ArtsJournal
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ArtsJournal was founded September 13, 1999 in the heady days of the dotcom boom. The site is a digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal features link to stories culled from around the internet, including blogs and more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture. Stories from sites that charge for access have generally been excluded.
The current AJ site is the fifth design. In 2003 we added blogs and the site now features more than 60 prominent writers on culture. We expect to keep adding to the number with individuals, group and limited-time group debate blogs. Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
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Search ArticlesA Fight Over What Everybody Knows
Good Morning, Authoritarians don’t much care what you think privately. What they fear is common knowledge — everyone knowing that everyone else knows, the moment private grievance becomes public fact. Persuasion makes the game-theory case, and it reads like a job description for culture: art is a vehicle for creating shared reference. Which reframes today’s institutional frictions.
The Odyssey wins the week Original
This Week’s Highlights: The most valuable cultural property of the week was the one nobody owns.
Neil Barclay talks about preparing the next generation of C-Suite leaders in the arts
Neil Barclay talks about preparing the next generation of C-Suite leaders in the arts August 29, 2026 by Aaron Dworkin Leave a Comment VIDEO Neil Barclay, President & CEO of the Wright Museum, talks about the critical process of preparing the next generation of leaders for C-Suite roles.
Homer Is Free. The Rembrandt Isn’t.
Good Morning, Nobody owns the Odyssey, which is why it keeps working. Emily Wilson is retranslating it from scratch (AP), having decided her celebrated version has flaws worth fixing. In Kyiv, professional actors and active-duty soldiers are staging Homer as Odysseus, Maeotis, using the myth to ask what return means while the war is still on (AP). The UK has blocked a $97 million Rembrandt from leaving the country (The Art Newspaper).
Lessons From The Edinburgh Fringe: How To Manage Controversy
At a time when mainstream media coverage of festivals such as Edinburgh has shrunk significantly, her debut inevitably pulled headlines towards the infamy of one performer and risked becoming the token fringe story – the celebrity whom everybody outside the festival bubble recognises. – The Stage
Nearly Everyone Loves Art. Ask The Orchestras. Original
Good Morning, Nearly every Australian engaged with arts and culture last year, and live attendance hit its highest figure ever (ArtsHub). Contrast that to a clear-eyed argument that artistic greatness has never once guaranteed an orchestra’s survival (Philadelphia Inquirer). Demand isn’t the problem. Which makes the improvised repairs worth watching. Travel writer Rick Steves bought the movie theatre in his hometown (KING 5) — one person deciding the civic use beat the real estate value.
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Goodbye to Dolly Good Afternoon, Two performers who spent careers refusing to be one thing: Dolly Parton, dead at 80 (AP), and Tim Curry, dead at 80 (Variety). Both were underestimated for decades by people who mistook their costumes for the person. The AI argument, meanwhile, has moved out of panel discussions and into work.
Artists Bring a Narrative to Life: We the People Original
We wanted to celebrate our nation, because 2026 is our 250th birthday, and also, it feels necessary in this moment. But how would we do it in a moment when celebrating living in the USA feels political, feels fraught with potential pitfalls? What could we do to bring people together across perceived differences? What would support a feeling of belonging, of collectiveness, of progress?
A Lost Poem Found
A Lost Poem Found August 26, 2026 by Jan Herman Leave a Comment Oh shit. Studs Terkel is dead. He was 96 — the blackest white man I ever met. Blacker even than his lifelong friend Nelson Algren, another black man who happened to be born white. jh BORN BLACK Oh shit! Studs Terkel is dead. He was 96 — the blackest white man I ever met — blacker than his lifelong friend Nelson Algren, also dead, another white man who happened to be born black. jh
The Arts Job That’s Really A Rental Original
Good Morning, New York’s incoming arts commissioner wants to keep the city’s culture scene affordable (Gothamist). That’s a useful admission about where the leverage actually sits: the binding constraint on urban culture is rent and space, not programming. A federal judge blocked the auction of more than 100 Titanic artifacts (Washington Post), courts rather than curators holding the line on what counts as heritage.