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• The World’s Oldest Children’s Museum Marks 125 Years. And Where Is It? Brooklyn.

  23-12-2024 15:02 via nytimes.com
  “Situated on a leafy corner of the Crown Heights neighborhood, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum commemorated its 125th anniversary last weekend with a daylong celebration. A few weeks earlier, its president and chief executive, Atiba T. Edwards, had his own anniversary — his first year on the job.” – The New York Times
  
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• Hilma af Klint’s Family Tries To Stop Proposed Deal With David Zwirner Gallery

  23-12-2024 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  “Klint family members say that a proposed deal between Zwirner, who is one of the biggest gallerists in the world, and the foundation’s board would open the door to the ‘commercialisation’ of the artist’s work, which they say directly contravenes her wishes and the statutes of the foundation.” – The Guardian
  
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• How Trump Used Comedy To Win

  23-12-2024 20:31 via theconversation.com
  
  While Jimmy Kimmel cries and Jon Stewart rants, the right wing in the U.S. has successfully depicted itself as the new home for free speech and cutting edge comedy. – The Conversation
  
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• The Top Ten Book-Business News Stories Of 2024

  23-12-2024 20:04 via publishersweekly.com
  “PW looks back at the major contractions in the independent book distribution space, an explosion of artificial intelligence tools and businesses, turmoil over freedom of expression in multiple sectors, and more that defined the book business landscape throughout the year.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• The Frightening Power Of AI Agents To Manipulate Us

  23-12-2024 19:32 via wired.com
  
  This is a moment that philosophers have warned us about for years. Before his death, philosopher and neuroscientist Daniel Dennett wrote that we face a grave peril from AI systems that emulate people: “These counterfeit people are the most dangerous artifacts in human history … distracting and confusing us. – Wired
  
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• Another Way To Review The Year? Twelve Objects That Caught Our Attention

  23-12-2024 19:30 via fastcompany.com
  I’ve set out to perform the annual ritual of assessing and unpacking the year gone by through the objects that captured our attention. Here, then, is the year in objects—the good, the unsettling, and the hard to explain.
  
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• Lithuania Banned “Nutcracker” In Solidarity With Ukraine. Now It’s Back…

  23-12-2024 19:15 via nytimes.com
  Darius Kuolys who was the first culture minister after a 1990 declaration of independence, said it was obvious that the Kremlin often exploited culture for political ends. But he added, “It never occurred to me as a minister to tell people what to watch or listen to.” – The New York Times
  
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• Glasgow’s Leading Theatre Company Is Finally Coming Back Home

  23-12-2024 19:07 via theguardian.com
  
  The Citizens Theatre is returning to its historic playhouse next September after a seven-year renovation, the first overhaul the facility has had since it opened as a working theatre in 1878. – The Guardian
  
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• Botto, The AI Artist, Has Already Made $4 Million. Now He’s Getting A Personality

  23-12-2024 18:44 via wired.com
  
  Botto is a decentralized semi-autonomous artistic agent created in 2021 by the German artist Mario Klingemann; Simon Hudson, a media entrepreneur; and Ziv Epstein, a computer scientist and designer. – Wired
  
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• How Encyclopedia Britannica Evolved (And Thrives) In The Age Of AI

  23-12-2024 18:26 via nytimes.com
  Britannica has figured out not only how to survive, but also how to do well financially. Jorge Cauz, its chief executive, said in an interview that the publisher enjoyed pro forma profit margins of about 45 percent. – The New York Times
  
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• Lin Manuel Miranda’s Daunting Task: Reinventing “Lion King”

  23-12-2024 18:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  The songs form the basis of the highest-grossing musical in the history of Broadway. Thirty years on they remain embedded in our collective consciousness, so Lin-Manuel Miranda could be forgiven for feeling wary about being called on to provide the tunes for follow-up Mufasa: The Lion King. – The Independent
  
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• How “Sesame Street” Is Trying To Save Itself — And Why It Needs To

  23-12-2024 18:03 via msn.com
  In the show’s 55th season. producers are trying to re-orient it to keep it alive. Its core audience of toddlers and pre-schoolers is different than in the 1970s, there’s vastly more competition today, income from DVDs has evaporated due to YouTube, and HBO has cancelled a lucrative deal. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• When Arlene Croce Took On Bill T. Jones (When the Critic Famously Didn’t See The Work)

  23-12-2024 17:44 via nytimes.com
  In her contentious essay, Croce, one of the finest dance critics of the 20th century, railed against what she called victim art: “By working dying people into his act, Jones is putting himself beyond the reach of criticism. – The New York Times
  
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• Times Square Was Turned Into A Giant Immersive Experience

  23-12-2024 17:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  Suddenly, at exactly 11:57 p.m., 92 electronic billboards all around Times Square stopped pulsating with ads for Coca-Cola, Broadway plays, and fashion brands, and began a synchronized 10-second countdown. Then a digitally animated young woman appeared on all 92 screens, with “Autofiction: Moving Pictures” written in white letters across her blue T-shirt. – Artnet
  
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• Publishing World Divided On Using AI To Make Books

  23-12-2024 17:15 via observer.com
  
  Spines said it aims to help a million authors bring their stories to life—so they can focus on writing great books while A.I. handles the heavy lifting of publishing. – The Observer
  
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• Airports Have Started Putting Real Thought Into Their Background Music

  23-12-2024 17:05 via apnews.com
  
  Some — London Heathrow, Nashville, Phoenix, Seattle-Tacoma, both Chicago airports — have stages with live musicians. Others — Detroit, Austin — have specially curated playlists. Singapore-Changi even commissioned piano music for its famous waterfall. – AP
  
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• How To Choose A Good In-Flight Movie

  23-12-2024 16:31 via nytimes.com
  Obviously everyone is different, but Alissa Wlkinson does have some general guidelines to offer. Among them: remember that people are more susceptible to tears at 35,000 feet. And don’t assume that the films are all disposable pop stuff; there are frequently award- and festival-winners on the menu. – The New York Times
  
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• Five Takeaways From SMU DataArts’ 2024 Research

  23-12-2024 16:06 via culturaldata.org
  
  “From financial challenges and workforce dynamics to measures of arts vibrancy, these findings capture the trends and key shifts shaping the field today. For a broader perspective, we’ve also included a few honorable mentions, offering a well-rounded look at this year’s discoveries.” – SMU DataArts
  
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• Culture Minister Threatens To Cut Off Batsheva Dance Company’s Funding

  23-12-2024 15:30 via timesofisrael.com
  “Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar asked Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to examine whether the Batsheva Dance Company is in violation of its state funding over a performance that included the Palestinian flag” — among 40 other flags onstage. – The Times Of Israel
  
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• Producer Woody Fraser, Who Created Some Of 20th-Century America’s Most Influential TV Shows, Is Dead At 90

  23-12-2024 14:38 via variety.com
  
  He has remained one of the most successful TV producers in entertainment history, specifically in the talk, news and variety programming genres, over a five-decade career. Most notably, he co-created The Mike Douglas Show in 1961 and ABC News’s Good Morning America in 1975. – Variety
  
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• So What Happens To Dallas Black Dance Theatre Now?

  23-12-2024 14:04 via dancemagazine.com
  
  The dancers fired this summer won their case, but they’ve chosen to take severance pay rather than return to the company. The current dancers are new and all crossed picket lines to be there. And, because of all this turmoil, the city of Dallas has cut off funding. What next? – Dance Magazine
  
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• A Christmas Carol as an Arts Marketing Parable

  22-12-2024 23:59 via artsjournal.com
  
  The marketing plan was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. You’re the marketing director of a theater. It was your plan, but you knew it was dead. It’s a Wednesday afternoon and the mid-week matinee happening in the theater two floors down was half-full. You can hear over the monitors the actors trying desperately to get the audience to laugh, but it just wasn’t working. You check the sales dashboard in your CRM and the social media accounts. Your Insta
  
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• Four Things Humans Still Do Better Than AI

  22-12-2024 22:01 via hbr.org
  
  In speaking to hundreds of experts, consumers, and skeptics of AI over the past few years, four strongholds for humans keep coming up. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Skyscrapers Are Sinking Into The Sand In Miami

  22-12-2024 21:31 via dezeen.com
  
  It examined many large buildings built on the strip, half of which were built in 2014 and after, and found that 35 had been affected by sinking or “subsidence” of between  two to eight-centimetres. – Dezeen
  
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• Should The BBC Scrap Its License Fee And Go Subscription?

  22-12-2024 21:02 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  The successful roll-out of fast broadband in the UK has allowed streaming services — led by the US giants, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Apple TV+ — to demonstrate the dynamic power of subscription as a funding mechanism. – The Critic
  
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• The Curious Incuriosity Of Multi-Culturalists?

  22-12-2024 20:31 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  For all they like to talk about the “enrichment” that diversity brings, pro-immigration liberalism in Britain often insists on a studied lack of curiosity or observancy about either the individuals or their cultures; or the new cultures that emerge as they mix in our cities. – The Critic
  
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• Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2024

  22-12-2024 14:00
  
  Black art moved centre stage, sculpture couldn’t keep still, Francis Alÿs captured the power of child’s play – but the year belonged to Van Gogh1. Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers National Gallery, London; September (runs until 19 January 2025)
  Show of the year, if not the decade: electrifying, mesmerising, intensely affecting, every brushstroke alive with joyous energy. From the Yellow House in Arles to the asylum at Saint-Rémy, 61 works from the final two years of Van G
  
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• Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami review – the opposite of refinement

  22-12-2024 10:00
  
  Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London
  The Tokyo-born pop artist who has worked with Louis Vuitton, Billie Eilish et al juxtaposes ancient art, modern politics and his own logos to surprisingly anodyne effectThe phenomenon of Takashi Murakami – global brand recognition, relentless market complicity – is so synonymous with money that it is hard to look at his new show without seeing merchandise before all else. There is a vigilant bodyguard for every two paintings at Gagosian. Enormous, glea
  
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• ‘They were on an eight-mile pub crawl – hence their slight disarray’: Fiona Duncan’s best phone shot

  21-12-2024 11:00
  
  While shopping in Yorkshire one December, the photographer came across a group of very merry SantasThe heritage steam train that runs from Grosmont to Pickering, in the North York Moors, was stalling Fiona Duncan’s busy morning. It was a few days before Christmas, back in 2018, and Duncan was dashing around Grosmont town centre, picking up last-minute essentials.“I was slightly cursing the gates being closed,” she says. “But then all these guys sauntered up 
  
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• From Mufasa to Gavin and Stacey: a complete guide to the week’s entertainment in the UK

  21-12-2024 07:00
  A Lion King prequel and a sitcom swansong feature in a festive week of wondersMufasa: The Lion King
  Out nowHow did Scar become Scar? These and other mysteries are set to be uncovered in this Lion King prequel about the early life of Mufasa, the orphaned lion cub whose death as the leonine monarch in the 1994 animation traumatised an entire generation. Continue reading...
  
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