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• Imagining A New Definition For Participating In Art

  07-10-2024 20:06 via arts.gov
  What gets defined as “art” often reflects a very specific perspective in our culture. Expanding our definitions of art and participation to include nontraditional and emerging forms ensures that a broader spectrum of creative expression is valued and supported.  – NEA
  
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• Is London’s Art Market As Bad As People Are Saying?

  07-10-2024 19:58 via theguardian.com
  Ahead of the 21st edition of the fair, which has now expanded to four cities around the world and brings week-long celebrations as well as sales, there has been a sense of doom and gloom about the state of the capital’s art market over the last 12 months. – The Guardian
  
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• How Our Notions Of “Privacy” Have Changed In The Digital Age

  07-10-2024 19:32 via newyorker.com
  
  “Privacy is valuable not because it empowers us to exercise control over our information, but because it protects against the creation of such information in the first place.” – The New Yorker
  
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• What Are The Mythologies That Define America?

  07-10-2024 18:45 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  Those stories that Americans tell about themselves in the name of the “imagined community,” manifest through public rituals like fireworks shows, public school curricula, the discourse of politicians, and the touchstones reinforced by constant references in the press and pop culture: the Alamo, Custer’s Last Stand, the showdown at the O.K. Corral. – LA Review of Books
  
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• Is Intellectual Humility Really A Virtue?

  07-10-2024 18:32 via aeon.co
  
  Part of living well is thinking well. Our souls have an intellectual, as well as a practical, part; we cannot live fully flourishing lives unless we flourish intellectually. Are there, then, specifically intellectual virtues – excellences of intellectual character, whose exercise makes us good thinkers? – Aeon
  
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• Artist Who Used AI To Create Images Says Copyright Office Ruling Is Anti-Creative

  07-10-2024 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  The US Copyright Office ruled that content created using AI tools, including Midjourney, can’t be copyrighted. However, Allen argues that “the Office ignore[d] the essential element of human creativity required to create a work using the Midjourney program.” –ARTnews
  
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• The Internet Archive Is A Library Of The Digital Age, A Record Of Civilization. Publishers Want To Kill It

  07-10-2024 17:58 via rollingstone.com
  
  Though Kahle’s ideals have never wavered, his creations were subsumed by a Silicon Valley behemoth feeding off all things antithetical to his vision of an open internet: advertising models, insane capital markets, and the ultimate “poison” (as he calls it), monopoly power.  – Rolling Stone
  
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• The Met Opera Just Extended Yannick Nezet-Seguin’s Contract. Should It Have?

  07-10-2024 17:45 via parterre.com
  
  When he was first named as the next music director back in 2018, the Met asserted that he would conduct a minimum of five operas per season. What are we to make of this seemingly diminished conducting commitment? – Parterre Box
  
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• Southern California Can’t Have All The Visual Art Attention, A Newly Launched Northern Cal Arts Effort Says

  07-10-2024 17:00 via sfchronicle.com
  Stand back, PST: Here comes the Further Triennial. The name – in honor of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters’ famous bus – “is about the connection to the past and a certain kind of openness, creativity, a disrespect for the way things have always been done.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Show Everyone The Money

  07-10-2024 16:30 via lithub.com
  
  On the literary importance of money in fiction (even Raymond Carver agreed). – LitHub
  
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• Nostalgia Is Driving An Awful Lot Of Television Reboots

  07-10-2024 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Millennials want to share their shows with their kids – and, in addition, “the world is a little bit hectic and crazy right now, and having familiarity in our programming is just nice and it’s something we like to retreat into.” – CBC
  
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• What Is The Graphic Novel Equivalent Of Show, Don’t Tell?

  07-10-2024 15:45 via lithub.com
  
  It’s the two-apple problem. – LitHub
  
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• Some Good News For Books, And Readers

  07-10-2024 15:15 via salon.com
  
  “The number of independent bookstores has grown by 200 from 2022 to 2023, and the number has more than doubled between 2016 and 2023.” Then there’s the internet – for indies. – Salon
  
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• The British Artist Who Has Bonded With Cy Twombly

  07-10-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Artist Tacita Dean says, “He connects to the classical world in a way that is deeply emotive. … I’m interested in where your mind goes when you look at one of his works.” – The New York Times
  
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• Hollywood Feels The Lure Of Europe, Again

  07-10-2024 14:45 via variety.com
  
  First of all, Hollywood studios are a bit risk-averse right now. Then there’s the pull, for actors, of high-prestige indies. Witness Zoe Saldaña, starring in Emelia Pérez – “a musical in Spanish with a French director and transgender hero.” – Variety
  
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• How Is It That Saturday Night Live Is Sometimes Still Funny?

  07-10-2024 14:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Television shows that are 50 years old aren’t thick on the ground. But SNL strikes a thread of absurd comedy from time to time that goes viral. The latest is centered on … George Washington? – The Atlantic
  
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• Should We Be Worried That Taiwan May Be Running Out Of Electricity?

  07-10-2024 14:15 via wired.com
  
  Only if we want computer chips. Whichwe definitely do. – Wired
  
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• Little Of The Money In Music Is Flowing To Musicians, Says Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour

  07-10-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Gilmour: “The music industry is a tough one these days, and for people who are recording in it, the rewards are not justifiable. The rich and the powerful have siphoned off the majority of this money.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Companies Like Instagram Are Deleting Our Photos And Videos

  07-10-2024 13:45 via artsjournal.com
  So please – make sure they’re stored somewhere else as well (preferably not in a cloud). – Slate
  
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• Robert Coover, Postmodernist Author Of Great Invention, Dead At 92

  07-10-2024 13:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Michiko Kakutani called him “probably the funniest and most malicious” of all the postmodernist novelists. – The New York Times
  
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• Demon Copperhead Author Barbara Kingsolver Knows A Thing Or Two About Anti-Hillbilly Bigotry

  07-10-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  And she knows the real Appalachia – one, she says, a certain vice-presidential candidate doesn’t. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Outside Frieze’s big tent, the London art world faces severe headwinds

  07-10-2024 07:00
  
  Galleries have closed and auction sales are down as Brexit boosts European events such as Art Basel ParisFrieze art fair’s big tent in Regent’s Park should at least keep attendees dry as the art world descends on London this week for the annual event, which takes place during one of the wettest autumns on record. But outside the marquee, London’s art world is facing severe headwinds.Ahead of the 21st edition of the fair, which has now expanded to four cities around the world an
  
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