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How The Conversation, An Academic News Website, Has Pulled In An Audience Of Young Professionals

"Survey data showed that a bulk of (the site's) readers were in the 18-to-35 age bracket. ... To experiment with a new approach, The Conversation launched the Quarter Life series in March 2022, commissioning stories for people in their 20s and 30s." - Journalism.co.uk

How Speculative Profit Made The World

Under the increasingly uncontrollable uncertainty of our financialized world, speculation becomes a more productive mechanism to imagine community and collective coping with disorienting volatility. Speculation, in this sense, is not merely a symptom but a structure. - Boston Review

This TV Show, Arguably, Makes New York’s Theater Scene Possible

"From familiar character actors lacking household names like Ronald Guttman, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Jessica Hecht, to well-known crossover stars like Bebe Neuwirth, Roger Bart, Billy Porter, and Laura Benanti, Law & Order has always made room for Broadway actors." - Looper

We Thought AI Would Be Scary Smart. Instead It’s A Facilitator Of Banality

The dreariness of ChatGPT, the soulless works of visual art produced by similar programs seem to confirm that hunch. In the real world, the bots aren’t our overlords so much as the enablers of our boredom. Our shared future — our singularity — is an endless scroll, just for the lulz. - The New York Times

This Opera Company Used Virtual Reality To Reconstruct A Century-Old Staging, Saving Thousands Of Hours And Dollars

The Finnish National Opera and VR company Varjo developed a "digital twin" of the theater, with sets, lighting, costumes, etc, so that elements could be seen and fine-tuned before workers and material were committed. - Fast Company

Needed: Commonsense Tools To Protect Creative Work

A report released by Digital Citizens Alliance in August 2020 found that pirated streaming subscription services are used by an estimated 30 million individuals in the U.S. alone, generating over a billion dollars in revenue annually for the criminal enterprises operating these services. - The Hill

The Adelaide Festival Loses A Key Sponsor Amid Outcry Over Two Controversial Palestinian Authors

The law firm MinterEllison, a major supporter of the Southern Hemisphere's counterpart to the Edinburgh Festivals, pulled back after several participants withdrew from Adelaide Writers' Week over the appearance of two authors, both harshly critical of Israel and one of whom takes a Putinist line on Ukraine. - The Age (Melbourne)

Rick Newman, 88, Founder Of One Of America’s Seminal Comedy Clubs

"(He was) the founder of Catch a Rising Star comedy club in New York City where a generation of stand-up comics — Billy Crystal, Richard Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Richard Belzer and countless others — honed their craft in the 1970s." - MSN (The Washington Post)

Neo-Nazis Demonstrate Outside First Broadway Preview Of “Parade”, A Show About A Lynching

Members of a group calling itself the National Socialist Movement yelled slogans and accosted theatergoers just before the first preview performance of Jason Robert Brown's musical, which is about the false conviction and lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia in 1915. - Playbill

Palm Beach Art Dealer Pleads Guilty To Selling A Warhol Forgery

"Daniel Elie Bouaziz ... pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering, referencing a sale of counterfeit Warhol works to an unnamed victim. ... The court agreed to drop 16 other counts," related to sales of fake Liechtensteins, Basquiats, Harings and other works. - ARTnews

NPR To Lay Off 10% Of Its Staffers

"National Public Radio will reduce its workforce by 10 percent as it grapples with what CEO John Lansing says is a 'sharp decline' in sponsorship revenue. ... More than 700 employees work at the public media firm." - The Hollywood Reporter

New Scottish Government Reverses Millions In Arts Funding Cuts

"Cuts of around £6.6m," made by the cabinet of recently departed First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, "to Scotland's arts and culture sector funded by the state were reversed – but (the acting Finance Minister) warned this was the 'absolute limit' of funding he could offer Creative Scotland." - The National (Scotland)

The Joyce, A Leading New York Dance Venue, Gets A Second Space

"The Joyce, which since 1982 has presented dance companies from all over the world at its home in Chelsea, has signed a yearlong lease on a multilevel building on East 10th Street that it hopes to purchase and operate permanently" as rehearsal and studio space. - The New York Times

Is Intelligence Really Our Best Feature? Or Is It Holding Us Back?

Rather than being our crowning glory as a species, is it possible that human intelligence is in fact a liability, the source of our existential angst and increasingly apparent talent for self-destruction? - The Guardian

AI Is Getting Awfully Good At Designing Buildings. So What Happens To Architects?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly advancing to a point where it can generate the design of a building completely autonomously. With the potential to create designs faster and with more accuracy than ever before, AI has the potential to revolutionize the architecture industry. - Dezeen

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