Tag: pop culture

• The illuminating absence of Donald Trump

  August 29, 2019

  Much has already been said, and much will continue to surface on our media feeds in the future about Dave Chappelle’s “Sticks & Stones” Netflix special. What has been said… more ›

• Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr

  August 21, 2019

  It’s been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers. It sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in 2013, then withered as… more ›

• Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?

  August 21, 2019

  I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/music-black-culture-appropriation.html more ›

• TikTok’s Videos Are Goofy. Its Strategy to Dominate Social Media Is Serious.

  July 3, 2019

  China’s first big hit in the U.S. uses an advanced algorithm to personalize its addictive video-sharing app, and parent Bytedance’s enormous ad spending on Snap, Facebook and Instagram aims to… more ›

• July 3, 2019

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/fashion/dior-chanel-van-herpen-couture-paris.html more ›

• Virgil Abloh: the red-hot renaissance man shaking up fashion

  June 30, 2019

  On an early summer’s evening on the outskirts of Basel – a city almost certainly in Switzerland, but sometimes in France and occasionally Germany – hundreds of well-heeled men and… more ›

• Before Trump and the Kardashians, Gloria Vanderbilt Invented the Personal Brand

  June 20, 2019

  It used to be that the very rich avoided the spotlight at all costs. Then an heiress figured out how to sell her own story and changed all that forever.… more ›

• Mass Appropriation, Radical Remixing, and the Democratization of AI Art

  June 2, 2019

  The tools for using artificial intelligence and machine learning to create art are currently complex enough that only a small number of highly technical people have mastered them. This came… more ›

• Iranian pop music

  May 29, 2019

  Iranian pop music refers to pop music originated in Iran, with songs mainly in Persian and other regional languages of the country. It is also widely referred to as Persian… more ›

• Rihanna Opens Up About Her New Clothing Line, the Future of Fashion and Her Next Album

  May 20, 2019

  FOR THREE YEARS, I have been a diligent student of Rihanna’s 2016 song “Work. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/20/t-magazine/rihanna-fenty-louis-vuitton.html more ›