MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Age Is No Obstacle: Annie Fischer Plays Like an Angel

Quick Study: U.S. Public Perceptions of Artists

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

Business in service of beauty

Yes, Arts Organizations CAN Show Charitable Impact

DANCE

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

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

This Choreographer And Teacher Developed A Specifically Caribbean Dance Technique

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

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

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

Cleveland Ballet Fires Artistic Director Gladisa Guadalupe Following Investigation

IDEAS

How Math Plays A Role In All The Arts

Why Is It So Difficult To Define Consciousness?

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

AI Unlocks Much Creativity — Also Much Potential Danger

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

The Reason Small Noises May Drive You Nuts

Does Our Language Really Shape Our World View?

Does AI Mean The End Of Intellectual Property?

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

ISSUES

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

How Algorithmic Curation Has (Is) Changing Culture

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

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

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

Algorithms Are Flattening Our Taste

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

Education Standardization Has Been A Disaster For Our Students

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

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

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

What Taylor Swift Studies Teach; Madonna Studies Were First

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

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

MEDIA

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

The Tyranny Of Emoji Reactions

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

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

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

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

Growing Number Of Countries Call For Limits On Streaming Platforms

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

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

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

MUSIC

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

The Doctor Musicians

An El Sistema Grad Founds An Orchestra For Refugees In Sweden

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

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

How Video Game Music Is Changing Composers And Audiences

English National Opera’s Musicians Formally Declare Strike

Universal Music Group Is About To Eliminate Hundreds Of Jobs

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

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

Scammers Are Stealing Artists’ Music And Posting To Streaming Platforms

SoundCloud May Be For Sale

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

A Window Into A New Opera Festival

PEOPLE

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

Appreciating Joan Acocella

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

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

New York Art Dealer Brent Sikkema Murdered In Brazil

Singer Jill Clayton, 82

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

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

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

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

THEATRE

UK Theatres Gasping To Restructure After Devasting Year

Guthrie Theatre Chooses New Managing Director

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

Royal Shakespeare Co. Launches New Low-Price Ticket Scheme

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

President Of The Broadway League Is Retiring

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

The Real-Life Couple Who May Have Inspired Edward Albee

Dear Audience Members, Please Get Better At Being In Public

VISUAL

The Istanbul Biennial Is Delayed After Its British Curator Resigns

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

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

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

This Year’s World Monument Fund Preservation Projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Art Market Enters 2024 In A State Of Confusion

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

Laser Mapping Reveals The Amazon’s Hidden, Ancient Cities

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

Palace Where Alexander The Great Was Crowned Finally Reopens To Tourists

WORDS

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

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

A Brief History Of American Dialects

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

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

Turns Out Louisa May Alcott Wrote Under Pseudonym

A Novelist Visits The CIA’s Creative Writing Group

Study: Which Is The World’s Prettiest Language?

Tone, Gender, Performance, And Exclamation Points

Today In Florida Book-Banning: Dictionaries

AI Comes For Comic Book Creators

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

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

The Crisis At Substack Is Of Its Own Making