The AI Backlash Gets Professional

The AI Backlash Gets Professional

If there’s one thing America seems to agree on, it’s AI. Some three-quarters of Americans oppose a data center being built in their area, three-quarters of Americans think AI will hurt their job security, nearly 70 percent think the technology is advancing too...
What Dolly Parton Knew About Reading

What Dolly Parton Knew About Reading

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.My best friend’s baby got mail from Dolly Parton on the day the singer died. This wasn’t unexpected: He’s been receiving books from Dolly Parton’s Imagination...
The Limits of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity

The Limits of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity

Years before the polka-dotted pumpkins, before the Instagrammable Infinity Mirror Rooms, Yayoi Kusama made art that was charged with oppositional energy. Her performances, in which she painted dots onto the naked bodies of her collaborators, were an expression of ’60s...