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The Bayeux Tapestry has crossed the Channel under armed guard, its first visit to Britain in 900 years (The Guardian). It’s 230 feet of pictorial storytelling made for an audience that mostly couldn’t read. Which gives it plenty to discuss with The Atlantic’s big new essay arguing that the literate era may prove “a brief interlude between the oral and digital ages” (The Atlantic).
If reading fades, what we chose to keep matters more. The Schomburg Center turns 100 — an archive that exists because a teacher told young Arturo Schomburg that Black people had no history, and he spent a lifetime assembling a refutation of that notion (The Guardian). Collections are arguments. So is refusing to open one: The New York Times and other publishers now accuse OpenAI of hiding evidence that its training data was searchable all along (Variety).
At PEN America, Dinaw Mengestu resigned the presidency after just seven months, and neither side is saying why (The New York Times).
And Anthony Hopkins, 88, releases his first album of his own classical compositions — Dudamel conducting (The Hollywood Reporter). Some first loves have long fuses.
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