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YouTube Now Has, On Average, More Daily Viewers Than Netflix

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:02:00 +0200

“Average daily usage per YouTube account (worldwide) rose from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, according to analysis conducted by the Digital i agency across 20 international markets. The figure for Netflix dropped from 100.5 to 93.4 minutes.” – The Guardian

New Jersey PBS Finally Finds Its New Operator: Montclair State University

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:35:00 +0200

“A consortium led by Montclair State University has won a competitive process to take over New Jersey’s public television station.” The move comes months after New York PBS outlet WNET declined to renew its contract to run the New Jersey outlet. – New Jersey Globe

Colorado Passes Landmark Law: Artists Can Now Protect Their Rights By Becoming Corporations

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:01:00 +0200

“Senate Bill 133 creates Colorado Artist Companies, or A Corps, a new subset of limited liability corporations that guides artists through the complexities of setting up a business while ensuring they retain creative control over their work, which can include everything from songs, paintings and poems, to less obvious output, like creative coursework.” – The Colorado Sun

Artists Say They’ll Sue Venice Biennale If They’re Included In Public-Vote Prizes

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:36:00 +0200

https://apnews.com/article/venice-biennale-protest-russia-israel-golden-lion-0d1c92d173c530e63b146f1c3dd27063
“Dozens of artists participating in this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show are threatening legal action if their names are not removed from the ballot allowing visitors to vote for the best national pavilion and overall participants in the absence of a jury” — they all resigned — “to award the prestigious Golden Lions.” &ndas

Marjane Satrapi, Creator Of “Persepolis,” Is Dead At 56

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200

She achieved international fame for the graphic memoir of her girlhood in Khomeini’s Iran, and then for co-directing the animated film adaptation. Based in Paris, she went on to direct other films, animated and live-action, and publish graphic works, and remained a lifelong advocate for the rights of Iranians, particularly women. – Deadline

Is Trump’s Wreckage of the Kennedy Center an Opportunity for Something Better?

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:29:00 +0200

The Kennedy Center is a treasure. Not just for what it has been, but because of what it represents. But the practicalities of providing a roof for a bunch of artistic enterprises that essentially have nothing much to do with one another — or worse, having to squabble dysfunctionally among themselves for resources — are an argument for the need for something better.

Juilliard Flunks the Government’s New Math

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:29:00 +0200

Good Morning,The Education Department wants to judge college programs by what their graduates earn — and by that measure, Juilliard fails. So do Yale’s master’s programs in visual arts and music, and Harvard’s in museum studies (The New York Times). Programs that flunk could lose access to federal student loans entirely (ARTnews). It’s the purest version yet of a familiar demand: culture, prove your worth on somebody else’s terms.The New School is cutting roug

The Composer-Conductor Who Pioneered European Opera In Japan

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:03:00 +0200

Manfred Gurlitt was reluctant to leave Germany when the Nazis came to power, but he ultimately had to flee and ended up in Tokyo. By 1941 he was music director of the Tokyo Philharmonic; a decade later, he had founded his own opera company and taught most of Japan’s opera singers. – Bachtrack

The New School Makes Some Painful Cuts

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:32:00 +0200

The New School will employ 65 fewer full-time faculty members in the fall than it did last year, Kessler said. Based on the most recent federal data, that reduction would amount to roughly 36 percent of its 2024 full-time faculty work force. – Chronicle of Higher Education

Radio Station Says New Data Center Has Forced It Off The Air

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:01:00 +0200

“Rainey Broadcasting has told the FCC that development surrounding a massive data center and semiconductor manufacturing project forced gospel WFQY Jackson, MS (970 AM) from its longtime location. Yet … a rival broadcaster (is) arguing the Commission should determine whether the station had already been silent before the site was lost.” – Inside Radio

Getting Students Inside Dance

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:44:00 +0200

“That’s the entire mission of the school Not ‘You come to us’ but ‘We bring dance to you.’ And we want people in the room who can say, ‘I was just like you and now I’m out in the world dancing.’” – The New York Times

Will The Smithsonian’s Smallest Museum Survive?

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:31:00 +0200

Anacostia, since renamed the Anacostia Community Museum, was the first federally funded museum focused on Black history, as well as the first federally funded community museum; it is still the only Smithsonian to archive and document daily life in the nation’s capital. – The Atlantic

A Story Of Gay Life In Early America

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:31:00 +0200

The two women lived openly as a same-sex couple from 1807 to 1851 in Weybridge, VT, where they ran a successful tailoring business. Despite some local misgivings, they were largely accepted. Neighborhood children apprenticed with them, and Sylvia served as a deacon in the local Congregational Church. – ArtsFuse

Stadtlichter Presse Makes My Heart Beat Stronger

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:28:00 +0200