Striking a balance between leveraging AI for creative enhancement and preserving the human element in art is a critical ethical consideration related to creative integrity. - ArtsHub
"I like to say that the fairies visited me when I was born and gave me what I needed to be an artist." And this: "Meryl Streep came up to me, fell on her knees and said, ‘Oh my god! My next life I want to be like you!'" - The Guardian
Perhaps there’s a feeling that, having spent upwards of, say, 180 quid on a pair of tickets for something, they’re entitled to a five star, anything goes experience from the moment of arrival to the second they lay down their head back on the pillow. - Evening Standard (London)
"Who is this man? How does he seamlessly synthesize voguing and runway idioms with butoh, the dances of Greek antiquity, and modern and postmodern dance to create the intriguing works that make him an internationally admired and respected artist?" This profile offers some answers. - Dance Magazine
While some people’s bar-going and spending habits have shifted since the pandemic (not everyone is returning to their regular bar or pub-going routines), by far the largest obstacles to keeping many independent live music venues open currently are the massive insurance price increases and sudden insurance policy cancellations they are facing. - ArtsHub
Jenny Worton of the theatre division at the Roald Dahl Story Company: "Because the stories are so beloved, and appear in lots of different mediums, it’s quite hard to ensure consistency. So we cooked up the idea that we could start commissioning people directly and develop shows ourselves." - The Stage
"Though Barbie had no trouble making it into the best picture category, which all members of the academy (may) vote on, the Gerwig snub was delivered by the directors branch, made up of just 587 voters … (and) by far the most likely to reject mainstream studio fare." - The New York Times
Expend4bles leads the nominees for the Golden Raspberry Awards with seven nods, followed by Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey with five, including Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Screen Couple. - The Hollywood Reporter
"Using a broad definition of arts and culture inclusive of nonprofit and for-profit industries, $53 billion was awarded nationally to arts and culture via four federal programs. Narrowing the definition to focus primarily on nonprofit arts and cultural industries and independent cultural workers, $17 billion was awarded nationally." - SMU Data Arts
Italy and France have for several years had similar programs giving 18-year-olds a few hundred euros to spend on performance tickets, books, or other cultural products. Germany only launched its KulturPass last June, and already the amount per person has been cut from €200 to €100. - Publishing Perspectives
More than 4,000 items were destroyed and only about 150 pieces survived in the blaze that broke out early Sunday morning. Abkhazia broke away from the Republic of Georgia during the post-Soviet civil war of 1992-93 and is propped up by Russia, which maintains thousands of troops there. - CNN
"In a varied career spanning more than a half-century, … (he) spent 22 years anchoring the CBS-TV staple “Sunday Morning” and decades as a radio commentator, and carved a distinct place for himself in broadcasting by occasionally presenting the news in wry doggerel." - The Washington Post (MSN)
In contrast to the prominent dictionaries that designated as their word of the year “rizz,” “hallucinate” and “authentic,” the American Dialect Society celebrates linguistic variation to an almost absurd degree.
Architecture has been hit by a new sobriety. Tradition, apparently, is back. The reaction against ultramodern architecture arrived slowly at first, but accelerated with the financial crash of 2008, as the world economy and many political systems became increasingly unsteady. - Aeon
The device has no way of knowing what its words refer to, as humans would, or even what it means for words to refer to something. Strictly speaking, it doesn’t know anything. For an AI chatbot, one can truly say, there is nothing outside the text. - Liberties Journal
