What’s Maurizio Cattelan Up To Now? A Scavenger Hunt!
The prankster artist known for the solid-gold toilet (titled America) and the banana-taped-to-the-wall (Comedian) will have participants search for copies of his new piece...
Yuja Wang Appointed To Newly-Created Faculty Position At Curtis Institute
The superstar Chinese-American pianist, who herself studied at Curtis, won’t be a professor of piano giving weekly lessons. Her title, as of September next...
Scammer Who Tried To Sell Graceland Out From Under The Presleys Sentenced To Prison
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, who has gone by many other names in a criminal career spattered with financial grifts, was sentenced to four years and...
2025 Booker Prize Shortlist Includes Kiran Desai, David Szalai, Katie Kitamura
The finalists include three American authors, two Britons, and one Indian, Desai, who won the prize in 2006. - The Guardian
Claudia Cardinale, Glamorous Movie Star Of The 1960s And ‘70s, Is Dead At 87
She starred in over 100 films and television pieces, but was best known for Federico Fellini’s film 8½, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of the historical novel...
Hearst Newspapers To Acquire Dallas Morning News
A large majority of shareholders voted to reject a bid by notorious newspaper destroyer Alden Global Capital in favor of a somewhat lower (but...
What You Get When A Moral Philosopher Designs A Video Game
“Bennett Foddy … began his career as a moral philosopher at the University of Oxford. But on the side he was making hilarious, preposterous...
Minnesota Art Groups See Some Glimmers Through The Challenges
“In a time of storm, cows run and take cover, which prolongs the experience. But buffalo run to the storm to get through it...
Picasso Took Up Writing Poetry In His 50s. Was His Verse Any Good?
He made the perhaps-foolhardy decision to ask his first patron for her opinion. That patron was Gertrude Stein. She did not hold back. -...
Rethinking The Choreography Of Gerald Arpino
Popular and productive, Arpino, who was 85 when he died in 2008, didn’t get much respect from influential critics. At various times they called...
Is Licensing A Better Solution Than Suing For AI Copyright?
One method some people are starting to explore is licensed use. So what exactly does that mean – and is it really a solution...
The College Admissions Game Is Rigged
We trade admissions tips in Reddit threads, spend our vacations squeezing in yet another campus tour and treat every rejection as proof that the...
Why Wayne McGregor Refuses To Explain His Choreography
“’It really bores me, this transactional conversation,’ he says, meaning the choreographer explaining their intention; the audience expecting something explicit to be communicated. …...
Recording Companies Adopt Book Publishers’ Tactics To Sue Suno Over Copyright Theft
The complaint suggests that Suno may have ‘stream-ripped’ millions of copyrighted sound recordings to train its model. The timing of the new allegations appears directly connected to Anthropic’s recent USD...
First There Was Clickbait. Now There’s AI Chatbait
Lately, chatbots seem to be using more sophisticated tactics to keep people talking. In some cases, like my request for headache tips, bots end...
How Art Has Historically Depicted Aging
Physical signs of aging — baldness, wrinkles, stooped postures — first figured prominently in Roman portraiture in the 4th century BCE, but old age...
After Eight Centuries, The World’s Oldest Surviving Pipe Organ Is Played Once Again
The organ was brought to Bethlehem sometime after the Crusaders’ conquest in 1099, and it was buried for safekeeping shortly before Saladin’s army reconquered...
Can AI Help With Promoting Literacy? (Or Hurt…)
Across the US, parents, educators, and community groups are trying AI-powered tutors that listen as children read, correct mistakes in real time and adapt...
Citizen Historians Are Documenting The Smithsonian Before It Changes
"We came up with this idea to call for volunteers to go out and, in a systematic way, go exhibit by exhibit, room by...
Big Shift: Human Evolution Through Culture Rather Than Genes
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes,...
Why Authoritarians Really Hate Satirists
“Satirists pose a danger to the likes of Putin and Donald Trump because they expose that their claims to greatness are illusions and validate...
Bad Architecture Has Made Downtown Brooklyn “The Olive Garden of New York Real Estate”
Justin Davidson: “Two decades ago, Downtown Brooklyn was well connected but underpopulated. ... It’s hard to believe how thoroughly and quickly the skyline has...
Preserving Digital Artworks From Deterioration And Obsolescence
“What if … you knew this object was doomed to stutter, glitch, or rot, turning from new to old in a matter of years?...
The Hilary Mantel Prize For Fiction, A New Award For First-Time Authors
“A panel of five judges … will assess 15,000 words of a novel in progress, and both winner and runner-up will receive not only money, but...
ABC’s Decision To Put Jimmy Kimmel Back On Air Totally Wasn’t Due To Public...
“Two Disney insiders insist the company's decision, announced Monday afternoon, to bring Kimmel back wasn't influenced by growing Disney+ boycotts, the FCC, affiliates or the open...
