Actress Valerie Perrine Dead At 82
“(Her) memorable film roles included a porn actress abducted by aliens in Slaughterhouse-Five, Lex Luthor’s secretary in two Superman films and an Oscar-nominated performance as the wife...
Alex Ross: Saying Goodbye To The Kennedy Center
Tempting as it is to blame Trump for the Kennedy Center’s fate, he does not bear sole responsibility. The idea of a national arts...
Journalists Sue Kari Lake Over VOA Propaganda
"The Voice of America has been breaching the Constitutional and statutory rules that require that outlet not to push propaganda or censorship," one of...
Preservation Groups File Lawsuit Against Closing Of The Kennedy Center
The lawsuit seeks to have the White House and the Kennedy Center board comply with existing historic preservation laws and secure Congress' approval before...
Liberal Arts
(Kudos to the art director who chose that American flag done with handprints – it’s perfect). I enjoyed reading Becca Rothfield’s “Listless Liberalism” in The Point, in which she reviews Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance, and Cass Sunstein’s Liberalism, and also asks the question of why the aesthetics of a liberal society, barely addressed
Should We Care Whether A Book Is Soft- Or Hard-Cover?
Recently Barnes & Noble has tried to convince more publishers to publish paperback originals, particularly for YA and middle grade books. But choosing a format...
Is Using AI Really Just Plagiarism?
A chatbot is not (or not yet) an individual, and therefore bears no moral responsibility, but to lay hold of what it delivers, and...
New Book: Inside Stephen Sondheim
Along with his happy student-teacher alliance with Hammerstein, the defining association of Sondheim’s life was his tortured relationship with the mother he described as...
Kennicott: Trump is Wreaking Havoc On DC Architecture
These proposals, the rush to realize them, the stacking of key oversight groups with Trump loyalists and flunkies and the collaboration of firms like...
This Year’s Whitney Biennial: No Challenges
I got the sense that the Whitney Biennial is hiding from the world today instead of reflecting on it. - Hyperallergic
A Bastardized Classical Architecture For America’s 250th
One of the White House’s most compelling features has always been its domestic scale and ornamentation. In a city where architectural bombast has often...
How Paris Has Been Reborn (For The Better)
Visitors will discover that it’s a dramatically different place than a decade ago: lines of bikes and throngs of pedestrians where lanes were once...
What Are The Differences Between Humans Using ‘Artificial Language’ And AI Using It?
“Human English contains persistent, if subtle, linguistic patterns of variation and readability. By contrast, AI uses what I call exam English – a rather...
Inside The New New Museum
“The seven story addition introduces three levels of gallery space that plug directly into existing floors. Not only does this create much needed airflow,...
Change Your Life: Start A Music Group
Yes, even if you’re not great at it (yet). "Make it up as you go along. If nobody else wants to sing, you sing....
When A Sports Venue Demands Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Governments, We Need...
“The Moda Center has always been a candidate for upgraded design. Which is to say nothing of the 30-acre Rose Quarter property the arena...
The Guys Who Got Fired From The Han Solo Movie Took Some Lessons Into...
For one thing, they met some of the Hail Mary crew on Solo. "We met Neal Scanlan and the creature shop team that we...
Trump Has Columbus Status Installed On The White House Grounds
It’s “is a replica of one that protesters in Baltimore tore down and dumped into the city’s Inner Harbor in the summer of 2020....
What Can A Movie Teach Us About Resisting AI With Performance?
“Plato decried the falsity of imitation of real life—called ‘mimesis’—specifically in the arts. ... What makes you ‘you’ or the world the ‘world’ if...
Israel May Be Considering Banning Artist Rama Duwaji, First Lady Of New York
“The ministry reportedly took issue with Duwaji’s animation Eyes on Jenin (2025), a work that linked police brutality against pro-Palestinian protesters to Israel’s genocide...
A New Way To Consume What’s Euphemistically Known As ‘Kissing’ Books
"Quinn finds the guys (mostly guys) in television shows whose characters people fantasize about. It pays those guys to read original scripts that have...
The Artist Who Dropped Out Of Art School Three Credits Shy In Order To...
“Music wasn't something that was going to be a long-term thing. ‘I remember distinctly begging my mom for X amount of dollars to buy...
A Tennessee Library Director Refuses To Move LGBTQ Books, Citing The First Amendment
"The Rutherford County Library Board voted ... to relocate more than 190 books, many involving LGBTQ+ themes, from children’s and teen sections to adult...
If You’ve Based Your Career On Confessional Books, Don’t You Expect Audience Reaction To...
In which Slate unpacks the internet’s reaction to Lindy West’s new book, and Lindy's - and her partners’ - reactions to the reactions. “I’m...
A Jury Says Elon Musk Drove Down Twitter’s Price And Defrauded Investors With Misleading...
One of those statements was Musk “tweeting a poop emoji when then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal commented there was no way for external parties to...
