Art and Culture

The closure and diminishment of so many arts institutions in our city should concern us all. The significant economic threat aside, it makes life here smaller and duller. – Toronto Star Source link
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All images courtesy Alice Munro fonds, University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections” For her twenty-first birthday, in July 1952, Alice Munro’s husband gave her a typewriter. The present was as much a symbolic offering as a…
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The Banksy Museum in New York City features replicas of 160 original Banksys. This one is called "Good…
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July’s election has sent Britain into a spin, but for Mary Archer, charged with reporting on the fitness for purpose of Arts Council England (ACE), it is particularly tricky. For that is the month when her report was expected to be…
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As the British Museum continues its global search to find some 1,500 items that were found to be lost or stolen from its collections, it has announced the recovery of a further 268 pieces. So…
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by Jochen SzangoliesThe schematic architecture of OpenAI’s GPT models. Image credit: Marxav, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsThere is a widespread feeling that the introduction of the transformer, the technology at the heart of Large Language…
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Indigenous wood carvings adorn Occidental Park in Seattle, but the historical and cultural significance is not well explained on-site. (Doug Trumm) In cities like Seattle, where the median home costs $800,000 and can soar above…
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To Walt Disney, who personally invited Richard and Robert Sherman to become full-time staff songwriters at his Burbank studio in 1960, they were the “boys.”The Sherman brothers were the ideal match for Disney’s family-film factory,…
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Adobe marketing materials seemed to suggest it could replace photographers with AI outraged many customers, further igniting an ongoing battle between tech companies and creatives. – Fast Company Source link
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Some of accused in scandal fear cheat allegations will haunt them for rest of their careers Since its chaotic handling of the alleged cheating scandal in 2022, the reputation of An Coimisiún Le Rincí­ Gaelacha (CLRG) has hinged on it…
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