Today’s highlights: Existential questions for cultural institutions today. Museums face a stark choice between radical adaptation or irrelevance as traditional funding models collapse (Artnet), while higher education is accused of actively harming students by prioritizing AI proficiency over the creative thinking skills they actually need (The Atlantic). Even the sanctity of the liberal arts is under fire, with critics arguing they hold no monopoly on critical thought (The Guardian).
On the creative front, tributes are pouring in for playwright Tom Stoppard, celebrated for his intellectual agility (Los Angeles Times)—and his lucrative, secret side hustle doctoring scripts for movies like 102 Dalmatians (The New York Times).
Plus: The fight to save Britain’s first multiplex cinema (The Guardian) and how video games are feeding modern conspiracy theories (Slate).
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