Is this the beginning of the end for BBC radio? The history of the medium provides some answers about the role radio still plays today. - The Conversation
AI-generated content can be of higher quality than content created by humans, due to the fact that AI models are able to learn from a large amount of data and identify patterns that humans may not be able to see. This can result in more accurate and informative content. - Harvard Business Review
Most books don’t succeed either in terms of sales or critical unanimity. Most writers don’t earn a living wage from their writing. Tenure-track appointments (I teach college writing) are rare as unicorns. But being a writer is not a sentence handed down, it’s a choice I’ve made. - The New York Times
Longtermism is a technocratic dream that purports to give some of the wealthiest people in the world the ability to plan the far future of humanity according to their personal whims. It is hubris. - New Statesman
Curator and art historian Mark Hallett has been named as the next director of London’s Courtauld of Institute Art. He will succeed Deborah Swallow, who announced in April that she would be departing at the end of the 2022–23 academic year after nearly twenty years in the role. - ArtForum
"Investigators in northern Spain said this week they discovered what they believe to be the oldest written record" — inscribed on a bronze hand — "of a precursor to modern Basque, pushing back its earliest evidence to the first century B.C." - AP
Russian soldiers looted nearly 15,000 objects from the Oleksiy Shovkunenko Kherson Art Museum and other cultural venues in the region two weeks ago. - Artnet
"Roberto Saviano, Italy's best-known anti-Mafia author, went on trial for libel on Tuesday for calling Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a 'bastard'. If convicted, he could face up to three years' imprisonment, but under Italy's legal system a fine of around €500 euros or a suspended sentence are more likely." - Reuters
It’s pure vandalism to withdraw funding from institutions that are nurturing new talent. People who think that the arts are for the elite alone and aren’t worth supporting might want to reconsider their views when they next watch The Talented Mr Ripley or The English Patient. - Prospect
"The NFTs come from af Klint's series Paintings for the Temple, created between 1906 and 1915. The series contains 193 paintings, none of which can be sold, as they are in the hands of the Hilma af Klint Foundation, (which gave) permission to create and sell NFTs of the works." - ARTnews
"I’d argue that the spectre haunting today’s discord over math education is a growing suspicion of the equity-based movement of educators who, as in the early twentieth century, largely come from graduate education programs like the ones at Stanford and Columbia’s Teachers College." - The New Yorker
While Carey might’ve filed a petition to be the one and only “Queen of Christmas,” that royal title will remain free for anyone to claim this winter. - Washington Post
The working definition of a "classic play" here is one that's revived repeatedly through the years and reinterpreted over time. What happens in Australia, argues Anthony Nocera, is that the plays which get that treatment are famous British and American titles, though there are plenty of deserving Australian scripts. - The Guardian
