In her landmark 1975 essay in The New York Review of Books, Susan Sontag explains how fascism isn’t just an ideology, but an aestheticized politics that emphasizes the “contrast between the clean and the impure, the incorruptible and the defiled, the physical and the mental.” - Hyperallergic
“I thought, why don’t we go through, like, all of the papers?” The AI tool has analysed more than 37,000 papers in two months. Its website flags papers in which it has found flaws – many of which have yet to be verified by a human. - Nature
Once a key collecting category, with robust auction departments, hungry collectors, and record sales, historical American art was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis. I’ve long wondered if the field will ever recover. - Artnet
“That has been the biggest surprise, just how fast corporate and foundation America has closed its doors and is reducing the size and scope of the public conversation on important issues like freedom, justice, diversity, healthcare, relationships, economics, and just about everything else.” - Hyperallergic
"They're going to regret it," Seubert predicted. "Not financially or anything, but just from a historical perspective, the Internet Archive is valuable for all of us." - Ars Technica
“I don’t have this need to consume ‘story': I need to have a debate, a dialogue with truth; to think more, write less, and to address issues not in a political way but in a philosophical way, a poetic way. Write less, in order to write stronger.” - The Guardian (UK)
That is to say, cats and dogs alike seem to be obsessed with Flow. “The trend is a particularly cute coda to what was already one of the feel-good stories of awards season.” - The New York Times
In Austria, teenagers go on YouTube to learn dance moves - but they also “attend multiple lessons at a dance school and receive a stamped certificate of completion after each session.” - Seattle Times (AP)
Well - nobody but himself. "The feeling is most intense after dark, when the chair is bathed in the glow of a lamp, after I’ve locked the door of the flat from the inside, with the key in the lock.” - The Observer (UK)
That’s right, it’s The Righteous Gemstones, which is about to conclude its four-season run, “one of those rare works that channels all the pathos and anxiety of its moment and turns them into something warm, hilarious, human, even redemptive.” - Slate
“As Peña and Dring committed to having the actors wrestle, and doing so smoothly and within budget, they hired two fighting directors — one as an intimacy director and another as a sumo consultant — to ensure safety, accuracy and precision.” - The New York Times
The artists “illuminated Olmsted and Vaux’s paths in municipal orange, rendering the park’s plan visible to a visitor, thus reinscribing it as a public artwork.” - Hyperallergic
“The first weekend in March 2020, … North American cinemas had a snappy $100 million weekend.” Two weeks later? That take was just over $4,000 - mostly from drive-ins. Movie theatres still haven’t recovered. - NPR
