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A piece of the Kennedy Center’s ceiling came down Friday, and the Center’s spokesperson called it fresh proof of the need to close for the renovation its chairman champions (AP).
In Los Angeles, the Lucas Museum opens this month on a bet that comics, illustration and film belong on the same walls as the canon — and that the public, not the field, gets to say so (Los Angeles Times). Venice, by contrast, has two films by women this year; one of their directors says the cult of male genius is exactly why (The Guardian).
Stanford’s AI institute makes a hopeful case: art and AI can hold each other accountable — artists exposing what the systems can’t see, the systems handing art a participatory medium (Stanford). The less hopeful version of accountability is in court, where the Trump administration argues a New York Times win over OpenAI would threaten national security — a position publishers’ lawyers call an uncompensated transfer of IP from newsrooms to tech companies (NiemanLab). British design leaders, meanwhile, tell nervous staff AI is just “the intern in the office” (The Guardian), the same weekend Bill Gates went to Telluride to say the opposite (Los Angeles Times). Nobody litigates over an intern.
And a site that lets you spin a globe and listen to anywhere on it (The Verge). The world, unedited.
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