MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Nita Baxani talks about how the creative arts transform children

- Aaron Dworkin

Recalling the Fierce Beliefs of Oriana Fallaci

- Jan Herman

Playwright and Director Psalmayene 24: Staging Stories

- Josephine Reed

Nonprofit Arts Success: Out of Hand Theater Shakes the Trees of Social Justice

- Alan Harrison

‘There he was in a dream . . .’

- Jan Herman


 

DANCE

The Choreographer Of Bridgerton

- Dance Magazine

Why Gregory Dolbashian Up And Moved His Dance Company To Dallas

- The Dallas Morning News (MSN)

She’s Been Lighting Contemporary Dance In Downtown Manhattan For 46 Years

- The New York Times

Silent Disco And What We’ve Learned About The Power Of Moving Together

- The Conversation

When ESPN Meets Mark Morris Dance Group

- Dance Magazine

Nikolaj Hübbe To Step Down As Artistic Director Of Royal Danish Ballet

- DR (Denmark) (via Google Translate)

IDEAS

How Notions Of Apocalypse Shape Our Challenges

- The Conversation

Kids’ Interest in Reading Is Dying. What’s The Reason?

- Slate

Reinventing The Meaning Of Work In Europe

- Eurozine

Reaching For Historical Parallels: Why Thucydides Still Resonates

- Aeon

Work Sucks. But What Could Replace It?

- The New Yorker

Kurt Cobain, 1994 And The Rise Of “Authenticity”

- 3 Quarks Daily

The Supposedly Centuries Old Society Seeking To Refocus Our Attention Spans

- The New Yorker

What One Author Thinks About The Way A Movie Changed The Ending Of Her Book

- Vulture

Dear Kids, AI Is Not Your Real Friend

- The Verge



 

ISSUES

Are Commercial “Third Places” Going Away?

- Spacing Toronto

Towns In Sicily Offered Abandoned Homes For €1. But Can You Rebuild A Town This Way?

- Afar

Trying To Find Paths Through Art And Authoritarianism

- Brooklyn Rail

Have American Universities Forgotten What, And Whom, They’re For?

- The Atlantic (MSN)

UCal Davis Gets $20 Million Gift To Beef Up Arts Programs

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Study: Arts Branding Results Down, Values Up

- ArtsHub

Minnesota Passes “Taylor Swift Law” Protecting Online Ticket Buyers

- AP

After Recent Events, What Will Academic Freedom Look Like?

- InsideHigherEd

State Of The Arts In The US: Post-Pandemic, Do Organizations Have Enough Working Capital?

- SMU DataArts

NextDoor: The Art Of Neighborhood Surveillance

- Washington Post

UCLA Faculty Protest At The Hammer Museum Gala

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Bollywood Increasingly Toes – And Broadcasts – The Ruling Party Line

- BBC



 

MEDIA

Vice Is, Sort Of, Saved

- Variety

Academy Of Motion Pictures Announces $500M Fundraising Campaign

- Los Angeles Times

Apple Apologizes For Horrifying Art-Crushing Ad

- Reuters

How Eight Dungeons And Dragons Nerds Built Themselves An Online Mini-Empire

- The Washington Post (MSN)

If Sony And Apollo Buy Paramount Global, They Plan To Sell Off CBS And MTV

- The New York Times

Yet Another Public Radio Station Is Offering Buyouts And Preparing For Layoffs

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Reconsidering Mary Poppins: Why The British Film Rating Board Keeps Reclassifying Old Movies

- The New York Times

U.S. House Committee Begins Hearings To Investigate NPR For Alleged Bias

- Inside Radio

New Jersey Is Building A Billion-Dollar Studio Production Complex

- Deadline

How Headline Language Shapes Perception Of Stories

- PNAS



 

MUSIC

The Classical Music Sector Has Recovered Faster From COVID Than Other Art Forms. Why?

- CultureOC

San Diego Symphony’s $125 Million Concert Hall Renovation Is Nearly Complete

- The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)

Despite Boos And Protests, Israel Makes It To Eurovision Song Contest Final

- AP

The Complete Bach — All 1000+ Pieces — Over 11 Years

- Worcester Magazine

Australia’s Music Festivals Are In Trouble

- The Guardian

Dudamel’s Long LA Goodbye

- Los Angeles Times

The Virtues Of Performing All Of Something

- Classical Music UK

A Tale Of Two Orchestra Initiatives

- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Why The American Youth Symphony Orchestra Collapsed So Suddenly

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

From The American Youth Symphony’s Ashes, A New Orchestra Quickly Arose

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Washington National Opera Offers A New Ending For Puccini’s “Turandot”

- AP

Evelyn Glennie On Music As A Physical Phenomenon In Your Body

- San Francisco Classical Voice

The Kids’ Show “Bluey” Can Make Grownups Cry. What’s Its Secret? Classical Music, That’s What.

- Slate (Yahoo!)

100-Year-Old Sam Ash Music Stores To Close

- The New York Times

Met Opera Had Only Four Female Conductors In Its First 133 Years. Last Month It Had Four In One Week.

- AP

The Many Crises Facing Opera

- The Stage

Fans Of Utah Symphony Fear That Its Concert Hall Could Be Torn Down

- The Salt Lake Tribune

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Artistic Director Resigns; Musicians Vote No Confidence In Managing Director

- Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MSN)



 

PEOPLE

What Made Beethoven Stand Out

- History Today

John Waters Briefly Hospitalized After Car Accident

- The Baltimore Banner

Kevin Spacey Will Face A Civil Trial In London For Sexual Assault — And This Is A Legal Victory For Him

- Reuters

Peter Schjeldahl: Why Frank Stella Mattered

- The New Yorker

Tests Of Beethoven’s Hair Indicate Astounding Levels Of Lead And Arsenic

- The New York Times

Barbara O Jones, Whose Acting Led A Generation Of Black Filmmakers, Has Died At 82

- The New York Times



 

THEATRE

One Of The Great Black Broadway Musicals Premiered 50 Years Ago And Then Disappeared. Why?

- The New York Times

A New Beckett Festival Is Coming To Liverpool

- The Guardian

A Play About Sexual Assault Is Being Used To Train Judges

- BBC

After Eight Years Of Work, Broadway’s Palace Theatre Has A Beautiful, New, Very Blue Renovation

- Broadway Direct

“Primary Trust” By Eboni Booth Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama

- Deadline

Chicago’s Improv Theatre Scene Is Expanding

- Chicago Sun-Times



 

VISUAL

The $20 Million Art Auction That Was Decided By Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors

- Artnet

Rio National Museum Destroyed By Fire Gets A Major Donation

- The Guardian

As These Medieval Tibetan Monasteries Began To Crumble, Local Community Members Learned How To Restore Them

- BBC

Why Bellevue Arts Museum Is In Constant Financial Struggle

- Seattle Times

Some Museums In L.A. Are Trying An Experiment: Cutting Back On The Air Conditioning

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Should UK Museums Start Charging Admission?

- The Art Newspaper

AI Helps Identify Forgeries Of Monet, Renoir On eBay

- The Guardian

Visitors Buying Tickets To Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Scammed By Fraudsters

- The Art Newspaper

Museum That Was Court-Ordered To Admit Men To Its Women-Only Exhibition Finds A Work-Around

- BBC

The Art Vandals Who Threw Soup At Mona Lisa Strike The Hall of Mirrors At Versailles

- Artnet

The British Museum’s Blockbuster Wars

- The New Yorker

Is The Art World Obsessed With Making Us Feel Bad?

- ARTnews

Art Vandals Tag Courbet’s “Origin Of The World” With “MeToo” Graffiti

- France 24

The Prado Confirms That The Painting Rescued From Auction In 2021 Is A Caravaggio

- AP

When The Writer Attempts To Do The Thing

- The Wall Street Journal

Kennicott: When George Washington (The Statue) Is Repurposed For Political Protest

- Washington Post

Some Members Of The Bauhaus Were Nazis – And One Designed The Auschwitz Crematoriums

- The Guardian (UK)

The Power Of Student Protest Art

- Washington Post



 

WORDS

The 500-Year History Of English Dictionaries

- Hyperallergic

Book Bans Were Gaining. So Lauren Groff Opened A Bookstore

- The New York Times

The Turkish Government’s Relentless Campaign Against Author Elif Shafak

- The Dial

Professor Argues AI LLMs Refute Some Fundamental Ideas Of Linguistics

- Slator

The Prolific, Proud, Perverse Prince Of Latin American Literature

- The Guardian

The Eccentric Volunteers That Make The Oxford English Dictionary Work

- Commonweal

Why Yan Lianke Would Prefer That You Not Call Him “China’s Most Censored Author”

- Literary Hub

Does The World Really Need Literary Criticism?

- Public Books

Jayne Anne Phillips’s “Night Watch”, Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life” Among Winners Of 2024 Pulitzers For Literature

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Don’t Blame Screens For The Steep Decline In Kid Reading Joy

- Slate

The Issues With Translation Technology

- Wired