Colgate lasagna, spray-on condoms, the Fyre Festival, Theranos — all these and more are included in a pop-up exhibition which has appeared on three continents since 2017. Now the concept’s creator and the producing company are embroiled in legal conflict, not for the first time. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
A new report from the UK's Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 92 percent of students have used generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, for their studies. - Engadget
Many organizations are taking advantage of exceptions in British wage laws for student internships as part of a curriculum, and the practice blocks crucial career experience for those who can’t afford to work for free, say advocates. (On the other hand, cash-strapped arts organizations can’t afford to pay interns.) - The Guardian
To the extent that Trump’s cultural designs offer a coherent vision, it shares his larger ambition to restore the country to a “golden age” (and a gilded one). In usurping control of Washington’s premier cultural institution, he appears set on rebuilding Camelot in his own image. - The Atlantic (MSN)
Faced with a concerted backlash from some of the country’s most famous celebrities, officials are looking for ways to offer them extra protections. One could be to allow creative industries to opt in to the new system, while offering AI companies the use of mass media such as journalism for free unless those companies opted out. - The Guardian
The problem is that the definition of “free speech” has strayed far from its origins in the rights of ordinary folk to speak without interference from higher powers like governments. It has become a vacuous term, a plea to be able to act without any constraints, a dumb binary that either you’ve got or you haven’t. - The Guardian
When it opens on May 22, Epic Universe will become Florida’s first major new park in a generation — and, Universal hopes, a property that will reverse a longstanding business dynamic with Walt Disney World to the south. - The New York Times
“An exhibition by a prominent artist reopened last month at the National Museum, including a large painting with images of bare skin. At the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, students of contemporary dance have resumed rehearsing. Syria's National Symphony Orchestra held its first performance since the fall of Assad.” - Reuters
“I think of it as inviting this so-called ‘main stage’ to go outdoors and inviting the education programming to be ‘main stage’ in the sense that it is without distinction or for this particular kind of audience.” - CultureOC
The outcome could have implications for the more than 39 copyright-related AI lawsuits currently working their way through U.S. courthouses. That said, it’s not necessarily a slam dunk for plaintiffs who allege that AI companies violated their IP rights. - TechCrunch
One rock band frontman: “I feel bad for the people who have worked there for many years and the people who booked us. I hope that it returns to its former mission. But currently, it’s an institution that I’m not interested in supporting or offering my show to.” - Washington Post (MSN)
Turns out, pretty far. This is for the economy, the government claims - though "the proposed film studio is not crucial infrastructure or needed housing, unlike much of the other development the government has vowed to speed up.” - The New York Times
“This is a grim cautionary tale about complying with authoritarianism in advance, and it's not going to be pretty, but at the end I'll share with you some of the things that can still be done.” - 8th House with Claire Willett
Sudden cancellations of author events about civil rights, voting, homelessness, and climate change make the authors suspicious. One source said “the Carter Library would now need to seek approval from the National Archives for all programs, even those already scheduled.” - The New York Times
Karla Sofia Gascón’s fall from assumed winner to persona non grata was intense. “Rarely has a nominee’s curated image—that of a righteous up-and-comer, applauded by an industry eager to demonstrate its tolerance—so thoroughly differed from the one conjured by her personal online accounts.” - The Atlantic (Yahoo)
