6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"With overdoses at troubling heights and recovery no longer a sotto-voce secret, a new wave of plays dealing with the realities of rehab and the challenges of sobriety have started to emerge…
I was introduced to this album by Bob Nelson, my eighth-grade social-studies teacher, who decided for reasons of his own to introduce me to the music of my own time. " Terry Teachout
"Alonso received recognition throughout the world for her flawless technique and her ability to become one with the characters she danced, even after she became nearly blind. After a career …
The public library in Smalltown, U.S.A., had a modest selection of classical albums. One of them was this two-disc set of "live" recordings by the first important classical-music instrumenta…
Aubrey Bergauer: "Giving it away for free, whether by regularly scheduled programming or by striking or locked out musicians, is not getting the job done. It's not growing audiences, it's no…
Plautilla Nelli's 23-by-6½-foot depiction of Jesus and his disciples was painted for her sisters at a convent in Florence in 1568. When that convent was shuttered by Napoleon's forces in …
"Now in its 15th season, Dorsey's award-winning San Francisco company, Sean Dorsey Dance, is heralded for intersectional dance-theater works that celebrate trans, gender-nonconforming and qu…
"In this paper we first explore the U.S. economic and financial outlook to better understand the environment and its risks. Then we follow trends for theatres' finances and operations, start…
The recounting of a life in the form of a letter may go all the way back to Benjamin Franklin, but it's currently seeing a revival, kicked off by Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me …
"The Arts Community Alliance (TACA) … has been raising money for the arts in Dallas since 1967. Today it doles that money out in the form of more than 60 general operating, artist residenc…
"Long known for a premier collection of Pop art that he built with his wife, Gael Neeson, Edlis made a star turn in a recent HBO documentary about the art market, providing one of the film's…
"The index of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language mentions regional differences in 95 places. … In reality, America has often been the conservative one, and Britain the innovator…
"We construct top-10 lists for movies, games, TV " pieces of work that shape our souls. But we don't sit around compiling lists of the world's most consequential bits of code, even though th…
"After nearly a quarter century as the artistic director of one of Off Broadway's most acclaimed nonprofits, [Tim] Sanford is announcing his departure. The theater's next season " its 50th "…
The name partners of the Panama City firm Mossack Fonseca (portrayed in the movie by Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas) allege that the Steven Soderbergh film (which also stars Meryl Streep a…
"Found in Al-Assasif, an ancient necropolis on the west bank of Nile, the coffins were spread out over two levels of a large tomb. The site once formed part of the ancient city of Thebes, th…
This week the law enforcement consulting firm John E. Reid and Associates sued Netflix and director DuVernay for defamation over the Central Park Five miniseries When They See Us, alleging t…
"The debate has roots in older conversations about whether carving out places in a male-dominated field for one group, in this case women, comes at the cost of excluding others. Proponents o…
"Described as the first resource of its kind, Choreography Online allows individuals to buy the performance licence for choreographic material through a searchable video-based site. … Uplo…
Very few people even know where the world's most expensive painting is right now: it's supposed to be at the new Louvre Abu Dhabi, but it's never appeared there. (There's a report that it's …
Chamayou's Erato-label disc of the 2nd and 5th Concertos with Emmanuel Krivine conducting the Orchestre National de France prevailed over nine other category winners to take the top prize. T…
"With just days to go before its hotly anticipated Leonardo da Vinci retrospective opens, the Louvre has finally secured the loan of one of the artist's key works, following a two-year polit…
Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan has taken the kernel of the Tchaikovsky/Petipa classic's story and transplanted to in the milieu of contemporary Ireland to create Swan Lake/Loch na hEala,…
The proportions of movies' height and width have changed several times over the course of cinema history, but, for practical reasons (projectionists don't like changing equipment all the tim…
"This week, 226 years since her execution on Oct. 16, 1793, a new exhibition in Paris aims to show how the queen's image has been transformed in recent years. From reviled royal to pop icon,…
