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It’s Getting Harder And Harder To Take OpenAI Seriously
Curing cancer? Hm, not so fast. “Slop, memes, and sex seem like such a comedown from OpenAI’s carefully cultivated reputation as an ambitious but...
The Administration’s Pressure On Museums Will Soon Be An All-Out Assault
Museums are not ready. “Censorship corrodes trust in complex ways. … Solidarity is mostly lacking in the museum world, where the strategy so far...
The Chinese Artist Who Creates AI Slop By Hand
It was amazing at first. But “Mu says he doesn’t have any immediate plans to make another Sora imitation, partially because the video quality...
Guillermo Del Toro Says He’d ‘Rather Die’ Than Use Generative AI
“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features. But I did want...
Longing To Watch An Art Heist Movie For Louvre Reasons?
Some of the great ones — minus Ocean’s 8, which, hm, wonder why — are on this long list, for your autumn and winter...
Can Broadway Truly Be Captured On Film?
Good question, one that 1948’s biopic about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart - Words and Music, starring Mickey Rooney as a heterosexual Hart -...
This Year’s Oscar-Winning Documentary Decided It Was Only Ethical To Self-Distribute On Streaming
“The Palestinian-Israeli collective behind the film rejected a deal from Mubi, the company behind hits such as The Substance, after controversy over ties to an investment firm...
The Desperation Of The British Museum
Or, the UK version of the Met Gala: "Eight hundred invited guests each paid £2,000 to party alongside some of the world’s most sensational...
Obama’s Presidential Library – And Basketball Court – Rises On Chicago’s South Side
"Only the museum will require a paid ticket. Nearly a dozen other spaces — meeting rooms, classrooms, parks, an N.B.A.-size basketball court, even a...
How Chicago’s Timeline Theatre Is Building A New Space Despite, Well, Everything
“‘To build a building like this, it required public investment, it required private investment, and it required a lot of belief through those dark...
The Unlikely Juggernaut Of Netflix’s Oscar Desires
Will Netflix ever win Best Picture? It’s been trying - hard - for 10 years. This year? Hm. Not necessarily Best Picture, but “I’d...
In Los Angeles, Updating A Famous Mural To Reflect One Of The Subject’s Trans...
In Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown, the “revision follows more than a year of conversations that included Filipino-led groups, local nonprofits and the muralist, Eliseo...
The Blurred, Problematic Truths Of The Sora App
“The app’s popularity—it surpassed 1 million downloads in its first week—is ripe for this moment of decaying truths, where fact and reason have an...
Instagram Moves To Add A PG-13 Label To Teens’ Accounts
“After at least half a decade of acute concern about the way that platforms such as Instagram may affect young people, ... Meta has arrived at a...
The New York Times Says The Met Is Full Of Creepy Halloween Art
There’s even a checklist you (if you were in New York) could take to the massive museum with you. - The New York...
What’s Going To Happen To The English National Opera In Manchester?
Tensions still exist between London and Manchester, and not everyone is pleased. The ENO's artistic director says, "“The way this happened was not something...
AI Slop Videos Are Terrible, Except Maybe These Translated From Chinese Weird ‘Videos’ Of...
The creator says Mayor Adams "works so well because he has so many existing real videos where he says unusual and funny things. …...
Hollywood’s Latest Drama Is All Of The Fake Props Flooding The Market
"From Dorothy’s ruby slippers in The Wizard of Oz to Harry Potter wands, props from iconic films are earning big dollars at both auction...
When Administrators Tried To Squelch The Indiana University Student Paper, A Rival University Stepped...
There’s no First Amendment right if you don’t own your own printing press, as student journalists at Indiana University learned last week when administrators...
The New York-Based Artist Who Has Been Jailed In China For More Than 400...
Gao Zhen’s “detention is linked to three very specific sculptures about the legendary founder of the People’s Republic, Mao Zedong. One entitled Execution of Christ represents a...
The Woman Trying Her Hardest To Keep Classical Music On Track
That is, focused on the music - and out of the hands of predators. Not that she’s rewarded for it, aside from helping other...
Traditional Arts Criticism Is In Trouble
“Today, more and more critics pay their own bills, build their own followings, and invent their own rules. ... For better and for worse,...
Fact And Fiction In The New Lorenz Hart Movie
Was a young Stephen Sondheim really at the party after the opening night of Oklahoma! at Sardi’s, the night that possibly destroyed Lorenz Hart?...
Apple TV Is No Longer A Plus
It’s just itself. But why did Apple exit the plussified name trend? - Fast Company
One Big Thing We’ve Learned From Technology Is That Humans Desperately Need To Be...
“If you deliberately and regularly go without checking your phone, or indeed exposing yourself to any other source of electronic stimulation, you’ll build ‘the...
