Art and Culture

We apologize for the drip drip drip of bad news from the Kennedy Center, but here’s a good explainer of the toxic Ric Grenell reign. Trump just decided Grenell was generating too much heat doing making changes (The…
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Over the past year, as generative AI tools have become common in college classrooms, much of the conversation has centered on academic integrity: how to detect AI use, how to redesign assignments and whether traditional grading still…
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Salman Rushdie said he’s tired of being everyone’s “free speech Barbie” four years after the author survived an assassination attempt that left him blinded in his right eye.“It’s a subject I’m anxious to change,” Rushdie said on Friday…
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Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging in its complaint that the AI giant has committed “massive copyright infringement.” Britannica, which owns Merriam-Webster, retains the copyright…
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Lea Pao, a professor of literature at Stanford University, has been experimenting with ways to get her students to learn offline. She has them memorize poems, perform at recitation events, look at art in the real world.It’s an effort to…
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When Indhu Rubasingham brought Shabana Azmi to the National Theatre stage in 2000 for Tanika Gupta’s play “The Waiting Room,” the institution was caught off guard. “At that time, people at the National didn’t know who Shabana…
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“It’s one of the most mythic icons in American letters — and now the most valuable. The 120-foot-long scroll on which Jack Kerouac hammered out the 1957 Beat Generation classic On the Road has realized an astounding $12.1 million at…
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On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator of the General Services Administration questioning the organization’s management of its Fine Arts…
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There is no shortage of different ways to enjoy literature. Audiobooks provide a visceral experience, and a really good narrator can make an average book really great. E-books are another way readers can enjoy books while on the…
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I was early to the generative AI wave in higher education: I was among the first professors who teach writing to publish in an academic journal about generative AI and critical thinking, and I am now part of an interdisciplinary…
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