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Cable Companies Are Bleeding Millions Of Customers

The largest pay-TV providers lost a total of 5.8 million net video subscribers in 2022, compared to a loss of 4.7 million in 2021, according to the latest tally from Leichtman Research Group. - The Hollywood Reporter

Museums Anxious As Warhol Suit Threatens How Art Is Made

The Warhol foundation has argued that the appeals court decision renders some existing artworks “presumptively unlawful” and “could lead to the removal of seminal works of art from the public sphere.” - The New York Times

We Need To Rethink Political Art

Artists are a contentious lot and often downplay or deny that politics has any bearing on art and art making. Other artists fully accept that art is political and regard art as a necessary form of political engagement. I have reservations. - Discoveries in American Art

Universal Music Posts Record Streaming Revenue, But CEO Calls For New Streaming Model

Even as Universal Music’s chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge lauded the sustained growth of streaming and technology’s ability to connect artists with their fans, he used the company’s fourth quarter investor call on Thursday to advocate for a new economic model. - New York Post

Impending US Supreme Court Ruling Could Upend The Arts World

Blame the appeals court judgment from 2021 declaring that Andy Warhol had no right to appropriate someone else’s photo of Prince into one of the Pop artist’s classic silk-screened portraits. - The New York Times

How Museum Architecture Is Changing

The tension between architectural expressionism and restraint is nothing new. Still, there is a kind of reckoning in the field of museum design with the realisation that the tourist-candy structures that went up in recent decades did not succeed in truly making the art institution more accessible. - The Art Newspaper

Just How Does Angela Bassett Do The Thing?

During red carpets for her second Oscar nomination, 29 years after her first, the actor has to remain guarded. "It’s an attempt to remain poised in the midst of a whirlwind. It’s being grateful, thankful. And I think all that comes across as being regal." - Washington Post

The Great British Bake Off Is Being Turned Into A Musical

"Paul came to see the show and loved it. ... He gave me two handshakes after and is going to bring his mum back. He'd never even seen a musical before this." - BBC

Rafael Vinoly, Architect Of Dramatic Glass Roofs For Cultural Centers, 78

The Uruguayn-born "Viñoly was at once a 24-7 architecture geek and a bon vivant with a penchant for French wines. ... He was also a classically trained pianist who gave recitals in a music pavilion on his property in Water Mill, N.Y., on eastern Long Island." - The New York Times

A Film Tour Of The UK

Whether you're in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, or even England, the whole place has basically served as the film set of many a movie. - The Guardian (UK)

Some Of Publishing Turns To Sensitivity Readers, But Others Object Loudly

One author "said while he believes using sensitivity readers to rewrite classical literature like Dahl is problematic, employing them to work on in-progress manuscripts can be an important aspect of the writing process." - CBC

A Better Seat At The Movie Theatre Will Now Cost You More

For instance, movie theatres "have been pushing customers toward premium-priced specialty tickets" - IMAX? Dolby sound? Reclining seats? Or your regular, standard, much cheaper seat? - The New York Times

What Earned More Money For Charity, Everything Everywhere’s Googly Eyed Rock Or Its Sex Toys?

The toys - but "the most desired lot of all was Raccacoonie, a raccoon puppet that features in one universe in the film where the raccoon is revealed to be helping a chef with his cooking, a reference to the Pixar film Ratatouille. Raccacoonie fetched US$90,000." - The Guardian (UK)

The Academy Changed The Way We See Movies

But that had nothing to do with the Oscars. "Academy reps conducted extensive studies and established standards for theater screen illumination, detailed the growing use of incandescent lighting on film sets, and led the drive for a single standard screen size." - Variety

Lou Stovall, Artist And Printmaker Who Worked With Alexander Calder And Jacob Lawrence, 86

"Working with sponges, brushes, towels, squeegees, hand-cut stencils and a rich array of oil-based inks, Mr. Stovall helped demonstrate that printmaking was an art form, not just a commercial craft." - Washington Post

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