“According to the India Times, there’s a very real possibility India will have the largest number of Facebook users of any country by 2017. Also, WhatsApp’s user base broke 70 million in November of last year. That’s a lot of people sharing content. Put those figures next to the fact that between 2011 and 2013, Indian online video consumption doubled. According to a YouTube spokesperson, total watch time in India has grown 80% from 2014 to 2015. During that same time period, the amount of videos being uploaded in India has doubled.”
Tag: 08.02.15
Who Is Disrupting The Art World – A List
“We at artnet News put our heads together, polled some art-world veterans for suggestions, and assembled this admittedly subjective, non-comprehensive list of colleagues who have changed the shape of the American art world.”
Taking Stock Of The Arts In Kansas City
The city has made big investments in its arts. But it’s a time of transition as prominent leaders move on and arts institutions try to figure out what next.
Thinking About Buying A Gallery? Here’s What Can Go Wrong If You Don’t Ask The Right Questions
“I inherited a gallery manager who was extremely upset at everything. The invoice demands were flowing in – totalling at least half a million pounds – from a lot of irate people. I feel like a naive fool now.”
The Zen Master Of Dance In New York
“Even in the depths of summer, when New York theaters close up shop and dance companies go on break or on tour, the ballet teacher Zvi Gotheiner keeps going to work, though he may not call it that. And dancers keep flocking to work with him.”
It’s Time To Start Liking Tom Cruise Movies Again
“Somewhere along the way Cruise went from being the biggest star on the planet to his own films’ worst enemy.” (We all remember the Oprah Couch-Jumping Incident.) “There was something about Tom Cruise’s … well, Tom Cruise-ness that felt like it needed to be brought down a peg.” But Bilge Ebiri, after watching all of his movies for an assignment, argues that Cruise is an underrated, and sometimes ingenious, actor.
A ‘Sneaky Feminist Honesty Bomb’: The Observer Interviews Amy Schumer
On doing a press tour to promote her movie: “I don’t want to dress like a dickhead and talk about myself. A lot of it feels like I’m being punished for doing something that I’m proud of. Imagine all day having to talk about your writing. Wouldn’t you just run a warm bath and open your wrists?”
What You Going To Do When The Machines Take Over Your Job?
“Adapting to this change is going to require us to understand how man-machine partnerships are going to evolve. This is tricky, but not impossible. We know that machine learning is going to be used to automate many, if not most, low-level cognitive tasks. Our goal is to use our high-level cognitive ability to anticipate what parts of our work will be fully automated and what parts of our work will be so hard for machines to do that man-machine partnership is the most practical approach.”
Banksy Mural To Go To Auction
“News of the Banksy heading to auction arrives in Detroit once again in the middle of another major debate about graffiti and street art, this time centered around the explosion of murals in Detroit, the role of street art in beautifying the city and the high-profile local arrest of Shepard Fairey, a rock star of the genre, for allegedly doing unauthorized work in the city.”
Misty Copeland On What It Took To Get Where She Is
“I didn’t know if another black woman would be coming behind me and be given the same opportunities… That’s why I danced through a severe injury with ‘Firebird’ because I felt, had I not done that role and not done a really good job, that I would be given the opportunity again,” she said, recalling her brutal performance in which she danced the title role while enduring a nearly career-ending foot injury in the Stravinsky ballet from which she titled her children’s book.