Art and Culture

The Kindle ecosystem is perhaps the apotheosis of this shift. One Guardian reporter found Amazon had recorded every title, highlight and page turn on her Kindle app (40,000 entries over two years). The company’s dominance sets the terms…
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The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has announced the completion of a three-year Fallingwater conservancy plan led by New York-based Architectural Preservation…
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In all, 93 of the 460 academic programs at the school will be closed or paused, meaning that no new students will be able to enroll in those majors. Coursework in the areas will still be offered, and minors in many of the subjects will…
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In a professionally lighted brick-walled space in Venice, not different from many other professionally lighted brick-walled spaces all over Los Angeles, actors routinely come in to have their photos and video taken.The process is quick…
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In a paywalled essay in Vanity Fair, the playwright/actor/screenwriter/Impresario writes that he read 23 books, finished an outline he owed to a film studio, journaled, and profited from his time off the grid. Indeed, he says, “you…
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After two years of planning, there’s finally a date. Well, okay, a month: May. That’s when the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s largest newspaper, will drop its paywall. “Starting in May, all newly published stories on sltrib.com and in the app…
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For the 250th anniversary of the USA’s founding document, the Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution (the one which gave women the right to vote) have been put on display with the original Declaration,…
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The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg paid $293,240 for his 13-panel, four-canvas, 65’x100’ set for Bacchanale, which he called his first “paranoiac-critical ballet” and which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1939. Dalí also…
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EXCLUSIVE: George Clooney told an interviewer a year ago, “I don’t want to be anywhere near the highest-paid actor on Broadway.” Nonetheless, Good Night, and Good Luck’s record-breaking ticket sales last spring helped generate one of…
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. Paul Bloom posted this note on Substack: I’ve always thought that I would never want to read an AI-written novel, no matter how objectively well-written it is. But I’m starting to question this. I’m on a real David…
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