MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Age Is No Obstacle: Annie Fischer Plays Like an Angel

- Jan Herman

Quick Study: U.S. Public Perceptions of Artists

- Sunil Iyengar

Changing the Chains of Command: The Turbulent Turnover in Museum Management

- CultureGrrl

Business in service of beauty

- Andrew Taylor

Yes, Arts Organizations CAN Show Charitable Impact

- Alan Harrison


 

DANCE

Want Your Dancers To Be More Creative? Help Them Also To Be Creative Outside Of Dance

- San Francisco Chronicle

Why The Dreams Of Some Young Ballet Students Get Destroyed: Dishonesty

- Gramilano (Milan)

This Choreographer And Teacher Developed A Specifically Caribbean Dance Technique

- Essence

Pittsburgh Ballet Set Attendance Records For 2023’s “Nutcracker.” Maybe It’s Time To Bring Back A Live Orchestra?

- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Reworking Balanchine’s “Apollo” From The Muses’ Perspective

- Pointe Magazine

He Went Into The Competitive World Of Student Dance Conventions And Created A Big, Supportive Family

- The New York Times

Cleveland Ballet Fires Artistic Director Gladisa Guadalupe Following Investigation

- WKYC (Cleveland)

IDEAS

How Math Plays A Role In All The Arts

- Quanta

Why Is It So Difficult To Define Consciousness?

- Nature

Is Social Media The Fuel For Populists? (It’s Complicated)

- Foreign Policy

AI Unlocks Much Creativity — Also Much Potential Danger

- Hyperallergic

Today We Model Everything To Understand It. But There Are Limits

- The New Yorker

The Reason Small Noises May Drive You Nuts

- Psyche

Does Our Language Really Shape Our World View?

- Aeon

Does AI Mean The End Of Intellectual Property?

- The New Yorker

Artists Worldwide, Including Annie Ernaux, Pledge To Boycott Germany For Its Attitude Toward Gaza

- Hyperallergic



 

ISSUES

Brazil’s Museum Of Democracy Will Include Major Archive Of 2023 Bolsonarista Insurrection

- The Art Newspaper

How Algorithmic Curation Has (Is) Changing Culture

- Yale Review

Why Don’t Arts Organizations Pay More Attention To Their Digital Presence?

- Situation Interactive

After A Decade Without A Single Increase, Colorado’s Arts Budget May Be About To Double

- The Colorado Sun

Thanks To Prop 28, California Schools Are About To Get $1 Billion For Arts Education. They’re Not All Ready To Use It.

- The Mercury News (San Jose)

Algorithms Are Flattening Our Taste

- NPR

Why Do Coffee Shops Look So Much The Same? Algorithms That Drive The Generic

- The Guardian

Education Standardization Has Been A Disaster For Our Students

- Medium

A Small Arts Organization In Australia Loses Its Funding Prompting Questions About How Impact Is Measured

- ArtsHub

Even While Australian Arts Groups Are Struggling, Some Festivals Are Breaking Attendance Records. Why?

- ArtsHub

Warning Of Damage To City’s Economy, New York Cultural Institutions Urge Mayor To Reverse Budget Cuts

- Gothamist

What Taylor Swift Studies Teach; Madonna Studies Were First

- LA Review of Books

France’s New Culture Minister Is A Combative, Controversial Conservative From The Sarkozy Days

- Artnet

Magic Bullet Syndrome: These Kinds Of Solutions Don’t Exist

- Nightingale Sonata



 

MEDIA

Report: Half As Many Scripted TV Shows Are Being Made As Were In 2019

- The Hollywood Reporter

The Tyranny Of Emoji Reactions

- The Atlantic

An AI-Created Performance Of George Carlin Demonstrates What’s Wrong With AI

- Los Angeles Times

Amid Financial Firestorm, Two-Thirds Of Board At Peoria’s Public TV Station Resign

- WCBU (Peoria)

Two Who Embezzled From Indianapolis’s Public Radio And TV Stations Are Sentenced

- Inside Radio

How TV Has Lost Its Way (Looking At You Netflix and HBO)

- The New York Times

Growing Number Of Countries Call For Limits On Streaming Platforms

- The Guardian

Young Britons Just Don’t Bother With BBC News. A New Podcast Is Trying To Draw Them Back.

- Nieman Lab

Depoliticizing Poland’s State TV Network Is A Struggle As Right-Wing Nationalists Act Out

- BBC

For The First Time, Malaysia Is Criminally Prosecuting Filmmakers. The Charge: “Wounding Religious Feelings”

- AP



 

MUSIC

This Is What Happens To Your Brain When You’re On The Taylor Swift Beat Full-Time

- Numb at the Lodge

The Doctor Musicians

- Van

An El Sistema Grad Founds An Orchestra For Refugees In Sweden

- CNN

Third Coast Baroque, Chicago’s Period-Instrument Ensemble, Is Shutting Down

- Chicago Tribune (MSN)

Conde Nast Is Folding Pitchfork Music Magazine Into GQ And Laying Off Staff

- Daily Beast

How Video Game Music Is Changing Composers And Audiences

- The Conversation

English National Opera’s Musicians Formally Declare Strike

- The Independent (UK)

Universal Music Group Is About To Eliminate Hundreds Of Jobs

- Variety

Magnificent Obsession: The Man Who Spent Decades Building The World’s Greatest Stereo In His House

- Washington Post

The Pittsburgh Symphony Is Playing Well. But The Audience Is Missing. What To Do?

- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Scammers Are Stealing Artists’ Music And Posting To Streaming Platforms

- The New York Times

SoundCloud May Be For Sale

- Wired

The San Francisco Conservatory Of Music Violated Title IX, The Office Of Civil Rights Rules

- Inside Higher Ed

A Window Into A New Opera Festival

- The New York Times



 

PEOPLE

How Much Do You Know About Frida Kahlo’s Life?

- ARTnews

Appreciating Joan Acocella

- The New Yorker

For Those Who Saw “Gutenberg! The Musical!” And Want To Know Who This Gutenberg Guy Really Was

- The New York Times

Peter Schickele, Creator Of P.D.Q. Bach And Composer In His Own Right, Has Died At 88

- The Washington Post (MSN)

New York Art Dealer Brent Sikkema Murdered In Brazil

- Artnet

Singer Jill Clayton, 82

- The New York Times

Italy’s Undersecretary For Culture Has Been Indicted For Art Theft

- El Pais

Tom Shales, Longtime Washington Post TV Critic And NPR Movie Critic, Is Dead At 79

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Joyce Randolph, Who Played Trixie Norton On “The Honeymooners”, Has Died At 99

- The Hollywood Reporter

The West Coast’s First Woman TV Reporter, Ruth Ashton Taylor, Has Died At 101

- The Hollywood Reporter



 

THEATRE

UK Theatres Gasping To Restructure After Devasting Year

- The Stage

Guthrie Theatre Chooses New Managing Director

- American Theatre

Cutting A Shakespeare Play Down To 80 Minutes Is Entirely Legitimate, Even At The RSC, Argues The Guardian’s Theatre Critic

- The Guardian

Royal Shakespeare Co. Launches New Low-Price Ticket Scheme

- The Guardian

Comedians Stealing Each Other’s Jokes: Taboo Or Standard Practice?

- The Hollywood Reporter

President Of The Broadway League Is Retiring

- The New York Times

A Brief History Of Booing At The Theatre (Which Might Just Be A Good Thing)

- The Guardian

The Real-Life Couple Who May Have Inspired Edward Albee

- The New York Times

Dear Audience Members, Please Get Better At Being In Public

- The Guardian (UK)



 

VISUAL

The Istanbul Biennial Is Delayed After Its British Curator Resigns

- The New York Times

Art Fairs Are Expensive And Less Effective For Galleries Selling. Still, The Galleries Can’t Give Them Up

- The Art Newspaper

Three US Museums, Including The Met, Accused Of Hiding Stolen Medieval Stained-Glass Windows

- ARTnews

How The Getty Museum Did The “Rigorous,’ Sometimes Hair-Raising” Work To Restore Cranach’s “Adam” And “Eve”

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

This Year’s World Monument Fund Preservation Projects

- Artnet

Slovakia’s Government Zeros Out Funding For The Country’s Main Contemporary Art Museum

- ARTnews

Fired Director Of Cleveland Ballet Launches Her Own Ballet School — Right Next Door

- Ideastream (Cleveland)

After 14 Years, Stolen Picasso And Chagall Paintings Are Found In Belgian Basement

- CNN

Someone In Georgia Painted An Icon With Stalin In It, And, Well, All Hell Is Breaking Loose

- CNN

Thanks To Counterfeit Basquiat Fiasco, Orlando Museum Of Art Is In “Severe Financial Crisis”

- The New York Times

Spanish Police Make Mass Arrests After Climate Change Activists Assault On Museum

- ARTnews

The Art Market Enters 2024 In A State Of Confusion

- Artnet

Why Do Museums Focus So Much On Getting Young People, When Older People Are A Natural Audience?

- The Art Newspaper

Laser Mapping Reveals The Amazon’s Hidden, Ancient Cities

- ARTnews

Britain’s Cooling Towers Deserve To Be Preserved, Just Like A Church Or Castle

- The Observer (UK)

Palace Where Alexander The Great Was Crowned Finally Reopens To Tourists

- The Guardian (UK)



 

WORDS

Winner Of Japanese Literary Prize Says ChatGPT Wrote Part Of Her Book

- Vice

The British Government Doesn’t Recognize What A Library Is, Or Does

- The Guardian (UK)

A Brief History Of American Dialects

- Smithsonian

Appeals Court Panel Upholds Stay Of Texas’s Book-Banning Law

- Publishers Weekly

Do You Speak To Yourself? Is It Speech? In Words?

- 3 Quarks Daily

Turns Out Louisa May Alcott Wrote Under Pseudonym

- AP

A Novelist Visits The CIA’s Creative Writing Group

- The Paris Review

Study: Which Is The World’s Prettiest Language?

- The Economist

Tone, Gender, Performance, And Exclamation Points

- Culture Study

Today In Florida Book-Banning: Dictionaries

- Popular Information

AI Comes For Comic Book Creators

- BBC

Eleven Weeks After Hacker Attack, British Library Begins Restoring Online Services

- The Guardian

An Argentine Man Has Spent Two Decades Reviving An All-But-Dead Indigenous Language

- The New York Times

The Crisis At Substack Is Of Its Own Making

- The Atlantic