The new upload feature won’t work like SoundCloud, where songs can be instantly available. Instead, Spotify views it as a way for artists to have control over their own music in advance of its release date. Those who are part of the program will be shown an interface where they can upload their music and accompanying artwork, pick a release day, input additional information (like if it’s a single or an album), and then preview how it will look once published. Direct upload is being offered as a free service.
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Exit Interview: Steven Woolf, Artistic Director Of Repertory Theatre Of St. Louis
Q: “You’ve said the theatre was in trouble [when you arrived in 1986]. How did you save it?”
A: “It was about stabilizing the programming. I don’t think there was anything magical. We were in crisis, so we had to pick some titles that people would respond to.”
Jeffrey Deitch’s New Vision For An LA Gallery
“There was tremendous enthusiasm from a broad audience about what I did there — not just kids who went to “Art in the Streets,” but patrons, all kinds of people. And I remain friends with so many of these people. So it was a very strange situation where there was a lot of enthusiasm in part from the public for what I was doing, and from people in the universities and city government, and it is a very narrow group, even before I got there, that for whatever reason didn’t want me there. And they succeeded in driving me out. But that was not enough to topple my mission. This is like a museum-type space; I don’t need the board and all that trouble. I can do whatever I want here. I have zero bitterness. I love L.A.”
What’s In Agnes De Mille’s Unopened Letter? Choreographers Will Get To Speculate
The cover note accompanying this mysterious missive, sealed with wax and dated 12/02/1963, says, “Please file it unopened, with the date carefully noted. It is the outline for a play, and I have no means of copyrighting it except this way. The material is eminently stealable and I’m discussing the matter with people of similar ambitions.” The current possessors of the letter, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, don’t plan to open it just yet, but they are choosing five choreographers to create short pieces based on what they imagine the letter says.
Artnet Analysis: How Much Underrepresented African-American Artists Are In US Museums
Since 2008, just 2.4 percent of all acquisitions and gifts and 7.6 percent of all exhibitions at 30 prominent American museums have been of work by African American artists, according to a joint investigation by In Other Wordsand artnet News.
Media Trolls Tried To Shame This TV Actor For Working At Trader Joe’s. They Got Him Acting Jobs Instead
Geoffrey Owens, who had a recurring role on The Cosby Show in the ’80s and ’90s, was photographed last month bagging groceries, a between-gigs job he took to make ends meet; the pictures ended up on Fox News and The Daily Mail Online. Owens actually got an outpouring of support (Fox and the Mail got the shaming) — and then producers, reminded of his existence, started offering him jobs. He tells Sopan Deb what’s happened since and what else he’s been doing (like teaching Shakespearean acting).
The Death Of Traditional Celebrity Journalism?
When stars’ comings and goings began to be documented on a minute-by-minute basis, those changes triggered celebrity reticence. On its own, that wouldn’t signal the death knell of celebrity journalism as it’s been practiced for decades. But the pressure being applied to celebrity journalism from the top might pale in comparison to the threat surging from below, where a new generation of celebrities — YouTube stars, SoundCloud rappers, and various other earnest young people — share extensively on social media on their own terms, moving quickly and decisively (and messily) with no need for the patience and pushback they might encounter in an interview setting.
ABT’s Season At Met Opera House Will Be Cut By Three Weeks
One consequence of the Metropolitan Opera’s recently-announced changes to its season schedule — Sunday performances, going dark in February, adding weeks in May and June — is that the available time for American Ballet Theatre’s spring season there is being reduced from eight weeks to five. Marina Harss explains why the move might just make sense to the company, and she offers a suggestion for where they might go instead.
City Of New York To Commission Artists To Make The Construction Sheds And Fences Everywhere Less Ugly
“The [City Canvas] program was designed to beautify New York City’s visual landscape by installing large-scale – and temporary – artwork on its endless construction fences and 270 miles of sidewalk sheds. … Buildings Commissioner Rick D. Chandler said ‘If anyone can bring some love to the sidewalk sheds New Yorkers love to hate, it’s our city’s artists.'”
Watching Jaap Van Zweden Get Started At The New York Philharmonic
Reporter Michael Cooper and photographer Nina Westervelt follow the Phil’s new music director through his first week on the job — unpacking his office, meeting with CEO Deborah Borda, strategizing with his publicist, taking selfies with passersby who recognize him from the ads around town, and (of course), rehearsing for the opening night concert.