When Feeds Falter and Stages Surge: Notes from a Shifting Culture Economy
Traffic to the ten biggest US news sites is down by a third in two years, while more than a third of post-ChatGPT pages show signs of machine authorship. As hoaxes spread online, Hadestown breaks Hamilton’s box office records, ICA San Diego cuts nearly half its staff, a study tallies 4,500 Los Angeles jobs lost to the Paramount-Warner merger, and America’s first jellyfish museum opens in Pompano Beach.
Lou Beneschs The Magicians Room Spins Tarot into Surreal Mixed Media
Paris-based Lou Beneschs solo exhibition The Magicians Room at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, on view through August 22, channels the tarots Magician into surreal mixed-media works on vintage board games, chalkboards, and antique paper.
Craig & Karls Under the Sun Lifts Summer into a Dubai Atrium
At ICD Brookfield Place in Dubai, Craig & Karl debut Under the Sun, a canopy of smiling inflatables—flowers, beach balls, inner tubes, and a radiant sun—suspended in the atrium as a new chapter of their Mateys universe. The duo, based in New York and London, describe their cross-continental process as a two-way conversation.