Book Writer For ‘In The Heights’ Became A Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright, And Now A Novelist

Quiara Alegria Hudes: "I think there is more space for our different communities in literature than in theater. It costs less, and you can get books for free at the library, that makes it easier.” - El País English

Czech Writers, Including Ivan Klima, Created An Anti-Authoritarian Manifesto In 1977

In the U.S. (and other countries dealing with regimes antithetical to art), cultural workers could sure learn something from Charter 77. - LitHub

Meet America’s New Poet Laureate

“You can’t speed-read a poem,” he explains. “You have to read it, hear the sounds, the rhythms, reread it, not be in a hurry. Slowing down helps us realize that for our speed, we sacrifice things.” - Christian Science Monitor

My Letter To AI Tilly On The Meaning Of Being An Actress

Tilly, you never had to be 14, so I’ll tell you what Google can’t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema. You go from curious about this marvelous world to drowning in un-marvelous you. Who am I? How should I be? Am I alone? Your human brain answers “no one,” “invisible”...

Warner Bros Discovery Rejects Paramount’s First Offer, But The Talks Are Far From Over

Chat, is this less than ideal? “The merger would lead to the elimination of one of the original Hollywood film studios, and could see the consolidation of CNN with Paramount-owned CBS News.” - Los Angeles Times

Gamergate’s Ghosts Keep Haunting Gaming, But The Script Is So Boring

"This issue of right-wing men attacking minority creatives and characters in video games has been going on for well over a decade at this point, and is unlikely to fade away any time soon.” Could gaming execs make a damn plan? - Slate

No Surprise, But Oscar Winning Director Chloe Zhao Says Hollywood Isn’t Great At Nuance

Zhao, at the London premiere of her new Hamnet, said, “In Hollywood, in the film industry, we are not very good at preserving the language of ambiguity. If logos and mystery are in harmony, we would be living in a much better world.” - Variety

A Small Box Office Weekend, But A Big Secret Screening

“It’s been over a decade since the New York Film Festival has deployed a ‘Secret Screening’ of a major Oscars contender — not since Martin Scorsese brought an unfinished Hugo to the festival in 2011, followed by Steven Spielberg premiering Lincoln to, appropriately, the Lincoln Center audience in 2012.” - Vulture

Amazon Awkwardly Edits Guns Out Of James Bond Posters For, Uh, James Bond Day

Yes, Bond, the action hero who famously solves problems without guns … er, sorry, that's Doctor Who. "Unsurprisingly fans went into a tizzy about the alteration.” - The Verge

At Last Minute, New York City Ballet Dancers Boycott Fall Gala Dinner

They did the evening’s performance — fulfilling their contract obligations, as they pointedly mentioned — but skipped the red-carpet photo ops and left vacant their places alongside wealthy patrons at the dinner tables. The quasi-strike comes amid contract negotiations, with dancers insisting that their pay reflect New York’s soaring cost of living. - Page...

Lord Of The Irish Dance Michael Flatley At 67

He hasn’t danced for nearly a decade. He has damaged bones and tendons and claims to know all his vertebrae by name. But he’s still fiendishly driven. - The Guardian

Akram Khan Talks About His Last Work For His Dance Company Before It Dissolves

After 25 years, the Bangladeshi-British choreographer is closing down his touring troupe to pursue new creative directions. In a Q&A, he discusses the Akram Khan Company’s final project: Thikra: Night of Remembering, which uses dancers trained in Bharatanatyam for a ritual work inspired by the ancient Nabataean culture of Petra and AlUla. - ArtReview

Martha Graham’s Work Is Finally Getting Serious Attention In Britain

“I was thinking, she’s the mother of modern dance,” said English National Ballet artistic director Aaron S Watkin. “She’s so iconic and famous, but hardly anyone is doing (her work in the UK).” His company and a few others may be changing that. - The Guardian

What Happens When You Start Dancing In Your 60s

“By now I’ve spent upward of 5,000 hours in ballet classes, and roughly 1,600 hours more in other, non-ballet dance classes. …  I dance as if it were my job.” - Slate

Joseph Walsh On Restaging Liam Scarlett’s Ballet “Frankenstein”

Walsh helped Scarlett create several scenes for the London premiere in 2016, then danced the title role in the 2017 revised version at San Francisco Ballet. Walsh was injured for the 2018 revival, so he helped stage it, and he has restaged it several times since Scarlett’s death in 2021. - L.A. Dance Chronicle

Bob Dylan’s Art Makes Its Off-Broadway Debut

To get into Masquerade, you must go through Dylan’s door. Masquerade’s creative director, Shai Baitel, says that Phantom of the Opera and Dylan’s work have shared themes. For instance: “Bob is very connected to Paris. This is something that has influenced his entire career.”- Vulture

Zora Neale Hurston’s Play, Forgotten For Decades, Sees The Light Of Day At Yale

“Building these moments for the stage entailed leaps of imagination and acts of faith among the collaborators. ‘I’d say to the team, ‘Trust Zora.’ It’s in the play, it’s in the script, we just have to be able to see it.’” - The New York Times

What It’s Like Opening A Feminist Play On Broadway Amid, Er, Gestures Around

Playwright Bess Wohl: “I wanted to make a play that I wished existed: a good, interesting, complicated play. How many plays are there really about this time and this movement? Not that many, when you consider what a big deal it was.” - American Theatre

Why, With Broadway’s Stresses, Revive A Long-ago Flop?

Put simply, “Chess,” first produced in the U.S. in 1988, didn’t work on Broadway. So remounting the show, even though it’s become a cult favorite, is risky at a time when the box office is largely driven by long-running, big-brand musicals like “Wicked” and “Mamma Mia!” - Variety

Backlash Grows Against Comedians Who Participated In Riyadh Festival

Of course, some will argue that performing in authoritarian or oppressive countries is a means of reaching the masses; opening up art to those underserved. And while that may be true on occasion, it is a different thing entirely from being sponsored by the state itself to launder its sovereignty.  - The Guardian

Debates Around The Saudi Comedy Festival And American Comedians Are Frustratingly Vague

More than any other artists, comedians are alert to how language reveals meaning, and what all the explanations have in common is a maddening vagueness. What does this specific festival represent? - The New York Times

What Happened to Kevin Costner?

The Oscar-winning director and actor with the most iconic American screen presence since Gary Cooper is now brawling with his castmates, getting sued by his crewmembers and, in recent months, giving paid keynote speeches at bakery and veterinarian conventions. - The Hollywood Reporter

Susan Griffin, One Of The Inventors Of Ecofeminism, Has Died At 82

Griffin was “an influential poet, playwright and prolific feminist author who pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, blending propulsive, poetic prose with history, memoir and myth.” - The New York Times

Diane Keaton Has Died At 79

Keaton was the star of Annie Hall, for which she won an Oscar, and many other Woody Allen movies; she was also an Oscar nominee for Reds, Marvin’s Room, and Something’s Gotta Give. And then there were her iconic roles in the Godfather movies. - The Hollywood Reporter

Theatre And Opera Director Ian Judge Dead At 79

“(He) enjoyed a wide-ranging career as a theatre and opera director without any of the obvious attributes for being so – no university or musical education, no artistic background, no connections – yet he succeeded over many decades in opera houses around the world, and for 10 years at the Royal Shakespeare Company.” - The...

A Playwright, Two Filmmakers, A Cartographer, A Basket Weaver: Meet The 2025 MacArthur Fellows

Among the arts folks who won this year’s $800,000 no-strings grants are playwright Heather Christian, photographers Tonika Lewis Johnson and Matt Black, artist/filmmakers Garrett Bradley and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, artist/curator Gala Porras-Kim, composer Craig Taborn, author Tommy Orange, cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce, and traditional Wabanaki basket weaver Jeremy Frey. - NPR

Longtime ARTnews Owner Milton Esterow, 97

Esterow purchased ARTnews in 1972 from Newsweek, which at the time was a division of the Washington Post Company, and owned it until 2014, when ARTnews was sold in 2014 to Sergey Skaterschikov. - ARTnews

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Actually, English Majors Are Thriving

At least, at the University of Minnesota: “Students come to our courses not only for practical career training but to fulfill their love of reading, passion for writing, and hunger to reflect on essential questions about who we are as individuals and communities.” - Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Chicago Arts Leaders Ask The Mayor For An Arts Leader With The ‘Gumption’ To Stand Up To The Federal Government

“My hope is that the administration continues to recognize how important artists and culture workers are to telling the story of Chicago and to making Chicago the kind of beautiful, vibrant place that we’re all fighting for.” - Chicago Sun-Times

The Arts Column That The Washington Post Refused To Run

“Monuments are supposed to be collective tributes to shared ideals. Like Confederate statues, would function as the opposite — broadcasting a one-way message.”  - Aesthetic Insecurity

Cleveland State University Just Closed A Decades-Old College Radio Station For No Apparent Reason

“A student-run radio station trains kids to do all sorts of things. It’s the engineering, it’s the on air, it’s the music, it’s the running it, the managing of it. And it’s all gone now.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer

Why Is San Francisco About To Destroy This 96-Year-Old Artist’s Defining Work?

“Destroying the Vaillancourt Fountain, its supporters say, would be erasing history and modern architecture, and counter to the city’s reputation for being weird.” But wow, has the city neglected it for years. (The city says it just sort of aged out. Yup.) - The New York Times

Pepperdine Suddenly Closes Art Show After Censorship Of Some Work Leads Other Artists To Withdraw

One artist wrote that the private university's censorship of other artists’ work, mostly about immigrants, “is a loss for the students and for the art community, and it signals that the gallery, under current conditions, can no longer function as a place for art.” - Hyperallergic

Diane Keaton Has Died At 79

Keaton was the star of Annie Hall, for which she won an Oscar, and many other Woody Allen movies; she was also an Oscar nominee for Reds, Marvin’s Room, and Something’s Gotta Give. And then there were her iconic roles in the Godfather movies. - The Hollywood Reporter

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László Krasznahorkai Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

“Often described as postmodern, Krasznahorkai is known for his long, winding sentences, dystopian and melancholic themes, and the kind of relentless intensity that has led critics to compare him to Gogol, Melville and Kafka. Satantango, was famously adapted into a seven-hour film by director Béla Tarr.” - The Guardian

Did The Postwar Modernists Ruin The Whole Idea Of New Classical Music For Everyone Else?

Countless casual classical listeners will tell you they hate the “new stuff.” When asked for an example, they’ll cite some highly dissonant music written between 40 and 80 years ago — in a “modern” style which hasn’t been dominant in contemporary classical music (in North America, at least) for decades. - The New York...

National Gallery Of Art In D.C. Closes Due To Government Shutdown

“It is the first major museum in D.C. to shutter because of the shutdown. The Smithsonian Institution, which runs an array of museums in D.C. and beyond, is using its own funds to remain open at least through Monday.” - ARTnews

Here’s What Portland’s Arts Organizations Have To Say About Making Culture In So-Called Hell

Portland is very clearly not “hell,” and just as clearly not a war zone. But also: "Although the number of events and the amount of ticket sales have not yet recovered to pre-pandemic levels, they have increased significantly ... and are now getting close to pre-2020 levels.” - Oregon ArtsWatch

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