“There’s a heightened sense of understanding that these types of situations are entirely beyond the control of the artist. Regardless of how good a security plan you have for your tour, there’s not a manner in which you can completely prevent these types of things from playing out, especially as it relates to the live music community. There seems to be a target on the back on the live music community, as we’ve seen now here in Las Vegas.”
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Eminem Wins $600,000 From New Zealand Political Party For Using His Music In Campaign
Eminem filed proceedings against New Zealand’s then governing party in September 2014 for using a version of his chart-topping song Lose Yourself in an election campaign advertisement.
In Praise (Or Condemnation) Of The Book Dust Jacket
“The right cover is like a beautiful coat, elegant and warm, wrapping my words as they travel through the world, on their way to keep an appointment with my readers. The wrong cover is cumbersome, suffocating. Or it is like a too-light sweater: inadequate.” Ernest Hemingway was less diplomatic in his response to the heraldic figure composition on the jacket for A Farewell to Arms, designed by Cleonike (“Cleon”) Damianakes in 1929: “I cannot admire the awful legs on that woman or the gigantic belly muscles [on the man],” he wrote to his editor.
Berkshire Museum’s Controversial Director Goes On Medical Leave For Rest Of This Year
The news of a shift in leadership, which will take place on October 31, comes days after a lawsuit was filed by the sons of Norman Rockwell and other plaintiffs, seeking to halt the museum’s controversial plan to sell off 40 works at Sotheby’s in order to build its endowment, fund renovations, and pursue a “New Vision” marked by a greater focus on science and technology-driven exhibitions.
Major Warhol Collector Says Its Collection Is Being Held “Hostage”
The family that owns the largest private cache of Andy Warhol pieces says its business has been brought to a standstill by a company that’s holding its entire 1,300-plus-piece art collection “hostage” at a New Jersey storage facility.
Fred Hersch: How I Broke Into The Jazz Business
Truth to tell, I was pretty full of myself and probably too pushy. I suppose I was a nuisance, in everybody’s face a little too much. I made sure all the other pianists knew who I was, and I constantly asked people if I could sit in. Most of them were nice about it, considering how obnoxious I was. Eventually, the bassist Red Mitchell, whom I had sat in with a few times, said to Bradley, “Give the kid a gig already.”
Sorting Through Joan Rivers’s Massive Files Of Jokes
“The drawers are jammed with jokes typed on 4-by-6-inch cards – 52 drawers, stacked waist-high, like a card catalog of a certain comedian’s life’s work, a library of laughs. … She arranged the 52 drawers alphabetically by subject, from ‘Annoying habits’ to ‘Zoo.’ … A drawer in the G’s begins with ‘growing older’ and ends with ‘guns.’ It takes the next drawer to hold all the cards filed under ‘guys I dated.'”
American Film Institute Turns 50 – It Helped Redefine Movies As Art
“In those days, folks out here [in Los Angeles] were very uncomfortable being called artists, because they were making a lot of money. It seemed brash and inappropriate. It helped that an institution like AFI really provided that context for why this is America’s art form, how much it changed American culture.”
That Guy Who Put A Peeing Dog Next To The ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue? He Got Run Over By A Subway Train
Alex Gardega, who responded to what he called the “corporate nonsense” of the State Street Bank-sponsored “Fearless Girl” statue on Wall Street by placing his “Pissing Pug” statue at its feet, was hit by a downtown no. 6 train on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. (He had evidently been on the subway tracks.)
Podcast Behavior: Here’s When People Listen To Their Podcasts
The music streaming giant looked at what a typical day of music and podcast listening looks like for their listeners–and discovered that podcast listening peaked during the middle of the day. Interestingly, when they looked at weekday numbers versus the weekend, people listened to fewer podcasts on the weekend. In fact, the drop off is pretty significant, 45% to be exact.