Art and Culture

When a Pulitzer prize-winning play about a feminist activist opened in New York, audiences had to do something unusual.They were asked to put their phones away – not in their pockets, but in specially designed pouches, which they could…
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The inaugural Enhanced Games took place to much fanfare in Las Vegas on May 24 2026. An event that has attracted much controversy, the games are designed to showcase the prowess of high-profile athletes who openly take legal…
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace.AI company OpenAI and biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks…
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Lucinda ChildsMomentary RepriseFisher Center at BardJune 26–28, 2026Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Lucinda Childs Limitless Time Watermill CenterJuly 24–25, 2026 Water Mill, NY Even though choreographer Lucinda Childs has been working steadily…
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As July 4, 2026, approaches, Americans will be paying more attention than usual to events of 1776: the year the American Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. Public historians, including filmmaker Ken Burns, have…
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Summer movie season is normally a battle of Hollywood heavyweights — but this year, two of the hottest tickets at the box office come from filmmakers who've never had movies in theatres before.Kane Parsons, 20, and Curry Barker, 26, the…
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One of the problems with AI use seeping out of business and science writing and into the ‘literary’ world is that literary editors may be the worst equipped to identify AI writing.  – London Review of Books Source link
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Ever since physicist Alan Sokal published a hoax paper in the journal Social Text in 1996 to skewer the “fashionable sectors of the American academic left,” a…
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Our survey found that 79% of Americans believe that cities investing in colleges dedicated to the creative industry will be more successful economically in the future than those that do not. – Fast Company Source link
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Veteran actor James Handy has died at his home in Los Angeles after a stabbing, allegedly by his girlfriend’s son.The 81-year-old actor was found in the front yard of his home in Tarzana, California, at 9.30am on Wednesday, according to…
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