What We Learned This Week: AI and the Fall of the Creative Class
America has lost more than 200,000 jobs in the creative industries over the past four years, and more than 50,000 in the last year alone, noted Apricitas Economics recently. That makes for one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history, with similar job loss intensity occurring only during the economic recessions of 2001 and 2008, added AE. But there is no generalized recession today-instead, this period of job loss coincides with the rise of AI systems that can compose novels, photorealistic images and soundalike music.
Weekend Update: 10.29.2026
Thursday, October 29, until 8pm: Thucydides Fever Dream at Hill Art This exhibition curated by Xin Wang arrives at a moment when the cultural landscape between the U.S. and China feels both deeply interconnected and increasingly fraught. Stepping into this sun-lit Chelsea space, viewers are challenged to look past the superficial headlines of geopolitical rivalry and instead engage with a complex, multi-layered dialogue of mutual influence. Wang masterfully orchestrates a conversat...

