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• US Playwright Ken Ludwig Gives £1 Million To Preserve Shakespeare Family Home

  05-09-2024 21:07 via timeout.com
  
  The author of the farce Lend Me a Tenor and the book for the Gershwin musical Crazy for You donated in order to fund desperately-needed preservation work on Hall’s Croft, the home of Shakespeare’s daughter Susannah and a very rare example of intact Jacobean architecture. – Time Out UK
  
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• How The Salt Lake City Tribune Went Nonprofit, Reinvented Its Culture And Made It Work

  05-09-2024 20:44 via niemanlab.org
  
  We’ve seen news organizations open communication that gives journalists a better idea of what, exactly, needs to happen for their publication to survive and thrive — and where they fit in. – NiemanLab
  
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• The Inherent Tension In Children’s Books

  05-09-2024 20:32 via artsjournal.com
   Should we pander to the little rotters’ desires (BURRRP!) or should we give them impossibly pious characters Doing Good? The answer, of course, lies somewhere in between. – Literary Review
  
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• Giller Prize Drops Bank From Its Name Over Controversies

  05-09-2024 20:15 via thestar.com
  
  The rebranding follows months of controversy surrounding Scotiabank’s investment in the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems and comes amid an ongoing campaign calling on arts organizations like the Giller Foundation to distance themselves from the financial institution. – Toronto Star
  
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• Venezuelan TV News Agency Is Using AI-Created Avatars

  05-09-2024 20:06 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Amid a harsh crackdown by the Maduro regime following an election he claims to have won but apparently lost badly, a news service called Connectas is airing its (genuine) reports using two AI-generated anchors in order to shield the actual journalists’ identities from police. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Scientists Studied Eye Movements To See How Our Brains Process Stories

  05-09-2024 19:32 via medicalxpress.com
  “Traditionally, we’ve thought of eye movements as a simple response to what’s happening in front of us. But recent research shows that’s not the whole story. Eye movements are as unique as personality traits. Some people focus more on faces, while others are drawn to text or other elements.” – Medical Express
  
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• The State Of The New York Philharmonic Through Its Tax Return

  05-09-2024 19:14 via apnews.com
  
  The Philharmonic released its 2022 tax return Wednesday, covering its first season back at David Geffen Hall following a $550 million renovation. Ticket revenue rebounded to $29.76 million from $11.18 million in the prior fiscal year. – AP News
  
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• FBI Arrests Musician For Alleged $10 Million Scam With AI-Created Songs

  05-09-2024 19:05 via apnews.com
  
  “An indictment in Manhattan federal court said (Michael) Smith created thousands of accounts on streaming platforms so that he could stream (tens of thousands of AI-created) songs continuously, generating about 661,000 streams per day … (for) annual royalties of $1.2 million.” – AP
  
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• Internet Archive Loses Appeal On “Fair Use” Of Books

  05-09-2024 18:44 via wired.com
  
  Notably, the appeals court’s ruling rejects the Internet Archive’s argument that its lending practices were shielded by the fair use doctrine, which permits for copyright infringement in certain circumstances, calling it “unpersuasive.” – Wired
  
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• Remembering the Works of Stephen Sheppard, Cultural Economist

  05-09-2024 18:39 via artsjournal.com
  Last March, we lost a dear colleague and innovator in the field of cultural economics. Stephen Sheppard, a professor of economics at Williams College, died at the age of 69.
  This is an overdue attempt to pay some sort of tribute to Dr. Sheppard and his abiding influence. Personally, I got to know him 12 years ago, when the NEA partnered with the Brookings Institution to convene a symposium on “The Arts, New Growth Theory, and Economic Development.” Papers from the event we
  
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• Might AI Kill Off Amateur Novels? Good!

  05-09-2024 18:27 via theatlantic.com
  
  The world needs fewer novels, certainly fewer novels that have been written in a month. And artificial intelligence is itchy for distractions; we need to give the robots something to do before they start messing with nuclear codes or Social Security numbers. – The Atlantic
  
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• Ticket Bots Overwhelm Sales Of Oasis Concert Tickets, Enraging Fans

  05-09-2024 18:15 via wired.com
  
  As soon as the presale for the band’s upcoming gigs went online on Friday, tickets—which started at around $100 apiece—popped up on resale sites, with fans on X reporting that they were seeing prices in the $800 to $1,200 range. – Wired
  
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• Fyre Festival II Is Coming, I Promise! Says The Producer Of The Original Fiasco

  05-09-2024 18:03 via msn.com
  “Billy McFarland is a little over a year into planning Fyre Festival II, and he still doesn’t know where it’s going to be. Or when. Or who’s performing. But he says it’s definitely happening. One hundred percent, absolutely for-sure happening. After all, he’s already sold tickets.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• Creative Rights Group Advocates For New AI Rules On Using Data

  05-09-2024 17:44 via wired.com
  
  The DPA advocates for an opt-in system, meaning that data can be used only after consent is explicitly given by creators and rights holders. This represents a significant departure from the way most major AI companies operate. – Wired
  
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• How AI Is Helping To Authenticate Artwork

  05-09-2024 17:32 via artnews.com
  
  “Our program needs about three days to learn the characteristics from around 700 training images, and less than five minutes to calculate the probability of the authenticity of an artwork.” – ARTnews
  
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• The “Black List” Of Best Unproduced Screenplays Is Being Extended To Books

  05-09-2024 17:06 via publishersweekly.com
  “The Black List … has morphed over two decades into a multifunctional web platform focused on screenplay development and discovery. … Now, with relations between Hollywood and New York publishing closer — and the book-to-screen pipeline bigger — than ever before, the Black List is shifting its gaze over to the slush pile.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• The Incredible Shrinking Writers’ Rooms Of Hollywood

  05-09-2024 16:34 via theguardian.com
  
  “(Back) when networks would commission a season of 22 episodes of a sitcom or drama, these rooms would often boast a dozen or more writers. … Today, with the rise of streaming platforms, studios increasingly rely on so-called mini-rooms with just four or five writers to create shows, often with fewer episodes.” – The Guardian
  
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• Ron DeSantis’s Elimination Of Arts Funding Is Wrecking Arts Education In Florida

  05-09-2024 16:02 via msn.com
  “Several of the more than 600 organizations that lost state funding (said) that their educational programming is the first thing they will have to cut if they cannot make up the money elsewhere.” The problem is especially acute in rural areas where school districts have fewer resources. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Newport Art Museum Has Laid Off All Of Its Curators

  05-09-2024 15:31 via artsjournal.com
  With the layoff of all three curatorial staffers plus one patron-facing worker and the resignation of three more employees (one a senior manager), NAM has lost half its staff since August 1. The museum in the wealthy Rhode Island seaside town has had only one year without a deficit since 2011. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Cooper Union Welcomes Back Its Seniors With A Surprise: Free Tuition!

  05-09-2024 15:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The incoming class of seniors at New York’s Cooper Union learned at today’s convocation ceremony that they would pay no tuition for their final year. Outgoing president Laura Sparks announced, moreover, that for each of the coming four years, seniors at the school of art, architecture, and engineering would attend tuition-free.” – Artnet
  
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• British Prosecutors Drop Indecent Assault Case Against Harvey Weinstein

  05-09-2024 14:35 via apnews.com
  
  “The Crown Prosecution Service said on Thursday that it decided to discontinue proceedings against Weinstein because there is ‘no longer a realistic prospect of conviction.’ … The CPS had previously authorized police to file the charges against Weinstein in relation to an alleged indecent assault that occurred in London in 1996.” – AP
  
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• Bellevue Arts Museum In Washington State Gives Up And Shuts Down

  05-09-2024 14:07 via seattletimes.com
  “Nearly seven months after launching an emergency fundraising campaign to stave off a ‘dire’ financial crisis, the Bellevue Arts Museum is closing its doors indefinitely, museum officials announced Wednesday afternoon. … It is unclear at this time whether the closure is permanent. The museum has filed for receivership.” – The Seattle Times
  
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• Teresita Fernández: ‘Objects have a gravitas that affects your body. That’s the most powerful aspect of sculpture’

  05-09-2024 13:29
  
  The award-winning artist is reinventing the way landscapes are depicted in art – not least by pointing out that human bodies are made of the same stuffTeresita Fernández is a landscape artist – but these are not landscapes as we know them. Rather than a spot on a map, her understanding of the term extends from the depths of the Earth to the cosmos, and from the cellular to the psychological. Her vast mosaic panel sculptures and wall reliefs of cartographies evoke galaxies, wea
  
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• Hundreds of artworks by mainly Black Brazilian artists are returning home

  05-09-2024 11:00
  
  Pieces from sculptures to costumes are donated to Bahia after being in US and Canada’s museums for 30 yearsAmid a global movement to return artworks to their countries of origin, about 750 pieces by predominantly Black Brazilian artists are coming home after being exhibited in museums across the United States and Canada.The sculptures, paintings, prints, religious objects, festival costumes, toys and poetry booklets have been outside Brazil for more than 30 years and are now being donated
  
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