Why This French Town Trademarked Cezanne
Aix’s tourist office has taken the liberty of trademarking his full name and the phrase “Cézanne chez lui,” meaning “Cézanne at home.” - Artnet
What We’re Learning About Creativity From AI
hysical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect....
US Print Book Sales Fell Slightly In First Half Of 2025
“More softness in adult nonfiction in the second quarter and slowing sales in adult fiction combined to drop unit sales of print books just...
Trump White House Objects To Display At Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
“The White House has raised concerns about ‘Entertainment Nation,’ a permanent display on view since 2022 that sheds light on the entertainment industry’s impact...
Richard Greenberg, Tony-Winning Playwright of “Take Me Out,” Has Died At 67
“(He) was one of America’s most established dramatists, responsible for about 30 plays staged on or off Broadway since the mid-1980s. His work was...
Disgraced Producer Scott Rudin’s Return To Broadway Is Set
Four years after he “stepped back” from “active participation” in theater following media articles detailing his long history of abusing his staff, Rudin is...
Edinburgh Festivals Struggle To Attract Corporate Sponsors After Baillie Gifford Boycotts
Following last year’s boycott campaign which led to authors withdrawing from the Edinburgh Book Festival due to sponsorship by asset management firm Baillie Gifford,...
Another College In Debt Is Selling Off Its Art Collection
“James Gaddy, the vice president of administration at Albright (College in Reading, PA, said) ‘we needed to stop bleeding.’ He confirmed that over the...
Jim Shooter, Dead At 73, Editor Who Saved Marvel Comics (And Arguably The Entire...
“A hard-driving giant …, (he) took the helm at Marvel at the tender age of 27, then spent nearly a decade revolutionizing the way...
What If Getting Better Is a Con?
Technique aims to bring efficiency to everything in life. Anytime we use machine logic and apply it to humanity, we are in the realm...
Trump Has Outsourced America’s 250th Birthday History To Hillsdale College
On the “America 250” website created by the White House, the account of the nation’s founding is outsourced to Hillsdale College, a far-right institution...
What If Efficiency Doesn’t Make Us Better?
The problem with the technologies of 2025 — household, work or personal — is that we don’t have control over whether we use them,...
Why A Labor Movement For Musicians Is So Difficult
If the industrial, mechanical-reproduction era was a historical anomaly for musicians—as the “recording artist” emerged as a new way of making a living—perhaps so,...
The Radical 1960s Language Experiment That Left Students Unable To Spell
The Initial Teaching Alphabet was a radical, little-known educational experiment trialled in British schools (and in other English-speaking countries) during the 1960s and 70s....
Inside The CIA’s Art Collection
What these paintings represent about the CIA’s relationship to the art world, though, is more complicated. On these walls, the intersection between US art and...
Why Is Hollywood Stuck On Rerun?
Hollywood, it appears, is stuck on repeat, sucked with an ever-more deafening gurgle into a death cycle of creative bankruptcy desperately presented as comfort...
Tate Modern Is 25 Years Old. It’s Just Launched An Ambitious Endowment Campaign. Good...
The gallery’s reserves have dropped sharply – from £22.6m in 2022–23 to £10.9m at the end of 2024. Government support is also in decline:...
Can Ken Burns Tell A Definitive Version Of American History?
Since his 1990 series “The Civil War” drew record viewership to PBS and crossed over into pop culture, Burns has proven time and again...
Can Japan Build A National Fandom Around Home-Grown Ballet?
Fans are actually pretty dialed in, but to international touring companies. "The country has struggled to build world-class companies and hold on to the...
Don’t Expect A Michael Douglas Comeback
“I’d been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on...
No Translation? No Problem
Are you happy to watch Cormac McCarthy’s characters speak both English and Spanish, since they live on the border, or do you seek out...
Google’s AI Summaries Of Recipes Are Going Away
Food writers were losing revenue at a terrible clip - but also, were the summaries any good? - Nieman Lab
Stravinsky’s Arrangement Of The Star-Spangled Banner Alarmed The Boston Police
They “issued Stravinsky a warning, claiming there was a law against tampering with the national anthem. (They were misreading the statute.) Grudgingly, Stravinsky pulled...
What Human Audiobook Narrators Think About The Rise Of AI
They’re not fans. One: “'I’ve narrated really raunchy sex scenes – AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like,’ she says. ‘Birth scenes as...
What The Paramount Capitulation Means For Freedom Of The Press
“What’s clear, in any case, is that big corporations undoubtedly threaten journalistic independence.”- Salon
