The Best Visual Art Of 2025
In large and small shows under-the-radar artists surfaced and were hot. At the same time, the arrival of a new political order firing off...
Librarians Are Struggling To Keep Up With Bad AI Queries
Around 15 percent of all the reference questions received by her staff are written by generative AI, some of which include imaginary citations and...
Artists Protest San Francisco Airport Museum’s Use Of AI Art
Nettrice Gaskins’ artwork sparked a passionate discussion about AI Thursday when a video of the exhibit posted to the Bay Area subreddit drew hundreds of comments...
AI Can Now Analyze Language Better Than Humans
“It’s only a matter of time before we are able to build models that generalize better from less data in a way that is...
We Don’t Need To Make The Humanities “Relevant”
The humanities, which value rigorous inquiry for its own sake, will always be at odds with a world that thinks this way; that’s why...
Christmas Music Has Become A License To Print Money
Spotify observes “the first big jump” in holiday-song streaming on Sept. 1, she noted. Activity ticks up again the next month; holiday playlist creation...
How Some Regional Theatres Are Surviving
One way is by, let’s say, not being intense with their audiences. “My first covenant is with the audience, and I care about what...
Tom Hanks Literally Wrote His Own Script This Time
“I embarked on this endeavor, partly fueled by a desire to bring to life onstage a sense of lives caught between the certainties of...
The Fight For Warner Bros Is Messing Up Some Longtime Hollywood Allies
"Disaster, catastrophe and nightmare. That's how Hollywood's creative workers describe the fall of the once mighty Warner Bros, as Netflix and Paramount battle to...
A Cyberattack Forces An Oregon Library System Offline For Days
No book drops, no events, no audio books, no catalog, no buildings open: That’s what a cyberattack did to the Deschutes County Library system...
Co-Starring With A Dog Is One Thing, But A Bird Of Prey?
“Everything on set revolved around the hawks’ well-being. Filming took place between October and January, to avoid molting season. Everyone in the crew wore...
Sinners Is About Black Creativity Changing Everything
“Ryan Coogler’s supersized supernatural blockbuster fused critical and commercial enthusiasm into a kind of mass obsessive fervor. It became, for a few weeks, the...
The Year-End Book List You’ve Been Waiting For
The 173 best book covers out there. Yes, 173. - LitHub
Is Filmmaking Actually Meeting The Political Moment?
Maybe? “This isn’t a bad batting average, with movies about everything from the melding of Silicon Valley and politics to authoritarianism, nationalism and racism....
What Was Dance Magazine Focusing On During The Sixties?
The magazine, called something else earlier, has been around since before the Great Depression. In the 1960s, though, "dance emerged as a potent form...
It’s A Wonderful Life Has A Lot Of Life Lessons
And hey, why not learn three keys to financial literacy from one of the most highly played Christmas movies in the world? (Actually! This...
Physical Media Is Becoming Cool Again
Whether it’s thanks to Gen-Z or thanks to a (terrifying) nonstop surveillance state intertwined with our televisions and speakers, CDs and DVDs are making...
Rob Reiner, Director Of When Harry Met Sally, Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap...
Reiner was “a writer, director, producer, actor and political activist whose career in Hollywood spanned more than six decades and included some of the most...
Rob Reiner, Actor Turned Director, And His Wife Michele Found Dead In Los Angeles
News broke late Sunday night that "the Los Angeles Police Department said it was investigating an ‘apparent homicide’ at the couple’s home in West...
What Would It Take To Make Concert Tickets Accessible Again?
It’s clear that what we need is two policy changes: "Capping or curbing resale, so that you can only pass a ticket on at...
How Letterboxd Took Over – And Improved – Amateur Movie Reviewing
“One of my friends has cultivated a list of 30 movies about ‘Fucked-Up British People,’ while I made ‘crash out cinema,’ a collection of...
Dick Van Dyke At 100 Is A Fully Wonderful Argument For Dancing Every Day...
“He has outlived mentors, co-stars, romantic partners and several studios. He’s even outlived the jokes about his performance in Mary Poppins. These days his mangled...
How YouTube Made A Snack Out Of Podcasts And Then Ate Television For Dessert
“Short-form video, autoplay feeds, and video podcasts are reshaping our attention, our politics, and even our sense of self—turning podcasts into background ‘wallpaper’ while...
The Royal Society Of Literature Names Elif Shafak Its New President
Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, has a popular appeal across the globe: She "is the author of 21 books, including 13...
How Alban Berg’s ‘Wozzeck’ Keeps On Shocking Its Audience, A Century On
“The music is thoroughly and smoothly integrated with the plot, representing opera in its purest ideal of form.” - The New York Times
