The Recount
How Being Muslim Shapes Hasan Minhaj’s Comedy
John Heilemann talks with two-time Peabody Award-winning comedian Hasan Minhaj, best known for hosting six seasons of the Netflix series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and his widely acclaimed Netflix special, Homecoming King. Heilemann...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Artisans break the mould in Britain's pottery capital
Start-up artisans are breathing new life into the once mighty ceramics industry in Stoke-on Trent, the British city whose name worldwide is synonymous with pottery
Bloomberg
Pianist Says Time Has Come for Musicians to Be CEOs
Second Place winner of Chopin Competition in 2021, Pianist Kyohei Sorita, is not just the second only Japanese pianist to win the prize at the competition but also a rare CEO of an Orchestra that he founded a year ago. 27-year-old...
Bloomberg
Covid-19 Hits the Performing Arts Industry
Sep.07 -- Ticketmaster and Live Nation saw a new round of furloughs according to Variety. It's just the latest news to hit the live performance industry. In fact fine and performing arts industries have seen estimated losses of nearly...
Bloomberg
Black in Focus: LaChanze Talks Delivering Diversity on Broadway
LaChanze discusses diversity on Broadway, from audiences to actors, on the latest episode of Black in Focus with Karen Toulon. She plays the lead in "Trouble in Mind" — a play about racism in theater which is making its Broadway debut...
Curated Video
How House Floats Became A New Tradition For New Orleans
When COVID forced New Orleans to cancel Mardi Gras, resident Megan Boudreaux introduced a new tradition: the house float.
Press Association
Artist creating 100 ceramic beetles to highlight insects as objects of beauty
Harrogate artist Anna Whitehouse has engaged with more than 2,000 people worldwide, and closer to home, to help her sculpt a beetle a day for 100 days. The creative challenge has seen her followers from Australia, Canada, USA, Singapore,...
Curated Video
Hip-Hop History: Dropping The Beat On AAPI Artists
Asian American hip-hop artists and producers speak on why hip-hop resonates with AAPI communities.
Bloomberg
Idagio Aims To Meet Classical Music Demand
Jun.03 -- Bloomberg's Benedikt Kammel discusses Berlin-based tech startup Idagio, which aims to be a music streaming service for classical music fans.
Bloomberg
Crypto Report: Decentralizing the Music Industry
CoinFund Managing Partner and Head of Venture Investing David Pakman joins Emily Chang to talk about CoinFund's new $300M early-stage Web3 venture fund and where he will be placing his bets, and weighs in on the intersection of the music...
Curated Video
NFT Art Auctions Have A Piracy Problem
Artists are seeing their work sold by strangers on NFT sites without their consent — and there's no easy way to stop it from happening.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : 'An indescribable honor': Patti Smith granted France's highest honor
France's ambassador to the United States bestows punk-poet icon Patti Smith with the Legion d'Honneur, the country's highest order of merit (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Young Iraqi film students tell their own stories from Mosul
While one budding Iraqi filmmaker shouts "action!", a fellow student clambers over the rubble in war-torn Mosul, as they piece together their first short film thanks to a collaborative project organised by the Mosul fine arts academy, a...
Curated Video
Spotify Says It Will Add Advisories To Podcasts Discussing COVID-19
The advisories will link to Spotify's fact-based COVID-19 hub in what Spotify chief executive described as a “new effort to combat misinformation.”
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Cold War bunker in Bosnia revived
VOICED : Cold War bunker in Bosnia revived
Curated Video
What To Expect From The 2020 ACM Awards
Television is back celebrating the best in country music tonight with the 2020 ACM Awards on CBS.
Bloomberg
Lang Lang: My Musical Ability Is 90% Practice, 10% Talent
Oct. 21 -- Pianist Lang Lang discusses his life, career and musical performances on Bloomberg Surveillance. (Source: Bloomberg)
Curated Video
The Oscars' Fixation On Black Trauma Is An Issue Of Diversity
In the history of the Oscars, the majority of nominations for Black writers and filmmakers have gone to movies about racism.
Curated Video
Artists Rebuild A More Inclusive Broadway
TaNisha Fordham's "12 Mo' Angry Men" is a modern re-envisioning of Reginald Rose's classic play about justice and inequality.
Bloomberg
World's Biggest NFT Marketplace Sees $2B in Transactions This Month
Aug.27 -- OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer talks to Bloomberg's Emily Chang about the explosive increase in NFT transactions and taking the digital sector mainstream.
Bloomberg
The Black Tattoo Master Building a Movement in Atlanta
Miya Bailey has perfected tattooing darker skin, which the industry has long ignored. Now he's expanding into the world of fine art, bringing along the Black Atlanta community he's helped build over the decades.
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Lagos offers concrete canvas to graffiti artists
Nigeria's megacity of Lagos is becoming an urban canvas for graffiti artists determined to brighten up its grey concrete walls
Bloomberg
How Streaming Services Are Saving the Music Industry
Jun.30 -- David Israelite, National Music Publishers Association's chief executive officer, discusses the impact of streaming services on the music industry with Bloomberg's Vonnie Quinn and Anna Edwards on "Bloomberg Markets."
Curated Video
Elvis Presley's Complicated History With Black Musicians
Elvis was famously inspired by Black musicians of his era, but some say he only copied and profiteered off Black artists without credit.