This week we collected 126 stories on ArtsJournal. Here's what I learned: The Venice Biennale, one of the visual arts world's most important events, opened Saturday in complete disarray. The EU pulled its funding. Earlier in the week the jury resigned over which countries should be eligible. The Golden Lion — the coveted grand prize — was scrapped for a people's choice vote. The US pavilion … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2026
So Just How Big is the Culture Audience? (comparisons that may make you rethink)
A few months ago I attended a virtual convening of non-profit arts leaders from across America gathering to discuss the arts model and how it might be strengthened. I wondered why we were just talking among the non-profit arts sector, when it seems to me the commercial creative industry, though bigger, is facing many of the same issues. And that led me to wondering about the comparative size of … [Read more...]
AJ Chronicles: Are Our Attention Spans Killing Culture or Reassembling It?
This week we collected 138 stories on ArtsJournal [subscribe]. Here's what I learned: Cultural historian Joseph Horowitz published an alarm this week — part of a transcript of a conversation he had with conductor Thomas Fortner about whether classical music can survive a collective collapse of attention. He writes: "The idea of listening to bits and pieces, sampling a performance, sampling a … [Read more...]