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The Franklin Institute Has An Original Wright Brothers Airplane — And Now It Has A Problem.

The 1911 Wright Model B was flown, recklessly and repeatedly, around the skies over Philadelphia by brewery heir Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. In 1935, after he fled to Germany, the plane went on display at the Institute. Now Bergdoll's daughter and granddaughter claim the museum stole the plane. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

How 20th-Century Writers Marched The Novel To Oblivion

Novelists increasingly defined their craft by opposing tradition, and so placed themselves at loggerheads with most of their possible audience. There is something essentially Pyrrhic about the triumphs of “Ulysses” (1920) and “The Man Without Qualities." - The Wall Street Journal (MSN)

TeamLab Is Expanding Its Spectacular High-Tech Immersive Art Shows Far Beyond Japan

The Tokyo-based collective of artists and engineers operates nearly 60 temporary or traveling exhibitions around the world, with permanent installations in Japan, China, Saudi Arabia — and, opening very soon, the company's largest-ever work, in Abu Dhabi. And the shows are astoundingly popular. - The New York Times

Statistical Profile: Which Artists Are Being Shown In America’s Museums

 I looked at more than 200 museums, and counted which artists were on view any time during December. The resulting list includes a little more than 3,400 artist names. Of these, only about 300 appear more than once—a tiny fraction. - Artnet

Striking Seattle Art Museum Guards Allege Union-Busting

“A full-time job should serve the basic things you need to take care of yourself, housing, food, health, even mental health. I’ve struggled to buy shoes, which I need as I spend all day in the galleries. Why should my coworkers and I have to go to Goodwill for shoes?” - ARTnews

The Record For Most Expensive Musical Instrument May Soon Be Broken

The Stradivarius on which Joseph Joachim played the world premiere of Brahms's Violin Concerto will be auctioned on February 7, and Sotheby's is estimating its value as between $12 million and $18 million. (The current record was set in 2011: $15.9 million for the Lady Blunt Stradivarius.) - Artnet

UK Theatres Warn Of Cuts Because Of Cost Increases

UK Theatre joint chief executive Claire Walker warned that “unplanned increases in staffing costs” were adding to a theatre sector already at “risk”. - The Stage

Terry Loftis Named New CEO Of New Jersey Symphony

Loftis goes to the New Jersey Symphony from his position as Chief Advancement and Revenue Officer of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), where he oversaw the fundraising, marketing, special events, and analytical research departments. - Symphony

Phantom AI-Generated News Websites Are Taking Over Old Community Newspapers

The reality was that none of the people allegedly working for the Ashland Daily Tidings existed, or at least were who they claimed to be. The bylines listed on Daily Tidings articles were put there by scammers using artificial intelligence, and in some cases stolen identities, to dupe local readers. - Oregon Public Broadcasting

Yet Again, Republicans Are Trying To Defund Public Radio And TV. Should We Be More Worried This Time?

"Efforts to defund NPR and PBS … (along with) their member stations and their primary funding mechanism, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting … have been raised by Republicans and successfully batted away by public media defenders with annual regularity for decades. This time could be different." - Semafor

Where’s The Next “New Berlin”?

Lately, “new Berlin” has become shorthand for an under-visited European city that is cheap, fun, and up-and-coming. Ever since creeping gentrification and a massive rise in tourism have thrown into question the German capital’s status of the world’s “coolest” city, people have been racing to determine its successor. - The New Republic

The Creator Economy Is Huge: 360M Creators In 20 Countries

They generate a cumulative economic impact of $368 billion, a figure comparable to the GDP of Hong Kong and more than the entire economic output of Finland, New Zealand, or Greece. - Fast Company

Musicians Sign Letter Opposing Attacks On Internet Archive

“We, the undersigned musicians, wholeheartedly oppose major record labels’ unjust lawsuit targeting the Internet Archive,” the Musicians for Fairness and Preservation Open Letter reads. “We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name.” - Engadget

Can Germany Still Afford Its Famously Generous Arts Funding?

The regional government for Berlin intends to cut its cultural budget by 12%, and other state and municipal governments are similarly strapped. The German federal government is holding back as well, and with the coalition government just having collapsed, there's no budget for 2025 at all yet. What can arts managers there expect? - Deutsche Welle

Saudi Arabia Will Give €50 Million Toward Pompidou Center’s Renovation

"This move to support France’s national museum of Modern and contemporary art, which is scheduled to begin a massive €262 million renovation later this year, marks the latest development in a burgeoning cultural partnership between the two countries." - The Art Newspaper

Strike At New York’s Strand Bookstore, Where Staffers Want More Than Minimum Wage

"The store’s 110 unionized workers went on strike in the middle of the busy holiday season, leaving the shop’s '18 miles of books' to be run by a skeleton staff. … The union wants base pay to increase from $16 an hour, which is minimum wage in New York City, to $18 an hour." - Gothamist

San Francisco Symphony Extends Musicians’ Contract — For About Six Weeks

The short-term extension comes amid long and contentious bargaining between SFS management, which insists that huge deficits must stop for the organization to survive, and the American Federation of Musicians, which argues that cuts demanded by management will severely diminish the orchestra. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Dallas Black Dance Theatre Must Pay Over Half A Million To Dancers It Fired

Under a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board, "10 fired dancers, and three whose offers of employment were rescinded, will receive over $560,000 from the dance company in back pay, front pay and compensation for damages incurred through the loss of their employment." - KERA (Dallas)

Poet Nikki Giovanni, 81

"A poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, (she) emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s before honing a more tender, meditative style in best-selling books for children and adults." - The Washington Post (MSN)

‘Polarization” Is Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year For 2024

And the reasons the word is an apt choice go well beyond politics. - AP

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Those Cursed “Best Of” Lists? They’re Actually Valuable

Detractors of year-end lists argue that they too frequently reward work that has already been heavily promoted and acclaimed, especially in a category like books, in which an individual can’t evaluate everything released in a year; another common argument is that they privilege known voices and forms over bold experiments. - The Atlantic

Why AI Is Cognitively And Creatively Exhausting

"In the early days of GenAI tools, I would share these bullet-point lists of ideas with my team, and it would be met with a similar reaction: Wow! And nothing would happen because the next step is a big and difficult one." - Fast Company

Have We Damaged Philanthropy By Trying To Optimize It?

A report this year, from nearly 200 philanthropic leaders, noted that as 20 million households dropped out of giving, from 2010 to 2016, the organizations that have suffered most are community-based groups whose existence depends on small-dollar donors rather than on mega-philanthropists, and those that “provide the backbone of civic life.” - The New York Times

Can One Simply Age Into Acceptance Of Terrible Holiday Movies?

“Everything about the modern Christmas movie is so relentlessly familiar. Even the stars I don’t recognize look somehow inherently recognizable, as if they are all fitted with squinting approximations of famous faces. I’ve found myself charmed by their commitment to the bit.” - The New York Times

Wicked Is A Blockbuster Movie, Sure, But The Real Story Arrived In Front Of Other Cameras

“Grande and Erivo have been praised for their performances onscreen, but they have also been performing in a parallel show, making viral magic on the press tour.” - The New York Times

The ChatGPT Era Is Already Ending

Why? Because the reasoning era is here. The basic difference: “Language models learn a grammar, perhaps even something about the world, while reasoning models aim to use that grammar.” - The Atlantic

The Franklin Institute Has An Original Wright Brothers Airplane — And Now It Has A Problem.

The 1911 Wright Model B was flown, recklessly and repeatedly, around the skies over Philadelphia by brewery heir Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. In 1935, after he fled to Germany, the plane went on display at the Institute. Now Bergdoll's daughter and granddaughter claim the museum stole the plane. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Where’s The Next “New Berlin”?

Lately, “new Berlin” has become shorthand for an under-visited European city that is cheap, fun, and up-and-coming. Ever since creeping gentrification and a massive rise in tourism have thrown into question the German capital’s status of the world’s “coolest” city, people have been racing to determine its successor. - The New Republic

Can Germany Still Afford Its Famously Generous Arts Funding?

The regional government for Berlin intends to cut its cultural budget by 12%, and other state and municipal governments are similarly strapped. The German federal government is holding back as well, and with the coalition government just having collapsed, there's no budget for 2025 at all yet. What can arts managers there expect? -...

The Creative Work That’s Coming Out Of Copyright This Year

Copyright will expire on Buck Rogers, Captain Easy, Horace Horsecollar, Tintin, Hal Foster's first Tarzan comic strips and, yes, Popeye. - Creative Blog

Charges Dropped Against Most Of The 2023 Protesters At Canada’s Giller Prize

“The protesters interrupted the literary award ceremony in November 2023 carrying signs that read ‘Scotiabank Funds Genocide,' referring to the then-title sponsor's investment in the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.” - CBC

Olivia Wilde Wants To Change The Childhood Narratives Around Film

The director - and actor - says that when little girls love movies, they’re told they should be actors. But “I think when little boys say they love movies, people say ‘You should be a director.’” She would like to make the messages more equal. - Variety

The Record For Most Expensive Musical Instrument May Soon Be Broken

The Stradivarius on which Joseph Joachim played the world premiere of Brahms's Violin Concerto will be auctioned on February 7, and Sotheby's is estimating its value as between $12 million and $18 million. (The current record was set in 2011: $15.9 million for the Lady Blunt Stradivarius.) - Artnet

Terry Loftis Named New CEO Of New Jersey Symphony

Loftis goes to the New Jersey Symphony from his position as Chief Advancement and Revenue Officer of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), where he oversaw the fundraising, marketing, special events, and analytical research departments. - Symphony

Musicians Sign Letter Opposing Attacks On Internet Archive

“We, the undersigned musicians, wholeheartedly oppose major record labels’ unjust lawsuit targeting the Internet Archive,” the Musicians for Fairness and Preservation Open Letter reads. “We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name.” - Engadget

San Francisco Symphony Extends Musicians’ Contract — For About Six Weeks

The short-term extension comes amid long and contentious bargaining between SFS management, which insists that huge deficits must stop for the organization to survive, and the American Federation of Musicians, which argues that cuts demanded by management will severely diminish the orchestra. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Taylor Swift’s Finally-Completed Tour Took In An Astonishing $2 Billion

Through its 149th and final show, which took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sunday, Swift’s tour sold a total of $2,077,618,725 in tickets. That’s two billion and change — double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history and an extraordinary new benchmark for a white-hot international concert business. - The...

What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like

“Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments.” Now there are some reconstructions of the sounds of millennia ago that may be fairly accurate. - Open Culture

TeamLab Is Expanding Its Spectacular High-Tech Immersive Art Shows Far Beyond Japan

The Tokyo-based collective of artists and engineers operates nearly 60 temporary or traveling exhibitions around the world, with permanent installations in Japan, China, Saudi Arabia — and, opening very soon, the company's largest-ever work, in Abu Dhabi. And the shows are astoundingly popular. - The New York Times

Statistical Profile: Which Artists Are Being Shown In America’s Museums

 I looked at more than 200 museums, and counted which artists were on view any time during December. The resulting list includes a little more than 3,400 artist names. Of these, only about 300 appear more than once—a tiny fraction. - Artnet

Striking Seattle Art Museum Guards Allege Union-Busting

“A full-time job should serve the basic things you need to take care of yourself, housing, food, health, even mental health. I’ve struggled to buy shoes, which I need as I spend all day in the galleries. Why should my coworkers and I have to go to Goodwill for shoes?” - ARTnews

Saudi Arabia Will Give €50 Million Toward Pompidou Center’s Renovation

"This move to support France’s national museum of Modern and contemporary art, which is scheduled to begin a massive €262 million renovation later this year, marks the latest development in a burgeoning cultural partnership between the two countries." - The Art Newspaper

Why Are People Hating On This Year’s Pantone Color Of The Year?

Today alone, people have been coming out in droves to express their deep-seated hatred for or utter confusion about Mocha Mousse in various comments sections. USA Today even insinuated that Brat green had been snubbed in favor if the more “demure” milk chocolate tone. - Hyperallergic

Canva Changed How Ordinary People Design. Can Canva Survive AI?

Canva’s vision has always been to enable you to take your idea and turn it into a design, and reduce the friction between those two points. I think because that has always been our ambition, we were very early to start to adopt AI in our product. - Wired

How 20th-Century Writers Marched The Novel To Oblivion

Novelists increasingly defined their craft by opposing tradition, and so placed themselves at loggerheads with most of their possible audience. There is something essentially Pyrrhic about the triumphs of “Ulysses” (1920) and “The Man Without Qualities." - The Wall Street Journal (MSN)

Strike At New York’s Strand Bookstore, Where Staffers Want More Than Minimum Wage

"The store’s 110 unionized workers went on strike in the middle of the busy holiday season, leaving the shop’s '18 miles of books' to be run by a skeleton staff. … The union wants base pay to increase from $16 an hour, which is minimum wage in New York City, to $18 an hour."...

‘Polarization” Is Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year For 2024

And the reasons the word is an apt choice go well beyond politics. - AP

Why The Novel Matters

It does not have to be clear or obscure. In the voyage out between these binaries – between the oil spills, thistles and phantoms a novel might pass on the way, between desire, disappointment and the people who clean offices at dawn on page 33 – a novel can reach for understanding and re-examine...

When Barnes & Noble Bought One Of This Country’s Most-Storied Independent Bookstores

"When Barnes & Noble took over they were saying, 'Hey, this is the Tattered Cover. The name Barnes & Noble will be nowhere in the store.' And then we got all this stuff, like machines, that said Barnes & Noble on them. - Westword

What It’s Like To Give Up On A Book

For a writer, that is. For a reader, it’s much easier. But when you’ve written 600 pages and you have a book contract? Yikes. - LitHub

Phantom AI-Generated News Websites Are Taking Over Old Community Newspapers

The reality was that none of the people allegedly working for the Ashland Daily Tidings existed, or at least were who they claimed to be. The bylines listed on Daily Tidings articles were put there by scammers using artificial intelligence, and in some cases stolen identities, to dupe local readers. - Oregon Public Broadcasting

Yet Again, Republicans Are Trying To Defund Public Radio And TV. Should We Be More Worried This Time?

"Efforts to defund NPR and PBS … (along with) their member stations and their primary funding mechanism, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting … have been raised by Republicans and successfully batted away by public media defenders with annual regularity for decades. This time could be different." - Semafor

The Creator Economy Is Huge: 360M Creators In 20 Countries

They generate a cumulative economic impact of $368 billion, a figure comparable to the GDP of Hong Kong and more than the entire economic output of Finland, New Zealand, or Greece. - Fast Company

Here Are 2025’s Golden Globe Nominations

On the TV side, FX/Hulu’s “The Bear” continues its trophy domination with the most nominations for any series; that’s five for the restaurant-set dramedy. - Variety

The Golden Globes Nominations Are Out

And Emila Pérez is in. Of course, “the Globes have been in turmoil since 2021,” and last year’s ceremony was a rushed stinkbomb of an experience for everyone. But hope springs eternal when celebrity-infused cash is involved. - The New York Times

The Election May Be Reshaping The Oscars Race

"Feel-good movies with messages of tolerance and redemption ... are on the rise.” - Washington Post

Dallas Black Dance Theatre Must Pay Over Half A Million To Dancers It Fired

Under a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board, "10 fired dancers, and three whose offers of employment were rescinded, will receive over $560,000 from the dance company in back pay, front pay and compensation for damages incurred through the loss of their employment." - KERA (Dallas)

Dick Van Dyke Is Singing And Dancing In A New Coldplay Video, At 98

If there were ever an argument for dance (and a sense of humor) as a way to extend one’s life, well: Dick Van Dyke in a suit and tie, barefoot, dancing in his California backyard as he nears his 99th birthday, is it. - Vulture

“The Nutcracker” Is Saved! San Francisco Ballet Dancers’ Union And Management Agree On Contract

"San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker season will kick off as planned, despite concerns that opening night would be canceled due to a stall in contract negotiations. Ballet management … reached a tentative two-year agreement with its union members on Thursday." - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

A Way To Teach Pointe Work That Won’t Wreck Dancers’ Feet

Lynne Charles, artistic director of English National Ballet School, has developed a method she calls 4Pointe. "There are all these methods ... but there’s no pre-pointe teaching ... the balance as you go through your foot. I’ve developed exercises for specific parts of the foot and put them in a specific order." - Bachtrack

A Choreographer Exhibits At Art Basel Miami Beach

"Diego Vega Solorza does not want people to think of him as a visual artist. He is certainly not a sculptor, he insists, nor a photographer or videographer — even though he will exhibit that kind of work ... at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach." - The New York Times

Why America’s Regional Dance Companies Matter

"In the performing arts, it’s often assumed that audiences consider international or 'big-city' imports higher quality than locally-produced talent and creativity. But for decades, regional companies have been proving that false. … While these 'homegrown' companies may have relatively low profiles, they’re a crucial part of the national dance landscape." - Dance Magazine

UK Theatres Warn Of Cuts Because Of Cost Increases

UK Theatre joint chief executive Claire Walker warned that “unplanned increases in staffing costs” were adding to a theatre sector already at “risk”. - The Stage

Taylor Mac’s Tribute To His Collaborator Morgan Jenness

“Morgan was like meeting, not a saint, but the … Muse of Curiosity. 'Ingenuity is always worth a read,' was one of her oft-repeated mantras. In essence, she viewed the act of creativity as inherently good. Something worthy of digging into.” - American Theatre

A Theatre Troupe Struggles On Amid The Murderous Chaos Of Port-au-Prince

"'Every day (there’s shooting),' sighed the director, Eliezer Guérismé, as his company took a break from their read-through to the all-too familiar sound of gunfire. 'But even with the shooting, we keep on working because that’s our mission. We don’t want to stop.'" - The Guardian

What’s The Point Of Being A Theater Critic? This Is.

"Why would anyone want to be a critic? As I’ve admitted before, it wasn’t in my case an aspiration but a series of accidents that only in retrospect seem inevitable." Charles McNulty explains how it happened as well as the principles that shape his criticism. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Of Ticket Prices And Low Funding Of UK Regional Theatre

According to UK Theatre, the majority of tickets sold in regional theatres cost under £35, with 99.9% priced below £100. Even in commercial venues, 65% of all tickets sold for less than £45. Furthermore, since 2019, the average ticket price at UK Theatre venues has decreased by 5%. - The Stage

One Of DC’s Oldest Black Box Theaters Is For Sale — At A Price No Local Company Could Afford

A nonprofit called CulturalDC bought the Source Theatre in 2006 so it could remain a performance space. Now, however, CulturalDC's board wants to sell the building by the end of the year and is asking for $5.8 million. The company using the Source has offered to buy it, but not at that price. -...

Poet Nikki Giovanni, 81

"A poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, (she) emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s before honing a more tender, meditative style in best-selling books for children and adults." - The Washington Post (MSN)

The Woman Who Brought Romance Novels To Prominence In Taiwan Has Died At 86

Chiung Yao "helped shape the idea of romantic love for generations,” with more than 60 novels and short story collections published, and countless movies and TV adaptations from her work. - The New York Times

Marvin Laird, Who Conducted Broadway Shows And Wrote The Music For Ruthless, Has Died At 85

Bernadette Peters, with whom he often worked, said, "The orchestras loved him. He had a great sense of humor and they respected his musicianship. … He knew what I was going to do before I did it.” - The New York Times

Silvia Pinal, Golden Age Star Of Mexican Cinema, Has Died At 93

“The golden-haired Ms. Pinal, who collected more than 100 film and television credits in a career that began in the late 1940s, was known for balancing urbane glamour with saucy humor and sensuality” - and for working with Luis Buñuel on the Palme d’Or-winning Viridiana. - The New York Times

Miho Nakayama, J-Pop Teen Star Who Became A Serious Actor, Has Died At 54

Nakayama was “a reigning J-pop star of the 1980s who broke through to become a critically acclaimed dramatic actress and gained international attention.” - The New York Times

The Life Of Simone Weil — And How It’s Put To Use In America

In the late 20th century she was seen as an exemplar of well-meaning but extreme ascetic mysticism. Now she's either a prophet of, and antidote for, American political and spiritual malaise or "a mascot for misguided youths seeking to blend a fetishized Catholic ritualism with aestheticized eating disorders." - The Drift

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Dallas Black Dance Theatre Must Pay Over Half A Million To Dancers It Fired

Under a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board, "10 fired dancers, and three whose offers of employment were rescinded, will receive over $560,000 from the dance company in back pay, front pay and compensation for damages incurred through the loss of their employment." - KERA (Dallas)

Poet Nikki Giovanni, 81

"A poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, (she) emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s before honing a more tender, meditative style in best-selling books for children and adults." - The Washington Post (MSN)

Benjamin Britten Acted In Cinderella, And Prokofiev Went Ice Skating

How was the Christmas season for Europe’s great composers? - Classical Music

The ChatGPT Era Is Already Ending

Why? Because the reasoning era is here. The basic difference: “Language models learn a grammar, perhaps even something about the world, while reasoning models aim to use that grammar.” - The Atlantic

Notre Dame Reopens, Five And A Half Years After It Burned

“Notre Dame was a monumental achievement ​in the 12th and 13th centuries. Its resurrection after the devastating fire that threatened to bring the entire edifice down, is a monumental achievement for the 21st.” - The Observer (UK)

How Do Film Critics’ Circles Choose Their Award Winners? Same Way The Guys In This Movie Do.

"One thing voting for awards has taught me is that virtually every outside assumption about how the process works is wrong, (especially) any attempt to extract an overarching meaning from the results. … Fortunately, there’s an easy way to explain the process. … All you have to do is watch Conclave." - Slate (MSN)

When Historic Preservation Means More Than Just Landmarking Buildings

"So what do we mean when we designate something a landmark? It’s a trickier question than you might think. Landmark laws across the country have come into existence to preserve things we deem culturally significant. But they don’t always protect what we actually want to save." - The New York Times

Hundreds Of Authors Support Their Fellow Novelist

Lisa Ko “was subjected to weeks of harassment as well as a broader smear campaign in the media which resulted in a loss of professional opportunities,” and many of her fellow authors will not have it. - LitHub

Bringing Fanny And Alexander To Life As An Opera

The TV series version of Fanny and Alexander is more than five hours long, but the opera (perhaps sadly) has to be shorter. “The key to their adaptation was to capture the look and feeling of the movie with efficiency, and in new ways." - The New York Times

Elite Athletes Are In Serious Copyright Trouble

“Athletes, coaches, and choreographers are now facing the fact that they’ve been unintentionally breaking the law nearly every day, through the music that soundtracks their performances. And as rumors of the dollar amounts in musicians’ complaints spread, many athletes began to question” if their sports can continue at all. - Slate - Slate

Canada’s Largest Publishers Have Had It With OpenAI

And they’re filing a major lawsuit over copyright violations. "The suit was filed by several leading Canadian media companies, including the owners of the National Post and Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada.” - The Verge

Jonathan Franzen Shares His Journal About The Agonizing Process Of Writing “The Corrections”

Adam Moss: "(it) is full of notes-to-self that provide a real-time map of what was going through his mind. … It’s rare for a writer to allow you this far in to see how a novel is written; most are secretive, superstitious about exposing a process that even they don’t understand." - Vulture
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