Art and Culture

Amari Lewis, Jo Pellow, Lilly Gerend, and Avery Moss in John Proctor Is the Villain (Don Ipock) Following its Broadway run last year, Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is the Villain has now expanded to regional companies across…
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We probably already have the definitive film about an artist for this decade, in Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day. The idiosyncratic biopic makes the right choices, giving us in a sliver of time the dailiness of a working life with…
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By now, anyone at all online knows it’s Billy Evans – but who is he? – The New York Times Source link
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It is always fun to join in a craze, like a Victorian going mad for penny farthings. Which is probably why, against my better judgment, I went to see Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster The Odyssey this summer, buying my ticket into the…
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Imagine an artificial intelligence system that has performed reliably for months. Its recommendations are almost always right, and the employee reviewing them has learned that close scrutiny rarely changes the outcome. Then…
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This past May, an AI-modified image of the Geisel Library in San Diego led to a humorous architectural meme. Shared on X, it showed the exposed concrete walls of William Pereira’s imposing building (usually categorized as “Brutalist”)…
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Netflix publicly reported box office results for the first time in its history this weekend as it released its queer drama “La Bola Negra” in U.S. theaters.The Spanish-language film opened in limited release — just four theaters in Los…
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These days, it’s easy to succumb to hopelessness. Whether you’re thinking about the climate crisis, the prospect of AI apocalypse, war or political turmoil, the list of challenges facing humanity can seem insurmountable.It certainly…
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The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have filed a lawsuit against a San Diego-based ticket resale firm, alleging that the company and several of its executives violated federal laws to resell tickets for more than…
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It was two in the morning. The air in my apartment was thick with the grease-slick stench rising from the dueling dollar pizza stores beneath my window, a miasma punctured by the thumping synth bass of a Troye Sivan track bleeding from…
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