MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Getty Center Under Mandatory Evacuation Order As Fires Get Frighteningly Close

- CultureGrrl

Marianne James shares how to build intimate experiences with extraordinary artists

- Aaron Dworkin

New in French Translation Sinclair Beiles’s Selected Catastrophies & Other Poems

- Jan Herman

The Men-Women Split in Reading is Real—and Persists Amid Historical Rate Declines

- Sunil Iyengar

The Fires Near the Getty: Too Close for Comfort

- CultureGrrl


 

DANCE

Dance Was Everywhere In Ancient Rome

- Aeon

Brooklyn Mack Leaves Helm Of His Hometown Ballet Company After Severe Funding Cuts

- Free Times (Columbia, SC)

Sadler’s Wells East, The Buzzy New Dance Venue Opening In London’s Olympic Park

- The Guardian

Dance Is “At An Inflection Point” In Minnesota’s Twin Cities

- The Minnesota Star Tribune

Women Are Losing Ground As U.S. Dance Companies Hire New Artistic Directors

- Dance Data Project

A Star NYCB Dancer Gets Her Hearing Back

- The New York Times

IDEAS

Globalization Gets A Bad Rap Now. But Globalization Has Been With Us For Centuries

- Aeon

Getting Our Heads Around Understanding Bullshit

- 3 Quarks Daily

The Role Of Public Philosophy In Difficult Times

- 3 Quarks Daily

Can Animals Make Art?

- The Conversation

Why Even Thinking About Utopias Seems Remote

- Psyche

The Role Of Beauty In Science

- Aeon

Can What You Eat Change Your Brain?

- The Guardian

What Fan Culture Reaction To Celebrity Deaths Teaches Us About Dealing With Grief

- The Conversation

Is This The Year AI Enters The Physical World?

- Wired

What The Arts Mean In The Long Run Isn’t What We Think They Do Right Now

- The Honest Broker

Why Are Airports Such Great Settings For Thrillers?

- NPR



 

ISSUES

Why The Supreme Court Is Likely Going To Let The TikTok Ban Proceed

- Slate

An Updated List Of LA Cultural Buildings Impacted By The Fires

- Artnet

Britain To Put 30% Cap On Markup Of Event Tickets

- The Guardian

How Boston’s Faneuil Hall Came To Embody The Complicated Idea Of America

- Smithsonian

Threat Of Ushers’ Strike At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Called Off

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

What’s Ultimately Behind The Decline Of Arts Criticism? The Decline Of Its Audience.

- Persuasion

Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Broken Copyright System

- The Atlantic

The Netherlands Is Converting Its Panopticon Prisons Into Arts Hubs

- The Guardian

Report: Getty Villa Museum Gardens in Palisades Are On Fire

- Los Angeles Times

Edinburgh Festival Warns That Funding Cuts Puts Festival At Risk

- The Guardian

Berkeley Arts Organizations Are In Distress

- BerkeleySide

Ushers Vote To Authorize Strike At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

TikTok Creators Are In Limbo, Wondering What’s Going To Happen Next

- Seattle Times (AP)

Animation Seems Ripe For AI, But That’s Not To Say It’s Going To Be OK For Animators

- Variety



 

MEDIA

Audiences Are Singing Along, Acting Out At “Wicked” Movie Showings

- APNews

Why Was The HQ Of Cape Cod’s Public Radio Station Sold Out From Under It?

- Nieman Lab

Ex-CEO Of MoviePass Pleads Guilty To Fraud

- Deadline

Why Mexicans Are Not Happy About The International Success of “Emilia Pérez”

- The Guardian

Hollywood Presses Pause As Wildfires Engulf LA

- CNN

NBCUniversal, Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery, DirecTV and Comcast Team Up On New Ad Platform

- Deadline

Oscar Nominations Postponed Due To L.A. Fires

- BBC

What Two YouTubers’ Stories Tell Us About The New Economics Of Creativity

- The New Yorker

What MrBeast’s Game Show Says About The State Of Today’s Media

- Vox

Even As Hollywood Contracts, L.A. Is Going Ahead With $1 Billion “Television City” Project

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)



 

MUSIC

Sam Moore, Who Died Last Week, Was One Of The Twentieth Century’s Best Performers

- The Guardian (UK)

Wanamaker Organ Is (Probably) Safe, Though The Macy’s Hosting It Is Closing

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

The Hams That Saved A Historic French Organ

- Atlas Obscura

Tracking The Rising Costs Of Streaming Subscriptions

- Music Business Worldwide

Considering (Or Not) The Politics Of Shostakovich, “The Hamlet Of Soviet Music”

- San Francisco Classical Voice

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Why Audiences Struggle With Contemporary Music

- The Guardian

“Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera” (Yes, Really)

- The Guardian

The Vinyl Music Revolution Comes At Great Environmental Cost

- Spin

Inside The San Diego Symphony’s 104-Year-Old Organ

- San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)

Spotify Is Simply Awful For Music

- Washington Post (MSN)

How TikTok, And Other Tech, Are Reshaping Classical Music

- Daily Cal



 

PEOPLE

Daniel Harding, Conductor (Oh And Air France Pilot Too)

- The New York Times

Director Otto Schenk, Standardbearer For Traditional Opera Stagings, Is Dead At 94

- AP

Anita Bryant, 84

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Why Boulez Matters (On The 100th Anniversary Of His Birthday)

- The Guardian

Zeppo, The Prodigal Marx Brother

- The Arts Fuse (Boston)

Remembering American Avant-gardist Richard Foreman

- Los Angeles Times

Peter Yarrow, Of Peter, Paul And Mary, Has Died At 86

- AP

How The Reviled Nietzsche Was Rehabilitated

- Commonweal

Friedrich St. Florian, Who Designed DC’s World War II Memorial, Has Died At 91

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Novelist David Lodge Dead At 89

- BBC



 

THEATRE

Tough Times For Theatre? Right. So It’s Not A Time To Be Timid

- American Theatre

“Wicked” Sets New Broadway Record, Grossing Over $5 Million In One Week

- TheaterMania

Actor Michael Sheen Is Funding A New National Theatre For Wales

- The Guardian

“Show Boat,” American Theater’s Most Unstable Musical

- The New York Times

Is The Bay Area’s Theater Ecosystem Contracting? A Look At The Numbers

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Watching Master Magicians From Just Six Feet Away

- The New York Times

Survival Of Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre Co. Is In “Substantial Doubt,” Finds Auditor

- Broadway Journal

Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Reopens After Hiatus And Reorganization

- Playbill

One Of Britain’s Best Drama Schools Is Closing Down Its Entire Undergraduate Program

- The Guardian

Richard Foreman, Theatre Impresario And Mysterious Playwright, Has Died At 87

- The New York Times



 

VISUAL

In Los Angeles, Artists’ Life Work Has Gone Up Into Smoke And Ashes

- The New York Times

Ornate 16th-Century Mural Discovered Under White Paint In Mexican Church

- Artnet

A Climber Drove Climbing Bolts Into Ancient Petroglyphs

- Artnet

Scotland’s National Galleries Warn That Major Cultural Assets Are In Peril Because Of Funding Cuts

- The Scotsman

With Art Sales Down, Auction Houses Pivot Towards Luxury Sales

- The New York Times

New Discoveries At Luxor Could “Reconstruct” History

- APNews

Could (Should?) Cities Be Built Of Wood?

- New York Magazine (MSN)

A Group Of Artists Put Up Billboards (Arty Ones) To Try To Energize Voters. Did They Succeed?

- The New York Times

Sally Mann Photographs Of Children Removed From Museum As Police Investigate Obscenity Charge

- Glasstire

Pushing Back Against The Pushback Against Social Justice and Art

- The Art Newspaper

Getty Images And Shutterstock To Merge Into Photo-Licensing Giant

- TechCrunch

AI Suggests Iconic Painting Wasn’t By Raphael

- CNET

Nick Cave’s $1 Million Artwork At Kansas City Airport Taken Down And Might Not Return

- The Kansas City Star (Yahoo!)

Did A Blockchain Billionaire Squash An Article About Him Eating Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana?

- ArtNews

London Relaxed Its Rules About Turning Office Blocks Into Apartments, But It’s Still Slow Going

- The Guardian (UK)

The Architects Were Fascists, So Should Italy Tear Their Buildings Down?

- The New York Times



 

WORDS

What You Got When You Got A Letter From Edward Gorey

- The Paris Review

British Fiction Generated Record Sales In 2024

- The Bookseller

Explaining Substack

- Quartz

How Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Novel Finally Made It Into Print

- NPR

Ingesting Writing For Translation, Transformation

- Asymptote Journal

Human Use Of Alphabets May Be Much Older Than We Thought

- Hyperallergic

Why Do Some Right-Wingers Get Fixated On Epic Poems?

- The Nation

Cynthia Ozick’s Ode To, And Lament For, The Written Letter

- Harper's

Study: No, Monkeys Couldn’t Randomly Manage To Type Shakespeare

- The New York Times

An Alternative History Of The 20th Century Literary Canon

- New Statesman

Grace Glueck On Discovering Yourself Through Writing

- The New Yorker

Is It Really True That Men Aren’t Reading Books?

- Vox

Speed-Novelist: Just How Was Barry Malzberg Able To Be So Prolific?

- The Nation

How Do You Write, And Draw, To Keep A Baby’s Attention?

- The New York Times