His family’s company, Kühne + Nagel, is one of the world’s largest logistics firms, and collaborated with the Nazi regime to transport goods stolen from Jews during World War II. - The New York Times
Before its opening night, Teatro Nuovo spends the summer immersing its training singers — both hired professionals and annual resident artists — in bel canto style for its four performances. - The New York Times
“From reports we received from the field, the Brighty statue did survive the fire at the Grand Canyon Lodge, however, it is heavily damaged with two front legs and an ear missing." - SFGate
Edge-painted books are now so widespread that you can find them at Walmart. The feature has spread from romance and fantasy to horror, thrillers and even literary fiction; it’s spread from works by famous authors with ravenous followings to those by debut novelists hoping to make a splash. - Washington Post
His hit “Feels So Good,” an instrumental pop-jazz crossover that reached No. 4 on the Billboard charts during the summer of 1978, has unexpectedly had as much staying power as “Stayin’ Alive,” “I Will Survive” or any other anthemic tune from that era. So much so, in fact, that we didn’t always notice it. - Washington Post
The bill would change the rules of evidence for federal courtrooms, making song lyrics inadmissible unless prosecutors can meet strict criteria, such as showing that the lyrics were meant to be taken literally. - Music Business Worldwide
These include the art-market subfield, the exhibition subfield, the academic subfield, a multitude of community-based subfields, and the field of cultural activism. While these subfields overlap to varying degrees, they operate with and within fundamentally different economies, discourses, practices, institutions, and social spaces. - e-flux
On Thursday, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania announced that Burton, 53, would be exiting the Los Angeles museum at the end of October after just four years in the job to become director of the institute. - The New York Times
AI is here, rather suddenly, pretty disruptively, and in a big way. Different institutions are adopting different stances and much of the adaptation is falling on faculty, in some cases with minimal guidance. - InsideHigherEd
Also unsurprisingly, the humor tends to be much darker than before 2022. And there’s a sense of purpose: “We get a lot of feedback, like, ‘You saved me from my mental problems,” says one comedian. “Now we have a mission. It’s to stop people from going crazy.” - The Guardian
Some say the settlement is unlawful, pointing to the quick investigation, vague allegations and unprecedented way federal funds were retracted before Columbia had a chance to appeal. Some went as far as to compare the executive actions to past power grabs by authoritarian leaders in countries like Hungary, Turkey and Brazil. - InsideHigherEd
The researchers tested two models each from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, and found that journalism was by far the most common source for composing answers to queries (with the four outlets in the headline among the most frequently cited) — and that blocking journalistic sources often led to outdated or inaccurate answers. - Nieman Lab
This spectacle raises a deeper question: why does infidelity, especially among the powerful, provoke such public outcry. Literary tradition offers some insight: intimate betrayal is never truly private. It shatters an implicit social contract, demanding communal scrutiny to restore trust. - The Conversation
The French government has teamed up with tech giant Microsoft to create a “digital twin” of the 862-year-old treasure. This virtual version will be achieved by taking thousands of photographs using cameras, drones, and lasers to capture every inch of the building’s exterior and interior. Specialists will then use A.I. to stitch these back together into a perfect replica....
