Neural lace and other AI-based enhancements are supposed to allow data from your brain to travel wirelessly to one’s digital devices or to the cloud, where massive computing power is available. – Nautilus
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Chicago’s Museum Of Science And Industry Gets A New Name (And $125 Million)
“The sprawling science, tech and business museum on the city’s South Side will become the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry after the museum’s board voted to accept Griffin’s $125 million donation, … one of the largest cash donations ever to a local cultural institution.” – Chicago Tribune
The Fraught Art Of Page-Turning
The page turner disturbs our illusion of musical command, threatening to shatter the audience’s suspension of artistic disbelief, where we disaggregate the magic of the sounds we experience from their more mundane physical and material realities: works that exist in published scores with broken spines and tweaked pages. – Van
If There’s A No-Deal Brexit, Many British Performers May Have To Give Up Touring In Europe At All
“Music industry figures have said a no-deal Brexit would make touring ‘simply unviable for many artists’, after new government guidelines for cultural, heritage and sporting professionals touring Europe signalled … [that] touring parties would face extra issues with documentation, travel and the transport and sale of goods as they take their work to individual EU member states.” – The Guardian
Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Really Good For Drag As A Whole?
After ten years, and as the ever more popular show expands from the US to the UK (with plans for Canada and Australia), it’s impossible to deny that Drag Race has brought drag a once-undreamed-of level of mainstream acceptance. But has it also made drag less varied and more conformist? – BBC
The Reigning Queen Of Queer Cartoons
Rebecca Sugar earned six Emmy nominations before she was 30 for her work on the animated series Adventure Time. Now, on her own Cartoon Network series, Steven Universe, she has an entire squad of non-binary female characters, one gender-neutral hero, and a lesbian wedding, the first on children’s TV. – The Guardian
Art Classes Instead Of Court Dates For Misdemeanor Offenders In Brooklyn
“People arrested on low-level misdemeanors in Brooklyn will now have the option to complete a one-day arts course at the Brooklyn Museum instead of ever having to appear in court, thanks to a newly expanded diversion program [called Project Reset] offered by the Brooklyn District Attorney.” – Brooklyn Eagle
Staffers Convince Intiman Theatre’s Board Not To Shut The Company Down
Barely more than a week ago, the board of the Seattle company said there wasn’t money to continue operating even for another month and was prepared to close. (This just nine months after Intiman finally retired $2.7 million in debt.) Artistic director Jen Zeyl and her colleagues insisted that they could raise $200,000 by the end of the year, and the board has agreed to let them try. In fact, they’re already more than halfway to the goal. – The Seattle Times
Baltimore Symphony May Be Back On Stage, But It’s Not Saved Yet
Indeed, it has about one year to make itself sustainable: the musicians’ new contract expires next September, and the $1.6 million donated to cover the players’ pay while the orchestra is dark next summer was a one-time gift. But there may be some ways the orchestra can increase earned income as well as donations. – The Baltimore Sun
Uffizi Director Backs Out Of New Job In Vienna, And Austrians Are Furious
Just a couple of months ago, it looked like the foreign administrators brought in to reform Italy’s museums would all be chased out of the country by the populist government. Then that government fell, and the new one reappointed the culture minister who had hired the foreign experts in the first place. So Eike Schmidt decided he wanted to stay in Florence and continue his work at the Uffizi Gallery. But the fact that he’d already accepted an offer to direct Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum has made things a bit awkward. – The New York Times