This Week’s Highlights:
Many stories this week about what creativity actually is and what it’s worth. Fast Company declared that we’ve entered “the imagination era,” where creativity is the currency (Fast Company); employers say they can’t find enough people with creative skills (The Conversation); the New Yorker asked whether it matters that a chatbot wrote a prize-winning story (The New Yorker). The Yale Review pushed from the other side, wondering whether the century so far has been a creative blank space (Yale Review).
David Hockney’s death at 88 was a kind of answer (Artnet). His whole life was an argument for looking harder, for the eye over the easy image. A century on, Martha Graham’s vision still matters intensely (The New York Times).
We’ve been watching craft and science circle each other: a new method for spotting counterfeit Van Goghs (Artnet), a carbon-fiber violin sharing a stage with a Stradivari (The Strad), and GaudÃ’s Sagrada FamÃlia standing tall with no flying buttresses (BBC).
All this week’s stories below, organized by topic.
