“Ninety percent of the audience is coming from outside San Francisco. And most of these people are not just coming in for the show, they’re coming and spending the weekend or longer. So it’s going to be a big economic impact for the city.” - Los Angeles Times
Federal authorities on Friday arrested and charged a Missouri woman in connection with the scheme to fraudulently auction Elvis Presley’s historic Graceland mansion. - Los Angeles Times
Unsurprisingly, the arrival of fully fledged generative AI has done nothing to improve the situation for commercial translators. But there’s no impact on literary translators, right? Wrong. - Eurozine
Rather than collecting domestic works, people of means wanted art with a richer historical past. They were seduced by the appeal of Europe’s long history of artistic production and its canonical creators. - JSTor
“We see a lot of fantasy-style art and stock photography, which then trickles into the models themselves,” Zivvy Epstein, a scientist at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, told me. There are also only so many good data sets available for people to use to build image models. - The Atlantic
Two disgruntled landlords spoke out in 2021 when Banksy sprayed a large herring gull on to the side of a Suffolk house they let to tenants. Garry and Gokean Coutts claimed that protecting the bird and repairing vandalism would cost them nearly £40,000 a year.
The dilatoriness that used to be such a feature of the literary world in the days when it relied on the postal service and the telephone has, you suspect, been somewhat allayed by the forward march of technology. - The Critic
Some couples ask for music straight from the show, including the Keys song, said Émme, while others look for something more bespoke; one recent couple requested a mash-up of the traditional bridal march and Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1978 hit September. - The Guardian
The cyber-utopians of yore were hopelessly naïve. Lockdown showed us why. More screentime means more misery. Thus any future for humanity should ideally rest on a re-discovery of ourselves as ‘body-selves’ among others. - The Critic
Ingram's filters had mistakenly identified the book as having been generated using AI—a mistake indicative of the AI moment we now find ourselves in. - Publishers Weekly
This cubic millimeter of tissue has allowed Harvard and Google researchers to produce the most detailed wiring diagram of the human brain that the world has ever seen. - Wired
As he began preparing, his body and mind rebelled. He would start shaking as he played. “Not great for anybody,” he said, “let alone a cellist who relies on steady hands.” - The New York Times
Over the last year, as money drained from the art market, young art stars around the world experienced dramatic setbacks that submerged their careers. - The New York Times
Located in Brú na Bóinne, a historical park north of Dublin, Ireland, Newgrange is thought to have been built around 3,200 B.C.E., making it 1,000 years older than Stonehenge and 500 years older than the Great Pyramids of Giza. - Artnet
“We aim to transform Powder into a multi-season destination that blends recreation, art, and meaningful connection for our entire community.” - ARTnews
