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How AI learned to paint like Rembrandt
The Rijksmuseum employed an AI to repaint lost parts of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch.” Here’s how they did it.
Tim Brinkhof
Tim Brinkhof is a Dutch-born, New York-based journalist reporting on art, history, and literature. He studied early Netherlandish painting and Slavic literature at New York University, worked as an editorial[…]
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4 Ways the Food Industry Is Warping Our Psyches
Sean Curry takes aim at the rapidly evolving "gourmet" food industry that is warping our expectations, mindsets and first-world privilege to a scary new level.
Theater Directors Should Think More Like Good Lovers: The Audience Comes First
Theaters today seem like hallowed ground, says Harvard's Diane Paulus, but that's not their natural state. Once, they had the same atmosphere as sport: visceral, alive, and indebted to its audience. How can we get back there?
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How a Dancer Raised to Believe Dance was a Sin Revolutionized the Artform
Every field has its revolutionaries – dance is no different.
Is Your Life Really Yours? How ‘The Attention Merchants’ Got Inside Our Heads
“My Experience is What I Agree to Pay Attention to,” said psychologist William James. And therein lies the problem and danger of advertising: we don’t always agree or choose to pay attention, but it shapes our life experience irrevocably.
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So How Does a Person Win a Nobel Prize in Literature?
How do you win a Nobel Prize in Literature? First you must get nominated, then it gets hard.
Why Bob Dylan Deserves a Nobel Prize in Literature
Though the logic of the Nobel committee is pretty easy to glean when it comes to the sciences, in other, less-defined categories, it surprises on a fairly regular basis.
Ethan Hawke: Your Subconscious Is More Sophisticated than Your Intellect
Nothing kills creativity like overthinking it. Jumping from anecdote to anecdote from his incredible career, Ethan Hawke illustrates why letting your subconscious steer the ship will get you to a more honest, creative place than your intellect ever could.
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Should US Companies Make the Switch to Unlimited Vacation Time?
RIP to the 9 to 5 work day. Kathryn Minshew (CEO of career directory platform The Muse) is pro-unlimited vacation time and offers her employees a 1-month paid sabbatical after five years. How can we all live this dream?
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Feeling Stuck? Good Ideas Hide in Plain Sight, Says Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer
Author Jonathan Safran Foer on the two surprising qualities successful writers need.
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Listening: The Most Important Skill That Nobody Teaches
Improvisational theater, an often overlooked genre, involves dynamic lessons on listening that can help all kinds of professional relationships and improve conversation.
Do You Need to Be a Narcissist to Be a Successful Artist?
By comparing signatures in auction house transactions of over 400,000 paintings, researchers found that works by narcissistic artists sold for higher prices.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Writing ‘The Great Gatsby’
Here's what F. Scott Fitzgerald thought about his classic American novel "The Great Gatsby."
Was Bob Dylan the 20th Century’s Shakespeare?
We didn’t mind Maureen Dowd’s dismantling of (whatever remains of) the mythologizing of Dylan as a hero for/of protest. There was a moment in time when Dylan was hero for […]
Elizabeth Alexander on Teaching and Learning Poetry
The poet covers poetry’s dynamics, from graduate to grade school.
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