Pope Francis Puts Architect Antoni Gaudí On Path To Sainthood
“The architect behind the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona has been declared ‘Venerable’ by Pope Francis, the second step in the path to canonisation. Gaudí was...
Cate Blanchett Says She’s Giving Up Acting
“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting. (There are) a...
Jean Marsh, Who Co-Created And Starred In “Upstairs, Downstairs,” Is Dead At 90
While she’s best remembered for the TV series, in which she played housemaid Rose Buck, she had an extensive career in theatre, television and...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Who Attacked Degas Sculpture Convicted
“A federal jury convicted Raleigh climate activist Timothy Martin of two felonies Monday for smearing washable paint on a sculpture’s display case in the...
National Geographic Says These Are The World’s Best Book Towns
By definition, a book town is “a small, preferably rural, town or village in which secondhand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated… available to everyone…” Today, there...
Inside The Rise And Fall Of YA Fiction
The rise of more inclusive YA has felt as much like a seismic shift as “The Hunger Games” did back in the day. It’s...
Are Em-Dashes Really A Sign Of AI-Generated Content?
If so — not to put too fine a point on it — is this a sign that the content AI stole, “scraped," from...
How To Stop Students From Being Merely Cogs In Machines?
The trick is convincing administrators, parents, and students that the best way of getting an education in independent and creative thinking is through the...
Teachers Don’t Want Students To Use AI. But Increasingly Teachers Are Using AI
Is it fair to use A.I. to grade student essays, if you’ve prohibited students from using A.I. to write them? School leaders are grappling...
What We Need To Do To Save Universities
The future of the nation’s universities is very much at stake. This is not a challenge that can be met with purely defensive tactics....
How Spotify Is Ruining (Not Saving) Music
While music discovery used to be a social event, now most of us cower to simply accepting whatever the Spotify algorithm feeds us. While...
How Learning To Improvise Freed My Mind
As a classically trained flutist, I expected to feel unmoored without structure. But improvisation has made space for a freedom I didn’t know I...
How AO Scott Morphed From Writing About Movies To Pondering Poetry
For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology...
LA Philharmonic Makes Its Coachella Debut
The Los Angeles Philharmonic led the charge into their first Coachella performance on Saturday with the "Ride of the Valkyries," helmed by Venezuelan conductor...
Where Is Ninety Percent Of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Material Cultural Legacy?
In Western museums, of course. - African History Extra
Cinemas Really Want That Theatrical Window To Lengthen
But we’re all addicted to streaming now, so it seems unlikely to change. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
What If George Lucas Is Right, And The Original Star Wars Is Pretty Bad?
“It’s so long since we’ve seen the original version of Star Wars, our collective memories of it as a gritty, charming space western may...
An Author’s Desire To Be Seen, And Also Never To Be Seen
Kaliane Bradley: “There was the absolute dread that it would go to people I know and respect and they’d talk to one another and...
The Shining’s Creepy, Mysterious Photo Is Mysterious No Longer
“The camera zooms in toward a black-and-white photograph hanging in the hallway of the Overlook Hotel. It's dated July 4, 1921. Dead centre stands Jack...
The Weirdly Long Life Of A Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Podcast
“We released our first episode of Buffering the Vampire Slayer on September 14, 2016. We couldn’t have imagined that only a few weeks later, we’d have...
If You’re Worried About The Environmental Impact Of Large-Scale AI, Check Out Small Language...
“Small models are not used as general-purpose tools like their larger cousins. But they can excel on specific, more narrowly defined tasks, such as...
Turns Out Walking In A City Is Just As Great As Walking In The...
For some of us, it might be even better. But truly: "Researchers have identified a wellbeing boost known as ‘the cathedral effect’ which occurs...
The Problem For American Literature Under Someone Who Doesn’t Understand Soft Power
“The Trump administration, caring little for democracy and focused on hardness, is immune to the idea that literature, a supposedly feminizing kind of art, could...
A French Canadian Comedian Says English-Speaking Audiences Want Different Things
“After years of performing worldwide in French, Quebec comedian Rachid Badouri is touring a new solo show in English, and says there’s a subtle...
The Current President Says He Wants To Take All Of Taxpayers’ NEH And NEA...
“About $17 million would be routed from both the NEH and NEA to support the statuary garden project. No specific details were shared about...
