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Students, it turns out, are tired of AI — not on principle, but because a ninety from ChatGPT doesn’t feel like anything, while a ninety earned over six hours in a basement does (The Walrus). Most people want to earn their accomplishments. That’s the argument culture often fails to win when it’s asked to justify itself in somebody else’s currency.
Today’s institutional news is that failure in four lenses. London’s Gate Theatre closes after 47 years, four years after Arts Council England zeroed it out (The Guardian). Hungary’s new government scrapped the National Gallery its predecessor planned as a monument to itself (The Art Newspaper). The Lucas Museum opens billing its collection as “the people’s art” (Los Angeles Times) while four contractors allege it called itself private to skip the rules that govern public building (Los Angeles Times). And Lonnie Bunch’s exit from the Smithsonian gets two perspectives: a legacy of keeping the place on mission (The Atlantic), and a warning that what can’t be captured gets destroyed by chaos (Washington Post).
Meanwhile, following the administration’s example, South Park has renamed itself South America, with thanks to “Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation” (The Guardian).
All of our stories below.