And that includes using - and celebrating - the space around the library. They're people places (even if the use of library apps has shot up during the pandemic). - The New York Times
Arthouses are in trouble (see the previous article). But Everything Everywhere All at Once is proving surprisingly robust - and what makes it "a bonfire at arthouses is that it’s aimed squarely at the demo that has been fueling the box office rebound ... 18- to 34-year-olds." - Deadline
It's not easy because older audiences just aren't coming back. Yet operators are starting to be a bit more optimistic. "The opportunity to see it in a theater is a better experience for just about any type of movie. We just need to reacquaint people with it." - Variety
While the cool contemporary art crowd strolled among the exhibits, Ukraine was being pummeled by missiles, and there was hardly a Russian in sight. But curators, collectors, dealers and artists were staging plenty of events to support Ukraine, and a passionate personal address by Ukraine’s president. - The New York Times
That problem takes two forms: first, the lack of public trust in humanities scholars’ processes of inquiry and expert conclusions. Simply put, the public doesn’t seem to trust that we are engaging in real, methodical scholarly inquiry. - Washington Post
The composer, who has accrued reputational capital on the open market, exchanges some of it for an ever-dwindling share of institutional security. The institution in exchange acquires not so much her music or her services as a teacher—though these come in the bargain—as a stake in her brand. - The Baffler
Virtually all modern computers are modelled on Alan Turing’s idea. However, he originally conceived these machines merely because he saw that a human engaged in the process of computing could be compared to one, in a way that was useful for mathematics. - Aeon
The accepted definition of “choreographer” is the person who composes the physical steps—not necessarily completely on their own, but the majority of the movement creation stems from that individual. So when the process is more of an exchange, other terms could help. - Dance Magazine
"From automated audiobooks to digital avatars, AI systems are now replacing skilled professional performers" the union says. It warns of "dystopian" consequences unless copyright law adapts. Equity highlights a number of different ways actors' voices and likenesses may be used. - BBC
Okay, you may well know about J. Paul Getty, and if you're an ArtsJournal regular you probably recognize Eli Broad. Writer Patt Morrison introduces us to them and to Percy Marmont, Sid Grauman, Collis P. Huntington, Jack Skirball, Charles Lummis, Armand Hammer (Armie's great-grandfather), and others. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Sound restoration engineer Nicholas Bergh spent two decades designing the revolutionary new machine, known as the Endpoint Audio Labs cylinder playback machine. - Atlas Obscura
"A group of ancient Roman mosaics dating from the second century CE were hidden under the city streets of Stari Grad, on the idyllic Hvar Island in Croatia. Archaeologists discovered the stunning mosaic floors in February, before the city began construction on sewage and water pipes." - Hyperallergic
She had a gift for unusual metaphors that made her teachings stick. In the bedroom of her 17th-floor apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, where she gave lessons almost every day deep into her 80s, she would ask her students to build theaters inside their heads. - The New York Times
With Bookstagrammers and BookTokers nearly equal in influence, and with its carefully maintained approach of relative objectivity, "the Book Review may have the luxury of being the only game in town, but that doesn't spare it the responsibility of making sure people show up to play." - The Nation
