‘Neo Hokusai’ Unfurls in Brussels’ Grand-Place with 750,000 Dahlias
From August 13 to 16, Brussels’ Grand-Place hosted the 24th Flower Carpet, unveiling Hiro Sugiyama’s “Neo Hokusai,” a 14,000-square-foot design of more than 750,000 dahlias marking 160 years of friendship between the nation and Japan. The project reimagined The Great Wave Off Kanagawa and partnered with Bloemencorso Loenhout, with the parade kicking off on September 12.
Authorship in Flux, Audiences in Seats: A Week of AI Signals and Stage Receipts
Pew found that more than a third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of machine authorship, as traffic to the ten largest US news sites fell by a third in two years. In the same week Google shipped a detector for AI fakes and Harvard closed its writing center, a filmed Hadestown grossed $20.7 million after extending to four weeks, and Ragtime set a Lincoln Center Theater box office record.