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05/16/2026 11:24 AM
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Gillian Fox shares key strategies to engage the next generation of arts supporters
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 Gillian Fox, President & CEO of Caramoor, shares strategies to engage the next generation of arts supporters.
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05/16/2026 09:17 AM
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Can We Beat the Lies? All the Lies?
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 Our eyes tell us what is obvious, but what about our minds . . .
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05/15/2026 07:26 PM
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A system designed to overwhelm
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Good Morning, Three AI stories today, all pointing the same way. The Atlantic argues that the speed of the AI rollout is the strategy — it’s designed to overwhelm us (The Atlantic). The magazine also reports the anti-AI backlash is growing whether or not layoffs materialize (The Atlantic). And a new study finds that generative […]
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05/15/2026 07:16 PM
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR BALLET WEST
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BALLET WEST, founded in 1963 by Willam Christensen, is one of America’s leading and largest ballet companies.
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05/15/2026 05:10 PM
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The Reinvention Of Washington National Opera
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 The opera, which announced it was severing its relations with the Kennedy Center as President Trump sought to put his imprint on the institution, said it would produce five full-length operas — including a world premiere based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe — and three smaller-scale works on five stages across the region. – The New […]
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05/15/2026 02:50 PM
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How Langston Hughes’s “The Black Clown” Became An Opera
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 “The magic of creator, lead actor, and bass-baritone Davóne Tines’s operatic adaption of Langston Hughes’s 1931 dramatic monologue The Black Clown lies in its everythingness. (The) poem … consolidates 300 years of the Black American experience into 18 emotional stanzas.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
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05/15/2026 02:31 PM
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The AI Revolution Is Meant To Overwhelm You
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 I’ve written previously that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing their mind. But lately, I believe, it’s the accelerated nature of the AI boom that’s driving people everywhere mad. – The Atlantic
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05/15/2026 02:03 PM
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One Of Cuba’s Most Unusual Choreographers Tries To Stay Afloat Amid The Island’s Economic Collapse
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 “For nearly three decades Cuba’s Danza Voluminosa regularly filled prestigious venues like the 2,000-seat National Theater. Directed by Juan Miguel Mas, the troupe pioneered a new movement by working exclusively with larger-bodied dancers. … (Now) Mas’s daily life has been upended by persistent blackouts, water outages, soaring costs and a lack of transportation.” – AP
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05/15/2026 01:44 PM
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A Rothko Sells For $86 Million
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 The seller of the 1957 work, “Brown and Blacks in Reds,” was the estate of former Goldman Sachs banker turned art dealer Robert Mnuchin, who paid $6.7 million for the work in 2003. The winning telephone bidder at Sotheby’s was anonymous. – The Wall Street Journal
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05/15/2026 01:31 PM
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The Anti-AI Backlash Is Growing
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 Even absent any uptick in AI-induced layoffs, the anti-AI sentiment is likely to keep growing. – The Atlantic
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05/15/2026 01:15 PM
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Sorry, But Introspection Is Just An Illusion
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 There are no such stable beliefs and desires “inside” us that can be observed and reported. Instead, the human mind is a wonderfully fluent, but profoundly deceptive, improviser: spinning stories justifying our thoughts and actions as fast as we ask questions. And these invented explanations are vague, inconsistent, and often provably wrong. – IAI News
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05/15/2026 01:04 PM
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Trial Begins For Murder Of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema, Allegedly By Order Of His Husband
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 “The estranged husband of a prominent New York City art dealer said he wished his spouse was dead before the co-owner of a contemporary art gallery was found stabbed to death in his Brazilian townhouse, a witness testified Tuesday as a murder-for-hire trial got underway in Manhattan.” – AP
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05/15/2026 12:44 PM
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What Kinds Of Non-Fiction Reporting Wins Pulitzers
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 If you do look closely at the history, biography, memoir, and general-nonfiction honors, a noticeable pattern emerges. The picks typically share a particular quality. – The Atlantic
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05/15/2026 12:31 PM
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Would Paying Reviewers Help Fix The Peer Review Problem?
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 “The current system of unpaid reviews undermines the standards of the peer-review process. It produces late reviews and excludes large segments of the research community who cannot afford to work for free. If you have a financial commitment from the reviewer, it creates a lever for expecting quality. Payment creates accountability, not corruption.” – InsideHigherEd
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05/15/2026 12:15 PM
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GenZers Are Going To Movie Theatres: Here’s Why
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 People born between 1997 and 2012 are now more frequent cinemagoers than some older age groups, according to a US-based survey by Fandango, with 87% having seen at least one film in a cinema in the last 12 months compared with 58% of baby boomers. – The Guardian
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05/15/2026 12:02 PM
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London Museum To Return Old Jain Manuscripts (Though They Aren’t Leaving Britain)
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 The Wellcome Collection is ceding ownership of more than 2,000 documents, dating from the 15th to 19th centuries, bought from a Jain temple in present-day Pakistan in 1919. Now deeming the purchase of the manuscripts “unethical,” the museum is turning them over to the UK-based Institute of Jainology. – The Telegraph (UK) (Yahoo!)
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05/15/2026 11:44 AM
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Study: Use Of AI Narrows Diversity Of Creativity
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 A recent preprint study provides evidence that while these tools might boost individual performance, they contribute to an overall reduction in the diversity of ideas across different users. – PsyPost
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05/15/2026 11:33 AM
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Knoxville Removes Alex Haley’s “Roots” From School Libraries
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 “Roots” is a multi-generational story following the descendants of a man sold into slavery in the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a mini-series. There is a statue of Haley in East Knoxville. – WATE
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05/15/2026 11:15 AM
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What Pop Music Criticism Has Become
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 The “Greatest Living Songwriters” list was dumb clickbait which omitted an entire pantheon of irreplaceably brilliant songwriters. But the thing I most lament is the loss of a critical landscape in which you could open up the paper each morning and read six reviews of weird shows on the Lower East Side. – Gabrial Kahane
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05/15/2026 11:03 AM
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How Some Of Broadway’s Biggest Stars This Season Get Themselves Into Character
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 Daniel Radcliffe, Every Brilliant Thing: “My ideal version is that the play starts without you noticing.” Ana Gasteyer, Schmigadoon!: “People from my particular background, which is Saturday Night Live, which is sketch, work very quickly. There is no process.” – The New York Times
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05/15/2026 10:35 AM
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Have A Look Inside The New Home Of Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre
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 “It’s a $46 million project built within the shell of a historic storage warehouse that was built by the W.C. Reebie and Brother Company in the 1910s, and the big vertical sign is easily visible to anyone traveling past.” – Chicago Tribune (Yahoo!)
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05/15/2026 10:01 AM
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Staffers At San Francisco Arts Commission Want To Know Where The Hell Their Boss Is
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 “Employees and artists are speaking out about turmoil in the San Francisco Arts Commission, alleging that its leader has been chronically absent and arguing that it’s harming the arts by cutting staff and changing how it funds artists.” – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)
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05/15/2026 09:34 AM
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The Dallas Opera Appoints New CEO, David Lomelí
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 Previously chief artistic officer at Santa Fe Opera, Lomelí — who had an 11-year career as a tenor — has spent more than a decade over the years working with The Dallas Opera as consultant, artistic administrator, and founding director of the Hart Institute for Women Conductors. – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
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