History Of Triumphant Arches: An Empire In Decline
Some of the most famous iterations in ancient Rome and Napoleonic France warn us of the tendency of republics to devolve into autocratic empires. -...
Think You Can Tell If That Song You Like Was Made By AI?
The Afro-soul cover highlights a growing challenge — the difficulty identifying when generative AI has been used in production — and how audiences, platforms...
The Prestige Novel Is Dead
Although the literary novel remains the touchstone for what “elite” cultural status might mean, its former midcentury monopoly on prestige, Brier claims, has been...
How Math And Literature Are Closely Related
Literature and mathematics have these strong connections because mathematics is all about structure and pattern. It's the language we use to describe those things. -...
Study: Autocomplete Changes How People Write
Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI. - Scientific American
That Wallpaper Music That Surrounds Us
Sync, it’s called. Once it was known as library music; sometimes it’s called production music. It’s not really a genre. It’s a category, defined...
How Barnes & Noble Became Popular Again
Barnes & Noble is experiencing a revival. It opened 60 new stores last year and plans to do the same this year. It is reportedly soliciting banks to...
Trump Now Wants To Replace Columns On The Front Of The White House With...
The Trump-appointed head of a federal arts commission is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by President Donald Trump. Those...
Recommendations For Deeply Depressing Irish Books To Read On St. Paddy’s Day
“These days the air has a keen edge. A desperate edge. What forms can the imagination take when power seems nonsensical and cruelty deliberate?...
This Tiny Art School In Queens Just Got Two Million Dollars From Trump’s NEH
The school's founder and artistic director says the grant “represents a chance to further what he calls his lifetime mission to inspire a return...
In A Really Tough Market, Some Indie Publishers Are Finding Ways To Survive
Jane Austen card decks (themed by book), collaborations with London publishers, old imprints reabsorbed or renamed, and audio - some indie publishers are finding...
What’s Going On With Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Wolfgang Dorner, And The Vienna Phil?
“We’re left to wonder why a noted Price advocate, one of the world’s greatest orchestras, and a respected composer thought it was a good...
When A ‘Sold Out’ Performance Space Means Nothing More Than Marketing
Where are the bodies? - El País English
What Happens When A Tiny Library In A Tiny Coastal Town Gets A Windfall
A donor “gave $150,000 to the library in honor of her late husband, ... who had been a math professor,” with one catch: the...
For The First Time In Oscars History, A Woman Wins For Cinematography
“The filmmaker, who also worked with Coogler on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, also asked that all the women in the theater stand up during...
On Set When No One’s Performing
“The fact that stills photographers often find themselves shooting very famous subjects at what might be sensitive, stressful moments on set is only one...
Javier Bardem, Announcing The Best International Oscar, Gets Political
Bardem “started his time at the poduium by saying ‘No to war and free Palestine,’ which earned a big round of applause from the...
Cultural Awakenings Can Even Come From 1960s Folk Band Revivals
“I grew up feeling perpetually ‘in-between:’ half-white, half-black; half-British, half-Caribbean, and on the faultline between what sometimes felt like two worlds at war. One...
Jurgen Habermas, Influential Philosopher Of The 20th Century, Has Died At 96
Habermas "theorized that democracy emerged and could continue to exist in a healthy form only if there was a space that was outside the...
The Most Powerful Oscar Movie About The Arts That You Probably Didn’t See
“In 2023, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was up for best documentary feature, which — unlike some major categories at the Oscars —...
How A New York Times Critic Finally Fell For Michael B. Jordan’s Acting
“Fights about Jordan’s acting have lit up chat rooms and nearly destroyed barbershops. Is he good? We’re just. Not. Sure.” - The New York Times
Can Restaurant Culture Be Fixed?
“The stuff you see on TV is just sort of the tip of the iceberg of what goes on in a lot of these...
As Was Obvious As Soon As The Casting Director Win Happened, One Battle After...
That includes supporting actor, adapted screenplay, director, and the big one, best movie. Ryan Coogler won for best original screenplay, and Michael B. Jordan...
Live Updates From The Oscars
Follow at the L.A. Times, Variety, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Guardian. - Los Angeles Times
This Year’s Costume Design Nominees, From The Heart Of The Forest To 1950s Glam
For Kate Hawley, designer for Frankenstein, "her first directive from the filmmaker was color, color, color. ‘It was all part of rebelling against the...
