Artists Believe Copyright Benefits Them. But Corporations Are The Biggest Beneficiaries
The extension of copyright has been described as essentially stealing cultural works from the public. - The Conversation
Saudi Arabia Plays With Building A Dystopian City
It is a city that might have been conceived by WeWork’s founder Adam Neumann in consultation with FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried, with the benefit...
The Rise (Again) Of Barnes & Noble
The chain, long in contraction, is expanding for the first time in a decade. It plans to open 30 new stores this year. It is increasingly...
Creativity In The Age Of “Synthetic Media”
Synthetic Media is produced by human creators who use computers and purpose-built software (including AI) to realize their production goals. Generative Synthetic Media is...
How Technology Makes Us More Human
What defines humanity is not just our unusual level of intelligence, but also how we capitalize on that intelligence... If we merely lived up...
New Photos Show Damage To Dallas Museum Of Art From June Break-In
A vandal had more than 15 minutes to smash vitrines and priceless art before security realized something was wrong - and the photos show...
How Did A Scooby-Doo HBO Show Become The Target Of Internet Ire?
"Despite the vitriol, people are watching the show; according to HBO Max, Velma was its biggest animated series premiere ever. Problem is, they’re watching it through...
France’s National Opera Of The Rhine Cancels Productions
The reasons stem from energy costs - and cuts in subsidies. "Strasbourg hosts the choir, the design workshops for sets and costumes and the...
The Heirs Of A Man Who Sold A Picasso To Flee The Nazis Would...
And they're suing the Guggenheim Foundation to get the painting, Woman Ironing, back. - The New York Times
The Race To Rescue Music Lost After The Holocaust
While recording music by Kurt Weill, musical historian Michael Haas "began to discover an entire hidden world of composers who either died during the...
The Eerie Experience Of Visiting Peru’s Terrorism Museum As A Constitutional Crisis Unfolds
Part of the problem lies in the rhetoric of "terrorism" - something that Lima's political elite seems to use whenever any other part of...
Director Alice Diop’s Film Was Overlooked For The Oscars, But She’s Moving On
A documentary filmmaker for years, she feels ambivalent about the attention her film Saint-Omer has already had - she's the first Black woman to...
The Design Transformation Of Playgrounds
"Urban planners, architects and designers around the world are looking to make cities spongier—using nature-based solutions to better absorb water," and that's where playgrounds come...
Actor Annie Wersching Of 24, Runaways And This Is Us Has Died At 45
The actor was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, but kept it quiet. "She wanted to get better so she could continue working. And honestly,...
Marie Kondo Never Told People To Give Everything Up
But when the author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up revealed that with kids, she's let go of trying to be so tidy,...
With ‘Hollywood Shuffle,’ Robert Townsend Transformed The Business, And Himself
As Hollywood Shuffle joins the Criterion Collection (making him one of the very rare Black directors on the list), Townsend is also coming off...
The Case Of The Vermont Law School’s Covered Murals Goes To Federal Court
"sdf"The Vermont Law and Graduate School wants to take down a mural that some consider outdated and racist. But a law protecting artistic expression...
A Director Who Hates The Phrase Boys Will Be Boys
Oscar-nominated director Lukas Dhont of Close says, "I believe we can learn many things from listening to 13-year-olds, because they are still so closely...
How Jane Austen Wins Over New Fans In 2023
She's on TikTok, of course - or at least, her new fans are, and they're heading to Bath in droves. One academic even suggests...
Microsoft Asks Federal Court To Toss The Lawsuit Over AI
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI claimed the anonymous plaintiffs didn't have standing, and that "GitHub's Copilot system, which suggests lines of code for programmers, made...
Alan Cumming Hands Back His OBE
The actor, who received the honor in 2009, has had it with "the toxicity of empire." - BBC
Wait ‘Til The Construction Dust Settles To Believe This One
The proposed architectural overhaul for London's Liverpool Street Station has some issues. "The new work was represented as a white substance impervious to weather...
Coaching Balanchine And Robbins In New York
Kyra Nichols returns to help City Ballet figure some things out: "How can a dancer replace force with something more free? How can she...
Let’s Talk About The Alec Baldwin Charges
Will the actor really face jail time? Should he? Thing is, "it is in the common understanding that guns are dangerous and are in...
How Bad Is Ticketmaster?
Even when it doesn't break under hordes of Taylor Swift fans, it's intensely, ridiculously, unbelievably bad. "In the best-case scenario, customers would feed money...
