Chicago’s Public Schools Have A Major Collection Of WPA Murals. Why Are People Calling For Them To Be Covered Up?

VISUAL Posted: March 4, 2020 6:01 am

For essentially the same reasons that some people wanted the murals at George Washington High School in San Francisco to be covered over or removed. – Artnet

Google Search Is Arguably The Internet’s Most Important Innovation. Now It’s Also A Tragedy.

“Unlike its streamlined, efficient former self, Google Search is now bloated and overmonetized. It’s harder now to find answers that feel authoritative or uncompromised. … Using Google once felt like magic, and... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
My Books Were Used To Train AI. So What?

Perhaps chopping prose into tokens is not how I would like to be read. But then, who am I to say what my work is good for, how it might benefit someone—even... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
At 88, Yvonne Rainer Is Touring Her Final Choreographic Work

“‘I just don’t have any more choreographic ideas,’ she said. She went on to describe dancing Trio A in her 80s, when getting up off the ground had become more difficult, and... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Only One Theatre. It’s Fallen Into Disrepair

The building represents Wright’s decades-long fascination with a concept he called the “New Theatre.” It involved eschewing the traditional setup, with a proscenium stage—in which audiences stare straight ahead with a single,... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
Some US Regional Theater Companies Are Bouncing Back Well From The Pandemic. Here’s Why.

How the Barter Theatre in rural southwestern Virginia, Signature Theatre in metro DC, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, Arkansas kept up contact and engagement with their communities through the lockdowns... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
New York Public Radio Will Lay Off 12% Of Its Staff

“LaFontaine Oliver, New York Public Radio’s president and chief executive, said in a memo to employees that a ‘free fall in the advertising market’ had led to the decision to cut staff.”... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
One Of Ethiopia’s Most Sacred Objects, Looted 155 Years Ago, Is Returned

“A sacred tablet that was stolen by British troops during the 1868 Battle of Maqdala in Ethiopia was restituted in a service at a church in London on Monday. Also known as... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
This Writer’s Books Were Used To Train Meta’s New AI Program. So He Asked It Some Questions.

Fred Kaplan, defense columnist for Slate: “When pressed with an even mildly confounding question, the machine just makes stuff up. Which makes me wonder: how will it learn how to write good... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
Here Are The 183,000 Books Which Authors Suing Meta Over (Is Yours One Of Them?)

Alex Reisner has put together a searchable database of the volumes that Mark Zuckerberg’s tech colossus used, without permission, to train LLaMA, its generative AI program — the subject of three different... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
And What-All Is In This New Agreement Between The Studios And The Writers Guild?

The answer: not everything the writers wanted, but a lot more than anyone thought would be there six months ago — “a deal far richer and more comprehensive than most industry observers... Read more

AJBlog: Seeing Things Published on: 2023-09-27
Five Brief Stanzas from a Scottish-born Poet

as a brief visitor to my ear a fly droned on about some matter or other that was too brief for me to catch... Read more

AJBlog: Straight|Up Published on: 2023-09-26
On Yom Kippur My Atonement Is Weak

Cold Turkey Press published this card four years ago in a limited edition. It applies now more than ever.... Read more

AJBlog: Straight|Up Published on: 2023-09-24
Alice Jones talks about how entrepreneurship can transform arts students

Alice Jones, Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Career Services at the Juilliard School, talks about their entrepreneurship program and how it transforms students.... Read more

AJBlog: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2023-09-23
Jewish Scribes & Christian Artists: High-Holiday Torah Study at the Metropolitan Museum (with video)

Two “Renaissance Masterpieces of Judaica,” as described in the Metropolitan Museum’s press release, have enriched the Jewish High Holidays at the New York museum, thanks to a cooperative initiative among the Met,... Read more

AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published on: 2023-09-22
Quick Study: Arts Degrees and Artist Careers

In this episode of Quick Study, we consider the job outcomes and experiences of arts graduates during and before the pandemic. A transcript is available on the National Endowment for the Arts website.... Read more

AJBlog: Measure for Measure Published on: 2023-09-22
Double-Barrelled: From Rainbow to Gunboats

On Sept. 11, 2023, from a perch above the East River you could see a skywide rainbow over New York City. On Sept. 18, from the same perch, you could see U.S.... Read more

AJBlog: Straight|Up Published on: 2023-09-20