“The many awards for Paddington were perhaps unsurprising given that the show earned rave reviews when it opened and has played to sellout crowds ever since.” - The New York Times
“The vastness of space is humbling to behold. But it can undoubtedly make even the most sober-minded astronauts go a little stir crazy.” - The Atlantic
Helen DeWitt’s life was simply too busy, and intense, for her to do what the $175,00 Windham-Campbell Writing Prize required, she says. - The New York Times
“Museums are educating visitors to a more accurate telling of Western history by showcasing the role Black people played in everyday life across territories that would later become states.” - The New York Times
“For power users, this sort of thing can’t help but read as needling, even petty platform quirks. For Apple and Netflix, it’s business as usual.” - Vulture
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss “won six of seven seasons of the political satire Veep, losing only in its final season. This near sweep remains one of the most impressive runs in television history.” - Variety
“It is a new direction for scanner photography, a method more often associated with punk Xerox aesthetics and second-wave feminist art than with the human caress.” - The New York Times
"Moran is among a growing number of musicians who have been targeted on music streaming platforms by what appear to be AI bots masquerading as the real artists.” - The Guardian (UK)
“What does it say for The New Yorker, one of America’s most prestigious magazines, to adopt generative AI? At its worst, the technology eliminates any discernable art process, flattening the creator’s intention.” - The Verge
If ‘language is one of the keys to individual autonomy’, the central challenge in a linguistic landscape being flattened and standardized by AI is to ‘continue to believe in language learning as a tool of emancipation and liberation’. - Eurozine
Hilde Limondjian, who spent more than four decades bringing music to the auditorium — and the galleries — of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, died on Jan. 24. She was 89. - The New York Times
The latest set of commissions will be realized by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Hugo McCloud, Martin Puryear, Lorna Simpson, and Norman Teague. - ARTnews
Literary ridicule used to sting politicians into shame. Now they don't read books, don't care about cultural criticism, and certainly don't lose sleep over clever wordplay. Writers are shadowboxing with ghosts. — New York Review of Books
Under their new leadership, Victory Gardens has hosted a writers’ workshop, a showcase of new works in collaboration with New Musical Chicago, and a staged reading of An Ocean Away, a documentary play by Belarusian playwright Andrei Kureichik about the effects of war on Ukrainians and diaspora communities. - American Theatre
The Getty and Page Museum are getting Olympic-ready makeovers, because nothing says 'world-class cultural destination' like frantically renovating before the global spotlight hits. Strategic timing or happy coincidence? — Artnet
