The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech

The playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar described our “click-bait consciousness,” trained to interact with anything in the feed designed to be triggering. “The worship of algorithms is mutilating creative industries,” the television writer Cord Jefferson complained. “Culture is no longer made. It is simply curated from existing culture, refined, an

While the ideal of life as work of art served as an alternative to the pecuniary metaphor of life as a business and to the rational, ends-driven thinking associated with the commercial sphere, in the late twentieth century the Romantic idea of the artist sequestered from the demands of the market gave way to a new model of the artist as an entrepre

Until recently, the entertainment industry has been on a growth tear—so much so, that anything artsy or indie or alternative got squeezed as collateral damage.