YouTube Restores Donald Trump’s Account Privileges
YouTube suspended former President Donald J. Trump’s account on the platform six days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The video platform said...
Arts and Cultural Industries Represented a Record $1 Trillion of the US Economy in 2021, New Report Finds
The arts and culture sectors represented more than $1 trillion of the US economy in 2021 and accounted for a record portion of country’s overall...
BORG Drinking Is Going Viral on TikTok. What on Earth Is It?
Before you ask, BORG — which is pronounced like the aliens from “Star Trek” — is an acronym for “blackout rage gallon.” The drink going...
Indigenous Remains Repatriated by the Netherlands to Caribbean Island of St. Eustatius
The remains of nine Indigenous people, unearthed by archaeologists on the small Dutch-Caribbean island of St. Eustatius more than 30 years ago, have been returned...
Artworks Worth $20 M. or More Made Up Nearly Half of Art Sold at Auction Between 2018 and 2022
As the art fair calendar continues in full swing and a Johannes Vermeer retrospective at the Rijksmuseum sold out, a new report from Sotheby’s further...
At SXSW, Cheech Marin Talks Identity Politics And What It Means To Be Chicano
Of all the discourse that permeates today’s never-ending newscycle, gender, identity, and race issues create the most heat. But, where there is heat there is light, and comedian and...
Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating the surveillance of American citizens, including several journalists who cover the tech industry, by the Chinese company that...
WeWork Reaches a Debt Restructuring Deal With SoftBank
WeWork, the struggling office space company, said on Friday that it had reached a deal with SoftBank and other investors to significantly reduce its debt...
Twitter’s Talks Over Licensing Music Are Said to Stall Under Elon Musk
Twitter explored the licensing of music rights from three major labels before negotiations stalled after Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, said eight people with...
Investigation Links More than 77 Indian Antiquities in the Met’s Collection to Prolific Trafficker Subhash Kapoor
At least 77 antiquities from South Asia in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have been linked to the convicted art trafficker Subhash...
MTV and the Hirshhorn’s Artist Competition TV Series Reflect on the ‘Traumatizing’ Aftermath of Covid-19
(Spoiler alert: this article contains information and plot points from the third episode of The Exhibit.) “This commission is traumatizing,” artist (and contestant) Frank Buffalo Hyde...
As It Faces Increased Scrutiny, Desert X Returns to Coachella Valley with a More Low-Key Show
In the short film Kudhi Bari, the architect Marina Tabassum works alongside residents of Bangladesh’s small desert sand islands, or “chars,” to build tiny houses....
Silicon Valley Bank’s Deep Ties to the Tech Industry
When Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile venture capital firms, wanted to build a bridge between two of its office buildings around 2005, it...
GPT-4 Is Here, and the Silicon Valley Bank Fallout
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