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“The music industry is looking for its next growth story, and superfans—a highly engaged, under-monetized segment of listeners who spend disproportionately on concert tickets, merch and artist experiences—are an attractive solution.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

After studying at the Juilliard School of Music in Manhattan, at 22 Marsalis became the first artist to win Grammys in both classical and jazz categories at once—a feat he repeated the very next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The German artist Albrecht Dürer initiated one of the first known intellectual property lawsuits.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

The rap artist, who makes southern hip-hop, trap, and country-rap, became well known for viral singles Texas, The Largest, and Mmhmm.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

The artist looks through a small hole at the object he wants to draw or paint.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

"We very much hope that audiences and artists in the Netherlands can continue to be represented in the Eurovision Song Contest," said Green.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

These families became patrons to the most important artists of the day, such as Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, as well as Genoa’s own Baroque master Bernardo Strozzi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Among the key specimens on display is a miniature model of a Crystal Palace dinosaur, alongside other objects that show how early scientists and artists understood the prehistoric world.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Pearl Jam protested the practices of Columbia House, and the bum deal it gave artists, but made little headway as the club boomed to 16 million members in the 1990s.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

There is no way to know if the artists were trying to accurately represent an enslaved man in the background of a painting of the great man Washington.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis