barry pierce

What's the best way to learn Art History is there like a good book or course or can someone just teach me it

Bearish on snobby creative industries. STEM aggressively embraces AI as a bulwark for innovation. Meanwhile lower stakes industries that thrive on gatekeeping disguised as prestige, like publishing, hold their horses tight and shake fists at the car. Most readers only care if the final work is meaningful, AI or not. Disclosure is key. Publishers are free to do things the slow old way and that’s beautiful too. But let’s stop pretending has anything to do with protecting art. If anything it stifles artistry because for many writers as well as non-writers, AI has unlocked new dimensions of creativity, and helps speed up research, editing or overall process. I’ve recently been listening to AI music on Spotify and it’s even better than many talented artists. Here, this writer says she didn’t even use AI: a third party editor did!

Per a note to NYT staff this afternoon, T magazine EIC Hanya Yanagihara will be stepping down “to pursue opportunities in theater.”

New Lime bike unveiled - smaller and much easier to ride. Some will have rear cargo shelf. Launches today in Oxford and Milton Keynes. About 1,500 due to arrive in London next month.

That conspiracy theory that Paul Mescal made up he was born in 1996 bc he wanted to the youngest actor to win an academy award and now we’re stuck with this lie

NATHAN BARLEY (2005) x264 SD (DVDrip)+ Ai Upscale AAC 2.0 ENG + Sub EN *Files are zipped Cynical journalist Dan Ashcroft (Julian Barratt) writes a scathing article calling out the "idiots" around him-only to become an unwilling icon to them.