MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Tehvon Fowler-Chapman talks about leadership principles

- Aaron Dworkin

Lear among the spruces

- Terry Teachout

Replay: Peter and Rudolf Serkin play Schubert

- Terry Teachout

Quick Study: An International Reckoning of Economic Losses from COVID-19 to the Arts

- Sunil Iyengar

Alexa Poems Must Be a Genre By Now

- Jan Herman


 

DANCE

Turning Point: COVID Lockdown Has Freed Dance From Its Confines

- Zocalo

Going Back To Work Might Be A Bit Awkward For New York City Ballet’s Georgina Pazcoguin

- The New York Times

Remember Waacking? It’s Back

- The Guardian

Oklahoma City Ballet Sues Insurance Company Over Denied COVID Claims

- KFOR

Wayne McGregor: ”We Need, In Dance, To Slightly Rebalance What It Is We’re Watching And What We’re Expecting”

- The Guardian

US Post Office Launches Stamps Featuring Tap Dancers

- KPVI

Making Dance More Visible At The Venice Biennale – And Always

- The Guardian



 

IDEAS

Looking For Culture To Lead The Reopening Of New York

- The New York Times

New Study Confirms 1972 MIT Study That Collapse Of Civilization Is Imminent

- Vice

“Digital Twinning” Is Revolutionizing How We Solve Problems

- Dezeen

For A Culture Of Innovation You Need Arts Spaces

- The Conversation

The Romance Of Going To Space Has Been Corrupted By Profit

- Boston Review

There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory – It’s One Side Arguing With Itself

- The Atlantic

Study: Culture Warriors On The Left Are Angrier Than Those on the Right

- Prospect

Study: Gut Bacteria In Boys Linked To Heightened Brain Cognition

- MedicalXpress

The Therapy Game – How Games Are Therapy

- Los Angeles Times

Study: We Could Prevent 20 Percent Of Deaths By Redesigning Cities

- Fast Company

Prospect’s List Of The World’s Top Fifty Thinkers

- Prospect

How Mathematical Models Gave Us An Advantage With COVID

- Nautilus

They Said COVID Would Kill Cities. Clearly It Hasn’t

- The New York Times

Why Debate Over Critical Race Theory Has Nothing To Do With It

- 3 Quarks Daily



 

ISSUES

The Squishy Of Using AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice In A Documentary

- Chicago Tribune

Why We All Need To Pay Attention To How Artificial Intelligence Works

- Nonprofit Quarterly

An Arts Center In Bethlehem, Right Next To The Israeli Security Wall

- The New York Times

This Former Public Restroom Has Become An Arts Organization

- Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune)

Jeff Bezos Gives Smithsonian Air And Space Museum $200 Million

- AP

With Sydney Back In COVID Lockdown, Arts Promised Millions In New Aid

- Limelight (Australia)

Australian Thinktank Proposes New Model For The Arts (We Have Our Reservations)

- ArtsHub

Can The Arts Lead A Green Recovery?

- BBC

Mapping The Reopening: A TRG Report

- TRG

Meet Spoleto Festival USA’s First New General Director In 35 Years

- The Post and Courier (Charleston)

Italy Bans Cruise Ships From Venice (And They Mean It This Time!)

- Reuters

The Arts Have A Class Problem

- The Conversation

‘Voice Cloning’ — AI-Generated Copies Of Individuals’ Speech Intrigues And Worries Voice Actors

- BBC

You’ll Still Be Wearing Masks At Performances In England, Even After July 19

- WhatsOnStage (London)



 

MEDIA

What’s Getting People Back To The Cinema?

- Los Angeles Times

Seriously? Producers Used AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice on Documentary

- BBC

Facebook Wants To Pay Video-Makers. It Could Be A Tough Sell

- The New York Times

Yay! We Can Go To The Movies Again! But What Does That Even Mean Anymore?

- The New York Times

Netflix Is Getting Into Video Games

- Bloomberg

Facebook And Instagram Say They’ll Give $1 Billion To Content Creators Through 2022

- The Hollywood Reporter

Speedrunners: The Players Racing To Beat Classic Games

- Maclean's

The Fascinating Political History Of Dubbing Movies

- The Conversation

Court Throws Out Judge Roy Moore’s Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen

- The Hollywood Reporter

France Fines Google $593 Million Over News Sharing

- The New York Times



 

MUSIC

One Of History’s Greatest Opera Divas Was Also A Fine Composer

- The New York Times

Brexit Has Made It A Nightmare For UK Bands To Tour Europe

- The New York Times

San Francisco Symphony CEO To Leave After Four Years

- San Francisco Chronicle

British MPs Propose Reform Of Music Streaming Revenue Sharing

- BBC

How Pakistan Developed A Jazz Scene, Thanks To The U.S. State Department

- The Guardian

Houston Symphony’s Next Music Director Will Be Juraj Valčuha

- Houston Chronicle

“An Outsized Image Forged From Undersized Gifts” — How Did Eugene Ormandy Do It?

- Classical Voice North America

How Musical Memories Evolve

- The Nightingale's Sonata

Can The Metropolitan Opera Start Its Season On Time? It’s Up To The Musicians’ Union

- The New York Times

A Music Critic Reconsiders The Star Spangled Banner As A Piece Of Music

- San Francisco Chronicle

Who’s Up For Taking Over Dallas’s Classical Radio Station?

- Dallas Morning News

Verbier Festival Orchestra Quarantined, Misses Its First Concert Of Year

- The Violin Channel

Where Are All Of The Great Black Concert Films?

- The Guardian (UK)

The Attacca Quartet Made It Through The Pandemic

- NPR

Vinyl Is A Perfect Medium For Discovering Classical Music

- Washington Post

An Investigation Into Sony Music Australia Yields Hordes Of Complaints

- The Guardian (UK)

Creating An Opera About The Ugly Side Of Desire

- Irish Times

How To Have A Massive Hit In England

- The Guardian (UK)



 

PEOPLE

At Home With The World’s Most Powerful Crossword Editor

- The Guardian

Oleg Briansky, Who Founded One Of America’s Top Ballet Schools, Dead At 91

- The New York Times

Christian Boltanski, Who Turned Found Objects Into Haunting Art Installations, Dead At 76

- ARTnews

Donald Pippin, San Francisco’s Pied Piper Of Opera, Dead At 95

- San Francisco Classical Voice

Master Bluegrass Fiddler Byron Berline Dead At 77

- The New York Times

Meet Andrew Lloyd Webber, Activist

- The New York Times

Vijay Gupta’s Path To Music

- Strings

Thomas Cleary, Who Translated Classic Works Of Eastern Philosophy, 72

- The New York Times

One Of The Last Members Of Auschwitz’s Women’s Orchestra Has Died

- France 24



 

THEATRE

Career Paths In Theatre Are Messed Up

- San Francisco Chronicle

Even As Restrictions Are Lifting, COVID Is Still Shutting Down West End Shows

- The New York Times

Is This Really “America’s Oldest Theatre”?

- Broad Street Review (Philadelphia)

Washington’s Signature Theatre Picks A New Leader

- Washington Post

California Budgets $50 Million In Pandemic Relief For Small Theaters

- The New York Times

The Play For Our Moment? A Harold Pinter One-Act From 1960

- Los Angeles Times

LA’s Theatres Face Big Issues In Reopening

- The New York Times

Broadway Is So Ready To Open Back Up

- Washington Post

The New TV Series ‘Schmigadoon’ Tries To Sing Away Problems Of American Musicals

- American Theatre



 

VISUAL

Painting Restoration Takes The Smile Off

- The Guardian

High-Tech Analysis Of *Exactly* How Museumgoers Look At Art

- Bloomberg CityLab

Archaeologists Uncover Unknown 4,000-Year-Old City In Iraq

- Al-Monitor

Is This Or Is This Not A Goya? The Prado Can’t Make Up Its Mind

- Artnet

Why It’s So Easy To Ridicule The Art World

- ARTnews

The Italians Who Dangle From Ropes To Repair Historic Sites

- Apollo

Pornhub Is Now Offering Virtual Museum Tours

- Artlyst

Security Guards Curate Baltimore Museum Show

- The Art Newspaper

Robots Are Now Sculpting In Carrara Marble

- The New York Times

Jerry Saltz Turns Down $250K Substack Offer To Stay At New York Mag

- Twitter

At Last, Bringing A Native Perspective To The Met

- The New York Times

An Indigenous Perspective On Frida Kahlo

- Hyperallergic

Is This 51,000-Year-Old Giant Deer Bone Carving Art?

- The New York Times

Taking Photographic Inspiration From Ovid

- The New York Times



 

WORDS

Looking For Culture To Lead The Reopening Of New York

- The New York Times

New Study Confirms 1972 MIT Study That Collapse Of Civilization Is Imminent

- Vice

“Digital Twinning” Is Revolutionizing How We Solve Problems

- Dezeen

For A Culture Of Innovation You Need Arts Spaces

- The Conversation

The Romance Of Going To Space Has Been Corrupted By Profit

- Boston Review

There Is No Debate About Critical Race Theory – It’s One Side Arguing With Itself

- The Atlantic

Study: Culture Warriors On The Left Are Angrier Than Those on the Right

- Prospect

Study: Gut Bacteria In Boys Linked To Heightened Brain Cognition

- MedicalXpress

The Therapy Game – How Games Are Therapy

- Los Angeles Times

Study: We Could Prevent 20 Percent Of Deaths By Redesigning Cities

- Fast Company

Prospect’s List Of The World’s Top Fifty Thinkers

- Prospect

How Mathematical Models Gave Us An Advantage With COVID

- Nautilus

They Said COVID Would Kill Cities. Clearly It Hasn’t

- The New York Times

Why Debate Over Critical Race Theory Has Nothing To Do With It

- 3 Quarks Daily