No More “Free-Speech Barbie”: Salman Rushdie Is Tired Of Being A Symbol
“It’s a subject I’m anxious to change. I don’t feel symbolic. I feel actual. I feel like I’m a working writer trying to make...
How Do We Calibrate The Use Of AI In Education?
So what does “getting learning right” look like in the age of generative AI? It involves a lot of experimentation and leaning in with...
AI Is Showing Where The Gaps In Education Are
With AI, students can generate code that looks polished and sophisticated in seconds. But the ability to produce a solution has become decoupled from...
This Orchestra Has Stopped Doing Something That Audience Members Just Hate
“Sydney Symphony Orchestra has removed the $8.95 (Aus) booking fee on all tickets to its performances purchased from it directly, arguing the impost disproportionately...
The Case Against Streaming
It is not simply that Netflix and co are killing cinema – although, yes, that is a thing that is objectively bad. It is that...
How The Land Art Movement Changed Our Perspective
The closest thing land art has to an origin story is a dusty road trip three of its early protagonists, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt...
Study: Use Of AI Leads To Greater Creativity In Humans
When people were shown AI-generated design suggestions, they spent more time on the task, produced better designs and felt more involved. It was not...
How Manhattan Is Trying To Design Itself Into Better Climate Resilience
Inspired by the vulnerabilities revealed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, ESCR features a series of protective features — walls, earthen berms and sliding doors...
Arkansas Public Television “Pauses” Its Plan To End PBS Affiliation
Following negative feedback from the public and a drop in donations to the state network, the Arkansas TV Commission voted 4-1 to hold off,...
A Bay Area Ballet Company And School Shut Down After 59 Years
“Peninsula Lively Arts and its subsidiary Peninsula Ballet Theatre are closing after six decades teaching and performing dance in San Mateo County, leaving a...
“War Of The Worlds” Named Worst Picture At 2026 Razzie Awards
The sci-fi film starring Ice Cube dominated the 46th Golden Raspberry Awards, also winning Worst Actor, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Prequel, Remake,...
BuzzFeed Reports “Substantial Doubt” That It Can Stay In Business
In an earnings report released last week, the company (which also owns the news site HuffPost and the food site Tasty) said that it...
Why Trump Dumped Ric Grenell From The Kennedy Center
“Trump still fully intends to remake the center in his image; he’d just like to limit the backlash. Whatever his talents, Grenell is not...
El Greco Painting Discovered After Overpainting Is Removed
“This weekend, the Vatican revealed a newly discovered painting by master Mannerist El Greco, long hidden underneath a forgery. This small work of oil on board, titled The...
Grammarly Apologized For Turning Live And Dead Writers And Teachers Into So-Called Experts
But what the CEO “failed to mention was that the company wasn’t just dealing with hundreds of furious writers — it was facing litigation...
Kennedy Center Board Votes To Close For Two Years
The full scope of the renovations is not entirely clear. But Mr. Trump has said that both structural and internal work was needed, noting...
How Did A Tiny Obscure Art School Get A $2M NEH Grant?
The grant was about as large as the school’s annual budget. And like many of the agency’s other recent multimillion-dollar awards, it went to a...
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...
