Thanks To Our Phones, We Deeply Lack Boredom
And for the sake of our brains, that’s a real problem. - The Guardian (UK)
Netflix Took Its Number One Show From Mocked To Celebrated
How? Well - murder. And our timeline. “Georgia Miller—scammer, charmer, killer—is an American icon for our times, and she deserves public office as much...
Disney And Universal’s Battle With Midjourney May Reshape Copyright
“The only thing that can stop AI companies doing what they’re doing is the law. ... If these lawsuits are successful, that is what...
Pussy Riot Founder’s Performance Art ‘Police State’ In LA Got Shut Down By The...
"Tolokonnikova, 35, whose political art has left her as a wanted criminal in Russia, chose to continue her performance inside the empty museum.” Normal...
Nerding Out With The Unwieldy Emmy Ballot PDF
What’s up with guest actors on White Lotus and The Pitt? Will Kathryn Hahn get nominated in Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress? Could...
Golden Toilet Thieves Sentenced To Prison
“'This was an extraordinary case in many respects,’ Shan Saunders, a solicitor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said in a statement. ‘It is not every...
Booker Shortlist Nominee Wins Women’s Prize For Fiction
The Safekeep, a novel by Yael van der Wouden about a family in the 1960s Netherlands whose house is filled with secrets, wins the...
Remaking Biography, Again
“Biography alters as we do, as our conceptions of motive evolve, as theories of personality float into fashion or fade away. It offers a...
Streamer MUBI Responds To Anger Over Investor With Ties To Israeli Defense Startup
Widely shared social media posts have called for a MUBI boycott. The response: "The beliefs of individual investors do not reflect the views of...
Dear Literary Writer, Sure, You Might Be The You Know What
Or not! “You’re not doing anyone a disservice by declining to share your art.” - LitHub
Podcasts Drive Massive Books Sales For Conservative Authors
Especially audiobook sales, it turns out. Authors of other political backgrounds are taking note. - The New York Times
In April, Two Visitors Sat On, And Broke, A Priceless Chair In A Venice...
Now, the Palazzo Maffei is asking people to “respect art.” Somehow, the couple - caught on camera - have not yet been identified. -...
Where The Last Decade Of Andy Goldsworthy’s Life Has Gone
He’s been doing physically demanding, “totally grim work” on nine farmhouses, restored and turned into art, across six miles in a valley in Yorkshire....
As Live-Action Remakes Tank, Why Does Universal Think It Can Do Better?
"Universal, whose parent company acquired DreamWorks Animation in 2016, was adamant that the new cater not only to young viewers but also to...
Nan Goldin Is Selling Prints To Support Trans People In A Very Scary America
Why just take on the Sacklers when you can take on the entire trans panic apparatus? "Hundreds of anti-trans bills are threatening trans people’s...
National Portrait Museum Director That Trump Fired Decides To Leave Anyway
“This was not an easy decision, but I believe it is the right one. From the very beginning, my guiding principle has been to...
The Gentileschi That Survived The Beirut Explosion
Having passed only between three private collections over four centuries, the “Artemisia’s Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece” exhibition marks the first time the painting...
Canada’s Currently Reigning Major Prairie Poet
As these credentials suggest, there is a widespread view, if not a consensus, that she is one of the major poets writing in English...
In Defense Of The Dream Ballet, The Most Mocked Ingredient Of Stage Musicals
Going right back to the original, Agnes DeMille’s “Laurey Makes Up Her Mind” in Oklahoma!, the power of the dream ballet lies in ‘being...
Sydney Theatre Company Scores Windfall Off Hit
Sydney Theatre Company has recorded a $10m boost to revenue after its Dorian Gray production became a West End hit, and is poised to reap millions...
What 18 Years In The Met Opera Costume Shops Looks Like
After 18 years, Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, 64, a fast-talking native New Yorker, is retiring this month from the Met. She has garnered a reputation as a calm...
How AI Is Remaking Google And The Internet
We've all noticed the changes in Google's approach to search, and most would agree that they have made finding reliable and accurate information harder....
Why World’s Fairs Are Still Worth Having, Even If They’re Not Cool Anymore
Historian Charles Pappas argues that, from the first World Expositions in Paris and Chicago in the 19th century through the groundbreaking 1939 World’s Fair...
Are Bay Area Arts Organizations Sustainable? Some Data…
This report surfaces urgent questions about how to support long-term sustainability in the arts—particularly for the organizations that operate closest to community needs. With...
What Marshall McLuhan Teaches Us About Creative Inquiry
McLuhan foresaw that computing would enable new forms of pattern recognition, requiring fundamentally different ways of thinking — more integrative, relational and responsive —...
