"I thought I'd turned it off, and I saw a pelican, and I said to my dog, 'Oh, wow, a pelican!' And my AirPod went, 'A pelican, huh? That's so exciting for you! What's it doing?' I've never felt so deeply like I'm living out the first ten minutes of some dystopian sci-fi movie." - Ars Technica

"There's surprisingly little evidence that dehumanising language causes violent behaviour, but plenty of evidence says it accompanies it. People who dehumanise others are certainly more likely to treat them badly." - BBC

To narrow one’s approach to knowledge to any one field, any one area of specialisation, is to reduce one’s view of the world to the regulations of competing discourses, trivialising knowledge as something reducible to a methodology. - Aeon

These bundled aesthetic commonalities aren’t just coincidences, and they can’t be entirely described as trends—at least not in the sense of bottom-up collective favor that the word tends to evoke. - The Atlantic

It outlines a future “community-based” and “scholar-led” open-research communication system in which publishers are no longer gatekeepers that reject submitted work or determine first publication dates. Instead, authors would decide when and where to publish the initial accounts of their findings, both before and after peer review. - Nature

Acts of disengagement are routinely met with scepticism, judgment and pushback in public discourse. What if we were to treat them instead as opportunities for open enquiry and ask what is to be gained by them? - Aeon

For years, economists and more than a few worried parents have argued over whether a liberal arts degree is worth the price. The debate now seems to be over, and the answer is “no.” - The New York Times

"Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of (murder) at a gay nightclub in Florida said Friday that they were dropping their plans to build a museum, even as the city of Orlando is moving ahead with constructing the memorial." - AP

“It appears that arts organizations are trying to manage programming in a way that fits within their revenue constraints. And that’s not just a matter of a decrease in demand—it’s also a reaction to increased costs. From September 2019 through September 2023, inflation is up 20 percent.” - Chicago Reader

"The 230 'passengers' (Philibert prefers this term to 'patients') are from Paris’s first four arrondissements. Having been referred by their doctor or therapist, they can drop by from Monday to Friday between 9.15am and 5pm (and) partake in workshops for music, radio, drawing, painting or stained glass window-making." - The Guardian

"Once I had been advised by the general counsel that she was participating in the CEO succession process – which is a conflict of interest – I had a fiduciary duty as chair to advise her that her participation on the CEO succession process was a conflict of interest," Adam Waterous said. - CTV...

"Using copies of copyright-protected material to train AI models doesn’t qualify as the kind of copying that violates copyright law. A statutory licensing scheme to govern machine learning would create an “intractable economic problem” and incentivize technology companies to take their billions of dollars of investment capital to “more innovation friendly” jurisdictions. - Bloomberg

"Concerts are concerts; OK, the people are coming, and they are enjoying it. But then, what are we doing in wider terms? What are we doing for schools, for education, for deprived people, for mental health, for everything else?" - Van

"The deputy communications minister, Teo Nie Ching, told the parliament’s lower house that concert organisers must have 'a kill switch that will cut off electricity during any performance if there is any unwanted incident. We hope that with stricter guidelines, foreign artists can adhere to the local culture." - The Guardian

The deals that Live Nation offers artists to land their events, and what restrictions those agreements might include, are among the practices the Justice Department is probing. It is also exploring whether the company’s agreements restrict venues’ ability to work with other promoters or ticket services. - The Wall Street Journal

X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X has a score by veteran African-American composer Anthony Davis; scenario by his brother, actor-director and market research executive Christopher Davis; and libretto by their cousin, writer and professor Thulani Davis. Zachary Woolfe talks to the three of them. - The New York Times

Ara Guzelimian, who grew up in Los Angeles and now leads the Ojai Music Festival nearby, described California’s classical music culture as “the lingering positive presence of the pioneers heading West and looking to escape a kind of conformity.” - The New York Times

That triggered a subversive thought: why can’t all solo recitals be like this? Why won’t Carnegie Hall enhance its pianists with works of Pissaro or Picasso from the Metropolitan Museum? And why can’t we have live video close-ups of hands, face, hairstyle and legs in the recapitulation section of every over-long sonata? - The...

Sotheby’s and Christie’s expect that the November auction season could bring their companies upward of $1 billion each. But despite the claims of some auctioneers who said there are masterpieces around every corner, art advisers and market experts have noted the broader market’s lack of stellar inventory and buyer focus. - The New York...

A three-judge panel upheld the U.S. District Court ruling that, since the city government had commissioned Rodney Jackson‘s Memorial to Raymond Herisse (2019) and funded and organized the exhibition in which it was shown, the city also had the free-speech right to take the piece down. - ARTnews

"'Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art' was announced by the museum in early October — days before Hamas attacked Israel — and was slated to open Saturday, Nov. 4. The touring exhibit featured 'fine glassware, ceramics, metalwork, painting, weaponry, weaving and more from countries across the Middle East.'" - WESA (Pittsburgh)

The stunning drawings were rediscovered in 1975. That’s when Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, tasked restorer Sabino Giovannoni with trying to clean part of the walls of a narrow chamber beneath the church’s mausoleum, which had been designed by Michelangelo in 1520. - Artnet

"Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum is quietly relinquishing ownership of five antiquities to Italy as it acknowledges, for the first time, that some of its pieces 'were looted and illegally exported.' The changes come after a Chronicle investigation." - The Chronicle Of Higher Education

"A retired French couple who sold an African mask to a secondhand goods dealer for €150 have gone to court for a share of the proceeds after the mask fetched €4.2m at auction. But campaigners insist that the rare artefact instead should be returned to Gabon." - The Guardian

The plot’s got something for everyone: a cybersecurity attack for the tech junkies, a CEO see-saw and mass board exodus for the corporate drama aficionados, the ambient hum of the Canadian existential crisis for the doomsayers, and for the nonfiction zealots—well, it’s not fiction. - The Walrus

The layoffs will impact around 270 Condé Nast employees. The company currently has around 5,400 full-time employees globally. - The Wrap

“At a certain point in my tenure at Penguin Random House I just gave up trying to understand a lot of the emails that arrived from corporate and would just hit delete, asking myself quizzically, ‘And the contribution this makes to the actual publication of actual books is . . . ?’ ” - The New Yorker

"The OED’s founders realized that such a titanic task could never be accomplished by a small circle of men in London and Oxford, so they sought out volunteers. (The OED's third editor, James Murray,) circulat(ed) a call for contributors to newspapers, universities, and clubs around the globe." - MSN (The Atlantic)

The flagship of African-American legacy media, hard-hit by the forces hammering print media over the past two decades, went bankrupt in 2019. Black investors came to the rescue, and Ebony is active on paper and online — but the wall between advertising and editorial has become unsettlingly porous. - Columbia Journalism Review

"The organization brings together well-known actors from film, TV and theater to share dramatic readings of literary works. … (Since 2003, it has) expanded its audience across continents and within classrooms through WordTheatre Campus." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)

Many streaming services are cutting costs and curbing output while casting around for the broadest possible audience. - The New Yorker

"Re-entry is always harder than takeoff. … What’s weird is the adrenaline let-down. … That fact remains, though, it’s not really over. Not as long as SAG-AFTRA and Fran, Mother of Labor Dragons, are still at the table. God, I wish I could be in that dimly lit room." - The Hollywood Reporter

Part of the material includes texts from the network’s CEO Casey Bloys imploring lower-level staffers to create fake accounts on Twitter to respond to critics talking about their shows and on websites discussing HBO. - New York Magazine

In an excerpt from his upcoming book, Network of Lies, Brian Stelter reports that Carlson's sacking wasn't a condition of the Dominion settlement. "Think, for just a moment, about the worst relationship in your past — and why it ended. Odds are, there wasn’t just one reason, it wasn’t one thing," - Vanity Fair

"Disney has agreed to take full control of Hulu in a deal (worth $8.61 billion) with Comcast, which has owned a third of the streamer ever since Disney’s acquisition of the 21st Century Fox entertainment assets." - The Hollywood Reporter

The city agency FilmL.A. has raised fees for various permits needed to film within Los Angeles proper — and introduced a new set of fees for the use of drones or helicopters, street closures, etc. Says one location manager, "It makes people think, 'Why don’t we shoot this in Canada?'" - The Hollywood...

Associate choreographer Corinne McFadden Herrera: "It’s a never-ending process. The show’s principals generally stay about a year here in the States, and then we try to turn them all over at once. But the ensemble is like a revolving door because of how the contracts work." - Dance Magazine

The tour marks a revival of cultural exchanges between China and the United States. The Asian nation will also host a series of performances starting next week by the Philadelphia Orchestra, marking the 50th anniversary of the orchestra’s historic visit to China in 1973. - ABCNews

"In a 'novel' ruling on 'one of the oldest forms of human expression,' the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a decision last year that dismissed choreographer Kyle Hanagami’s lawsuit, which claimed that Epic Games stole his dance moves and used them as 'emotes' in Fortnite." - Billboard

The late Maria Tallchief — considered the country's first prima ballerina and one of the most notable Native American figures of the 20th century — was selected as one of two dozen people to be included in the U.S. Mint's American Women Quarters Program. - Axios

Christopher Marney: "My mum took me. We didn’t see the companies in London. We lived in Essex and we'd see London City Ballet at The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, because that was the company that toured and would perform at your local theatre." And yes, his revived LCB will definitely tour. - Bachtrack

"Choreographers’ interest in tying ballet directly to literature is a notable turnaround from the 20th century’s Balanchine-influenced rise of abstract, plotless ballets. Using ballet vocabulary to retell the works of great writers is fraught with potential pitfalls. But the medium of dance can also illuminate a book afresh." - Dance Magazine

Veteran TV writer/showrunner Warren Leight (Law & Order: SVU): "Be open. … Some writers come in with a notion of what they’re going to write and how many actors they’re going to take. And they draft two actors and then they stop. And inevitably when they do that, they fail." - American Theatre

"Unlike Beetlejuice, Heathers or Dear Evan Hansen, which all parlayed onstage popularity into huge digital followings, Treason is turning the formula for musical success around. Its producers cultivated an online fandom for three years before raising the curtain on the show." - The New York Times

“Theater is becoming very elitist. The minute there’s a well-known person in a play, it’s unaffordable.” - The New York Times

Peter Marks: "How do you analyze the artistic circuitry of a new musical when the musical’s lyricist is just circuits? I faced this challenge the other night at an off-Broadway theater. ... Living, breathing actors performed the musical, but no human brain put the words in their mouths." - MSN (The Washington Post)

Laura Collins-Hughes travels to Donegal, in the northwestern corner of Ireland, to visit Glenties — not Friel's own hometown, but that of his mother and aunts (think of the five women of Dancing at Lughnasa), where he spent childhood summers and is now buried. - The New York Times

I have been told that staff, tasked to phone up lifelong supporters and subscribers who didn’t renew for the first time, had to be given counselling after hearing the harrowing explanations they were told for why. - The Stage

"(The) esteemed Soviet-born conductor rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired years at the turn of the 21st century." - MSN (The Washington Post)

One of his hallmark offerings at Harvard was a class called Rep Ideal, in which he held forth on how a permanent company of actors could forge a bond between the institution and a community. Nothing else, he said, could create such a flexible acting instrument. - The New Yorker

"A movie star in the 1980s (Dune, Blade Runner, No Way Out), Young saw her career derailed by the mid-1990s. She refused to play certain Hollywood games … (and) played other games too enthusiastically. … (The industry) had branded her as volatile, difficult, even crazy." - The New York Times

“He was also born at the right time to be a multimedia superstar. Louis was there for acoustic recordings in 1923. After accompanying silent movies, he then made pioneering appearances in film, radio, and television. In many cases, he was the first African American to have featured billing in these new industries. - The...

"It comes as more of one that Winkler is, by his own admission, constantly scared, easily wounded, riddled with self-doubt, perpetually self-involved, childish, cheap, unforgiving and petty. … Winkler doesn’t so much nurse a grudge as midwives one — if necessary, for eternity." - MSN (The Washington Post)

Suddenly, this story broke and everything we believed about her was called into question. There was no warning and no sensitivity to the impact it would have on Indigenous peoples. This is not how reconciliation is done. - The Conversation