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DANCE
IDEAS
- Hey Kennedy Center, I want my art back!
Good Morning,
Computer analysis of Edward III, published anonymously in 1596, assigns 23 segments to Shakespeare and nine to Christopher Marlowe, the first serious case that the two rivals wrote a play together (The Guardian).
Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo opens at the Met this week; no opera won a Pulitzer or reached the finals between 1962 and 2000, so this one’s a milestone (SF Classical Voice). The Met also commissioned The Mothers of Kherson, an opera about Russia’s war on Ukraine. It had its first full performance Friday in Warsaw (The New York Times).
The Bayeux Tapestry hung vertically at home and lies flat at the British Museum; it will return next summer on a slanted table, after conservators found two breaks a few millimeters long (ARTnews).
Donors to the Kennedy Center are trying to reclaim their gifts after learning of a plan that listed “destruction” among the options for its art; one said, “I want to get that sculpture out of there” (ARTnews).
Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard copyright scholar, marks fifty years of the 1976 Copyright Act, which made protection automatic: a law written for publishers now covers every photo you email a friend (Lawrence Lessig).
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post film critic for more than 20 years and a 2008 Pulitzer finalist, has died at 66; she wrote, the Post says, from the viewpoint of a popcorn-eating moviegoer (The Washington Post).
All of our stories below.
- The Washington Ballet At 50
“Go-Go 50,” the upcoming mixed-bill program assembled to celebrate the anniversary, “exemplifies some of the company’s hallmarks: a willingness to gamble on new work, an embrace of diverse repertoire, and an ability to capitalize on the culture and cachet of its hometown.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
- Donors Are Trying To Save Artworks At The Kennedy Center
Donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of layoffs. They are not convinced that the leadership, largely appointed by Trump, values the artworks as part of the institution’s holdings. – ARTnews
- What Got The Hollywood Establishment To Join The Vertical Microdrama Boom? SAG-AFTRA
“SAG-AFTRA’s independent Verticals Agreement helped open the door for producers to hire union performers for the format’s notoriously small-scale productions. They’ve also brought some structure and legitimacy to the medium. … Bigger-name talent is now more open to verticals thanks to the protections the agreement brings.” – TheWrap (MSN)
- How Intuition Works
The key is to see that intuition works in much the same way as perception, in that both can directly present something to us as actual. Once we understand what gives perception this feature, we can see why intuitions might involve exercising the same basic kind of cognitive capacity. – Aeon
ISSUES
- Donors Are Trying To Save Artworks At The Kennedy Center
Donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of layoffs. They are not convinced that the leadership, largely appointed by Trump, values the artworks as part of the institution’s holdings. – ARTnews
- Auction House Phillips Appears To Be Reinventing Its Business
In conversations with several people with intimate knowledge of Phillips, past and present, it appears Phillips has decided it doesn’t want to be the same company it spent the last decade trying to become. – ARTnews
- While Partly Closed For Construction, Broad Museum In L.A. Will Lend Scores Of Artworks To Paris
“The museum announced Tuesday that it’s shipping 164 works to the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris for its most extensive exhibition ever mounted outside Los Angeles. The show will open April 21 and run through Aug. 30,” as the Broad finishes major construction on a new extension. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
- Bayeux Tapestry Will Return Home Next Summer To A Completely Different Display Format
Before the 770-pound, 220-foot-long embroidery left its eponymous museum in France for London, it was hung vertically. At the British Museum, the enormous textile is lying flat in a display case in a darkened room, a format which the post-renovation Bayeux Museum will (mostly) adopt. – ARTnews
- Louvre Temporarily Closes During French Protests
MEDIA
- What’s Behind The Current Wave Of Theater, Film, Literature, And Other Art About AIDS
Much of the new work being done has a sense of mission — a feeling that, 45 years after the epidemic first broke out, something many gay people today are too young to remember — a struggle that changed our world cannot be permitted to recede into mere abstraction. – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
- Did Drought Really Cause The Collapse Of Ancient Maya? New Studies Cast Doubt
Taken together, the research is part of a shift in how researchers have come to consider one of antiquity’s great mysteries, awakening yet another fierce debate in academia over the effects of climate on civilizations, and why they fray. – Washington Post
- Ticket Broker Sued In $120M Ticket Bot Scheme
The DOJ and FTC allege that REPS & Co violated the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act by opening thousands of accounts across Ticketmaster, AXS and other ticket services and circumventing the ticket platforms’ purchase limits. – The Hollywood Reporter
- Will Humans Still Know How To Clean It Up When AI Flubs Major Tasks?
“As people become less involved in a task, they can become less prepared to step in when needed. Researchers have called this the out-of-the-loop performance problem.” – The Conversation
- Saturday Night Live UK Ripped Into US SNL For Shane Gillis’s Blithering Misogyny
“A representative for [Lorne] Michaels did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.” – The New York Times
MUSIC
- YouTube Intends To Start Offering Audiobooks
“YouTube has weighed bundling the product in its ad-free YouTube Premium service, which starts at $15.99 a month and includes access to music and videos, the people said. Like other streaming platforms vying for consumers’ attention, YouTube has packaged offerings together to make lucrative subscriptions more appealing.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
- Writers Are Struggling To Prove They’re Human
As AI-generated writing floods the internet, more people are trying to detect which creators are using such tools to spin up copy. That means writers penning all their own work—and people who acknowledge using chatbots for help—are trying to master something they never worried about before: how to sound human. – The Wall Street Journal
- What If Climate Fiction And Movies Have Been Hitting The Wrong Buttons?
Fear spreads its message more quickly – but it also paralyzes most people to inaction, exactly not what most writers of climate fiction would prefer. – The Guardian (UK)
- Three Recent Films Demonstrate How We See Poetry – And Poets
Ouf. “Is it wistful or cruel, the movies looking at poets only to find them pitiable, even or especially when they’re howling at the moon? The last artists who can’t make money, who have a pressing and practical concern about old books and what’s in them.” – LitHub
- Isabel Allende, Writing Under A Pseudonym, Wins A Major Literary Prize In Spain
“The prize is open to unpublished manuscripts, with the option of submitting under a pseudonym, and Allende entered under the name Luz Ventura, with the fictional title Los que faltan.” – The Guardian (UK)
PEOPLE
- Hey Kennedy Center, I want my art back!
Good Morning,
Computer analysis of Edward III, published anonymously in 1596, assigns 23 segments to Shakespeare and nine to Christopher Marlowe, the first serious case that the two rivals wrote a play together (The Guardian).
Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo opens at the Met this week; no opera won a Pulitzer or reached the finals between 1962 and 2000, so this one’s a milestone (SF Classical Voice). The Met also commissioned The Mothers of Kherson, an opera about Russia’s war on Ukraine. It had its first full performance Friday in Warsaw (The New York Times).
The Bayeux Tapestry hung vertically at home and lies flat at the British Museum; it will return next summer on a slanted table, after conservators found two breaks a few millimeters long (ARTnews).
Donors to the Kennedy Center are trying to reclaim their gifts after learning of a plan that listed “destruction” among the options for its art; one said, “I want to get that sculpture out of there” (ARTnews).
Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard copyright scholar, marks fifty years of the 1976 Copyright Act, which made protection automatic: a law written for publishers now covers every photo you email a friend (Lawrence Lessig).
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post film critic for more than 20 years and a 2008 Pulitzer finalist, has died at 66; she wrote, the Post says, from the viewpoint of a popcorn-eating moviegoer (The Washington Post).
All of our stories below.
- The Washington Ballet At 50
“Go-Go 50,” the upcoming mixed-bill program assembled to celebrate the anniversary, “exemplifies some of the company’s hallmarks: a willingness to gamble on new work, an embrace of diverse repertoire, and an ability to capitalize on the culture and cachet of its hometown.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
- Donors Are Trying To Save Artworks At The Kennedy Center
Donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of layoffs. They are not convinced that the leadership, largely appointed by Trump, values the artworks as part of the institution’s holdings. – ARTnews
- What Got The Hollywood Establishment To Join The Vertical Microdrama Boom? SAG-AFTRA
“SAG-AFTRA’s independent Verticals Agreement helped open the door for producers to hire union performers for the format’s notoriously small-scale productions. They’ve also brought some structure and legitimacy to the medium. … Bigger-name talent is now more open to verticals thanks to the protections the agreement brings.” – TheWrap (MSN)
- How Intuition Works
The key is to see that intuition works in much the same way as perception, in that both can directly present something to us as actual. Once we understand what gives perception this feature, we can see why intuitions might involve exercising the same basic kind of cognitive capacity. – Aeon
PEOPLE
- Hey Kennedy Center, I want my art back!
Good Morning,
Computer analysis of Edward III, published anonymously in 1596, assigns 23 segments to Shakespeare and nine to Christopher Marlowe, the first serious case that the two rivals wrote a play together (The Guardian).
Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo opens at the Met this week; no opera won a Pulitzer or reached the finals between 1962 and 2000, so this one’s a milestone (SF Classical Voice). The Met also commissioned The Mothers of Kherson, an opera about Russia’s war on Ukraine. It had its first full performance Friday in Warsaw (The New York Times).
The Bayeux Tapestry hung vertically at home and lies flat at the British Museum; it will return next summer on a slanted table, after conservators found two breaks a few millimeters long (ARTnews).
Donors to the Kennedy Center are trying to reclaim their gifts after learning of a plan that listed “destruction” among the options for its art; one said, “I want to get that sculpture out of there” (ARTnews).
Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard copyright scholar, marks fifty years of the 1976 Copyright Act, which made protection automatic: a law written for publishers now covers every photo you email a friend (Lawrence Lessig).
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post film critic for more than 20 years and a 2008 Pulitzer finalist, has died at 66; she wrote, the Post says, from the viewpoint of a popcorn-eating moviegoer (The Washington Post).
All of our stories below.
- The Washington Ballet At 50
“Go-Go 50,” the upcoming mixed-bill program assembled to celebrate the anniversary, “exemplifies some of the company’s hallmarks: a willingness to gamble on new work, an embrace of diverse repertoire, and an ability to capitalize on the culture and cachet of its hometown.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
- Donors Are Trying To Save Artworks At The Kennedy Center
Donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of layoffs. They are not convinced that the leadership, largely appointed by Trump, values the artworks as part of the institution’s holdings. – ARTnews
- What Got The Hollywood Establishment To Join The Vertical Microdrama Boom? SAG-AFTRA
“SAG-AFTRA’s independent Verticals Agreement helped open the door for producers to hire union performers for the format’s notoriously small-scale productions. They’ve also brought some structure and legitimacy to the medium. … Bigger-name talent is now more open to verticals thanks to the protections the agreement brings.” – TheWrap (MSN)
- How Intuition Works
The key is to see that intuition works in much the same way as perception, in that both can directly present something to us as actual. Once we understand what gives perception this feature, we can see why intuitions might involve exercising the same basic kind of cognitive capacity. – Aeon
THEATRE
VISUAL
- How Intuition Works
The key is to see that intuition works in much the same way as perception, in that both can directly present something to us as actual. Once we understand what gives perception this feature, we can see why intuitions might involve exercising the same basic kind of cognitive capacity. – Aeon
- Brewster Kahle: Why The Internet Needs A Memory
Many people assume that once something is published online, it will remain forever retrievable. The saying that “the internet never forgets” has produced a dangerously false sense of permanence. In reality, the internet forgets continuously. Websites are constantly revised, deleted, and abandoned altogether. – The Atlantic
- The Harms Of Zombie Copyright
Fifty years ago today, copyright law in America changed fundamentally. That change was an accidental disaster for both creators and the culture they create. – Lawrence Lessig
- Does AI Collapse The Need To Get Bigger?
AI is making enterprise-grade capabilities available to companies that are a fraction of the size and without all of the bureaucratic weight that historically came along with it. If Goldberg is right, the rules of competition are changing for good, and companies no longer need to be big to compete. – Wired
- Creating Art In A Time Of International And Creative Crisis
Elif Shafak’s latest book “arose out of our own historical moment, which Shafak has dubbed ‘The age of three As: Angst, Anger and AI.’” – The Guardian (UK)