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Florida’s Department Of Education Gives Its Approval To Michelangelo’s David

"'Florida encourages instruction on the classics and classical art, and would not prohibit its use in instruction,' Alex Lanfranconi, communications director for the Florida Department of Education, said in a statement." - ARTnews

Elon Musk’s Twitter Labels NPR As “State-Affiliated Media,” Flings Poo When Asked For Explanation

"NPR said it was disturbed to see the description added to all of the tweets that it sends out, with John Lansing, its president and CEO, calling it 'unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way.' … Asked for comment, Twitter's press office responded with an automated poop emoji." - AP

Britain Fines TikTok Nearly $16 Million For Misusing Children’s Personal Data

"The Information Commissioner’s Office said it issued a fine of £12.7 million pounds ($15.9 million) … (and that) TikTok allowed as many as 1.4 million children in the U.K. under 13 to use the app in 2020, despite the platform's own rules prohibiting children that young from setting up accounts." - AP

Not Just About The Body: Feminism And The Dancer

A dancer’s mind is just as important as her body; the one guides the other. To dance fully without hesitation, without self-consciousness, sets the stage for dancing of power and flow — to witness such unforced abandon is one of ballet’s greatest gifts. - The New York Times

James Patterson Contends The NYT Bestseller Charts Are Rigged. Is He Right?

The New York Times bestseller lists (there are more than a dozen of them) are the product of a lot of math, but also a good deal of art. Contrary to what many people seem to think, there is no practical way to count all the copies of any book that have sold in a given week. - Slate

Meet Manchester’s Book-Swapping Vending Machine

More than 600 books have been swapped so far in the new scheme in Manchester's Corn Exchange. - BBC

How AI Is Training To Replace Artists And Producers

AI poses a threat to work opportunities across the board by giving producers the tools to recreate their favourite voices on demand, without the performer’s knowledge or consent and without additional compensation. - The Walrus

$200 Million Gift Of Calders To Seattle Art Museum

As part of their gift, the Shirleys will give SAM 48 works by Calder, spanning the artist’s career, with mobiles at various sizes from the large-scale to the intimately small, as well as works on paper. (The approximate value of the 48-work donation is $200 million.) - ARTnews

The Debilitating Cost Of Writing

There were stretches when I made so little money writing or editing that I couldn’t blame my parents for assuming they were hobbies. They used to wonder how I could spend weeks revising work I had already done, months on an idea or project that might never sell. - Esquire

What Cheryl Strayed Puts Into Her Autofiction, And What She Keeps Out

"How about this woman we create isn't me, but she had that same stuff happen to her in the past and she took a different path to me as an adult, so we get to do whatever we want." - The Guardian

Met Museum Returns More Stolen Antiquities

The $25 million sculpture dates to 225 C.E., and is believed to have been looted in the 1960s from a shine at Bubon, an archaeological site in southwest Turkey. It had been on loan from a collection in Switzerland since 2011. - Artnet

Remember Damien Hirst’s Spin Paintings? Now You And AI Can Make One Of Your Own

Hirst did the originals, back in the 1990s, by dripping paint onto a rotating canvas. Now he and his partners have set up an AI generator with which you can designate colors and spin styles — and then get the resulting work as either a hard copy or an NFT. - Artnet

The State Of American Orchestras

The League of American Orchestras reports on the state of the industry. - League of American Orchestras

How Dance Changes When It’s Viewed In A Museum Or Gallery Rather Than A Theater

It's not just a matter of coming off a proscenium or thrust stage: everything from audience expectations and behavior to documentation practices is different in a setting that's normally devoted to visual art. - ArtsHub (Australia)

Where In Our Brains Does Imagination Come From?

Though there are many theories about the place of imagination in cognitive architecture, two are worth mentioning here, not least because all others can be traced to them. - Psyche

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