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Jewelry Retailer Van Cleef & Arpels Launches A New Contemporary Dance Festival

Dance Reflections, which will be held in a different city each year, debuts in London March 9-23 with a program featuring contemporary classics by Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, and Trisha Brown as well as newer works by the likes of Boris Charmatz and SERAFINE1369. - Dance Magazine

How To Fill In All The Gaps We Have In Ancient Greek Texts? Artificial Intelligence Could Work

"Artificial intelligence could bring to life lost texts, from imperial decrees to the poems of Sappho, researchers have revealed, after developing a system that can fill in the gaps in ancient Greek inscriptions and pinpoint when and where they are from." - The Guardian

Audible Goes All In On Its Push Into Live Theater

"The company, which created its theater division just five years ago, has already released 93 audio theater works, ... commissioning new work from 55 playwrights, presenting 25 shows in person ... and becoming one of the most active commercial producers in the city." - The New York Times

Presenters Are Cancelling Performances By This 20-Year-Old Antiwar Russian Pianist.  Should They Be?

Alexander Malofeev traveled to Canada for a concert this week with the Vancouver Recital Society and a Prokofiev concerto this weekend with the Montreal Symphony. He's been dropped from both, despite his own statements against the invasion of Ukraine. Canadians are debating whether this is going too far. - Ludwig Van

Is Business Finally Turning Around At Long-Troubled Barnes & Noble?

In 2019, after years of management turmoil and falling revenue, James Daunt (who turned around British chain Waterstones) was brought in to fix things.  He says that though the cafe and newsstand business hasn't yet recovered from COVID, book sales are up more than 5% from 2019. - Publishers Weekly

Ukrainian Sculptor From Berlin Stays In Lviv To Help Build Anti-Tank Defenses

Volo Bevza and several others have set themselves up in a metal workshop to build steel tank obstacles called "hedgehogs," which look like small Mark di Suvero sculptures. - Hyperallergic

As The Authorities Drop Mask and Vaccination Requirements For Indoor Spaces, Should The Arts Do The Same?

"In interviews, leaders of almost a dozen cultural groups across the country emphasized the need for caution and carefulness. But they noted that each of their situations are distinct." - The New York Times

Why We’re Built To Forget

It used to be thought that forgetting anything — from minor things like the name of a casual acquaintance to the more painful loss of cherished memories experienced by my patients — was caused, to varying degrees, by a failure of the brain’s memory mechanisms. But new developments in neuroscience over the past decade or so refute this simple...

Tracking The Word Choice Vectors In Rap Music

There’s an appealingly simple sociolinguistic view, one my grizzled inner skeptic appears to have embraced, whereby words function as vectors of status: where vocabulary and diction map faithfully to acculturation and lifestyle, where every social stratum has its vernacular and every vernacular its social stratum.  - LitHub

Ken Robinson: What Does Education Mean Now?

What does it mean to be educated now? As we all live in two worlds—the world within you that exists only because you do, and the world around you—the core purpose of education is to enable students to understand both worlds. - Edutopia

Geffen Hall Is Fully Funded And Will Open Year Early

The project’s leaders announced on Wednesday that they had raised their goal of $550 million to cover the cost of the renovation, and that the hall will reopen to the public in October, a year and a half ahead of schedule. - The New York Times

How Did Intelligence Evolve Biologically?

The processes of intelligence are so intricate, so multilayered and baroque, no wonder some people might be tempted by stories about a top-down Creator. But we know evolution must have been able to come up with intelligence on its own, from the bottom up. - Aeon

100 Years After It Sank, Shackleton’s Ship Found In Antarctica (and In Remarkable Condition)

The Endurance was found off the coast of Antarctica, approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by its captain, Frank Worsley. It has not been seen since it was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in November 1915. - The Guardian

Russia Used Interpol To Get Italy To Arrest Ukrainian Opera Director

"Yevhen (Eugene) Lavrenchuk was imprisoned in Naples for more than two months after Russia issued a call for his arrest through Interpol's 'red notice'" for fugitive criminals; he was released after Italy's justice minister intervened. (Until last year, Lavrenchuk was the controversial artistic director at Odesa's opera house.) - The Guardian

Arts Venues Sue Small Business Administration Over COVID Money

Nearly 50 rejected venue grant applicants have taken the SBA to court, including escape rooms, a dance convention, a circus arts company, a ministry, a Manhattan jazz club, a “pet event” organizer and Michigan’s state fair. About fifteen cases have been resolved, with $52.7 million in venue grants awarded to those businesses. - Crosscut

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