Today’s Highlights: History is being literalized and edited in real-time. The National Portrait Gallery has swapped its portraits of Donald Trump and removed caption text referencing his two impeachments, a move that has reignited debates over how federal institutions curate political legacy (Washington Post (Yahoo) ).
In the commercial sector, the promise of digital efficiency is faltering. A new investigation reveals that while digital ticketing was supposed to end counterfeiting, it has instead “blown the doors open” for a new generation of scammers and more sophisticated fraud (Fast Company ).
Finally, we recognize the passing of Hungarian director Béla Tarr, the cinephile’s icon whose seven-hour epics stood as an uncompromising defense of time and focus in an increasingly distracted world (The Guardian (UK) ).
All of the stories we collected are below.
