This Week: Maybe we need a new strategy to make arts audiences more diverse (the old ways haven’t worked)… An arts funder changes criteria to judge whether the artists “make change”… The cult of the American “Outsider”… Your cell phone is designed so you can’t not pay attention to it… Do books have to be on pages to be books? (not what the data say)
Tag: 11.21.16
Helsinki Guggenheim Gets Approval
“In a reversal of a 2012 vote that seemed to have buried the project, the 15-member board voted 8-7 on Monday to approve the 130-million euro ($180-million) plan. A final decision is expected next week by the 85-member city council.”
Writer William Trevor, 88
“Mr. Trevor, who was Irish by birth and upbringing but a longtime resident of Britain, placed his fiction squarely in the middle of ordinary life. His plots often unfolded in Irish or English villages whose inhabitants, most of them hanging on to the bottom rung of the lower middle class, waged unequal battle with capricious fate.”
Adele Tickets Go On Sale In Australia, And Price Quickly Jumps To $5,600
“Fans shared their frustration as the websites of official agents struggled to cope with the demand. Many fans spent an hour or more trying and failing to get through, although some were successful.”
The Companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft) Remaking Themselves Around Artificial Intelligence
Every big tech company is trying to spread artificial intelligence throughout every step of its business, but it’s hard to find people who can work well with AI: “Everyday coders won’t do. Deep neural networking is a very different way of building computer services.”
Laurent Hilaire Finally Gets His Own Ballet Company
Hilaire, who was a star at the Paris Opera Ballet, has been a contender both for that ballet’s artistic director and for the La Scala Ballet’s AD. He will now run the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theater.