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  • AUDIENCE

Cliffhanger: Orchestra Performs At Edge Of Yosemite Cliff

MUSIC Posted: September 12, 2016 10:34 am

One might think it odd to stage a symphony at Glacier Point. But according to Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman, “From the signing of the Yosemite Grant to the present day, the arts have played a significant role in the creation and continued interest in preserving these public places.” Yosemite sparkles in Ansel Adams’ photos. It is illuminated by John Muir’s prose. Yosemite has a new artistic champion in Les Marsden, the conductor of the Mariposa orchestra.

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Read the story in Fresno Bee Published: 08.26.16

The Great Library Of Alexandria Had A Rival – And A Vicious Rivalry

WORDS Posted: September 2, 2016 7:00 am

The kings of Pergamon in Asia Minor (now Begrama, Turkey) fought hard to build a collection as large and prestigious as Alexandria’s – and the Ptolemies were not pleased at the competition. The two cities struggled over manuscripts, scholars, and even materials. (Yes, there was a papyrus embargo.)

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Read the story in Atlas Obscura Published: 08.26.16

What Is, And Isn’t, ‘Artificial Intelligence’? Not What The Marketers Tell Us It Is

IDEAS Posted: September 1, 2016 10:00 am

Om Malik: “Much like ‘the cloud,’ ‘big data,’ and ‘machine learning’ before it, the term ‘artificial intelligence’ has been hijacked by marketers and advertising copywriters. A lot of what people are calling ‘artificial intelligence’ is really data analytics – in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking ‘What is A.I., really?,’ don’t worry, you’re not alone. I asked various experts to define the term and got different answers.”

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Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 08.26.16

The Changes Begin Under Atlanta Ballet’s New Artistic Director

DANCE Posted: August 31, 2016 4:45 am

“Change is afoot at Atlanta Ballet under artistic director Gennadi Nedvigin, with a new ballet master and company members, plus a major upswing in one dancer’s career.”

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Read the story in Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published: 08.26.16

James Corden’s Success In U.S. Based On YouTube, Not Broadcast TV, Says Producer

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: August 31, 2016 4:30 am

“‘When I get in in the morning I will check our YouTube hits before I check our overnights [ratings],’ said Ben Winston, the man behind Corden’s hit The Late Late Show. ‘The overnights just tell us who managed to stay awake. The YouTube hits tell us which bits flew.'”

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Read the story in The Guardian Published: 08.26.16

The Extraordinary Detail Of Rembrandt’s Etchings

VISUAL Posted: August 30, 2016 11:00 am

“In this video from Christie’s, we see contemporary printmaker Alexander Massouras analyze the diversity of Rembrandt’s lines and how they create different textures in the same work of art – something Rembrandt was a master at. We also get to see the etching process firsthand.”

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Read the story in Slate Published: 08.26.16

Why Holograms Of Dead Performers Weird Us Out (But We Keep Watching Them)

AUDIENCE, ISSUES Posted: August 30, 2016 7:00 am

“Simultaneously here and gone, holograms are stand-ins for all things virtual, harbingers of a ‘mixed reality’ in which the real and the simulated have been integrated seamlessly. … In reality, however, holograms have mostly been gaudy stunts … still abut the uncanny valley, displaying a body that is there and not there, alive and dead. Something about it doesn’t quite compute.”

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Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 08.26.16

Cast Of ‘Fun Home’ And PFLAG Compare Notes On Coming Out

THEATRE Posted: August 30, 2016 6:15 am

“‘We thought they could learn a lot from professional actors about public speaking skills,’ said Drew Tagliabue, the executive director of PFLAG NYC, an organization for family members of gay and transgender people. The group runs the Safe Schools Program, which sends those emissaries into classrooms to talk about coming out. … But what was planned as a class about how to hold onto an audience became something different.”

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 08.26.16

You Know Who’s Responsible For That ‘Any Similarity To Actual Persons Is Coincidental’ Disclaimer In Movie Credits? Rasputin, That’s Who

MEDIA Posted: August 30, 2016 4:45 am

“Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: ‘This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.’ The cut-and-paste legal rider must be the most boring thing in every movie that features it. Who knew its origins were so lurid?” Duncan Fyfe explains.

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Read the story in Slate Published: 08.26.16

Hard Lessons About How The Art-Buying World Works, Courtesy Knoedler Fakes Scandal

VISUAL Posted: August 29, 2016 10:45 am

“For collectors seeking information on the authenticity of specific works of art, there is no repository of authenticators’ reports, and experts doubt the value of a database that buyers could consult the way they check for stolen art (for example, through the Art Loss Register or Art Recovery Group). For one thing, not all reports are reliable.”

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Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 08.26.16

The Church Of Big Data – A Quack Religion?

IDEAS Posted: August 29, 2016 9:12 am

“Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data. This novel creed may be called “Dataism”. In its extreme form, proponents of the Dataist worldview perceive the entire universe as a flow of data, see organisms as little more than biochemical algorithms and believe that humanity’s cosmic vocation is to create an all-encompassing data-processing system — and then merge into it.”

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Read the story in Financial Times Published: 08.26.16

Earthquake Exposes Fragility Of Italy’s Architectural Treasures

VISUAL Posted: August 29, 2016 8:45 am

“Many experts maintain that Italy has among the world’s best anti-seismic standards already — at least on paper. But the problems in executing them are legion: money, corruption, tangled bureaucracy, shoddy construction and a lack of enforcement of national regulations at the local level.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 08.26.16

Ai Weiwei Removed From Major Chinese Bienniale

ISSUES Posted: August 29, 2016 6:45 am

“Ai tweeted that he received a ‘vague letter’ from Yinchuan MoCA’s artistic director Hsieh Suchen that ‘the decision is made by higher officials’ due to the show’s status as part of China’s One Belt, One Road initiative to build a new Silk Road of overland economic and cultural exchange with countries to China’s west.”

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Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 08.26.16

The Books A New Author Reads On Book Tour Can Make Or Break Them

WORDS Posted: August 29, 2016 5:30 am

“I’d pick up others along the way. All would be serendipitous. I’m going to learn from them not only how to handle a book tour better, but how to *be* better, fully stop.”

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Read the story in The Millions Published: 08.26.16

What Is The Public Art In City Hall Park Saying?

VISUAL Posted: August 29, 2016 4:45 am

“The Language of Things is a bit cerebral for a public art exhibition (the description does begin with a Walter Benjamin quote, which inspired the title); like the four speakers pointing inward in Watson’s sound installation, it can feel somewhat insular, even for art about codes.”

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Read the story in Hyperallergic Published: 08.26.16

How A Writer Of Gay (And Wildly Silly) Erotica Became The Standard Bearer For What’s Good In Science Fiction

WORDS Posted: August 29, 2016 4:15 am

“If you could pick a single writer to make an effective, compassionate statement about identity politics to a divided literary community, who would you pick? Would it be a schizophrenic, autistic person who’d authored an e-book called Space Raptor Butt Invasion?”

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Read the story in Literary Hub Published: 08.26.16

Reinventing Ballet’s Long Form

DANCE Posted: August 28, 2016 9:00 am

“Binet gave a killer speech on what he wants the ballet of his generation to look like: non-hierarchical, non-heteronormative and non-subscribing to gender stereotypes.”

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Read the story in The Globe and Mail (Canada) Published: 08.26.16

The Venice Film Fest Provides A Superb Showcase For Awards Bait

MEDIA Posted: August 28, 2016 8:45 am

“It’s back on top after a scorecard that saw successful Oscar wins for Venice premieres three years in a row: Gravity, Birdman and, last year, Spotlight. Hollywood has taken notice.”

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Read the story in The Hollywood Reporter Published: 08.26.16

What It’s Like To Try To Play – But Not Caricature – The First Lady Of The United States

MEDIA Posted: August 28, 2016 8:15 am

“The film is not campy and it’s not winking at the audience going, ‘Look! It’s the future president and first lady.’ It is rooted in authenticity.”

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Read the story in The Hollywood Reporter Published: 08.26.16

Max Ritvo Took The Poetry World By Storm, All While He Dealt With Terminal Cancer

PEOPLE Posted: August 28, 2016 8:00 am

“Over time, he said, his work had shifted ‘away from sort of ebullient death poetry and fighting poetry and poetry of, sort of, the bloods and the squirmies and the guts, and more toward trying to figure out what death is, and what my place in the world is.'”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 08.26.16

When Teens Without Arts Opportunities Get To Do Shakespeare

THEATRE Posted: August 28, 2016 7:30 am

“It’s not about being a great actor. … It’s about studying craft, deriving a sense of strength from that craft, and feeling that you’ve grown in some way. If students get anything from this program that they can apply to any other aspect of their lives, that’s a huge success for us.”

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Read the story in American Theatre Published: 08.26.16

One British Politician Pledges Extra Money For The Arts (If He Gets Elected, Of Course)

ISSUES Posted: August 28, 2016 7:15 am

“Speaking at world’s largest arts festival in the Scottish capital, Mr Corbyn said that under his leadership Labour will draw on the country’s ‘proud cultural heritage’ and give people from all sections of society the opportunity for their ‘creativity to flourish’.”

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Read the story in BBC Published: 08.26.16

The Cleveland Orchestra Goes To The Heart Of The City For The Summer [AUDIO]

AUDIENCE, MUSIC Posted: August 28, 2016 6:19 am

“The old model of service has sort of imperial, colonial overtones,” but the relationship they actually built was refreshing.

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Read the story in WBUR (Boston) Published: 08.26.16

Taking Art World Sexism And Making It Into Art

VISUAL Posted: August 28, 2016 6:00 am

“Language started creeping into her work after this episode, with ‘Censored’ drawings, explicit images over which Tompkins laid a grid, stamping ‘censored’ on the offending areas. ‘I censored my own pieces. I felt I could do it better than anyone,’ Tompkins told me. ‘It was in reality a way to stay sane. Being censored is a really nasty business.'”

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Read the story in Hyperallergic Published: 08.26.16

The Things Musicians Carry

MUSIC Posted: August 28, 2016 5:45 am

“Tunes, traditions, styles, perspectives — one might think of us as the carriers of a DNA that can both stubbornly endure and spontaneously mutate as we meet other musicians and enter new realms.”

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Read the story in Huffington Post Published: 08.26.16

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