Tag: 06.05.15

Report: Music Streaming Is Diminishing Our Engagement With Music (And Musicians)

“Total listening volumes are up but the depth of engagement with the majority of those listeners is low. So choice abundance is leading to casual fan relationships. This wide rather than deep approach is great value for music fans and for labels and publishers it translates into revenue diversified across their rosters, often with strong focus on more profitable back catalogue. But for an artist this means more people listening to your music but fewer times. Artist – fan relationships are moving from long term liaison to short term flings.”

The Onion’s Newest Spinoff ‘Is Producing Some Of The Best Video Art On The Internet’

“Recently, Clickhole ventured into self-reflexive territory pioneered by Douglas Gordon in his installation 24 Hour Psycho with the maddeningly jumpy Sorry, We Slowed Down This Video Of A Hummingbird Too Much. There are even nods to Andy Warhol’s appropriations of advertising and mass-produced packaging in Clickhole videos like Don’t Believe The Hype: This Can Has No Peas In It and Yes! Ham Goes Up An Escalator.”

USC’s MFA Class Quit Their School. The Reasons They Quit Are Present At Arts Schools Across America

“In fine art, innovation means pushing oneself beyond aesthetic tropes and posing what are often extremely uncomfortable questions. It has nothing to do with innovating the way corporations can use metrics and data to monetize the social behaviors of everyday people. Sure, there are plenty of artists who are cash-hungry, capitalist pigs. But…”

Why Would A Museum With A $1 Billion Endowment Cut Staff Health-Care Benefits? Inside The Ongoing MoMA Labor Dispute

“Management is saying that health-care costs are going up in the double digits. Management also said something really crazy; they told us, ‘You really like that health care,’ like, you use it, like, are we supposed to not use it? And they want us to share the burden; however MoMA’s endowment topped a billion dollars last month … We had the Matisse cutouts show this year, which was a blockbuster. The museum is doing better than it has ever done.”

The Literary Crowdfunding Boom

“Authors, publishers and literary journals are all finding new ways of connecting directly to their readers – and their wallets – on online platforms such as Kickstarter. Marta Bausells examines the books industry’s new wave of social financing and picks 10 of the best literary crowdfunding projects.”

Louise Bourgeois Peels A Tangerine

“For ‘peeling’ a tangerine isn’t the lesson at hand. ‘You have to understand that in a tangerine there are two important points,’ she says. These points guide the human figure that she proceeds to draw on the tangerine, and that brings to mind some of her drawings of bald, large-breasted figures.”