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Edward James Olmos Is Passing The Torch
Tired of bemoaning a lack of Latin@ folks in Hollywood, he "decided to create a pipeline for training California elementary and high school students...
Scrivener Is For Newbies
Ann Patchett is still using WordPerfect - and why not? It's worked so far. - The New York Times
The Musee D’Orsay Has Added An AI Vincent Van Gogh
"Asked why he had cut off his left ear, the artist replied that this was a misconception and he had in fact only cut...
Is There A Way To ‘Opt Out’ Of Having AI Train On Your Art?
DALL-E-3 claims - unconvincingly - that artists can now decline having their work included in data sets. - The Atlantic
The Bookies’ Odds On The Nobel Prize For Literature
The list includes "the usual suspects—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Michel Houellebecq, Anne Carson (who won’t win the year after Annie Ernaux, come on, the literary...
Robin Williams’s Daughter Says Union Must Protect Actors Who Can’t Consent
Zelda Williams: "I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad. This isn’t...
Jhumpa Lahiri On Translating Her Own Work
The novelist also translates others. She says translating is "an act of radical change." - The Guardian (UK)
The Problem With LEGO
Aside from the bare feet in the middle of the night issue, LEGO has a massive plastic problem. - Wired
Lydia Davis Will Not Have Her Books On Amazon
"Her fans are legion – among them Ali Smith, Colm TóibÃn and Dave Eggers – and she has won many honours, including the International Booker...
Instrumental Songs Can Be Hits, Even Now
But how? "It takes a very unique sort of musical mind to make these." - Slate
The Weird Father Of American Art
If you are fond of "odd, ugly, small-scale art that has a cracked and thwarted look, is radically antisocial, and radiates hidden agendas, you’re...
What Does Jaap Van Zweden’s Time With The New York Phil Add Up To?
Sort of a shrug emoji, follow by an emoji for a virus that did not kill the orchestra. - The New York Times
The Artists Working Under Siege In Gaza
"We have limited options but our horizons are still big. The aim is to train and inspire the next generation." - The Guardian (UK)
The Non-Actor Who’s Acting For The Actors
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, executive director and chief negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, knows this week is crucial for the future of entertainment. - The New York Times
The Bogus, Made-Up Holidays Clogging Our Feeds
"Dubious holidays are a phenomenon of the social media era, and many of them are designed to promote products. This may be the case with...
The South Dakota Dance Academy With Ties To The Hungarian Resistance
The couple running that dance academy? That's classified. - Yahoo News (Argus Leader)
Please, Make Movies And TV Weird Again
Look to Bottoms to lead the way. - The New York Times
How Publishing Invented The Fantasy Genre
Oh, you thought C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien did it? Nah. It was Lester del Rey, and a lot of cynical marketing (that totally...
In France, They’re Building A 21st Century Castle With 13th Century Tools
Cool, but why the heck? "Guédelon is an example of experimental archaeology — which is a way to research how people did things in the past...
The World Of Jane AustenTok
Memes feed fandom, and Austen fandom can be "chronically online." - LitHub
That Time David Hockney Was Hitchhiking
It was 1955, and he and a buddy were soaked to the skin when a couple sheltered, dried, and fed them. He later sent...
A Native Artist Was Shot By A Right-Winger At A Protest Over A Statue
Native artists and others were protesting a "colonizer" statue in New Mexico when a 23-year-old wearing a MAGA hat shot and injured artist and...
Why There’s Not A Ton Of Violence In The Guido Brunetti Mysteries
Basically? Author Donna Leon doesn't like it. - Washington Post
Rudy Perez, Who Has Died At 93, Was A Groundbreaking Choreographer
Perez's "minimalist but wildly experimental work, marked by spare, precise movements, helped ignite a budding Los Angeles dance scene after he moved west from...
Before AI Was Seen As Such A Threat
Pitching a movie about a human war with robots was much harder in 2018. - NPR
