Disney Started A Thread About Movie Quotes But Deleted It With Celerity
“People immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty...
One Art Student Hung An AI-Generated Show As His Own, And Then Another Art...
The student who ate some of the show was then arrested and charged. One Bluesky post about the event said, “Look for the helpers.”...
Our Attention Is Being ‘Fracked’ By Big Tech
But there are ways to resist. - The Guardian (UK)
The Physics Of Plur1bus
For real: How does “The Joining” work? Science has thoughts. - Wired
Buildings Of The Past Are Underused Tools For Dealing With Climate Change
During Britain’s “little Ice Age,” builders used common-sense tricks that could still keep houses warmer - or cooler - today. - BBC
Trump Bought At Least One Million Dollars In Netflix And Warner Bros Bonds Following...
“Trump, speaking last month with reporters on the red carpet of the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., said Netflix’s deal to acquire Warner Bros. studios...
Nazis Stole Fragments Of The Bayeux Tapestry
A textile specialist “is assumed to have stolen the fragments, each only a few centimetres long, when he was sent to Bayeux as part...
Both The Pompidou And The Grand Palais Appear To Be In Financial Difficulties
"The Centre Pompidou gave up one of its two spaces at the Grand Palais due to what the Paris museum described as ‘financial constraints faced by both institutions,’...
Sundance Picks Former Universal Chair As New CEO
“Linde will begin his tenure on Feb. 17, after Sundance’s final film festival in Park City and before it heads to its new home...
After The Big One In An Art City In Japan, Trying To Preserve An...
The massive earthquake on New Year’s Day 2024 washed away the homes and studios of “hundreds of Wajima artisans in this Holy Land of Lacquerware...
Time Didn’t Used To Be Linear
Seriously: We decided it was in the 18th century. “In 1765, the scientist-philosopher Joseph Priestley, best known for co-discovering oxygen, invented what was arguably...
Jodie Foster On Her Acting Life As ‘Taxi’ Turns Fifty
“ gave me an outlet that I would not have had if I'd gone on a path to be what I was meant to...
Artists Killed By Iran In Crackdown On Protests As The Repression, And Internet Blackout,...
Though the number is undoubtedly higher, "among the thousands of civilians confirmed dead are sculptor Mehdi Salahshour, filmmaker Javad Ganji, fashion designer and student Rubina Aminian,...
Former Nickelodeon Child Star Kianna Underwood Killed In Hit And Run In Brooklyn
Underwood was “a cast member of the former Nickelodeon children’s sketch comedy series All That,” and she had other credits to her name as...
Harry Blitzstein, The “Consummate L.A. Painter,” Is Dead At 87
“(He) often noted that the difficulties of getting gallery shows, and the disappointments that often followed, led him to open (the Blitzstein Museum of...
Wikipedia Makes Licensing Deal With Big AI Companies
Wikipedia’s human traffic dropped 8% year-over-year, according to data the Wikimedia Foundation published in October 2025. Research from Profound analyzing 680 million AI citations...
A Post-Fiasco Reset At Dallas Black Dance Theatre
That fiasco, during 2024-25, featured the firing of the dancers, loss of municipal funding, and a government-ordered overhaul of governance and employment practices. Now,...
GenZers Are Taking Up “Old People Hobbies” To Relax
A growing number of young people are getting involved in what are traditionally considered "grandma hobbies," like knitting, to relax. - NPR
Spotify Bans #1 Song In Sweden After Discovering It Was AI
Called I know, You're Not Mine - Jag vet, du är inte min - it is currently top of the Spotify playlist of Sweden's...
Ghosts In The Machine: How Some Artists Are Playing With AI
Artists have always excelled at coaxing mysteries out of their materials, whether pushing paint, film, or code until it reveals something unexpected. AI is...
How Boulder’s Only Studio For Young Competition Dancers Collapsed
Last month, Kinesis Dance, rebranded earlier that year as Frequency Dance, abruptly shut down. Preceding that closure was a long series of financial irregularities,...
Chinese Universities Make Big Gains On American Schools In International Rankings
Harvard recently dropped to No. 3 on the ranking. The schools racing up the list are not Harvard’s American peers, but Chinese universities that...
First Look At The New Beijing Art Museum
Designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD), the project broke ground on 31 December above a metro line in Beijing's Tongzhou district. - Dezeen
Enrollment At Universities Is Growing Again
Across undergraduate and graduate programs, total enrollment reached 19.4 million students, growing 1.0% compared with the fall of 2024, according to the National Student...
Scottish Government Accused Of “Eroding” Nation’s Culture Due To Standstill Funding
“Arts industry leaders have accused the Scottish Government of ‘eroding’ the culture sector after leaving its national performing companies” — Royal Scottish National Orchestra,...
