MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

The Two-Decade Anniversary of 9/11: My Own Reminiscence & Reflections

- CultureGrrl

Remembering 9/11

- Jan Herman

Lara Downes shares how entrepreneurship can amplify our artistic voices

- Aaron Dworkin

Heathcote Williams’s Credo ‘If Poetry Isn’t Revolutionary, It’s Nothing’

- Jan Herman

Replay: Fats Waller performs “Your Feet’s Too Big”

- Terry Teachout


 

DANCE

Gymnasts Are Getting Dancier — And Getting Attention

- Dance Magazine

A Real-Life ‘Black Swan’ Homicide? TV News Takes On The American National Ballet Fiasco

- CBS News

Katherine Dunham Was More Than A Choreographer And Ethnographer. She Was An Entrepreneur.

- Forbes

A Choreographer’s Podcast Examines How The Hell You Can Eke Out A Living In Dance In This Country

- The New York Times

This Woman Dancing In A Park Is The Actual Poster Girl For NYC’s Reopening — But The NYPD Tried To Shut Her Down

- Curbed

Houston Ballet’s Resident Choreographer Departing After Three Decades

- Houston Chronicle

Plus-Size Ballerina Fights The Good Fight For Body Positivity

- Dance Magazine

The Curious Case Of The Misbegotten Couple Who Started An American National Ballet

- Anonymous

The Path To Becoming Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Preferred Choreographer Wasn’t Simple

- The New York Times

IDEAS

Where The Wisdom Of Crowds Falls Short

- Harvard Business Review

Where We Are Now In Teaching Machines To Learn

- The New Atlantis

How Expertise Is Being Redefined

- Future

Artificial Intelligence Will Likely Be More Tool Than Human Replacer

- The New York Times

“Culture Wars” Are The Wrong Frame For Where We Are Now

- New Statesman

The Death Of Funny?

- Alan Harrison

Our Technology Has Gotten Ahead Of Our Ability To Control It

- The Atlantic

Has The Creepy Insect Trope Had Its Day?

- The Guardian (UK)

The Evidence Is Clear For Supporting The Arts To Support Public Health

- The Nation's Health

Does The Art World Still Have A Sense Of Humor?

- Apollo



 

ISSUES

Why This University Professor Resigned

- Bari Weiss

Why The Arts Struggled To Express 9/11

- The New York Times

Xi Jinping’s Crackdown Is Reshaping China’s Culture

- The Guardian

Police Disassemble Hong Kong’s Tienanmen Massacre Museum

- The Guardian

Chinese Communist Party Warns Celebrities About Moral Behavior

- The Guardian

Is Making Wine Making Art?

- 3 Quarks Daily

Behind China’s Crackdown On Popular Culture

- The Guardian

COVID May Finally Be Ending The Plague Of Audience Coughing

- The Guardian

As Performances Start Up Again, Critics Are Being Too Generous

- The Observer (UK)

Time’s Up Post-Cuomo Shake Up Continues

- Los Angeles Times



 

MEDIA

All Of The Winners At The Venice Film Festival

- Variety

Why Hybrid Film Festivals Are The Future

- Hyperallergic

NPR ‘Weekend Edition Sunday’ Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro To Depart

- Current

Two Huge Tom Cruise Movies Are On Hold. Will Hollywood Survive?

- Deadline

Australian Court Rules Media Can Be Sued For Comments On Posts

- BBC

Do Big Film Festivals Still Matter?

- Toronto Star

What’s The Latest Dangerous Distraction For Drivers? Infotainment Screens On Their Dashboards

- Slate

How “The Wire” Changed Television Viewing

- The Conversation

Adult Swim At 20: How The Cartoon Network’s Cheapo Experiment Made Good

- The New York Times

The Motion Picture Academy’s Museum Is Opening Way Past Schedule — Thank Goodness

- Los Angeles Times



 

MUSIC

The Problem With Music About 9/11

- The Conversation

Why Bach Is So Compelling

- Aeon

After 18 Months Dark, Metropolitan Opera In Mad Dash To Reopen

- The New York Times

The Unusual History Of Free Jazz

- The Guardian

Jazz Venues In New Orleans Weren’t Hurt Too Badly By Hurricane Ida — But The Musicians Were

- The New York Times

Ontario University Brings Back The Organ

- CBC

Taliban Destroys Musical Instruments At National Institute

- RepublicWorld (India)

Making Sound Art From The Bells Of Notre-Dame De Paris

- The Art Newspaper

Pianist Maria João Pires Injured In Fall

- Scherzo (Spain)

Afghanistan’s All-Female Orchestra Goes Dark

- Reuters

This 39-Year-Old Biracial Female Composer Is The Future Of America’s Classical Canon

- The New York Times

What Gets Lost In Opera Livestreams?

- The New York Times

The Gym-Rat Maestro

- The New York Times



 

PEOPLE

Soprano Teresa Zylis-Gara, Stalwart Of The Met In The 1970s, 91

- The New York Times

Pioneering Theatre Critic Andy Propst, 56

- TheatreMania

The Sad, Confused Final Days Of Robert Indiana

- ARTnews

Elizabeth McCann, 90 – Broadway Producer Extraordinaire

- The New York Times

Cellist Sebastian Hess Dead At 50 Of Brain Aneurysm

- The Strad

Phil Schaap, 70, Who Knew About Jazz History Than Anybody

- The Washington Post

Alberto Vilar, High-Profile Arts Donor Turned Famous Fraudster, Dead At 80

- The New York Times

Swiss Bank Suspends Ai Wei Wei Account

- BBC

Richard Wagner’s Great-Granddaughter, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, In Coma Following Near-Drowning

- Forumopera

Queen Of Denmark Hired As Designer On New Netflix Movie

- The Guardian



 

THEATRE

The Real-Time September 11 Conversation Between August Wilson And John Lahr

- Slate

Stand-Up Comedians Look Back On Their First Shows After 9/11

- Vulture

RSC Chief Gregory Doran Steps Down Temporarily

- The Guardian

How On Earth Did Experimental Downtown Drama Land On Broadway?

- The New York Times

Rethinking The Idea Of Theatre As Public Space

- American Theatre

Broadway’s Costume Shops Rush To Prepare For Reopening Nights

- The New York Times

We Can’t Address The Problems With Classic Musicals Just By Casting A Few Nonwhite Actors

- Slate

A Shakespeare Company Of Black Women Wants To Transform Theatre

- Vogue



 

VISUAL

That Didn’t Take Long: LA MoCA Leader Flees To Berlin

- Los Angeles Times

Designers Are Working To Make US Airports Less Miserable (And Maybe Even Pleasant)

- The New York Times

M+, Hong Kong’s Long-Delayed Contemporary Art Museum, At Last Has An Opening Date

- South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

New Movie Museum Shows LACMA Made A Mistake Selling Old Department Store

- Los Angeles Times

As Sea Levels Rise And Floods Proliferate, Museums Spend Millions To Protect Themselves

- Artnet

San Francisco To Get Its Own Institute Of Contemporary Art

- The New York Times

Ancient Chinese Heritage Sites In Henan Imperiled By This Summer’s Floods

- The Art Newspaper

The Art Restorers And The Art Thieves

- The Art Newspaper

‘A Symphony In Glass’: Nick Cave’s Latest Public Artwork Takes Shape In The New York City Subway

- The New York Times

Artists In Louisiana Are Trying To Help Those Harmed By Hurricane Ida

- Hyperallergic

Piecing Together Roman Frescoes From French Ruins

- The Guardian (UK)

Art Museums Must Tell A Richer Story About Afghanistan

- Los Angeles Times



 

WORDS

Have A Look At The New Yorker’s Original Mission Statement

- Gothamist

Boston Globe And Boston University To Relaunch 19th-Century Abolitionist Newspaper

- Nieman Lab

Of Writing And The Usefulness Of Cliches

- Aeon

The Secrets Of 1,000-Year-Old Riddles

- The New York Times

Writing Good Trivia Questions Is Even Harder Than Answering Them

- Slate

What’s Happened To Books In The Digital Age

- Los Angeles Review of Books

Why A Women’s Prize For Fiction?

- The Conversation

The Awesome Power Of TikTok To Sell Backlist Books

- Publishers Weekly

Ten Years After The Self-Published “Fifty Shades Of Gray,” Self-Publishing Has Evolved

- The Conversation

A Plan (And A Bill) To Create A New Federal Writers Project And Hire 900 Writers

- USA Today

The 111-Page Poem From The (Previous) Roaring Twenties That Feels Like A Warning For Us

- T — The New York Times Style Magazine

Kashmiri Poets Say India Is Censoring Them

- The New York Times

Why Big-Name Writers Are Signing On With Substack

- The Guardian