“Why are some individuals able to generate outstanding creative products despite repeated, frustrating failures?” asks a research team led by Sergio Agnoli of the Marconi Institute for Creativity in Italy. The answer, they propose, lies in “how people experience and regulate their emotions.”
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Why Alexa Recorded That Couple’s Private Conversation Without Warning And Sent It To A Contact Of Theirs
Reporter Jason Del Rey followed up with Amazon on the scariest of the recent Alexa mishaps and got the company’s explanation of what exactly went wrong. (He doesn’t seem 100% convinced.)
China Says It’s Building Enormous New Arts District In Beijing Exurbs
“Hebei, the province surrounding Beijing, will get a massive arts district of its own next year. [Plans were unveiled] for Valley XL, an RMB 18bn (around $2.8bn) development designed by Arquitectonica across 400 hectares of Hebei’s Xinglong Valley. … The project is billed as an ‘eco-city’ that will include a Modern and contemporary art museum, an art education district and artists’ studios along with commercial and residential areas.”
Adelaide Festival Brings Ever More Money (And People) Into State’s Economy
This year’s edition of the festival generated an estimated $76.1 million (Aus) fot the economy of South Australia, up 9% over 2017. What’s more, “a staggering 19,825 visitors of the annual arts festival last year were interstate or overseas travellers, representing a 44 percent increase on the previous year. Visitor bed nights also rose to 138,021, a 50 percent increase on 2017.”
Winnipeg (Where Winter Is An Endless -40 Degrees) Is Building A Giant Biodome Garden
The city’s historic Assiniboine Park is also the site of what may one day stand as the prairie city’s greatest attraction: Canada’s Diversity Gardens, a 35-acre biodome that Winnipeggers hope will one day earn the city world renown. The new conservatory is already under construction and is set to open in the summer of 2020. The $75-million project is part of what some see as a “continuing renaissance” for the city, a renewed confidence in the idea of Winnipeg as one of the most populous, robust cities in Canada.
How A Ten-Year-Old Funding Measure Has Transformed The Arts In Small-Town Minnesota
Legislation known as the Legacy Amendment, passed in 2008, has provided over $440 million for cultural projects in the state, and that money has had a powerful effect in rural communities like New London (pop. 1,355, about halfway between the Twin Cities and the North Dakota state line).
How Performing Arts Orgs In Dallas-Fort Worth Are Getting Millennials And Kids Through Their Doors
“Performing arts organizations have long recognized the need to attract younger audiences that will someday support them financially. In addition to retaining their current audiences, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Opera, Dallas Theater Center and WaterTower Theatre target two distinct demographics to expand their audiences: millennials and children.”
Taylor Swift Is Experimenting With Anti-Scalper Ticketing (But It’ll Cost You)
Swift’s team is undertaking an experiment that lists her tickets on Ticketmaster near prices they believe the market demands — much higher than what it usually costs to see a stadium concert. It’s a competitive play aimed directly at pricing scalpers and online bots out of the business, and it could keep large quantities of tickets off the secondary market. The bold move also helps Swift pocket a larger profit from face-value tickets by attempting to eliminate a middleman that legislators have struggled to erase.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Is One Of The Few Remaining National Arts Funders. Here’s How They Did This Year
Through initiatives that include facilitating collaborations between artists and local governments to address civic issues, capacity-building for small and mid-sized cultural institutions, and increasing visitor engagement through the use of digital technology, Bloomberg Philanthropies works to improve quality of life by strengthening the arts in cities across the globe.
Plan For New $136 Million Home For Nobel Prizes Blocked By Swedish Court
“The 1.2bn krona (£100m) brass-clad structure, designed by the British architect David Chipperfield, would harm the capital’s picturesque waterfront, a cultural heritage site, the land and environmental court ruled on Tuesday. The scale of the building ‘would affect the readability of Stockholm’s historical development as a port, shipping and trading city’, the court said, and cause ‘significant damage’ to the preservation of the old harbour site.”