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DANCE
IDEAS
- Audiobook Sales Up 9 Percent In 2025, To $2.4B
General fiction accounted for the largest share of audiobook revenue at 27%, with science fiction/fantasy, romance, and mysteries/thrillers/suspense rounding out the top genres. The fastest-growing genres in 2025 were humor, general fiction, and children’s, including YA. – Publishers Weekly
- The Artists Producing ‘Anti-Slop’ In Response To Generative AI
“That spirit of rejection seems to be coalescing into its own design aesthetic – a move towards the conspicuously handmade, the janky, even the primitive.” – The Guardian (UK)
- Trying To Remember Which Memes Were Important Back In The Day?
The British Film Institute has your back. – The New York Times
- Petit Cabinet #7: ‘Just Two More Times to Sleep’
<a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/06/petit-cabinet-7-just-two-more-times-to-sleep.html" title="Petit Cabinet #7: ‘Just Two More Times to - Minneapolis Gets A Massive Land Art Mural
Franco-Swiss artist Saype “said he decided to pick Minneapolis for the project during the federal immigration enforcement surge after seeing neighbors helping each other.” – Minnesota Public Radio
ISSUES
- Minneapolis Gets A Massive Land Art Mural
Franco-Swiss artist Saype “said he decided to pick Minneapolis for the project during the federal immigration enforcement surge after seeing neighbors helping each other.” – Minnesota Public Radio
- Why Is Philly’s Gem Of A Bridge So Badly Neglected?
“The University Avenue Bridge was designed and built as a prime specimen of the City Beautiful aesthetic. … Today, the bridge that connects West Philadelphia and Grays Ferry is a monument to decrepitude.” – Philadelphia Inquirer
- The UK’s Heirloom Ceramics Sector Is In Deep Trouble
“The UK ceramics sector employs 20,000 people, half of them in the West Midlands, and is regarded as an indispensable to the economy” – but repeated blows are breaking even the ceramics for the defense sector. – The Guardian (UK)
- Archaeologists Are Discovering Centuries’ Worth Of Paris History Underneath Notre-Dame
“Among the hundreds of objects already found: a fourth-century coin stamped with the face of the Emperor Constantine, and shards of medieval pottery painted on the inside with marks no expert has yet deciphered — like a modern Da Vinci Code.” – AP
- Miami’s Bass Museum Of Art Creates New Artistic Director Position, Hires Philippe Vergne
“Philippe Vergne, the former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Dia Art Foundation in New York, has been named to the newly created position of Artistic Director and Chief Curator and will work alongside Executive Director Silvia Karman Cubiña … as her ‘thought partner’.” – The Miami Herald (MSN)
MEDIA
- What’s Gone Deeply Wrong With Social Media
“Something seems to have broken down in the functionality of the internet, between Facebook’s erratic algorithm and Google search results now headed by fabricated, AI-generated content and sponsored ads.” – El País English
- The New School In Manhattan Lays Off Nearly 90 People
It’s a body blow to the institution’s humanities sectors. “All 19 impacted faculty members were in the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and the New School for Social Research.” – Hyperallergic
- A New Documentary Shows Just How Much Movie-Makers Can’t Handle The Reality Of Michael Jackson
Capitalizing on his name is one things, as the fictional Michael heads to a billion-dollar take at the box office, but Netflix is also, rather disgustingly, cashing in. – HuffPost
- The Effort To Save The Kennedy Center From This President Is Far From Over
“Fundamental questions about the institution’s leadership, finances, and artistic direction remain in flux. ‘It’s not clear if there’s any money to stay open with. … And it’s also not clear who’s going to be in charge.’” – The Atlantic
- There’s A Big Need For Creative Talent In The Age Of AI
Our survey found that 79% of Americans believe that cities investing in colleges dedicated to the creative industry will be more successful economically in the future than those that do not. – Fast Company
MUSIC
- Audiobook Sales Up 9 Percent In 2025, To $2.4B
General fiction accounted for the largest share of audiobook revenue at 27%, with science fiction/fantasy, romance, and mysteries/thrillers/suspense rounding out the top genres. The fastest-growing genres in 2025 were humor, general fiction, and children’s, including YA. – Publishers Weekly
- Do We Really Care If Memoirs Are Truthful?
“The facts may not totally line up, but the emotions are all present and accounted for.” – Washington Post (MSN)
- Sure, Write What You Know, But Write What Scares You
“When you sense a story, or glimpse a scene, or feel a character coming to life, you stop, step back, consider what in that might scare you most. … Let that dread jolt you loose. Then—and this is key for me—find a way to make it worse.” – LitHub
- A New Edith Wharton Story Highlights The Human Inability To Deal With War
“The story, on two typed and undated manuscripts that appeared to be different drafts, centers on a dinner party hosted at the same table where, earlier in the war, an army surgeon had performed amputations.” – The New York Times
- Mary Shelley’s Sisters
“Fanny’s few surviving letters testify to her interests in poetry, education, art history, literature, current affairs, social politics, and the wellbeing of her extended family. … She counted Aaron Burr (former USA vice president), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), Humphry Davy (scientist), [and] Charles and Mary Lamb (writers)” as acquaintances. – LitHub
PEOPLE
- Audiobook Sales Up 9 Percent In 2025, To $2.4B
General fiction accounted for the largest share of audiobook revenue at 27%, with science fiction/fantasy, romance, and mysteries/thrillers/suspense rounding out the top genres. The fastest-growing genres in 2025 were humor, general fiction, and children’s, including YA. – Publishers Weekly
- The Artists Producing ‘Anti-Slop’ In Response To Generative AI
“That spirit of rejection seems to be coalescing into its own design aesthetic – a move towards the conspicuously handmade, the janky, even the primitive.” – The Guardian (UK)
- Trying To Remember Which Memes Were Important Back In The Day?
The British Film Institute has your back. – The New York Times
- Petit Cabinet #7: ‘Just Two More Times to Sleep’<a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/06/petit-cabinet-7-just-two-more-times-to-sleep.html" title="Petit Cabinet #7: ‘Just Two More Times to
- Minneapolis Gets A Massive Land Art Mural
Franco-Swiss artist Saype “said he decided to pick Minneapolis for the project during the federal immigration enforcement surge after seeing neighbors helping each other.” – Minnesota Public Radio
PEOPLE
- Audiobook Sales Up 9 Percent In 2025, To $2.4B
General fiction accounted for the largest share of audiobook revenue at 27%, with science fiction/fantasy, romance, and mysteries/thrillers/suspense rounding out the top genres. The fastest-growing genres in 2025 were humor, general fiction, and children’s, including YA. – Publishers Weekly
- The Artists Producing ‘Anti-Slop’ In Response To Generative AI
“That spirit of rejection seems to be coalescing into its own design aesthetic – a move towards the conspicuously handmade, the janky, even the primitive.” – The Guardian (UK)
- Trying To Remember Which Memes Were Important Back In The Day?
The British Film Institute has your back. – The New York Times
- Petit Cabinet #7: ‘Just Two More Times to Sleep’<a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/06/petit-cabinet-7-just-two-more-times-to-sleep.html" title="Petit Cabinet #7: ‘Just Two More Times to
- Minneapolis Gets A Massive Land Art Mural
Franco-Swiss artist Saype “said he decided to pick Minneapolis for the project during the federal immigration enforcement surge after seeing neighbors helping each other.” – Minnesota Public Radio
THEATRE
VISUAL
- Good AI? Model Proposes Thousands Of Designs, Test Them, Then Adapts
The AI model proposed study designs, and robots carried them out and fed the data back to the model for the next round. Humans set the goal, and the machines did much of the work in the lab, cutting the cost of producing a desired protein by 40 percent. – Singularity Hub
- Lessons From The Enhanced Games
Trying to break world records remains a high-risk, high-reward strategy for Enhanced. The event proved that breaking records is incredibly difficult, even with PEDs and technological enhancements such as swimming supersuits, both banned in traditional sport. – The Conversation
- If You Don’t Use AI It’s Tough To Spot AI
One of the problems with AI use seeping out of business and science writing and into the ‘literary’ world is that literary editors may be the worst equipped to identify AI writing. – London Review of Books
- Criticism In The Age Of AI: It’s Superfluous
The early parts of the story of how the humanities turned against “the human” are well told in two intellectual histories. – Hedgehog Review
- Are The Arts Simply Incompatible With Right Wing Government?
A belief that what is good will be paid for by consumers, and that the state should stand back and play as small a part as possible. Applying this to the arts means that they are not a public good but instead a sector that should be shaped by market principles, competition, and measurable returns. – The Big Idea
