MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Such a Great Read! The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine’s Last Years in Paris

Holly Bass talks about the importance of the arts in our schools

Whitney Spits Out Its Breuer, While Sotheby’s Salivates

Early Stats from the General Social Survey: How Virtual Arts Participation Fared in 2022

Two goals to rule them all

DANCE

Hollywood’s Commercial Choreographers Have Formed A Union of Their Own

Texas Ballet Theater Names Tim O’Keefe (Permanent) Artistic Director

Dancer Brian Henry, Aka HallowDreamz, Is “The Face Of Krump In New York”

The First AI-Generated Dance

A New York Times Critic Finds A New Fave Tap Dancer On A Subway Platform

How Dancing Made The Savannah Bananas Social Media’s Favorite American Sports Team

IDEAS

Don’t Learn To Code

The Pseudoscience Of Extending Our Lives

In India Chatbots Are Answering Questions As Gods

David Brooks: The “Merit” System We Built For Universities Is Working Against Us

We Love Stories (And That’s The Problem)

Who “Owns” The Classical Past (And Why It Matters)

Learn To Love Math And You’ll Be Good At It

What’s The Point Of A Prize?

An Auto-Captioned World Is On Its Way

It’s A Grave Mistake To Cede The Humanities To Artificial Intelligence

Using AI And Bumping Up Against The Edges Of Reality

ISSUES

Controversies Over Research Into One Cambridge College’s Ties To Slavery Turn Ugly

How The Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision Will Stunt Creativity

Why The Newsroom Needed(s) To Change

Fresno, California Is About To Spend Millions On The Arts. The City’s Arts Community Is Extremely Wary.

Growing Concern About The DEI Industry

Turkey’s Arts World Is Feeling Anxious Following Erdoğan’s Re-Election

The Inexplicable Survival Of The Guinness Book Of Records

Why Did Venice’s Grand Canal Turn Bright Green Over The Weekend?

Fighting For The Right To Fix Our Own Stuff

The Woman Trying To Archive Black Twitter

How AI Could Improve The Ways We Work

MEDIA

The Best Time To See A Movie Is Before Lunch

Oklahoma Legislature Overrides Governor’s Defunding Of State’s Public TV Network

Probing The Life (And Deaths) Of Social Media Networks And What Makes Them Work (Or Not)

The Battle (And Calculations) Over Banning TikTok

Round 286: Movie Theatres Want You Back. They’re Upgrading

Even Peter Weir Had No Idea Just How Prescient “The Truman Show” Would Be

How The Movie “Alien” Spawned A Horror Universe

The Explosive E-Sports Boom Losing Traction With Audiences

Italy’s New Right-Wing Government Is Disrupting The Country’s State Broadcaster

The Resurrected MoviePass Has Now Launched Across The U.S.

MUSIC

The Architect Of Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Designed A Curved-Keyboard Piano

Unreleased Live John Coltrane Recordings Rediscovered In New York Public Library

Amnesia After Taylor Swift Concerts? Yes, It’s A Thing

Jonathon Heyward Named Music Director Of What Was The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra

A Desperate Maggio Musicale, Florence’s Opera House, Looks To Sell Off Its Archives To Pay Off Debt

Its Top Leadership Leaving, The LA Philharmonic Ponders Its Future

Why Stravinsky’s Music Has Fallen Out Of Favor

Here’s The Story Of That Other Classical Music Organization In San Antonio

Ex-Staffer Leads Lawsuit Against Met Opera Over Last Year’s Computer System Hack

Composer Hans Pfitzner — Lessons From A Conservative Artist In A Time Of Enormous Change

The Latest Young Star Conductor

In Lagos, Making Classical Genuinely Nigerian

The Life-Changing, And Sometimes Life-Saving, Joys Of Internet Fandom

Writing, During A Pandemic And A War, About Rachmaninoff In Exile

Celine Dion Cancels Tour Dates For The Foreseeable Future

After A $3.7 Million Renovation, George Frideric Handel’s London House Is Open Again

PEOPLE

Composer Kaija Saariaho, 70

Collaboration Gone Wrong, Vicious Feud, Or Performance-Art Prank? The Drama Between Author Michel Houellebecq And A Dutch Art Collective

Disgraced Donors The Sackler Family To Pay $6 Billion And Lose Purdue Pharma In OxyContin Settlement

Ilya Kabakov, Pioneer Of Installation Art And Ferocious Critic Of Soviet Communism, Is Dead At 89

Ed Ames, ’50s Pop Singer Turned ’60s TV Star, Is Dead At 95

Bill Lee, Bassist And Composer Who Scored His Son Spike’s Movies, Has Died At 94

Ingrid Haebler, Splendid Interpreter Of Mozart, Has Died At 96

Artist-Professor Arrested For Threatening A Reporter With A Machete

I Let AI Make All My Decisions For Three Days. Here’s What Happened

THEATRE

Life After The Master: A Steven Sondheim Protege

Watching A Master Craftswoman Make A Mask For Noh Theater

Why Was “Succession” So Good? Theatre Pros

A 15th-Century English Manuscript Gives A Rare Glimpse Of A Real-Life Traveling Minstrel’s Routine

Oregon Shakespeare Festival In Crisis: Appoints New Leader, Says It Needs To Raise $7.3 Million To Finish Season

Toronto’s Fringe Festival Is In Trouble

The Winner Of This Year’s Tony Award For Teachers Has His Students Perform Both Aloud And In ASL

What’s Holding Broadway Back From A Full Audience Recovery? The Burbs.

Their High School Canceled Their Play. So Students Raised Money And Produced It Anyway

The Lead Producer Of “Shucked” Talks About What May Be Broadway’s Most Unlikely Hit

VISUAL

In The UK, A Statue Of A Black Woman Was Painted White By A Vandal

Warning The National Art Museum of China, Xi Jinping Uses The Phrase “Politically Correct” With No Irony Whatsoever

How The Smithsonian Has Helped Rebuild Mosul’s Cultural Museum, Wrecked By ISIS

Sotheby’s Buys Whitney Museum’s Breuer Building

Istanbul’s Priceless Historic Buildings Are Not Ready For Another Earthquake

Figuring Out The Rules Underlying Conceptual Art, Which Was Invented To Get Rid Of The Rulebook

Florida Art Dealer Who Sold Bogus Basquiats And Warhols Gets More Than Two Years In Prison

At Brooklyn’s Very Own Superfund Site, Herzog & de Meuron Turn A Derelict Building Into An Art Fabrication Center

A City’s Nearly 40 Public Sculptures Get Their Yearly Baths

Vandals Who Attacked Degas In DC’s National Gallery Are Charged

One Of Van Gogh’s Last Paintings Has Gone Missing (We Think)

Using Medieval Tools And Techniques To Rebuild Notre-Dame’s Medieval Roof

Beirut’s Leading Museum Is Back, Three Years After Being Wrecked By That Port Explosion

Italy Is Raising Museum Ticket Prices (Slightly) To Fund Recovery From Recent Floods

This Artist Has Had A Solid Career, And Now He’d Like To Sell Another Artist His Name

The British Team Trying To Preserve, And Restore, As Many Banksys As Possible

A New York City Artist Is Paralyzed After Being Shoved On The Subway

US Supreme Court Justices Engage In Fierce Art Criticism Debate

WORDS

The Difference Between Novels And Short Stories? More Than Just Length

Book Banning Comes To Newtown, CT… And Fails

Salman Rushdie’s Next Book Will Be About His Getting Stabbed Onstage

This Dave Eggers Project Lets Young Readers Edit Books-In-Progress Written For Their Age Group

A New Dictionary Of African-American Language

Bookstores, Publishers, And Libraries Join Together To Sue Arkansas Over Law That Could Criminalize Librarians

Winning The Nobel Prize Was Not A Happy Experience For Annie Ernaux

When The World Ends With A Whimper

How Did A Novel About Game Development Become A Multi-Year Bestseller?