The proposal, which has the support of London mayor Sadiq Khan, comes from the Fabian Society, a socialist organization that dates back to 1884. The Fabians say that a slavery museum would educate the public about the “centuries-old tropes about racial inferiority” that feed racism to this day — and that both London’s financial industry and the UK government “have a moral obligation” to fund the project. – BBC
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How A Priceless New Orleans Musical Archive Lost After Katrina Wound Up In A Storage Locker In Southern California
“These are some of the founding documents of New Orleans funk. These tapes were part of that incredibly rich creative period that laid the groundwork for a lot of New Orleans music that followed, and by extension, impacted decades of popular music to come.” – Los Angeles Times
This Person Doesn’t Exist And Never Said That. (The Growing DeepFake Crisis)
As political advertisements already twist candidates’ words and manipulate the truth for the perfect soundbite, can you believe anything you hear when it can all be manufactured on any laptop you can find at Best Buy? – Shelly Palmer
American Cities With The Most Creative Workers
“The leading city, Washington, D.C., has nearly three times the concentration of the creative class of the most lagging city, Detroit. In the four leading cities, the creative class makes up between half and 60-plus percent of the workforce; in the bottom five, it makes up less than 30 percent.” CityLab
Writer In Decline – What Happened
Parul Sehgal: “Salman Rushdie fills a shelf, even two, nicely. He is the author of nearly 20 books — six published in the last 11 years alone, but of diminishing quality. The novels are imaginative as ever, but they are also increasingly wobbly, bloated and mannered. He is a writer in free fall. What happened?” – The New York Times
“Context Collapse” Theatens The Art World
“Content collapse” and “narrative deficiency” are phenomena that characterize social media, where users have multiple distinct communities—friends, family members, colleagues—collated into a single audience. The differences between traditional face-to-face relationship-based interaction and the potentially infinite audience of social media—or, we might logically extrapolate, businesses that scale in a parallel manner, such as big art fairs—is an issue that these industries are beginning to face. – artnet
Share The Wealth: A New Model For Art Fairs?
For the first four editions of Future Fair, all 36 of the “Founding Galleries” who participate in the first version will split 35 percent of the profit. That might be nothing the first time around, Mijares Fick admits, explaining that, as is often the case with new businesses, the first year’s goal is just to break even. After that, she and Rebeca Laliberte expect galleries to get a return of “three to four figures.” – artnet
Richard Booth, Who Created The Book Town Movement, Dead At 80
He almost single-handedly turned the fading Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye into one of the world’s secondhand book capitals and a model followed by towns in more than a few other countries. – The New York Times
Busoni, Kandinsky, Schoenberg — Instinct at the Cusp
It’s a truism that, as aesthetic movements go, the visual arts get there first. Think of Impressionism, which didn’t begin to inflect music until Debussy and Ravel – decades after Monet. Expressionism is another matter: the synchrony is amazing. – Joe Horowitz
YouTube Captions Suck. Now A Campaign To Fix Them
Proper captions should not only fit the right words to a video’s audio content—a feat that automation struggles to achieve—but also use correct grammar and punctuation, describe sounds like the eerie creak of a door or the crackle of gunfire, and differentiate between speakers so deaf audiences know who’s talking. – The Atlantic