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Narthaki Monthly Newsletter
January 2020
ARTICLES
AI and the Arts - Media manipulators
- Mridula Anand
A recent paper by researchers at the University of Berkeley provides
insight into how they could transfer moves from a dancer onto a person
who could not dance.
Classical dance trend - Entertainment or Engagement?
- Ramaa Venugopalan
In this age of Instagram and Twitter, anybody with humongous number of
followers tends to attract a section of starry-eyed fans and followers...
We have to recognise the huge value of arts and culture to society
- Peter Bazalgette
Slipstream reminded us that the primary reason we make both public and
private investments in the arts is for the inherent value of culture:
life-enhancing, entertaining, defining of our personal and national
identities.
Bolshoi to continue using blackface makeup, despite criticism
- Todd Prince
Russia's Bolshoi Theater said it will not change how it performs a
nearly 140-year old ballet after a U.S based dancer criticized its use
of blackface makeup as racially insensitive.