MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Reuben Kebede shares the importance of diverse repertoire

- Aaron Dworkin

I’m Not Angry. I’m Batman.

- Alan Harrison

On the frontiers of AI

- Michael Rushton

Jyoti Gupta shares strategies to develop arts leaders

- Aaron Dworkin

What Ails Today’s Metropolitan Opera? — It’s in the Pit

- Joe Horowitz


 

DANCE

Dance World Surveys Damage Already Done By Withdrawal Of NEA Grants

- Dance Magazine

Crisis At Hamburg Ballet As Dancers Publicly Criticize New Artistic Director

- Tageblatt (Stade/Hamburg) (via Google Translate)

Dancers Sue Shen Yun Over Working Conditions

- NPR

A Brief History of The Can-Can

- The Guardian

Ireland’s New National Dance Company Makes Its Debut

- RTÉ (Ireland)

How Ukrainians Are Fighting Back Against Russia, Through Ballet

- KSL (Utah)

IDEAS

Neuroscientists Find Music Can Powerfully Reshape Memory

- PsyPost

College Students Are Using AI To Do Their Assignments. Is It Cheating?

- New York Magazine (MSN)

Has American Popular Culture Stagnated?

- Noahpinion

Why We Should Learn To Be More Skeptical… Of Our Own Ideas

- Psyche

Universities Are Debating AI. But There’s Not Much Consensus

- The Point

Will English Eventually Vanish From The Earth?

- The Guardian (UK)

What The United States Could Have Been

- New York Review Of Books

Disney Has A New Location

- Spitfire New



 

ISSUES

At Cannes, Actor Pedro Pascal Tells Artists To Fight Back Against Trump

- The Guardian (UK)

Republican Tax Bill Would Allow President To Kill Non-Profits

- The Intercept

Remaining Kennedy Center Employees Start Unionization Process

- The Washington Post (MSN)

Argentine President Is Waging War On History And Closing Arts Speaces

- The Art Newspaper

National Constitution Center Gets Its Biggest Gift Ever

- Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Why America Needs The NEA More (Not Less)

- Harper's Bazaar

Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Reverse Dismantling Of Institute Of Museum And Library Services

- Publishers Weekly

Canada’s Founding Document May Be Sold At Auction

- The Walrus

Artist Suppliers Struggle With Tariffs And Uncertainty

- Hyperallergic

“A Hot Mess” At Philadelphia’s Arts Magnet High School

- The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

Why Culture Has Always Been At The Center Of North American Trade

- The Conversation

Trump Escalates Punishment Of Harvard

- Washington Post

This Is What The Power Shift At The Kennedy Center Really Looks Like

- Washington Post

Big Fight Over UK AI Copyright Transparency Bill

- The Guardian



 

MEDIA

Yes, Hollywood Is Hurting

- NPR

Not Great News For Local Media In Colorado

- Nieman Lab

This Year’s Cannes Film Festival May Be The Most Politically Charged Since 1968

- The Hollywood Reporter

The Oscars Want To Make Voters See Movies They Vote On. But How Do You Enforce It?

- The Atlantic

Auschwitz Memorial Creates Digital Replica Of Death Camp For Filmmakers’ Use

- The Guardian

$34.5 Billion Mega-Merger Will Create US Cable TV Behemoth

- The Hollywood Reporter

Mubi, Born As A Streaming Platform, Wants To Conquer Indie Cinema

- Variety

BBC Chief: Disinformation Is A Big Threat

- The Guardian

Why Do All Our Movies Seem To Have The Same Plot?

- Aeon

What Gérard Depardieu’s Sexual Assault Conviction Means For France’s Movie Industry

- BBC



 

MUSIC

Why Did Director David Fincher Turn A Classic Alt-Rock Band Into String Puppets?

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

Opera Australia Posts Dismal $10M Deficit

- Sydney Morning Herald

The Case For Salonen To Return To The LA Philharmonic

- Los Angeles Times

The Eurovision Song Contest’s Real Heroes: The Crew That Does Complete Set Changes In 35 Seconds

- BBC

A Growing Number Of Foreign Musicians Are Canceling Performances In The US

- WBEZ

Music Director Of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Will Depart After Next Season

- Ottawa Citizen

English National Opera Names André De Ridder Music Director

- Opera Now

La Scala’s Next Music Director Will Be Myung-Whun Chung

- Bachtrack

Dance Music Is Having (Another) Moment. Here’s What’s Different

- The New York Times

Has Asia’s Classical Music Boom Busted?

- Asia Times

Dance Music Is Back, But Different, And Maybe Better

- The New York Times



 

PEOPLE

Actor Eiza Gonzalez On How The Legend Of Zelda Shaped Her Life

- The New York Times

Luigi Alva, One Of The 20th Century’s Great Light Tenors, Is Dead At 98

- Presto Music

Salman Rushdie’s Attempted Murderer Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

- AP

Charles Strouse, Composer of Broadway Hits “Annie” And “Bye Bye Birdie”, Is Dead At 96

- AP

Actor Joe Don Baker, Known For “Walking Tall,” Has Died At 89

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)

The Backstory Of The Third Accuser, Newly Gone Public, In Harvey Weinstein’s Trial

- The Hollywood Reporter

Screenwriter-Director Robert Benton, Winner Of Three Oscars, Is Dead At 92

- Deadline

These Are The Nine Artists Elle Magazine Says Are Shaping Culture This Year

- Elle

The Ascent And Descent Of Gérard Depardieu: A Timeline

- AP

Gérard Depardieu Found Guilty of Sexual Assault

- AP



 

THEATRE

Who Will Win The Tonys – And Who Should Win?

- The New York Times

CNN Will Live-Broadcast Clooney’s Broadway Murrow Play

- The New Yorker

Willem Dafoe On His Upcoming First Season Leading The Venice Theater Biennale

- The Guardian

Broadway’s Back Baby! Box Office Exceeds Pre-Pandemic Take For The First Time

- The Hollywood Reporter

Playwright Donates Thousands To Replace Berkeley Rep’s Canceled NEA Grant

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Bay Area Is Evidently Losing Yet Another Theater Company

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

New York State Increases Tax Credit For Broadway Productions

- Broadway News

Clooney Play Says It Has Recouped Its $9.5M Investment In Only Seven Weeks

- Deadline

The Full Arc Of A Tragedy In 4½ Minutes: Audra McDonald And Ben Brantley Talk About “Rose’s Turn”

- The New York Times

Second City In Chicago Boosts Pay And Avoids Actors’ Strike

- WBEZ (Chicago)



 

VISUAL

Arts Criticism Is Not In Crisis, Actually

- Hyperallergic

Gauguin’s Final Self-Portrait May Not Be A Selfie After All

- Artnet

Major Restoration Project At Hagia Sophia In Istanbul

- The Guardian

Pussy Riot’s Founder Goes Back Into A Prison Cell — This Time At L.A. MoCA

- The New York Times

As The 300+-Year-Old Hudson Bay Company Dissolves, What Should Be Done With Its Art And Artifacts?

- The Conversation

Yum! Espresso Made From Venice Canal Water Wins Architecture Biennale’s Top Prize

- Artnet

How The Ancient Greeks Filled The Parthenon With Light

- Artnet

Putz Paints Penis On Ancient Peruvian Ruin

- BBC

Budget Cuts In Los Angeles Threaten Frank Lloyd Wright Landmark

- Artnet

Billionaire Collector Fight Pulls Back Curtain On Shadowy Art Market

- The New York Times

A Year Spent Photographing The Dying Changed This Artist’s Life

- The Guardian (UK)

Translating Art, With Words, For The Blind

- El Pais

The Toddler Who Damaged A Rothko Shouldn’t Stop Museums From Welcoming Kids

- The Guardian (UK)



 

WORDS

Harvard Law School Bought A Copy Of The Magna Carta For $27. Turns Out It’s Real

- CNN

Texas Proposes Law To Punich Bookstores For Selling “Unsafe” Books

- WFAA

Is It Ethical To Buy Used Books?

- The New York Times

Why We All Need To Study History

- Anonymous

Unknown Ian Fleming Story Is Published, And It’s Not About James Bond

- AP

It Is, After All, The Library Of Congress: Lawmakers Push Back Against Trump Takeover

- Washington Post

Authors Guild Sues DOGE And NEH For Cancelling Grants

- ARTnews

Audible To Use AI For Narrating And Translating Audiobooks (But Not All of Them)

- Publishers Weekly

Read The Resignation Letter From NEA Literary Staffers

- N+1

What We Learn From Close Reading

- The Nation

The New Literature: Substack?

- The New Yorker

Literary Criticism In The Changing University

- The Point

The AI Agatha Christie Course Is Actually Not That Great

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

Why We Still Need Novels

- The Guardian (UK)