MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Camille Delaney-McNeil talks about using innovation to impact community

Steff Signer: Cabinet Music XI

“A Service to the Nation” — The University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra Tours South Africa

Erin Harkey shares the critical role the arts play in society

Opera Philadelphia, $11 tickets, and a predictable outcome

DANCE

In Kenyan Refugee Camp, Kids Turn To African Dance As Funding Cuts Drain Everything Else

Chicago’s Contemporary Dance Hub, Links Hall, Throws Itself A Marathon Goodbye Party

A Brief Travel Guide To Traditional Dance On Three Continents

Is Removing Cultural Appropriation From “La Bayadère” Even Possible? This Company’s Giving It A Try

An Underground Ballet Revival In Ukraine Gives Relief From Relentless War

IDEAS

The Perils Of Thinking That Better Design Will Fix Things

So Just Why Did Prehistoric Humans Decide To “Start” Civilization?

Evidence Of Cognitive Decline After Using AI

Why So We Find Silences In Conversations So… Awkward?

About 100 Years Ago The World Was Being Remade By Technolgy. There Was Fear. Sound Familiar?

The Future Of Human Creativity With AI

A Worry: Will Young People Lose Thinking Skills Because Of AI?

Behavioral: Why We’re Addicted To Work

Does Choice Make You Free? (The Costs Of Choosing)

Our Technologies Keep Trying To Give Us “Experiences.” They’re Fake.

What Jaws Did To, And Also For, Sharks

Lessons From The Apocalypse

Instead Of Replacing Journalists, Can Targeted AI Use Help Indie News Sites Get Better?

ISSUES

Portland, In A Budget Crunch, Manages To Find Some Money For Hard-Hit Arts Groups

Deaths Of A Thousand Cuts: Florida Gives Larger Grants To Far Fewer Arts Organizations

Australia’s Largest State Is Laying Off One-Quarter Of Its Arts Agency’s Staff

Strike Two: Judge Rules That Meta’s AI Didn’t Infringe On Writers’ Copyright

A New International Arts Festival At A Superfund Site In Brooklyn

A Fire Destroyed Brazil’s National Museum. How Do You Rebuild That History?

Anthropic Wins Major Copyright Case: AI Training Is Fair Use

What Are “Italian Brain Rot Animals” And Why Are Young Adults Obsessed With Them?

Seattle Festival Canceled Over Concerns About ICE

New Hampshire Lawmakers Are Still Trying To Cut State Arts Budget To $1

How Korean Culture Became A Worldwide Phenom

New AI Arts Residencies Intend To Promote Artists Working In AI

An Ambitious Seattle Artist Housing Initiative Falters

Author Kaveh Akbar Reflects On Making Art During War

MEDIA

Spielberg Says He’ll Never Retire

Cutting Public Media Funding Means Rural Stations Closing. Here’s What That Means In Louisiana

One Of Bollywood’s Biggest Blockbusters Ever Is Back After 50 Years — With A New Ending

KQED, San Francisco Public Radio/TV, Faces Big Deficit, Buyouts, Possible Layoffs

Apple Makes A Big Bet On Brad Pitt Movie

A First: BBC Will Start Charging US Users To Access Content

The End Of The Internet’s Business Model For Publishing

Are These The Best Movies Of The 21st Century So Far?

“South Park” Creators Accuse Paramount Global’s Buyer Of Illegally Meddling In $2.5 Billion Extension Deal

Even C-SPAN Is Getting Hammered By Viewers’ Switch From Cable To Streaming

MUSIC

New Yorkers Explain Why They Went To See The New York Phil In Queens

Filling The New LACMA With Music

One Of The World’s First Gay Anthems Was Born 100 Years Ago In Chicago

Warning: Welsh Traditional Folk Music Could Die Out Within A Generation

Even The Most Resourceful Musicians Are Failing To Make A Living

Philharmonia Baroque, US’s Only Full-Time Period-Instrument Orchestra, Names Its Next Music Director

Over Two Dozen Unknown Works By Satie Appear On New Recording

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krystian Zimerman And New York Phil Tour South Korea This Week

Today’s Composers Have More Sounds Than Ever Before To Choose From

Germany’s Thriving Small-Opera-House Ecosystem

One Man Has Been Tuning Pianos In The Sydney Opera House For Fifty Years

David Finckel And Wu Han Will Step Down From Their Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo

English National Opera’s Next Music Director Will Also Take Helm At New Zealand Symphony

PEOPLE

Diana Oh, Passionate Advocate For Queer Theatre, Has Died At 38

A Former Museum Director’s Cautionary Tale About Intimidation And Coercion

Composer Lalo Schifrin, Who Wrote Iconic “Mission: Impossible” Theme, Has Died At 93

Bill Moyers, Dean Of American Public TV Journalism, Dead At 91

Léon Krier, New Urbanist Architect Who Designed King Charles’s Model Town, Has Died At 79

1960s Teen Idol Bobby Sherman Is Dead At 81

The Man Who Became History-Keeper Of A Legendary Dance Mecca

Sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, Master of The Bronze Sphere, Is Dead At 98

Actor Jay Ellis Found Inspiration In Colson Whitehead’s Books

Marlee Matlin Won An Oscar, But Had To Wait Years For More Good Work In Hollywood

THEATRE

How Manhattan Theatre Club Was Born

After 53 Years, Manhattan Theater Club Director Lynne Meadow Is Retiring

Jamie Lloyd, The Unorthodox Director Storming The West End And Broadway

Is Podcast Fiction The New Fringe Theatre?

American Conservatory Theater Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein Is Moving To Houston’s Alley Theatre

How A Library Of Congress Specialist Wooed Stephen Sondheim To Donate His Papers

Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” Is Pretty Much Always Timely. Why Isn’t It Staged More Often?

Athens’ Ancient Outdoor Theatre Gives Its Final Season Before Three-Year Renovation

NYC Police Cancel Theatre Program Meant To Connect Community

High-Tech Storytelling Is All Over Broadway These Days

VISUAL

Can This Small Museum In England Raise Enough Money To Buy Turner’s First Known Oil Painting?

Financially-Troubled Vancouver Art Gallery Will Cut A Third Of Its Staff

Chinese Graphic Artists Feeling The Pain Of AI “Averaging” Effect

There Are Dozens Of Nonprofits Concerned With Frank Lloyd Wright. Only One Helps Out People Who Live In Wright Houses.

What Was Van Gogh’s Thing For Sunflowers About? And He Was Hardly The Only Artist Drawn To Them.

Britain’s Tate Galleries Launch Campaign For US-Style Endowment

Jeff Koons’ Giant Topiary Will Anchor New LACMA

This Year’s Venice Architecture Biennale Focuses On Building For A Changing Planet

After Months Of Domestic Pressure, Italy’s Government Slashes VAT On Art By 77%

Spain’s Supreme Court Orders Franco’s Heirs To Return Medieval Statues To Santiago De Compostela

Norman Foster To Design Translucent Bridge For Queen Elizabeth Memorial

Send In The Saints: Notre Dame Statues To Be Returned

Man Trips, Tears Hole In 17th Century Painting In An Uffizi Gallery

Iran Moves Cultural Treasures To Safety

MIT Student Creates New Way To Restore Art Work

Lessons About The Market At This Year’s ArtBasel

Climate Change Activists Fling Pink Paint On A Star Picasso Painting In Montreal

A New Proposal For The US At The Venice Biennale Is, Uh, Not Great

WORDS

The San Francisco Bookstores Removing JK Rowling From Their Shelves

After Five Years Closed, Johannesburg’s Flagship Public Library Finally Reopens

A Test: Measuring Student Writing Against Those Who Use ChatGPT — It Doesn’t End Well

Politicizing The Library Of Congress Is Defacing A National Treasure

Another Goodreads Problem: Authors Hit With Negative Reviews Before Anyone Gets Review Copies

The Real Reason Why Men Should Read Fiction

FanFic Writers Battle Against A Deluge Of AI Slop

There’s A Boom In Translated Fiction. A New Prize Aims To Give A Boost To Translated Poetry

Alison Bechdel Explains Why Her New Graphic Novel Isn’t The Memoir She Had Planned

Teachers: How AI Deepens Our Students’ Ability To Write

Finland’s Public Libraries Are Flourishing (There’s A Reason)

The Days When Charles Dickens Was Known As Boz