Christie's 'Augmented Intelligence' sale and the 6,000-artist petition against it reveal something the art market has not confronted: who gets to define what counts as a work of art when authorship becomes contested at the institutional level.
AI-generated art is entering the auction market without disclosure, exposing $60B in market infrastructure to a trust failure it has no tools to manage.
Physical galleries in secondary markets are closing at the fastest rate since 2009 as artists go direct-to-collector — and the intermediary layer that controlled art pricing for a century is under structural pressure.
AI is redesigning construction. Ancient materials are being reborn through biotechnology. And the buildings of tomorrow will think, breathe, and adapt in ways we are only beginning to imagine. Welcome to the era of the intelligent built environment.
The housing shortage is an architecture story. How we design the homes and cities we need — and what stands in the way — reveals the gap between our aesthetic ideals and our practical failures.
Streaming made music free and live performance the only real revenue source. The result has been spectacular for stadium artists and catastrophic for everyone else.
Germany returned 1,000 Benin Bronzes. France repatriated colonial-era objects. Now indigenous communities in the US are winning cases that Western museums said were impossible. The signal suggests this is just beginning.
AI image generation has disrupted the economic and aesthetic foundations of visual art. The philosophical questions it raises have not been resolved — and probably cannot be.
Broadway revenue hit a record $1.8 billion in the 2023-24 season. Regional theater attendance is recovering faster than film. The live experience that technology was supposed to obsolete has found its moment.
Leila Farahani··11 min
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