The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, said it found the company violated antitrust rules by restricting app developers from telling users about alternative ways to subscribe to music-streaming services. - The Wall Street Journal
"If you’re going to musicalize a horror movie, Teeth is a doozy, and a gamble. Darkly comic and at times stomach-churningly gory, it’s a touchstone of feminist body horror and an exemplar … of a rape-revenge film that indicts misogyny and body shame." - The New York Times
“TikTok is how you get the word out about a new song — and now you’re muting someone’s entire catalog? The labels say TikTok is so important and push their artists to , and now they can’t?” - Variety
"Across a five-decade career, Yamamoto has dedicated himself to fostering community in Japan’s rapidly expanding cities. From housing projects that coax residents into spontaneous interactions to a glass-walled fire station that invites passersby to peer inside, his architecture appears intent on 'blurring boundaries between its public and private dimensions.'" - CNN
The band of 47 exiled musicians aged between 14 and 22 had been working for months on their repertoire for the shows, which are due to start at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on Thursday. The Home Office had initially refused their visa applications but overturned the decision on Monday after public criticism. - The Guardian
"A new study ... suggests that through most of the Iron Age biblical era, from roughly 1150 B.C. to 600 B.C., a small promontory called Tel Shiqmona on Israel’s Carmel coast was not a residential settlement, as previously supposed, but a major purple-dying factory." - The New York Times
More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests. The findings indicate that systems to preserve papers online have failed to keep pace with the growth of research output. - Nature
"Warner Bros Discovery plans to shut down Newshub, a rebranded version of what most of us grew up knowing as '3 News' – leaving our country with just one English-language TV news team, and none that aren’t owned by the state." - The Guardian
"The latest effort to breathe life into San Francisco’s struggling Mid-Market neighborhood involves bringing amateur musicians to the streets. The nonprofit Mid-Market Business Association unveiled a new initiative, Busk It!, on Thursday. The project aims to attract local musicians for weekly live performances on the sidewalks." - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
Nutcracker in Havana, performed by Acosta's Cuba-based company, Acosta Danza, "will weave traditional Cuban rhythms and dances together with classical ballet, all set to a revised version of Tchaikovsky’s famous musical score by Cuban composer Pepe Gavilondo." - The Guardian
"How is what's happening in the Middle East - and the tensions being driven here by war and violence there — impacting the UK's arts and entertainment sphere? What role does culture have to heal political divides — or foment them? They're questions I wanted to explore with figures working in that world." - BBC
"The country’s most famous drag star … (is) one of three business partners behind Allstora, which will ... provide writers with a greater share of profits than other online booksellers do. … (Allstora) will send a rainbow school bus from the West Coast to the South to distribute books targeted by bans." - The New York Times
"A luminous singer who performed with jazz legends including Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson, Ms. Collins spent her entire career in Canada. … (Said one jazz scholar), Eleanor Collins, if she was American, would be mentioned in the same breath as Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald.'" - The Washington Post (MSN)
Activists from the group This Is Rigged poured porridge and jam on a bust of Victoria at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow on Sunday. The following day they sprayed soup on statues of Victoria and Prince Albert in the city's George Square. They were protesting the high cost of food. - ARTnews
There are few artists whose signature styles have been so widely, unashamedly capitalized by big brands (with the help of estates and foundations). But in some ways, the condition is hardly a new one—Haring himself sold... - ARTnews
