MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Curtis Stewart shares the complexity of the artistic process of composing

- Aaron Dworkin

Pomp(idou) & Circumstance in New Jersey: Economics & Politics Sink the Paris Museum’s Jersey City Bateau

- CultureGrrl

Just in Time for Independence Day

- Jan Herman

On the Florida Arts Funding Cuts: Beyond the Fringe

- Michael Rushton

This Just In: A New (and Unedited) Review for “SCENE CHANGE”

- Alan Harrison


 

DANCE

First Ever: Dancers Competing In The Olympics This Summer

- Dance Magazine

Meet Simone Biles’s Choreographer, Who Trained At The Paris Opera Ballet

- The New York Times

Dance Company Accuses Louvre Of Stealing Its Idea For Museum Workout

- Artnet

The Science And Art Of Dad Dancing

- The Guardian

Without Its Festival, What’s The Future Of Tap Dancing In New York?

- The New York Times

When Mikhail Baryshnikov Left Everything He’d Ever Known

- The New York Times

IDEAS

LLMs And AI Challenge Our Notions Of Consciousness

- Psychology Today

Oooh. Now We Have “Malevolent” Creativity

- Psychology Today

Why Should We Have To Allow Facial Recognition To Use Ordinary Services?

- The Walrus

To Be More Creative, Maybe Take More Showers

- Open Culture

Getting Real With Art (What Matters)

- Harper's



 

ISSUES

Our Online Actions Are Far From Carbon-Neutral

- The Atlantic

Bay Area Arts Institutions Finding Their Ways Back

- The New York Times

That Was Quick: Starmer Appoints New UK Culture Minister

- ScreenDaily

Are Protests Against Corporations Funding The Arts Killing Corporate Arts Funding?

- The Guardian

Are There Too Many Non-Profits?

- Philadelphia Citizen

New British Government’s Designated Culture Secretary Lost Her Seat In Parliament

- Screen Daily

What Britain’s Arts And Culture Sector Expects From The New Labour Government

- Variety

Amid Controversy, Scotland’s National Gallery Says It Will Continue To Take Money From Financial Firm

- The Scotsman (MSN)

Is Australian Arts Funding At An All-Time Low?

- ArtsHub

The 2023 Cultural Infrastructure Index: Seven Takeaways

- Artnet

US State Department Appoints 11 Musicians As Cultural Ambassadors

- Washington Post (MSN)

The Non-Disclosure Agreement Has Become The Defining Legal Document Of American Life Today

- The Cut

We Need To Rethink The Whole Idea Of School Grading

- 3 Quarks Daily

California Arts Funding On The Chopping Block

- CultureOC



 

MEDIA

Mollywood, The Thinking Person’s Bollywood

- The Economist

The Utterly Bleak TV Series That Captures Russians’ Utterly Bleak Mindset

- The New York Times Magazine

Big Media Stocks Have Had a Rough Time While Tech Soars

- Variety

It Seems The Paramount/Skydance Merger Is On Again (For Now)

- Variety

De-Aging Tom Hanks In The Movies

- BBC

The Year’s First Movie Blockbuster: “Inside Out 2” Earns A Billion Dollars

- Variety

Why Is The Academy Of Motion Pictures Museum Making So Many Mistakes?

- The Wrap

NPR’s “The Thistle And Shamrock” To End After 41 Years

- NPR

Two Prominent French Filmmakers Arrested On Sexual Assault Charges

- Deadline

The Reboot Industrial Complex

- The Conversation



 

MUSIC

The Composer Who Changed Opera Forever

- The New York Times

Finland’s Latest Boy-Wonder Conductor Gets His First Major Orchestra

- AP

Melodies Of Hit Pop Songs Have Become Much Less Complex Over Past 50 Years: Study

- The Guardian

This Year’s Classical Music Programming Diversity Report

- San Francisco Classical Voice

“Carnegie Hall Of The West” Is For Sale

- Los Angeles Times

The Extraordinary Female Composer Whose 1835 Opera Has Been Rescued From Oblivion

- The New York Times

LA’s Jazz Clubs Are Under Stress. Can They Survive?

- Los Angeles Times

San Francisco Symphony Threatens To Ban Patron Over Protest Sign

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

The Dogs Go To The Philadelphia Orchestra

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

In Praise Of Roadies

- The Conversation

Minnesota Orchestra’s CEO Moves (Back) To Dallas Symphony

- The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

French Court Rules Ravel Was the Only Composer Of “Bolero”

- France24

The Other Most Important Music Event Of 1969

- The Guardian (UK)

Somehow, In 2024, It’s Still ‘Experimental’ To Add Music By Women To Concerts

- The New York Times



 

PEOPLE

The Man Who Stole Munch’s “The Scream” Has Died At 57

- AP

Accused Attacker Of Salman Rushdie Rejects Plea Deal

- ABC News

Screenwriter Robert Towne, 89, Oscar-Winner For “Chinatown”

- CNN

Novelist Ismail Kadare Dead At 88

- The Guardian

Martin Mull, 80

- Los Angeles Times

How Kathy Bates Became A Star

- El Pais

Eric Hazan, Publisher And Historian Of France’s Left, Has Died At 87

- The New York Times

What Eddie Murphy Has Done, And What He Still Wants To Do

- The New York Times

An Appreciation Of Comedian, Actor, Musician, And Painter Martin Mull

- Anonymous



 

THEATRE

Aphra Bean Comedy, So Controversial It Was Only Performed Once, Is Revived After 353 Years

- BBC

Brooke Shields Is Actors Equity’s New President. Here’s What She Wants To Do.

- The New York Times

Producer Garth Drabinsky’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Actors’ Equity Is Thrown Out

- AP

Ian McKellen Withdraws From Falstaff Tour

- BBC

Between Netflix And TikTok, Comedy Is Booming

- CBC

Bay Area’s Throckmorton Theatre Goes Up For Sale

- San Francisco Chronicle



 

VISUAL

Improbably, A Brilliant Park Rises In Brooklyn

- New York Magazine (MSN)

The World’s Oldest Story Painting Is 51,000 Years Old

- The Guardian

Titian Painting Discovered In A Plastic Bag Sells For $22.3 Million

- CNN

The Politics Behind Canceling New Jersey’s Pompidou Center

- The New York Times

Vandal Beheads Sculpture of Virgin Mary Giving Birth To Jesus

- The Washington Post (MSN)

London Museums Should Charge Foreign Tourists Admission Fees, Says Former Director Of British Museum

- The Standard (London)

Ownership Of Ancient Culture Is Getting Very Very Complicated

- The New York Times

Painting Used For Cover Of The First Harry Potter Book Sells For $1.9 Million

- ARTnews

Mysterious Individual In Spain Pays Off Back Taxes With Artworks By Goya

- El País in English

New Jersey Withdraws All Funding For Pompidou Center’s Planned Jersey City Outpost

- Artnet

Why Architecture Is Obsessed With The New

- American Scholar

Percival Everett Isn’t Just A Novelist

- LitHub

Why Fix Things When You Can Simply Shutter Your University Museum And Dismiss Its Staff?

- Artnet

Banksy Sets, Or Maybe Starts, A Work Of Art During A Band’s Set At The Glastonbury Festival

- BBC

Carrie Yamaoka Isn’t An ‘Emerging’ Artist Anymore

- Hyperallergic

New Zealand’s Quirkiest Architect

- The Observer (UK)

Leonora Carrington Is Finally Getting Her Due

- The Observer (UK)

Small NYC Museums Are Closing

- The New York Times



 

WORDS

Publishing Books In Ukrainian Is Now An Act Of Resistance

- Irish Times

Australia’s Biggest Online Bookseller Files For Protection

- The Guardian

How Words Shape The Future

- LitHub

The Occupational Injuries Of Ancient Egyptian Scribes

- Artnet

Literary Studies Are Dying. How Should The Field Cope?

- LA Review of Books

Right-Wingers Are Banning Books From Schools In Brazil, Too

- The Guardian

How Do You Translate The 16th Century’s Bestselling Book, A Rhymed Italian Epic, Into English?

- Asymptote

Many Of Those Traditional Grammar Rules Are In Error

- The Guardian

What Happened When Writer Anita Desai Left India

- The Guardian (UK)

If An LGBTQIA Book Is Banned Anywhere, This Bookstore Will Send The Book For Free

- NPR

Ukraine Passed A New Law Directly Supporting Bookstores

- LitHub

The Joys Of Reading Books That You Don’t Fully Understand

- Reactor Mag

NYC Rescinds $58M In Public Library Cuts; Libraries Will Reopen on Sundays

- Gothamist