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Today's AJ Highlights: The intersection of tragedy and commerce is starkly visible in the aftermath of the police shooting of poet Renee Nicole Good...
An AI “Digital Twin” for the Performing Arts
In the evolving world of AI, marketing is moving from getting messages out to engaging in dialog with the consumer. Messages get lost in the Sea of Messages. Persuasion asks what you're interested in first and engages you in opportunities.
Elite Universities Are Cutting Their Art History Admissions
Amid widespread budget deficits, several top universities have suspended admissions to their art history graduate programs or cut the size of the cohorts they will admit,...
Movie Theatre Association Comes Out Against Warner Sale To Netflix
"We are deeply concerned that this acquisition of Warner Bros. by Netflix will have a direct and irreversible negative impact on movie theaters around the world,” Cinema...
A Plan To Map Europe’s Dance Heritage
That lack of recognition has real consequences. Across Europe, most public heritage funding is absorbed by monuments, libraries and museums. Dance, which exists only...
Kenneth Turan: I Lost My Library In The LA Fires. Should I Start Collecting...
My entire collection of something like 4,000 volumes, acquired one by one over all those decades, had turned to smoke and ash in the...
Renee Nicole Good Merch Pops Up On Amazon And Etsy
Less than 24 hours after the horrifying shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis, merchandise related to...
Renee Nicole Good Was A Poet. Here’s Some Of Her Work
The bio from a now-private Instagram account belonging to Good describes her as a “Poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar...
The Mythology Of The Friend Group
If friend groups seem ubiquitous, so does a quiet underclass of people like me, bemoaning their lack of them. - The Atlantic
AI-Created Novel Loses Publication Prize After Being Voted Winner In Reader’s Choice
Contest-winning AI novel loses physical publication and manga adaptation after guidelines were updated to ban AI-generated works. - Automation
Are We Living In An Age Of Bad Painting?
Walking through Frieze London’s carpeted aisles in October, a long-developed hunch was confirmed emphatically: we are amid a deluge of bad painting. - The...
So How Are Libraries Going To Get Their Books Now?
The company faced several challenges in recent years, including a data breach in 2022 – after the company was acquired by a private investment...
Insider Art Market Predictions For 2026
If nothing else, the new year will likely reveal whether the art world’s pivot to the Gulf, and auction houses’ deepening emphasis on luxury...
New Vision For Your Car: An AI Companion
Across the show floor, the car emerged less as a machine and more as a companion as automakers and tech companies showcased vehicles that...
Remembering Literary Critic John Carey
Pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of academia’s more pretentious mores, Professor Carey was a paradoxical figure in the British literary establishment for more than half...
How Great Musicians Steal
“I suppose a composer imagines a certain piece of music for certain instruments; he has a sound picture and wants the things that instrument...
Hollywood Is Being Destroyed By Oligopolies
Effectively, in only three years, the Warner Bros. Discovery merger has validated nearly all the concerns that critics of “market first” policymaking have warned about...
The Man Who Has Four Shows Currently On Broadway
“If I step back and think about what unites the shows, it’s probably they’re all trying to be joy-forward experiences and shows where the...
Report: Increasing Share Of Artist Visas Into The US Are Going To Influencers And...
A growing share of O‑1B visas are now being granted to social media influencers and OnlyFans models, according to an immigration attorney. - Newsweek
Universal Music Buys Big Stake In Bollywood Movie Studio
Universal Music India, a division of Universal Music Group, will acquire a 30% equity interest in the Mumbai-based movie studio. In the deal, announced...
We Need To Cultivate The Skill Of Critical Ignoring
In an age in which information on the internet is so abundant and so low-quality that it’s essentially noise, job number one is to...
How Museums Can Help Rebuild Community Trust
As social divisions grow, they are becoming important forms of social infrastructure where people can encounter different perspectives. In many cases, their roles are...
So Students Don’t Read Books Anymore. Really?
“Many teachers are secret revolutionaries and still assign whole books,” said Heather McGuire, a survey respondent who teaches English in New Mexico. I cheer...
When Your Mind Goes Blank: What We’re Learning About Consciousness
Our consciousness roams, it can be focused on the here and now, or maybe the there and then, but it is always focused on...
