MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Patricia Mooradian talks about moving the historic Jackson House to Greenfield Village

- Aaron Dworkin

Meet poet, hip-hop artist, actor and teaching artist Emmett Phillips

- Josephine Reed

Where’s the $500 million fund for the arts?

- Hannah Grannemann

If You Believe in Auguries . . .

- Jan Herman

Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Sometimes, Old Trees Die, Too

- Alan Harrison


 

DANCE

Julie Kent, Houston Ballet Co-Director, On Beauty In Dance

- PaperCity (Texas)

How Pacific Northwest Ballet Became One Of The Most Diverse Ballet Companies In America

- Crosscut

Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Next Artistic Director Is, For A Change, From New Zealand

- Stuff (New Zealand)

Who Benefits From Dance Company Apprenticeships?

- Dance Magazine

The Punk Trio That Co-Directs France’s National Ballet Of Marseille

- The New York Times

How Alexei Ratmansky Became One Of The Most In-Demand Choreographers

- Observer

Former Dancers Say The UK’s Top Ballet Schools Constantly Body-shame Students

- BBC

Balanchine Thought His Ballets Would Dissipate Quickly

- The New York Times

IDEAS

Something Weird Is Going On With Men And The Roman Empire

- Wired

The NYT Says Video Games Should Be Covered Like Theatre

- The New York Times

The Art Inspired By The Webb Telescope

- The New Yorker

The Risks And Creative Rewards Of Loneliness

- The American Scholar

The New Doom Counter-Culture

- 3 Quarks Daily

Will AI Unlock Human Creativity For Millions?

- The Guardian

AI Is Not Actually Hollywood’s Biggest Problem

- Los Angeles Times



 

ISSUES

“A Breathtaking $500 Million Gamble”: The New Perelman Performing Arts Center At Ground Zero

- MSN (The Washington Post)

Revisiting The Birth Of Drag As America Knows It Today

- Curbed

Arts Leadership Shakeups In Portland, Oregon

- Oregon ArtsWatch

Your 2034th Admonition: You Really Should Care About The Data Companies Are Collecting On You

- The Atlantic

The Living Heritage Of Marrakech Lost In The Earthquake

- The Conversation

Own Culture? You Better Have A Physical Copy Of It

- Reason

Evidence For A Putin War Crimes Trial In A New Report On Destruction Of Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage

- The Art Newspaper

Pulitzer Board Opens Arts And Literature Prizes To Non-US Citizens

- The Guardian

Seattle Arts Organizations Face Diminished Demand

- Seattle Times

In A City Of Monuments, How To Decolonize The Landscape

- The New Yorker

The US Military’s Long History With Drag (Which The Pentagon Has Now Banned)

- Slate

Politics Intruding – More And More, Art Is Running Afoul Of Politics

- AP News

What Hollywood Folks Are Doing To Make Ends Meet

- NPR

Is Google Search Now Just Sneaky, Janky Ad-Filled Spyware?

- Wired



 

MEDIA

A Call For Public Radio To Step Up Their News Operations

- InsideRadio

Hollywood Stars Working On System To Manage AI Versions Of Themselves

- The Hollywood Reporter

The “Severe” Financial Crisis At Sacramento’s Public Radio Stations Isn’t Just About Listenership And Donations

- MSN (The Sacramento Bee)

For Years Saudi Arabia Waged War On Video Games. Now They Want To Be A Center Of Them

- The Wall Street Journal

Ireland Slaps TikTok With $367 Million Fine

- Variety

The Cable TV Bundle Is Falling Apart. Long Live The New Bundle!

- The New York Times

Fox Corp. Sued By New York City And Oregon For Lies About 2020 Election

- CNN

Disney/Charter Deal Demonstrates The Weakness Of The Cable And Streaming Businesses

- Slate

Drew Barrymore Breaks The Hollywood Strikes To Restart Her Talk Show, And She’s Getting Serious Blowback

- Variety

The Last Remnant Of Radio Disney Is Sold Off

- Inside Radio



 

MUSIC

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Board Removes Former Rolling Stone Editor

- Variety

In “Precipitous” Move, Spoleto Festival USA Replaces Music Director

- The Post and Courier (Charleston)

George Benjamin On The Art Of Writing Opera

- The Guardian

Northern England’s Top Concert Hall Gets A New Name: The Glasshouse

- The Guardian

The Gilmore Artist Award, A Sort Of MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship For Pianists, Goes To Alexandre Kantorow

- The New York Times

Lyric Opera Of Chicago CEO Anthony Freud Announces Early Retirement

- Chicago Sun-Times

Spotify Denies “30-Second-Loop” Can Game Royalties Payout

- BBC

The Dude Endowment: $40 Million Gift To New York Philharmonic To Fund Gustavo Dudamel’s Music Director Position

- AP

We’re Listening To More Sad Music. Why?

- The Honest Broker

Metropolitan Opera Commissions A New Work About Ukrainian Children Abducted To Russia

- The New York Times

Cleveland Orchestra’s Franz Welser-Möst Has Had A Cancerous Tumor Removed

- AP

Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Are Without A Contract As Management’s Offer Is Rejected

- MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Survey: Half Of Professional UK Musicians Earn Less Than £14,000

- The Guardian

Is The South Dakota Symphony The Future Of Classical Music?

- The American Scholar

The Sad Real Reason Apple Bought Tiny BIS, The Classical Label

- The Honest Broker

A Chinese Singer Went To Mariupol’s Bombed-Out Theatre And Sang A Patriotic Soviet Song

- The New York Times



 

PEOPLE

“Disaster Was My God” — The Short, Wild, Obnoxious Life Of Arthur Rimbaud

- The New European

Sculptor Fernando Botero, 91

- ARTnews

Jann Wenner Defends The Rock Generation

- The New York Times

John Baldessari Estate Embroiled In Lawsuits

- ARTnews

2023 Praemium Imperiale Goes To Marsalis, Eliasson, Celmins, Wilson, Kéré

- Finestre sull'Arte

1948, The Worst Year Of John Steinbeck’s Life

- The Observer (UK)

The Real-Life Man Who Was, And Was Not, Uncle Tom

- MSN (The Atlantic)



 

THEATRE

How Putin Eliminated Theatre In Russia

- The Conversation

Another US Regional Theater Company Drops The Traditional Directorship Model

- MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)

No More History Musicals From Lin-Manuel Miranda

- Chicago Sun-Times

Belarus Free Theater Sets Up Shop In Warsaw To Help Out New Exiles

- The New York Times

An Initiative: 18 Communities And Theatre Around An Idea

- The New York Times

So You Want To Make A Play. It’s Tough…

- American Theatre

What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Still Teach Us About Grief: Teju Cole On Seeing Aeschylus At Epidaurus

- The New York Times Magazine

Oscar-Winning Writer Of “Moonlight” And “Choir Boys” Named Geffen Playhouse’s Artistic Director

- Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)

What The Upcoming Broadway Revival Of Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” Has Done To Its Three Lead Actors

- The New York Times

What’s Scarier, Doing A One-Woman Show Or Riding A Coney Island Roller Coaster?

- The New York Times



 

VISUAL

A Major Ancient Cave Art Discovery

- Smithsonian

Report: Majority Of US Museum Workers Want To Quit

- The Art Newspaper

Placemaking? – Is That A Typo?

- Dezeen

David Adjaye’s London Office Will Reportedly Lay Off Half Its Staff; Former Employees Describe Poisonous Work Culture

- Architects' Journal

Three Works By Egon Schiele Seized By Manhattan D.A. From Out-Of-State Museums

- AP

Why Were Two Medieval Stained-Glass Panels From Notre-Dame Auctioned Off At Sotheby’s?

- MSN (AFP)

Museum of Modern Art Raises Admission Price To $30

- The New York Times

A German Town Creating An Artwork That Won’t Be Finished

- The New York Times

Inigo Philbrick’s Former Partner-In-Crime Reveals The Tricks They Used To Defraud Art Collectors

- Artnet

The Complicated Rise Of Curators Of Color

- Momus

The Van Gogh In The Ikea Bag: Why The Criminals Who Had It Gave It Back

- The Guardian

Billionaire’s Heirs Will Return 33 Looted Statues To Cambodia

- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Battling AI’s Fight Over Whether Painting Is A Raphael

- The Guardian

A Stolen Van Gogh Is Returned, Hidden In A Pillowcase Inside An Ikea Bag

- BBC

Earthquake Leaves Much Of Medieval City of Marrakech In Ruins

- CNN

AI Art Piece Wins Big Competition. Problem – It Can’t Be Copyrighted

- Creative Blog

Curators Test To See If AI Can Curate And Organize A Show. Here’s What Happened

- The New York Times

Russia Is Destroying Ukrainian Heritage Sites. How Can It Still Be In Unesco?

- The Wall Street Journal



 

WORDS

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Next Book Will Be A Bunch of Song Lyrics

- The Guardian

The Dangers Of Storytelling As A Learning Device

- Ian Leslie

The Scrappy Independent Publisher That Established English As A Language Of Indian Literature

- Literary Hub

Badge Of Honor: Eight Writers Talk About What It Feels Like To Have Their Books Banned

- Harper's Bazaar

Argentine Police Make “Historic Seizure” Of Nazi Propaganda And Shutter Local Publisher

- AP

Does Studying A New Language Interfere With The Foreign Languages You’ve Already Learned?

- Psyche

The College Essays ChatGPT Wrote For Me To Submit To The Ivies

- The New York Times

AI Readers Of Audio Books Are Here. There Are Some Issues…

- The Conversation

Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, David Henry Hwang Sue OpenAI For Copyright Violation

- MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)

Agatha Christie Pilgrims Have A New Stopping Point

- The Guardian (UK)

Did Yeats Ever Say The Quote Engraved On Dublin Marathon Finishers’ Medal?

- LitHub

Novelist Lauren Groff Writes Several Novels At A Time

- The New York Times