Sunday, August 2, 2026
The Paramount merger and Broadway and non-profit theatre are strangely arguments circling the same idea. Paramount essentially argues that there's no such thing as the movie business anymore…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2026
When you look across the culture at what is gaining traction, some common themes emerge.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2026
We're now focused on "doping tests" to determine if artists have cheated. Rather than pee in a bottle, however, we're depending on AI detector tools and documentary proof of human creation. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2026
The major disconnect of contemporary culture: Findability has detached from the ability of traditional cultural narratives to agree on what's important. Instead of art evolving in coherent s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2026
This notion that the ultimate measure of American educational value is economic is an impoverishing one. We measure for success. If that measure is earnings then we optimize for earnings. So…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2026
The Kennedy Center is a treasure. Not just for what it has been, but because of what it represents. But the practicalities of providing a roof for a bunch of artistic enterprises that essent…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2026
What Google presented this month was revolutionary, a declaration that the web as we know it is dead, and an operating manual for how the new web will work. More important, it suggests how w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 23, 2026
Hollywood has reinvented its core model at least six times in a century. The nonprofit arts model has reinvented itself exactly once. Now there may no choice. But what's the case?
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2026
Culture awards of all kinds have been steadily losing their currency over the past decade. So what's going on?
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2026
By revenue, the nonprofit arts sector is small — about $73 billion in organizational spending compared to $1.17 trillion in total US arts and cultural production. Disney's annual revenue a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2026
Depth hasn't disappeared. Perhaps it's gone lateral. The vertical architecture that produced "official" cultural memory has cracked, but the appetite for tradition — for context, for linea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Most arts policy debates happen at one scale. Most cultural activity happens at another. It turns out the gap between those two scales — between the world that the arts, funding fights, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2026
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 dea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2026
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 remarkab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 18, 2026
The threat isn't that AI replaces artists. It's subtler and more coercive: that an algorithmically saturated environment erodes the capacity for the kind of thinking that we like to think ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2026
Old systems of certification are failing from every direction: technological, legal, institutional and political. So what's left when you can't just say "trust us"? You have to show your wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2026
The first audience for your art is becoming a machine. The question isn't just how to optimize for that machine, it's what you give it to say, and whether what it says is worth a conversatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 4, 2026
I don't mean to be pedantic, but I think defining what we mean by excellence really matters if we're going to figure out the place of AI in creativity. Four stories this week suggest layers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 28, 2026
The infrastructure carrying culture to audiences " legal, technical, financial, corporate " was not built for the creative sector. It was built by and for technology companies, telecommunica…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2026
This week we collected 118 stories. It's worth noting, I think, that attempts to address the current collapse of the non-profit culture sector are focused on changing market forces. But this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2026
Ireland demonstrated something: economic insecurity doesn't just force workers out, it diminishes the overall creative economy. That matters enormously right now, because we are entering a p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2026
These weekly essays are meant to connect stories from the week to larger trends and ideas across the arts world. This week we collected 118 stories. Here's what I learned:
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2026
Two huge culture industry deals in the past week, both in entertainment, and maybe they don't seem connected. Certainly not connected to non-profit arts. But these are exactly the kind of cu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2026
The Boston Symphony's board didn't fire Andris Nelsons as its music director. Not exactly. They declined to renew his contract because he and the BSO weren't "aligned on future vision" " the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2026
Authorship used to be a status granted by an act of creation. Now it will be a status you will have to defend through paperwork. We have moved from the era of the romantic "lone genius" to t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 28, 2026
Evidence abounds this week that the battles for culture are intensifying. Taken together, these tests of authority over cultural institutions are probes of where the line is, of how much se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:31PM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2026
The question isn't whether AI will change our definition of creative excellence. The question is how we will engage with that change: with curiously and critical insight, with our existing v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 21, 2026
My weekly pondering on arts and cultural stories for the week of February 22nd.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42PM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2026
That shift from content value to traffic value is what has destroyed the business model for nearly everything we're talking about. I'm calling it a manifesto because that's what it needs to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 15, 2026
This week there's a question that connects nearly every story. Who gets to decide what's real? A viral AI-generated video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt is racking up views. Neither actor …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 8, 2026
My weekly essay reflecting on arts stories of the past week.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 7, 2026
In the space of a week, we have lost two significant and iconic American institutions. But the shuttering of the Kennedy Center and the decimation of the Washington Post are neither isolated…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 1, 2026
Existential crises have a way of forcing clarity. Whether the arts and the larger creative world are in crisis I leave for you to decide. But with weekly news of financial and organizational…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 24, 2026
This week, ArtsJournal looked at thousands of stories and collected 118 stories across culture. This is one person's attempt to make sense of them.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2026
The fear and concern are real. The issues are real. But we're trying to conjure up rules for 21st Century technologies with a 20th-Century vocabulary that's ill-equipped for the job.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2026
In the evolving world of AI, marketing is moving from getting messages out to engaging in dialog with the consumer. Messages get lost in the Sea of Messages. Persuasion asks what you're inte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 4, 2026
If 2025 is the year that 20th Century culture models stopped working, 2026 is the year we turn to building something new.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 1, 2026
We posted more than 6,000 stories across all forms of culture in 2025. When you pull back and look at them in aggregate, the individual crises"the closures in San Francisco, the lawsuits in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 27, 2025
Museums still operate as if interpretation is a one-way stream, produced by experts and consumed by the public. Instead, imagine an exhibition that doesn't just speak, but listens and respon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Like it or not, Disney's move is a big step closer to what an AI creative world might look like.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42AM[SHARE] 
