Art and Culture

When Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for a record $69.3 million at Christie’s in 2021, the winning buyer was quick to reveal itself: a Singapore-based crypto fund called Metapurse, which was founded by a man going by the…
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Labour has abandoned plans to allow AI companies to take copyrighted works without permission after a backlash from the creative industries. Ministers initially proposed reforming copyright law to boost the AI industry but were…
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Because of opera’s long history, integrating elements such as prerecorded and live video into the mix opens up a larger discussion about the role of technology in live performance. – Fast Company Source link
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Three days after disinviting author Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW), sparking a mass boycott by other authors which ended in the entire event being cancelled and four members of the festival board quitting, the only…
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum, which temporarily closed in late 2024 and laid off 80% of its staff, will sell its 63,000 square-foot building in the Yerba Buena neighborhood. The museum’s next steps beyond the sale are not yet clear,…
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The BBC World Service will be given increased government funding as part of a three-year deal after ministers concluded it was needed to counter the rise of global disinformation.The Guardian understands that Yvette Cooper, the foreign…
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The government is to put the BBC’s charter on a permanent footing for the first time, after the corporation said the change was needed to protect it from political interference.In a significant change to the governance of the BBC, the…
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It's now been 36 years since the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston became the victim of the largest unsolved art heist in history.On March 18, 1990, 13 pieces of art worth more than $500 million were stolen from the museum…
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An official “BookTok” chart is set to launch later this year in the UK, offering a monthly rundown of the the most popular titles on social media platform TikTok.The ranking will combine verified retail sales data with social media…
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LONDON (AP) — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97.Deighton’s literary agent, Tim Bates, said he died…
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