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Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Is Getting A New Three-Acre Sculpture Garden

Speed Outdoors, as it will be called, will feature landscaping by Reed Hilderbrand and, in its initial installation in 2025, artworks by (among others) Sol LeWitt, Zaha Hadid, Kulapat Yantrasast, and Mark Handforth. - The Architects' Newspaper

Belarus Labels Two 19th-Century Poems By One Of The Nation’s Great Authors As “Extremist Material”

The two pieces, written during an 1863 rebellion by Belarusians and Poles against the Russian Empire, are by Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich, whose books are taught in Belarusian schools, whose plays are still regularly produced, and who has several streets named after him. - BBC

Just How Well Does AI Score In Creativity Tests?

Recent findings from the University of Montana and partners indicate that artificial intelligence can rival the creative abilities of the top 1% of human participants based on a standard test for creativity.

Why Streaming Subscriptions Are Getting So Expensive

After years of burning through mountains of cash to fill their catalogs with original programming, the big SVOD services are now charging their subscribers more than ever because it’s increasingly difficult to draw in new customers — and because the mere perception of growth is no longer enough to keep their shareholders happy. - The Verge

Defining How/What Creativity Is In The Brain (Kinda Hard and Maybe Not What You Think)

Modeling the creative process as a sequence of operations involving distinct brain networks does not correspond to a popular conception of creativity, which is usually represented as a momentum that seizes, transports, and surpasses us. - SciTech Daily

Traditional TV Is Dying At An Accelerating Rate

Traditional TV isn’t just competing with Disney Plus and Max; it's competing with YouTube and TikTok, and other video providers that can rely on creators to churn out content faster and more cheaply. So Nielsen’s news of declining viewership isn’t a surprise as much as it was always a somewhat depressing inevitability. - The Verge

Unionization Of Museum Workers Spreads – Chicago Art Institue Employees Approve Contract

Under the four-year agreement, the more than five hundred workers, who in January 2022 unionized under the auspices of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), will receive raises of between 12.25 and 16.25 percent, with the lowest-paid workers seeing the greatest gains. - ArtForum

In Popular Culture, An Explosion Of Out-And-Proud White Gay Male Villainy (And That’s A Good Thing)

"As members of two dominant cultures in a world in which everyone's hyperconscious of identity, we have enough clout to be labeled part of the problem without that critique being racist or sexist. That itself is an indication of how far we've journeyed." - T — The New York Times Style Magazine

Composer György Kurtág At 97

"The concentrated brevity of Kurtág's output means that his entire published works could be heard in approximately 10 hours. He has a reputation for being uncompromising and difficult, but musicians who follow him, disciple-like, rhapsodise about his versatility, as well as the challenges he sets them." - The Guardian

The Meaning Of America (As In – Why Have We Been Getting So Much Meaner?)

"The most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest: We inhabit a society in which people are no longer trained in how to treat others with kindness and consideration."  - The Atlantic

Ailey’s Most Iconic Work: Why “Revelations” Is So Extraordinary

"In general we get in trouble if we don't do it. I've heard that even Alvin himself at some point asked if we could take Revelations out. But they told him what the box office numbers looked like with Revelations and without, and that was a sobering moment." - The Guardian

Inside LA’s Lavish TikTok Content Clubhouses (Totally Fun Read)

Also known as content houses or TikTok mansions, collab houses are grotesquely lavish abodes where teens and early twentysomethings live and work together, trying to achieve viral fame on a variety of media platforms. - Harper's

Here’s The Longtime Curator Said To Have Stolen And Sold British Museum Treasures

Peter John Higgs is suspected to have operated for years without detection and to have spirited away uncategorised items from the museum’s collection before selling them on the e-commerce site eBay. - The Art Newspaper

Can Graphic Novels Really Teach College-Level Math And Physics?

Two professors who use them explain how the format — visual information via image as well as text, in a form (comics) that very few people find intimidating — can get complex concepts across even to people with math anxiety. - The Conversation

The Concert Archive Treasures Of Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium, Hidden In Plain Sight

“The challenge has been to transfer it all. I’d say we’ve preserved at least 100 performances. And we’re certainly not done. We are well aware that it is a remarkable collection and a historic documentation of that period. That’s why it’s one of our high priorities.” - San Francisco Classical Voice

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