AFM Local 802 announced that a deal with the Broadway League at 4:30 Thursday morning, saying in a statement that “this three-year agreement provides meaningful wage and health benefit increases.” - The Hollywood Reporter
String player and early music specialist Kivie Cahn-Lipman writes about how — when given the right parameters and prompts — ChatGPT helped him decipher the, um, idiosyncratic handwriting of the scribe in a 17th-century manuscript which he simply couldn’t figure out on his own. - Early Music America
We have faked historical bindings, fake manuscripts, and fake letters by famous people like the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther. We have books about impostors from the Middle Ages to the modern era as well as hoaxes and archaeological forgeries. - JStor
“In just four years since the launch of these vertical dramas, the genre’s market has surpassed $8 billion globally. ... Once dismissed as a niche Chinese trend, short dramas are now one of the fastest-growing scripted formats — and Hollywood’s studios, producers and investors are finally catching on.” - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
Across the country, arts funding models are shifting. Where once large institutions absorbed the majority of public and philanthropic support, new approaches are emphasizing direct investment in artists themselves. - Comstock Magazine
More than elsewhere, New York “is a city premised on destruction,” said Dana Polan, the Martin Scorsese Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. “You walk through the city and you’re endlessly seeing new buildings going up where there were previous buildings.” - The New York Times
“We unfortunately are operating with a little bit of fear, as we continue to be the prominent immigrant community theater company in Chicago, let alone in our neighborhood." - WBEZ
“It would be hard to find another nation as serious about its language. In Lithuania, one misspelled word can turn a politician into a clown; a misplaced comma can be enough to cancel a date. … Yet people often say, ‘If only that book/song/movie were in English, it would be a hit.’” - Literary Hub
The most common qualms, BISG reports involve “inadequate controls around the use of copyrighted material (86 percent), hallucinations (84 percent), AI-generated books flooding platforms (81 percent), and in accurate, false, or biased training data (79 percent). -Publishing Perspectives
“Outside, the headlines about Britain are all gloom and doom. Yet Frieze is more energetic than it has been for several years,” said Lars Nittve, the head of the investment committee at Arte Collectum, a $60-million Swedish-based art fund, browsing the fair for potential purchases. - The New York Times
The speed with which the president is moving ahead with building the ballroom, which is expected to cost more than $200 million and to be privately funded, caught the architecture profession by surprise. - The New York Times
With then-business partner Nicholas Grimshaw, he rode Britain’s “high-tech Modernism” wave of the 1970s to prominence. But he tired of that movement’s austere aesthetic and went on to design landmarks of London’s postmodern architecture such as the headquarters of TV-am and the intelligence service MI6. - The New York Times
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s leader, had proclaimed it “the most powerful imagination engine ever built.” The truth is that using it made me want to run, screaming, into the ocean. - The New York Times
