Art and Culture

This is your daily news rundown for Wednesday, July 8. In this edition:A famous Stephen King collection is banned in Utah schoolsThe Utah State Board of Education banned its 40th book — “Different…
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Naomi S. Baron, a linguist who studies technology and literacy, worries that AI is making books feel obsolete. Her concern is easy to understand. When a chatbot can reduce a book to ten points, students may decide that reading hundreds…
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Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, a traveling retrospective on view at Los Angeles’s The Broad museum, features black and white footage of Ono’s 1965 Carnegie Hall performance of Cut Piece projected on to one of its walls. It was a landmark…
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A revelatory new biography of the overlooked French Surrealist painter Jacqueline Lamba brings to light her long-rumored affair with Frida Kahlo—all thanks to a cache of newly discovered love…
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Davryn McDuffie didn’t know people could bet on reality TV until a Kalshi ad for “Love Island” trading came across her social media feed.Out of curiosity, the 21-year-old college student from Palos Verdes decided to place her first-ever…
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Loneliness is one of the great challenges not just of our time but of our whole form of self-government. A new report from Columbia World Projects sums up America’s civic “supply problem,” in a litany reminiscent of Robert Putnam’s…
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Donald Trump appeared on CNN for the first time in his second presidential term on Sunday, giving a phoner on Jake Tapper’s show to remember the late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. But as Tapper pressed the President on Iran…
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A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to help build its Gemini artificial intelligence models, in “one of the most prolific infringements of…
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Rudy Mendoza is ready for the show to start. He bounces up and down on the balls of his feet, grinning in front of the full house at the Kimball Arts Center. “¿Cómo estamos?” he roars, and the crowd roars back, listos beyond belief for…
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“’Bob was always saying he didn’t want Watermill to become an institution,’ said Charles Chemin, Watermill’s new artistic director. ‘He didn’t want to create a Bob Wilson school. But Watermill is filled with the vision of Bob Wilson,…
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