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How To Make Writing Better Than ChatGPT

24-08-2023 23:25 via theatlantic.com

If we want to push the art of writing out of a computer’s reach, the questions posed in writing workshops should go past “How could this piece work better?” to “How could this piece be more honest? More emotionally effective? More resonant?” – The Atlantic

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‘Grabbing you by the lapels’: a history of eye-catching NYC subway posters

24-08-2023 17:05

Since the 1940s, the School of Visual Arts has been making alluring posters to brighten up the New York City subway, now being celebrated in a new exhibitionThe New York subway, which has more stations than any underground railway in the world, is notorious for crowds, delays, dirt and rats. But it can also be a place of the sublime.For three-quarters of a century the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, one of America’s most important colleges for art and design, has been producing po

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Toppled, eaten, pooed on, licked, rusted and stolen: why Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s treasures have to be tough

24-08-2023 13:15

Its works by Moore, Hepworth and Gormley are priceless. But they are at risk – from toxic bird poo, shifting tree roots and 400,000 greasy humans. We spend a day with the team keeping everything safeOn a blustery hillside near the summit of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Clare Lilley and I are communing with the landscape. Lilley, YSP’s director and chief curator, has beckoned me through a gate into a piece by the British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, a drystone wall encircling the trunk of

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Toppled, eaten, pooed on, licked, rusted and stolen: life’s tough for the treasures of Yorkshire Sculpture Park

24-08-2023 13:15

Its works by Moore, Hepworth and Gormley are priceless. But they are at risk – from toxic bird poo, shifting tree roots and 400,000 greasy humans. We spend a day with the team keeping everything safeOn a blustery hillside near the summit of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Clare Lilley and I are communing with the landscape. Lilley, YSP’s director and chief curator, has beckoned me through a gate into a piece by the British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, a drystone wall encircling the trunk of

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Brand aid: have Britain’s arts venues sold out to The Man?

24-08-2023 09:00

Manchester’s Aviva Studios is the latest venue to give its naming rights to the highest bidder. Is corporate sponsorship a necessity for the survival of the arts?A giant yellow pumpkin, pink tentacles reaching to the ceiling and a towering pigtailed girl. The scale of Yayoi Kusama’s spotted inflatables in You, Me and the Balloons is impressive, as is the size of the 21 metre-high cavernous main exhibition space housing them at Manchester’s Aviva Studios. The north finally has i

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