AI has been like rocket fuel for stocks, driving prices to record highs. Since October, though, that exuberance has been fading, as some realities of this transformative technology have begun to sink in, with nvestors growing worried that A.I. could render certain businesses obsolete. One area vulnerable to AI, noted The New York Times recently, are providers of "software-as-a-service," or SaaS, a mode of delivering subscription-based computer programs over the internet. Companies catering to the arts have been hit: Shares in Adobe fell 9 percent and in early February.

  Anniversaries are probably celebrated more by publishers than by lovers—so as a book-lover I’m taking this opportunity to celebrate a book that came into my hands almost ten years ago: Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World (Steidl 2018).This is a great time to take a deep dive into this exceptional publication, in light of the exhibition, Noguchi’s New York, which just opened at the Noguchi Garden and Museum,. The book went out of print around 2022, but...