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Why The Los Angeles Times’ AI Tracker Is So Terrible
Sure, it argued a few weeks ago that the Ku Klux Klan wasn’t that bad. But the real issue is that “it’s as if...
Animals Memoirs Are All The Rage
Did a fox write this? - The New York Times
Hamline University Suddenly Announces It’s Closing Its MFA Program
Students and faculty at one of the only low-residency university creative writing programs in the country are shocked and horrified. - MPR
Open AI’s Video Tool Sora Plagued With Racist, Sexist, Ableist Biases, Study Finds
Maybe reconsider that Open AI pitch, Hollywood creatives. "In Sora’s world, … pilots, CEOs, and college professors are men, while flight attendants, receptionists, and...
Open AI Tries To Pitch Hollywood Creatives On Its Video Tool Sora
“I’m most excited for people to walk away with a sense of, ‘Oh my God. These people are so creative. There’s so much that...
The Long Overdue Return Of A Great American Musical
Love Life premiered in 1948 “as a new show with music by Kurt Weill, and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. ......
Good News For The British Museum – People Really Like To Visit It
“The famous London museum saw 6,479,952 visitors through its doors in 2024, an 11% increase on 2023 numbers.” - BBC
Can The Brooklyn Academy Of Music Get Its Mojo Back?
Things don’t look great for the country’s oldest performing arts venue. - The New York Times
Dutch Architects Have A New Used Canvas: Old School Buildings
“Beauty is best achieved by making the most of existing buildings – even those thought unremarkable – and getting the best young architects to...
The Second Round Of Wolf Hall Almost Got Canceled Because Of British TV Budget...
“They eventually opted to axe costly exterior scenes in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light, meaning almost everything in the Tudor drama, screened...
The Secret World Of The Artists Who Spent Four Years Living In A Mall
“There are deep and profound things to say about where it fits in the history of art and situationism. But is also this stupid...
The Writer Of Buena Vista Social Club, Now On Broadway, Is Passionate About Protecting...
"I’ve felt a little bit like Indiana Jones running through a temple where tons of things are being thrown at you and you’re just...
AI Is Honestly Crap At Telling Stories
Writing about your life? “To farm it out to a machine that trawls the internet and cobbles together a fake version of you is...
France Cancels An Order For 800,000 Copies Of Beauty And The Beast For Schoolkids
And the illustrator is pretty sure he knows why: “The characters in the new books have ‘darker skin instead of blonde fairy-tale princesses.’” -...
YouTube Is Reviving The Career Of This Japanese Environmental Musician And Artist
Hiroshi Yoshimura died in 2003, but a series of streaming releases has brought his music to a huge new global audience. - The New...
Turns Out A Lot More Women Wrote Medieval Texts Than Some Scholars Believed
“Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway say their findings suggest that there are enclaves of women scribes that have not yet been...
The Tectonics Of The Art World Are Shifting, And Showing At Art Basel Hong...
India, in particular, has a growing art scene - and the art fair shows that. - The New York Times
In Vancouver, A Record Shop Owner Finds A Rare Copy Of The Beatles Audition...
“It was labelled ‘Beatles 60s demos’ and had been sitting around Neptoon Records, one of Vancouver's most well-known record shops, unplayed. ‘I thought it...
How Snow White Became The Year’s Most Cursed Movie
“How did this bankable story become Disney’s poisoned apple? Snow White has seemed cursed from the start, in part by Disney business logic.” -...
In UK Prisons, A Theatre Program Helps Save Lives
That’s what one formerly incarcerated woman says. “This company came into jail and turned, not just my life around, but hundreds of other people’s....
Can Art Survive The Climate Crisis?
L.A. artists have talked about their losses, but “we still have no clear picture of how many artworks by which artists, owned by which...
A New Report On The State Of Theatre Isn’t Exactly Reassuring
“None of the indicators show full recovery from pre-pandemic levels. And though the pre-Covid years may look booming in hindsight, many of the issues...
The Artists Who Lost Everything In Altadena Wonder What Comes Next
On one street, banding together, “The neighbors plan to present a design package to a contractor, so they can pool resources and access to...
Did This Irish Band Bring A Statue’s Decapitated Head On Stage Last Weekend?
"The solid bronze severed head of Melbourne’s decapitated King George V statue was reported to have briefly reappeared in public, gracing the stage during a performance...
Artists Who Left Everything Behind In Artsakh Strive To Create in Exile
"'Creating is my way of life; perhaps it’s a form of self-defense. Sculpting is healing, a form of struggle, and therapy all at once,’...
