This Author Decided To Focus-Group The Novel, Or Rather, Two
The least wanted novel contains a mix of “such ostensibly despised elements as stream of consciousness, explicit sex scenes, an extraterrestrial setting, metafictional commentary...
The Perils Of Writing About Family, And Having Family Write About You
Esther Freud writes novels inspired by her life; now her sister is writing memoir on Instagram. "How strange, over this last year, to read my...
Life In A Contemporary Touring Circus
“It has traditional skills and tricks and excitement, but instead of being a traditional succession of acts it’s a completely theatrical experience: a rollercoaster...
A Dispatch From Los Angeles On First Impressions Of The New LACMA
Critic Christopher Knight does not, let’s say, find it great: “Grieg’s ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ meets Beckett’s theater of the absurd.”...
Oh, This Seems Fine: Meta Wants Access To All Of Our Photos For Its...
And we do mean all of our photos - everything on the camera roll. “Meta’s public stance is that the feature is 'very early,’...
The Backlash Against Generated AI Is Gaining Steam
Why? "Unlike the dawn of the internet where democratized access to information empowered everyday people in unique, surprising ways, the generative AI era has...
The Crew Of Rust Settle Their Civil Lawsuit With The Movie’s Producers
The three crew members "accused the film’s producers of negligence and failing to follow industry safety rules, allegations that the producers denied.” - The...
AI Slop Is Increasing To Such An Extent That The Open Web May Die
And be replaced with … people and print? "Indie local news publishers I know, already frustrated by the junkiness of digital distribution, are increasingly...
Making the Creative Turn: Is Using AI Cheating?
Throughout the digital age, Big Tech has promised us products that will make us more efficient and save time, which, it is assumed, is always an obvious good. It’s a cliché that tools shape the things we make. And through most of our history, better tools have helped us create better things. But what if this isn’t always true?
Don’t Try To Make Henry Golding The Next James Bond
“That’s every actor’s kind of nightmare. … Why can’t they bring out more agents or more OO’s? I think that would be so much...
No, See, Apple Can Make a Hit Movie
All you need are fast cars and Brad Pitt: “The well-reviewed sports movie led the weekend box office derby in North America, giving Apple a much-needed...
The Long Fight To Replace Racist Monuments In The United States
“After nearly half a decade, Vinnie Bagwell, a self-taught sculptor-artist, is still waiting for the million dollars that the New York City department of...
The Woman Helming The Color Purple In Chicago
"It’s organized chaos at rehearsal for The Color Purple on a recent afternoon at the Goodman Theatre downtown,” but “director Lili-Anne Brown looks on with expert calm.”...
The Bookbinding Family Of Paris
“The women who run the Atelier Devauchelle in Paris sew and create new bindings. They restore old bindings and torn pages. They create slipcovers...
The Artist Who Got Catfished By A Fake Lady Gaga
“Needless to say, this was not a situation Webster expected to encounter as an up and coming artist.” - The New York Times
How A Music Librarian Convinced Sondheim To Leave His Smoke-Singed Papers To The Nation
A personalized tour of the Library of Congress “included original manuscripts from composers Béla Bartók, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky and Johannes Brahms. … But...
Authors Ask Big Five Publishers To Promise Never To Use AI
The letter “asks them to refrain from publishing books written using AI tools built on copyrighted content without authors' consent or compensation, to refrain...
Does Our Continual Phone Use Prevent Us From Fully Living?
With each recording, “we’re atrophying our memory a little and trusting that it will work autonomously. But it’s like an engine: if we give...
States Spend Millions To Attract Hollywood
For instance, take New York: “Amid growing competition from nearby states like New Jersey, New York has spent more than $5.5 billion since 2017 to woo...
There’s No One In Charge At The US Copyright Office
Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, of course - and no one knows when that might improve. - Wired
The Tiny Chef Got Cancelled, And Then The Creators Responded On YouTube
One person who watched the heartbroken response video: “This is why animation is so important too. AI slop won’t make you feel emotions like...
Spielberg Says He’ll Never Retire
What’s up with movie directors? Well: “Making a film is a battle. ... The process is such a slog that, when a film-maker dies,...
New Yorkers Explain Why They Went To See The New York Phil In Queens
A Dudamel test, and also, well, New York has awesome music in the parks in the summer, basically. - The New York Times
Portland, In A Budget Crunch, Manages To Find Some Money For Hard-Hit Arts Groups
“Arts and cultural organizations in Portland face a double whammy: in addition to cuts in the city’s budget, the proposed elimination of the NEA,...
Diana Oh, Passionate Advocate For Queer Theatre, Has Died At 38
Oh was "a glitter-dusted experimental artist-activist whose theater works intertwined political provocation with profound compassion in rituals of communion with audiences,” beloved by theatre...
