“(We) collected TikTok watch histories from 1,100 users. We created a database of roughly 15 million videos served up to them in a six-month period last year. Our analyses showed just how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to swipe more and watch more on its platform.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
“Now, nearly seven decades later, the Museum of Wisconsin Art has commissioned a pair as part of a new exhibition that reframes Wright’s furniture within the Wisconsinite’s practice and American modernism more broadly.” - Artnet
“The Poems of Seamus Heaney will feature his 12 collections interspersed with poems published in magazines, journals and newspapers, plus 25 poems selected from Heaney’s large number of unpublished works.” - The Guardian
The concern is a possible change to the ‘equivalency determination,’ through which a foreign organization can be deemed equivalent to a public charity in the US. This process makes possible the “American Friends” groups, such as the American Friends of the Musée d’Orsay and the American Friends of the Louvre. - ARTnews
As of November 3, Lee Enterprises is ceasing seven-day-a-week print editions at all of its papers that hadn’t already done so. Those titles include the St. Louis-Post Dispatch, Omaha World-Herald, Lincoln Journal Star, Buffalo News, Quad City Times (Iowa/Illinois) and Richmond Times-Dispatch. - MediaPost
“BBC executives are hoping to ease the burden on the stretched Foreign Office budget (which usually funds the World Service) by classifying some of its spending as national security. That would probably include its efforts to monitor foreign media and to put out information to counter propaganda from other countries.” - The Guardian
“Over a career that spanned more than six decades, Mr. Klíma emerged as one of Central Europe’s most distinctive literary voices, chronicling what it means to live with both fear and conscience in societies ruled by ideology … (and) how ordinary people navigate systems designed to crush individuality.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
Countless casual classical listeners will tell you they hate the “new stuff.” When asked for an example, they’ll cite some highly dissonant music written between 40 and 80 years ago — in a “modern” style which hasn’t been dominant in contemporary classical music (in North America, at least) for decades. - The New York Times
“Paramount said Monday that it has bought the news and commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss” — a long-controversial opinion writer who has gradually leaned more conservative in recent years — “as the editor-in-chief of CBS News, saying it believes the country longs for news that is balanced and fact-based.” - AP
The contrast could not be clearer. On one side is Day-Lewis, embodying a role that carries the weight of decades of human experience and on the other is a simulation designed to approximate star power without ever touching the messy, unrepeatable humanity that gives cinema its soul. - Los Angeles Times
Two things struck me about the launch of the Philharmonic season. First, the orchestra is embracing pluralism and diversity in the face of a right-wing Kulturkampf. - The New Yorker
Smithsonian–run institutions remain open using funds from previous years through October 11. Should the shutdown last beyond that date, the Smithsonian will also close. Open-air memorials and monuments, including the National Mall, are still open to the public under the National Park Service contingency plan. - ARTnews
“I was thinking, she’s the mother of modern dance,” said English National Ballet artistic director Aaron S Watkin. “She’s so iconic and famous, but hardly anyone is doing (her work in the UK).” His company and a few others may be changing that. - The Guardian
At time of writing, over 24 different versions of the CD and vinyl have been released. These include different colour vinyls, different cover images, signed editions and, most recently, CDs with unique tracks that are not available on streaming platforms. - The Conversation
