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DANCE
IDEAS
- Carlos Simon talks about using the composing process to impact communities
Carlos Simon, Composer-in-Residence of the Kennedy Center, shares the ethos behind his composing process that impacts communities.
- 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
- 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
ISSUES
- 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
- On The Front Lines Of Art Therapy
“We work a lot with trauma and survivors who maybe are struggling to find the words to be able to describe what they’ve endured. Art is an incredibly effective way to channel some of the angst that they’ve experienced.” – Hyperallergic
- Staying Involved: Leonard Lauder’s Art Philanthropy Philosophy
“What museums are known for is not their architecture or their shows but ultimately their collections.” But building great collections takes time, patience and determination. Together with Emily Braun, an art history professor at Hunter College who has been Lauder’s curator for 37 years, they know where all the great Cubist works are. – The New York Times
- How A Long-Ago TV Host Explained Art And The Avant Garde
Its host, Lorser Feitelson, would become the interlocutor between the avant-garde and the country’s first generation of television viewers. He was personable, pedigreed and principled. Now, 60 years since its final episode, Feitelson’s show feels prophetic of a fact of visual life today. – The New York Times
MEDIA
- 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
- UK Proposes Letting AI Companies Train On Copyrighted Work
Under the proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process. – The Guardian
MUSIC
- 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
- Remember, “A Christmas Carol” Is Not Dickens’s Only Christmas Story
It’s not even Dickens’s only Christmas ghost story. And some of them are much weirder and more unsettling than the famous one. – Literary Hub
- How The Politics Of Smell In Prose Broke The Internet
I wanted to share with my academic network, so I posted a photo of myself holding a physical copy of my PhD thesis on X. The post amassed 120 million views and sparked a lot of anger in response to its title: Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose. – The Conversation
PEOPLE
- Carlos Simon talks about using the composing process to impact communities
Carlos Simon, Composer-in-Residence of the Kennedy Center, shares the ethos behind his composing process that impacts communities.
- 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
- 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
PEOPLE
- Carlos Simon talks about using the composing process to impact communities
Carlos Simon, Composer-in-Residence of the Kennedy Center, shares the ethos behind his composing process that impacts communities.
- 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
- 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
THEATRE
VISUAL
- 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