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04/19/2024 06:01 PM
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The Virtual You Is Getting Closer
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 It would be a mistake to think that the algorithms in the room will remain mere observers. AI is more like an ambitious virtual worker seeking a promotion, or at least a more active role in the proceedings. One day an AI-powered service might actually run the meeting for you. And why not? – Wired
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04/19/2024 05:32 PM
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Where The Money Is: Warner CEO Gets $50M This Year
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 David Zaslav’s 2023 pay consisted of a $3 million salary, and more than $23 million in stock awards, as well as $22 million in non-equity incentive compensation and $1.6 million in other compensation, including security costs. – The Hollywood Reporter
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04/19/2024 05:17 PM
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Campus Ruckus: Back to the ’60s
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 We geezers who were college students in the late Sixties felt a rush of déjà vu at the sight of
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04/19/2024 05:04 PM
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Is It Okay To Throw Away Books?
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 A book is different from a pair of shoes or a scented candle—but is it that different? The kinds of excess we permit—even exalt—for books is unheard of for other categories of possessions. – The Walrus
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04/19/2024 04:31 PM
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Bay Area Film Festivals Are Struggling
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 This is not just a Bay Area problem. Film festivals all over the world are hurting, no matter how well-established. The two biggest film festivals in North America, Sundance and Toronto, have each experienced a dramatic drop in revenue, with Toronto losing its biggest sponsor. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
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04/19/2024 04:01 PM
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Colorado Public Radio Has Big News Ambitions. There Are Challenges
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 Colorado Public Radio has a vision to be the state’s top, free news source. Getting there has created some controversy. – WestWord
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04/19/2024 03:31 PM
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What Is Music? Noise?
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 With a universal definition hovering out of reach, the discourse concerning noise often starts with the personal. – The New Yorker
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04/19/2024 03:29 PM
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The AI Dilemma: Who Owns The Essence Of Our Work?
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 “More and more, we’re seeing AI used to replicate someone’s likeness and voice in novel ways without consent or compensation.” – Politico
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04/19/2024 03:05 PM
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Was Anne Of Cleves Really As Ugly As Henry VIII Said?
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 The famous Holbein portrait of the king’s fourth wife portrays her as nice-looking enough. Yet Henry declared her a “Flanders Mare” and annulled the marriage, and letters from ambassadors at the court were not flattering. It’s possible, one scholar argues, that the problem was not her face but her clothes. – History Today
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04/19/2024 02:31 PM
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This Company’s Music Gets Played 2.5 Billion Times a Day, But Profits Are Thin
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 There are now 26 million videos on YouTube and TikTok videos featuring Epidemic Sound music, and the company reports that its tracks receive 40 million plays daily on music streaming platforms. – Music Business Worldwide
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04/19/2024 02:06 PM
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An Immersive Kit Kat Club — How Broadway’s Revival Of “Cabaret” Put Together A 75-Minute Prologue
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 The lobby became the Vault Bar, with an elevated stage and a rotating disco-ball eye. Upstairs is the Red Bar, with dancers behind beaded curtains. Then the Green Bar has sequined fruit on the walls. Dancers move between the spaces on a tightly choreographed schedule, accompanied by a trippy musical mix. – Variety
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04/19/2024 01:28 PM
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New World Record For Dancers En Pointe
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 A total of 353 dancers from across the globe held the position, known as going “en pointe,” to beat the current Guinness World Record of 306, said Youth America Grand Prix, the group that organized the tutu-centric turnout. – New York Post
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04/19/2024 01:02 PM
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Things Finally Stabilize At Cleveland Ballet With A Permanent CEO
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 Larry Goodman, a board member, stepped in as interim CEO after founding chief exec Michael Krasnyansky resigned and his wife, artistic director Gladisa Guadalupe, was fired. The board has now anmed him to the position on a permanent basis. – WKYC (Cleveland)
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04/19/2024 12:04 PM
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“I Love The Art So Much I Sometimes Weep” — A Former Writing Professor’s Life As An Art Framer
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 “We are not a museum, just a neighborhood frame shop in Evanston, Illinois. … The art is unrelenting. … When I get home at night, I collapse in a chair, mute and unable to move. The art feels like a tornado whooshing through me. I feel euphoric and empty, cleaned out.” – Oxford American
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04/19/2024 11:31 AM
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Spotify Audiobook/Music Bundle Means Lower Music Payouts
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 With the introduction of the stand-alone audiobooks offering, Spotify is now able to pay lower music-licensing rates for the music-and-audiobook bundle, introduced in the U.S. in November 2023. – Variety
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04/19/2024 11:05 AM
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It’s Been Only Six Years, And TikTok Has Changed The United States
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 “Here are 19 ways of understanding how TikTok became part of American life. … Even if you’ve never opened the app, you’ve lived in a culture that exists downstream of what happens there.” – The New York Times
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04/19/2024 10:51 AM
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Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall: A story whose time has come – again
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 Any adaptation needs to be epic. Few works of literature go so deep into the need for home and family as the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath. And Ricky Ian Gordon’s 2007 opera version packed the Carnegie Hall stage April 17 with the necessary magnitude of resources, plus extra relevance. No longer a […]
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04/19/2024 10:31 AM
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For Estonians, Culture Could Be The Only Thing Keeping Them From Being Swallowed By Russia Again. They Should Protect It.
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 “Because as soon as Estonia doesn’t have its own culture, the country will become fair game for Russian propaganda and Russian aggression. … All they have is their culture. And if culture keeps being treated so badly, then we could find ourselves in a really tough situation in 10 years.” – Van
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04/19/2024 10:03 AM
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Conserving Rare Books At (Yes) The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
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 “Not every workplace features a guillotine. … Fearsome machines are part of daily life at the lab, which serves as a hospital where ailing books from every department of the museum are restored to health.” – The New York Times
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04/19/2024 09:36 AM
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Here’s The Painting That The Fired Museum Employee Put On The Museum’s Wall — And Here’s Why He Did It
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 “‘The motive behind (the caper) was to see if the directors of the museum were prepared to practise what they preach,’ said one person familiar with the events (at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne). ‘It was an artistic challenge. The technician who hung up the picture wasn’t lusting for fame.'” – The Observer (UK)
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04/19/2024 09:02 AM
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Climate-Protesting Theatre Vandals Convicted In London
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 “Five Just Stop Oil protesters have been (convicted) of aggravated trespass after they stormed a performance of Les Misérables in London’s West End. Two of (them) were also found guilty of criminal damage after standing on the orchestra pit netting. … The estimated cost to the theatre of cancelling the performance was £60,000.” – BBC
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04/19/2024 08:34 AM
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New York Philharmonic Launches Independent Investigation Into Revived Assault Allegations And Broader Work Culture
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 “The New York Philharmonic, which has been facing an uproar since a recent magazine article detailed allegations of misconduct against two players it tried and failed to fire in 2018, said on Thursday that it was commissioning an outside investigation into its culture.” – The New York Times
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04/19/2024 08:00 AM
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PEN America’s Major Events For This Spring Are Falling Apart Over Gaza
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 “Amid growing criticism over its response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, freedom of expression nonprofit PEN America is facing questions over whether its Literary Awards ceremony, World Voices Festival, and Literary Gala, all scheduled to be held within the next month, can proceed as planned.” – Publishers Weekly
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04/18/2024 11:01 PM
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Mahler on Solo Trombone — Coming Up at Colorado Mahlerfest This May
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 David Taylor and JH perform Schubert’s “Der Doppelganger” at the 2023 Brevard Music Festival Writing in The American Scholar, Sudip Bose
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04/18/2024 06:01 PM
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What Does It Mean To “Own” Culture? (And Do We Have To?)
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 Our music, films, books and photographs are increasingly accessed via digital platforms rather than stored on our shelves. Do these digital items really feel like “mine” in the same way that physical possessions do? And can they become as personally meaningful? – The Conversation
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04/18/2024 05:31 PM
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Fighting Against The Information Overload
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 We’re living in what they call the “Information Age,” but life only seems to be making less sense. We’re isolated, listless, burnt out on screens, cutting loved ones out like tumors in the spirit of “boundaries,” failing to understand other people’s choices or even our own. – LitHub
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