[This week on the Artblog Reader Advisor: Great news for Ai Weiwei! We play around a little with language and expression, with articles about fonts, translation, artificial intelligence, and Taye Diggs as Hedwig. — the Artblog editors]
On His Weiwei: Ai Gets His Passport Back, via CNN
Self-Censoring Font Restricts Your Freedom for You, via Wired
This is How Hard It Is to Be Murakami’s Translator, via The Rumpus
Feeling Sad? Your Playlist Already Knows (or It Will Soon), via TechCrunch
Artists Weigh in on New ICA Philly Curators, via ArtNews
World’s First Cyborg Can Hear Color, via Huffington Post
We Can Digg It: Taye Diggs Takes on Hedwig, via The New York Times
Meet Cortana, the Windows A.I. Who Knows You Well, via Yahoo Tech
Farewell to E.L. Doctorow, Who Called Himself an “American Novelist,” via Washington Post