How Are U.S. Libraries Doing Amid Book Bans And Culture Wars?
It’s rough in these reading streets. “Librarians across the country are fighting to maintain students’ access to books and to keep their jobs amid...
Ireland’s Artist Basic Income May Not Account For Artists With Disabilities
“Ó Ceallacháin says many artists with disabilities feel as though they need to “]exist between ‘professional enough’ to be a ‘real’ artist for the...
The Next Director Of The Tate Has To Confront An Unwieldy ‘Beast’ Of An...
“Visitor numbers have indeed recovered after falling from their peak in 2019, but finances were hit hard during the pandemic. Those financial headwinds have...
A Cultural Critic Admits They Were Very Wrong About A 2010s Flashpoint
“There was something very intentional to Girls, something that spoke to me. I could’ve connected with it. Instead, I rejected it dramatically. I wasn’t the...
The Writers Guild Gives Its New Contract A Green Light
The contract, which is oddly long but helps shore up health care, earned the approval of more than 90 percent of the members who...
In Lawsuit Over Unlicensed Robert Indiana Art, Indiana’s Former Business Partner Is Awarded One...
“The wide-ranging battle over control of the Indiana legacy — which included accusations of forgery, unpaid royalties, elder abuse and copyright infringement — clouded...
It’s Been A Century Since The Term ‘Scientifiction’ Was Coined
That was for Amazing Stories, a magazine that published Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and other stories driven both by ideas and some possibly limited...
Every Single Fictional Pop Star Feels So Phony
Not to go all Holden Caulfield, but honesty, the fakery - it burns. Yes, including Mother Mary. - Variety
As Indie Bookstore Day Gives Stores A Boost, They Talk About Battling Amazon
“There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were six years ago in the United States. After 20 years of declining numbers, they’re...
You Might Have Associated Michael Tilson Thomas With San Francisco, But He Was Actually...
Mark Swed: “MTT made music matter by making hope matter. He was, moreover, one of us. He achieved greatness though an epic amplification of...
The Deep, Inescapable Unease Of The New Michael Jackson Biopic
And ‘unease’ is too kind a way to put it: “Everything left unsaid still lingers between the lines, sandwiched between the formidable melodies of...
But Opera Will Die If We Can’t Wrest It Back From Big Tech
“There is something in the embodied expression of a trained singer, on stage, in a room with other human beings, that no synthetic content...
The Death Of Opera Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
"Opera has had to adapt to survive, and the truth is it has done so successfully.” - New York Sun
The Deep, Strange Comfort Of A Rewatch
“Familiar things require less from us; they deliver the emotional payoff we expect. But repetition is also a way of revisiting earlier versions of...
News Publishers Are Trying To Prevent AI Scraping, But They’re Killing A Valuable History...
Talk about the baby and the bathwater: "History needs stewards. The people of the Internet Archive do an outstanding job of preserving irreplaceable work...
Think Shakespeare Isn’t For You?
Well, says the first Director’s Resident of Washington, D.C.’s huge Folger Shakespeare Library, you might need to look a little deeper. - NPR
AJ Chronicles: Perils of Philanthropy — The Metropolitan Opera
We collected 118 stories on ArtsJournal this week. Here’s what I learned. The detail that stuck out in the Metropolitan Opera’s announcement last fall that it had made a $200 million deal with the Saudi government to take the company to perform in the Kingdom for three weeks every winter
Awaiting an Uncrackable Code
If poetry make nothing happen, as W.H. Auden once wrote, it sometimes uncannily anticipates what will.
Jeremy Rothman talks about championing composers beyond the standard cannon
Jeremy Rothman, Chief Artistic Officer of The Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts, shares their 125-year history championing composers beyond the standard canon.
LACMA’s New Building: What’s the purpose of art in a Museum?
LACMA proposes a new model for museums. For a long time now, context has been an essential deliverable when you go to a museum. It’s how meaning gets constructed. Just what was so remarkable about the way Constable painted light, and how did it have an effect on the painters
no the english language is not like literally goin to pot as we watch...
While these common gripes point to eccentric speech patterns, they don’t point to grammatical annihilation. English has weathered far worse. … English has lost...
I Am Anti-AI. How Do We Get It Out Of Schools?
At times, I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives...
Inside The First-Ever, Very Strictly Confidential, Choreographers’ Summit In New York
To allow for genuinely open, honest exchange, the rules at the Creators in Dance Summit, which hosted 75 choreographers across numerous genres, were simple...
The Ideas Challenging This Year’s Turner Prize Finalists
This year’s prize arrives at a moment when sculpture, funding structures and art education are becoming unusually entangled. - The Conversation
Blame It On The Culture
Someone observes a behavioral difference between groups or countries. They can’t immediately identify the mechanism. So, they invoke “culture” as an explanation or, even...
