MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Paul R. Johnson shares strategies for implementing DEI within arts organizations

- Aaron Dworkin

The Debut of Sotheby’s New Fee Structure: Reduced Fee for Buyers (Cue the Dinosaur!)

- CultureGrrl

The “Worst Ever” Carmen — Take Two: A Way Forward

- Joe Horowitz

A New “Golden Age” Off-Broadway: Where Less Is More

- Katie Birenboim

‘Tucked among the illustrious dead . . .’

- Jan Herman


 

DANCE

Canada’s National Ballet School May Be Forced To Rescind Offers To Overseas Students

- The Globe and Mail (Canada)

The Freaky, Fetishistic, Ferocious, Fascinating Flamenco Of Rocío Molina

- The Guardian

A Once-In-A-Generation Talent At NY City Ballet

- The New York Times

Investigation Into Competition-Fixing In Irish Dance Is Dropped, And Everyone is Angry

- Irish Independent

Why Dance Companies Should Be Transparent About Their Finances

- Dance Magazine

What Is This About A TikTok Dance Cult?

- The Guardian

At NYCity Ballet, Audiences Are Getting Younger

- AP

At New York City’s Public School For Dance

- The New York Times

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

- Psypost

IDEAS

Jonathan Haidt’s Alarming “Anxious Generation”

- Racket News

AI Is Provoking Reconsideration Of Philosophy

- 3 Quarks Daily

AI In The Arts? It’s A Labor Issue

- LitHub

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



 

ISSUES

In Rhode Island, Arts Groups Are Fighting For Scraps Of Survival

- Boston Globe (MSN)

Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts Is Closing For Good In One Week, Says Its President

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Colombia Bans Bullfighting

- AP

Foundation Plans A 100,000-Square-Foot Arts Campus In A Working-Class Philadelphia Neighborhood

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Artists Add Value, Then Value Goes Up, Then Artists Can’t Afford The Neighborhood. So A Real Estate Solution…

- Bloomberg

Drag Now Has Its Own National Advocacy And Service Organization

- AP

La Scala’s Departing Superintendent Leaves The House, And Its Opera And Ballet Companies, In Good Shape

- AP

The UK’s Arts World Is Scrapping Over Funding. It’s A Distraction

- The Guardian

The Arts In Toronto Are Contracting. What To Do?

- Toronto Star

The Art Of Reacting To Bad Reviews

- Nightingale Sonata

We Desperately Need A New Copyright Law For AI

- The Hill

With Its Director Problem Dealt With, What’s Coming For Nashville’s Arts Agency For 2025?

- The Tennessean (MSN)

Embattled Director Of Nashville’s Arts Funder Pushed To Resign (With $200K Payout)

- Nashville Banner

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

- Dezeen



 

MEDIA

Emmy Voters Need To Face Reality

- Vulture

US Audience Demand For Foreign Language Shows Cools

- The Wrap

Report: When Listeners Move To Podcasts, It Becomes Their Primary Source

- Inside Radio

Hollywood’s Number Of “Blue Collar” Workers Declines

- Variety

Want To Know Why There’s Really No Oscar For Best Stunts?

- Vulture (MSN)

The Fight To Save Louisiana’s Only French-Language TV Programming

- The Acadiana Advocate

OpenAI Makes Licensing Deals With Atlantic, Vox

- Variety

Hollywood’s Tech Crew Members Are “In Panic Mode” As Aftereffects Of Strikes Linger

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)

TikTok Places Limits On Reach Of State-Affiliated Media Outside Their Home Countries

- NBC News

What Is This About A TikTok Dance Cult?

- The Guardian



 

MUSIC

Our Culture Needs More Contrarians

- Defector

Getting British Orchestral Musicians To Play Pakistani Sufi Music Is Easier Than You’d Think

- Classical Music (UK)

Opera, Careers, And Jealousy

- Van

Audience Member Sues Madonna And Live Nation For Ambushing Him With “Pornography”

- The Guardian

Songs For Working

- Nautilus

Why San Francisco Opera Is Getting Trauma Counselors For Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence”

- San Francisco Classical Voice

Kaija Saariaho’s Harrowing Final Opera Arrives In The U.S., Where It Will Be Even More Fraught

- AP

Jaap Van Zweden’s Strange, Abbreviated Tenure At The New York Philharmonic

- The New York Times

Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Given Suspended Prison Sentence For Attempting To Solicit Sex From A Minor

- The Standard (London)

Yuja Wang’s Fashion Forward Art

- The New Yorker

Why Songwriters and Publishers Are Fighting With Spotify

- Music Business Worldwide

Missy Mazzoli Is Composing An Opera About The Opioids Crisis

- The Observer (UK)

Inside Pacific Symphony’s Music Director Search

- Culture OC

Pittsburgh Symphony Provides $125 Million In Economic Impact To Its Region

- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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)



 

PEOPLE

How Helen Vendler Pressed Meaning Into Poetry

- LA Review of Books

Harvey Weinstein Will Likely Face New, Separate Sexual Assault Charges In New York

- CNN

Richard Sherman, 95, Co-Creator Of Iconic Disney Songs

- Los Angeles Times

Someone Tells The New York Times He’s The Guy Behind The Foreclose-On-And-Auction-Off-Graceland Scam

- The New York Times

Caleb Carr, Military Historian And Author Of “The Alienist,” Has Died At 65

- AP

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



 

THEATRE

A First: All Of This Year’s Stratford Festival Directors Are Women

- Toronto Star

Theatre’s Video Revolution

- The Stage

How Actors Memorize Their Lines

- Nautilus

How Director Mary Friedman Solved The Riddle Of Sondheim’s Notoriously Challenging “Merrily We Roll Along”

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)

It’s True: Audra McDonald Will Play Mama Rose In “Gypsy” On Broadway This Fall

- The New York Times

Co-Producers To Be Barred From Crowding Onstage To Accept Tony Awards

- Broadway Journal

Weeping And Wailing On Broadway (And This Is Good News)

- The Washington Post (MSN)

“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



 

VISUAL

Monet Destroyed As Many As 500 Of His Paintings

- Artnet

When Art Institute Of Chicago Students Put Henri Matisse On Trial

- Artnet

Report: AI Threats To The Art World

- The Art Newspaper

Modern Architecture Through A Horror Lens

- LA Review of Books

Sotheby’s To Lay Off 50 Staffers In Its UK Office: Report

- ARTnews

British Museum Recovers 626 Of Its 1500 Missing Antiquities (Some Listed On EBay)

- Artnet

What Obligation Does A City Have To Physically Commemorate Its History?

- The Urbanist

A NY Banksy Museum Without Banksys?

- NPR

Photographers Go To War Over Adobe’s AI Suggestions

- Fast Company

Over 600 Looted Artifacts, Worth $80 Million, Returned To Italy From The US

- CNN

One Of Every Four Ancient Rock Art Sites In Wyoming Has Been Vandalized

- Casper Star-Tribune (Casper, WY)

Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum Staff Walks Out Over Exhibit On Hate

- Seattle Times

How An Antiquities Dealer On A Small Danish Island Discovered The British Museum Thefts

- BBC

Ransomware Hackers Claim Responsibility For Christie’s Attack

- The New York Times

Hackers Who Paralyzed Christie’s Threaten To Leak Clients’ Confidential Info

- Artnet

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



 

WORDS

Franz Kafka’s Work Has An Extremely Online Afterlife

- The New York Times

Writing A Memoir? Maybe Reconsider?

- The Atlantic (MSN)

“I Still Can’t Look At My Nonfiction Shelf Without Flinching A Little” — Ed Yong On Being A Pulitzer Judge

- The Ed's Up

How A Self-Help Book With No Publisher And No Brick-And-Mortar-Bookstore Presence Sold Over A Million Copies

- The New York Times

Edinburgh Int’l Book Festival Also Gives Up Baillie Gifford Sponsorship (Also Under Pressure)

- The Herald (Scotland)

A Surging Revival Of Calligraphy

- The New York Times

Bloomsbury Buys Big Academic Publisher

- Publishers Weekly

London’s Evening Standard To End Daily Print Edition And Become Free Weekly

- Press Gazette (UK)

What One Finds In Alice Munro’s Notebooks

- The Paris Review

Britain’s Leading Literature Festival Drops Its Principal Sponsor After Withdrawals And Boycott Threats

- The Guardian

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