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Scrotum-Nailing, Bank-Burning Russian Refugee Artist Sentenced To Prison In France For Leaking Sexts

Pyotr Pavlensky was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined €20,000 for broadcasting sex videos of politician Benjamin Griveaux, this driving him out of the Paris mayoral race. (Background: Eight months after claiming political asylum in Paris, Pavlensky set fire to the Bank of France.) (in English) - Le Monde (France)

Robot Fido Scours Pompeii And Finds Work As Tour Guide

After Learning to Paint and Patrolling the Ruins of Pompeii, a Robot Dog Is Helping Humans Visit an Abandoned Monument in a State of ‘Curated Decay’ - Artnet

The Rewards Of Learning To Love More Complicated Music

When repeated listenings do deliver, the satisfaction can be deeper than the feeling the easier kind of music brings, at least for me. - The New York Times

Vancouver Opera Gets A New Artistic Director

In February of this year, the Orchestre Classique de Montréal named Jacques Lacombe its new artistic director and principal conductor. - Stir

FTC Wants To Go After Junk Fees (Including On Tickets)

FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement that “by hiding the total price, these junk fees make it harder for consumers to shop for the best product or service and punish businesses who are honest upfront.” - The Verge

Report: Teens Are Now Spending More Time On YouTube Than Netflix

Time on YouTube rose since the spring, adding nearly a percentage point, while Netflix fell more than two percentage points. - CNBC

How Images Are Shaping The Middle East War Narrative

In the 20th century, Americans saw war through the eyes of professional photojournalists and camera operators. Today, it is those doing the fighting or those caught up in it who produce its fastest-moving images, as soldiers and civilians alike film conflicts and distribute their acts of witness or advocacy. - The New York Times

A Queer Cowboy Ballet? Yup.

Okay, not ballet, strictly speaking. For the tenth anniversary of his company, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, artistic director Joshua L. Peugh has re-investigated his Southwestern roots and given them an LGBT twist to make the new piece Ten-Gallon. (The other half of the program is his queered Nutcracker.) - Dance Magazine

Norway’s Biggest Newspaper Is Using An AI Voice To Read Its Stories (And Finding An Audience)

Comparing the number of unique listeners of Aftenposten’s podcasts with those who have used the AI-generated listen-to option on its text articles, the publisher found there was little difference between the two – with younger audiences in particular being drawn in by the audio option. - Press-Gazette

These Are Hard Times For Arts Organizations, And Even Harder For Small Ones

Their small staffs have more tasks to juggle, they depend more on volunteers (meaning unpaid labor), the size of foundation grants is based on the size of budgets (meaning they get less), and there's little money to get word to audiences. Yet they keep soldiering on. - MSN (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Short Films Have A Category Problem

A feature-length film, according to the Academy, is anything over 40 minutes. But that has little to do with the length attributed to most movies. It’s vanishingly rare for any feature film to be less than around 82 minutes. - Vox

“Unlike Anything Else I Was Seeing In The Theater”: Ben Brantley On Nobel Prizewinner Jon Fosse’s Plays

Watching his A Summer Day, "I succumbed to a strangely paradoxical feeling of calm, continuous dread. … I could understand why Fosse’s work had never caught on with English-speaking audiences — it lacked the release of humor that Beckett provided — but there was no denying its stealthy power." - The New York Times

This City In Arizona Is Carless. It Changes The Way People Live

“It is amazing how much the urbanism improves, both in terms of experience and efficiency, when you don’t need to store automobiles.” - The Guardian

This Literary Magazine’s Publisher Is Giving Up Its Online Version To Keep The Print Edition Alive

Amy Mae Baxter, founder of Bad Form: "As costs rise for everyone, it doesn’t feel fair for me not to be paying our contributing writers more, too. So, instead of closing down completely, I have shut down our regular online content, so I can focus on events, community building and print issues." - The Guardian

Fluxus: An Art Aesthetic For Our Time?

Its practitioners, mostly in big cities in the U.S., Germany and Japan, attempted to dethrone art by putting its enactment in the hands of ordinary people. They created "event scores" that consisted of minimal instructions for art making to be interpreted as the maker chose, with process valued over final product. - Seven Days

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