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The Creator Of This Animated Cupcake Is Furious At Buzzfeed’s GenAI Plan
Remember when Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed seemed like a good guy? That was a long time ago, and we were all so much more...
Marcia Lucas, Who Truly Created Star Wars Through Editing, Has Died At 80
Lucas not only co-edited the first movie and Return of the Jedi but also made various Spielberg, Scorsese, and many other movies far, far...
A Critic Begs Us All Not To Forget These Performances In The Lead-Up To...
These actors aren’t going to be nominated, but they (maybe!) should be. And some of us could at least watch their shows. - Vulture
The Serious Business Of Creating Illustrations For Children
“For years, illustrators have been overlooked, seen as people who come in and do the decorating after the house has been built. But this...
The Biggest AI Writing Tell
The prose - whether in a text or fiction submission - is “perfectly clean, without a stray comma; uniform in length, with evenly paced...
On TikTok, Scammers Are Using AI Blackface To Push Cheap Products
Those belt buckles sure aren’t handmade. And: “Nearly all aspects of the accounts appear to be AI-generated — from the ‘person’ in the video...
A Novel Twenty Years In The Making
“If you work on a book for twenty years—whatever we mean by work—people really act like you’re very neurotic. Like there’s something wrong with you,...
How Allen Toussaint, Post-Katrina, Found Himself Onstage At Joe’s Pub
Slowly, in front of star-studded crowds that included the rockers Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt and Boz Scaggs, Toussaint reinvented himself. - The New York...
Is Melbourne, Australia, The Vinyl Capital Of The World?
Probably it’s Tokyo - Australian record shops go on record-buying trips there to prop up their own inventory - but there is the new...
Turns Out Mark Rothko’s Paintings Are Perfect For The Age Of Social Media
“Across TikTok and Instagram, videos centred on Rothko’s work are accumulating hundreds of thousands of views. One creator has begun styling outfits inspired by individual...
Why Schmigadoon’s Music Sounds At Once Fresh And So Very Familiar
“Every number is a homage to at least one classic musical, and often two or three. Here, the hills are alive with the sound...
Spain Has A Ton Of Crumbling Castles
What should it do with them, and all of the material therein? - El País English
So, Does Peter Gelb Have ‘The Most Difficult Job’ In The World?
“Gelb, who is paid $1.2 million annually, oversees a $326 million budget. … Beyond the often caustic scrutiny of opera critics and patrons, Gelb...
What Both Old And New Amadeus Teach Us
Every great artist needs a nemesis - fictional or not! - in order to stand out. - Salon
A Skateboarder’s Lament For San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain
“A spark from one of the torch-cutters likely ignited debris that had accumulated in one of the fountain’s tubes during the last year of...
The Met Is Publicizing An Opera About Frida Kahlo In Restaurants And Cemeteries
Well, why not? "For me, it’s more about singing the music and just communicating it and making that as accessible as possible in the...
The Head Of France’s Biggest Film Producer Is Prepared To Bow To A Right-Wing...
“The open letter, published earlier this week to coincide with the opening of the Cannes film festival, was signed by more than 600 figures, including...
The Smithsonian Adds That Impeachment Language Back To The Portrait Of The Current President
"In the new wall text accompanying a portrait of Mr. Trump, the impeachments are mentioned in a list of important events from the president’s...
Artists, Writers, And Musicians Experiencing Despair As Generative AI Collides With Art
“Musicians, artists and writers generally possess something AI does not, which is the lived human experience out of which they create. That experience includes...
What Will Win At The Tonys, And What Should Win
At least, according to The New York Times’s Helen Shaw. For instance: “When I think about the sheer old-fashioned ebullience of Cinco Paul’s Schmigadoon!...
The Story Of The Community College Prof Who Suddenly Found Out Her Novel Was...
Stacey Levine’s Mice 1961, published by a very small press in Oregon, is "a deeply weird book, a kind-of coming-of-age comedy with no easy...
The Plight Of Hollywood Has Become A Key Issue In The Los Angeles Mayoral...
“For decades, elected officials have not had to focus on the film and TV business, let alone turn it into a campaign issue. It...
Documentary Filmmaker Brian Lindstrom Has Died At 65
“Lindstrom, until the end of his life, was committed to portraying stories of trauma overcome. Though he possessed an exceptional grasp of cinema’s tools...
For No Reason The Artist Or Anyone Else Knows, FIFA Destroys A Huge, Beloved...
The massive whale mural is “'gone forever,’ Wyland told me, ... sounding at turns shattered and furious.” But why? Could be for some...
Fifty Years Later, A Documentary About The Harlem Renaissance Gets Its Debut
“The documentary centres on a cocktail party Greaves hosted at Duke Ellington’s townhouse in Harlem in August 1972 – an attempt to capture the...
