Spotify Bans #1 Song In Sweden After Discovering It Was AI
Called I know, You're Not Mine - Jag vet, du är inte min - it is currently top of the Spotify playlist of Sweden's...
Ghosts In The Machine: How Some Artists Are Playing With AI
Artists have always excelled at coaxing mysteries out of their materials, whether pushing paint, film, or code until it reveals something unexpected. AI is...
How Boulder’s Only Studio For Young Competition Dancers Collapsed
Last month, Kinesis Dance, rebranded earlier that year as Frequency Dance, abruptly shut down. Preceding that closure was a long series of financial irregularities,...
Chinese Universities Make Big Gains On American Schools In International Rankings
Harvard recently dropped to No. 3 on the ranking. The schools racing up the list are not Harvard’s American peers, but Chinese universities that...
First Look At The New Beijing Art Museum
Designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD), the project broke ground on 31 December above a metro line in Beijing's Tongzhou district. - Dezeen
Enrollment At Universities Is Growing Again
Across undergraduate and graduate programs, total enrollment reached 19.4 million students, growing 1.0% compared with the fall of 2024, according to the National Student...
Scottish Government Accused Of “Eroding” Nation’s Culture Due To Standstill Funding
“Arts industry leaders have accused the Scottish Government of ‘eroding’ the culture sector after leaving its national performing companies” — Royal Scottish National Orchestra,...
The Real Revolution Of AI Is The Return Of Human Meaning
The real revolution isn’t AI itself but the space it exposes: a world where meaning, not management, becomes the organizing principle. - Big Think
Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself To Fend Off AI
It is the first time an actor has attempted to use trademark law to protect their likeness from AI misuse, his lawyers and an...
Spotify Is Being Flooded With AI Music. Subscribers Are Pushing Back
Paying Spotify subscribers have been flagging the platform’s push of AI music for a while, but now they’re drawing a line, with many calling...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Editorial Changes At Military Newspaper Stars And Stripes
“The Pentagon said Thursday that it is changing the independent military newspaper … so it concentrates on ‘reporting for our warfighters’ and no longer...
We Have Quite Enough Visitors, Thank You, Says Director Of Madrid’s Prado
“The Prado does not need a single visitor more. We are comfortable with 3.5 million,” (Miguel Falomir) said. ... “A museum can collapse due to...
How Salman Rushdie Survived The Knife Attack That Cost Him His Eye
“How does one spend 20 years training themselves not to be afraid, only to be reminded that they should have been scared all along?...
UK Theatre Company Forced To Cancel New York Festival Run Because Visas Were “Paused”
The touring troupe Quarantine was to perform its midday-to-midnight piece 12 Last Songs this weekend as part of the Under the Radar festival of...
Making Opera From The Most Bizarre Of New York’s Avant-Garde Playwrights
Composer Michael Gordon on the late Richard Foreman’s script for What to Wear: “It’s a piece with four Madeline Xs. They’re trying to find...
This Red-State Public Radio/TV Network Says It’s Getting Along Fine Despite Loss Of Federal...
South Carolina ETV/South Carolina Public Radio lost $3.2 million — 10% of total revenue — in annual funding when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s...
Breakthrough In Case Of Stolen Louvre Jewels
“Investigators say they have traced the thieves to an underground parking garage where they temporarily stashed the imperial jewels. The surveillance footage of the...
Turning A Video Game Into Immersive Theater
That’s what Punchdrunk, the éminence grise of immersive companies, is doing at its southeast London headquarters. Lander 23 is an IRL multiplayer game in...
Trump Eyes a Site For His National Garden of American Heroes
It was not clear which section of the park the White House is considering, but the southern tip of West Potomac Park — a...
Jane-Ites On The Dance Floor: Austen And “Bridgerton” Fans Are Reviving Regency-Style Balls
With period dress and steps learned from contemporary manuals (which include notation of the steps), historical dance societies in Britain gather in ballrooms to...
Will Google Ever Have To Pay For Breaking Things?
Big Tech platforms didn’t just out-compete media organizations for the bulk of the advertising-revenue pie. They also cheated them out of much of what...
What Did Picasso’s Women Say About Him?
What did Picasso’s women have to say on passion and fame? Two left memoirs, others gave interviews, but their eyewitness testimony has been sadly...
Is Personalization Making Prices Higher?
The Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project warns automated tools are reshaping what Canadians are charged for essential goods and services, including groceries and fuel. Companies can...
How Bennett Cerf Got Truman Capote To Start — And Then Finish — “In...
“When people met Capote, Bennett admitted, they often were inclined ‘to laugh,’ but ‘don’t let that first impression fool you.’ Nonetheless, even armed with...
Bob Ross To The Rescue: More Paintings Sold To Benefit Public Television
On the heels of a record-breaking sale in November—which (briefly) set a new auction record for Bob Ross—American Public Television (APT) is sending another group of...
