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People Are Always, Always Better Than Algorithms At Book Recommendations
"What is unquantifiable is horrifying to the corporate overlords, of course, but it’s the magic that connects readers with particular books." - LitHub
How The Andy Warhol Museum Lost Its Way
Or maybe never found it. "The problem with Warhol ... is that his art doesn’t lend itself to extended aesthetic contemplation. Once you’ve seen Brillo...
Movie Producer, Hollywood Activist, And Studio Executive Paula Weinstein Has Died At 78
She oversaw the production of 9 to 5, helped produce Grace and Frankie, and got the HBO movie Recount made in 2008 - and...
Streamers’ Cancellation Policies And Apparent Greed Are Leading People To Threaten Revolt
Old-school revolt, though: “When you consider the original stories we’ll never see because studio execs don’t believe they’re profitable, that’s frustrating as a viewer...
Martin Scorsese, Perhaps Unsurprisingly, Has Lived A Semi-Secret Life As A VHS Archivist
Truly, this is monumental. “Spanning the 1980s through the 2000s, the Martin Scorsese VHS Tape Collection contains more than 4,400 distinct titles, including features, documentaries, shorts,...
Spotify, Perhaps Inevitably, Has Added Video Classes
The video part seems inevitable, anyway. The classes part? It’s for UK users only, and are “video-based lessons from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and...
Remember All Of Those Books Tossed In The Trash At A Staten Island Elementary...
You know, the ones about or by Black people, LGBTQIA people, and so on? Where a note on a book about Native Americans read,...
Isabelle Huppert Is Ready For Her Marvel Villain Stage
But now, the French actor is playing Mary, Queen of Scots. "Alone on stage for 90 minutes, she performs something between a rite and...
Bach Is Everywhere At Easter
Yes, his various Passions are common right now - but he’s everywhere, all of the time. And “indirectly, we are also indebted to Bach...
The Woman Behind The Movie
Sure, there’s a new Regina King-starring biopic on Netflix, but the real Shirley Chisholm who ran for president "knew the nomination was a longshot,...
When Can Hollywood Get Back To Work?
The post-strike, post-peak-TV slowdown threatens Calfornia, "where TV, film and commercial shoots are a sizable driver of employment supporting not just bigwig directors, producers...
After The Massive Concert Hall Attack In Russia, Some Suspects Plead Guilty
Meanwhile, “events at cultural institutions were canceled, flags were lowered to half-staff and television entertainment and advertising were suspended,” and relatives waited for word...
Large Language Models Actually Haven’t Improved That Much
It’s all in the measurement, and the tricks therein. - Wired
Activists Unfurl A Massive Quilt For Gaza On The Steps Of The Met
"As the quilt was spread out across the museum’s main entrance, activists encircled the display, carrying signs that read ‘We See Genocide,’ ‘Let Gaza...
What’s Going On In Sundance’s Sudden Top-Level Shake-Up?
The reason for the change is unclear. "During her tenure, Vicente brought Robert Redford’s 45-year-old festival in Park City, Utah, back in person...
Let’s Talk About The So-Called ‘Social Cost’ Of Those Green Text Bubbles
Sure, Apple is kind of cult-like. But isn’t that a weird problem on which to hang a major antitrust lawsuit? - Wired
AI Guesses That’s Why They Call It The Blues
Truly, so-called generative AI isn’t there yet on the composing side. “I’ve played the basic chord progression from 'Soul Of The Machine' — and...
Olivia Colman Is Extremely Over The Gender Pay Gap In Hollywood
In one case, the star says, she knows of a 12,000 percent difference in pay. - Variety
The Chicago Art Institute Reconsiders Its Relationship To Women Artists
The Art Institute’s effort to change "can especially be seen in the museum’s arts of the Americas department, where 33 percent of its acquisitions...
Who’s Overdue For An Oscar?
The awards, mostly predicted with one or two slight surprises, have been shelved for 2024, but some wounds are fresh. Diane Warren has 15...
The Man Who Made Babar The Elephant Famous Has Died At 98
Laurent de Brunhoff took a character his mother and father invented when he was 5, and kept him going for decades. "'Babar, c’est moi,'...
We’re Culturally So Into An Apocalypse, But Why?
"This is not the religious end of time, or eschaton, that has fascinated humanity for thousands of years, but the end of the world...
Lyn Hejinian, Who Helped Remake Poetry In The Sixties, Has Died At 82
Hejinian was "a central figure in the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and ’80s who channeled the seismic social changes and avant-garde artistic...
Germany’s Culture Wars Are ‘Infiltrating’ Berlin’s 18th-Century Palace Replica
Inside, the Stadtschloss is publicly funded. Donors control the exterior. "A Christianised dome was hoisted atop the palace in 2020, complete with a band...
Writing A Novel Is Like Wandering A Flea Market
"Don’t be too precious about things. And also: everything has the potential to be precious." - LitHub
