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Performance Professionals Are Learning From Toddlers

“Some artists are … making very young children a part of the choreographic process, or creating music designed to get them moving. They’re considering why these tiny dancers bring us such joy, and what lessons they might have for grown-ups.” - The New York Times

The City Of Portland Takes (Back) Its Performing Arts Venues

“The three downtown buildings with five theaters are owned by the city but have been managed by the elected regional government for more than three decades.” - Oregon ArtsWatch

We Think We Need To Get Bigger To Be Happy. That’s Wrong

We tend to believe that to be happier, we need to become bigger in our own mind, and in the minds of others. But that’s wrong. What we really need to achieve both the perspective on life we need and the peace we crave is to get smaller in relation to everything and everyone else. - The Atlantic

AI Is Exacerbating An Education Crisis

As one instructional designer you’ll hear says, “If this technology becomes more ubiquitous, we’ll have courses created by AI, graded by AI, with submissions from students absolutely generated by AI. So it begs the question: What are we even doing here in higher ed?” - The Verge

How To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature

First, book-length sentences are good. Also, well, “The Nobel Committee for a certain stretch of history, like the last 40 years, has had something of a bias against American writers, but I think it's probably more true that they've had a bias towards European writers.” - NPR

Sally Rooney Couldn’t Collect Sky Arts Award In The UK Thanks To New Law Against Pro-Palestine Group

Her statement, in part: "I wish that I could be with you this evening to accept the honour in person, but because of my support for non-violent anti-war protest, I’m advised that I can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest.” - The Guardian (UK)

What In The Stalker Influencer Hell Is Going On At Instagram?

“The platform added a map tool that lets your Instagram friends see your precise location every time you open the app.” Then there’s the new see what your friends like on reels function. - Wired

After Two-Year Restoration, Tintoretto’s Monumental “Crucifixion” Is Back On View

The 17-foot-by-40-foot painting is back in the board room of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, “painstakingly liberated from thick yellowed varnish, glue residues, compacted dust, and the remnants of retouching from early restoration programs.” - The Wall Street Journal (MSN)

Will Ferrell Is Adapting His Eurovision Song Contest Parody For Broadway

“A stage musical based on the 2020 Netflix movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is under development with Will Ferrell, Harper Steele and Anthony King writing the book and Savan Kotecha composing the music. Alex Timbers is on board to direct.” - Deadline

Podcasts Mostly Have To Turn Into Brands To Make Money

That means podcast-themed backpacks, toys - and cruises. Indeed, one “chief content officer” says, “We’re trying to take a Hollywood-style approach to IP-building and apply it to podcasting.” - Fast Company

The Current President Says He Wants To Take All Of Taxpayers’ NEH And NEA Money And Spend It On His So-Called Garden Of Heroes

“About $17 million would be routed from both the NEH and NEA to support the statuary garden project. No specific details were shared about the time frame for construction, its potential location or how the spending will be carried out.” - Washington Post

An Unlikely Arts Oasis Arises In LA, Built Partly With LACMA’s Rubble

Conceptual artist David Horwitz has created the 7th Avenue Garden in an empty lot, turning it into “a small but verdant oasis that hosts exhibitions, poetry readings and performances.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Today’s AJ Highlights

This Composer Created An Entire Week-Long Piece Specifically For People’s Living Rooms “Drawing from a bank of over 7,000 ‘musical shapes, textures and gestures,’ Michael Schumacher’s Living Room Pieces assembles sounds into 301 ‘modules,’ algorithmically arranged over seven ‘modes,’ one for each day.” – The Washington Post (MSN)​ London’s Royal Opera Explores What It Means To Have A Voice (And...

How Did ‘Yellowstone’ Capture So Big A Part Of US Culture?

“The neo-Western wrapped contemporary ideas of rugged individualism inside the soapy drama of a land-hoarding family’s succession planning." - The New York Times

An Autistic Girl Turned Down By Ballet Schools Inspires A Whole New Approach

A Scottish ballet teacher has created classes that meet the needs of autistic kids in ballet. The teacher says the response has been overwhelming: “There were so many parents out there who needed these facilities, and they just weren't given the opportunity.” - Glasgow Live (MSN)

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