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" — t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMMonday, 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 11:18PMSaturday, 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 04:31PMMonday, 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 09:12PMSaturday, February 21, 2026
My weekly pondering on arts and cultural stories for the week of February 22nd.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42PMMonday, 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 06:42AMSunday, 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 ac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMSunday, February 8, 2026
My weekly essay reflecting on arts stories of the past week.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PMSaturday, 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 03:31AMSunday, 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 07:42AMSaturday, 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 11:06PMWednesday, 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 03:36AMThursday, 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 10:48PMSunday, 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 09:32PMThursday, 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 i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AMSaturday, 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 12:24AMTuesday, 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 02:42AMMonday, December 8, 2025
Everyone's talking about AI, and you're being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that AI has taken over how much of what you see and hear online?
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AMSunday, November 23, 2025
Notions of ownership of creative work, ideas, and artistic identity are muddied when the technology rapidly outpaces attempts to define issues and even what's at stake.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06AMSunday, June 29, 2025
Throughout the digital age, Big Tech has promised us products that will make us more efficient and save time, which, it is assumed, is always an obvious good. It’s a cliché that tools sha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06PMMonday, January 13, 2025
Art that is primarily skill-based -- graphic design, stock music or images, text and marketing, etc -- can be created faster and often better than human artists, and at lower cost. This is p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
The Digital Twin idea is the notion of looking at something -- an organization, an eco-system, a city -- and measuring and defining it in as many meaningful ways as possible and creating a d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMSunday, November 3, 2024
Pre-internet, the lines were pretty clear about the binary relationship between artist and audience. Artists created and audience consumed. In today’s digital world, the landscape is fluid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:31AMMonday, May 13, 2024
Classical music has lost a generation’s worth of music lovers beginning in the late-90s with the rise of file-sharing and Napster. A significant part of the reason might be: metadata. Meta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36PMMonday, May 6, 2024
"Content" is a Silicon Valley weasel word that suggests that nothing has any intrinsic worth or quality -- every digital byte is equal and interchangeable -- until it draws attention as meas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
To an AI model, a picture is data, sound and music are data, as is traditional spoken or written language. That data is translatable, interchangeable, and, most importantly, linkable and act…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24AMSunday, March 31, 2024
What would a strategy for the arts sector be for anticipating artificial intelligence, if consensus seems to be it will change everything?
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Companies like Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Spotify, Apple and Google have subsidized what they offer (super-cheap or free content, faster service and better accessibility) to capture audience…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48AMSunday, February 11, 2024
Maestro isn’t really a movie about Leonard Bernstein or his career, or even about music per se. It’s not really a “biopic,” in the traditional Hollywood sense of the word.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06AMFriday, February 2, 2024
We're entering a new age of global communication, and universal translators are only the first step. Avatars and synthetics will be as routine as today's TikTok video filters.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06AMSunday, January 7, 2024
At the moment "how to think about it" may be the most important place to start.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM 
