Three AI stories today, three different sectors, one question: How far into the arts ecosystem does this go? An AI talent studio is building an entire digital universe for its synthetic actor Tilly (Los Angeles Times). Public Books argues we risk losing sight of human thinking itself as AI-written essays become the college norm. And SMU DataArts asks whether grantmakers should use AI to process applications — a prospect most arts people will hate but that capacity-strapped funders may find hard to resist.
Paavo Järvi has been named the next chief conductor of the London Philharmonic, succeeding Edward Gardner in 2028 (The Guardian). In Indianapolis, Newfields has shut down the Lume, its 30,000-square-foot immersive Van Gogh projection space, after a five-year run (The Indianapolis Star). The immersive-experience bubble, it seems, has its own shelf life.
A painting dismissed as not-a-Rembrandt 65 years ago has been re-authenticated by the Rijksmuseum after two years of high-tech examination (AP). Experts can change their minds — it just takes six decades and better equipment.
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