MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Miriam Goldberg Owens talks about equitable access to artistry

- Aaron Dworkin

From Phantom Outlaw Editions SHADOW WORDS: A Selection of Deformed Sonnets

- Jan Herman

Taking Big Swings, with Alan Harrison and His New Book, Scene Change

- Katie Birenboim

Nonprofit Arts Organizations: In 2024, There’s Going to Be a Lot of Noise. Take Advantage.

- Alan Harrison

Security Insecurity: Metropolitan Museum Seeks Nn “Incident Response Manager” (Pistol Permit Required)

- CultureGrrl


 

DANCE

Complexions Contemporary Ballet On The Cusp Of Turning 30

- Fjord Review

The YouTuber Who Ended Up As Your Favorite Pop Star’s Favorite Choreographer

- GQ

Robert Battle Brought The Alvin Ailey Company Into The 21st Century

- The New York Times

New York City Ballet Finally Settles On A Contract With Its Orchestra

- The New York Times

He Holds Modern Dance History In His Hands: Meet The Chief Archivist At Jacob’s Pillow

- Dance Magazine

IDEAS

A Literal Flamethrowing Pastor Messes Around With ‘The Culture War’ Every November

- Slate

How To Tell Whether Research is Trustworthy

- The Atlantic

Are We “Addicted” To Social Media? A New Study Puts The Notion To The Test

- Nautilus

Slave To The Machines – Have We Already Set Up A System Where Humanity Serves Humanity’s Machines?

- The New Yorker

Morality In AI? Is That Even Possible?

- The New Yorker

Our Notions Of What Constitutes An “Adult” Are Changing

- Psyche

Our Complicated Interdependent Relationship With Machines

- The Wall Street Journal

Why It’s Good To Be Comfortable With Not Knowing

- Nautilus

Anodyne ChatBots Aren’t Very Useful – It’s Called The Spicy Mayo Problem

- The Atlantic

What Happened When My Family Disconnected From The Internet

- The Atlantic

The Internet Feels Like It’s Getting Less True

- Wired

Why Are There Suddenly So Many Sexual Assault Lawsuits Against Musicians?

- Washington Post



 

ISSUES

Why Destroying Cultural Icons Leaves A Deep Wound

- The Conversation

The Medieval Twitter Account With 700,000 Followers

- CNN

A Foundation Decides To Accelerate Its Impact And Spend Down Its Resources

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Now It’s Official: Valery Gergiev Is The General Director Of The Bolshoi Theater (As Well As The Mariinsky)

- The Guardian

Hunter College Reschedules Movie Critical Of Israel After Campus Protests

- The New York Times

Iowa Families Sue To Block Law Prohibiting Mention Of LGBTQ In Schools

- Axios

As Newspapers Drop Their Editorial Cartoonists, Nonprofit Newsrooms Are Hiring Them

- Nieman Lab

Report: Israel Has Destroyed More Than 100 Cultural Sites In Gaza

- ARTnews

The Ukrainian History Global Initiative: 90 Scholars Come Together To Reclaim The Nation’s Story From Putin

- The Guardian

How Art Works On Us

- 3 Quarks Daily

Museum Reclassifies Roman Emperor As Trans. The Real Story Is More Complicated

- The Conversation

A Prescription For American Well-Being: The Arts

- American Theatre

British Prime Minister Cancels Meeting With Greek Prime Minister After Parthenon Marbles Comments

- The New York Times

Chicago’s Arts Institutions Are Still Struggling Post-COVID

- Crain's Chicago Business



 

MEDIA

That Was Fast – Jezebel Website Is Sold And Will Reopen

- AP

Can The Oscars Telecast Solve Its Dwindling Viewership Problem By Starting Earlier? We’ll Find Out.

- AP

Federal Judge Blocks Montana’s TikTok Ban

- AP

The Problems With AI Provisions In The SAG-AFTRA Contract

- Wired

BBC Cuts Staff For Evening News – Audience Has Changed

- BBC

How “Frozen” Shifted Disney’s Focus From Male-Centric Stories

- The Conversation

Hollywood Biopics Are In Again. What Happened?

- Variety

Google Caves, Agrees To Pay Canada’s Link Tax For News

- CBC

A New Public Radio Show Aims For America’s Center, Geographically And Politically

- The Daily Beast

Iowa Public Radio Listeners Take Over Funding After State and University Slash Funds

- Inside Radio



 

MUSIC

What The Heck Happened To Spotify Wrapped?

- VIce

Has The Philadelphia Orchestra’s “Musical Diplomacy” To China Really Made A Difference?

- MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

“No Opera On A Dead Planet!”: Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Disrupt The (Other) Met

- Hyperallergic

Don’t Like Music? Of Any Kind? There’s A Name For People Like That.

- Literary Hub

After $167 Million in Renovation And Asbestos Removal, Bristol, England Has An Excellent New/Old Concert Hall

- BBC

The Damaged Music From Auschwitz, Heard In Public For The First Times

- Washington Post

Music Genres Mean Little To Most Fans These Days

- BBC

Who Says We Can’t Write New Music In A Thoroughly Baroque Style?

- Early Music America

GroupMuse: Building Classical Music Communities One Concert At A Time

- Van

Architect Rafael Viñoly’s Curved-Keyboard Piano Makes Its Carnegie Hall Debut

- The New York Times

Chicago Symphony Is Bouncing Back From COVID Better Than Many Of Its Neighbors

- Crain's Chicago Business

The Indispensable New Music Ensemble

- The New York Times

When A Music Festival Isn’t Really A Festival (We’re Looking At You, California)

- The Wall Street Journal

UK University Music Programs Are Closing. Why?

- The Critic

Who’s Afraid Of Arnold Schoenberg, And Why?

- The Atlantic

Britain’s Musicians Aren’t Feeling Great

- The Guardian (UK)



 

PEOPLE

Playwright And Artist John Byrne, 83

- The Guardian

Gwyneth Paltrow — Is She Really A Performance Artist?

- The Guardian

“A Variety Show In Human Form”: Billy Crystal Knows Almost Everyone And Can Do Almost Everything In Showbiz

- MSN (The Washington Post)

Actress Frances Sternhagen, 93

- AP

Tim Dorsey, Who Put Florida’s Weirdness Into Dark Comic Novels, Is Dead At 62

- Tampa Bay Times

Marty Krofft, Co-Producer Of “H.R. Pufnstuf” And A Slew Of Other Children’s TV Shows, Is Dead At 86

- CNN

At 72 She Dreamed Of Being A Musician And Picked Up A Trombone. At 84 She’s Got A Career

- The Guardian

Experimental Musician And Composer Catherine Christer Hennix Has Died At 75

- The New York Times



 

THEATRE

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Emergency Fundraising Campaign Was More Successful Than It Dared Hope

- MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)

Ticket Survey: Ticket Prices Outside London Are A Third Cheaper Than On The West End

- The Stage

How Cirque Du Soleil Became The Backbone Of Live Entertainment In 21st-Century Las Vegas

- Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)

London’s Royal Court Theatre Opens An Online Archive Of Every Play Ever Staged There

- The Guardian

Comedians Are Complaining About Cancel Culture. But Then, They Always Have

- The New York Times

The Jewish Foundations Of American Theatre

- The New York Times

Broadway’s Profitable Thanksgiving Week

- Deadline

Many Of Chicago’s Minority-Led Small Theater Companies Are Growing — For Now

- Crain's Chicago Business

Why Sondheim Is So Hard To Let Go Of

- The New York Times

A Man Who Investigated The Crimes Of Ferdinand And Imelda Marcos Goes To The Broadway Musical About Them

- NPR



 

VISUAL

Mark Bradford Wins The New $500,000 Getty Prize

- The Art Newspaper

Playing Politics? Of Course – It’s The Parthenon Marbles!

- The Guardian

The Quest To Recreate Tyrian Purple, Once The Most Expensive Pigment On Earth

- BBC

The Limits Of AI In Creating Photographs

- The Observer

The Abrupt, Unexplained Departure Of The CEO At Newfields/Indianapolis Museum Of Art Has Alienated Staff And Some Donors

- MSN (Indianapolis Star)

$100M Botticelli Discovered In Italian House. Who Is The Owner?

- ARTnews

A Second Mona Lisa Goes On Display. Was It Really Painted By Leonardo?

- Artnet

Italy’s Last Government Appointed Foreign Directors To Run Some Leading Museums. The Current Government Probably Won’t.

- The New York Times

They Sold An NC Wyeth Painting Bought For $4 At A Thrift Store For $191,000 At Auction. But Not Really

- The New York Times

Mellon Foundation Doubles Down On Monuments

- The New York Times

Ancient Treasures From Crimea, Stuck In Limbo For Years In The Netherlands, Have Been Returned To Ukraine

- BBC

Ai WeiWei On Cancellation Of His European Shows Because Of His Comments

- Hyperallergic

Why Is This Artist Teaching A Robot Dog How To Paint?

- The Guardian (UK)

Was This Hopper Painting Stolen Or Saved?

- Boston Globe

The Visual Art Of Destroying Athlete Brains

- Slate



 

WORDS

To This The Book-Banners Have Come: Boycotting Froot Loops

- New York Post

The 19th-Century Science Fiction Novel That Inspired A Communist Utopian Movement In America

- Smithsonian Magazine

British Library Hacked, User Data Offered On The Dark Web

- BBC

How AI Is Deciphering Ancient Languages

- Aeon

Can We Just Do Away With The Genre of Literary Fiction?

- The Guardian

How The Borders Brothers Transformed The Bookstore Business

- Literary Hub

Ex-CNN Boss Jeff Zucker May Well End Up Running Britain’s Telegraph And Spectator

- Variety

“Authentic” Is Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year 2023

- AP

Suppressing History: My Book Was Banned In Tennessee

- The New Yorker

Irish Author Paul Lynch Wins The Booker For A ‘Soul-Shattering’ Novel

- The Guardian (UK)