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David Lynch, 78

"(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences — with an unsettling blend of melodrama, whimsy and nightmarish horror." - The Washington Post (MSN)

Google “Cubism” These Days And You’ll Get A Bunch Of AI-Generated Garbage

Same with Bing and DuckDuckGo; the bogus AI images are crowding out Picasso and Braque in the results. The stuff comes from CubismArtwork.com, which also features bot-written artist bios and how-to-paint-cubism-yourself instructions and (because of course it does) sells wall posters of AI-generated faux-Cubist art. - Artnet

Bay Area Arts Organizations In Funding Crisis

Similarly in San Francisco, hundreds of music and theater organizations (the latter in major decline recently) are struggling to survive despite the well-established fact that they have a beneficial economic impact on the city and the Bay Area. - San Francisco Classical Voice

Rehab For Actors Recovering From Playing Hamlet

It doesn't necessarily seem all that improbable, but no, this isn't really a thing. It is, however, the concept of the play Hamlet Camp, which has just opened in Sydney — starring, yes, three actors who have played Hamlet. - The Guardian

Critics Have Always Hated/Loved/Worried-About Newspapers. Let’s Understand The History

The abolition of most forms of censorship, declining paper costs, railway expansion and universal primary education triggered a newspaper boom that saw total daily circulation rise from around 1.5 million in 1870 to nearly 10 million by 1914. - Aeon

Barnes & Noble’s Great Resurgence

The bookseller expects to open over 60 new bookstores in 2025, including five this month. - Geekwire

The California Roots Of Martha Graham’s Modern Dance Revolution

The metro Pittsburgh-born Graham spent her teenage years in Santa Barbara and saw her first dance performance — featuring her future teacher Ruth St. Denis — in Los Angeles in 1911. "She talked about how intoxicating the light in Santa Barbara was to her, and she would just run and spin." - Orange County Register (MSN)

Criticism Is So Much More Than Being Critical

Criticism can oppose; it can also cajole, provoke, consider, inform, and suggest. More than being punitive or dismissive, public criticism can provide an opportunity to collectively look at a thing differently, and writing such a piece can be a collaborative venture. It can also be interrogative. - Hyperallergic

Artists Tried Influencing The Election With Billboards. Did They Sway Anyone?

How do you evaluate something as subjective and mercurial as billboard art? - The New York Times

Drake Sues His Record Label For Promoting “Defamatory” Recording

Drake’s lawsuit claims that Universal Music Group ‘chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists’ by allegedly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s song with bots and payola. - The Verge

Criticisms Of Spotify? The Don’t Hold Up

What a lot of these criticisms seem to miss is the crucial element: that we can still choose what we listen to. No one is making you stream the lowest common denominator playlists and you’re not forced to let the algorithm direct what you listen to. - Spectator

In Defense Of El Sistema, The Simón Bolívar Orchestra, And, Yes, Dudamel

European Union Youth Orchestra director Marshall Marcus, who's seen a lot of El Sistema's educational work up close, argues that those who denounce the program, its flagship orchestra and its most famous alumnus for providing window-dressing to the Maduro regime are missing the point — and overlooking the good El Sistema does. - The Guardian

Christie’s Picks A New Leader

Bonnie Brennan, a 51-year-old Michigan native, succeeds Guillaume Cerutti, a 58-year-old Frenchman who is stepping down after an eight-year run. Cerutti plans to continue as the house’s board chairman. - The Wall Street Journal (MSN)

The Cultural Loss Of 100,000 Arnold Schoenberg Scores

The composer’s son, now 83 years old, stored over 100,000 of his father’s scores at Belmont, in addition to photographs, letters, books, posters and more. The scores were held in a digital back-up, but this was also destroyed in the fire. - ClassicFM

The Lost Music In The LA Fires

In the days after, Los Angeles-area musicians and industry pros began to circulate a spreadsheet noting who had lost a home or workplace. The list stretched over 200 entries. - Los Angeles Times

Photographer Oliviero Toscani, Who Shot Those Provocative Benetton Ads, Has Died At 82

"(He) was the creative force behind the United Colors of Benetton campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s that featured images such as a Pope kissing an imam on the lips, a priest embracing a nun, … and a black woman breastfeeding a white baby, part of the brand’s advocacy for diversity and tolerance." - AP

Italian Museums Try Offering Free Dog-Sitting Services For Visitors

"Normally, a paid version of the service operates at 290 museums across Italy. One of the company Bauadvisor's dog-sitters meets the owner outside the museum and takes the dog for a walk. … This promotional, free version of the service will take place for one day every month … in a different Italian city." - CNN

Most Expensive Piece Of Entertainment In History? This Video Game Could End Up Costing $1 Billion

Most game makers keep their expenditures secret; Call of Duty was recently reported to have cost over $700 million so far. But multiplayer space simulator Star Citizen publishes its figures, updated in real time, on its website. Currently it's approaching $800 million and may reach the billion-dollar mark next year. - The Guardian

Conductor Hannu Lintu Named Singapore Symphony’s Next Music Director

The 57-year-old Finn, currently music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir in Lisbon and of the Finnish National Opera & Ballet, begins his term with the 2026-27 season. He succeeds former Houston Symphony and Calgary Philharmonic music director Hans Graf, who departs Singapore at the end of next season. - The Straits Times (Singapore)

Alt-Weekly Chicago Reader Is At “Imminent Risk Of Closure”

The paper, which was owned by the Sun-Times for six years before being sold to a not-for-profit in 2018, has continued to be plagued by the issues facing local news generally in the US. Six non-union staffers have been laid off and the publisher has resigned. - Chicago Sun-Times

By Topic

Studying How The Brain Works Is Fine. But What About Imagination?

Imagination of a sort is central to all experience. We construct our perceived world from incomplete information, interpreted via inner representations of our environment, that generate predictions of what is actually out there and how it will respond to our actions. - The Guardian

The Rise And Fall Of Greenwich Village’s Bohemia

The unique conditions of the Village produced an environment in which genius could make sense of itself and wheat could be separated from chaff. The mid-century Village was a layered, organic, seething society: multiethnic, multigenerational, transclass, ideologically open and experimental. - First Things

Why Do Some People Seek Self-Insight More Than Others?

My colleagues and I have been looking into what we call the ‘self-insight motive’ and we’ve found it might be more accurate to see it as akin to a personality trait that varies in strength between individuals – some people have more of it than other. - Psyche

Can Dogs Really Talk To Humans By Pressing Buttons?

Heaven knows there's a ton of social media videos purporting to show that the answer is yes. What do animal-cognition scientists think? - The New York Times Magazine

Versailles Was, Believe It Or Not, A Center of Scientific Advancement

"In 1666, Louis XIV established the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, which, unlike peer institutions in Italy or Britain, paid members a salary and covered their lodgings and equipment. … At court, (Louis XV and XVI) were routinely presented with the latest inventions or discoveries, sometimes even watching live demonstrations." - Artnet

While The Brutalist Gets Architecture Painfully Wrong, It Does Stand Up For Modernism And Genius

Tussling with history and mythology, the film "goes all in on the idea that we still desperately need the old dyad of genius and modernist progress, that great minds, great thoughts, great works of human creativity can still transform us spiritually and materially.” - Washington Post

Bay Area Arts Organizations In Funding Crisis

Similarly in San Francisco, hundreds of music and theater organizations (the latter in major decline recently) are struggling to survive despite the well-established fact that they have a beneficial economic impact on the city and the Bay Area. - San Francisco Classical Voice

Criticism Is So Much More Than Being Critical

Criticism can oppose; it can also cajole, provoke, consider, inform, and suggest. More than being punitive or dismissive, public criticism can provide an opportunity to collectively look at a thing differently, and writing such a piece can be a collaborative venture. It can also be interrogative. - Hyperallergic

Artists Tried Influencing The Election With Billboards. Did They Sway Anyone?

How do you evaluate something as subjective and mercurial as billboard art? - The New York Times

Bristol, UK City Council Poised To Eliminate Arts Grants And Cut Culture Budget By Half

The city government is facing possible bankruptcy due to a £52 million budget gap over the next five years. Among the drastic measures being seriously considered are winding down and ending the Cultural Investment Programme (which distributes funding grants to arts institutions) and closing three local historic sites. - The Guardian

No – Harvard Didn’t Break How America Works

The danger of blaming the Ivy League for today’s overreliance on blunt ranking-and-sorting instruments is that we may be tempted to wait for the Ivy League to fix it. Instead, let’s agree that we also need leaders who flourished in local community colleges, regional universities, apprenticeships. - The Atlantic

A Plan For Making The Arts “The Next Big Thing” In Downtown Chicago

"A group of civic, business and community leaders calling themselves 'Team Culture' wants to reimagine major parts of downtown — filling vacant, often shadowy spaces with light and art." - Chicago Sun-Times

Criticisms Of Spotify? The Don’t Hold Up

What a lot of these criticisms seem to miss is the crucial element: that we can still choose what we listen to. No one is making you stream the lowest common denominator playlists and you’re not forced to let the algorithm direct what you listen to. - Spectator

In Defense Of El Sistema, The Simón Bolívar Orchestra, And, Yes, Dudamel

European Union Youth Orchestra director Marshall Marcus, who's seen a lot of El Sistema's educational work up close, argues that those who denounce the program, its flagship orchestra and its most famous alumnus for providing window-dressing to the Maduro regime are missing the point — and overlooking the good El Sistema does. - The...

The Cultural Loss Of 100,000 Arnold Schoenberg Scores

The composer’s son, now 83 years old, stored over 100,000 of his father’s scores at Belmont, in addition to photographs, letters, books, posters and more. The scores were held in a digital back-up, but this was also destroyed in the fire. - ClassicFM

The Lost Music In The LA Fires

In the days after, Los Angeles-area musicians and industry pros began to circulate a spreadsheet noting who had lost a home or workplace. The list stretched over 200 entries. - Los Angeles Times

Conductor Hannu Lintu Named Singapore Symphony’s Next Music Director

The 57-year-old Finn, currently music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir in Lisbon and of the Finnish National Opera & Ballet, begins his term with the 2026-27 season. He succeeds former Houston Symphony and Calgary Philharmonic music director Hans Graf, who departs Singapore at the end of next season. - The Straits Times...

A Proposal For Keeping The Wanamaker Organ Safe And In Regular Use

The instrument's landmark status only means that it can't be destroyed or moved without approval: a new owner or occupier of the soon-to-be-former Macy's in central Philadelphia could simply mothball it. Peter Dobrin has a suggestion for the space that could keep the public coming in to listen. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Google “Cubism” These Days And You’ll Get A Bunch Of AI-Generated Garbage

Same with Bing and DuckDuckGo; the bogus AI images are crowding out Picasso and Braque in the results. The stuff comes from CubismArtwork.com, which also features bot-written artist bios and how-to-paint-cubism-yourself instructions and (because of course it does) sells wall posters of AI-generated faux-Cubist art. - Artnet

Christie’s Picks A New Leader

Bonnie Brennan, a 51-year-old Michigan native, succeeds Guillaume Cerutti, a 58-year-old Frenchman who is stepping down after an eight-year run. Cerutti plans to continue as the house’s board chairman. - The Wall Street Journal (MSN)

Italian Museums Try Offering Free Dog-Sitting Services For Visitors

"Normally, a paid version of the service operates at 290 museums across Italy. One of the company Bauadvisor's dog-sitters meets the owner outside the museum and takes the dog for a walk. … This promotional, free version of the service will take place for one day every month … in a different Italian city."...

How Virtual Reality Is Changing The Designing Of Buildings

VR brings clarity to architectural design. While traditional blueprints and 3D renderings can mainly convey spatial relationships, lighting conditions and material finishes, VR immerses users in a realistic simulation of the space. - The Conversation

The Extraordinary Efforts To Save The Getty Center From Fire

Fire extinguishers in hand, the museum said, the Getty’s staff scours the sparse ground beneath their boots as well as the canopies of oak trees overhead. They look for embers. - The Wall Street Journal

Artwork Lost In LA Fires

Ron Rivlin said he had lost more than two dozen Warhols — he owns a gallery in West Hollywood that specializes in Warhol — along with works by Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, John Baldessari and Kenny Scharf. - The New York Times

Critics Have Always Hated/Loved/Worried-About Newspapers. Let’s Understand The History

The abolition of most forms of censorship, declining paper costs, railway expansion and universal primary education triggered a newspaper boom that saw total daily circulation rise from around 1.5 million in 1870 to nearly 10 million by 1914. - Aeon

Barnes & Noble’s Great Resurgence

The bookseller expects to open over 60 new bookstores in 2025, including five this month. - Geekwire

Alt-Weekly Chicago Reader Is At “Imminent Risk Of Closure”

The paper, which was owned by the Sun-Times for six years before being sold to a not-for-profit in 2018, has continued to be plagued by the issues facing local news generally in the US. Six non-union staffers have been laid off and the publisher has resigned. - Chicago Sun-Times

Can “The Conversation” Do For Local News What It’s Done For Academic Research?

"The nonprofit outlet has built a brand on connecting the knowledge of professors and researchers to both the news cycle and a general audience … But could it also work on a sub-national level ... and try to make a dent in the local news crisis? That’s the idea behind The Conversation Local." -...

The Tyranny Of Reading Lists

The urge to track our reading habits is never so strong as it is near the turn of the year, when cultural forces press us to revise ourselves. Like the things we eat or the ways we move our bodies, the books we consume get talked about as yet another avenue for self-improvement. -...

New Research On Circulation Of Audiobooks At US Libraries

"Digital audiobooks accounted for 70 percent of adult audio circulation and 56 percent of youth audio circulation in libraries queried in the time frame of the survey. Circulation patterns showed significant variation according to community size." - Publishing Perspectives

Most Expensive Piece Of Entertainment In History? This Video Game Could End Up Costing $1 Billion

Most game makers keep their expenditures secret; Call of Duty was recently reported to have cost over $700 million so far. But multiplayer space simulator Star Citizen publishes its figures, updated in real time, on its website. Currently it's approaching $800 million and may reach the billion-dollar mark next year. - The Guardian

Movie Audiences These Days Are Laughing At Some Pretty Intense Stuff

"(Chuckles) ripple through the crowd when Nicole Kidman laps up milk from a saucer on her hands and knees in Babygirl, when Lily-Rose Depp contorts herself inhumanly in Nosferatu, when Mikey Madison is bound and gagged in Anora, when Daniel Craig is shooting heroin in Queer." - The New York Times

What’s With All the Bizarre Stuff Behind TV Credits?

All of them seem to have collectively decided that the best way to convey the sense of epic event TV is with an overture of shape-shifting, literal-minded screen-saver art. - The New York Times

The Sad Sorry History Of Propaganda Art

 There will never be an end to manipulation by image. All we can do is understand its past in the hope of being able to read its future when it comes. - Hyperallergic

No, The Academy Is Not Considering Cancelling The Oscars

The Sun, one of Britain's downmarket tabloids, posted a story Tuesday night saying that, due to the Los Angeles fires, there's a contingency plan to cancel the Academy Awards ceremony on March 2. THR has spoken with key figures at the Academy, who say no such plan exists. - The Hollywood Reporter

What Will Canada Look Like Without The CBC?

In a time of streaming, the broadcaster’s prime-time share of 4.4 percent speaks to the end times of broadcast TV or the remarkable lack of interest in CBC prime time—or both. - The Walrus

The California Roots Of Martha Graham’s Modern Dance Revolution

The metro Pittsburgh-born Graham spent her teenage years in Santa Barbara and saw her first dance performance — featuring her future teacher Ruth St. Denis — in Los Angeles in 1911. "She talked about how intoxicating the light in Santa Barbara was to her, and she would just run and spin." - Orange County...

The National Dance Project Is Ending (At Least In Its Current Form)

Since its founding in 1996, the regranting program has played a crucial role, supporting the creation of new dance works, funding touring, and fostering relationships between artists and presenters. As the Mellon Foundation concludes the program's funding arc, NDP's final grant cycle will support works touring from 2026 through 2029. - Dance Magazine

Ballet Memphis CEO To Step Down

Gretchen Wollert McLennon, a former student at the company's school who succeeded company founder Dororthy Gunther Pugh in 2020, will depart at the end of the current season. She saw Ballet Memphis through the pandemic and increased main-stage ticket sales year-over-year. - Memphis Flyer

A Dance Company For Neurodivergent Participants

Azara addresses a gap in the dance world: the need for spaces where people who have autism, A.D.H.D. or other conditions that fall under the broad term “neurodivergent” can freely experience the art form. - The New York Times

Another Way That Dancing Can Help Treat Parkinson’s Disease

Several past studies and subsequent clinical experience have shown that dancing can help with the physical symptoms of the incurable neurological disorder. A new study indicates that dancing can also help alleviate the depression suffered by many Parkinson's patients. - The Washington Post (MSN)

Let’s Take A Look At The New Sadler’s Wells East

Rowan Moore: “The last thing choreographers and dancers want, I’m told by people who know, are spaces that swoop and curve in imitation of human movement. They want right angles, straight lines, fixed points and level horizons against which to gauge their actions.” - The Observer (UK)

Rehab For Actors Recovering From Playing Hamlet

It doesn't necessarily seem all that improbable, but no, this isn't really a thing. It is, however, the concept of the play Hamlet Camp, which has just opened in Sydney — starring, yes, three actors who have played Hamlet. - The Guardian

Former Theatre Company CEO Faces Trial On Multiple Sexual Abuse Charges

Timothy O’Connor, former chief executive of the Harvest Rain Theatre Company in Brisbane, Australia, faces charges from seven accusers aged from 12 to 29; alleged offenses include rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, indecent treatment of a child, recordings in breach of privacy, fraud, common assault and indecent acts. - ArtsHub (Australia)

Is London’s West End Dying? Not So Fast, Says Lyn Gardner

Writing theatre’s obituary based on misinformation or dismissing the entire art form as a turn-off on the basis of a single theatre visit (nobody writes off all literature because they didn’t enjoy Pride and Prejudice when they read it aged 17) is easy pickings, but is damaging when so regularly repeated. - The Stage

Prolific Young Producer Takes Over Off-Broadway Theater Left By Second Stage

Greg Nobile's Seaview Productions, which was behind such notable shows as Slave Play, Romeo + Juliet, Sea Wall/A Life (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge), and the upcoming Good Night and Good Luck starring George Clooney, is taking the former Tony Kiser Theater, which will be called Studio Seaview. - The New York Times

Why Do So Many Critically Acclaimed Shows Come From London Only To Be Panned In New York?

Jesse Green, who admits to being one of those New York critics doing the panning, has some ideas. - The New York Times

The Most Intimate Theatre Experience You Could Have Might Be A Deal With The Devil

That deal is not metaphorical in Yannick Trapman-O'Brien's Undersigned, a show which he describes as a "psychological thriller for one." - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

David Lynch, 78

"(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences — with an unsettling blend of melodrama, whimsy and nightmarish horror." - The Washington Post (MSN)

Drake Sues His Record Label For Promoting “Defamatory” Recording

Drake’s lawsuit claims that Universal Music Group ‘chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists’ by allegedly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s song with bots and payola. - The Verge

Photographer Oliviero Toscani, Who Shot Those Provocative Benetton Ads, Has Died At 82

"(He) was the creative force behind the United Colors of Benetton campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s that featured images such as a Pope kissing an imam on the lips, a priest embracing a nun, … and a black woman breastfeeding a white baby, part of the brand’s advocacy for diversity and tolerance." -...

“Persepolis” Author Marjane Satrapi Refuses France’s Legion Of Honor

"I can't continue seeing the children of Iranian oligarchs come to spend their holidays in France, even become naturalised," she wrote, "while at the same time young dissidents have difficulty in obtaining a tourist visa to come to see what the country of the Enlightenment and human rights looks like." - AFP (Yahoo!)

Author Neil Gaiman Accused Of Multiple Sexual Assaults

The week's issue of New York magazine features a cover story by Lila Shapiro detailing allegations of repeated assaults by the author on women, including an employee and a tenant, in New Zealand, North Carolina, Florida, and England. - New York Magazine

Abigail McGrath, Founder Of Off Center Theater, Has Died At 84

“‘Just as children need sunshine and parks and schools and libraries,’ Ms. McGrath said, ‘so they need the theater.’” - The New York Times

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David Lynch, 78

"(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences — with an unsettling blend of melodrama, whimsy and nightmarish horror." - The Washington Post (MSN)

In Defense Of El Sistema, The Simón Bolívar Orchestra, And, Yes, Dudamel

European Union Youth Orchestra director Marshall Marcus, who's seen a lot of El Sistema's educational work up close, argues that those who denounce the program, its flagship orchestra and its most famous alumnus for providing window-dressing to the Maduro regime are missing the point — and overlooking the good El Sistema does. - The...

The Extraordinary Efforts To Save The Getty Center From Fire

Fire extinguishers in hand, the museum said, the Getty’s staff scours the sparse ground beneath their boots as well as the canopies of oak trees overhead. They look for embers. - The Wall Street Journal

A Proposal For Keeping The Wanamaker Organ Safe And In Regular Use

The instrument's landmark status only means that it can't be destroyed or moved without approval: a new owner or occupier of the soon-to-be-former Macy's in central Philadelphia could simply mothball it. Peter Dobrin has a suggestion for the space that could keep the public coming in to listen. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

How The Getty Villa Survived The Palisades Fire: An Inside Look

"Getty Trust CEO Katherine Fleming described the scene on the ground and how she and her staff worked from a conference center-turned-war room at the Getty Center in Brentwood, about 10 miles away — all while 16 staff members remained at the Villa to implement emergency protocols." - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

“Post-Woke”? Is The Art World Set To Move Away From “Radlib” Identity Politics?

Ben Davis: "The main issue that will dominate, I believe, is cultural institutions trying, and probably failing, to process the confused splintering of the liberal ideological consensus. A faith in a certain type of cultural politics has fallen apart. What comes after, for the moment, is unclear." - Artnet

Why Do So Many Critically Acclaimed Shows Come From London Only To Be Panned In New York?

Jesse Green, who admits to being one of those New York critics doing the panning, has some ideas. - The New York Times

TikTok “Is Harming Children At An Industrial Scale” — And Knows It

Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch: "Our evidence comes mostly from research done by 14 (state) Attorneys General. … The briefs include hundreds of quotations from internal reports, memos, Slack conversations, and public statements in which executives and employees of TikTok ... discuss the harms that their company is causing to children." - After Babel

A War In Massachusetts Over The Soul Of Public Radio

In Cape Cod, the founders of Transom audio training, the Public Radio Exchange (or PRX), and the Moth Radio Hour suddenly discovered that Boston’s GBH had sold their house out from under them. The community is not into it, but GBH (seemingly!) could not care less. - Nieman Lab

The Composer And Violinist On A Mission To Keep Musicians Mentally Well

Kyleen King wants to protect the “sacred catharsis” that audiences feel when they listen to music - and one way to do that, she thinks, is to "preserve what music is for listeners and also care for the people who make that music so their work is sustainable.”  - Oregon ArtsWatch

Latin American News Sites Brace For What May Be Coming From Zuckerberg

Spanish language factchecker Laura Zommer says, “Far from censoring, fact-checkers add context. ...We never advocate for removing content. We want citizens to have better information to make their own decisions.” - Wired

A Mass Erasure Of Architectural And Cultural Heritage In Los Angeles As The Fires Continue

“‘It’s staggering and heartbreaking — I don’t know any other way to put it,’ said Ken Bernstein, principal city planner at Los Angeles City Planning’s Office of Historic Resources. ‘This is widespread destruction of significant architecture and places that are cherished in our communities.’”- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

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