"Knowing that a work is by Haydn or Mozart allows us to see ‘inevitable’ connections. Take away the certainty of authorship, and it’s devilishly difficult to read the musical images within. … If someone can write pieces that can be mistaken for Haydn, what is so special about Haydn?" - The Guardian
The de-aging technology comes from Metaphysic, a visual effects company that creates real time face swapping and aging effects. During filming, the crew watched two monitors simultaneously: one showing the actors' actual appearances and another displaying them at whatever age the scene required. - Wired
"(This) which can mean adding subtle movement that never registers as choreography, or creating an unapologetic, front-facing dance number, or designing dancing that looks totally spontaneous — mostly without any dance-trained bodies." Choreographers Susan Stroman, Sonya Tayeh, and Sam Pinkleton explain how they meet the challenge. - Dance Magazine
Wiley’s strategy for dealing with the allegations has been to publicly fight back. He hired Marathon Strategies, a crisis-PR and investigative firm that has been helping him highlight unflattering information about his accusers. - New York Magazine
Fuck has an enormous range of uses across many parts of speech, as this dictionary details: sexual and nonsexual, positive and negative, literal and figurative, funny and violent. For any situation, there’s probably some sense, some expression or catchphrase, some proverb, some intonation that can be brought to the table. - LitHub
With this new focus, he was ready when people were “freaking out” and looking for songs. “There is no repertoire like this in existence,” he said, “and I’m in a place where I can effect change. Why don’t I try to create a legacy, or start a movement of people writing pieces?” - The New York...
"A pioneering five-year research project, Neurolive, run by cognitive neuroscientist Dr Guido Orgs and choreographer Matthias Sperling, … brings together neuroscience and dance to investigate what’s happening in our brains when we watch live performance." - The Guardian
His work of this period combined a proclamation of the value of microcultures with a commitment to an intellectual cosmopolitanism. He celebrated the “local understanding”, but what bound the members of that salon to one another was the combination of cultural and national diversity with moral sympathy. - Hedgehog Review
Breuer’s building, which has served as three museums, will lose some of its public presence no matter what, but New Yorkers still have an interest in a restrained restoration. - New York Magazine (MSN)
"Wikipedia is facing mounting regulatory pressure in India as local authorities question whether the platform should continue to enjoy legal protections as a neutral intermediary rather than being classified as a publisher. … The ministry cited concerns about concentrated editorial control and persistent complaints about bias and inaccuracies on the platform." - TechCrunch
People find it easier to empathize with a single individual than with groups, plausibly because individuals are easier to conjure in one’s imagination. Therefore, the difference in empathy toward a present person and future others in general is likely even greater than what we’ve found. - Psyche
This is a golden age for parks, with cities sprucing up waterfronts, transforming abandoned industrial sites and bringing some green space to neighborhoods where treeless cracked-asphalt sports courts are the rule. - The New York Times
"Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) – the largest publisher in the Netherlands, acquired by Simon & Schuster earlier this year – is 'using AI to assist in the translation of a limited number of books. … This project contains less than 10 titles – all commercial fiction.'" - The Guardian
"The proliferation of true-crime entertainment like Netflix’s docudrama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is effecting real-life changes for their subjects and in society. At their best, (they) help expose injustices and right wrongs. But because many of these products prioritize entertainment and profit, they also can have negative consequences." - AP
Following heavy pushback over the (since-reversed) decision to do only a partial dimming in memory of Gavin Creel, who died in September at 48, the League has turned over all such announcements to an outside press spokesperson for the separate Broadway Theatre Owners Committee." - Gothamist
"A federal jury in Tampa, Florida, recently found the cocreator of the 'UndeadApes' and 'Undead Lady Apes' NFT collections" — not to be confused with the better-known Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs — "guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering." - ARTnews
Three suspects have been charged for allegedly making threats and spraying anti-Semitic graffiti on the homes of museum director Anne Pasternak, a board member, and the board chairman. The three were protesting what they assumed was the victims' support for the Israelis in the Gaza War. - Brooklyn Eagle
She was reported missing this past Saturday, and on Monday her body was found on the tracks of the London Underground. Police said her death "is not thought to be suspicious." - ARTnews
"As the orchestra’s temporary contract extension ran out on Oct. 31, (management and the musicians' union) have settled on another extension, one longer-range and slightly modifying the current terms. The agreement is good through May 30, 2025, just before the company’s summer season begins on June 3." - San Francisco Classical Voice
People find it easier to empathize with a single individual than with groups, plausibly because individuals are easier to conjure in one’s imagination. Therefore, the difference in empathy toward a present person and future others in general is likely even greater than what we’ve found. - Psyche
Since the nineteen-sixties, much of American public life has become automated, driven by computers and predictive algorithms that can do the political work of rallying support, running campaigns, communicating with constituents, and even crafting policy. - The New Yorker
Figuring out how to relate to minds of unconventional origin — not just AI and robotics but also cells, organs, hybrots, cyborgs and many others — is an existential-level task for humanity as it matures. - Noema
Continually choosing the convenient path lessens your ability to deal with unavoidable difficulties. And, from an evolutionary perspective, some measure of discomfort is just as crucial to our survival as rest and relaxation. - The Guardian
If you speak more than one language, ask yourself: in which language do you find it easier to say ‘I love you’? And in which one do you swear more liberally? For me, cursing in a foreign language feels strangely playful, as if it gives me permission to access a different version of myself. - Psyche
“It is surprising that few scholars have stopped to wonder whether Rousseau’s fledging as a philosophe ... had anything to do with the six years he marinated in Madame Dupin’s project, quill to linen, taking dictation, making clean drafts, and trawling through stacks upon stacks of books.” - Aeon
His work of this period combined a proclamation of the value of microcultures with a commitment to an intellectual cosmopolitanism. He celebrated the “local understanding”, but what bound the members of that salon to one another was the combination of cultural and national diversity with moral sympathy. - Hedgehog Review
"Wikipedia is facing mounting regulatory pressure in India as local authorities question whether the platform should continue to enjoy legal protections as a neutral intermediary rather than being classified as a publisher. … The ministry cited concerns about concentrated editorial control and persistent complaints about bias and inaccuracies on the platform." - TechCrunch
This is a golden age for parks, with cities sprucing up waterfronts, transforming abandoned industrial sites and bringing some green space to neighborhoods where treeless cracked-asphalt sports courts are the rule. - The New York Times
Employers and employees experienced increases in motivation and overall productivity with no drop in revenue. Employees generally report less stress, burnout and work-family conflict. - ArtsHub
"After Florida governor Ron DeSantis cancelled the state’s funding for arts and culture, Miami Beach has stepped up to … provide a one-time contribution of nearly $1 million to help local arts and culture organizations meet the budget gap created by the state for the 2025 fiscal year." - Artnet
Sure, there are the rancorous meetings where people accuse you of peddling porn, and the death threats. But there are also overdoses, physical attacks, and the daily challenges of dealing with people who need a lot more help than you could ever offer. - The New York Times
"Knowing that a work is by Haydn or Mozart allows us to see ‘inevitable’ connections. Take away the certainty of authorship, and it’s devilishly difficult to read the musical images within. … If someone can write pieces that can be mistaken for Haydn, what is so special about Haydn?" - The Guardian
With this new focus, he was ready when people were “freaking out” and looking for songs. “There is no repertoire like this in existence,” he said, “and I’m in a place where I can effect change. Why don’t I try to create a legacy, or start a movement of people writing pieces?” - The...
"As the orchestra’s temporary contract extension ran out on Oct. 31, (management and the musicians' union) have settled on another extension, one longer-range and slightly modifying the current terms. The agreement is good through May 30, 2025, just before the company’s summer season begins on June 3." - San Francisco Classical Voice
Part of the neglect has to do with the fact that craggy patriarchs are no longer in fashion, particularly ones who were prone to misogynistic and homophobic rhetoric, as Ives was. But the deeper problem is that American musical organizations have grown perilously risk-averse. - The New Yorker
You “can’t do this job without being a trained musician." And just like any member of the orchestra, librarians get their jobs through competitive auditions. - Boston Globe
Following another investigation that looked into further allegations (besides the original accusations from 2010), principal oboe Liang Wang and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey have been terminated and banned from the premises. The musicians' union has decided not to contest their firing. - AP
Breuer’s building, which has served as three museums, will lose some of its public presence no matter what, but New Yorkers still have an interest in a restrained restoration. - New York Magazine (MSN)
"A federal jury in Tampa, Florida, recently found the cocreator of the 'UndeadApes' and 'Undead Lady Apes' NFT collections" — not to be confused with the better-known Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs — "guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering." - ARTnews
Three suspects have been charged for allegedly making threats and spraying anti-Semitic graffiti on the homes of museum director Anne Pasternak, a board member, and the board chairman. The three were protesting what they assumed was the victims' support for the Israelis in the Gaza War. - Brooklyn Eagle
Augustin Arteaga is set to leave the museum while it is undertaking an expansion—an unusual move, given that most directors of art institutions stay on until those plans are realized. - ARTnews
The renovated building will contain Sotheby’s sales room, as well as exhibition and dining spaces. Work is expected to be completed by fall 2025. Herzog & de Meuron has made a specialty of adaptive reuse, or transforming existing structures. - The New York Times
Fuck has an enormous range of uses across many parts of speech, as this dictionary details: sexual and nonsexual, positive and negative, literal and figurative, funny and violent. For any situation, there’s probably some sense, some expression or catchphrase, some proverb, some intonation that can be brought to the table. - LitHub
"Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) – the largest publisher in the Netherlands, acquired by Simon & Schuster earlier this year – is 'using AI to assist in the translation of a limited number of books. … This project contains less than 10 titles – all commercial fiction.'" - The Guardian
It seems the director of the C$100,000 literary award had been telling authors that she was working to sever the Giller's ties to its longtime lead sponsor, Scotiabank. Then she turned around and doubled down on the Scotiabank-Giller relationship. - Toronto Star
The results indicated that even if every chimp in the world was enlisted and able to type at a pace of one key per second until the end of the universe, they wouldn't even come close to typing out the Bard's works. - BBC
Or at least, that’s how Millennials remember the Book It! program, which is - shockingly - still going strong, 40 years in, with personal pan pizzas for kids in K-6th grade who read a certain number of books. - The New York Times
The de-aging technology comes from Metaphysic, a visual effects company that creates real time face swapping and aging effects. During filming, the crew watched two monitors simultaneously: one showing the actors' actual appearances and another displaying them at whatever age the scene required. - Wired
"The proliferation of true-crime entertainment like Netflix’s docudrama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is effecting real-life changes for their subjects and in society. At their best, (they) help expose injustices and right wrongs. But because many of these products prioritize entertainment and profit, they also can have negative consequences." - AP
"Some film-makers are explicit in their intention to affect election outcomes. ... Others come from the opposite direction, reckoning that an election year is the perfect time to draw attention. ... The Guardian chose films from each election year of the 21st century and interviewed the people who made them." - The Guardian
Kathryn Hahn on Agatha All Along: “It does feel like a really radical thing that we've been able to pull off. Though, because my currency in this business wasn't my sex appeal, I feel like I've been able to just kind of walk into more complicated parts.” - NPR
If you remember the 2005 movie Thank You for Smoking, you’d be forgiven for anticipating this is a Big Tobacco thing. “Nine out of the 10 films nominated for the Oscars top prize earlier this year featured smoking, which is up from the seven in the year before.” - BBC
The movie image of elite soldiers as macho hulks has fueled concerns that today’s flabby and screen-addicted youths couldn’t cut it in a real fight. But piloting drones demands quick thinking, sharp eyes and nimble thumbs, the kind of prowess more readily associated with computer games than military combat. - The Wall Street Journal
"(This) which can mean adding subtle movement that never registers as choreography, or creating an unapologetic, front-facing dance number, or designing dancing that looks totally spontaneous — mostly without any dance-trained bodies." Choreographers Susan Stroman, Sonya Tayeh, and Sam Pinkleton explain how they meet the challenge. - Dance Magazine
"A pioneering five-year research project, Neurolive, run by cognitive neuroscientist Dr Guido Orgs and choreographer Matthias Sperling, … brings together neuroscience and dance to investigate what’s happening in our brains when we watch live performance." - The Guardian
"(Management) said it is working on a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board and ... the labor union representing 10 dancers who were fired earlier this year. … The news comes after the NLRB notified the dance company it would move forward with a complaint unless Dallas Black settled." - KERA (Dallas)
When and how it all went down, from the dancers' vote to unionize through management sacking the lot of them and subsequent legal action and public protests. - KERA (Dallas)
Her "refusal to compromise with movement that felt inauthentic (and) her instinctive pull towards the extreme and the subversive" were channeled into her first major piece, Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus, which premiered in 2015 and has been touring off-and-on ever since. - Dance Magazine
The company announced on Thursday that Amy Watson, a California-born dancer who joined the troupe in 2000, would serve as its next artistic director. - The New York Times
"(This) which can mean adding subtle movement that never registers as choreography, or creating an unapologetic, front-facing dance number, or designing dancing that looks totally spontaneous — mostly without any dance-trained bodies." Choreographers Susan Stroman, Sonya Tayeh, and Sam Pinkleton explain how they meet the challenge. - Dance Magazine
Following heavy pushback over the (since-reversed) decision to do only a partial dimming in memory of Gavin Creel, who died in September at 48, the League has turned over all such announcements to an outside press spokesperson for the separate Broadway Theatre Owners Committee." - Gothamist
As California Shakespeare Theater has started to liquidate its assets, The Chronicle talked to artists worked there over its 50-year history. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
"In my long career all over the country, I have never experienced a more comprehensively intelligent, generous and progressive audience. Where did that audience go? I suspect the answer to that question is not a short one.” - San Francisco Chronicle
Avaaz is "not just a personal story, it’s also a Persian New Year celebration taking center stage at the Denver Center Theater Company this month. The production marks a milestone as the first major Iranian American play to be staged in Colorado.” - Colorado Public Radio
Sure, she’s appeared in movies and series, but Duff loves the stage. “It’s just like you and me. ... As soon as you say ‘I love you’ to someone on stage, the whole room will gasp. How fucking sexy is that? You feel like a rock star.” - The Observer (UK)
Wiley’s strategy for dealing with the allegations has been to publicly fight back. He hired Marathon Strategies, a crisis-PR and investigative firm that has been helping him highlight unflattering information about his accusers. - New York Magazine
She was reported missing this past Saturday, and on Monday her body was found on the tracks of the London Underground. Police said her death "is not thought to be suspicious." - ARTnews
"A noted Belarusian film director and dissident who was held in Serbia for a year while Belarus sought his extradition has been released and gone to Germany. ... Belarus issued an international warrant for Andrei Hniot on charges of tax evasion, which he claims are false." - AP
Beyond his hands-on work with score paper, he organized, charmed, persuaded, hired and validated. Starting in the late 1950s, he took social and professional mobility to a new level in Black popular art, eventually creating the conditions for a great deal of music to flow between styles, outlets and markets. - The New York Times
Johanson “made nature her medium, transforming highway underpasses, sewage treatment plants and other grimly functional public spaces into sweeping artworks.” - The New York Times
More than a year after allegations of abuse emerged, the Metropolitan Police are sending their evidence out. "The allegations against Brand come from a seven-year period when he was at the height of his fame - hosting national television and radio programmes, and starring in Hollywood films." - BBC
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Kansas City Repertory Theatre (KCRep) is excited to welcome an innovative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial minded professional to serve as the company’s next Executive Director.
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"Knowing that a work is by Haydn or Mozart allows us to see ‘inevitable’ connections. Take away the certainty of authorship, and it’s devilishly difficult to read the musical images within. … If someone can write pieces that can be mistaken for Haydn, what is so special about Haydn?" - The Guardian
Following another investigation that looked into further allegations (besides the original accusations from 2010), principal oboe Liang Wang and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey have been terminated and banned from the premises. The musicians' union has decided not to contest their firing. - AP
Sure, there are the rancorous meetings where people accuse you of peddling porn, and the death threats. But there are also overdoses, physical attacks, and the daily challenges of dealing with people who need a lot more help than you could ever offer. - The New York Times
"In my long career all over the country, I have never experienced a more comprehensively intelligent, generous and progressive audience. Where did that audience go? I suspect the answer to that question is not a short one.” - San Francisco Chronicle
One letter, signed by 2700 authors and entertainers, calls for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions that are “complicit in violating Palestinian rights,” while another letter, signed by 1000 authors and entertainers, claims, “boycotts of creatives and creative institutions simply create more divisiveness.” - The New York Times
Or at least, that’s how Millennials remember the Book It! program, which is - shockingly - still going strong, 40 years in, with personal pan pizzas for kids in K-6th grade who read a certain number of books. - The New York Times
That’s a rise of 200 percent over 2023, which was already a huge year for organizations that rub their hands in glee as they try to stop kids from reading. - The New York Times
Anne Michaels, author of the spare, gorgeous Held says, "You can use brutal language to describe brutality, but that’s a lie; language can’t represent brutality. It’s exactly the same when I’m trying to get at the most beautiful, profoundly intense experience of intimacy.” - The Guardian (UK)
A package of articles considering some of the most important examples (including forgotten ones) of the style, from Eero Saarinen's Tulip table (the man detested table legs) to Isamu Noguchi's Akari lamps to the Eames Shell chair to Charlotte Perriand's modular shelving units to the city of Columbus, Indiana. - Dezeen
A two-part essay by Ben Davis in which he considers (Part One) what exactly it is about a work that can give someone the physical response he calls "aesthetic chills" and (Part Two) why visual art doesn't seem to induce those chills as often as other art forms do. - Artnet
"(This will be) the first time since at least 1888 the newspaper won’t have even one reporter dedicated to covering the city’s cultural life," said the paper's union. "The Sun will continue to cover news developments in the arts and food industries, but ... (not) the soul of features reporting." - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
"Everyone who works (in the job) has stories about the expensive, delicate, sacred and impossibly large things they’ve had to pack into a crate and ship somewhere:" weird things such as an electric chair, and difficult things like a 3,000 pound pre-Columbian artifact amidst an ice storm. - The Washington Post (MSN)
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