This article is part of HuffPost’s weekly culture and entertainment newsletter, “The Culture Catchall.” Click here to subscribe. While the verdict is still out on the SAG-AFTRA strike ― i.e., the union that represents actors, performers and on-screen talent ― the writers strike is officially over! After 146 days, the Alliance of Motion Picture and…
Silicon Valley’s biggest generative artificial intelligence developers are looking for a new kind of data worker: poets. A string of job postings from high-profile training data companies, such as Scale AI and Appen, are recruiting poets, novelists, playwrights, or writers with a PhD or master’s degree. Dozens more seek general annotators with humanities degrees, or…
As a result, some touchy old stereotypes, appropriated by whites and perverted as minstrelsy, are reclaimed and reframed. Gitlow’s shucking and jiving is, in Jones’s performance, very clearly a performance itself: a way of getting around the obtuseness of overlords. His wife, Missy, played by Heather Alicia Simms, turns classic one-dimensional stage sass into complicated…
The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco announced on Monday that it would take legal action against the architect of its expansion—an unusual move, given that many art institutions rarely comment at all on pending litigation, let alone make it public via a press release. In that release, the museum said that its decision to…
The art market never sleeps, but it certainly takes a rest during the summer months, as evidenced by the top-selling lots at auction around the world in August 2023. The most expensive work sold fetched just $6.2 million with fees, which, while certainly a pretty penny, isn’t a figure that typically makes the top tier…