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DANCE
IDEAS
- 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)
- Toledo Still Wants To Be The City Of Glass
“Toledo’s art scene has long been tied to its glass industry. In 1962 … local workers created the studio glass art movement here.” – NPR
- We’ve Never Seen Numbers Like This Before
That is to say, Netflix is reporting box office numbers, for the very first time, for La Bola Negra. – Los Angeles Times
- The Tyranny Of Those Who Hate Colorful Buildings Made The Guggenheim White
“Pink was precisely the color Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned for this museum in his plans, and it’s the color we would see across the street from Central Park today had prejudices not stood in the way.” – El País English
- 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
ISSUES
- Toledo Still Wants To Be The City Of Glass
“Toledo’s art scene has long been tied to its glass industry. In 1962 … local workers created the studio glass art movement here.” – NPR
- The Tyranny Of Those Who Hate Colorful Buildings Made The Guggenheim White
“Pink was precisely the color Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned for this museum in his plans, and it’s the color we would see across the street from Central Park today had prejudices not stood in the way.” – El País English
- John Berger Is The Antidote To The Scroll
“It’s his essays about art and artists that matter most to me now. Reading them, you often feel you’re standing next to him in the museum or even looking through his eyes at a painting or a sculpture. You pay attention to his attention.” – The New York Times
- Two Land Art Turf Swaps Reveal How Urban London And Rural Wales Are Doing, Ecologically Speaking
It’s not great news for the rural life, but urban London is looking pretty good. – The Guardian (UK)
- The Art Bird News Outrage Cycle Continues, But Why?
If you have miraculously missed most of the Kelly Clarkson/small business/rudeness cycle, it’s back. The art bird at the center of the Brooklyn storm, once tagged at $15,000, now retails for $15 million. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
MEDIA
- 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
- If We Force Chatbots Into Third Person, Will People Stop Thinking Of Them As Sentient?
Sherry Turkle: An AI is “really not afraid of death, it’s not afraid of illness, it’s not afraid of pain, it doesn’t love its children, and it doesn’t care if you kill yourself or make dinner.” – Wired
- During And After Protests, Gangs Spread Fires Across France
In Limoges, the city hall burned. At the actual protests, demonstrators “complained about inflation sent soaring over 3% by the war in the Middle East. Others slammed perceived police brutality in student protests that have gripped France over the past four weeks.” – Le Monde English
- TikTok Has Banned The Musk Documentary Advertiser From The Platform
Hunh: “Distributor Bleecker Street was informed Friday afternoon a ‘permanent suspension’ was coming regarding any ads it tried to buy, and the company was unable to do so shortly after.” – The Hollywood Reporter
MUSIC
- 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)
- How Ukrainians Are Fighting Back Against Russia’s Destruction Of Their Books
“The Ukrainian response has been a renewal of patriotism and engagement with national culture, along with enthusiastic defiance: the queues outside bookshops that formed in response to … the destruction, the orders that flooded in for e-books, or customers content to wait months for physical copies.” – The Bookseller (UK)
- Why Are Scammers Targeting Book Authors?
I’m not the only author to have found myself stuck in a Zoom book club with fake readers. Countless writers with published books have been receiving invitations from reading communities that start to unravel after a basic Google search. – The Dial
PEOPLE
- 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)
- Toledo Still Wants To Be The City Of Glass
“Toledo’s art scene has long been tied to its glass industry. In 1962 … local workers created the studio glass art movement here.” – NPR
- We’ve Never Seen Numbers Like This Before
That is to say, Netflix is reporting box office numbers, for the very first time, for La Bola Negra. – Los Angeles Times
- The Tyranny Of Those Who Hate Colorful Buildings Made The Guggenheim White
“Pink was precisely the color Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned for this museum in his plans, and it’s the color we would see across the street from Central Park today had prejudices not stood in the way.” – El País English
- 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
PEOPLE
- 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)
- Toledo Still Wants To Be The City Of Glass
“Toledo’s art scene has long been tied to its glass industry. In 1962 … local workers created the studio glass art movement here.” – NPR
- We’ve Never Seen Numbers Like This Before
That is to say, Netflix is reporting box office numbers, for the very first time, for La Bola Negra. – Los Angeles Times
- The Tyranny Of Those Who Hate Colorful Buildings Made The Guggenheim White
“Pink was precisely the color Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned for this museum in his plans, and it’s the color we would see across the street from Central Park today had prejudices not stood in the way.” – El País English
- 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
THEATRE
VISUAL
- 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)
- Bernie Sanders: Let’s Not Let Big Tech Dictate The Future Of Humanity
If these were the fantasies of teenage boys obsessed with science fiction, we could laugh them off. They are not. These are the foundational beliefs of the most powerful people in the world, who are mobilizing trillions of dollars to turn them into reality. – The Atlantic
- Is Their A Limit To Human Knowledge? Or Do We Keep Moving The Goalposts?
Are certain questions closed to the human mind? Are there truths about the world that we can never know? – Aeon
- Yes, Reading Has Changed. Adapt.
“We have everything we need to be happy,” the hero of Fahrenheit 451 observes, “but we aren’t happy.” Maybe that’s the ultimate lever to pull: the growing awareness that our devices are exhausting and eroding us. – The American Scholar
- We’re Losing Our Skills As We Lean Into Technology
We have fallen into habits that are steadily deskilling the human body, eroding capacities honed by evolution to support our wellbeing as we move through the world. Some of these capacities are weakening through disuse: we have come to rely on our phones, for example, and now, increasingly, on AI. – Aeon