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Four Things Humans Still Do Better Than AI

In speaking to hundreds of experts, consumers, and skeptics of AI over the past few years, four strongholds for humans keep coming up. - Harvard Business Review

Skyscrapers Are Sinking Into The Sand In Miami

It examined many large buildings built on the strip, half of which were built in 2014 and after, and found that 35 had been affected by sinking or "subsidence" of between  two to eight-centimetres. - Dezeen

Should THE BBC Scrap Its License Fee And Go Subscription?

The successful roll-out of fast broadband in the UK has allowed streaming services — led by the US giants, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Apple TV+ — to demonstrate the dynamic power of subscription as a funding mechanism. - The Critic

The Curious Incuriosity Of Multi-Culturalists?

For all they like to talk about the “enrichment” that diversity brings, pro-immigration liberalism in Britain often insists on a studied lack of curiosity or observancy about either the individuals or their cultures; or the new cultures that emerge as they mix in our cities. - The Critic

Diversify Curriculum? Aren’t The Classics Diverse?

One of the wellsprings of the English canon is, of course, classical literature. Where does this start? With Homer, who, if he existed, was a blind poet born on the shores of Asia Minor. The Iliad: battles between Mediterranean warlords and an Asiatic king with many children, and intense love between two male warriors. - The Critic

Did You Know You Could Buy The Oldest Ten Commandments Stone Tablet?

Expected to sell for an estimated $1 to $2 million, the tablet fetched a whopping $5 million. - ARTnews

Reconsidering Schoenberg @150

We still don’t quite know how to sell Schoenberg. There is the scary modernist Schoenberg — inventor of the 12-tone system, replacing traditional harmony with the democratic notion that all notes are equal — who reputedly drives audiences away. But there is also the Schoenberg who carried on from the 19th century Romantic tradition. - Los Angeles...

The Year And Reading About Dance

As in last year’s column, a couple of these books were published recently; the others earlier in the century. All, in one way or another, are about dancing and dance, the people who make it, practice it, teach it, and, no small thing, the passion that drives them. - Oregon ArtsWatch

In 2024 The Gaming Industry Fell Apart

In 2023, more than 10,000 developers lost their jobs; one-third of game-makers surveyed at the beginning of this year reported they’d been affected by layoffs in some way. - Wired

Why Composers Are Drawn To Writing Religious Music

Whether it’s chestnuts roasting on an open fire or a white Christmas, many of our classic Christmas images are drawn from songs written by Jewish composers and lyricists. Why are so many great artists drawn to making art about a holiday that isn’t theirs? - The New York Times

In Canada The Wait To Check Out Library Books Can Be Over A Year

Despite offering 75 copies of the e-book, the library's waitlist currently sits at about 1,200 people. With a maximum borrowing period of 21 days, someone placing a hold on the e-book today could be waiting well over a year before it comes available. - CBC

How Big Publishers Killed The Novel

It’s convenient to assume that readers are to blame for killing literary fiction, and publishers have abandoned it because book-buyers are stupid, have bad taste, and just aren’t reading anymore. But what has actually occurred is death by committee. - Persuasion

Can Novelty Scores Change How Scientific Publishing Works?

The novelty score is calculated using an algorithm that compares the combinations of keywords and cited journals in a scientific manuscript with those in previous publications and projects the types of paper that will be published in the future. From this, it identifies novelty as deviations from these predictions. - Nature

Is Spotify Feeding Listeners “Ghost” Artists?

Spotify, the rumor had it, was filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians—variously called ghost or fake artists—presumably in an effort to reduce its royalty payouts. Some even speculated that Spotify might be making the tracks itself. - Harper's

This Year’s Most Interesting Visual Art Lawsuits

Like most years in the art world, 2024 saw a slew of lawsuits wind their way through the courts. - ARTnews

Exploring The Art Of The “Art Monster”

Some creative geniuses make the world richer because of their work. Others have used their cultural impact as an excuse not to treat others with basic respect. The latter group brings to mind a truly notorious kind of “art monster” - The Atlantic

SFMoMA Fires Curator

Eungie Joo, the curator and head of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), was fired from her position on Tuesday (17 December) for allegedly violating the museum’s policies governing workplace conduct. - The Art Newspaper

The Egyptian Government Just Rented Out The Pyramids To MrBeast

MrBeast says on the podcast that he worked with the Egyptian government to get access to the historic site. “I’ve never been inside of it,” he says. “I want to just find secrets and go through all the rooms and the tombs and that kind of stuff.” - Fast Company

Fired Members Of Dallas Black Dance Theatre Reunite For A Final Performance

The National Labor Relations Board ruled in their favor and they're getting compensation, but the ten dancers are declining to return to DBDT. So they got together for one last performance — a program of new pieces collectively titled Emergence —before figuring out where their careers will take them next. - KERA (Dallas)

How Judith Jamison Shaped The Alvin Ailey Dance Company

Under Jamison’s direction, the Ailey dancers grew more and more godlike in technique without losing earthly looseness and soul. - The New Yorker

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Four Things Humans Still Do Better Than AI

In speaking to hundreds of experts, consumers, and skeptics of AI over the past few years, four strongholds for humans keep coming up. - Harvard Business Review

Rousseau’s Philosophical Diagnosis Of What Ails Us (Still Relevant Today)

Rousseau was, in effect, the diagnostician of despair who captured the affliction of alienation in all of its dimensions. The source of our affliction was the very thing we thought made us better: civilization. - The American Scholar

How America Redefined Old Age

Contemporary America segregates debility and death, and it’s costing us, body and soul, writes Duke University historian James Chappel. - The American Scholar

We Live In Extreme Data — How To Make Sense Of It?

Where you are, what you’re looking at, and what you like is being tracked more or less constantly—either you’re doing it to yourself voluntarily, by taking a video with your phone and posting it online, say, or a corporate entity is doing it for you. - The New Yorker

Everything We Do These Days Is Measured And Informed By Data. Does This Really Help?

We talk a lot these days about Big Data, those heaping stores of digitized information that, fueling search and recommendation engines, social media feeds, and, now, artificial intelligence models, govern so much of our lives today. But we don’t give much notice to what might be called little data... - Hedgehog Review

That Emptiness In Which You Can’t Feel Anything

If you feel empty in this way, you might find that bad news doesn’t make you feel upset, that good news doesn’t make you feel happy. Some part of you knows you should feel something when important things happen, but you don’t. - Psyche

The Curious Incuriosity Of Multi-Culturalists?

For all they like to talk about the “enrichment” that diversity brings, pro-immigration liberalism in Britain often insists on a studied lack of curiosity or observancy about either the individuals or their cultures; or the new cultures that emerge as they mix in our cities. - The Critic

Diversify Curriculum? Aren’t The Classics Diverse?

One of the wellsprings of the English canon is, of course, classical literature. Where does this start? With Homer, who, if he existed, was a blind poet born on the shores of Asia Minor. The Iliad: battles between Mediterranean warlords and an Asiatic king with many children, and intense love between two male warriors. -...

The Egyptian Government Just Rented Out The Pyramids To MrBeast

MrBeast says on the podcast that he worked with the Egyptian government to get access to the historic site. “I’ve never been inside of it,” he says. “I want to just find secrets and go through all the rooms and the tombs and that kind of stuff.” - Fast Company

Use Our Copyrighted Material To Train AI? Oh Hell No, Huge Coalition Tells UK Government

"Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms." - The Guardian

France’s Culture Pass For 18-Year-Olds Has Serious Problems, Says Government’s Top Auditor

"The Cour des Comptes has found several faults with France’s Culture Pass, which gives 18-year-olds €300 to spend on just about any cultural activity or product they wish over two years. The scheme has seen 'its spending soar, does not meet its social objectives and needs governance reform.'" - The Bookseller (UK)

Artists Ponder UK’s Proposed ‘Right to Personality’ Plan For Copyright

Decades-old copyright legislation varies by region but is generally too outdated to be reliably applied to the new challenges presented by generative A.I. This has left both A.I. developers and artists in a state of uncertainty. - Artnet

Reconsidering Schoenberg @150

We still don’t quite know how to sell Schoenberg. There is the scary modernist Schoenberg — inventor of the 12-tone system, replacing traditional harmony with the democratic notion that all notes are equal — who reputedly drives audiences away. But there is also the Schoenberg who carried on from the 19th century Romantic tradition. -...

Why Composers Are Drawn To Writing Religious Music

Whether it’s chestnuts roasting on an open fire or a white Christmas, many of our classic Christmas images are drawn from songs written by Jewish composers and lyricists. Why are so many great artists drawn to making art about a holiday that isn’t theirs? - The New York Times

Is Spotify Feeding Listeners “Ghost” Artists?

Spotify, the rumor had it, was filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians—variously called ghost or fake artists—presumably in an effort to reduce its royalty payouts. Some even speculated that Spotify might be making the tracks itself. - Harper's

How Music Shapes Our Future Perceptions

“Sound directs our passage through time. It shapes our orientation to the future moment and also to the moment when the future stops.” - The Wall Street Journal

Charlotte Symphony Is Making Big Investments In Immersive Performances

“It is going to be a space you can choose where to be and how to listen,” Fisk said. “We want people to lose themselves in this music and to be swallowed up by the experience of being part of nature.” - Charlotte Observer (MSN)

Why Some Non-Christian Composers Are Attracted To Christmas Material: David Lang

"Every Christmas, I ask myself this question, because accidentally I — a Jewish composer — have also written something of a Christmas classic: the little match girl passion. Cynics may think that these artists make Christmas music because they’re chasing the market. I believe there is something deeper at work." - The New York...

Skyscrapers Are Sinking Into The Sand In Miami

It examined many large buildings built on the strip, half of which were built in 2014 and after, and found that 35 had been affected by sinking or "subsidence" of between  two to eight-centimetres. - Dezeen

Did You Know You Could Buy The Oldest Ten Commandments Stone Tablet?

Expected to sell for an estimated $1 to $2 million, the tablet fetched a whopping $5 million. - ARTnews

This Year’s Most Interesting Visual Art Lawsuits

Like most years in the art world, 2024 saw a slew of lawsuits wind their way through the courts. - ARTnews

SFMoMA Fires Curator

Eungie Joo, the curator and head of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), was fired from her position on Tuesday (17 December) for allegedly violating the museum’s policies governing workplace conduct. - The Art Newspaper

SF-MOMA Fires One Of Its Top Curators

"Eungie Joo, who served as head curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for seven years, was fired after what the museum described as a violation of its workplace conduct policy. … No further details were given." - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Facing Funding Stress, Sydney’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Scraps Its Free Admission

Free general admission was introduced in 2000 under the directorship of Elizabeth Ann MacGregor with the aid of a Telstra sponsorship. But stagnant government funding has forced the museum’s hand, with the introduction of a $20 entry fee from 31 January. - The Guardian

In Canada The Wait To Check Out Library Books Can Be Over A Year

Despite offering 75 copies of the e-book, the library's waitlist currently sits at about 1,200 people. With a maximum borrowing period of 21 days, someone placing a hold on the e-book today could be waiting well over a year before it comes available. - CBC

How Big Publishers Killed The Novel

It’s convenient to assume that readers are to blame for killing literary fiction, and publishers have abandoned it because book-buyers are stupid, have bad taste, and just aren’t reading anymore. But what has actually occurred is death by committee. - Persuasion

Can Novelty Scores Change How Scientific Publishing Works?

The novelty score is calculated using an algorithm that compares the combinations of keywords and cited journals in a scientific manuscript with those in previous publications and projects the types of paper that will be published in the future. From this, it identifies novelty as deviations from these predictions. - Nature

How Did A Publishing Startup Land 25 Books On The Bestseller List In A Year?

So far this year, Bloom has landed 23 books and two series on the New York Times best-seller list. Last year, it surpassed $100 million in gross sales, and its 2024 sales are up 58 percent. - The New York Times

The Top 10 Bookselling Stories Of 2024

"We saw booksellers, publishers, and others in the industry step up to aid stores that sustained extensive hurricane damage, call for greater rights and representation for people with diverse identities, and more." - Publishers Weekly

This Upstart Publisher Got 25 Books On The Bestseller List In A Single Year

Three years ago, the only author on Bloom Books' list was E.L. James (the Fifty Shades of Grey series). Now it publishes over 40 authors, many previously self-published, will have well over $150 million in gross sales this year, and has nearly one-quarter of the lucrative romance market. - The New York Times

Should THE BBC Scrap Its License Fee And Go Subscription?

The successful roll-out of fast broadband in the UK has allowed streaming services — led by the US giants, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Apple TV+ — to demonstrate the dynamic power of subscription as a funding mechanism. - The Critic

In 2024 The Gaming Industry Fell Apart

In 2023, more than 10,000 developers lost their jobs; one-third of game-makers surveyed at the beginning of this year reported they’d been affected by layoffs in some way. - Wired

Nearly 15,000 Media Jobs In The US Were Eliminated In 2024

"While the 14,909 jobs lost by mid-December this year offered an improvement on the 21,417 jobs cut in 2023, it would be unwise to consider this year a 'comeback' by any stretch. Combined, the number of jobs lost between 2023-24 more than quadrupled the amount lost between 2021-22." - TheWrap (MSN)

Movie Producers Sue National Parks System Over Permits In Parks

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Wyoming federal court, Alexander Rienzie and Connor Burkesmith challenge the constitutionality of federal permit and fee requirements on First Amendment grounds. They accuse National Park Services of censoring speech by requiring advance permission to film commercial content. - The Hollywood Reporter

Canadian Movie And TV Production Sinks

Volume was down 18.5% to C$9.58B ($6.68B) in the 12 months between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024, according to the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA)’s ‘Profile 2024’ report. In 2019/2020, the figure was C$9.38B. - Deadline

Producers Of “The Jerry Springer Show” Look Back On What They Wrought

Says one, "Please tell me the difference between the fight I saw on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills last night and The Jerry Springer Show. Money. That’s the only difference." - The Guardian

The Year And Reading About Dance

As in last year’s column, a couple of these books were published recently; the others earlier in the century. All, in one way or another, are about dancing and dance, the people who make it, practice it, teach it, and, no small thing, the passion that drives them. - Oregon ArtsWatch

Fired Members Of Dallas Black Dance Theatre Reunite For A Final Performance

The National Labor Relations Board ruled in their favor and they're getting compensation, but the ten dancers are declining to return to DBDT. So they got together for one last performance — a program of new pieces collectively titled Emergence —before figuring out where their careers will take them next. - KERA (Dallas)

How Judith Jamison Shaped The Alvin Ailey Dance Company

Under Jamison’s direction, the Ailey dancers grew more and more godlike in technique without losing earthly looseness and soul. - The New Yorker

This Completely Legal Musical Is Totally Not About Raygun The Olympic Breakdancer

Two weeks ago, comedian Steph Broadbridge cancelled Raygun: The Musical just before its Sydney premiere after notorious-Olympic-breaker-and-viral-sensation Dr. Rachael Gunn's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist notice. Then the producer got a demand for $10,000 for Gunn's legal fees, and Broadbridge had another idea. - The Sydney Morning Herald (MSN)

Cincinnati Ballet Chooses Longtime Principal As Artistic Director

"Cervilio Miguel Amador has served as interim artistic director since Jodie Gates’s abrupt departure in September 2023 – just 14 months after she took the job." - The Cincinnati Enquirer (Yahoo!)

The Mathematics Behind The Rockettes’ High-Precision Dance Routines

"During the dance company’s roughly 200 shows over eight weeks, a dancer can do up to 650 kicks in a single day. ... While this signature kick is a festive feat of physics in its own right, the math on stage also makes the magic." - Popular Science

The Year That Was In NY Theatre

Broadway returned to boom times, and several commercially produced shows did gangbusters business in smaller theatres, but Off Broadway’s nonprofit companies continued to struggle. Yet a lot of what made the city artistically exciting this year required that all parts of the ecosystem flourish. - The New Yorker

Can A Musical Be A Better Way Of Focusing Politics On An Issue?

Like the drama series about the Post Office scandal aired a year ago, “Mr Bates vs The Post Office,” dramatizations of the news can often draw more attention to an event. They can also build public pressure for injustices to be addressed. 

What Nonprofit Theater Leaders Told The NEA

"(A) series of listening sessions, held this past summer, helped the (NEA theater) team to learn more about evolving challenges, successful strategies, and potential pathways to future sustainability of the field. Those conversations have now been distilled and analyzed in a new report." - National Endowment for the Arts

Will This Be The First Broadway Musical Whose Title Role Is A Dead Body?

"Dead Outlaw, a rambunctious musical that tells the hard-to-believe-it’s-true story of a bandit’s corpse that became a spectacle in early-20th-century America, will open on Broadway next spring. The show … will be the first developed by Audible to make it to Broadway." - The New York Times

This Completely Legal Musical Is Totally Not About Raygun The Olympic Breakdancer

Two weeks ago, comedian Steph Broadbridge cancelled Raygun: The Musical just before its Sydney premiere after notorious-Olympic-breaker-and-viral-sensation Dr. Rachael Gunn's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist notice. Then the producer got a demand for $10,000 for Gunn's legal fees, and Broadbridge had another idea. - The Sydney Morning Herald (MSN)

Ensemble At One Of Chicago’s Leading Black Theatres Walks Out, Demands Board Chair’s Removal

"The ensemble of the 25-year-old Congo Square Theatre Company … has told the Tribune it has 'unanimously decided to not participate in any production, artistic curating and programming for the upcoming 2025 season until the current board president has been removed from the board.'" - Chicago Tribune

Exploring The Art Of The “Art Monster”

Some creative geniuses make the world richer because of their work. Others have used their cultural impact as an excuse not to treat others with basic respect. The latter group brings to mind a truly notorious kind of “art monster” - The Atlantic

Ballet Genius/Putin Superfan/Notorious Train Wreck Sergei Polunin Says He’s Leaving Russia

The Ukrainian-born dancer, who has three tattoos of Putin (despite the Russian military's near-obliteration of his hometown, Kherson), now says "My time in Russia ran out a long time ago … I've fulfilled my mission here." Last week he posted a message calling for peace negotiations and promptly lost his job. - CBS News

Jennifer Homans Remembers Arlene Croce

She had always insisted that what she was reviewing was not a dance itself but an “afterimage” imprinted in her mind, something personal and partial to throw “out there” into the cultural conversation, whatever that might be. Which is why, even when I disagree with Croce intensely, I often find myself in conversation with...

Did Shakespeare Commit Suicide? A Scholar Makes The Case

Larry Lockridge, professor emeritus at NYU: "I’ll air my conviction that death by suicide is more probable than the notion that Edward de Vere, Francis Bacon, William Stanley, Christopher Marlowe or Queen Elizabeth wrote those plays — still only plausible, yet unsettling and maybe instructive to ponder." - The Hedgehog Review

Marisa Paredes, Almodóvar Diva And Grande Dame Of Spanish Cinema, Has Died At 78

While she appeared in 75 movies by directors ranging from Francisco Trueba to Guillermo del Toro, she's best known outside the Spanish-speaking world for her performances in Almodóvar's Dark Habits, High Heels, The Flower of My Secret, All About My Mother, and The Skin I Live In. - Variety

What Baryshnikov Has Done With His Fame

It is not absurd to imagine another world in which he might have followed that fame toward full-time Hollywood stardom, or guest appearances on “Dancing With the Stars,” or serving as a spokesman for some topical pain-relief brand. And yet he has always been stubbornly devoted to art-making itself. - The New York Times

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Ensemble At One Of Chicago’s Leading Black Theatres Walks Out, Demands Board Chair’s Removal

"The ensemble of the 25-year-old Congo Square Theatre Company … has told the Tribune it has 'unanimously decided to not participate in any production, artistic curating and programming for the upcoming 2025 season until the current board president has been removed from the board.'" - Chicago Tribune

How Could MIT Buy And Build Land Art By Maya Lin And Not Tell Anyone About It?

The series of 11 grass-covered mounds, titled The Sound We Travel At, is a physical representation of Doppler waves. It's right in busy Kendall Square; people regularly walk past and even sit on it. MIT spent $1.3 million on it. Yet almost no one realized that it's there. - The Boston Globe

The Great Documentarian Of Indonesia’s Massacres Makes A Tilda Swinton Musical (Wait, What?)

Joshua Oppenheimer, who convinced participants of the 1965-66 mass executions to re-enact them for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), has just released The End, a musical (!) set in a rich family's bunker after an environmental apocalypse. - The Washington Post (MSN)

Where In The World Is Van Gogh’s Missing Final Masterpiece?

"Portrait of Dr. Gachet," painted just weeks before van Gogh's suicide in 1890, had a clear chain of ownership, including years on display at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt and the Met in New York. In 1998 the painting was sold privately; almost nobody has seen it since. - The New York Times

National Theatre Wales Shuts Down After Losing All Government Funding

"The company says it has 'ceased to exist' following the loss of all its Arts Council Wales funding in 2023. … The company will now evolve into TEAM (Theatre, Engagement, Music, Arts), focusing on the grassroots work it has always done within the community and education." - BBC

I Worked For Ozy Right Through Its Collapse. Here’s What I Saw From The Inside.

"The story I saw coming to a grim conclusion in that courtroom was about more than a failed media company. … Carlos Watson may have built Ozy with big dreams and 'diversity' in mind, but as those ideas became corrupted by the superseding desire for capitalistic success, it all came crashing down." - Slate...

What It’s Like To See Your Sexual Assault Be Made Into An Episode Of “Law & Order: SVU”

"Being violated and brought close to death is (a) psychological abyss, but living with the belief that actors and producers have exploited your rape for money, and that more than 5 million viewers, including some of your own friends, watch it for entertainment … will bring you dangerously close to becoming the Joker." -...

A Game Company Now Must Pay For Manipulating Players To Buy Shiny In-Game Items

Fortnite “customers could ultimately receive $245 million for what the agency called Epic’s use of ‘dark patterns’ to trick millions of players into unwanted purchases. Another $275 million will settle accusations that the studio violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.” - The New York Times

A Town In Oregon Begs Residents To Stop Putting Googly Eyes On Public Sculptures

In Bend, Oregon, “there have been previous reports of sculptures being decorated with Christmas garb in the past, but the googly eyes are a newer development” - one city officials are begging people to stop. - Oregon Public Broadcasting (KLCC)

Editor Who Published Hacked Sony Emails 10 Years Ago Now Confesses His Regret

Andrew Wallenstein, then-co-editor-in-chief of Variety: "I’m not going to say if I had to do it all over again I would do it differently because I understand why I did what I did then. But looking back on the hack, I wish I’d taken a different tack. Let me explain why." - Variety

Analyzing The Design Of The Met Museum’s Planned Contemporary Art Wing

Justin Davidson: "A new museum wing here can’t just be an exercise in logistics. It’s also a presence in Central Park and a half-billion-dollar embodiment of the museum’s encyclopedic mission. … (Frida Escobedo's design) looks laudably simple because it provides an elegant solution to a tangle of trade-offs and constraints." - Curbed (MSN)

Why Did Alice Munro Reject Her Daughter’s Account Of Sexual Abuse? Apparently, For The Sake Of Her Art.

"In the months since the revelations, I revisited Munro’s stories, spoke with members of her family and tracked down a number of her unpublished letters. Munro’s appalling failures as a mother seem to have been an imaginative incitement, instrumental to her artistic project." - The New York Times Magazine
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