Stories

It’s AI slop. Sadly, though, "people have been hoodwinked by it.” - BBC

That’s the question Miami artists are asking in an anti-Alligator Alcatraz show that is an attempt to create "an activating power,” not "just going to have the work sit here.” - Hyperallergic

"If a machine creates a song that brings a person to tears, does it matter that the machine felt nothing? Where does the meaning of art truly reside – in the mind of the creator or in the heart of the observer?” - The Conversation

No, really: What kind of weird, involved scheme is this, and can we trace it back to Stalin? - BBC

“Three of Pittsburgh’s most venerable troupes announced they are looking into ways they might join forces to survive. The announcement by Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre and Pittsburgh CLO came in the form of an email to subscribers and other supporters.” - WESA (Pittsburgh)

But why? Truly, in - for instance - the Stade de France, with 80,000 other people, how is the moment at all good, musically speaking? - CBC

“Someone could make the right comment on the right day or reply to a story in the right moment and get inside the head of someone who seems completely inaccessible otherwise.” - Washington Post (MSN)

At least, not by official box office receipts, though estimates (including one that says it “set a box office record”) have some pretty strong claims. What’s the deal, Netflix? - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

But why is it so compelling - and why isn’t the artist better known? - WSJ (Internet Archive)

“Having lived through the era, I can’t say it’s all depicted perfectly.” - The New York Times

This is a playbook we’ve all seen before. Rigoberto Gonzalez, whose painting about refugees crossing the border wall was deemed “objectionable,” says that “the White House list reminds him of the 'degenerate art’ exhibitions in 1930s Germany.” - NPR

The remains of the sunken city include "partially preserved pre-Roman statues of sovereigns and sphinxes, such as a beheaded Ptolemaic granite sculpture and an incomplete sphinx with a cartouche bearing the inscription of Ramesses II.” - Hyperallergic

Sure, yes, so is the language part. But: “The game is filling a hole for this type of instruction; there aren’t many programs that teach basic chess.” - Wired

“Guédelon has quarriers, stone cutters, masons, joiners, blacksmiths, tilers, painters, carpenters, ropemakers, wheelwrights, carters and basketmakers – 60-odd artisans in all – building cob and rubblework walls, firing tiles, blending dyes and pigments, braiding rope and forging and beating nails, hinges and decorative ironwork.” - The Guardian (UK)

“I look for anything that is mindlessly fun or otherwise engrossing enough to help me forget that I am hurtling through the air in a bus with wings. I probably will not watch anything worthy of the Criterion Collection.” - The Atlantic