"Whether the company's open call for corps members marks a change in relationship with the San Francisco Ballet School is still uncertain." The company is completing a major change in leadership: Tamara Rojo is just finishing her first season as artistic director following Helgi Tomasson's 37-year tenure. - San Francisco Chronicle
Catherine and Ti have devised a coding language by which sequences of human movements are translated into what they call choreographic hashes—code that determines the appearance of a piece of digital art. - Decrypt
Nicholas Serota: "Nick suggested that the Arts Council's focus should only be on what he terms the 'professional' arts. … It's a mistake to suggest the skills and vision that bring us the 'best possible' art and culture cannot be found in community practice or in settings across the country." - The Guardian
Even when braced for it, the institute’s findings are staggering: In the 101 top-grossing G-rated films from 1990 to 2005, just 28 percent of speaking characters were female. Even in crowd scenes — even in animated crowd scenes — male characters vastly outnumber female ones. - The New York Times
"RadioNewsAI, an AI-generated news service developed in the Netherlands, is being shopped to stations in the U.S. The product allows local stations to deliver newscasts using an AI-generated voice based on RSS or website feeds." - Inside Radio
The nature of celebrity has changed. Social media has made us as interested in people’s kitchens as we are in their performances on TV. We want to know the whole story about them, we want to go on a journey with them and invest in their lives not just their talents. - The Stage
"(He was a) shocking and influential avant-garde artist who defied sexual and religious taboos in such short films as Scorpio Rising and Fireworks and dished the most lurid movie star gossip in his underground classic Hollywood Babylon." - AP
Numerous studies have shown that, due to a myriad of cognitive biases such as belief perseverance and confirmation bias, facts unfortunately do not change people’s minds. Propaganda, on the other hand, works very well on this front, something we see clearly from how people and groups have used it over the past century. - Psyche
His departure this summer comes four years ahead of what had been the end of his contract as music director of the Opéra national de Paris. His resignation statement says, in those words, he's stepping down "in order to spend more time with my family." Okay. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"I'm proud to own the failure," says the co-founder of the short-lived short-form video studio. "I'm not proud of the failure. But I'm proud of what we tried. It was a moonshot. It wasn't fun failing — I don't recommend it — but it's going to come." - Variety
"The group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) tested out the idea as a performance art piece at eight locations across (Germany last) Sunday. … It is not yet clear whether this new approach is intended to replace or complement Last Generation's other protest methods." - Artnet
"A company called Open Road Integrated Media is trying to (give) a second life to older books. It does that by using machine learning to make those titles more visible online and ... by republishing books that were largely forgotten or had fallen out of print." - The New York Times
"The award marks an astonishing turnaround for Pasadena Playhouse, which was on the verge of shutting down in 2010, when it laid off most of its staff, canceled the remainder of its season and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"The promising numbers are both comparable to pre-pandemic totals, if still falling short. … This season's figures reflect a drop of 16.83% for attendance and 13.76% for grosses from" the 2018-19 season, the last one unaffected by COVID. "They're also, unsurprisingly, a giant leap from last season's numbers." - Playbill
"Under an agreement approved by both museums' leadership and boards of directors, MOPA's collection of more than 9,000 images by 850 artists and 22,000 books and related materials will be added to SDMA's own photography collection." - MSN (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
