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DANCE
IDEAS
- There Are Fewer Than 10 Full Time Book Critics Left
By some measures, there are as many as 1 million books published annually in the US, and it’s a number that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The result is that there is intense competition for the small slice of the review landscape that remains. – Book Work
- Organ Harvesting: Nonprofit Is Rescuing Church Instruments From Decrepitude And Dismantling
Every year, over 400 church organs in the UK alone are sent to the junkyard or become unplayable due to neglect. The organization Pipe Up is rescuing some of those instruments which can be made playable at relatively little expense, then sending them to new owners ranging from London to the Philippines. – BBC (Yahoo!)
- What Happens When Art Experts And AI Disagree On Authentication?
Combining machine learning, deep neural networks and computer vision algorithms, Art Recognition’s approach can, in theory, be adapted to any painter with a big enough back catalog. To date, the company has produced models for more than 200 artists. – CNN
- The Art Market Grew In 2025. But…
The recovery, however, came with an asterisk. While auctions bounced back strongly, galleries barely budged, and much of the market’s growth came from a small number of very expensive works. – ARTnews
- Bernie Sanders Has an AI Proposal
<a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/03/bernie-sanders-has-an-ai-proposal.html" title="Bernie Sanders Has an AI Proposal” rel=”nofollow”><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-150×150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-150×150.jpg 150w, https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-100×100.jpg 100w, https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-200×200.jpg 200w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" data-attachment-id="72960" data-permalink="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/screenshot-339" data-orig-file="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750.jpg" data-orig-size="750,1065" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="Bernie Sanders" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="Calls for a moratorium on new data centers.
” data-medium-file=”https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-211×300.jpg” data-large-file=”https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-721×1024.jpg”>He’s been called a luddite. But he rejects that and says he is calling for a moratorium on building new AI data centers because he is concerned about an existential threat to humankind.
ISSUES
- What Happens When Art Experts And AI Disagree On Authentication?
Combining machine learning, deep neural networks and computer vision algorithms, Art Recognition’s approach can, in theory, be adapted to any painter with a big enough back catalog. To date, the company has produced models for more than 200 artists. – CNN
- The Art Market Grew In 2025. But…
The recovery, however, came with an asterisk. While auctions bounced back strongly, galleries barely budged, and much of the market’s growth came from a small number of very expensive works. – ARTnews
- Damage To Iran’s Historic Sites Mounts
The strikes on Isfahan on Monday came a week after another cultural icon, the Golestan Palace, was badly damaged during an attack on a police station in downtown Tehran, according to the ministry. – The New York Times
- Pritzker Prize For Architecture 2026 Goes To Smiljan Radić Clarke Of Chile
Though The New York Times has described him as “a rock star among architects,” he’s not as famous as previous “starchitect” winners such as Frank Gehry, I.M. Pei, and Zaha Hadid. In fact, Radić says that this award “will probably mean being far more exposed than I would like.” – NPR
- Change To Middle Passage Exhibit At Smithsonian’s African-American Museum
Since the National Museum of African-American History and Culture opened in 2016, its exhibit on the transport of millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas has featured a piece of the slave ship São José-Paquete de Africa. That fragment, on loan from the Iziko Museums of South Africa, will be returned this summer. – AP
MEDIA
- What We Can Learn From Radical Access To The Arts
Access Fringe program at the Melbourne Fringe Festival is a 10-year partnership with Arts Access Victoria supporting d/Deaf and disabled artists through commissions, mentorships and specialised development programs. The initiative shows how embedding access into every space and conversation can lead to change across the entire cultural sector. – ArtsHub
- All About America, Good And Bad, At This Year’s Edinburgh International Festival
“It is the largest presentation of American artists in the history of the festival,” says director Nicola Benedetti. The program includes a residence by Wynton Marsalis (Benedetti’s husband). Theatre productions will explore the AIDS crisis and racist lynchings; Clown Show will present a ‘contemporary portrait of America as a falling-apart circus’.” – The Guardian
- Marseille Has A Thriving Artist Community. So Why Might The City Elect A Far Right Government?
If your experience of Marseille is limited to certain multicultural central neighbourhoods then it might be easy to assume that this is – and always will be – a leftwing city, an outlier in the far-right bastion that is the wider south of France. But Marseille’s politics have always been contested. – The Guardian
- Portland Has Millions Of Dollars In Unspent Arts Funding, And Arts Organizations Are Pleading For It
The government of Oregon’s largest city has $8.5 million in money from its (unpopular) Art Tax that has never been spent; this was reported shortly after the city cut arts grants by nearly half. – Oregon ArtsWatch
- Longtime Kennedy Center Patrons Contemplate A Shutdown
For many loyal patrons, the question has become how to fill the void left by the cancellations and the impending two-year closing. – The New York Times
MUSIC
- There Are Fewer Than 10 Full Time Book Critics Left
By some measures, there are as many as 1 million books published annually in the US, and it’s a number that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The result is that there is intense competition for the small slice of the review landscape that remains. – Book Work
- Missing Page From Major Archimedes Manuscript Rediscovered In France
“A lost page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, among the oldest sources for the Greek mathematician in existence, has been discovered … at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. The page in question contains geometric diagrams and a passage from Archimedes’s treatise on the sphere and the cylinder, hidden beneath a layer of later religious writings.” – Artnet
- The Global Elite Have Given Up On Spelling And Grammar
The literary breaches, while trivial, highlight a reality that has become all too clear: There’s an inverse correlation between power and proper punctuation. – The Wall Street Journal
- Simon & Schuster Hires Former Amazon Exec As New CEO
The choice of Greg Greeley marks the first time in memory that Simon & Schuster had hired a CEO from outside the company. The 62-year-old Greeley succeeds Jonathan Karp, who announced last year that he was stepping down to found his own imprint. – AP
- Why The German Government Feels Threatened By Independent Bookshops
Independent bookshops are dangerous because they interrupt us. They do not optimise our curiosity. They derail it. Is that the reason why Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, is now consulting the domestic intelligence agency before approving funds to bookshops? – The Guardian
PEOPLE
- There Are Fewer Than 10 Full Time Book Critics Left
By some measures, there are as many as 1 million books published annually in the US, and it’s a number that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The result is that there is intense competition for the small slice of the review landscape that remains. – Book Work
- Organ Harvesting: Nonprofit Is Rescuing Church Instruments From Decrepitude And Dismantling
Every year, over 400 church organs in the UK alone are sent to the junkyard or become unplayable due to neglect. The organization Pipe Up is rescuing some of those instruments which can be made playable at relatively little expense, then sending them to new owners ranging from London to the Philippines. – BBC (Yahoo!)
- What Happens When Art Experts And AI Disagree On Authentication?
Combining machine learning, deep neural networks and computer vision algorithms, Art Recognition’s approach can, in theory, be adapted to any painter with a big enough back catalog. To date, the company has produced models for more than 200 artists. – CNN
- The Art Market Grew In 2025. But…
The recovery, however, came with an asterisk. While auctions bounced back strongly, galleries barely budged, and much of the market’s growth came from a small number of very expensive works. – ARTnews
- Bernie Sanders Has an AI Proposal<a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/03/bernie-sanders-has-an-ai-proposal.html" title="Bernie Sanders Has an AI Proposal” rel=”nofollow”><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-150×150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-150×150.jpg 150w, https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-100×100.jpg 100w, https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-200×200.jpg 200w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" data-attachment-id="72960" data-permalink="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/screenshot-339" data-orig-file="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750.jpg" data-orig-size="750,1065" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="Bernie Sanders" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="
Calls for a moratorium on new data centers.
” data-medium-file=”https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-211×300.jpg” data-large-file=”https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-721×1024.jpg”>He’s been called a luddite. But he rejects that and says he is calling for a moratorium on building new AI data centers because he is concerned about an existential threat to humankind.
PEOPLE
- There Are Fewer Than 10 Full Time Book Critics Left
By some measures, there are as many as 1 million books published annually in the US, and it’s a number that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The result is that there is intense competition for the small slice of the review landscape that remains. – Book Work
- Organ Harvesting: Nonprofit Is Rescuing Church Instruments From Decrepitude And Dismantling
Every year, over 400 church organs in the UK alone are sent to the junkyard or become unplayable due to neglect. The organization Pipe Up is rescuing some of those instruments which can be made playable at relatively little expense, then sending them to new owners ranging from London to the Philippines. – BBC (Yahoo!)
- What Happens When Art Experts And AI Disagree On Authentication?
Combining machine learning, deep neural networks and computer vision algorithms, Art Recognition’s approach can, in theory, be adapted to any painter with a big enough back catalog. To date, the company has produced models for more than 200 artists. – CNN
- The Art Market Grew In 2025. But…
The recovery, however, came with an asterisk. While auctions bounced back strongly, galleries barely budged, and much of the market’s growth came from a small number of very expensive works. – ARTnews
- Bernie Sanders Has an AI Proposal<a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/03/bernie-sanders-has-an-ai-proposal.html" title="Bernie Sanders Has an AI Proposal” rel=”nofollow”><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-150×150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-150×150.jpg 150w, https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-100×100.jpg 100w, https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-200×200.jpg 200w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" data-attachment-id="72960" data-permalink="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/screenshot-339" data-orig-file="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750.jpg" data-orig-size="750,1065" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="Bernie Sanders" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="
Calls for a moratorium on new data centers.
” data-medium-file=”https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-211×300.jpg” data-large-file=”https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BERNIE-SANDERS-750-721×1024.jpg”>He’s been called a luddite. But he rejects that and says he is calling for a moratorium on building new AI data centers because he is concerned about an existential threat to humankind.
THEATRE
VISUAL
- What If A “Day Job” Is The Foundation Of An Artistic Career?
Rather than sticking our heads in the sand—and hoping that belief, alone, will be the source of motivation we need to succeed—what if we focused on doing what it takes to play the game for as long as possible? – 3 Quarks Daily
- Why You Can’t Love A Clone
- Fighting Over Art And Politics Again (And Again)
Identity, even when mobilized as a force for visibility and justice, can shield art from critique—transforming dissent into offense and rendering criticism suspect. Questioning the work risks being seen as questioning the identity. – LA Review of Books
- Yearning For The Meaning Of Consciousness
“What I find moving in these discussions is the intense yearning for a world that is more alive than secular scientists might think it is, a kind of seeking for a god that one suspects these scientists do not, at the same time, believe to exist.” – The American Scholar
- Roblox Is Hugely Popular — But What Is It Teaching Our Kids?
Roblox burgeoned during the COVID-19 pandemic; many of my students told me that their most cherished remote-learning memories were actually ditching Zoom classes to play Roblox together. – Psyche
