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Amazon Sued For Price Fixing
The suit "alleges that the publishers pay high commissions and other costs to Amazon, which in turn increases the retail price of e-books sold...
Hollywood Rediscovers The Limited Series
Once thought of as a relic of yesteryear, the limited series—or miniseries, depending on which generation you belong to—has rapidly shifted back into focus....
One Composer’s Long Slog To Make A Giant TV Network Pay For Using His...
Unbeknownst to the composer, waiting beyond a YouTube search for his name was a seeming subindustry that consistently used Kerry Muzzey’s music without his...
Georgia Towns Sue Netflix To Make Them Pay Cable Fees
Three municipalities in Georgia are suing Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming video providers for as much as 5 percent of their gross revenue in...
Meet Maya Phillips, The NYT’s Newest Critic-At-Large
"There have been a lot of bad things happening this year, obviously. But the good thing about being a critic during this pandemic is...
Wikipedia @20: A Little Piece Of Utopia Left On The Internet?
As more and more of the internet is consolidated, discredited, and co-opted by capital, Wikipedia begins to look like a vestige of a bygone...
The Historian And The Nazi Art Thief
“The paper trail for these art plunderers, as for most second-rank figures in Nazi Germany, largely dried up after their interrogations and de-Nazifications in...
The Man Saving Cities One Historic Building At A Time
“These once-dead buildings are now living spaces where people work, eat and carry out their lives,” says Luis Martín Bogdanovich, the general manager of...
Mattel Rolls Out A New “Maya Angelou Barbie”
The new Barbie, whose face is “sculpted to Dr Angelou’s likeness” and who is wearing a head-wrap, jewellery and floral print dress on its...
The Power Of Jigsaw Puzzles To Put The World Back Together
If maps are representations of a larger reality, then jigsaws are maps too. Indeed, they began life this way, as ‘dissected maps’. Invented by...
Why Germany Is The Greatest Arts Nation
This is the greatest modern artistic nation in Europe. Art history tends to get it all wrong, exaggerating the glamour of French art, just...
Read (And Watch Again) Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem
Here's the video and the transcript. - The Hill
The Tiniest Art Gallery (And Please Take The Art)
“The idea is pretty simple — anyone is welcome to leave a piece, take a piece or just have a look around and enjoy...
How Amanda Gorman Became Amanda Gorman And Poet Laureate For The Inauguration
Her precocious path was paved with both opportunities and challenges, an early passion for language and the diverse influences of her native city. Gorman...
Remembering Director Mike Nichols
A vocal opponent of the auteur theory, which gives directors primary credit for the films they make, Nichols treated cinema as a fundamentally collaborative...
Beethoven Through The Oppression Of An Anniversary Year
Alex Ross: "The most valuable recordings of the Beethoven Year—Igor Levit’s survey of the sonatas and the Quatuor Ébène’s cycle of the quartets—bring out...
We Need To Rethink The Music Ecosystem
"With the collapse of live revenues, the issues in how streaming pays (or doesn’t) is being discussed. Ingham calculates that 1% of all artists...
On His Way Out, Trump Designates Heroes For His Garden Of American Greatness
The earlier order laid out a vision for a garden to "depict historically significant Americans" at a to-be-determined place with a target date for...
What Critics Are About
Reviewing is not just about giving a thumbs-up or down and handing out generalised star ratings. It’s using experience of the art form to...
The Culture Of Nothing?
For years, an aesthetic mode of nothingness has been ascendant — a literally nihilistic attitude visible in all realms of culture, one intent on...
Tokenism Versus Representation
"The complexity of the question "What qualifies as tokenism and what as representation?" rivals that of Blackness itself. There is often a conflation perhaps...
The Limitations Of Adding Video To Classical Music
"With more conventional classical music video where we watch musicians playing, I would argue that the visual experience actually constrains our mind’s eye and...
Border Wall SeeSaws Win Design Award
They were installed by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello at the Anapra zone in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. Even though they were only...
A Critic Ponders A Critical Interruption
Nate Chinen: "A disaster of this magnitude turns every critic into an advocate. For many of us, of course, that function was already part...
Trump Pardons Disgraced Art Dealer
"Helly Nahmad, a member of the Nahmad family dynasty and the son of art collector David Nahmad, was caught running an illegal gambling ring...