MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Tammy Yi talks about creating impact through DE&I

- Aaron Dworkin

Grueling Grünbaum Disputes: Manhattan DA Takes on Museums (once again)

- CultureGrrl

Mahler, New York, and Cultural Memory

- Joe Horowitz

When Charles Ives Wrote a Song as Magnificent as Brahms’s

- Joe Horowitz

Imagine if the arts were funded with $27 donations

- Hannah Grannemann


 

DANCE

One Of The Best Dance Exports From The United States Is Having Its Spotlight In The Olympics

- The New York Times

Breaking At The Olympics: Inside The Scoring System

- The New York Times

Nina Ananiashvili On Her Twenty Years Remaking The State Ballet Of Georgia

- Bachtrack

The Grand Collaboration Where The Music Of Saul Williams Meets The Dance Of Bill T Jones

- San Francisco Classical Voice

Breaking At The Olympics: How The Judging System Works

- Dance Magazine

Breaking At The Olympics: A Guide To The Power Moves

- The New York Times

Meet Mourad Merzouki, Choreographer Of The Olympics’ Official Dance Showcase

- AP

Let’s Chat About That Abbott Elementary Dance

- Los Angeles Times (AOL)

Rachid Ouramdane Is Director Of France’s National Theatre Of Dance. How Does He Find Time To Choreograph So Much?

- The New York Times

For Women And Girls In Gymnastics, Dance Is Required, But An Afterthought

- The New York Times

IDEAS

You’ve Heard Of Slow Food And Slow TV. Now A “Slow Living” Movement Is Arising.

- BBC

Could Terraced Rice Paddies Hold The Secret To Mitigating Urban Flooding?

- BBC

“Assembly Theory” — One Physicist Believes She’s Figured Out How Life Emerged

- The New York Times

Chimpanzees Have Back-And-Forth Conversations Much Like Humans Do

- The Guardian

AI Software Encodes Language The Same Way Human Brains Do During Conversation

- The Conversation

Apple’s Worst Feature Flattens Everything About Our Very Human, Complex Experiences

- The Atlantic (MSN)



 

ISSUES

The Paris Olympics’ Hostile Architecture Is Just Another Way That Cities Hate Unhoused Folks

- Wired

How Small Towns And Rural Areas Can Keep The Arts Going

- SMU DataArts

Slovakia’s Culture Minister Is On A Firing Spree

- The Slovak Spectator

Two Cultural Institutions Were Set On Fire During Bangladesh Riots

- Artnet

Art For Change Partners With Michelle Obama To Increase Voter Participation

- The Guardian (UK)

Top Welsh Cultural Honors Stripped From Disgraced BBC Presenter

- BBC

Gradually, Restaurants Are Becoming Literally Inhuman: Pete Wells In His Farewell Column

- The New York Times

Lincoln Center Appoints New President After Henry Timms’s Surprise Departure

- AP

Business Is Down At Disney’s Theme Parks (Is This A Warning Sign?)

- Business Insider

The Artist Jailed By Putin For Five Tiny Pieces Of Paper

- The Atlantic (MSN)

Miami’s Small Arts Organizations Slash Their Budgets And Search For Life Rafts After DeSantis’s Veto Of State Funding

- The Miami Times

Racial Inequities In Arts Funding In Pittsburgh Persist, Finds Study

- WESA (Pittsburgh)

In Liverpool, England, Far-Right Rioters Set Fire To A Community Library

- Manchester Evening News (Yahoo)



 

MEDIA

How Norway’s Public Broadcaster Figured Out The Algo

- Nieman Lab

Classic Films, Hard To Find On Streaming, Are Making Their Cinematic Comebacks

- The Guardian (UK)

Audit Finds More Misuse Of Funds And Possible Embezzlement At Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio

- Capital Public Radio (Sacramento)

Paramount To Cut 15% Of Its US Workforce

- The Hollywood Reporter

The Salzburgians Who Hate Sound Of Music On Its 60th Anniversary

- NPR

Warner Bros-Discovery Takes A Huge Financial Writedown

- Bloomberg (MSN)

Disney Makes Profit On Streaming For First Time As Entertainment Revenue Soars

- The Hollywood Reporter

CNET Sells Again

- Variey

Tampa Bay Times Offers Buyouts To Entire Staff

- Creative Loafing

Pixar’s “Inside Out” Movies Have Changed Practice Of Child Psychology

- The New York Times



 

MUSIC

Dreamy And Soulful Or Dreary And Dreadful? The Minimalist Piano Music That Crowds Love And Classical Critics Detest

- The Guardian

What’s The Right Name For New Music?

- Washington Post (MSN)

Two Teenagers Arrested In Plot To Create Terrorist Attacks At Taylor Swift Concerts In Vienna

- The New York Times

A Retiring Violinist Compares Classical Music To A Colonoscopy

- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

South Africa Forges Its Own Style Of Opera

- AFP (Yahoo!)

Seattle Opera’s New General Director: Opera Theatre Of St. Louis’s James Robinson

- The Seattle Times

How One Pandemic-Created Organization Is Trying To Give Black Percussionists A Boost In The Orchestral World

- San Francisco Classical Voice

Will The World Catch Up To The Music Of Berlioz?

- The New York Times

Anthony Roth Costanzo May Be Just The Right Guy To Save Opera Philadelphia

- Philadelphia Magazine

Metropolitan Opera And Yannick Nézet-Séguin Extend Their Contract Through 2029-30 Season

- OperaWire

Marianna Martines, A Phenom In The 18th Century, Comes To Lincoln Center

- The New York Times

Yuval Sharon Will Stage Metropolitan Opera’s Next “Ring” Cycle And “Tristan”

- AP

Ella Jenkins Revolutionized Music For Children, And At 100, She’s Not Finished Yet

- The New York Times

The Five Composers Who Defined The Sound Of Horror Movie Music

- The Washington Post (MSN)

The Florida Orchestra May Finally Get A Headquarters Of Its Own

- St. Pete Catalyst

Music-Loving Australians Who Live In Rural And Remote Areas Are Getting Some Attention

- ArtsHub



 

PEOPLE

Mary Wings, Who Led The Way In Queer Comics, Has Died At 75

- The New York Times

The Four Children of Frank Zappa And Their Frustrations, Finances, And Fights

- The Washington Post

Sam Neill’s Hardworking Second Act

- The Guardian (UK)

Author And Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah Wins $500K Kluge Humanities Prize

- The New York Times

Venice’s Mayor, Under Investigation For Corruption, Refuses To Resign

- AFP (Barron's)

Walter Arlen, Who Fled The Holocaust And Became A Composer, Has Died At 103

- The New York Times

David Lynch Has Emphysema And Can’t Leave His House, But He Is Not Retiring

- The Guardian

Remember Ruth Mackenzie, Who Was Abruptly Fired As Director Of The Châtelet In Paris? She’s Become A VIP In Australia

- ArtsHub (Australia)

Alexander Waugh, Grandson Of Evelyn, Opera Critic And Composer, Has Died At 60

- The New York Times

Artist Anton Van Dalen, Who Made Art From Changes On The Lower East Side, Has Died At 85

- The New York Times



 

THEATRE

Theatre Artists Make So Little Money, It’s Nearly Nonexistent

- The Stage (UK)

The Soviet Puppet Theaters Of Kazakhstan

- History Today

The Message Of Recent Broadway Successes

- The Stage (UK)

After Four Straight Years Of Deficits, One Of England’s Best Regional Theatres Reconsiders Its Programming

- BBC

A Play Calling JK Rowling A TERF Was Hotly Debated At The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

- The New York Times

Cal Shakes Exceeds Its Fundraising Goal

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Alan Ayckbourn Has Had 90 Of His Plays Produced, And He’s Written Even More

- The Guardian

As South Coast Rep’s Paula Tomei Leaves, She Reflects On Her Four Decades At The Theatre

- American Theatre

If You Want Your Broadway Show To Do Well, You’ll Need To Capture The Influencers

- The New York Times

They Asked AI To Write A Stand-Up Show

- BBC



 

VISUAL

How Michelangelo’s Dome Has Survived For Centuries

- Hyperallergic

But What Exactly Is Banksy Doing In London?

- The Guardian (UK)

Banksy Confirms A Fifth London Piece This Week

- Euro News

This Guy Poured Water On 6,000-Year-Old Cave Art So He Could Get A Better Pic For Facebook

- CNN

Banksy’s Fourth London Piece Is Stolen Nearly As Soon As It Goes Up

- BBC

Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Who Attacked A Klimt Give Up And Disband

- AFP (Barron's)

The Courtauld Gets A Gift To Focus On British Art

- ARTnews

Whitney Museum Goes In-House For Curators Of 2026 Whitney Biennial

- ARTnews

A Second Animal-Themed Banksy Emerges In London

- The Guardian (UK)

Banksy’s Newest In London Is A Black Goat

- ARTnews

Lots Of Legal Drama Around Mysterious African Art Collection In Houston

- ARTnews

Another Spanish Church Restoration Goes Wrong

- The Guardian

Irony-Impaired Florida Man Pleads Guilty To Bombing Satirical Sculpture of Lenin And Mao

- San Antonio Report

A Statue Of Johnny Cash Will Replace One Racist Politician’s Statue In The Capitol Building

- ARTnews

The One Design That Will Make, Or Break, Cities In The Near Future

- The Atlantic

Turns Out The Church Of The Holy Sepulchre’s Missing Altar Panel Was There All Along

- Artnet



 

WORDS

The Voynich Manuscript Is A 500-Year-Old Mystery

- The Atlantic

What Does A State-Level Version Of The Atlantic Magazine Look Like? In North Carolina, It Looks Like This

- Nieman Lab

Oklahoma Governor’s Push To Get Bibles In Every Classroom Goes Right Back To 19th-Century Publishers

- Slate (MSN)

How Far Will Readers Go To Hear Music Inspired By Their Favorite Books?

- The New York Times

These Are The Thirteen Books Totally Banned In Utah Classrooms

- Salt Lake Tribune

Zora Neale Hurston’s Unfinished Final Novel Will Be Published

- The Guardian

Writers At The Atlantic Push Back Hard Against Management’s Deal With OpenAI

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Elif Shafak On Being Prosecuted In Her Homeland For Her Fiction

- The Guardian

The Complete Freud, Revised For the 21st Century

- Publishers Weekly

A US Book Prize Judged By Incarcerated People Awards Its First Winner

- LitHub

If You Don’t Have Any Context, Shut Up Already About Romance

- Time