Sunday, December 29, 2019
A few months ago I was at a conference of administrators of large arts institutions when a leading researcher in cultural trends made a bold claim: The election of Donald Trump is a result o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
The tide has turned on the tech revolution. Over the past year the breathless articles that used to accompany new tech innovations have dried up, replaced with dystopian concerns about the D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PMMonday, July 30, 2018
This week Washington Post arts journalists Anne Midgette and Peggy McGlone published results of their six-month investigation of sexual harassment in the classical music business. Some of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMFriday, July 27, 2018
A few weeks ago we posted a link in ArtsJournal to a piece in the Toronto Star under the admittedly provocative headline: “Time To Retire Beethoven’s Ninth?” In the piece, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AMMonday, February 20, 2017
Last Week: Have performing arts centers led us to a dead end?… The new World Trade Center in New York demonstrates much of what is wrong with building today’s cities… The h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PMFriday, February 17, 2017
Following on Joe Horowitz’s essay Lincoln Center Snapshot: Bing, Bernstein, and Balanchine Fifty Years Later and the five responses to his provocation, we’re in El Paso, Texas …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54AMThursday, February 16, 2017
In his essay looking back on Lincoln Center on its 50th birthday, Joe Horowitz suggests that the cultural citadel built optimistically to be a launching pad for the American performing arts…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMFriday, January 27, 2017
As recently as 1990, American symphony orchestras accounted for an average of 60 percent of their budgets in earned income. This meant, at the time, that if you weren’t selling enough …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04AMMonday, January 23, 2017
This Week: Trump, the arts, the culture budget and protest… Harvard ART school gets suspended…MIT’s list of 10 things you need to know… Writers and money – the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33AMFriday, January 20, 2017
So it begins. A report in The Hill, then picked up in the Washington Post, says that the Trump administration intends to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Unquestionably, a majority of the people who work in Hollywood lean politically left. More than lean, in many cases. But how much of their politics makes it onto the big screen? Rory Carroll…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54PMSunday, January 15, 2017
This Week: The Trump era is a challenge to America’s arts institutions… Artificial intelligence is teaching us how to better-design concert halls… How originality has faile…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:04PMSunday, December 18, 2016
This Week: Mozart outsells every CD this year?… How artificial intelligence is changing thinking… Why should artists be entrepreneurs?… How the West dominated global cultur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
This Week: Two stories worth noting – the segregation of DC theatre audiences and what it might tell us… The translation of live theatre to the small screen is more than just fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36AMSunday, December 4, 2016
This Week: The next wave of arts journalism layoffs begins… Lots of debate about the role of artists in the Trump era… Prominent Canadian artists petition the government to ̶…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMSunday, November 27, 2016
This Week: Did settling the Pittsburgh Symphony strike just kick the can down the road?… The idea of progress is a fragile (and recent) notion… Why should this arts funding depen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMMonday, November 21, 2016
This Week: That Mike Pence goes to “Hamilton” story? A textbook protest… Finally – some real data on the health of orchestras… Arts criticism is either being re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06AMSunday, November 13, 2016
This Week: Hard to imagine there are arts headlines to compete with election news, but here goes: Science tries to explain why we’re ideologically segregated… It’s not just…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMSunday, November 6, 2016
This Week: Record ticket sales at the Chicago Symphony but still a budget problem…Wall Street Journal cuts arts coverage and Boston Globe gets a subsidized critic…Why did Shakesp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PMSunday, October 23, 2016
This Week: Why has dance attendance fallen off a cliff in New York?… Applications for MFA programs are down and things are looking bleak… Has our ad-supported business model for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:09PMMonday, October 17, 2016
This Week: Did Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for literature expand the category to songwriting?… Artists protest against gentrification… We’re deeply conflicted about t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:31AMSunday, October 9, 2016
This Week: The movie industry is undergoing a top-to-bottom revolution… Claim: teaching humanities fights racism… Outing the identity of Elena Ferrante sparks debate on privacy&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:22PMSunday, October 2, 2016
This Week: Three orchestras now on strike as audience waits… Two other orchestras report record success… A museum raises $100 million in just three months… Bots are getting…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:26PMFriday, September 30, 2016
I suggested in a post this week that, based on the lack of any arts business before the 114th US Congress, that it appears that lobbying for the arts seems to be failing. Yes, the NEA/NEH …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:44AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Americans for the Arts Action Fund PAC has released its 2016 Congressional Arts Report Card rating members of Congress on their support for the arts. Many lobby groups do such rankings as a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AMSunday, September 25, 2016
This Week: Why is it so hard to tell if American theatre is thriving or not?… Have art and technology had a falling out?… Perhaps TV is the solution to our political polarizatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:07PMFriday, September 23, 2016
Is reality just a construct of the online world or is the online world merely an overlay on reality? Every new technological advance that extends our reach also imposes previously unnecessar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:22PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
There’s been a change in the news coming out of symphony orchestras over the past summer. Usually there’s a background drumbeat of struggle as orchestras fight to stay alive. But…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:39PMIt appears many of us want a formula for creativity. There are 11, 386 books on creativity for sale on Amazon, most of them promising to unlock the secrets of being creative. Scientists stud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:26AMSunday, September 18, 2016
Arts Council England says it will use a standardized assessment system called Quality Metrics in evaluating the arts it it considers funding. The system has been developed over several year…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:09PMThis Week: The remarkable new National Mall museum that doesn’t look like the rest… An arts council’s risky change in standards… What scientists have learned about t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15PM 
