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DANCE
IDEAS
- London’s Royal Ballet And Opera Makes Bank, Or Maybe Sustainable Income, On Its New Ticket Model
Dynamic pricing is common, and as one performing arts critic pointed out, it “can shift in both directions, with prices increasing when tickets start selling out at popular shows but also decreasing where demand is slower.” – BBC
- How Large Data Sets And AI Analysis Are Absolutely Murdering Our Private Lives
“Personal data isn’t just a record of who we are. It’s our actions, transactions, locations, conversations, preferences, inferences, and vulnerabilities. It’s our identities, our intimate selves, our hopes and dreams, and our fears and flaws.” – Fast Company
- How Theatre Artists Survive Dictatorships
“If you press your ear to the plays of the 20th century, they’ll tell you secrets of human acts gone by and strategies to keep on. Among bloody slings and arrows of inhumane humanity are extraordinary scenes, real and imagined, of survival.” – American Theatre
- The Growing Popularity Of Madrid As A Film Set Isn’t Exactly Thrilling Its Residents
“While city officials celebrate Madrid’s popularity as a film and television set, residents of the most in-demand neighborhoods are not particularly thrilled to find their streets constantly crowded with cameras, cables, coat racks and people running around with spotlights and microphones in their hands.” – El País English
- The Studio Museum In Harlem Reopens, After Seven Years, In Its Own New Home
The museum director: “In many ways I do feel the timing of our opening now is ideal. … We’re opening in a moment that’s very much like the moment when the museum was founded.” – Gothamist
ISSUES
- The Studio Museum In Harlem Reopens, After Seven Years, In Its Own New Home
The museum director: “In many ways I do feel the timing of our opening now is ideal. … We’re opening in a moment that’s very much like the moment when the museum was founded.” – Gothamist
- The Return Of A Night At The Natural History Museum
“Children ran, some of them in stocking feet, through the displays, with abandon. (Running had been discouraged in the safety lecture, but this did not dissuade a young boy who shouted ‘I have to look for the animals that will hunt us in the night.’)” – The New York Times
- Man Who Stole A Banksy Print To Pay Off Drug Debt Sentenced To Prison
He “was seen on CCTV waiting outside the gallery for about 10 minutes on 8 September last year, before repeatedly smashing the glass door with a heavy blunt object.” – The Guardian (UK)
- The Palm Springs Art Museum Trustee Revolt: Just What The Heck Is Happening Here?
Basically, “without consideration of multiple outside candidates, the search committee had in effect become simply a hiring committee for an in-house nominee.” That in-house nominee might be great – but that doesn’t fix the hiring process. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
- Can Paris’s Iconic Zinc Rooftops Be Adapted To An Ever-Hotter Climate?
Some four-fifths of the city’s roofs are covered in the lightweight, malleable, low-maintenance metal. Many of them now need replacing — to prevent leaks in more intense rainstorms and because high summer temperatures turn the rooms below them into ovens. Parisian artisans are finding ways to address these problems. – Smithsonian Magazine
MEDIA
- How Large Data Sets And AI Analysis Are Absolutely Murdering Our Private Lives
“Personal data isn’t just a record of who we are. It’s our actions, transactions, locations, conversations, preferences, inferences, and vulnerabilities. It’s our identities, our intimate selves, our hopes and dreams, and our fears and flaws.” – Fast Company
- Disney May Be Turning To AI To Help Create ‘User-Generated Content’ On Its Main Streamer
Bob Iger knows it’s, uh, interesting to be suing some AI companies while courting others. “’It’s obviously imperative for us to protect our IP with this new technology,’ Iger said.” – NPR
- How The Internet Became A Misery Machine
“Sometimes you gotta use the dark arts, right? In benevolent ways, and just get people to care.” Ouf. – The Atlantic
- Inside The National Endowment For The Humanities, In The Iron Grip Of The Current Administration
“Many of its nearly 50 grant programs have been paused or ended. … About two thirds of the staff has been laid off and, last month, most members of the scholarly council that must review a majority of grants were abruptly fired by the White House.” – The New York Times
- Ireland’s Basic Income For Artists Program Proved That It Works. Why Is The Government Tentative About Expanding It?
The results from the three-year pilot were clear: artists were able to make work and less dependent on other government assistance, and every €1 in cost returned €1.39 in value to the Irish economy. Even so, the government, though it made the program permanent, is keeping it small-scale. – Novara Media (UK)
MUSIC
- The Latest Threat To Authors And Books
What is “Take Back the Classroom” – and how did it get so prominent, so quickly? – BookRiot
- Writers On The Gulf Between Books And Screen
Viet Thanh Nguyen: “When poets write, the only thing that it costs a poet is their life. … But when you make a TV show or a film, it costs tens of millions of dollars, and then everybody cares.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
- African Publishers And “The Wakanda Problem”
“When we listen to audiobooks produced in the West, they have a Wakandan accent,” said Eghosa Imasuen, executive director of Narrative Landscape Press in Lagos, Nigeria. “Nobody talks like that on the continent.” – Publishers Weekly
- Hilary Mantel’s Most Notorious Short Story Is Now Being Staged
“’The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – August 6th 1983’ was published in The Guardian in 2014 and gave the title to Mantel’s collection of short stories that year. … Billed as a psychological thriller, the adaptation is by Alexandra Wood and will be directed by John Young at (Liverpool’s) Everyman Theatre in May.” – The Guardian
- China Cracks Down On Gay Male Romance Novels That Young Women Adore
“Fans of the popular danmei same-sex romance genre, written and read mainly by straight women, say the Chinese government is carrying out the largest crackdown yet on it, effectively neutering the enjoyment. In the world of fantasy, danmei is relatively straightforward: Two men stand in for idealized relationships, from chaste to erotic.” – AP
PEOPLE
- London’s Royal Ballet And Opera Makes Bank, Or Maybe Sustainable Income, On Its New Ticket Model
Dynamic pricing is common, and as one performing arts critic pointed out, it “can shift in both directions, with prices increasing when tickets start selling out at popular shows but also decreasing where demand is slower.” – BBC
- How Large Data Sets And AI Analysis Are Absolutely Murdering Our Private Lives
“Personal data isn’t just a record of who we are. It’s our actions, transactions, locations, conversations, preferences, inferences, and vulnerabilities. It’s our identities, our intimate selves, our hopes and dreams, and our fears and flaws.” – Fast Company
- How Theatre Artists Survive Dictatorships
“If you press your ear to the plays of the 20th century, they’ll tell you secrets of human acts gone by and strategies to keep on. Among bloody slings and arrows of inhumane humanity are extraordinary scenes, real and imagined, of survival.” – American Theatre
- The Growing Popularity Of Madrid As A Film Set Isn’t Exactly Thrilling Its Residents
“While city officials celebrate Madrid’s popularity as a film and television set, residents of the most in-demand neighborhoods are not particularly thrilled to find their streets constantly crowded with cameras, cables, coat racks and people running around with spotlights and microphones in their hands.” – El País English
- The Studio Museum In Harlem Reopens, After Seven Years, In Its Own New Home
The museum director: “In many ways I do feel the timing of our opening now is ideal. … We’re opening in a moment that’s very much like the moment when the museum was founded.” – Gothamist
PEOPLE
- London’s Royal Ballet And Opera Makes Bank, Or Maybe Sustainable Income, On Its New Ticket Model
Dynamic pricing is common, and as one performing arts critic pointed out, it “can shift in both directions, with prices increasing when tickets start selling out at popular shows but also decreasing where demand is slower.” – BBC
- How Large Data Sets And AI Analysis Are Absolutely Murdering Our Private Lives
“Personal data isn’t just a record of who we are. It’s our actions, transactions, locations, conversations, preferences, inferences, and vulnerabilities. It’s our identities, our intimate selves, our hopes and dreams, and our fears and flaws.” – Fast Company
- How Theatre Artists Survive Dictatorships
“If you press your ear to the plays of the 20th century, they’ll tell you secrets of human acts gone by and strategies to keep on. Among bloody slings and arrows of inhumane humanity are extraordinary scenes, real and imagined, of survival.” – American Theatre
- The Growing Popularity Of Madrid As A Film Set Isn’t Exactly Thrilling Its Residents
“While city officials celebrate Madrid’s popularity as a film and television set, residents of the most in-demand neighborhoods are not particularly thrilled to find their streets constantly crowded with cameras, cables, coat racks and people running around with spotlights and microphones in their hands.” – El País English
- The Studio Museum In Harlem Reopens, After Seven Years, In Its Own New Home
The museum director: “In many ways I do feel the timing of our opening now is ideal. … We’re opening in a moment that’s very much like the moment when the museum was founded.” – Gothamist
THEATRE
VISUAL
- Have Screens Actually – We Mean It, This Time – Destroyed Education, Worldwide?
“It seems ridiculous to have to say this, but digital distraction is terrible for academic performance.” – The New York Times
- Netflix House Is Temu Disneyland, In A Mall
“Let’s say you are a Netflix fan, as anyone making a pilgrimage to Netflix House is sure to be. What, then, are you a fan of? … Netflix has been on a relentless campaign to become a fandom hub, a never-ending Comic-Con celebrating itself.” – Slate
- British Church Architecture Is, Frankly, Cold On The Inside
How to solve this problem? Heat pumps, of course. – Wired
- Creator Of The AI Actress Tilly Speaks Out
“As a creative, I have really enjoyed creating her,” she says. “It’s been just like a writer creating characters. You fall in love with your characters when you’re writing them. It’s a wonderful process. It wasn’t like I just made her in a second, and that was it. You know, it took a long time.” – Variety
- Has 21st Century Culture Lost Its Creativity?
Music without instruments and lyrics without meaning. Endless reboots, sequels and superheroes in the cinema. After a burst of magnificent TV dramas in the noughties, every glitzy new show is hailed as a must-see when most are mediocre. The algorithm has vanquished imagination. – The Economist
