MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Neil Barclay talks about the evolving landscape for BIPOC organizations

- Aaron Dworkin

From Cold Turkey Press‘Two Images. One Message. All at Once.’

- Jan Herman

Combating American Isolationism with Cultural Diplomacy

- Joe Horowitz

SUMMER RERUN: “The Planet Will Be Fine. It’s the People Who Will Be F**ked.” — George Carlin

- Alan Harrison

Should we subsidize arts consumers, art producers, or neither?

- Michael Rushton


 

DANCE

The Revived London City Ballet: Director Christopher Marney Talks About Its Second Season

- Gramilano

Milwaukee Ballet Drops Live Orchestra For Two Of Next Season’s Productions, Including “Nutcracker”

- Milwaukee Magazine

Why Alicia Graf Mack Left Juilliard To Run The Ailey Company

- Dance Magazine

A New Ballet Company For Venice, A City With A Glittering Dance History

- Irish Times

Julianne And Derek Hough’s New Kind Of Dance Competition

- Dance Magazine

With Their Primary Venue Closed, Where Will Chicago’s Experimental Dance Companies Perform Now?

- WBEZ (Chicago)

Leadership Changes At Both Of Utah’s Top Contemporary Dance Companies

- The Salt Lake Tribune

IDEAS

I Observe. Must I Translate?

- Harper's

The Struggle For A “Self” We Recognize

- Hedgehog Review

We All Read. But Our Reading Has Changed. This Has Changed Our Culture (And Not For The Better)

- Vox

The Relevance Of Glee, A Decade After It Ended

- HuffPost

AI Slop Is Increasing To Such An Extent That The Open Web May Die

- Matt Pearce

Does Our Continual Phone Use Prevent Us From Fully Living?

- El Pais

The Perils Of Thinking That Better Design Will Fix Things

- The Atlantic



 

ISSUES

Barbara Kingsolver, Author Of Demon Copperhead, Is Deeply Worried About What’s Coming For Rural America

- The Guardian (UK)

Australia Says No To Kanye West After His Song Praising Hitler

- Los Angeles Times

Will America’s Polarized Politics Derail Next Year’s 250th Anniversary Celebrations?

- The New York Times

Canada Debates What Qualifies As Canadian Culture

- The Conversation

New Project Reveals 700 Years Of Irish History

- The Guardian

Hollywood Takes On AI Copyright Rules In Washington

- The Wall Street Journal

Ford Foundation Names Dean Of Yale Law School Its Next President

- ARTnews

The Taliban Want Tourists To Come Back To Afghanistan — And, Slowly, They Are

- AP

Canada’s Official Archives Are In Peril

- The Walrus

China Is Arresting Women Who Write Sexy Gay Stories

- BBC

The Backlash Against Generated AI Is Gaining Steam

- Wired

There’s No One In Charge At The US Copyright Office

- Wired

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

- Oregon ArtsWatch

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

- Tallahassee Democrat



 

MEDIA

UK Government Rejects Proposed Streaming Tax To Support UK Production

- Variety

What Worries “60 Minutes” Staffers About The Paramount-Trump Settlement

- Variety

Florida Governor Cuts Funding For Public Radio, TV

- Inside Radio

Paramount/CBS News Settles Trump’s $20 Billion Lawsuit For $16 Million

- CNN

CBS/Paramount Global And Trump Reportedly In “Advanced” Settlement Discussions For “60 Minutes” Lawsuit

- The Hollywood Reporter

The 21st Century’s Best Movies Reveal The Collapse Of Genre

- The New York Times

Hollywood’s Big AI Dilemma

- The Verge

Documentary Makers Fear Being Turned Into Criminals By A Harsh New British Law

- The Guardian (UK)

There Will Never Be Another Editor Like Vogue’s Anna Wintour

- The New York Times

Oh, This Seems Fine: Meta Wants Access To All Of Our Photos For Its AI Scraping Plans

- The Verge (Internet Archive)



 

MUSIC

The Viola Would Like Your Attention, Please

- The New York Times

Eight Paris Concert Halls Most Classical Fans Never Think Of

- Bachtrack

Neuroscience Researcher On Music As Medicine:

- San Francisco Classical Voice

Band Accused Of Being AI After Racking Up 500k Spotify Plays

- PCGamer

Why The Music Industry Seems Better-Defended Against AI

- The Verge

Warner Creates $1+ Billion Fund To Buy Rights To Music Catalogs

- Music Business Worldwide

Warner Music Announces Layoffs, Cuts

- The Hollywood Reporter

Milwaukee Symphony Musicians Accept New Three-Year Contract With Annual Pay Increases

- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

San Francisco Opera Orchestra Signs Two-Year Contract Which Expires Next Summer

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Rising Star Jakub Hrůša Will Be Czech Philharmonic’s Next Chief Conductor

- AP

Music@Menlo, Silicon Valley’s Chamber Festival, Names Its Next Artistic Directors

- San Francisco Classical Voice

Pocahontas Came Out Three Decades Ago, But Gen Z Is Making Its Signature Song A Rallying Cry

- The New York Times

Transforming A Sports Arena Into A Concert Venue Takes A Steady Hand

- Seattle Times

How A Music Librarian Convinced Sondheim To Leave His Smoke-Singed Papers To The Nation

- CBC

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

- The New York Times

Filling The New LACMA With Music

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)

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

- BBC

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

- BBC



 

PEOPLE

How Sondheim’s Collection Came To The Library Of Congress

- CBC

Study: What Makes A Person “Cool”?

- The New York Times

Frederick M. Nicholas, L.A.’s “Mr. Downtown Culture,” Has Died At 105

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

Mark Brokaw, Award-Winning Broadway/Off-Broadway Director, Dead At 66

- Deadline

What Toni Morrison Was Like As An Editor

- Slate

Jordan Roth Made A Career Getting Other People’s Work Onto Broadway. Now He’s Making His Own

- The New York Times

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

- The New York Times



 

THEATRE

Denver’s Theatre By And For Disabled Actors Is Hit Hard By GOP Cuts

- NPR

What Theatre Tickets Cost In 2025 London

- The Stage

In Defense Of Rachel Zegler’s Balcony Scene In The New West End “Evita”

- Variety

Report: Stressed UK Theatres Are Increasingly Playing It Safer

- Arts Professional

Average Ticket Price In London’s West End Up By Nearly One-Quarter

- The Stage

In Wartime Ukraine, Shakespeare Is Booming

- The Guardian

Life In A Contemporary Touring Circus

- Irish Times

The Woman Helming The Color Purple In Chicago

- Chicago Sun-Times



 

VISUAL

After Epically Bobbling A Venice Biennale Selection, Creative Australia CEO Faces Calls To Resign

- The Guardian (UK)

Gallery Powerhouse Blum Will Lay Off Staff And Close, Citing Market Downturn

- Artnet

The Benin Bronzes: Who Created Them, Who Has Had Them When, Who’s Returning Them To Whom Now And Why

- Artnet

Peter Phillips, 86, Britain’s Pioneer Of Pop Art

- ARTnews

Paris’s Asian Art Museum Sued For “Tibet Erasure”

- Artnet

The Last Of The Vatican’s Raphael Rooms Has Now Been Restored

- AP

Director of São Paulo’s Museu Afro Brasil Out After Less Than Two Years

- ARTnews

Dutch Catholic Group Protests 200-Year-Old Condom On Display At Rijksmuseum

- Artnet

Brooklyn Museum Cancels Layoffs After City Comes Through With More Money

- Hyperallergic

Inside Egypt’s New Grand Museum (The Opening Is Still In Question)

- Artnet

The Most Comprehensive Tour Of The Smithsonian Ever?

- Washington Post (MSN)

The Louvre Launches A Design Competition To Expand The Museum

- Artnet

International Support Grows For Returning Parthenon Marbles

- Artnet

Dissident Art: A Dancing Trump On The National Mall

- ARTnews

Ever Dream Of Looting Western Museums And Returning African Artifacts Yourself? This Video Game Will Let You.

- ARTnews

Netherlands Repatriates 119 Benin Bronzes To Nigeria

- AP

The Met Museum’s Difficult Line Through Its Re-thought African Collection

- The New Yorker

Kennicott On The Met Museum’s Non-European Wing: Making The Case For Context

- Washington Post



 

WORDS

The Euphoria Of Being A First-Time Novelist In One’s Fifties

- LitHub

Room For The Straight White Male Writer?

- The New York Times

There’s Another Great American Novel Whose Centennial Is This Year

- Prospect (UK)

Did A Federal Court Just Open Our Libraries Up For AI Plundering?

- LitHub

Cultural Vandalism: Alberta’s Book-Banning Project

- The Walrus

“Performative Reading” And The Cynical Young’uns Making Fun Of It

- The Guardian

Revisiting The Birth of Ms. Magazine

- The Guardian

Australia Has A New National Funding Body For Literature. Will It, Can It, Make A Difference?

- The Guardian

How Much Do You Know About Publishing At The Beginnings Of America?

- The New York Times

Just How Big Is Romantasy, As A Genre?

- NPR

This Author Decided To Focus-Group The Novel, Or Rather, Two

- Slate

The Perils Of Writing About Family, And Having Family Write About You

- The Guardian (UK)

The Bookbinding Family Of Paris

- The New York Times

Authors Ask Big Five Publishers To Promise Never To Use AI

- NPR