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• AJ Chronicles: This Week’s Stories — Changing of the Guard

  15-02-2026 22:46 via artsjournal.com
  This week there’s a question that connects nearly every story. Who gets to decide what’s real? A viral AI-generated video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt is racking up views. Neither actor consented or was paid. SAG-AFTRA is furious. Lawsuits await. Meanwhile, Tracey Emin is telling young artists to buy cameras, keep diaries, and send […]
  
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• As ‘Wuthering Heights’ Is Critically Crushed But Winning The Box Office, NPR Asks What Makes A Good Adaptation

  15-02-2026 22:00 via npr.org
  “When you read a book, you live inside it — you’re intellectually and emotionally invested, because you create its world in your mind.” But a movie? You’re just visiting. – NPR
  
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• The Zombie Internet Is Here To Eat, Or Rot, All Of Our Brains

  15-02-2026 21:30 via fastcompany.com
  What are the consequences of a “human-free” internet? – Fast Company
  
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• Many Months After PEN America’s Breakdown Over Gaza, The Organization Names New Leaders

  15-02-2026 21:00 via nytimes.com
  “In a joint interview, they said their goal was to staunchly defend writers and free expression at a moment when threats, in the United States and around the world, had become ‘existential.’” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Are Murals Of A Murdered Ukrainian Refugee Appearing Across The United States?

  15-02-2026 20:30 via chicago.suntimes.com
  The murals are all part of Elon Musk’s effort to blame Democrats for crime – and they’re appearing on buildings across the United States. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• In Britain, Digging For A Bypass Means Finding Roman Pottery – And An Ancient Fossil

  15-02-2026 20:00 via bbc.com
  “What was initially believed to be nothing more than a large rock was found to contain the snout of an ichthyosaur, which was so heavy it took two men to lift.” The fossils likely “had been moved by a glacier and deposited at Melton some 200 million years ago.” – BBC
  
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• Google’s AI Overviews Don’t Just Hallucinate; They Can Also Scam The Unwary

  15-02-2026 19:30 via wired.com
  “The unfortunate victim Googles a company name looking for a contact number, then calls the number thrown up by AI. This doesn’t actually lead to the company in question, but rather to someone pretending to be that company, who then tries to take payment information.” – Wired
  
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• The Old Movies You Could Watch Instead Of Seeing Heated Rivalry For The Tenth Time

  15-02-2026 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Not that we’re judging your trips to the cottage, but, for instance, “Tkaronto patiently and beautifully expresses that longing for connection through [a] fleeting, thorny and bittersweet romantic interlude.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Alan Burgess Obituary

  15-02-2026 18:35
  My father, Alan Burgess, who has died aged 88, was a well-respected artist and art teacher, latterly at East Herts College, where he taught for nearly 30 years.In 1957 Alan was selected for Young Contemporaries (now New Contemporaries), a show for emerging artists. His early abstract work changed to paintings of trees and landscapes after a move to Roydon, Essex, in the late 1960s. Continue reading...
  
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• Viral AI-Generated Video Of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt Is Upending Hollywood

  15-02-2026 18:30 via yahoo.com
  SAG-AFTRA is not real happy about this development from a newer generative video source. “This is unacceptable and undercuts the ability of human talent to earn a livelihood.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Tracey Emin On What Young Artists Need To Do In A World Riddled With Stolen ‘Generative’ AI

  15-02-2026 18:00 via theguardian.com
  “Keep a diary, get a camera, learn to print your own photos. Don’t put it all in your phone, because everything in your phone belongs to someone else. And if you want to write a secret to someone, send a letter.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Two Crossover Singers Whom Nashville Spurned, But Hollywood Embraced

  15-02-2026 17:30 via slate.com
  Olivia Newton John and John Denver might be mostly known for the mildness of their music, but at one point they were two of Nashville’s untouchables. – Slate
  
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• If You Want More Olympics, There Are Years And Years Of Documentaries To Stream

  15-02-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “Some of them are startlingly cinematic, far beyond the workmanlike coverage we expect from seeing the same action on television.” – The New York Times
  
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• There’s Only One Bed, Or, How Tropes Took Over Romance Discourse

  15-02-2026 16:30 via theguardian.com
  “You can reduce anything down to tropes – grumpy v sunshine, pride v prejudice – but should we? What does it mean for the way we read – and for the ways we think about art?” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What Minnesota’s Indie Bookstores Are Doing During The ICE Surge

  15-02-2026 16:00 via mprnews.org
  “There are two types of requests: books to help people understand what’s happening in the country and books to provide a momentary escape.” – Minnesota Public Radio
  
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• University Of North Texas Can’t Handle An Art Show With Anti-ICE Content

  15-02-2026 15:30 via nytimes.com
  “Victor Quiñonez, the artist behind the exhibition, said he learned about the university’s decision when students messaged him on social media to say the windows of the gallery in Denton, northwest of Dallas, had been covered and the door locked.” – The New York Times
  
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• Catalan Cinema, Moving Beyond The Art House

  15-02-2026 15:00 via variety.com
  “The region’s new generation of filmmakers is no longer bound by the intimate, place-specific arthouse mode that often defined the late 2010s New Catalan Cinema. … They are pushing into genre, into international co-production, into areas their predecessors rarely touched.” – Variety
  
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• Orhan Pamuk Finally Goes Netflix

  15-02-2026 14:30 via nytimes.com
  But only on the Turkish novelist’s own terms, which is one reason it’s taken a while. – The New York Times
  
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• The Ur-Conspiracy Theory, And How To Fight Them In General

  15-02-2026 14:00 via theparisreview.org
  “The fundamental problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that discovering truth itself becomes unviable.” – Paris Review
  
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• Since We’re Talking About Wuthering Heights, Let’s Talk Kate Bush

  15-02-2026 13:30 via theguardian.com
  Not just Kate Bush – but other top songs inspired by literature, including Rosaliá, Kendrick Lamar, and, yes, The Rolling Stones. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Does The New York Times Decide Which TV Series To Recap?

  15-02-2026 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Is it all about popularity? What about when a network drops every episode at once? Does a series need to have characters who might grip an audience, or a dense plot? The NYT editor in charge of recapping has Thoughts. – The New York Times
  
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