Tag: pop culture

• How the Uffizi Gallery Is Highlighting Black Figures in Renaissance Art

  July 8, 2020

  Many of the images widely associated with the Italian Renaissance—think Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus and Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam—are dominated by white… more ›

• Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create “the World’s No. 1 Audio Platform”

  December 1, 2019

  Having helped transform the music industry, Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff set their sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele,… more ›

• Ludmilla Teixeira, la riposte à Bolsonaro

  November 21, 2019

  PortraitFéministes ! (4/6). Sa lutte contre le président brésilien, « mysogine de la pire espèce », l’a propulsée comme figure de proue de la contestation citoyenne. A travers les réseaux sociaux,… more ›

• Museum of the Future: The building designed by an algorithm

  October 31, 2019

  Even in a city building as quickly, and as much, as Dubai, the Museum of the Future is known as one of the most challenging construction projects ever attempted.In Dubai,… more ›

• Moneta Sleet: The great black photographer you’ve never heard of

  October 28, 2019

  It’s 50 years since photographer Moneta Sleet became the first African American to win a Pulitzer prize for journalism. Has his work received the recognition it deserves? https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50186270 more ›

• The Disruptive World of Edward Norton

  October 13, 2019

  Edward Norton’s intense, cerebral presence in a film has always been a fairly reliable indicator that you’re going to see something good. In recent years, though, Norton’s onscreen performances have… more ›

• Archiving Britain’s Black Communities There’s no limit to our culture

  October 9, 2019

  Before the internet, family photo albums brought out on special occasions would hold the memories of Britain’s Black communities. https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/black-in-the-day/ more ›

• FKA twigs: ‘An incredible woman always in the shadow of a man? I can relate’

  September 28, 2019

  FKA twigs lives in a real house, in the real world, though this seems hard to believe. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/28/fka-twigs-in-shadow-of-man-robert-pattinson-surgery-new-album-miranda-sawyer more ›

• Pop’s need for speed: ‘You have to drop new stuff constantly’

  September 19, 2019

  The music industry in 2019, says Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis, could be compared to a Pez dispenser. He is not talking about big heads – rather, the seemingly endless, instantly… more ›

• How Much of the New American Songbook Will Be Sung in Spanish?

  September 14, 2019

  Is it really possible that today’s Latino musicians will be remembered primarily via the dude from Matchbox Twenty? Slate’s New American Songbook, a project dedicated to predicting which songs from… more ›