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Anthropic must pay $3,000 for each pirated book used to train its chatbot, under a proposed $1.5 billion settlement. Authors are now disputing how the money should be allocated and whether publishers will claim too large a share.
5:03 AMNew York Times Arts
An English museum is preparing to return skeletal remains to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent. The repatriation comes six years after formal efforts to bring them home began.
4:48 AMThe New York Times
The Bayeux Tapestry is making its way back to England after an extraordinary logistical and diplomatic effort. The trip involved years of negotiation, a team of engineers, and a generous gesture from France.
6:00 AMThe New Yorker — Books & Culture
Beyoncé marked her 45th birthday on September 4 by giving the Studio Museum in Harlem $2 million. It was a generous birthday gesture with a major boost for one of New York’s leading institutions for Black art.
11:00 AMARTnews
Robin Morgan, a major voice in radical feminism, has died at 85. She edited the landmark 1970 anthology "Sisterhood Is Powerful," led Ms. magazine and helped build many of the institutions that shaped the modern feminist movement.
6:16 PMNYT New York
A new exhibition will display missing-person posters created after the September 11 attacks, including pleas from families searching for loved ones. The handmade notices captured the shock of a disaster before grief had fully arrived.
5:00 AMThe Guardian Art and DesignSummary
Anthropic must pay $3,000 for each pirated book used to train its chatbot, under a proposed $1.5 billion settlement. Authors are now disputing how the money should be allocated and whether publishers will claim too large a share.
The settlement converts unauthorized training data into a financial liability, but it does not resolve
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The payout fight will help define whether AI training compensation flows primarily to creators, rights holders, or publishers.
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An English museum is preparing to return skeletal remains to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent. The repatriation comes six years after formal efforts to bring them home began.
The handover reflects a growing push by museums to confront how human remains were collected
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The case shows how museums are being pressed to repair the legacy of colonial collecting.
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The Bayeux Tapestry is making its way back to England after an extraordinary logistical and diplomatic effort. The trip involved years of negotiation, a team of engineers, and a generous gesture from France.
Moving a centuries-old textile is less like shipping an artwork than transporting a fragile piece
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One of the world’s most famous artworks is coming home through diplomacy, engineering, and trust.
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Beyoncé marked her 45th birthday on September 4 by giving the Studio Museum in Harlem $2 million. It was a generous birthday gesture with a major boost for one of New York’s leading institutions for Black art.
The gift puts serious star power behind the museum and its work. Beyoncé appears to
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A $2 million birthday gift can expand the museum’s ability to support artists, exhibitions, and public programs.
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Robin Morgan, a major voice in radical feminism, has died at 85. She edited the landmark 1970 anthology "Sisterhood Is Powerful," led Ms. magazine and helped build many of the institutions that shaped the modern feminist movement.
Morgan was more than a writer and editor. She helped turn feminist ideas into a
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Her work helped define the feminist movement's ideas, institutions and public voice.
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A new exhibition will display missing-person posters created after the September 11 attacks, including pleas from families searching for loved ones. The handmade notices captured the shock of a disaster before grief had fully arrived.
Their power comes from how direct they are: a name, a face, and a desperate
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The posters keep individual lives and unfinished hope at the center of September 11’s memory.
A curated list of other prominent stories from this day.
Andrew Scott’s new production, “Elsinore,” offers a showcase for his performance while revisiting one of British theater’s most notorious backstage stories. The plot centers on Daniel Day-Lewis abruptly leaving an ’80s production of “Hamlet,” turning a legendary bit of show-business gossip into drama.
10:02 PMVarietyPhotographer Slava Veder has died at 99. His Pulitzer-winning image, “Burst of Joy,” captured Air Force pilot Robert Stirm reuniting with his family after five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
8:30 PMNew York Times Arts
A Metropolitan Opera production of a Mozart adaptation is casting every performer carefully, including the snake with a brief but memorable stage role. The job falls to a former carnival performer turned opera actor, who has chosen a snake named Princess to move forward.
6:32 PMFortuneThe fall art calendar spans a survey of Black abstraction at MoMA PS1, Taryn Simon’s photographic work in the Guggenheim rotunda and colorful collages by Eric Carle. Shows devoted to Krasner and Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and RM add even more range to the season.
12:41 PMNew York Times Arts
Max Dupain's photographs captured much more than Australia's beaches. His sharp eye for fashion, architecture, bodies and light helped shape the country's visual identity across the mid- and late 20th century, and a major retrospective is now on view at the State Library of New South Wales through July 2027.
4:00 PMThe Guardian Art and Design
Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing series has quickly become a fantasy reading phenomenon, but keeping track of its books, characters, and expanding world can be a little overwhelming. This guide lays out the best reading order and offers a clearer path through the dragon-rider saga.
12:10 PMIGN
Brandon Sanderson’s newest science-fiction book contains a surprise link to the larger Cosmere universe. The connection comes through Hoid, the elusive character who keeps appearing across Sanderson’s stories.
7:00 AMPolygonAnn M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club series has spent four decades giving young readers a cast of personalities to recognize and argue over. The question still works: Which babysitter are you?
7:00 AMNPR Arts
Photographer Henk Stam once distrusted phone cameras, but better technology won him over. His favorite image captures a vividly orange, minimalist scene in the toilets of Rotterdam’s Portlantis visitors’ center.
6:00 AMThe Guardian Art and Design
The article covers John Galliano’s withdrawal from a show at The Met, the enduring relationship between artists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, and Alex Katz’s continued creative momentum at 99.
6:00 AMHyperallergic
Minnie Evans’s dense, otherworldly images can overwhelm the eye before they start to open up. A new Whitney exhibition invites viewers to stop trying to decode every detail and simply surrender to the work.
6:00 AMThe New Yorker — Books & Culture
Jerry Hsu photographs Los Angeles through the restless perspective of a skateboarder. His images find beauty and danger in the city’s collisions, overturned cars, and even a burning bank.
6:00 AMThe New Yorker — Books & CultureAs church attendance falls across Europe, many old religious buildings are being left empty. Artists and other community-minded thinkers see an opportunity to turn them into care centers, cultural venues, and shared public spaces.
7:51 AMNew York Times ArtsMarian Anderson is rightly remembered as a barrier-breaking classical singer, but that story can overshadow the force and precision of her artistry. Her ambition was not simply to make history. She wanted to be recognized as a fine artist.
5:00 AMNew York Times Arts
In North Carolina’s Lost Provinces, residents are looking to the arts for a more durable economic future. They hope galleries, performances, and creative projects can help sustain the region without erasing its sense of community.
5:00 AMNew York Times Arts
Shahed Saleem’s colorful tapestry exhibition looks at Muslim life in Britain and Europe. It brings together pivotal moments that reflect the region’s Islamic history, as well as the reality of Islamophobia today.
4:07 AMAl Jazeera
The 1990s often come packaged as a neat cultural memory: upbeat, stylish and full of promise. But that version leaves out plenty, and the way we remember the decade says as much about memory as it does about the era itself.
12:00 AMFinancial TimesSummary
Andrew Scott’s new production, “Elsinore,” offers a showcase for his performance while revisiting one of British theater’s most notorious backstage stories. The plot centers on Daniel Day-Lewis abruptly leaving an ’80s production of “Hamlet,” turning a legendary bit of show-business gossip into drama.
It is a clever premise: take a moment theater fans already know and explore the
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The production shows how a famous theatrical scandal can become compelling material in its own right.
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Photographer Slava Veder has died at 99. His Pulitzer-winning image, “Burst of Joy,” captured Air Force pilot Robert Stirm reuniting with his family after five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
The photograph became one of the war’s most recognizable images because it turned a huge
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Veder’s photograph preserved a defining image of reunion, relief and the human cost of war.
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A Metropolitan Opera production of a Mozart adaptation is casting every performer carefully, including the snake with a brief but memorable stage role. The job falls to a former carnival performer turned opera actor, who has chosen a snake named Princess to move forward.
It is a wonderfully odd glimpse at the backstage work behind grand opera. Even the
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The story shows how much careful craft goes into creating opera's most unexpected moments.
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The fall art calendar spans a survey of Black abstraction at MoMA PS1, Taryn Simon’s photographic work in the Guggenheim rotunda and colorful collages by Eric Carle. Shows devoted to Krasner and Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and RM add even more range to the season.
There is no single visual trend here, which is part of the appeal. The lineup
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The season offers a broad snapshot of how varied the art world’s center of gravity has become.
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Max Dupain's photographs captured much more than Australia's beaches. His sharp eye for fashion, architecture, bodies and light helped shape the country's visual identity across the mid- and late 20th century, and a major retrospective is now on view at the State Library of New South Wales through July 2027.
Dupain's work shows how a photographer can make everyday scenes feel instantly iconic. The exhibition
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The retrospective offers a fuller look at the photographer who helped define how Australia sees itself.
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Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing series has quickly become a fantasy reading phenomenon, but keeping track of its books, characters, and expanding world can be a little overwhelming. This guide lays out the best reading order and offers a clearer path through the dragon-rider saga.
The series is built for readers who enjoy high-stakes romance, dangerous magical training, and plenty
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A simple reading guide makes it easier to join one of the biggest fantasy-book crazes around.
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Brandon Sanderson’s newest science-fiction book contains a surprise link to the larger Cosmere universe. The connection comes through Hoid, the elusive character who keeps appearing across Sanderson’s stories.
For longtime readers, these cameos are part of the fun of following Sanderson’s sprawling mythology.
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Hoid’s latest appearance gives Cosmere fans another clue that Sanderson’s fictional worlds are never as separate as they seem.
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Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club series has spent four decades giving young readers a cast of personalities to recognize and argue over. The question still works: Which babysitter are you?
The books lasted because they made friendship, responsibility, and awkward adolescence feel specific without making
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A children’s series can become a lasting cultural shorthand for identity, friendship, and growing up.
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Photographer Henk Stam once distrusted phone cameras, but better technology won him over. His favorite image captures a vividly orange, minimalist scene in the toilets of Rotterdam’s Portlantis visitors’ center.
The picture is a small reminder that good photography depends more on noticing than on
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Phone photography has become serious when a trained eye can turn an ordinary public space into a striking image.
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The article covers John Galliano’s withdrawal from a show at The Met, the enduring relationship between artists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, and Alex Katz’s continued creative momentum at 99.
Galliano’s withdrawal is the clearest immediate development, removing a major fashion figure from The Met’s
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The roundup connects fashion and art through questions of institutional visibility, creative legacy, and who controls the terms of public recognition.
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Minnie Evans’s dense, otherworldly images can overwhelm the eye before they start to open up. A new Whitney exhibition invites viewers to stop trying to decode every detail and simply surrender to the work.
That shift from interpretation to immersion is the point. Evans’s art seems less interested in
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Some art rewards understanding, while Evans’s rewards getting wonderfully lost.
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Jerry Hsu photographs Los Angeles through the restless perspective of a skateboarder. His images find beauty and danger in the city’s collisions, overturned cars, and even a burning bank.
This is Los Angeles stripped of postcard polish. Hsu’s view catches the city as a
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The photographs show how skateboarding can turn everyday urban chaos into a distinct way of seeing.
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As church attendance falls across Europe, many old religious buildings are being left empty. Artists and other community-minded thinkers see an opportunity to turn them into care centers, cultural venues, and shared public spaces.
The question is less about preserving every building exactly as it was and more about
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Europe’s empty churches are forcing communities to rethink what historic spaces are for.
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Marian Anderson is rightly remembered as a barrier-breaking classical singer, but that story can overshadow the force and precision of her artistry. Her ambition was not simply to make history. She wanted to be recognized as a fine artist.
The distinction matters because Anderson’s career was bigger than the obstacles she overcame. Focusing only
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Anderson deserves to be heard as an artist first, not just celebrated as a pioneer.
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In North Carolina’s Lost Provinces, residents are looking to the arts for a more durable economic future. They hope galleries, performances, and creative projects can help sustain the region without erasing its sense of community.
Art is being asked to do practical work here, not just decorate a struggling town.
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Creative activity could give a small mountain region new momentum, if growth does not come at the expense of belonging.
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Shahed Saleem’s colorful tapestry exhibition looks at Muslim life in Britain and Europe. It brings together pivotal moments that reflect the region’s Islamic history, as well as the reality of Islamophobia today.
The show uses art to connect personal and political history, making a complicated story feel
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It puts Muslim history and contemporary experience at the center of a wider conversation about European identity.
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The 1990s often come packaged as a neat cultural memory: upbeat, stylish and full of promise. But that version leaves out plenty, and the way we remember the decade says as much about memory as it does about the era itself.
Nostalgia is a selective editor. Time has a way of smoothing over contradictions and turning
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Our picture of the past is shaped less by complete recall than by the stories we keep retelling.
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