Creativity

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The shock of the news

The Tate is using AI to pair today's news photos with works from its permanent collection, with striking results

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The future's in play

Comment: Pat Kane on why play will be our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating in the 21st century

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The creation myth

Technology is not destroying creativity, but democratising the tools of creation. This is a good thing, even if the results aren't always art

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Dance moves: The first deejays

Charting periods of innovation in dance music: 1970s Jamaica rebels against dub with the freestyling deejays of dancehall, and pre-empts hip-hop

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Flipping Point

At the 1968 Olympics, Dick Fosbury revolutionised the high jump. Sporting progress is often incremental, but occasionally athletes come along and try something completely different

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Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk

In our series on innovation in dance music we look at James Brown's invention of funk

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Tasting notes: a field guide to liking in a world of infinite variety

A primer on how to perceive, judge and appreciate the things around us

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Replicas of an unstable world

​At the Architecture Biennale in Venice, traditions of reproduction are being updated and are drawing attention to current crises

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The filter bubble

Digital technology lets us all be artists but does its guiding hand sap our creativity and lead to cultural homogeneity?