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Skydance Co-CEO Ynon Kreiz Says Jobs Cuts Will Be Handled “Respectfully”
Ynon Kreiz, the new co-chief executive of Skydance, said a planned $6 billion in cost savings will come from “technology, marketing consolidation, real estate optimization, and some labor. Although labor is not the majority of the…
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AI behaves more like a brain than a database – cognitive science’s role in its origin story helps…
When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it’s common to reach for the language of computing. You might assume there is a database, or a logical series of steps being executed,…
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Montpellier closes major performing arts center after flooding
The Corum in Montpellier, France, is closed to the public until further notice. After being flooded during the recent storms, this building—which houses several performance venues—has become too dangerous.
Serving as a convention…
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Adelaide Is A Festival Capital. But Its Middle Class Arts Scene Needs A Reboot
Adelaide holds down the fort as Australia’s festival capital, with Adelaide Fringe and Adelaide Festival among the nation’s top tier for arts and culture. But when Petra Kalive arrived in the city at the beginning of 2025, she found a…
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Indy’s Newfields Museum Director Steps Down
Belinda Tate began at Newfields in 2023, days before the surprise exit of former CEO and president Colette Pierce Burnette and after a years-long spotlight had been on Newfields in part due to controversial language in a 2021 posting of…
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Michelangelo’s Handwriting Now Ships With Microsoft Office
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Michelangelus, a typeface drawn from Michelangelo’s manuscripts, is headed into Microsoft Office with more than 500 glyphs in four styles. The Fabbrica di San Pietro, the Vatican body that maintains St. Peter’s…
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New Gehry concert hall takes shape in downtown Los Angeles
A pet project of architect Frank Gehry, a smaller concert hall to complement his legendary Walt Disney Concert Hall, is taking shape in downtown Los Angeles for an opening next September.Elements Gehry devised to set it apart are already…
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Q Division Studios went old-school for a week with reel-to-reel tape
Digital technology has taken over the way art is made, from photography to film to music. But a 40-year-old recording studio in Cambridge recently pushed its computers to the side for one week so today’s musicians could experience the…
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Marina Abramović At (Almost) 80
“Has any artist offered so much of her unfiltered self to the public? … If you’ve followed her career, you likely know uncomfortably intimate details of her life.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
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The Little Magazines Should Review More Books
Like many in the literary world, I read, with great interest, Naomi Kanakia’s recent exegesis on the “little” magazines like the Partisan Review and their various descendants, including n+1, The Drift, and The Point. These journals of…
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