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New York Times Sues OpenAI And Microsoft For Using Stories To Train AI

“Defendants’ unlawful use of The Times’s work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service.” - Deadline

Writing Is A Solitary Pursuit? Not Really

Writers not only don’t work alone: they can’t. The key proxy for a vibrant book culture is the little packs they form when things are going well. A literary work of art begins long before the fateful confrontation with the blank page, in the whole life we’ve lived to know what to put upon it. - The Point

Enormous Art Gallery Found Above Pueblo Cliffs

Approximately 2,600 feet above the ancient Pueblo cliff settlements, the archaeologists discovered a sprawling collection of “huge rock panels” stretching about 2.5 miles around a large plateau. - Miami Herald

Where The Science Of Neuroaesthetics Meets The Art Of Dance

"With its unique brain–body connection, dance is at the very center of neuroaesthetics, the science of how the arts affect our brains, and therefore our bodies. Early findings of this still-emerging field are confirming what dancers and dance lovers have long known implicitly." - Dance Magazine

Why Do Ancient Tablets Have Information About Modern Physics?

This newly discovered connection between ancient Mesopotamian writing and modern physics is more than an amusing academic fluke. - Salon

People Have Been Arguing Over The Lesbian Love Story In “The Color Purple” For 40 Years

"Not every adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been frank about Celie's sexual orientation. And (the) new movie musical version of the story … has reignited a decades-long debate over whether Hollywood and Broadway can ever do its most transformative romance justice." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Tommy Smothers, 86

When “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” debuted on CBS in the fall of 1967 it was an immediate hit, to the surprise of many who had assumed the network’s expectations were so low it positioned their show opposite the top-rated “Bonanza.” - AP

A Visit To The Hallmark-Christmas-Movie Theme Park (Oh Yes, There Is One)

In countryside near Vancouver, on the studio backlots where many of the holiday romances are filmed, a Christmas-skeptical journalist went to the cable channel's first Hallmark Fan Experience, where visitors got to wander sets and enjoy hot cocoa with some of the network's acting stalwarts. - Salon

Mark Swed On “Maestro”

One of the reasons why “Maestro” comes across as pretty good, or maybe even a little better than that, is because it is not really about music. - Los Angeles Times

Why We Need The Arts, Especially In Times Like These

"In a world that grows increasingly dark, the ability to slip free of its grim logic and into a realm of uncharted delight, even for a little while, becomes less a luxury and more a necessity. … (It's not "just" escapism) when escape is more than just hiding." - The Boston Globe (MSN)

Dance Has Become Cool Now. It’s Everywhere

It’s not only that dance has been everywhere recently; it’s that dance is cool. Our lives are full of words — and words and words. Dance can say what words often can’t. It can be watched, it can be felt through the watching, and it can be a physical part of anyone’s life. - The New York Times

Author Hanif Kureishi On Life One Year After The Accident That Rendered Him Quadriplegic

"Left without the use of his arms and legs, the award-winning writer of The Buddha of Suburbia and My Beautiful Laundrette has charted his experience in brutally-honest blog posts. He credits his sense of purpose to his relationship with his responsive readers." - BBC

A Forger, A Thief, The Great Villain Of The Antiquarian Book Trade

"Certain names carry with them the whiff of brimstone. In the world of bibliophiles and booksellers, perhaps no name is more sulphurous than that of Thomas James Wise." - Literary Review (UK)

“It’s Almost A Clone”: 3D-Printing Company Can Produce Almost Exact Replicas Of History’s Great Paintings

"Lito Masters has partnered with several major museums to carry out detailed scans of paintings by artists including Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Wassily Kandinsky. It then uses 3D-printing technology to create textured, stroke-for-stroke reproductions on canvas or paper, complete with the originals’ cracks, ridges and imperfections." - CNN

Macron And The Archbishop Want To Install Six Newly-Designed Stained-Glass Windows At Notre-Dame. 120,000 People Say “Non”

The old windows in six side-chapels were designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc for the cathedral's 19th-century renovation and were undamaged by the 2019 fire. The president and the prelate want to replace them with six new panels chosen in a design competition, an option that a petition describes as "vandalism." - The Guardian

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