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New York’s First Immersive Art Space Takes A Pause On Art

Located at the historic Emigrant Savings Bank building in Manhattan’s Financial District, the HdL has begun hosting non-art events, including puppy yoga, pilates, and an immersive whiskey tasting with Irish storytellers. - ARTnews

The Words We Make Up When We Can’t Remember The Right Ones

Apparently, the struggle to find the right word is real and has been for some time, because the Oxford English Dictionary has its own category for these terms, labelled “thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown”. - The Conversation

What Defines “Genius” Teams

First, each team member — no exceptions — brings an outstanding capability that complements the capabilities of other team members. Top percentile analytical capacity is certainly a factor, even a prerequisite, but these team members also bring virtuosity, expertise, tenacity, mental agility, and communications skills, just to name a few. - Harvard Business Review

Major French Festival Puts Theatre Voices From Elsewhere On Stage

As the first week of the festival unfolded, the spotlight shone repeatedly on amateurs and artists from countries rarely represented on the biggest European stages. - The New York Times

Ira Glass On Radio, Podcasting, And Keeping “This American Life” Fresh

I think a lot of my aesthetics were shaped by the Broadway shows that my mom took us to in Baltimore. Those old-school shows like “Fiddler on the Roof,” which start off funny and then get more serious, and then, by the end, they’re tragedies about something big and sad. - The New Yorker

After A Long Career In Academia, I Leave Discouraged

I leave elite academe with doubts and foreboding that I would not have anticipated when I completed my formal education in 1982. Watching the travails of Harvard—where I received my degrees and served as an assistant professor and assistant dean—has been particularly painful. - The Atlantic

How To Tell If AI Wrote Something? It Uses Certain Words, Expressions

By taking a similar look at "excess word usage" after LLM writing tools became widely available in late 2022, the researchers found that "the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words" that was "unprecedented in both quality and quantity." - Ars Technica

How Your Brain Decides What To Remember

The brain tags experiences worth remembering by repeatedly sending out sudden and powerful high-frequency brain waves. Known as “sharp wave ripples,” these waves, kicked up by the firing of many thousands of neurons within milliseconds of one another, are “like a fireworks show in the brain.” - Wired

If Scientific Writing Includes The Word Delve, It’s Probably Generated By AI

Then there’s “showcasing.” And many, many more: “A number of words that were extremely uncommon in these scientific abstracts before 2023 ... suddenly surged in popularity after LLMs were introduced.” - Wired

In Liverpool, The Walker Art Gallery Has Decided To Confront Its Colonial Past

“For decades, the sculpture gallery has had mostly blindingly white marble works, which were exclusively of white people. Now it does not. The intervention is part of a community-led project exploring the gallery’s links to slavery, colonialism and empire, of which there are many.” - The Guardian (UK)

Vandals In Austrian Cathedral Behead Sculpture Of Virgin Mary Giving Birth

"Created by Austrian artist Esther Strauß, Crowning drew intense ire from some conservative Christians who viewed the work as ‘blasphemous’ and ‘scandalous’ before an unknown party took matters into their own hands and sawed off Mary’s head.” - Hyperallergic

A Federal Appeals Court Is Looking At Its Own Ruling That Sent Banned Books Back To Texas Shelves

“While the library patrons say removing the books constitutes an illegal government squelching of viewpoints, county officials have argued that they have broad authority to decide which books belong on library shelves.” The review may back the county. - AP (US News & World Report)

The Artist Who Won The Turner Prize Might Not Want To Be An Artist Anymore

“‘The problem is not the art, it is the condition of capitalism and the market, and the way that this whole gig operates,’ said. He added that he had been avoiding going to his studio.” - The New York Times

What To Do With A ‘Stately Home’ In Britain?

Invite in some street artists, and let them do what they want - with the grounds, anyway. - BBC

After What Feels Like Years Of Negotiations, Paramount And Skydance Are Inking Their Merger Deal

David Ellison of Skydance finally persuaded Shari Redstone “to let go of the entertainment company her family has controlled for nearly four decades. The sweetened deal also paid the Redstone family about $50 million more than what had been proposed in early June.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

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