Rivers is the one who inspired Niki de Saint Phalle’s iconic Nana figures, but in addition, she was "a bohemian saloniste whose lifestyle was a kind of art making.” - The New York Times
“The Internet Archive is one of the most important historical-preservation organizations in the world. The Wayback Machine has assumed a default position as a safety valve against digital oblivion.” - Wired
"Last week, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg came out with a harsh attack on WP Engine, a major WordPress hosting provider, calling the company a ‘cancer’ to the community. The statement has cracked open a public debate surrounding how profit-driven companies can and can’t use open-source software.” - The Verge
They got their umlaut, "a small but sizable victory for three sisters who could not publish under their own names nearly 200 years ago, even as their novels Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights helped change the portrayal of women’s lives in fiction.” - The New York Times
Sure, it was cooler in the 1990s. And true, “the prize has sometimes struggled to find the balance between challenging assumptions and maintaining a sense of fun.” Yet … - The Guardian (UK)
Under those rules, streaming services that are not Canadian-owned and have more than CAD $25 million (approx. USD $18.5 million) in revenue in Canada annually are required to pay 5% of that revenue into funds that subsidize Canadian content and creators. - Music Business Worldwide
"A shocking number of advances in Anglo-American culture — everything from realist fiction to ecology to economic policy — would look different, or might not even exist, if she’d never put pen to paper." - Literary Hub
And that legitimate purpose is, to put it one way, imprecision, which is precisely why all the constant "like"-ing so irks sticklers. Sociolinguist Valerie Fridland talks about how that works in this episode of the podcast Explain It to Me. (includes partial transcript) - Vox
The luxurious Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart had sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors from entering. It was forced to shut in May when one affected patron sued the gallery for gender discrimination and won. - BBC
Gladwell has insisted that change happens neatly, and he’s sticking to it. Epidemics, he writes in the new book, are “not wild and out of control.” They have a single source... He’s also sticking to a career-long dismissal and devaluation of digital communication and its possible effects. - The Atlantic
To protest the prison sentences given today to the original climate-protesting art vandals, three of their comrades went to the National Gallery in London and assaulted the very same painting with almost the same liquid. (This time they used Heinz vegetable soup instead of tomato.) - Artnet
A cursory glance at auction results over the last two years is enough to realize they have been middling at best, but JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy—which sold its fine art indices to Sotheby’s in 2016—quantified the decline. - ARTnews
