MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Louise Landes Levi A Voyager’s Magnum Opus: ‘The Goddess’

- Jan Herman

Randy Cohen talks about the importance of sharing stories and statistics in the arts

- Aaron Dworkin

Even more on the economics of live theatre

- Michael Rushton

Celebrating 100 Episodes of Call Time

- Katie Birenboim

“Hope for the Best. Expect the Worst.”

- Alan Harrison


 

DANCE

Bunheads Walked So The New Series Etoile Could Leap

- The New York Times

Hofesh Schechter Says The English Have A Problem With Contemporary Dance

- The Telegraph (UK) (Yahoo!)

New York’s Hot New Dance Studio Is A Corridor In Penn Station

- The New York Times

The Rockettes At 100

- New York Post

U.S. Ballet World’s Favorite Shoemaker Is Sold To Private Equity Firm

- WWD

The Debut Of Climate-Protesting Ballet Vandals

- The New York Times

Queensland Ballet: An Unexpected Unraveling

- InDaily

Two More Ex-Dancers Sue Shen Yun

- The New York Times

The Book That Transformed How We See Ballet

- The New York Times

IDEAS

When The Machines Think Of Things We Never Would Have

- Aeon

AI CEO: We Will Track Everything You Do

- TechCrunch

We Used To Think Of Nostalgia As Some Sort Of Disease…

- Psyche

How AI Is Changing The Job Of Design

- The Verge

Having It All: It Doesn’t Have To Be Morality Versus Consumption

- 3 Quarks Daily

Scientists Believe They’ve Found The Part Of The Brain That Perceives Consciousness

- Wired

What Happens To Our Culture When Hobbies Get Too Expensive

- The Atlantic

Artists In The United States Survived A Rabidly Anti-Art Government Before

- The Conversation



 

ISSUES

In Canada, First Nations Peoples Asked A Judge Not To Let Hudson Bay Company Auction Off Potential Sacred Heirlooms

- CBC

These Are The 250 Historical Figures To Be In Trump’s “Garden Of Heroes”

- The New York Times

What’s Happening At The Kennedy Center Will Affect The History Of The Arts In The U.S.

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Juilliard School, Planning To Go Tuition-Free, Begins Half-Billion-Dollar Fundraising Campaign

- The New York Times

Eco-System Collapse? When Major Foundations Stopped Funding The Arts…

- The New Yorker

Our Cities Will Work Better When We Rethink Our Relationship With Cars

- Curbed

Trump’s Kennedy Center To Be A Pollical Rally Hall

- The Violin Channel

$340 Million Performing Arts Center Is Central Issue In Dallas Exurb’s Election

- The Dallas Morning News (MSN)

“Improper Ideology” And The Smithsonian’s African-American History Museum

- The Atlantic (MSN)

Venice Renews And Expands Day-Tripper Entry Fee

- AP

Why Did A Chinese Online Censor Help A Critical Writer?

- The Guardian

Detroit Arts Institutions Stand Up, Stay The Course On Diversity

- The New York Times

A Short History Of Public Funding In The Arts

- The Conversation

Warning: Australia’s Arts Education System In Crisis

- Limelight



 

MEDIA

We’re All Living In ‘The Studio’ Now

- The Guardian (UK)

Government Funding Is Not Public Media’s Most Pressing Problem

- Editor & Publisher

Why “Views” Are A Poor Measure Of Popularity

- The Verge

Battle In California’s Capital Over Film And TV Tax Credits

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

The Gathering Storm At CBS News

- TheWrap (MSN)

So, How Much Is “Conclave” Like A Real Papal Election?

- The Guardian

Facebook Founder Suggests Social Media Is Over

- The New Yorker

An Afghan Media Mogul’s “Strange Dance” With The Taliban

- The Guardian

Pope Dies And “Conclave” Viewership Surges

- The Guardian

Anti-Streaming: A New Video Store Opens In Brooklyn

- The Guardian



 

MUSIC

Folk Music Of The 19th Century Is Being Pressed Into Service For Oppressed Folk Of The 21st Century

- The New York Times

Has Progress For Women Conductors Stalled?

- The Times

It’s Taken Three Tries To Get Jennifer Higdon’s Latest Opera Onto A Stage

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Philadelphia Orchestra’s New CEO Comes From Inside

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Does Music Really Need A Purpose?

- The Guardian

Jacksonville University Axes Music, Theatre

- Jax Today

Kronos Quartet Has New Violinist And Violist For First Time In 47 Years

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

The Frick Museum Needed A New Piano. Here’s How They Went About Choosing It

- The New York Times

Bucking The Trends, Houston Grand Opera Is Growing

- The New York Times

A New Opera About A Historic Supreme Court Case, Directed By Denyce Graves

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Making Opera Local Again

- The New York Times



 

PEOPLE

Jazz Critic Francis Davis, 78

- The Atlantic

Eunice Golden, Pioneering Female Artist Of Male Nudes, Is Dead At 98

- The New York Times

Letter Reveals Shakespeare Did Not Abandon His Wife

- BBC

Why The World Is Fascinated By David Hockney

- New Statesman

Woman Sues Kehinde Wiley For Sexual Assault

- Artnet

Chuck Connelly, Neo-Expressionist Artist, Dead At 70

- The New York Times

Meet The Attorney Whom Trump Tasked With Weeding Out “Improper Ideology” From The Smithsonian

- The Washington Post (MSN)

After A Movie That Lionized Him, The Guy Who Popularized Tetris Wants To Tell The Truth

- The Verge



 

THEATRE

How Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre Became A Launching Pad For New Musicals

- American Theatre

What Netflix Was Planning When It Decided To Put “Stranger Things” On Broadway

- The Hollywood Reporter

Tina Landau On Staging “Redwood” And “Floyd Collins” On Broadway Back-To-Back

- Vulture (MSN)

San Antonio’s Tobin Center Theatre Isn’t Just Surviving, It’s Thriving. How?

- TheatreMania

Five Months In, How’s America’s First TKTS Booth Outside New York Doing?

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Broadway Has Its Biggest Non-Holiday Box Office Week Ever

- Deadline

Producing Theatre Is About So Much More Than Just Producing Shows

- The Stage

Immersive Wall Street Play By “Sleep No More” Creators Shuts Down Without Warning

- TheaterMania



 

VISUAL

Benin Wanted Its Bronzes Back From Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts. Instead, The Collector Yanked Them All.

- The New York Times

Two Scholars Argue Over The Number of Penises In The Bayeux Tapestry

- The Guardian

The Destruction Of Sudan’s Cultural Heritage

- Apollo

Nelson-Atkins Museum Selects Architect For $160 Million Expansion

- KCUR (Kansas City)

Trump Cuts Funding For Museum That Tells Story Of Slavery

- The Guardian

Chicago History Museum Workers Form A Union. Some Workers Get Fired. Retaliation?

- Chicago Sun-Times

Art Institute Of Chicago Ordered To Turn Over Schiele Portrait

- The New York Times

Mauritshuis Museum Says Three of Its Rembrandts Have Turned Out To Be Copies

- ARTnews

Electrician Stumbles Across Hidden 17th-Century Frescoes

- The New York Times

Pawn Shop Owner In L.A. Charged With Trying To Sell Stolen Warhol

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Elon Musk’s DOGE Pays A Little Visit To The National Gallery Of Art

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Medieval Cathedral Puts A Spotlight On Its Centuries’ Worth Of Graffiti

- The Guardian

What’s Left Of Palmyra After Syria’s 13-Year Civil War

- The New York Times

Coming To Terms With Richard Serra

- N + One

Van Gogh’s Final Painting Is Causing Trouble In This Idyllic French Village

- The New York Times

The US Knew It Needed Public Housing, But The People Building It Often Didn’t Like It

- Washington Post (MSN)

Should Gaudi Be Seen As A Saint?

- The Observer (UK)

Medieval Monks Did What?

- The Guardian (UK)



 

WORDS

What You Learned About Jane Austen Was Completely Incomplete

- Happy Dancing

Revisiting The World’s First Advice Column, Which Debuted In 1691

- Literary Hub

Seeing Both Necessity And Demand, Random House Is Publishing The U.S. Constitution

- AP

There’s A Growing “Reading Crisis” In Britain: Study

- Publishers Weekly

The New Yorker: A Magazine Of Words Defined By Iconic Wordless Covers

- The Conversation

Is There A Future For Scots Gaelic?

- History Today

What Does It Mean To Win A Book Award For Translation?

- Sydney Review of Books

A Mathematical Model To Better Understand Language?

- Quanta

Study Literature? What It Means

- 3 Quarks Daily

Books Have “No Economic Value” Claims Meta

- Futurism

British Authors Protest Zuckerberg’s Taking Of Their Books For Generative AI

- The Guardian (UK)

The Naval Academy Was Supposed To Host A Lecture On Idea Censorship And Reading Fearlessly

- The New York Times

Buying A Book, Novelist Kiley Reid Says, Isn’t Going To Fix Racism

- The Guardian (UK)

Once You’ve Begun Writing, When Do You Stop?

- Slate