Colgate lasagna, spray-on condoms, the Fyre Festival, Theranos — all these and more are included in a pop-up exhibition which has appeared on three continents since 2017. Now the concept’s creator and the producing company are embroiled in legal conflict, not for the first time. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
A decade after the dress, we’ve learned a lot about how people could see a simple image so differently from one another. The dress is of particular interest to me as a researcher who studies differences in perception and cognition between individuals. - Slate (MSN)
A new report from the UK's Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 92 percent of students have used generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, for their studies. - Engadget
Surveys show it’s by far the most popular color worldwide. Not only is blue beloved of artists and designers, it’s referenced in the titles of countless books, songs, poems, and essays. (No one ever writes monographs, or even songs, about orange or green.) - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
The nonprofit Art House Convergence, a group of cinephiles in Highland Park, Illinois, released a report last summer that revealed attendance at local independent theaters is nearly back to 2019 numbers. Their audiences are now younger, more diverse, and hungry for independent rather than big studio content. - Christian Science Monitor
Kapoor doesn't allow other visual artists to use the color, which absorbs 99 percent of light. But he and MacGregor are friends, so... - The Art Newspaper
“Hidden behind an unmarked door between an Irish pub and a Dunkin’ Donuts in the south wing (of the Port Authority Bus Terminal) is the Hidden Jewel Box Theater, which has been quietly selling out shows” — mostly by the part-theater-part-dance troupe The Love Show NYC — “since this past October.” - Gothamist
“(The subject) is as important as the history of art, as the history of music, as the history of literature,” says Homans. “All these things are taught widely at universities, but the history of dance is underrepresented. So this chair … gives it (a place) in the liberal arts.” - The Cut (MSN)
Art historian Euphrosyne Doxiadis argues that “the flowing, twisting brushstrokes that are so characteristic of Rubens are nowhere to be seen” in Samson and Delilah — and that what we see instead is “bad craftsmanship. In the 17th century, it would be considered an unacceptable fiasco.” - The Guardian
And that figure was measured before LAT owner Patrick Soon-Shiong squashed the editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. The daily with the largest print circulation, The Wall Street Journal, saw that figure fall by 14.7%, leaving no US newspaper with a print circulation of 500,000 or more. - Press Gazette (UK)
Following a 12% staff reduction last September, the umbrella for NPR news/talk WNYC, classical WQXR, and New Jersey Public Radio is now laying off 7% of its employees, including Chief Content Officers for both WNYC and WQXR. The popular new-music show New Sounds will be cancelled after 43 years. - Radio Ink
“An actor who powerfully embodied ordinary men under stress in dozens of films and twice won Oscars for bringing humanizing depth to corrupt lawmen, ... in The French Connection (and) Unforgiven, (he) was found dead Feb. 26 along with his wife at their home in Santa Fe.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
“(The) former child star who appeared in the 1996 Harriet the Spy hit movie and went on to co-star in two buzzy millennial-era TV shows — Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl,” was found dead in her Manhattan apartment Wednesday morning. No foul play is suspected. - AP
“AHWOSG, as everyone called it, launched Dave Eggers’s career, one that’s seen him publish dozens of books, write screenplays, oversee a literary magazine and publishing company, and launch a nonprofit that’s helped hundreds of thousands of children become better writers. All those things happened because the book was a phenomenon.” - Slate (Yahoo!)
