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Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Law Forces Artists To Echo the State's Message
Lorie Smith is a conservative Christian and a website designer who thinks she should be able to engage in her chosen occupation without compromising her moral beliefs. But that is illegal in Colorado,...
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Dwarf Fortress, the Deepest, Most Insane Computer Simulation Game Ever, Just...
For a brief, beautiful moment on Steam this week, the top-selling computer game was Dwarf Fortress. It was beating out Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, the massively popular first-person shooter game...
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Beyoncé, Lizzo, and Taylor Swift Give In To the Speech Police
During the summer of 2022, two of the biggest pop artists, Lizzo and Beyoncé, were lambasted on Twitter by Australian activists for using the word "spaz" in their songs. "Spaz" is shorthand for...
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A College Fired a Professor for Showing a Painting of Muhammad. Now, It Could...
In December, Hamline University spurred outrage after the college fired an art history professor for showing a 14th-century painting of the prophet Muhammad in an Islamic art class. While the school...
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She Lost Her Job For Showing a Painting of Muhammad in Class. Now, She's Suing.
Hamline University, a liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota, has come under fire in recent weeks after it refused to renew the contract of an adjunct professor who had shown images of the...
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Don't Let Disney Monopolize A.I.-Generated Art
Disney and the rest of Hollywood have been eerily quiet about the launch of Stable Diffusion, despite the fact that this open-source A.I. software will happily spit out high-quality images of iconic,...
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No, the World Is Not Heading Toward 'Mass Extinction'
Have you heard? The world is about to end! 60 Minutes recently featured Paul Ehrlich, author of the bestseller, The Population Bomb. "Humanity is not sustainable," he said. Why would 60 Minutes...
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After Muslim Students Complained That an Art Exhibit Was 'Harmful,'...
Yet another Minnesota college is embroiled in a controversy after a group of Muslim students expressed outrage over "offensive" art. Last month, Macalester College—a liberal arts college just two...
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Photos Show the Transformation of Great Britain
Not so long ago, Great Britain was deemed "the sick man of Europe." The 1970s were plagued by inflation, labor union strikes, and a rise in government spending as a percent of GDP. Now, a new...
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Sex, Lies, and Social Media
Do we use social media—or does it use us? That's one of the fundamental questions posed by artist Dave Cicirelli in a series of works produced in different media—including social media, in real...
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Dave Cicirelli: Does Selfie Culture Destroy Real Individualism?
Do we use social media—or does it use us? That's one of the fundamental questions posed by artist Dave Cicirelli in a series of works produced in different media—including social media, in real...
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Copyright Is the Latest Battle in the War Over A.I.
Increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (A.I.) is inching further into the mainstream, and nobody is quite sure what to make of it yet. Students protested after university administrators...
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Ayn Rand Would Hate the New Spotify Video Feed
In the opening chapter of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, protagonist Howard Roark tries to explain to the flummoxed dean, who's kicking him out of college for his heterodox views on architecture, why...
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Feds Say A.I.-Generated Art Is Ineligible for Copyright
The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) has issued guidance clarifying that material created solely by artificial intelligence (A.I.) cannot be copyrighted. Under the new rule, though applicants may claim a...
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What Are the Bots Doing to Art?
Millions of people are currently flocking to Amsterdam to see the works of Johannes Vermeer, a show which is sold out for its whole run. These paintings are paradigms of art, the sort of thing that...
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'It's Like Stockholm Syndrome': Gloria Álvarez Is Trying To Save Latin...
There's a socialist wave in Latin America. Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil recently elected leftists. These politicians at least distance themselves from thugs like Hugo Chavez and Fidel...
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Stefan Sagmeister: An Artist Who Believes 'Now Is Better'
Is the world getting better? Or is it on the verge of collapse? Stefan Sagmeister emphatically believes that things are looking up, and his art exhibition "Now Is Better" showcases a bold new way to...
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'Now Is Better,' Says Legendary Designer Stefan Sagmeister
Is the world getting better? Or is it on the verge of collapse? Stefan Sagmeister emphatically believes that things are looking up, and his art exhibition "Now Is Better" showcases a bold new way to...
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Supreme Court: Andy Warhol's Prince Prints Not 'Transformative' Enough for...
The Supreme Court ruled this week on Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, and the decision could have a transformative effect on copyright law. The ruling was so heated, it...
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Clea Conner: America Needs More and Better Debates
In On Liberty, John Stuart Mill wrote, "he who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." He was laying out the case for robust, good-faith, and systematic debate as essential to an...
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