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DANCE
IDEAS
- Penn State Will Shut Down NPR/PBS Affiliate WPSU
A committee of Trustees of the university, which owns and operates the station, unanimously rejected a plan to transfer ownership of the station licenses to Philadelphia station WHYY for $1. WPSU-TV reaches 515,000 households in 24 Pennsylvania counties; WPSU-FM serves more than 450,000 listeners. – Centre Daily Times (State College, PA)
- The New U.S. Poet Laureate Is Arthur Sze
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12 poetry collections and recipient last year of a lifetime achievement award from the library, he succeeds Ada Limón, who had served for three years.” – AP
- Layoffs And Cancellations At D.C. PBS Station WETA
“The workforce reduction includes layoffs of 12 active workers and the elimination of nine vacant positions, representing approximately 5% of the employee roster of more than 400 staff. … WETA also canceled its local television shows If You Lived Here, Get Out of Town and WETA Best Bets.” – Current
- The TIFF People’s Award Has Been Pretty Good At Predicting The Oscar Winners
What changed it all? Chariots of Fire. – CBC
- Philadelphia’s Brilliant New Home For Calder
Herzog & de Meuron has designed a deliberately “irrational” exhibition space, set largely below the Parkway and sheathed in reflecting steel, so that the building vanishes into air (as architects like to say), mirroring the gardens around it rather than asserting its own profile. – The New Yorker
ISSUES
- Philadelphia’s Brilliant New Home For Calder
Herzog & de Meuron has designed a deliberately “irrational” exhibition space, set largely below the Parkway and sheathed in reflecting steel, so that the building vanishes into air (as architects like to say), mirroring the gardens around it rather than asserting its own profile. – The New Yorker
- These Nazi-Looted Paintings Will, After An Intervention, Not Be Up For Auction
A nonprofit, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation, received a tip that the art was on the auction block in Ohio, and went into action. – The New York Times
- The National Gallery Can Finally Show Britain – And Tourists – The Story Of Painting Becoming Exciting
And gosh, maybe it can even start to include a fair number of women artists. – The Guardian (UK)
- Britain’s National Trust Encourages Slow Looking
The Trust “said it wanted to increase the average eight-second viewing time for an artwork, as a way of reducing stress and developing emotional resilience.” Great in theory, possibly a huge challenge in practice in front of any popular painting or sculpture. – BBC
- Naples Opens A Subway Station Designed By Anish Kapoor
From the street, it certainly looks like Kapoor’s work; coming up from the train platform, it looks like something by James Turrell. – Dezeen
MEDIA
- These Are Not The First Attacks On Education. But This Time The Attacks Are On The System
We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education and, this time around, the stakes feel even higher. In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself. – Boston Review
- How Seattle Theatre Group Became An Entertainment Juggernaut
This year, it will present over 700 shows across its stages, from pop music to Broadway musicals and seemingly everything in between. In recent years, it’s earned more revenue than Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony and Pacific Northwest Ballet combined. – Seattle Times
- How Teacher Evaluations Broke Good Education
Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point. The scores factor into academics’ pay, hiring, and chance to get tenure. But maximizing teacher ratings is very different from providing quality instruction. In fact, those aims are largely opposed. – The Atlantic
- San Francisco Music Club Bans AI Poster Art
Although some devil’s advocates might say that AI use democratizes the ability to create high-quality promotional materials, Agan feels like the aesthetic just isn’t in line with the club’s ethos. – SFGate
- Rolling Stone’s Parent Company Sues Google For AI Overview
“The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of search results leave users with little reason to click through to the source, hurting traffic and illegally benefitting from the work of its reporters.” – The Verge
MUSIC
- The New U.S. Poet Laureate Is Arthur Sze
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12 poetry collections and recipient last year of a lifetime achievement award from the library, he succeeds Ada Limón, who had served for three years.” – AP
- Some Thoughts On Raising A Book Reader Amid A Digital Environment
For one thing, “the real challenge isn’t technology itself, but how technology has evolved to actively compete with the very cognitive processes that reading requires.” – LitHub
- The Dictionary Had Its Beginning In The Enlightenment, But Now The Project May Be Coming To An End
“Dictionary content is expensive. … The cost of lexicographers—people are expensive, and the output is low. It is very difficult to justify that just for the sake of completism. You will never have enough staff to keep up. People are too productive in the creation of language.” – The Atlantic
- When A Writer Starts To Lose His Words, What Happens?
“After 50 years of publishing, Munsch told me, his ability to come up with new stories seems to have vanished. … Plots used to just appear to him, all the time and almost fully formed, as if they were limitless. But now they don’t.” – The New York Times
- Anthropic’s We Stole Your Books, Here’s Some Money Offer Isn’t Great
But this author wants the settlement money anyway. – Wired
PEOPLE
- Penn State Will Shut Down NPR/PBS Affiliate WPSU
A committee of Trustees of the university, which owns and operates the station, unanimously rejected a plan to transfer ownership of the station licenses to Philadelphia station WHYY for $1. WPSU-TV reaches 515,000 households in 24 Pennsylvania counties; WPSU-FM serves more than 450,000 listeners. – Centre Daily Times (State College, PA)
- The New U.S. Poet Laureate Is Arthur Sze
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12 poetry collections and recipient last year of a lifetime achievement award from the library, he succeeds Ada Limón, who had served for three years.” – AP
- Layoffs And Cancellations At D.C. PBS Station WETA
“The workforce reduction includes layoffs of 12 active workers and the elimination of nine vacant positions, representing approximately 5% of the employee roster of more than 400 staff. … WETA also canceled its local television shows If You Lived Here, Get Out of Town and WETA Best Bets.” – Current
- The TIFF People’s Award Has Been Pretty Good At Predicting The Oscar Winners
What changed it all? Chariots of Fire. – CBC
- Philadelphia’s Brilliant New Home For Calder
Herzog & de Meuron has designed a deliberately “irrational” exhibition space, set largely below the Parkway and sheathed in reflecting steel, so that the building vanishes into air (as architects like to say), mirroring the gardens around it rather than asserting its own profile. – The New Yorker
PEOPLE
- Penn State Will Shut Down NPR/PBS Affiliate WPSU
A committee of Trustees of the university, which owns and operates the station, unanimously rejected a plan to transfer ownership of the station licenses to Philadelphia station WHYY for $1. WPSU-TV reaches 515,000 households in 24 Pennsylvania counties; WPSU-FM serves more than 450,000 listeners. – Centre Daily Times (State College, PA)
- The New U.S. Poet Laureate Is Arthur Sze
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12 poetry collections and recipient last year of a lifetime achievement award from the library, he succeeds Ada Limón, who had served for three years.” – AP
- Layoffs And Cancellations At D.C. PBS Station WETA
“The workforce reduction includes layoffs of 12 active workers and the elimination of nine vacant positions, representing approximately 5% of the employee roster of more than 400 staff. … WETA also canceled its local television shows If You Lived Here, Get Out of Town and WETA Best Bets.” – Current
- The TIFF People’s Award Has Been Pretty Good At Predicting The Oscar Winners
What changed it all? Chariots of Fire. – CBC
- Philadelphia’s Brilliant New Home For Calder
Herzog & de Meuron has designed a deliberately “irrational” exhibition space, set largely below the Parkway and sheathed in reflecting steel, so that the building vanishes into air (as architects like to say), mirroring the gardens around it rather than asserting its own profile. – The New Yorker
THEATRE
VISUAL
- A Short History Of Stupidity
The quality of stupidity is just, sort of, there; and there’s lots of it. Could you write a history of happiness, or bad luck, or knees? – The Guardian
- How Our Brains Distinguish Reality From Imagination
We tend to think that we perceive reality as it is, with cameralike eyes that objectively log the light that hits them. But as information from the eyes flows into the brain, it becomes more abstract and subjective. – Scientific American
- The People Chasing Thrills, And The Artists And Engineers Running Up Against Physics To Make Them Thrillier
“In recent years, Americans have drifted away from many of their once-beloved sources of pleasure: drinking, throwing parties, having sex, making friends. Yet they keep coming back to theme parks.” – The Atlantic
- A US Actor Trying To Restore A UK Manor He Calls ‘Downton Shabby’ Has Been Locked Out By Local Government
Hopwood DePree “grew up listening to stories of the family’s ancestral home in England, but believed them to be fairytales, until he began researching his family tree online, and discovered his Manchester roots.” – The Guardian (UK)
- The Slow Death Of French Restaurant Criticism
“Paris, the centre of French gastronomy, has never been in more need of a great restaurant critic. Today, the Parisian food media scene has become a never-ending circle of new restaurants hyped for a couple of weeks before the next ones come in.” – Vittles
