MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Why Colorado Mahlerfest Matters

- Joe Horowitz

Theatre Unmasked: Navigating Post-Pandemic Challenges and Innovations

- Josephine Reed

“Ripeness Is All” — Is the South Dakota Symphony’s Mahler Really Better than Klaus Makela and the Oslo Phil?

- Joe Horowitz

Charles Plymell Takes Stage for New and Selected Poems

- Jan Herman

For Live, Functioning Artists, The End Comes Not With a Bang, But an Email

- Alan Harrison


 

DANCE

Study: Audiences Rate Male Dancers’ “Coalition Quality” Higher

- Psypost

Former Office Manager Of Florida’s Naples Ballet Charged With Stealing Over $100,000

- Naples Daily News

Meet The Only Breakdancing Competitor At This Summer’s Olympics With A PhD In The Subject

- Reuters

In Britain, A Dance Star Says He Wants To Clear His Name

- BBC

IDEAS

Have We Lost The Context Of Our Arguments?

- Compact Magazine

The Algorithmic Radicalization Of Culture SuperFans

- The Atlantic

What Accounts For The Difference In Energy From One Person To Another?

- Lapham's Quarterly

Our Complicated Relationship With Nostalgia

- The Guardian

How Our Phones Have Warped The Ways We See The World

- The Point

How Cliches Limit Our Thinking

- The Guardian

Behind The ChatGPT/Scarlett Johansson Debacle

- The Atlantic (MSN)

Study: Are AI Large Language Models Developing Theory Of Mind?

- Nature

What Our Inner Voices Tell Us

- Psyche

What’s It Mean To Live In A Virtual Community? Look To The Real Cities For Answers

- The Atlantic

Will Machines Replace Us? Naw — We Colonize A Different Space

- Hedgehog Review

The Line Between Fine Art And Craft Is Blurring

- Aeon

These Devices Changed Our Homes Forever, But They’re Not Working Anymore

- The Guardian (UK)



 

ISSUES

France’s Post Office Has Issued Scratch-‘n’-Sniff Stamps. They Smell Like Baguettes.

- Dezeen

Sony Chief: Company To Focus On Entertainment Rather Than Devices

- AP

The Sad State Of Wisconsin’s Public Arts Support

- WUWM

US To File Anti-Trust Suit Seeking To Break Up LiveNation And TicketMaster

- The Wall Street Journal

Gov. Newsom’s Proposed Budget Would Cut California State Arts Funding By Well Over One-Third

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Does Pay-What-You-Can Pricing Really Increase Ticket Sales?

- ArtsHub (Australia)

How A Denver Performing Arts Center Thrives On Free Shows And Community Trust

- Denver Post

Diversity Problem: Few UK Arts Workers Come From The Working Class

- The Guardian

Hong Kong’s Major Arts District Warns That It Could Shut Down Without More Funding By Summer’s End

- ArtAsiaPacific

A Year After Its “Year Of Culture” Honors, Leeds’ Arts Scene Is Collapsing

- The Guardian

How Grantmakers Can Support Artists Of Color

- Hyperallergic

Why We’re Still Having Difficulty Adjusting To Hybrid Work

- The Walrus

What Is ‘The Digital Guillotine,’ And How Is It – Or Isn’t It – Working?

- HuffPost

German Actor Says Britain Is Too Protective Of Children On Set

- The Observer (UK)



 

MEDIA

Hollywood’s New Era Of Translation And Subtitles

- The New York Times

As Social Media Breaks, News Orgs Experiment With Analog Outreach

- NiemanLab

Remarkable: How AMC Movie Theatres Have Survived Despite Massive Debt

- Variety

Fresh From Firing Storytellers At Pixar, Disney CEO Bob Iger Tells Artists To “Embrace Technology Change”

- Variety

García Márquez Didn’t Think “One Hundred Years Of Solitude” Could Be Adapted. Will Netflix Prove Him Wrong?

- Vanity Fair

Where Are The Movies That Can Earn $100 Million On Opening Weekends?

- The Hollywood Reporter

Entertainment Jobs Are Leaving Hollywood

- Los Angeles Times

How Google’s Search AI Will Kill Web Publishers

- Columbia Journalism Review

Pixar Is Being Restructured By Disney, With Major Layoffs

- The Hollywood Reporter

WGBH, Boston Public Radio/TV Outlet, Lays Off 31 Staffers And Suspends Three TV Programs

- The Boston Globe (MSN)



 

MUSIC

What The LiveNation/TicketMaster Lawsuit Might Mean

- Washington Post

Accessing Jaap van Zweden’s Tenure At The New York Philharmonic

- The Wall Street Journal

How A Gifted Black Musician Lost Tenure At The Kansas City Symphony, And How He’s Fighting Back

- The Washington Post (MSN)

BBC To Release To Previously Unheard Louis Armstrong Performances

- The Guardian

Calgary Philharmonic Removes Two Musicians For Their Comments

- The Globe And Mail

Conductor François-Xavier Roth Accused Of Unsolicited Sexting

- Van

Boston Symphony Names New Concertmaster

- Boston Globe

Here’s The Guy Who’s Made His Career Orchestrating, Then Re-Orchestrating, Stephen Sondheim’s Musicals

- Playbill

Opera Australia Posts A $4.9 Million Deficit

- Limelight

Turkish President Erdoğan Says The Eurovision Song Contest Is A Danger To The Traditional Family

- AP

How Roulette Became New York’s Music Lab

- The New York Times

How Copyright Has Killed Music (Except For Taylor Swift)

- The Hill

Harlem Crypts And Brooklyn Catacombs And Classical Music By Candlelight

- The Guardian

The End Of Giant Music Festivals?

- The Smart Set

How Gian Carlo Menotti And Carlisle Floyd Defined Mid-20th Century Opera

- Hudson Review

Why Musician Biopics, Including The New Amy Winehouse Movie, Are So Awful

- Slate



 

PEOPLE

Morgan Spurlock, Who Made Documentaries “Super Size Me” And “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,” Has Died At 53

- Variety

Law Enforcement Is Now Investigating Attempt To Foreclose On And Auction Off Graceland, Elvis Presley’s Home

- AP

Memphis Judge Puts Hold On Auction Of Graceland To Pay Debt That May Not Actually Exist

- AP

Tom Lehrer Is A Biting Satirist And Still Alive At 96. So Why Did He Give It All Up?

- The Guardian

Elvis Presley’s Granddaughter Sues To Prevent What She Says Is A Fraudulent Foreclosure On Graceland

- NPR

Fraud Trial Begins For Ozy Media Co-Founder Carlos Watson

- The Daily Beast (Yahoo!)

Artist Kehinde Wiley Accused Of Sexual Assault By Ghanaian Colleague

- ARTnews



 

THEATRE

“Stereophonic” Was Going To Be David Adjmi’s Final Play, And It Made Him Crazy. Now It’s The Most-Nominated Play In Tony History.

- The Hollywood Reporter

Brooke Shields Elected President Of Actors’ Equity

- Broadway Journal

Michelle Terry On The Vicious Abuse She Faced For Casting Herself As Richard III

- The Guardian

Director Matthew Warchus Announces His Departure From London’s Old Vic

- Playbill

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Shows Signs Of Revival

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Philadelphia’s Wilma Wins 2024 Tony Award For Regional Theatre

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

London’s Young Vic Theatre Appoints A New Artistic Director

- The Guardian

Russian Playwright And Director Now On Trial Over Production Which Allegedly “Justifies Terrorism”

- AP

Remember The Choreographer Who Attacked A Critic With Dog Poop? Now There’s A Play About It.

- The New York Times

Broadway Is More Expensive Than Ever. But Where Are The Audiences?

- NPR



 

VISUAL

Van Gogh’s Addiction To Coffee: What He Told His Doctor

- The Art Newspaper

Australia’s Richest Art Prize Put On Hiatus

- The Guardian

For A Century, Egyptology Was Dominated By Europeans And Americans. Can The $1 Billion Grand Egyptian Museum Change That For Good?

- Nature

Stolen $5.4 Million Portrait By Francis Bacon Recovered

- BBC

Well, Here’s This Week’s British Royal Family Portrait For People To Freak Out Over

- ARTnews

Investigation: 1000 Damien Hirst Works Weren’t Made When He Said They Were

- The Guardian

How The Disassembling Of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers Chapel Will Actually Work

- LAist

Visitor Sues Walker Art Center In Minneapolis, Saying She Was Forbidden To Breastfeed Her Baby In A Gallery

- ARTnews

A Short History Of Over-The-Top Art World Feuds

- Artnet

Christie’s Auction Sale Has Good Night, Despite Cyber Attack

- The Art Newspaper

Orlando Museum Of Art, In Financial Trouble, Asks Court To Modify Bequest Dedicated To Purchasing New Art

- The New York Times

The British Museum Keeps Finding Its Missing Items All Over The World

- BBC

Was The 1960 Venice Biennale Rigged To Choose Rauschenberg?

- Los Angeles Times

What King Charles’ First Portrait Is Meant To Convey About Him

- The Conversation

Why Did A Portland Suburb’s Innovative Public-Private Gallery Suddenly Close Last Month?

- Oregon ArtsWatch

The Cartoon That Has Inspired Protestors Across The Globe

- The New York Times

The Artist Who Created Barbie’s Fake Food

- BBC

Parsons Students Withdraw From BFA Exhibition As They Pressure New School To Divest

- Hyperallergic



 

WORDS

Oh, Great, They’re Using Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers To Feed ChatGPT

- The Guardian

What, Exactly, Are Editors Supposed To Do?

- Tablet

Let Your Phone Condense And Describe Books. What Could Go Wrong?

- The New Yorker

Is The Voynich Manuscript, Undeciphered For 600 Years, Actually About Gynecology?

- Artnet

A Slave Narrative Full Of Righteous Fury Reappears, Un-Bowdlerized, After 169 Years

- The New York Times

Confessions Of A Genuine Scrabble Addict

- The Paris Review

2024 International Booker Prize Goes To Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Kairos”

- BBC

Penguin Random House Lays Off Publishers Of Two Of Its Most Prominent Imprints

- AP

Canada, That Sexy Travel Destination

- CBC

All The Oscar-Bait Literary Adaptations Coming Down The Cannes Red Carpet

- LitHub

If You’re Curious About Alice Munro, Here Are Twenty Free Stories To Read

- Open Culture