“A huge sculpture of Oscar Wilde’s head lying on its side, his face sliced into segments, has been condemned as ‘absolutely hideous’ by the playwright’s grandson.” - The Observer (UK)
“We like the feeling of the collective and not pushing one person as a front for something. … So, we’re really working together with our skillset because we believe in music, we believe in art, we believe in community, and so that’s what’s being put forward here.” - MPR
“This year’s festival will mark 10 years since Unesco designated Dundee a design city, alongside Berlin, Montreal, Istanbul and others. The accolade is given to cities which have an established design industry and opportunities for designers, among other criteria.” - The Observer (UK)
Guillaume Lethière “was one of the most prominent and influential figures in French painting during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, captivating international audiences with his technical precision, arresting portraiture, and grand-scale history paintings.” - Hyperallergic
To some, the book “isn’t merely a guide; it’s a testament to the art of textual precision. Its presence on the desk of the devoted writer is not a matter of mere chance but a reflection of its embodiment of principles that make it indispensable." - LitHub
“An archipelago of 10 micro-galleries stretches around neighborhoods in Long Beach as well as in San Pedro and Lomita. Two more, also in Long Beach, are set to be built in the coming weeks.” - Los Angeles Times
“I’m guessing an image generator scraped a photo of my dad from somewhere online (maybe the wedding pictures I posted in 2007?) and then didn’t jumble it up enough to make it into someone new. Instead, it issued forth an eerie facsimile.” - Slate
“There could be no sweeter-sounding bird on the wire that leads back to Cohen’s 50-year legacy in music than Batalla, who along with Julie Christensen formed the duo that accompanied Cohen during his incredibly fruitful ‘I’m Your Man’ and ‘The Future' period.” - Variety
“'It’s similar to why I use gunpowder,' Cai told me. ‘Because using gunpowder, there’s always surprise and unexpectedness. You want to control it, but then it’s always uncontrollable. It’s just like AI.’” (Of course, this is the display that injured spectators and worried USC students.) - The Guardian (UK)
“The particular qualities of architecture as a creative pursuit (as opposed to, say, novel-writing) lend themselves to the screen, big or small. This can be as true in psychological terms as visual ones.” - The New York Times
“These painters buttressed one another during the lean months, the haves tending to the have-nots, united in their distaste for the Salon’s stale, imperious criteria.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
There are burgeoning efforts to explore how LLMs can be used to automate research tasks, including writing papers, generating code and searching literature. But it’s been difficult to assess whether these AI tools can generate fresh research angles at a level similar to that of humans. - Nature
Meredith Monk, in her 60th year of performing: “We are all on this plane. … We’re all born, we’re all going to die, and we all want to be happy, so why are we wasting our time?” - The New York Times
On Christmas Day, 1985, two veterinary students broke into Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology and stole more than 100 “archeological pieces from the rooms dedicated to the Maya, Mixteca and Mexica civilizations.” (The Gael García Bernal movie Museo shows a dramatic recreation of the heist.) - El País
