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As AI Tries To Take Over, Are Humans In A Great Age Of De-Skilling?

“Are all forms of de-skilling corrosive? Or are there kinds that we can live with, that might even be welcome?” - The Atlantic (MSN)

What Happens When You Name Your Kid After A Fictional Character Before The Book Series Ends

It can go badly — see “Khaleesi” as a name, for instance — or fine, but what a risky idea. - The New York Times

Is The Colosseum About To Host Raves And Rock Concerts?

Not really, but there will be “acoustic and jazz” concerts, poetry readings, dance performances and more — including possible “historical reenactments of gladiatorial battles.” - Seattle Times (AP)

Francis Ford Coppola Lost So Many Millions On Megalopolis That He’s Paying With A Lifelong Collection

“At a news conference at Cannes, Coppola discussed the tremendous amount of his own money that he had sunk into the film, saying that he ‘never cared about money’ and that his children ‘don’t need a fortune.’” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

The Internet’s Favorite Librarian Is All-In On The Reading Rainbow Reboot

Mychal Threets “recalls the joy he felt as a young boy watching Burton on the show, taking viewers anywhere from an underwater world to the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Now he’s the host, trying to create joy for other kids.  - San Francisco Chronicle

Ski Ballet, Long Overshadowed By Snowboarding, May Be Making A Comeback

No, seriously: This is snow dancing, with skis. "In 1988 and 1992, ski ballet featured as a demonstration sport in the Winter Olympics. At a high level, it was actually pretty bad ass.” Powder (Yahoo)

In Britain, A Plan To Funnel Money To Small Music Venues Is Gaining Steam

But small venues “should not be valued solely for their role in nurturing future superstars. Live music has an intrinsic value and venues can be part of a town’s identity. A scheme to put them into community ownership has had striking success, with five secured so far.” - The Guardian (UK)

Why Did Netflix Buy, Brag About, And Then Suddenly Shutter This Gaming Company?

Boss Fight Entertainment was the studio behind the popular Squid Game: Unleashed, but that didn’t save the company. “Netflix’s next big gaming initiative is focused around party games you can play on your TV using your phone as a controller.” - The Verge

Benita Valente, Bel Canto Soprano Who Brought Joy To The Met For Decades, Has Died At 91

Valente “was acclaimed for the faultless technique and intelligence of her performances in operas, recitals and chamber music, but inexplicably failed to gain a wider following among classical music audiences.” - The New York Times

Paris Investigators Prefer To Let The Mystery Be

The mystery of who that dapper person in the now famous photo might be, that is. The jewel theft, they’re working on. - AP

Police Make Arrests In Louvre Heist

“The arrests were a major breakthrough for French investigators, who are racing to find the thieves before the jewelry is dismantled and the rare stones and metals can be sold or melted down, as many experts fear they will be.” - The New York Times

A Few Moments In The New Julia Roberts Movie Have Transformed Actor Lio Mehiel’s Career

“Such a step has been years in the making. Mehiel, who lived in Puerto Rico until they were 5 years old, began their creative endeavors almost as soon as they arrived in New York City, first as a salsa dancer and later as an actor.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

How A Hardline Evangelical Christian Childhood Can Lead To Mainlining Supernatural Horror As An Adult

“With his insistence on seeing only god’s will in the Catholic vs. Protestant religious wars of his Europe, Luther reminds me of nothing so much as the character Beverly Keane (played by Samantha Sloyan) in the 2021 Netflix horror series Midnight Mass.” - The Flytrap

Along With The Entire East Wing, The White House’s Movie Theatre Is Now Destroyed

“The 42-seat luxurious movie theater a place where countless presidents, their families or staff have screened any movie of their choosing, whether the latest Hollywood blockbuster, an Oscar contender or a perennial classic.” - The Hollywood Reporter

It’s Getting Harder And Harder To Take OpenAI Seriously

Curing cancer? Hm, not so fast. “Slop, memes, and sex seem like such a comedown from OpenAI’s carefully cultivated reputation as an ambitious but responsible pioneer.” - Fast Company (Archive Today)

The Administration’s Pressure On Museums Will Soon Be An All-Out Assault

Museums are not ready. “Censorship corrodes trust in complex ways. … Solidarity is mostly lacking in the museum world, where the strategy so far seems to be heads down and hope for the best.” (This is, let’s be clear, not a winning strategy.) - Washington Post (MSN)

The Chinese Artist Who Creates AI Slop By Hand

It was amazing at first. But “Mu says he doesn’t have any immediate plans to make another Sora imitation, partially because the video quality has gotten so good that it’s now almost impossible to create parodies.” - Wired

Guillermo Del Toro Says He’d ‘Rather Die’ Than Use Generative AI

“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features. But I did want it to have the arrogance of Victor be similar in some ways to the tech bros. He's ... creating something without considering the consequences.” - NPR

Longing To Watch An Art Heist Movie For Louvre Reasons?

Some of the great ones — minus Ocean’s 8, which, hm, wonder why — are on this long list, for your autumn and winter amusement. - CBC

Can Broadway Truly Be Captured On Film?

Good question, one that 1948’s biopic about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart - Words and Music, starring Mickey Rooney as a heterosexual Hart - got very wrong. But: “That the ’40s biopics are so bad on the facts as well as the spirit doesn’t render them entirely worthless.” - The New York Times

By Topic

Is The Colosseum About To Host Raves And Rock Concerts?

Not really, but there will be “acoustic and jazz” concerts, poetry readings, dance performances and more — including possible “historical reenactments of gladiatorial battles.” - Seattle Times (AP)

It’s Getting Harder And Harder To Take OpenAI Seriously

Curing cancer? Hm, not so fast. “Slop, memes, and sex seem like such a comedown from OpenAI’s carefully cultivated reputation as an ambitious but responsible pioneer.” - Fast Company (Archive Today)

Guillermo Del Toro Says He’d ‘Rather Die’ Than Use Generative AI

“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features. But I did want it to have the arrogance of Victor be similar in some ways to the tech bros. He's ... creating something without considering the consequences.” - NPR

Why It Doesn’t Bother Me That My Students Are Using AI

 It seems wrongheaded to feel wistful for a time when students had far less information at their fingertips. And who can blame them for letting AI do much of the work that they are likely to let AI do anyway when they enter the real world? - The Atlantic

Why We Travel

 There’s something about motion that triggers creative thoughts. This has been true for a long time. Charles Darwin’s budding theory of evolution jelled while he was riding in the back of a carriage. “I can remember the very spot on the road … when to my joy the solution occurred to me,” he wrote later. - The Walrus

Why We Need A Commons

The structure of our societies is such that when you’re wealthy, availability of The Commons is of negligible benefit. However, when your private command over resources is limited, i.e. you’re broke, the “cultural-infrastructure” determining which level of access to which resources is permissible, may set the entire course of your life. - 3 Quarks Daily

As AI Tries To Take Over, Are Humans In A Great Age Of De-Skilling?

“Are all forms of de-skilling corrosive? Or are there kinds that we can live with, that might even be welcome?” - The Atlantic (MSN)

Along With The Entire East Wing, The White House’s Movie Theatre Is Now Destroyed

“The 42-seat luxurious movie theater a place where countless presidents, their families or staff have screened any movie of their choosing, whether the latest Hollywood blockbuster, an Oscar contender or a perennial classic.” - The Hollywood Reporter

The Administration’s Pressure On Museums Will Soon Be An All-Out Assault

Museums are not ready. “Censorship corrodes trust in complex ways. … Solidarity is mostly lacking in the museum world, where the strategy so far seems to be heads down and hope for the best.” (This is, let’s be clear, not a winning strategy.) - Washington Post (MSN)

Lessons From A Failed Utopia Near Phoenix

Located about 70 miles north of Phoenix, Arcosanti is the only “arcology” — Paolo Soleri’s portmanteau for compact, self-sufficient communities that fuse architecture and ecology — to materialize in the real world. - Bloomberg

Symbolically, The White House Is…

The White House was never meant to be a palace, nor the Oval Office a throne room. The East Wing was the living artery of the White House, the First Lady’s offices, the Social Office, the machinery of ceremonial democracy where symbolism gets translated into human scale. - Rick Wilson

Surrealism Wasn’t Just About Art And Literature; It Was About Radical Politics, Too

“Overcoming the contradiction between dream and reality, (Breton and his fellow Surrealists) believed, would complement the class struggle between the global proletariat and its bourgeois oppressors. Surrealism was much more than a merely artistic project — it was also a means toward a larger political end.” - The Conversation

In Britain, A Plan To Funnel Money To Small Music Venues Is Gaining Steam

But small venues “should not be valued solely for their role in nurturing future superstars. Live music has an intrinsic value and venues can be part of a town’s identity. A scheme to put them into community ownership has had striking success, with five secured so far.” - The Guardian (UK)

Pitchfork Is Experimenting With Reader Ratings

Pitchfork has historically been a one-sided affair. While it ran the occasional reader poll, there was no way for readers to directly voice their opinion on the site. - The Verge

YouTube Paid The Music Industry $8 Billion In The Past Year

“Today’s $8 billion payout is a testament to the fact that the twin engine of ads and subscriptions is firing on all cylinders,” said YouTube’s Global Head of Music, Lyor Cohen, in a statement. - TechCrunch

A New Opera House For Hanoi, Designed By Renzo Piano

“Isola Della Musica will be situated on a newly-built square island between Hanoi's West Lake and Đam Tri Lake. … Renzo Piano Building Workshop and PTW Architects conceived a bulbous concrete building (clad in pearlescent ceramic tile) that will contain a 1,800-seat opera hall and a 1,000-seat convention hall.” - Dezeen

San Antonio Philharmonic Calls Off November Concerts

“The San Antonio Philharmonic has postponed its Classics III concerts, scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 7-8, marking the second time one of the orchestra’s fall events has been rescheduled for a later date. The Catrina Ball, a United Way fundraiser …, was also postponed from its Nov. 1-2 dates.” - San Antonio Current

American Wins The International Chopin Competition

Eric Lu, a 27-year-old pianist from Massachusetts, won the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, becoming the first American since 1970 to receive the top honor in a contest regarded by some as the Olympics of classical music. - Washington Post

Paris Investigators Prefer To Let The Mystery Be

The mystery of who that dapper person in the now famous photo might be, that is. The jewel theft, they’re working on. - AP

Police Make Arrests In Louvre Heist

“The arrests were a major breakthrough for French investigators, who are racing to find the thieves before the jewelry is dismantled and the rare stones and metals can be sold or melted down, as many experts fear they will be.” - The New York Times

The Chinese Artist Who Creates AI Slop By Hand

It was amazing at first. But “Mu says he doesn’t have any immediate plans to make another Sora imitation, partially because the video quality has gotten so good that it’s now almost impossible to create parodies.” - Wired

Longing To Watch An Art Heist Movie For Louvre Reasons?

Some of the great ones — minus Ocean’s 8, which, hm, wonder why — are on this long list, for your autumn and winter amusement. - CBC

In Her Day, This Artist’s Paper Cuttings Outsold Rembrandt And She Was Famous All Over Europe. Who Was “Scissors Minerva”?

Joanna Koerten was regularly visited by nobles and even royalty; a contemporary poet compared her skill with paper to Michelangelo’s with paint; one of her pieces sold for over twice what Rembrandt got for The Night Watch. Her work is now on view at D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts. - Artnet

Japanese Museum To Sell Treasures To Pay Off $50M Legal Debt

Sotheby’s said the items to be sold are estimated to draw bids in excess of $50 million. Any extra proceeds not needed to retire the debt and any unsold artworks will be returned to Okada Fine Arts, which is controlled by Okada. - The New York Times

What Happens When You Name Your Kid After A Fictional Character Before The Book Series Ends

It can go badly — see “Khaleesi” as a name, for instance — or fine, but what a risky idea. - The New York Times

The Internet’s Favorite Librarian Is All-In On The Reading Rainbow Reboot

Mychal Threets “recalls the joy he felt as a young boy watching Burton on the show, taking viewers anywhere from an underwater world to the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Now he’s the host, trying to create joy for other kids.  - San Francisco Chronicle

Vampire Epidemiology, Axe Murder, Smoking On the Hindenburg: The Finalists For Oddest Book Title Of 2025

“A history of an “unruly appendage”, a look at the sadly neglected post-war Montreal erotic art scene and a scientific tome tackling whether fish can recognise themselves in a mirror are among the six shortlistees in The Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year 2025.” - The Bookseller (UK)

A New Booker Prize For Children’s Books

“The Children’s Booker Prize, offering £50,000 (roughly $67,000) for the best fiction written for readers aged eight to 12, … will launch in 2026, with the first winner announced in early 2027. It will be decided by a mixed panel of adult and child judges, a first for a Booker award.” - The Guardian

Iris Murdoch’s Unpublished Poems About Bisexuality Are Coming Out From Penguin Random House

“Poems from an Attic: Selected Poems, 1936–1995, to be published on 6 November, brings together decades of work that Murdoch largely kept private, stored for years in a chest in her Oxford home.” - The Guardian

Locked Inside “The Beautiful Rare, Fragile Cage” Of Lithuanian

“It would be hard to find another nation as serious about its language. In Lithuania, one misspelled word can turn a politician into a clown; a misplaced comma can be enough to cancel a date. … Yet people often say, ‘If only that book/song/movie were in English, it would be a hit.’” - Literary...

Francis Ford Coppola Lost So Many Millions On Megalopolis That He’s Paying With A Lifelong Collection

“At a news conference at Cannes, Coppola discussed the tremendous amount of his own money that he had sunk into the film, saying that he ‘never cared about money’ and that his children ‘don’t need a fortune.’” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

Why Did Netflix Buy, Brag About, And Then Suddenly Shutter This Gaming Company?

Boss Fight Entertainment was the studio behind the popular Squid Game: Unleashed, but that didn’t save the company. “Netflix’s next big gaming initiative is focused around party games you can play on your TV using your phone as a controller.” - The Verge

A Few Moments In The New Julia Roberts Movie Have Transformed Actor Lio Mehiel’s Career

“Such a step has been years in the making. Mehiel, who lived in Puerto Rico until they were 5 years old, began their creative endeavors almost as soon as they arrived in New York City, first as a salsa dancer and later as an actor.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

How A Hardline Evangelical Christian Childhood Can Lead To Mainlining Supernatural Horror As An Adult

“With his insistence on seeing only god’s will in the Catholic vs. Protestant religious wars of his Europe, Luther reminds me of nothing so much as the character Beverly Keane (played by Samantha Sloyan) in the 2021 Netflix horror series Midnight Mass.” - The Flytrap

Study: Podcasting Listenership Is Heavily Dependent On Who The Host Is

Eight in ten listeners say the host is one of the main reasons they listen to their favorite show, and more than half would stop listening if the host left. - InsideRadio

Why Horror Movies Keep Evolving To Scare Us

By playing with metaphor, imagery and narrative, horror has always addressed hard truths about death, decay and the human condition that mainstream productions tend to shy away from as too disgusting, embarrassing or distressing. - The Guardian

Ski Ballet, Long Overshadowed By Snowboarding, May Be Making A Comeback

No, seriously: This is snow dancing, with skis. "In 1988 and 1992, ski ballet featured as a demonstration sport in the Winter Olympics. At a high level, it was actually pretty bad ass.” Powder (Yahoo)

Mark Morris Sued By Ex-Company Member For Allegedly Discriminating Against Black Dancers

“The plaintiff, Taína Lyons, an Afro-Latina dancer, … alleges that (Morris) told her that her hair was ‘too big’ and a ‘distraction.’ ... Ms. Lyons, who started at the company in 2022 and was terminated in 2024, claimed that she had faced discrimination based both on race and on disability.” - The New York...

Dancers In Estonia’s National Ballet Have Been Working Second Jobs As Taxi Drivers To Get By

The opera house issued a public appeal to the Riigikogu Cultural Affairs Committee on Thursday, stating that if the current lack of funding continues as it is, the sustainability of the national opera is in serious danger. - ERR (Estonia)

Misty Copeland Dances Her Final Performance With ABT

“Misty Copeland took one last spin on her pointe shoes Wednesday, showered with golden glitter and bouquets as she retired from American Ballet Theatre after a trailblazing career in which she became an ambassador for diversity in an overwhelmingly white art form.” - AP

Irish Dance’s Governing Body May Go Bankrupt Due To Cheating Scandal

“If all potential legal cases are to proceed against An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, it may not be able to continue as a going concern ‘to govern our beautiful art form’. That is the warning sounded by directors of Irish dancing’s largest and oldest governing body.” - The Irish Times

When Should A Dancer Take The Risk Of Turning Down A Role?

“In a world with fewer contracts than aspiring dancers, and a long history of training dancers to silently acquiesce, it can feel taboo to express discomfort or refuse an opportunity. But artists sometimes have to contend with a role that seems culturally insensitive, exacerbates an injury, or otherwise feels wrong.” - Dance Magazine

Can Broadway Truly Be Captured On Film?

Good question, one that 1948’s biopic about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart - Words and Music, starring Mickey Rooney as a heterosexual Hart - got very wrong. But: “That the ’40s biopics are so bad on the facts as well as the spirit doesn’t render them entirely worthless.” - The New York Times

A Major New Center For Circus Arts Opens In Melbourne

“Circus Centre Melbourne, originally designed as a home for Circus Oz, has reopened as a home for the broader contemporary circus and physical theatre sectors — a space where circus artists can meet, create, train and perform.” - ArtsHub (Australia)

San Diego’s Old Globe Theater At 90

“Today, the Globe is thriving as San Diego’s oldest and largest theater organization, offering performances … for more than 250,000 people a year. … We spoke with its leaders, present and past, about the company’s legacy, and some of the goals in mind for the theater’s centennial in 2035.” - The San Diego Union-Tribune...

No Broadway Strike: Musicians’ Union And Producers Reach Contract Deal

AFM Local 802 announced that a deal with the Broadway League at 4:30 Thursday morning, saying in a statement that “this three-year agreement provides meaningful wage and health benefit increases.” - The Hollywood Reporter

Chicago’s Latino Theatre Companies Make Plays About America As ICE Patrol Outside

“We unfortunately are operating with a little bit of fear, as we continue to be the prominent immigrant community theater company in Chicago, let alone in our neighborhood." - WBEZ

We Get A Deal By Tomorrow Morning Or We Strike, Warns Broadway Musicians’ Union

AFM Local 802 and the Broadway League (representing producers) go into mediation on Wednesday, and Local 802 is prepared to strike immediately if no deal is reached by Thursday morning. The League and Actors’ Equity negotiated an agreement last weekend, but Equity could still strike in solidarity with the musicians. - Playbill

Benita Valente, Bel Canto Soprano Who Brought Joy To The Met For Decades, Has Died At 91

Valente “was acclaimed for the faultless technique and intelligence of her performances in operas, recitals and chamber music, but inexplicably failed to gain a wider following among classical music audiences.” - The New York Times

Francis Ford Coppola Is Reduced To Selling Off His Watch Collection

“The filmmaker announced he will auction off seven watches, ranging in value from $3,000 to $1 million, ...  in an effort to rebuild his wealth after investing $120 million into the 2024 box-office flop Megalopolis.” - San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)

Sculptor Jackie Ferrara, A “Lumberyard Poet,” Is Dead At 95

“In an era when sculptors were turning out factory-fabricated objects with shiny metal surfaces, … (she) stacked lengths of wood into objects that resembled pyramids, stairways and towers, imbuing the sleek forms of Minimalism with an aura of ancient mystery.” - The New York Times

Architect Terry Farrell, Who Went From Strict Modernism To Exuberant Postmodernism, Has Died At 87

With then-business partner Nicholas Grimshaw, he rode Britain’s “high-tech Modernism” wave of the 1970s to prominence. But he tired of that movement’s austere aesthetic and went on to design landmarks of London’s postmodern architecture such as the headquarters of TV-am and the intelligence service MI6. - The New York Times

Afghanistan’s Most Beloved Singer — And What She And Her Family Have Gone Through

Naghma, despite the popularity she achieved early in her career, faced many difficulties in conservative Afghan culture even before the rule of the Taliban. In the 1990s, mujahideen rebels murdered her sister and she fled the country. She’s been a cultural treasure for the Afghan diaspora ever since. - The New York Times

The Passions Of Patricia Arquette

Loves: Baroque music, textiles “from all over the world,” real estate listings from across the world. Oh, and candy. "Am I not human?” - The New York Times

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As AI Tries To Take Over, Are Humans In A Great Age Of De-Skilling?

“Are all forms of de-skilling corrosive? Or are there kinds that we can live with, that might even be welcome?” - The Atlantic (MSN)

Is The Colosseum About To Host Raves And Rock Concerts?

Not really, but there will be “acoustic and jazz” concerts, poetry readings, dance performances and more — including possible “historical reenactments of gladiatorial battles.” - Seattle Times (AP)

The Administration’s Pressure On Museums Will Soon Be An All-Out Assault

Museums are not ready. “Censorship corrodes trust in complex ways. … Solidarity is mostly lacking in the museum world, where the strategy so far seems to be heads down and hope for the best.” (This is, let’s be clear, not a winning strategy.) - Washington Post (MSN)

Mark Morris Sued By Ex-Company Member For Allegedly Discriminating Against Black Dancers

“The plaintiff, Taína Lyons, an Afro-Latina dancer, … alleges that (Morris) told her that her hair was ‘too big’ and a ‘distraction.’ ... Ms. Lyons, who started at the company in 2022 and was terminated in 2024, claimed that she had faced discrimination based both on race and on disability.” - The New York...

No Broadway Strike: Musicians’ Union And Producers Reach Contract Deal

AFM Local 802 announced that a deal with the Broadway League at 4:30 Thursday morning, saying in a statement that “this three-year agreement provides meaningful wage and health benefit increases.” - The Hollywood Reporter

This Year’s Oscar-Winning Documentary Decided It Was Only Ethical To Self-Distribute On Streaming

“The Palestinian-Israeli collective behind the film rejected a deal from Mubi, the company behind hits such as The Substance, after controversy over ties to an investment firm linked to the Israeli military.” - The Guardian (UK)

What’s Going To Happen To The English National Opera In Manchester?

Tensions still exist between London and Manchester, and not everyone is pleased. The ENO's artistic director says, "“The way this happened was not something that anyone involved would want, and we were then forced to build the road as we drove the car.” - Manchester Evening News (UK)

When Administrators Tried To Squelch The Indiana University Student Paper, A Rival University Stepped In To Help

There’s no First Amendment right if you don’t own your own printing press, as student journalists at Indiana University learned last week when administrators fired their adviser and canceled their print edition. Purdue student journalists weren’t having it. - Bloomington Herald-Times (MSN)

The Woman Trying Her Hardest To Keep Classical Music On Track

That is, focused on the music - and out of the hands of predators. Not that she’s rewarded for it, aside from helping other people get some forms of justice. - Washington Post (Yahoo)

Traditional Arts Criticism Is In Trouble

“Today, more and more critics pay their own bills, build their own followings, and invent their own rules. ... For better and for worse, the adage “Everyone’s a critic” no longer seems like an exaggeration.” - The Atlantic (MSN)

One Big Thing We’ve Learned From Technology Is That Humans Desperately Need To Be Bored

“If you deliberately and regularly go without checking your phone, or indeed exposing yourself to any other source of electronic stimulation, you’ll build ‘the skill of boredom,’ which will enable you not only to confront life’s grand questions, but also to be less bored with ordinary life.” - Open Culture

Why Thousands Of People Are Converging On A Museum In Germany

Museum Wiesbaden is seeing an uptick - a rather large uptick - in visitors thanks to none other than Taylor Swift. - BBC

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