The New York Times Friday April 24, 2026
Despite a relentlessly changing digital landscape, YouTube has prevailed as the platform of choice for many creators because it offers more opportunities for them to earn money, notes The New York Times, which recently talked with some of the platform’s original stars about their experiences then—long before there was any promise of a YouTube paycheck—and how they view the platform today. Their accounts provide a glimpse into the platform’s past and a few warnings about creating there now, notes The Times. Read the full Story >>
VICE Friday April 24, 2026
Following the cover reveal of her upcoming album you look pretty sad for a girl so in love, Olivia Rodrigo is being accused of plagiarism. Some observers have pointed to similarities between the cover art of Rodrigo’s new album and a 2010 image by photographer Ryan McGinley that, notes Vice, was published by The New York Times Magazine. The photo is included in McGinley’s online portfolio and features artist M.I.A. leaning back in a swing over New York City. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Friday April 24, 2026
Elon Musk did not appear on Monday for a voluntary interview with lawyers in Paris who had summoned the American tech billionaire over an investigation into his social media platform X and AI chatbot Grok. Musk called the French authorities involved “retards” weeks earlier in a French-language post on X. The French investigation was launched in January 2025 to look into allegations that X’s algorithm was used to interfere in French politics. The scope was later expanded to include dissemination of Holocaust denial material and sexual deepfakes by X’s AI chatbot Grok, notes The Guardian. Read the full Story >>
THE ART NEWSPAPER Friday April 24, 2026
On view through Oct. 4 at Berlin’s Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung is the exhibition “New Woman, New Vision: Women Photographers of the Bauhaus,” featuring some 300 photographs from the museum’s collection by 29 photographers—mostly affiliated with the original Bauhaus in Germany, and a few with the New Bauhaus that opened in Chicago after the original school was closed down in 1933 under pressure from the Nazi Party. Among them, notes The Art Newspaper, were Lucia Moholy and Ise Gropius, nicknamed “Mrs. Bauhaus.” Read the full Story >>
