Art and Culture

(Spoiler alert: It’s YouTube.)You think you know YouTube. It’s where billions of people learn how to change a tire, follow a favorite yoga workout or catch footage of Monday’s solar eclipse.But maybe you don’t know that YouTube is also…
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TikTok began life as Musical.ly, an app to film oneself lip-syncing to songs. Interacting with pop music was a core function of TikTok. Fans and artists shared music they loved, grafting it onto videos showing their lives and ideas. It…
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When I stand in front of Caravaggio’s “Madonna di Loreto” (c. 1605–6) in Rome’s Basilica of Sant’Agostino, I feel woozy, my cup of joy overflowing. The dramatic chiaroscuro matching the gloom of the church, sliced by…
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Ever more powerful systems developed by OpenAI, Google and others require larger oceans of information to learn from. That demand is straining the available pool of quality public data online at the same time that some data owners are…
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By now, it’s widely known that Universal Music Group has removed most or all of its catalog from TikTok, as well as apparently every song that includes at least one songwriter affiliated Universal Music Publishing Group. It’s a…
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Under the new policy, more than 60 percent of tracks will not rack up any royalties. ADVERTISEMENTLast week Spotify officially demonetised all tracks with under 1,000 streams annually – a new policy that could see nearly…
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Although distributors and streaming services frequently use language that places the blame on the artist for fraudulent activity detected on their accounts, it has become clear that artists are often caught in the middle of…
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Hungry for niche knowledge to impress your colleagues? Troubled by the size of a hefty new book? Doubt your abilities to understand complex arguments? Well, today an increasingly competitive industry offers to take away these problems…
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When an illustrated edition of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” was released in 2019, educators in Clayton, Missouri needed little debate before deciding to keep copies in high school…
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The financial crisis facing nonprofit theaters in America has captured the attention of Congress, where a group of Democratic lawmakers is introducing legislation that would direct $1 billion annually to the struggling industry for five…
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