MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Allyssa Jones talks about connecting young people with diverse composers

- Aaron Dworkin

A Kiss Is Still a Kiss

- Jan Herman

A Kiss Is Still a Kiss

- Jan Herman

The Tangled Legacy of JFK and the Cultural Cold War: America Needs a New Public Policy for the Arts

- Joe Horowitz

Quick Study: Monetizing Health Benefits from the Arts

- Sunil Iyengar


 

DANCE

Christopher Stowell Is New Artistic Director Of Royal Winnipeg Ballet

- Winnipeg Free Press

Ballet In A Theatre With An Air Raid Shelter: Kyiv’s “The Snow Queen”

- The Times (UK)

Coming This Summer: The National Ballet Of Texas

- Plano Magazine

How Maria Tallchief Changed American Ballet

- The New York Times

IDEAS

Ways To Think About Being Stupid

- CJR

Attention Has Now Become Our Most Precious Resource

- The Atlantic

Question Everything? Then What Does Anything Mean?

- The New Yorker

Consumers Highly Value Reviews. Problem is, Most Are Fake

- The Walrus

What’s The Real Difference Between Fiction And Non-Fiction?

- Aeon

We’ve Always Been Worried About Distraction (So What’s The Crisis?)

- The New Yorker

Is The TikTok Battle A Chance To Reimagine How The Internet Works?

- The New Yorker

Sex Might Be Back In Movies, But It’s Not Very Sexy

- The New York Times



 

ISSUES

Sleep Tourism Is Becoming A Thing

- BBC

How To Alleviate Milwaukee’s Arts Funding Crisis? Collaboration Across The State, Say Leaders

- Milwaukee Magazine

What Do Ticket-Buyers Value Most When Choosing A Seat?

- Butts In Seats

British Government Announces £60 Million In New Arts And Culture Funding

- WhatsOnStage (UK)

Among Trump’s Day One Executive Orders: Canceling Biden’s Arts Initiative

- White House

Why Scotland’s Government And Its Arts Funding Agency Are Like A “Dysfunctional Divorcing Couple”

- The Scotsman

Britain Should Offer Tax Deductions For Corporate Arts Philanthropy As France Does

- Financial Times

Study: LLM AI’s Aren’t Very Good At History Yet

- TechCrunch

The Director Claims His Movie About The Munich Olympics Isn’t Political

- CBC

Without Reality TV, We’d Never Have Arrived At Today’s Inauguration

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

Prince Harry’s Case Against British Tabloids Is Rapidly Reaching Its Most Vital Days

- BBC

A Marvel Card Game Goes Dark Along With TikTok

- Washington Post

Where Do Neil Gaiman Fans Go From Here?

- NPR



 

MEDIA

“Twin Peaks”: An Oral History

- The Guardian

Chicago Public Media Begins Offering Buyouts

- Chicago Tribune (MSN)

Canada’s New “Online News Act,” Meant To Help Journalism, Has Been A Disaster For Small Media

- Canadian Dimension

What’s Up With The Increasing Childishness Of Pop Culture?

- The New York Times

Two Major Studios Wage Court Battle Over Streaming Rights To “South Park”

- The Hollywood Reporter

Academy Says Oscars Will Proceed As Planned

- The Guardian

I Was The Merch Girl On The “Girls Gone Wild” Tour Bus

- Slate

The Oscars: A History Of Adapting To Disaster

- The New Yorker

Regulating Social Media: Like Cigarettes? Or Like Junk Food?

- The New Yorker

Why Sad Posts On Social Media Get Such Big Audiences

- BBC



 

MUSIC

Inside 150 Years Of Paris’ Opulent Palais Garnier Theatre

- The New York Times

Longtime Baltimore Symphony Concertmaster Resigns: A Complicated Legacy

- Baltimore Banner

The Angel Blue Story

- The New York Times

Music Streamer Deezer Reports 10,000 AI-Created Songs Are Uploaded To Its Site Every Day

- Music Business Worldwide

Hollywood Composers, Whose Work Is Drying Up, Find Solace In Home Concerts Of Their Chamber Music

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Listeners Prize Vinyl For Its Analog Sound. Here’s The Thing, Though…

- Digital Trends

The Missing Song From Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer” Has Been Unearthed

- AP

Krishna Thiagarajan Out As Seattle Symphony CEO; Two Other Senior Execs On Leave

- Seattle Times

Under-35s Are More Likely To Listen To Orchestral Music Than Older People: Study

- Limelight (Australia)

Restore Musical Instruments Or Conserve Them? (A Debate)

- Early Music America

Data’s In: The State Of The Music Business In Canada In 2024

- Ludwig Van

Thomas Søndergård Makes His Mark On The Minnesota Orchestra

- The New York Times

For Musicians, How Old Is Too Old?

- Nightingale Sonata

CEO Of Music AI Company: Making Music The Traditional Way Sucks

- Music Radar

Classical Music’s Identity Crisis: Political Music Under Biden

- Van

Andrew Lloyd Webber Will Teach These Soccer Fans To Sing Opera

- BBC



 

PEOPLE

A Broadway Actor On Her Rare Sunday Off

- The New York Times

Ten Surprising Facts About Andy Warhol

- Artnet

Painter Jo Baer Dead At 95

- ARTnews

David Schneiderman, Village Voice Editor and Publisher, 77

- The New York Times

Aaron De Groft, Director At Center Of Orlando Museum’s Fake Basquiat Scandal, Has Died At 59

- Orlando Sentinel (MSN)

Provocative Filmmaker Bertrand Blier Is Dead At 85

- The Guardian

Remembering Actor Joan Plowright, 95

- The Conversation

Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, 95

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Naomi Watts Was Once Told That She’d Be Finished Acting Once She Turned 40

- The New York Times

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Who Choreographed Footloose And Brought Dance To A Wide Audience, Has Died At 78

- The New York Times



 

THEATRE

What Happens When A Theatre Critic Physically Can’t Sit Down

- Washington Post (Yahoo)

Trump And The (Very Real) Art Of Political Theatre

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

The Gwyneth Paltrow Skiing Trial Has Become An Off-Broadway Musical

- Gothamist

A Play About TikTok Performed In Person And Online At The Same Time

- The New York Times

Britain’s Nonprofit Theatre Business Model Is Broken: Study

- WhatsOnStage (UK)

Five Years After COVID: How Australia’s Theatres Are Doing

- ArtsHub

Can You Really Fit Plays Into 45-minute Cookie-Cutter Slots?

- The Stage

Inside The Professional Theater Scene In Las Vegas

- The New York Times

Parkland School Shooting Parent Makes Theatre With His Grief

- The Guardian

Grand Theft Hamlet Got Its Start From Actors Out Of Work During The Early Days Of The Pandemic

- The New York Times



 

VISUAL

A Library Of Textures, Materials, Things…

- Works In Progress

Daniel Libeskind Has Designed A Low-Income Housing Project, And It’s Good

- Curbed (MSN)

Insurance Cos. Want To Deny $19.7 Million Claim For Fake Basquiats

- Artnet

The Louvre’s Building Is In Seriously Bad Shape, Warns Director

- AFP (Yahoo!)

Man Discovers 2000-Year-Old Statue Near Some Garbage Cans

- Washington Post (MSN)

Sotheby’s Changed Its Buyer Fees. It Didn’t Go Well

- The Art Newspaper

Does Trump’s Executive Order Mean All Federal Buildings Will Have To Look Like The Parthenon?

- NPR

Delhi Court Seizes Two Artworks For Offending Religious Sentiments

- ARTnews

Cameroon Opens A Spectacular New Museum

- The Conversation

Ghana’s Government Investigates Stalled National Cathedral Designed By David Adjaye

- ARTnews

US Art Museum Directors Worry About Censorship But Have No Procedures For Dealing With It

- Artnet

The British Museum And Its 8 Million Objects, 6 Million Annual Visitors, Hundreds Of Researchers, And Overlapping Crises

- The Guardian

Large Ancient Bathhouse/Spa Uncovered In Pompeii

- Euronews

Los Angeles Art Fairs Decide To Keep Going

- Hyperallergic

This Law Course Takes Students To Art Museums To Help Them Understand How To Build Arguments

- Fast Company

Hollywood Is Playing A Strong Part In Brutalism’s Redemption

- The Observer (UK)

The Tight-Knit Artists’ Community In Altadena That Lost Everything

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)



 

WORDS

What’s The Wrong Way To Listen To An Audiobook?

- NPR

Changes Writers Would Like To See In Australia’s Book Publishing Industry

- ArtsHub

The End Of Earnestness: What This Year’s “Best Science Fiction” Anthology Reveals

- LA Review of Books

Giant Publisher Bertelsmann Strikes Deal With OpenAI

- Publishers Weekly

Penguin Random House Parent Announces “Strategic Collaboration” With Open AI

- Publishers Weekly

Barnes & Noble CEO On The Bookseller’s Rising Fortunes

- Publishers Weekly

Who Are We If We Lose The Ability of Language?

- Public Books

Reviving The Practice Of Writing Letters By Starting A Giant Pen Pal Club

- Vanity Fair

The Winning Strategy For A Successful Bookstore: Be Nice To Customers

- The Guardian

US Book Industry Seriously Contemplates Life After BookTok

- Publishers Weekly

As We Lose The Ability To Write By Hand, What Else Are We Losing?

- The Guardian

What Publishers Are Expecting In The Second Trump Administration

- Publishers Weekly

Data’s In: What And How We Read Last Year

- Washington Post

The Thriving Publishing Renaissance In Africa

- The New York Times