Since the era of Napster, digital music has lacked robust metadata frameworks, leaving compositions vulnerable to misattribution and exploitation. I believe we urgently need comprehensive databases containing metadata. - Music Business Worldwide
"I still don’t believe any important work is done on mobile, I think an excess of this is a very clear signal of a distracted team looking to fill time, look busy and feel important. You can’t do big things if you’re distracted by small things." - HotTakes
After downloading a variety of pictures, Carina Popovici discovered that a supposed Monet, titled Forest With a Stream and with a price of $599,000, was almost certainly counterfeit. - Artnet
With the institution now in a state of crisis, the administration and the board face a crucial test: They must stabilize the organization, reassure worried donors like me and set a clear, positive direction forward. - San Francisco Standard
As widely loved as Impressionism remains today, its overexposure has some rolling their eyes at museums now rushing for the opportunity to spotlight what skeptics tend to reduce to “pretty pictures” and “a plaything for rich people and fancy museums." - Artnet
Over the next week, more than 1,700 modern and contemporary artworks are expected to come under the hammer through the three dominant houses – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips. Between them, art estimated at $1.2bn to $1.8bn is expected to be auctioned soon. That’s a decline of roughly one-third over two years. - The Guardian
Pretty soon the majority of Americans, and of people in other, industrialized nations, will be living in vast suburban tracts … our old downtown areas will become tourist attractions, probably operated by Walt Disney Enterprises, and kept much cleaner and safer and prettier by the Disney people than our present bureaucracies maintain them now. - The Atlantic
Given a 10 percent decline in the art market — from $30.2 billion in 2022 to $27.2 billion in 2023 — and general concern about the long-term financial health of museums, questions have become urgent regarding the next generation of art collectors and donors. - The New York Times
"Some actors avoid playing objectionable people, concerned about being pigeonholed into villainhood, or that in the audience’s impressionable minds, their character’s likability might blur with their own. … Paulson said those kinds of thoughts haven’t occurred to her." - The New York Times
OK, bring back the 18th century: "Cordelia gets a romance. ... She gets her love, Edgar. King Lear gets to rule. The bad people are punished. The good people get rewarded." - Happy Dancing
“People wept in the street when the magnificent Mackintosh building was nearly destroyed by two fires. So why, 10 years on and despite overwhelming support for restoration, is there still no plan—or funding—for its repair" - The Observer (UK)
"For clearly one of the hardest workers in show business with one of the longest resumes I've ever seen, it's hard to believe that rejection is still ever-present for Leguizamo. ‘They were never going to pick me — no matter how talented I was,’ he said.” So he’s going it on his own. - Salon
One of the most famous British women artists of the 1800s, "for more than a century, Louise Jopling has been dismissed by the art establishment as an amateur, her huge body of work and professional career overlooked by successive curators of the national collection." - The Observer (UK)
The market already wasn’t super hot: “The bidding wars that characterized the pandemic spending frenzy have largely dissipated in favor of prearranged ‘guarantee’ deals that assure paintings will sell for a minimum price. Young artists have also seen their secondary markets collapse.” - The New York Times
Her macular degeneration might keep her from “reading” the old-fashioned way, but she still loves books of every sort. "I love being surrounded by books — they’re snapshots of the past: first-night gifts, holidays abroad, memories of lost friends and loved ones." - The New York Times
