MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Patricia Mooradian shares the journey of The Jackson House where Martin Luther King, Jr. stayed and planned historic marches

- Aaron Dworkin

Books

- Jan Herman

Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 1: Stop Terrorizing Your People

- Alan Harrison

Poetry and Music at the Palace

- Jan Herman

Marin Alsop talks about the role of orchestras in an evolving society

- Aaron Dworkin


 

DANCE

Point Park University In Pittsburgh Hives Off A Separate School Of Dance

- Dance Teacher

After 30 Years, Richmond Ballet Returns To The Museum

- WRIC (Richmond, VA)

Inside London’s New Dance Hot Spot, Sadler’s Wells East

- The Standard (London)

Dancers Perform Protest Outside Kennedy Center

- NPR

Parents Jailed For Starving 17-Year-Old Child For Ballet Lessons

- CNN

Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Indigenous Advisors Quit En Masse

- CBC

La Scala Ballet Has A New Director. It’s His Third Time In The Job.

- Gramilano (Milan)

IDEAS

Cooperation Versus Competition – A Biological, Philosophical Perspective

- Aeon

We Need To Define What Smart Is

- Noema

Contemplating The Mortality Of All Things

- Aeon

Turns Out There Isn’t Actually A More Neighborly Recent Past

- The Atlantic (Yahoo)

Gilda Radner Was SNL’s First Cast Member, And One Of Its All-Time Best

- The Atlantic



 

ISSUES

What In The Name Of All That Is Far From Holy Are Trump’s National Archives Appointees Doing To The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library?

- The New York Times

How To Lose An Oscar In A Brutal Ten Online Days

- The Atlantic (Yahoo)

Kennedy Center’s First Programming Announcement: Celebrating Christ!

- The New York Times

How To Solve The Problem Of The Kimmel Center’s Plaza?

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Expand Copyright To AI? Not A Great Idea. Here’s A Better One

- Electronic Frontier Foundation

Brooklyn Academy Of Music Chief Steps Down After Only Three Years

- The New York Times

The Dirty Secret Behind College Tuitions

- The Atlantic

How Should Artists Respond In The Trump Era

- Arts Fuse

UK Government To Inject New Money Into The Arts

- The Independent

The Kennedy Center Debacle As A Mamet Drama

- The Wall Street Journal (MSN)

So Trump Replaced The Kennedy Center’s Board. Now Will He Lead Its Fundraising?

- The New York Times

Despite Facing Fearsome Deficits, Both San Francisco And California State Governments Maintain Arts Spending

- San Francisco Classical Voice

Artists Sign Letter Protesting Changes In NEA Criteria

- NPR

An Arts Advocacy Summit: Will It Have Any Impact?

- The Hollywood Reporter



 

MEDIA

It’s Ten Years Out From The Oscars So White Debacle

- NPR

Is The Brutalist’s Small Use Of AI Going To Ruin Adrien Brody’s Chances?

- CBC

This Is What It Looks Like When Local News Dies

- The Walrus

FCC Trains Its Sights On PBS, NPR

- Los Angeles Times

The Oscars Are More International Than Ever. So Why Is The “Best Foreign Film” Category So Broken?

- Seattle Times

Amazon Has Been Given Creative Control Over Entire James Bond Franchise

- The Wall Street Journal (MSN)

How Screenwriters Work Authentic-Sounding Dialects And Foreign-Language Dialogue Into Their Scripts

- The Conversation

You Thought Movie Theatres Were In Trouble? Cinemark Chain Posts Record Fourth Quarter Revenue

- The Hollywood Reporter

Harvey Weinstein (From Prison) Sues His Brother/Former Business Partner

- TheWrap

The Lengths Claude Lanzmann Had To Go To In Order To Make “Shoah”

- The Guardian



 

MUSIC

Couldn’t We Use AI Music Generators To Express A More Perfect Music?

- The Conversation

Report: Live Nation Booked $23 Billion In Revenue In 2024

- Music Business Worldwide

Does Opera On A Screen Really Work?

- The Atlantic

Edmonton Symphony Names Jean-Marie Zeitouni As Music Director

- CTV

Metropolitan Opera To Change Some Scheduling And Casting Practices

- AP

How The Synthesizer Went From Oversized, Clumsy, Expensive Novelty To Tool For Genuine Creativity

- Literary Hub

Trump’s Kennedy Center Cancels Performance By Gay Chorus

- Operawire

When Messiaen Zigged And Other Composers Zagged

- London Review of Books

Multi-Generation Musicians. What Accounts For Them?

- Nightingale Sonata

Report: America’s Choruses Are Doing Well

- SMU Cultural Data

Opera America’s State Of Opera Report

- Opera America

Behold The Evolution of “Extreme” Marching Band

- The New Yorker

Midcentury Modern: There’s A Group Of Audience-Friendly American Opera The Met Should Be Producing

- The New York Times

Conductor Edward Gardner Apologizes For Describing Naples Opera Chorus As “Mafia Families”

- BBC

Are Things Really Better In The Music Business?

- The Honest Broker

Lebrecht Wonders: Is It Okay To Review A Performance By A Musician Accused Of Harassment?

- The Critic

Bullied At School, Samuel Marino Can Now Say He Has One Of The Rarest Voices In Opera

- The Guardian (UK)



 

PEOPLE

Operatic Soprano Olga James, Star Of Carmen Jones And Mr. Wonderful, Has Died At 95

- The New York Times

Salman Rushdie Stabbing Trial: Defense Rests Without Presenting Evidence

- AP

Souleymane Cissé, Pioneering African Filmmaker, Has Died At 84

- AP

In Addition To Prison Sentence, Ozy Founder Carlos Watson Gets Ordered To Pay $96 Million

- Courthouse News Service

High Society Art Adviser, Convicted Of Felony Embezzlement, Explains Herself

- The New York Times

Mel Bochner, Conceptual Artist Who Played With Language And Imagery, Is Dead At 84

- ARTnews

Boston Conducting Legend Benjamin Zander, Still Going Strong At 85

- WBUR

Maria Teresa Horta, The Last Of Portugal’s ‘Three Marias,’ Has Died At 87

- The New York Times

How Chiwetel Eijiofor Went, Happily, From Shakespeare To Bridget Jones

- The New York Times

Theatre Critic Misha Berson Of Seattle, And Much Farther Afield, Has Died

- Oregon ArtsWatch



 

THEATRE

This Broadway Musical Is Based On A Real-Life Story So Crazy That Audiences Wouldn’t Believe It All

- Variety

How Has Manhattan’s Congestion Pricing For Cars Affected Broadway?

- amNY

For These Successful Playwrights, It Was A Hard Journey Just To Reach Midcareer Status

- The New York Times

Making Theatre For Liberation — And For After Liberation: South African Actor-Playwright John Kani

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Minnesota Theatre Says It Will Decline NEA Funding, Double Down On DEI

- Bring Me the News

Kharkiv’s Puppetry Tradition Thrives During War

- Christian Science Monitor

School Censors Play, Students Write Anti-Censorship Play And Win State Award

- KQED

After Six Weeks In London’s West End, “The Years” Is Still Seeing Audience Members Pass Out

- The New York Times

Abortion Play “The Years” May Be An Example Of Trigger Warnings Making Things Worse

- The Guardian

Why Theatre Is Devolving Into Uselessness

- The Critic



 

VISUAL

Sorry, There Will Be No 45-Foot Naked Woman In San Francisco’s Union Square

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Adobe Architecture May Be The Key To Rebuilding A Fireproof Los Angeles

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Cambodia’s National Museum Is Overflowing With Treasure

- The New York Times

MoMA Signs Partnership Agreement With M+ Museum In Hong Kong

- ARTnews

Panels Of El Greco Altarpiece Are Reunited For First Time In Two Centuries

- Artnet

Italian Police Shut Down Major Art-Forgery Workshop In Rome

- The Guardian

Drunk Does “Irreversible Damage” To Inca Landmark In Peru

- ARTnews

For The First Time In A Century, An Egyptian Pharaoh’s Tomb Has Been Discovered

- CBS News

Many Looted Statues Are Being Returned To Cambodia, Which Is Running Out Of Places To Put Them

- The New York Times

Albania’s Capital Has Become A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Architecture

- Dezeen

The Meaning Of Red

- Anonymous

The Pollock And Picasso That Usually Live In A Vault In Tehran Came Out For A Brief Exhibition

- BBC



 

WORDS

The Dream Accessory Of Every Booklover

- Slate

Only Some Celebrity Book Clubs Truly Change The Authors’ Lives

- The Cut

These Literary Criticism Debates Are Not So Fun Anymore

- The Point

In Praise Of Self-Publishing

- LitHub

Iowa Lawmakers Present New Bills To Punish Public Libraries For “Obscenity”

- Publishers Weekly

Indian Police Confiscate Hundreds Of Titles From Bookstores In Kashmir

- The Guardian

Study: How Australians Read

- ArtsHub

Trump And The Corruption Of What Words Mean

- New York Magazine (MSN)

How Research Publishing Has Devolved Into A Citation Game

- London School of Economics

Early On, Robert Frost Wrote Some Really Wretched Verse

- The Atlantic (MSN)

US Indie Publishers Form Co-Operative

- Publishers Weekly

When Obsession With The Great Book Makes Writing One Impossible

- Washington Post

One Of Britain’s Top Indie Publishers Expands Into U.S.

- Publishers Weekly

The Small Publisher Making Its Mark With Translations No One Was Paying Attention To

- The New York Times