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Saudische Investoren könnten Electronic Arts übernehmen
US-Medien berichten von einem der größten Buyouts der Geschichte: EA könnte für 50 Milliarden Dollar von der Börse genommen werden.
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Saudische Investoren könnten Electronic Arts übernehmen
US-Medien berichten von einem der größten Buyouts der Geschichte: EA könnte für 50 Milliarden Dollar von der Börse genommen werden.
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A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts (Marc Hogan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/setlist-fm-website-con…
Kennedy Center's New Dance Director Criticized 'Woke' Ballet Culture (Julia Jacobs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/arts/dance/kennedy-center-stephen-nakagawa.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p3#a250826p3
I dagens @… oversettes «liberal arts college» som «liberal kunstskole» 🤦♂️
«Liberal arts» er en samlebetegnelse for en rekke studier fra humaniora og samfunnsfag, og, nei, det har ingen ting med kunstutdanning å å gjŸre (som faller under paraplyen «fine arts»).
BA / MA (Bachelor of Arts / Master of Arts) er gradene liberal arts fŸrer til. BFA / M…
Susan Eldridge is an unstoppable force when it comes to advocating for mental wellbeing in arts workplaces, and one of the most vulnerable topics in this field is how to give and receive feedback.
Susan tells #CutCommon about the impact of your opinion, and how to make sure it comes from a healthy place, without harming the recipient’s confidence or identity.
✍️ New post – in reply to @…:
Echoes of Connection
#blogtober #web #indieweb
Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure, as the Chicago Tribune cut its film critic job, VF fired its film critic, and the NYT reassigned four arts critics (Jesse Hassenger/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/aug/26/movie-reviews-c…
I love TAC and the refurbished and renamed Wood-Mico Theatre has reopened as a more accessible space (finally).
Tuggeranong Arts Centre scores biggest upgrade in nearly 30 years | Region Canberra
https://region.com.au/tuggeranong-arts-cent…
@…
It just occurred to me that I should probably let you know about this entry if you didn’t already know about it :
The 27th Annual North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival will be held on September 27 and 28, 2025.
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Rain or Shine, at Forster Farm, 60 Chestnut Hill Road, Orange, Massachusetts.
It’s garlicky!
EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build game developer tools that serve as "smarter paintbrushes" (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/electronic-arts-stability-developer-deal-1236559755/
Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
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From late July helping run the lights & camera for the launch of her campaign to the eve of the election at Galway Arts Centre with creative sector workers & unions, I'm immensely grateful to have been a small part of this historic moment for Ireland with Catherine's election.
Time to take this momentum we've all built together into a movement for change and a new Ireland for carers, workers, and ordinary people.
Un train stationne Š Arts et Métiers vers Gallieni en raison de l'actionnement d'un signal d'alarme .
🤖 27/08 18:01
Noisy Creek, owner of Seattle's The Stranger and the Portland Mercury, is acquiring the Chicago Reader and also plans to expand its ticketing service to Chicago (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/noisy-cr
Algorithmic aesthetics: Computer models for criticism and design in the arts
(George Stiny, James Gips, 1978)
"[...]aesthetics is concerned with the philosophy of criticism and design, with the foundations of criticism and design, with questions arising from criticism and design. This conception of aesthetics is similar, in many respects, to Beardsley's conception of aesthetics as "metacriticism." However, Beardsley conceives aesthetics to be just the philosophy…
Happy that 28 out of 33 talk submissions for Alpaca (https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/) opted to use markdown rather than PDF. I expected half-and-half, this is really great! PDFs are an awful format - inaccessible, practically unmodifiable (so _not_ open access), with no capacity for embedd…
Microsoft plans to bring its Halo franchise to the PlayStation for the first time with the launch of a 25th‑anniversary remake of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2026 (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/arts/halo-playstation-microsoft-xbox.h…
A special experiential presentation
August 24, 2025 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre & Green Room
https://cambriaarts.org/academy-program/#E351
Resources for Music Grant seekers, updated for 2025
https://www.musiciansway.com/blog/2012/07/resources-for-grantseekers/
"Ein Fest der Farbe": die ETH Zürich hat die « Théorie des couleurs appliquée Š la pratique des arts industriels » von Gaspard Grégoire digitalisiert: https://etheritage.ethz.ch/2025/08/22/ein-fest-der-farbe/
Ben Folds on What It Would Take for Him to Return to the Kennedy Center
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/ben-folds-slams-…
Le stationnement est prolongé Š Arts et Métiers vers Gallieni en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur .
🤖 26/09 19:33
“Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, said he did not believe Mr. Kimmel’s removal was an example of ‘cancel culture.’ He said that ‘when a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, dumb in real time and then that person is punished for it that’s not cancel culture. That is consequences for your actions.’”
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« Cette résolution de ne pas construire du nouveau s’est imposée récemment, et j’ai vraiment honte qu’elle ne remonte qu’Š cinq ou six ans, quand j’ai réalisé que l’architecture était presque aussi néfaste que l’industrie pétrolière en matière de complicité dans la crise climatique, puisque environ 40% du carbone consommé provient du secteur du bâtiment. »
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“LOL” used to be an acronym for “little old lady.”
— History Facts
:awesome: #history
Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/
One my favorite articles I've ever read, beautiful.
Arts & Sciences Dean says WashU will not sign Trump's higher ed compact as-is (Riley Herron/Student Life)
https://www.studlife.com/news/2025/10/22/arts-sciences-dean-says-washu-will-not-sign-trumps-higher-ed-compact-as-is
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p92#a251022p92
Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
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Jimmy Fallon Teases Trump’s U.K. Trip - The “Tonight Show” host said the royal couple are the president’s “second-favorite king and queen, next to Burger and Dairy.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-trump-royals.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m08.ttZ_.gdE82gqbdaS7&smid=url-share
Construction Project on McGraw Hall on the Arts Quad
#cornell #photo #photography #building
Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs.
The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/…
NYTimes: Sheila Jordan, Fearless Vocal Improviser, Is Dead at 96
Sheila Jordan, Fearless Vocal Improviser, Is Dead at 96 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/arts/music/sheila-jordan-dead.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Beyoncé Wins First Emmy for N.F.L. Halftime Show https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/arts/television/beyonce-emmy-win-nfl-halftime-netflix-christmas.html
Can AI really replace humans when it comes to the arts? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/11/can-ai-really-replace-humans-when-it-comes-to-the-arts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…
🎓 In Defense of the Humanites Opinion: Consider humanities’ modern value during A (https://dailyorange.com/2025/09/opinion-consider-humanities-modern-value-during-arts-sciences-pauses/).
A new thing to boycott, if you aren't already: https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
42 yr old white male madman #Xtian #Terrorist who went on stabbing spree outside #Michigan #WalMart had recently authored a book about his relatio…
50 years ago tonight, seastones at #SanFrancisco's palace of fine arts featuring ned lagin, phil lesh, david crosby, & jerry garcia. owsley recorded, apparently, but not circulating. #nedfreaksunite
I’m an industry dev turned comp sci prof. I’ve been writing code for 40-some years; my first commercial software was for the Apple ][ . I’ve worked on web, mobile, desktop, server, and data plumbing projects for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to arts nonprofits. In short, I’ve been lucky to know a lot of people in a lot of corners of tech.
@…’s opening paragraphs are spot on. If consensus is not 100%, well, it’s 99%.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Alexandros [Paris] fought a duel with Menelaos, but as he was being beaten, Aphrodite spirited him away."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E4.1
🏛 Head of Aphrodite, 330-300 BCE, Athens Museum of Fine Arts Boston
#DayOfAphrodite
What's that up in the sky, casting colorful shadows on the ground? We're opening a new exhibition of textile sculptures by artist #RachelHayes in our sculpture garden this Saturday. Learn more...
Photos: SFU unveils new cultural landmark with the Gibson Art Museum
https://www.straight.com/arts/photos-sfu-unveils-new-cultural-landmark-with-gibson-art-museum?ref=cascadia-journal.ghost.io#
Simo…
Astrology in Focus: Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
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"In a blog post announcing Sora, OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman suggested that the app is like “ChatGPT for creativity” and could radically transform the arts in a Cambrian explosion-type moment. In my two weeks on the app, at times I found it entertaining. But mostly it was brain rot: hypnotizing and mindless."
--- SAMANTHA EDWARDSONLINE CULTURE REPORTER
in a nutshell it's all bullshit...
✍️ New post: Linear() Is Not Linear
#blogtober #CSS #animations #easing
We recorded our @… radio show not realising that resonance FM is on a summer break. So we uploaded it here please have a listen! https://www.
Bill and Ted's Broadway Debut
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/keanu-reeves-and-alex-winter-reunite-on-stage-in-broadways-waiting-for-godot
#TomLehrer, mathematician and singer-songwriter known for colorful satire, dies at 97
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/tom-lehr
It’s the fucking rainbows, moron.
Gift article.
Kennedy Center drops family that made Honors medallions for 47 years
“It is unclear what changes the center hopes to make to the medallions”
https://wapo.st/4oDMnG8
"The Art of a Good #Poster" by @… https://errantscience.com/blog/2…
A look at AI-powered stuffed animals like Grem, Grok, and Gabbo, which are being promoted as an alternative to screen time for children as young as 3 (Amanda Hess/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/arts/ai
🥨 Germany’s anti-diversity backlash isn’t fatigue – it’s strategy masquerading as neutrality | Fatma Aydemir
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/germany-anti-diversity-backlash-trump-afd
Terra Dystopia
from Friedrich Zettl Fine Arts
#PayAttention
https://zettl.blog/2025/09/terra-dystopia/
Q&A with Marc Maron on ending his WTF With Marc Maron podcast after 16 years, having President Obama as the final guest, never winning a Peabody Award, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/arts/marc-maron-wtf-podcast.html
Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
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#GiftLink: This is #America, already great
The Strange Beauty of New York’s Bodega Ramps - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/arts/design/deli-bodega-ramps-accessibility.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d08.s7GZ.BYmSO2ouTLlr&smid=url-share
U.S. Enters 15th Day of Late-Night Jokes About Government Shutdown (Trish Bendix/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/arts/television/jimmy-kimmel-government-shutdown.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.VCnB.j2o1YytvJ6Ww&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p16#a251016p16
Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/arts/music/ice-bad-bunny-super-bowl.html
Every three years, we work with curator Didi Dunphy to put together an exhibition of work by Georgia artists focused on a theme that then travels the state. The newest one is "Seams to Be: New Approaches to Textile Techniques," which opens at the Lyndon House Arts Center October 2 before moving on to the LaGrange Art Museum, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, the Albany Museum Of Art and the Columbus Museum.
Okay, my obscure background as an erstwhile DC land use lawyer is finally relevant.
There are several agencies that oversee any projects at the White House, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the Commission for the Preservation of the White House, the National Park Service, and the National Capital Planning Commission.
Guess who apparently hasn't filed for approval from any of them?
-- Jamie Baker Roskie
Considering that Trump has one of his cronies running N…
💸 Hollywood is struggling. So why does anyone want to buy a movie studio now?
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-07-25/who-wants-to-buy-a-movie-studio-now-and-why
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Un train stationne Š Arts et Métiers vers Gallieni en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur .
🤖 23/08 12:36
Fox CEO of DTC Pete Distad says Fox will consider bundling Fox One with other streamers and adding podcasts, and that profit projections are "aggressive" (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a…
A profile of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, who has 19M followers on the platform, many of them young people, and drew nearly 50M viewers to a monthlong stream (Emmanuel Morgan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/arts/kai-cenat-twitch-streaming.html
Alpaca 2025 (https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/) is going to be great!
Running a new event about a seemingly niche topic like 'algorithmic patterns' across all the creative arts was a risk. We've had no media coverage so far, have paid social media tech oligarchs no advertis…
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A profile of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, who has 19M followers on the platform, many of them young people, and drew nearly 50M viewers to a monthlong stream (Emmanuel Morgan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/arts/kai-cenat-twitch-streaming.html
Un train stationne Š Arts et Métiers vers Gallieni en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur .
🤖 22/08 18:06
At a private event hosted by Senator Dave McCormick, Republican of Pennsylvania,
donors wandered through a sculpture hall at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh
and partied with their cowboy hats on at a dinner where each plate cost $5,000.
The aftermath was less celebratory.
Dozens of employees at the Carnegie Museums sent an open letter to trustees,
saying that the fund-raiser violated guidelines meant to safeguard the institution from partisan activities…
Independent music company Reservoir Media acquires the majority of the Miles Davis estate's music rights; Reservoir has spent $876M on acquisitions since 2007 (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/arts/music/miles-davis-esta…
Cracks in the Silence - from Friedrich Zettl Fine Arts
https://zettl.blog/2025/08/perspective-as-philosophy/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/art, creativity%2…
Research Awards - 2025 Canadian Friends of Sufi Arts, Culture, and Knowledge (CFSACK)
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Taylor Swift set a new record for first-week album sales, reaching 4M by releasing 38 variations of Life of a Showgirl, an increasingly popular strategy (Elias Leight/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/…
How the video game industry, which has used AI since the 1980s, is embracing AI-enhanced gameplay, worrying some developers as major studios cut employees (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/arts/video-games-artificial-intelligen…
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When the military is deployed to quell overwhelmingly peaceful protest,
when elected officials of the opposing party are arrested or handcuffed,
when student activists are jailed and deported,
and when a wide range of civic institutions
– non-profits, law firms, universities, news outlets, the arts, the civil service, scientists
– are targeted and penalized by the federal government,
it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that our core freedoms are disappea…
Leonard Tow, a cable TV and telephone company magnate and philanthropist who supported journalism and the arts, dies at 97 (Trip Gabriel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/media/leonard-tow-dead.html
How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-cul…
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An interview with Michele Mulroney, the new president of WGA West, about helping bring Jimmy Kimmel back, plans for upcoming contract negotiations, and more (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/busin…
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Q&A with Greg Gutfeld about Gutfeld! becoming the most-watched show in the 10pm ET slot, showing mainstream media "that they don't own the culture", more (Ali Lerman/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts
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How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
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