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Banned In North Carolina: Now They Want To Ban “Banned Books Week”
“It has come to our attention that some schools have planned events next week October 1-7, to mark the American Library Association’s “Banned Book Week.” If this is the case, all principals… Read more
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The Musee D’Orsay Has Added An AI Vincent Van Gogh
“Asked why he had cut off his left ear, the artist replied that this was a misconception and he had in fact only cut off ‘part of my earlobe.'” (The M d’O… Read more
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Is There A Way To ‘Opt Out’ Of Having AI Train On Your Art?
DALL-E-3 claims – unconvincingly – that artists can now decline having their work included in data sets. – The Atlantic… Read more
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The Bookies’ Odds On The Nobel Prize For Literature
The list includes “the usual suspects—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Michel Houellebecq, Anne Carson (who won’t win the year after Annie Ernaux, come on, the literary cool girls can’t have everything), and Can Xue, who… Read more
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Robin Williams’s Daughter Says Union Must Protect Actors Who Can’t Consent
Zelda Williams: “I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad. This isn’t theoretical, it is very very real.” – Vulture… Read more
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Jhumpa Lahiri On Translating Her Own Work
The novelist also translates others. She says translating is “an act of radical change.” – The Guardian (UK)… Read more
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The Problem With LEGO
Aside from the bare feet in the middle of the night issue, LEGO has a massive plastic problem. – Wired… Read more
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Lydia Davis Will Not Have Her Books On Amazon
“Her fans are legion – among them Ali Smith, Colm Tóibín and Dave Eggers – and she has won many honours, including the International Booker prize.” But you’ll never find her work at… Read more
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Instrumental Songs Can Be Hits, Even Now
But how? “It takes a very unique sort of musical mind to make these.” – Slate… Read more
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The Weird Father Of American Art
If you are fond of “odd, ugly, small-scale art that has a cracked and thwarted look, is radically antisocial, and radiates hidden agendas, you’re probably a fan of Albert Pinkham Ryder.” –… Read more
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Patagonia as Metaphor: Expressing the Off-Beat
Presiding writers, for their part, bequeath journeys. Home to Ithaca. Basho. to Deep North Honshu. Coleridge to Xanadu. Yeats to Byzantium. Journeys full of imagining. So why not yours, far lesser, to… Read more
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Meet Joe Hernandez–Legendary Tejano Musician
National Heritage Fellow “Little Joe” Hernández describes his musical journey explaining how his culture, family, and personal experiences shaped his legendary style. Coming from a musical family, he took the traditional Mexican… Read more
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Nicole Balm talks about the connection between music and health
Nicole Balm, Senior Director of Education & Community Engagement of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, talks about the connection between music and health and their impact on community…. Read more
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“Celebrating Harry Burleigh” on October 14
I’ll be joining the baritone Sidney Outlaw – an exceptional artist – in songs and spirituals by Harry Burleigh on Saturday, October 14, at the Newark School of the Arts. It’s a… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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