Our current copyright laws clearly don’t account for the role technology plays in our lives.
Tag: 01.17.14
Google Has Tried To “Map” Pop Music. Weird.
“What it provides, then, is a rough-and-ready map of the popularities of genres and artists over the years. Bear in mind, it’s not logging what people listen to, but what they own. And equally, note that Google Play users are a pretty small subset of music fans.”
What Does It Actually Mean To Be “Culturally Relevant”?
There’s room in the world for all kinds of art, and that includes retro art. But I also think that “how does this relate to other things from its own time?” is a more productive question for composers than “does this appeal to young people with mainstream tastes?”
How The Artworld Is Reacting To MoCA’s Choice For A New Director
LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art is troubled. In trouble. So the choice of a new director means more than it would in a usual leadership transition.
How Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Got To Be Ubiquitous
“Flower painting has a long history, but no other flower, Bailey argues, is so strongly associated with a particular artist as the sunflower is with Van Gogh.”
Can Live Theatre Ever Pull Off a Really Convincing Stage Death?
“We know that it’s a game of pretend: they’re still breathing. You can still see them breathing a lot of the time, and the stage trickery that is employed is usually not that good.”