“Fact number one”, according to Grainge, is that “streaming has resulted in a quantum leap forward in music access and monetization and streaming will continue to propel many years of industry growth.” - Music Business Worldwide
As with the Lowcountry's other 18th-century cash crop, rice, slavers deliberately abducted Africans skilled in growing and working with indigo and transported them to Charleston to cultivate it on the area's plantations. Now some of their descendants are reviving the craft of growing and dyeing with the plant. - The New York Times
"By using advanced brainwave measurements and neural imaging, the scientists identified that music engages a circuit connecting the auditory cortex and parts of the brain involved in reward and emotional processing, creating what the researchers call 'triple-time locking' of neural oscillations." - PsyPost
Vance has spent little effort in the Senate on the arts: his only notable action was introducing a Consequences for Climate Vandals Act, which would increase penalties for protesters damaging art at Smithsonian museums. Meanwhile, Walz is governor of Minnesota, number one in the US in arts funding per capita. - Hyperallergic
“I thought, ‘What if there were a show about our leaders where these people are as competent and committed as the doctors and nurses on a hospital show, the police officers on a cop show, the lawyers on a David Kelley show?’” - The New York Times
"A group of scientists and scholars … filed a class action lawsuit against Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Taylor and Francis, and Springer Nature last week. The complaint outlines 'a scheme' that they say resulted in 'perverse market failures that ... slow dramatically the pace of scientific progress.'" - Inside Higher Ed
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has officially ended plans to establish a satellite campus at the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park in what was part of a 2017 project to 'de-center' the museum and expand reach to different parts of the city. The project suffered higher costs than anticipated." - ARTnews
"As a novelist, (he) was often compared with the American writer James A. Michener, who … attempted to capture epic swaths of history in an intimate narrative. But if his vision was Michenerian, his prose was Faulknerian, driven by interweaving, stream-of-conscious narratives." - The New York Times
In comparison to the theater, live comedy has recovered from the pandemic in great commercial shape. But with success comes the danger of insularity, and while more new artists are entering the field than ever, the gulf in influence between celebrity comics and gifted young unknowns grows. - The New York Times
"A convoy of trucks bearing eight restored bells — the heaviest of which weighs more than 4 tons — pulled into the huge worksite Thursday. … They are being blessed in a special ceremony ... before being hoisted to hang in its twin towers for the Dec. 8 reopening (following the catastrophic 2019 fire)." - AP
What we hardly talk about is how we’ve reorganized not just industrial activity but any activity to be capturable by computer, a radical expansion of what can be mined. Friendship is ground zero for the metrics of the inner world, the first unquantifiable shorn into data points. - The Walrus
"Nearly 60 years since his gallery debut, Pettibone remains best known for his works copying modern art superstars like Andy Warhol and Frank Stella. Pettibone’s unwitting final exhibition with Castelli Gallery in 2022 presented 15 new paintings, all interpreting flags by Jasper Johns through Pettibone’s signature reduced scale." - Artnet
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a handful of artificial intelligence-related bills that would give actors more protection over their digital likenesses and fight against the spread of deep fakes in political ads, among other regulations aimed at the fast-rising technology. - Los Angeles Times
Despite differences over solutions, there is a consensus on the problem: California is simply not competitive with many other states and countries that offer more generous incentives to entice film crews. - Los Angeles Times
The German virtuoso pianist and composer was hailed as a musical genius by critics for her powerful and inventive performances and her original and deeply expressive compositions. Why, then, is she nearly forgotten today? - The Conversation
