The company “said it will continue to deliver personalized music to its listeners via a new music player that’s currently being tested. The difference is the music will not come from its own servers. Instead, music will be piped in from YouTube and VEVO onto the new player.”
Tag: 03.26.14
Should Austria Preserve Thousands of Jobs by Buying Art From This Bankrupt Man?
“[Karlheinz] Essl, the owner of the Austrian DIY firm bauMax, is hoping to sell the 7,000 works in his collection to the Austrian state in an effort to bail out his struggling business and save 4,000 jobs.”
Spain’s TV Networks in Trouble as Dubbing Actors Strike
“Most foreign films and shows are dubbed on Spanish television, and the strike by 250 actors” – now in its third week – “has delayed the broadcast of new episodes, leaving major networks showing reruns.”
Italy Pledges €135M to Restore Southern Heritage Sites
“The Campania region is expected to get the greatest share of the funding: €43.1m for five projects,” with more than €30m each for Sicily and Puglia and €26.8m going to Calabria.
Book Editors Say Life’s Too Short To Read Bad Books
“There’s no set way to approach a manuscript. Nobody tells you, ‘This is how to edit. Follow these steps.’ Everyone comes to a manuscript with a different perspective, and you quickly learn that each editor has his or her own personal preferences — conventions they love (and maybe even overuse) and things that are huge pet peeves.”
Can You Really Prosecute Someone For Rap Lyrics? (It’s Being Done)
“The proliferation of cases has alarmed many scholars and defense lawyers, who say that independent of a defendant’s guilt or innocence, the lyrics are being unfairly used to prejudice judges and juries who have little understanding that, for all its glorification of violence, gangsta rappers are often people who have assumed over-the-top and fictional personas.”
Russian Oligarchs? Brazilian Millionaires? What’s The Detroit Institute Of Art To Do?
“OK, let’s clear up any misunderstanding: Russian oligarchs and Brazilian millionaires are not amassed in front of the Detroit Institute of Arts in the hopes of being first in line should the treasures inside go up for sale.”
Color As Sounds, Paintings As Music (Literally)
“In Neil Harbisson’s cybernetic world, every color has a corresponding note: Red is F, orange is F sharp, G is yellow, C is blue, A is green and so on. He listens to Warhols, paints with sounds and writes music based on what he sees around him.”
Cut The Fulbright Scholarships? What A Bad Idea
“As tensions escalate with countries that were once touchy allies, what we need are more Fulbright grantees in the world, not fewer. Sure, $30 million seems like a lot of money—but it’s actually 0.06 percent of the proposed total State budget.”
Radical Departure: A Gender Difference In Artistic Evolution?
“Radical breaks in style are technically gender neutral, and there are certainly men who have roamed among forms, styles, and even media. I am speaking of a tendency, one that seems to be more noticeable in women working in the twentieth century and beyond, perhaps owing to the fact that more work by women has found its way into the world since 1900.”