He became director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela when he was 18, and he's known many of the players since they were all children enrolled in El Sistema. Yet, until this past Saturday at the Edinburgh International Festival, he hadn't conducted them since 2017. - The New York Times
Here lies the difference between viewing criticism as a passive medium of arbitration versus an act of creation—one that requires the critic to take a stand, to use her influences as materials, rather than be used by them. - The Point
Dance Data Project's research on this past season found that 32% of ballets presented by the largest 150 classically trained companies were by women, up from 29% in 2021-22. But for the 50 largest of those companies, the figure fell from 27% to 23%. - Dance Data Project
Wintour, who organizes the annual Met Gala in New York, has planned an event called Vogue World for the start of London's Fashion Week next month. Her intent is to make up for money lost because of Arts Council England's decision to shift funds to organizations beyond the capital. - BBC
"Ittai Gradel, (the) antiquities dealer who uncovered the suspected thefts of items such as gold jewellery, semiprecious stones and ancient glassware, said he had been told hundreds of missing objects had never been properly cataloged by the museum, making it difficult to prove they belonged to its collections." - The Guardian
There's a struggle in Sweden over control of her foundation, and recent discoveries suggest that one of her fellow mystics painted some of the canvases in the big Guggenheim exhibition — and that, possibly, all the abstract work attributed to her was painted by a group. - The New York Times
"The short-lived ban ... was part of school officials' attempts to comply with a new state law that requires books available to Iowa students to be 'age-appropriate” and free of 'descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act'" and held teachers personally liable for violations. - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Footage posted online shows eight police officers and staff from the Dominion Theatre lining the stairway in the balcony as audience members chant 'out, out, out!'." - The Guardian
"'If you were being invaded, all what you'd care about is your monuments, your trees, your history, your culture,' said Mamdouh Sakr, an architect and urbanist. 'And now, it's all being destroyed, without any reason, without any explanation, without any need.'" - The New York Times
What if we could learn to habitually reframe failure as a source of discovery and personal development? What if we could face problems and setbacks with honesty, determination and a healthy sense of realism? What if failure, as a token of our shared humanity, provided us with feelings of inclusion, not ostracism? - The Guardian
“We are such a siloed city. We’re each in our little parts of Chicago trying to get funding, we all have our heads down. We know of each other and we love each other and we share dancers, but there was never an intentional moment when we came up for air.” - The New York Times
"The increased attenuation of human creativity from the actual generation of the final work will prompt challenging questions regarding how much human input is necessary to qualify the user of an AI system as an ‘author’ of a generated work.” - The Guardian
The real struggle might not be between AI and artists, or even governments, but with large copyright holders. What happens when Disney gets tired of ChatGPT fan-fictioning its Star Wars universe? - The Walrus
Rattle retains a lifetime role as the LSO’s Conductor Emeritus; he will be back often. Symbolically, though, his departure is a sad moment: any fancy dreams of great British conductor, great British orchestra and great British concert hall are probably gone for good. - iNews
Sure, the implementation of A.I. technology will undoubtedly alter how Wikipedia is used and transform the user experience. At the same time, the features and bugs of large language models, or LLMs, like ChatGPT intersect with human interests in ways that support Wikipedia rather than threaten it. - Slate
