We’re Entering The Next Phase Of Music Streaming

“When artists lament Spotify’s meager payouts, the real culprit isn’t the streaming service, which pays out 70 percent of its revenue to labels and musicians—it’s the fact that streaming doesn’t make a whole lot of revenue to begin with. The most likely way for that to change is for there to be more paying users in the system. So if the golden age of simplicity for streaming’s early adopters is coming to an end, the health of the music industry might be worth it.”

Can This Man #SaveNewYork?

“His personal ire is frequently directed at what he calls Yunnies, or young urban narcissists. Yunnies are, by his account, the silent accomplices of hyper-gentrification: de-cultured millennials who actively like to shop at Target and could not care less if a quirky shrine like Bill’s Gay Nineties, which is the tavern where Tallulah Bankhead used to drink and which closed three years ago, is turned into a garish, high-end restaurant.”

Why Did Maria Altmann Fight For ‘The Woman In Gold’?

“If they would have once come and said, ‘We know these paintings are not ours, but, look, they are national treasures for us. Can you sit down and negotiate?’ Not once did they even attempt it or answer a letter of mine. … They feel they got away with and they (feel they) will get away with it, and they will pat themselves on their back, and this is what makes me so angry.”

The Renovation Of The National Theatre Gets It Right

“They have kept control of the design of the new zones of quaffing and scoffing rather than let the in-house fit-outs of catering chains run riot, as has happened elsewhere on the South Bank. With the help of extensive scholarship on the subject of 1970s board-marked concrete, they have cleaned and repaired it. It looks beautiful.”