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DANCE
IDEAS
- A “Mass-Piano” Event
A group of more than 130 musicians played in unison at Sherwood Phoenix piano shop in Mansfield on Saturday. Organisers believe the performance surpassed a previous UK record for the most pianos played at once, but said there was no “official” attempt made to verify their musical effort. – BBC
- Scientist: AI Creativity Is Mathematically Limited To Amateur Status
The study provides evidence that large language models, such as ChatGPT, are mathematically constrained to a level of creativity comparable to an amateur human. – Psypost
- Study: Our Brains Have Five Major Eras In Our Lifetimes
The study mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. This revealed five broad phases, split up by four pivotal “turning points” in which brain organisation moves on to a different trajectory, at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83 years. – The Guardian
- The People Who Precipitated The Crisis At The BBC Suddenly Can’t Say What The Problem Is
When they were called to Parliament and questioned by the House of Commons Media Culture and Sport Committee on Monday, they minimized the allegations of bias at the network which they had spent the past few weeks trumpeting. – Prospect (UK)
- The Art Market Is Designed To Inflate Markets. But Here’s What Artists Need To Know
The structure itself is tilted toward collectors, dealers, and institutions. It is not designed to support artists. But artists who understand the language of the market can sometimes turn that knowledge into a form of protection. – Hyperallergic
ISSUES
- The Art Market Is Designed To Inflate Markets. But Here’s What Artists Need To Know
The structure itself is tilted toward collectors, dealers, and institutions. It is not designed to support artists. But artists who understand the language of the market can sometimes turn that knowledge into a form of protection. – Hyperallergic
- Exactly What Is This Odd New Group That Just Picked America’s Venice Biennale Artist?
If no one has heard of the Tampa-based AAC, this is because it was founded only in July of this year. The press release is so poorly edited that it repeats the same quote by executive director Jenni Parido twice. – Artnet
- Philadelphia Art Museum’s Ex-Director Of HR And DEI Indicted For Theft
“Latasha Harling, 43, was arrested in July and charged with theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, and related crimes about six months after she quietly resigned from her job as the chief people and diversity officer for the museum.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
- L.A. Times Art Critic Christopher Knight Is Retiring
“After 45 years, 36 of them at the Times, art critic Christopher Knight is retiring from daily journalism. His final day is Nov. 28. In 2020, Knight won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Art Journalism from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.” – Los Angeles Times
- Why The Record Sale Price For The Frida Kahlo Painting Is Nothing To Celebrate
In the rush to map cultural issues like gender disparity onto high-level financial trading, we’re forgetting that this has nothing to do with gender at all, and even less to do with art. – Artnet
MEDIA
- Texas State Leaders Are Literally Rewriting The History Of The Alamo
“Months before top Republicans forced out the widely respected leader of the Alamo’s $500 million redevelopment for being too ‘woke,’ a close political aide to Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick undertook a literal rewrite of the heritage site’s three-hundred-year history.” – Texas Monthly
- Federal Court Rules Unconstitutional Trump’s Dismantling Of Institute of Museum And Library Services
“A U.S. District Court (in Rhode Island) ruled in favor of 21 state attorneys general suing Donald Trump over the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and several other small federal agencies.” – Book Riot
- The Real Origins Of Disneyland
So perhaps it’s more accurate to say that, with Disneyland, it all started with a holiday to Chicago. – Los Angeles Times
- Education Before AI Was Still Highly Problematic
We “blame everything wrong with education on generative AI rather than acknowledge deep and justifiable concerns we have had for a while. Course Hero, Chegg and other providers had industrialized academic dishonesty before ChatGPT was launched.” – InsideHigherEd
- Why Artists Shouldn’t Be Running Arts Organizations
Arts schools, almost by definition, assume the centrality of the art itself. They reinforce the idea that the work is intrinsically valuable and that the public simply needs help recognizing that value. This is one of the most persistent and damaging assumptions in our field. – ArtsAnalytics
MUSIC
- Writers At The New Yorker Are Furious Over The Firing Of A Fact-Checker
“The abrupt firing earlier this month of a senior fact-checker and New Yorker union member, Jasper Lo, has set off a swell of outrage among magazine staffers and contributors, including some of the most famous writers in America.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
- How Does Winning A Booker Prize Affect An Author’s Career Long-Term?
Yes, of course a Booker leads to soaring sales of the book that wins, but what about an author’s subsequent works? – The Bookseller (UK)
- Why Publishing Can’t Get Over Its Addiction To “Buzzy” Stories
Publishing, argues Isen, was once an industry that offered room for experimentation and long bets; now it’s haunted by the tyranny of short-term judgment. – The Walrus
- The Man Who Helped Determine The American Literary Canon
Determining what the nation did and did not read was the through line of Malcolm Cowley’s career. He was a great discoverer and nurturer of talent: Jack Kerouac, John Cheever, and Ken Kesey were among the writers he championed, and, of the critics he commissioned to produce reviews at The New Republic. – The New Yorker
- The Words English Speakers Use Only In Highly Specific Circumstances
Diametrically together? Bode excellently? – Mental Floss
PEOPLE
- A “Mass-Piano” Event
A group of more than 130 musicians played in unison at Sherwood Phoenix piano shop in Mansfield on Saturday. Organisers believe the performance surpassed a previous UK record for the most pianos played at once, but said there was no “official” attempt made to verify their musical effort. – BBC
- Scientist: AI Creativity Is Mathematically Limited To Amateur Status
The study provides evidence that large language models, such as ChatGPT, are mathematically constrained to a level of creativity comparable to an amateur human. – Psypost
- Study: Our Brains Have Five Major Eras In Our Lifetimes
The study mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. This revealed five broad phases, split up by four pivotal “turning points” in which brain organisation moves on to a different trajectory, at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83 years. – The Guardian
- The People Who Precipitated The Crisis At The BBC Suddenly Can’t Say What The Problem Is
When they were called to Parliament and questioned by the House of Commons Media Culture and Sport Committee on Monday, they minimized the allegations of bias at the network which they had spent the past few weeks trumpeting. – Prospect (UK)
- The Art Market Is Designed To Inflate Markets. But Here’s What Artists Need To Know
The structure itself is tilted toward collectors, dealers, and institutions. It is not designed to support artists. But artists who understand the language of the market can sometimes turn that knowledge into a form of protection. – Hyperallergic
PEOPLE
- A “Mass-Piano” Event
A group of more than 130 musicians played in unison at Sherwood Phoenix piano shop in Mansfield on Saturday. Organisers believe the performance surpassed a previous UK record for the most pianos played at once, but said there was no “official” attempt made to verify their musical effort. – BBC
- Scientist: AI Creativity Is Mathematically Limited To Amateur Status
The study provides evidence that large language models, such as ChatGPT, are mathematically constrained to a level of creativity comparable to an amateur human. – Psypost
- Study: Our Brains Have Five Major Eras In Our Lifetimes
The study mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. This revealed five broad phases, split up by four pivotal “turning points” in which brain organisation moves on to a different trajectory, at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83 years. – The Guardian
- The People Who Precipitated The Crisis At The BBC Suddenly Can’t Say What The Problem Is
When they were called to Parliament and questioned by the House of Commons Media Culture and Sport Committee on Monday, they minimized the allegations of bias at the network which they had spent the past few weeks trumpeting. – Prospect (UK)
- The Art Market Is Designed To Inflate Markets. But Here’s What Artists Need To Know
The structure itself is tilted toward collectors, dealers, and institutions. It is not designed to support artists. But artists who understand the language of the market can sometimes turn that knowledge into a form of protection. – Hyperallergic
THEATRE
VISUAL
- Scientist: AI Creativity Is Mathematically Limited To Amateur Status
The study provides evidence that large language models, such as ChatGPT, are mathematically constrained to a level of creativity comparable to an amateur human. – Psypost
- Study: Our Brains Have Five Major Eras In Our Lifetimes
The study mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. This revealed five broad phases, split up by four pivotal “turning points” in which brain organisation moves on to a different trajectory, at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83 years. – The Guardian
- Those Eureka Moments And Why They’re So Remarkable
You never feel as if you’re getting warmer; rather, you go from cold to hot, seemingly in an instant. Or, as the neuropsychologist Donald Hebb, known for his work building neurobiological models of learning, wrote in the 1940s, sometimes “learning occurs as a single jump, an all-or-none affair.” – Quanta
- If Machines Do Most Of Our Writing, What Will Happen To Human Writing?
If you’re more likely to read something written by AI than by a human on the internet, is it only a matter of time before human writing becomes obsolete? Or is this simply another technological development that humans will adapt to? – The Conversation
- As Our Machines Get More Intelligent, We Keep Redefining What Intelligence Is
Machine intelligence meets or surpasses humanlike abilities in many areas—but being an embodied human is complex, and our grasp of intelligence has grown significantly. – Scientific American
