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DANCE
IDEAS
- How Olivia Wilde Bounced Back For A Career-Defining Year Of Acting And Directing
“Anything that forces you to do a bunch of therapy and think deeply and read a bunch of books and travel — anything that throws you off is actually potentially very, very good for you.” – The New York Times
- The Man Who Invented Reduced Shakespeare, And What He Called A Whole New Brand Of Entertainment
When Daniel Singer died in September, his and his co-writers’ Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) had inspired 45 years of “reverently irreverent send-ups of beloved and/or sacred subjects performed by small casts of fast, funny, and physical performers playing multiple roles.” – American Theatre
- The Moral – And Possibly Legal – Harm From Being ‘Nice’ To Bots
“‘We won’t really be elevating the moral status of A.I.’ … All we’ll be doing is reducing living human beings ‘to the equivalent of a box of equations.’” – The New York Times
- A Grim Trend In Children’s Literature And Movies
Seriously, why would The Cat in the Hat (the character) need a real job? – Reactor
- Why Isn’t This Art Collection, Pledged To Seattle University, Heading There?
Well, some of it may be — after the owner sells enough of the collection to clear old debts. – Seattle Times
ISSUES
- Why Isn’t This Art Collection, Pledged To Seattle University, Heading There?
Well, some of it may be — after the owner sells enough of the collection to clear old debts. – Seattle Times
- Artnet Makes Controversial Partnership With Kalshi
On Wednesday, Artnet announced that it had partnered with Kalshi, the prediction-market platform that lets users bet on everything from election results to sporting events. Artnet will become Kalshi’s official art partner, helping select markets and supplying the auction data used to determine which bets pay out. – ARTnews
- Not Budging “The Bean” Was Not Enough: London Crowd Will Attempt To Move Marble Arch
Inspired by last weekend’s attempt by Chicagoans to move the Anish Kapoor sculpture Cloud Gate seven inches to the left, Londoners will gather on Saturday and try to push John Nash’s 1827 monument seven inches left. The stated reason for these two efforts is the same: to free anyone trapped inside. – Ocula
- Art Basel Paris To Partially Refund Gallerists For Early Closure
“All exhibitors who participated in the most recent edition of Art Basel Paris, which closed two days early because of planned protests, will get a 20 percent reduction on their final invoices. … Additionally, tickets purchased for that weekend have already been refunded.” – ARTnews
- Art Basel To Discount Gallery Fees After Paris Show Closed Early
“We will exceptionally be extending a 20 percent reduction on booth fees to all galleries that participated in the Paris fair, in recognition of the closure,” on October 24–25, Art Basel chief executive Noah Horowitz told ARTnews in an interview. – ARTnews
MEDIA
- The Moral – And Possibly Legal – Harm From Being ‘Nice’ To Bots
“‘We won’t really be elevating the moral status of A.I.’ … All we’ll be doing is reducing living human beings ‘to the equivalent of a box of equations.’” – The New York Times
- UK Artist Visas Are Being Sold Fraudulently
Several companies have been helping migrants apply for UK visas under the government’s Global Talent program by creating fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news. – ARTnews
- Shady Companies Make Fake Portfolios For Rich Migrants Who Want UK “Global Talent” Visas
For a hefty fee, these companies will fabricate forged portfolios, with fake images of work and forged review clips, for applications for the Global Talent visa, which can lead to permanent residency in three to five years and is one of a very few UK visas which doesn’t require demonstrated fluency in English. – BBC
- Kennedy Center Switches Ticket-Buying To TicketMaster
For decades, the Kennedy Center has used a not-for-profit platform called Tessitura to handle its ticketing. But the Kennedy Center plans to partner with the ticketing behemoth Ticketmaster. – NPR
- Can These Economists Build A Better Case For Public Arts Support?
These discussions, championed by at least one economics research and advisory firm in partnership with a major Australian arts festival, are instead thinking about the arts activities as powerful economic ‘enablers’ and strategic assets which help facilitate wider cultural, economic and social objectives. – ArtsHub
MUSIC
- The Machine That Gave Birth To Mass Media
Before the late 1800s, printers had to arrange letters one-by-one on metal plates, a slow and painstaking process. Media maven Jeff Jarvis points out that, once the Linotype machine appeared toward the end of the 19th century, books and periodicals could be printed quickly enough to meet booming public demand. – The Christian Science Monitor
- Will A SciFi Booker Win Bring More Attention To The Genre?
Author and critic Olivia Laing agrees it’s taken the literary world “an embarrassingly long time to clock that you don’t need realism to write about how it feels to inhabit late capitalism and unravelling modernity”. – The Guardian
- How Aztec Historians Saved Their People’s History From Spanish Bonfires
There were codices of Nahuatl hieroglyphics before the conquistadors arrived, but they were all either burned by militant Catholic priests or lost to time. Secretly, though, indigenous scholars collected oral history and wrote it down, usually in Nahuatl using the Spanish alphabet, and a surprising amount has survived until today. – History Today
- On Poets And Reputations
The maker of an anthology can’t help being aware of the contemporary reputation of poets. But he knows, too, that this enterprise, this book, will be a chance to amend that reputation. – Hudson Review
- The Onion Is Looking To Sponsor A College Football Bowl Game (Yes, Really)
The satirical publication is looking to break the 100,000-subscriber mark, which would make it, by circulation, the fourth-largest print newspaper in the U.S. As a marketing effort, it’s looking to buy naming rights to one of the numerous bowl games that happen around New Year’s. Wouldn’t you watch The Onion Bowl? – Nieman Lab
PEOPLE
- How Olivia Wilde Bounced Back For A Career-Defining Year Of Acting And Directing
“Anything that forces you to do a bunch of therapy and think deeply and read a bunch of books and travel — anything that throws you off is actually potentially very, very good for you.” – The New York Times
- The Man Who Invented Reduced Shakespeare, And What He Called A Whole New Brand Of Entertainment
When Daniel Singer died in September, his and his co-writers’ Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) had inspired 45 years of “reverently irreverent send-ups of beloved and/or sacred subjects performed by small casts of fast, funny, and physical performers playing multiple roles.” – American Theatre
- The Moral – And Possibly Legal – Harm From Being ‘Nice’ To Bots
“‘We won’t really be elevating the moral status of A.I.’ … All we’ll be doing is reducing living human beings ‘to the equivalent of a box of equations.’” – The New York Times
- A Grim Trend In Children’s Literature And Movies
Seriously, why would The Cat in the Hat (the character) need a real job? – Reactor
- Why Isn’t This Art Collection, Pledged To Seattle University, Heading There?
Well, some of it may be — after the owner sells enough of the collection to clear old debts. – Seattle Times
PEOPLE
- How Olivia Wilde Bounced Back For A Career-Defining Year Of Acting And Directing
“Anything that forces you to do a bunch of therapy and think deeply and read a bunch of books and travel — anything that throws you off is actually potentially very, very good for you.” – The New York Times
- The Man Who Invented Reduced Shakespeare, And What He Called A Whole New Brand Of Entertainment
When Daniel Singer died in September, his and his co-writers’ Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) had inspired 45 years of “reverently irreverent send-ups of beloved and/or sacred subjects performed by small casts of fast, funny, and physical performers playing multiple roles.” – American Theatre
- The Moral – And Possibly Legal – Harm From Being ‘Nice’ To Bots
“‘We won’t really be elevating the moral status of A.I.’ … All we’ll be doing is reducing living human beings ‘to the equivalent of a box of equations.’” – The New York Times
- A Grim Trend In Children’s Literature And Movies
Seriously, why would The Cat in the Hat (the character) need a real job? – Reactor
- Why Isn’t This Art Collection, Pledged To Seattle University, Heading There?
Well, some of it may be — after the owner sells enough of the collection to clear old debts. – Seattle Times
THEATRE
VISUAL
- A Grim Trend In Children’s Literature And Movies
Seriously, why would The Cat in the Hat (the character) need a real job? – Reactor
- Are We Scapegoating Our Phones?
Against the suggestion that the furor over phones is no different from past outcries over new technologies, some point to novel features of social media—exploitative algorithms or “infinite scrolling”—to argue that this case is different. – Boston Review
- Refugees And The Imagination Of Borders
Each of us had imagined a life that exceeded the border and acted upon that imagination. In that sense, the prison did not simply contain border-crossers; it brought together people whose aspirations had collided with the territorial imaginary of the nation-state. – Aeon
- What It Looks Like When The Internet Stops Working
Your bank’s app is down. The pharmacy cannot pull up your prescription. Your paycheck is late because the payroll company unplugged its system to be safe. None of it is a catastrophe on its own. All of it, every week, is a different country from the one we live in now. – Washington Post
- In Medieval Times, Curiosity Was A Negative
Curiosity was seen as a largely vacuous interest in novel or forbidden information. The curious person was thought to reach for what was hidden and secret, beyond their proper purview, and thereby isolate themselves from spiritual and social community. – MIT Reader