6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"There are about 5 million households in rural areas without broadband internet … [and] there are 15 million households outside of rural America where people don't have broadband internet.…
"The Arts and Activism ColLABoration, a pilot project funded jointly by The CrossCurrents and Compton Foundations to support the work of artists in partnership with organizers and activist o…
Elizabeth Merritt: "All too often the decisions we make as individuals, companies, or countries are only good decisions if examined in a very short time frame. I call this phenomenon tempora…
"A singer herself, Minnesota Opera's Priti Gandhi sees diversity as a way to 'open people's imaginations' " not to mention a matter of survival." " The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
"For more than two decades, Imani Winds, founded by the composer and flutist Valerie Coleman, has been unfolding different perspectives in its concerts, juxtaposing Bach with John Coltrane, …
"Same sex and gender-neutral couples will now be allowed to compete with opposite-sex couples at all of its events. … But the question has come up: Will that lead to an unfair advantage wh…
"The word 'decolonization' has been bandied about all over national and regional arts outlets lately, but it is often misused or misunderstood. In Seattle, the term was used frequently to de…
"Rameau's Les Indes Galantes was designed to show the triumph of Enlightenment order over the exotic 'other.' Can hip-hop dance make it feel less toxic?" " The New York Times
Indeed, it has about one year to make itself sustainable: the musicians' new contract expires next September, and the $1.6 million donated to cover the players' pay while the orchestra is da…
Rebecca Sugar earned six Emmy nominations before she was 30 for her work on the animated series Adventure Time. Now, on her own Cartoon Network series, Steven Universe, she has an entire squ…
"People arrested on low-level misdemeanors in Brooklyn will now have the option to complete a one-day arts course at the Brooklyn Museum instead of ever having to appear in court, thanks to …
After ten years, and as the ever more popular show expands from the US to the UK (with plans for Canada and Australia), it's impossible to deny that Drag Race has brought drag a once-undream…
"Music industry figures have said a no-deal Brexit would make touring 'simply unviable for many artists', after new government guidelines for cultural, heritage and sporting professionals to…
"The sprawling science, tech and business museum on the city's South Side will become the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry after the museum's board voted to accept Griffin's…
It's not just a matter of slangy terms like "happy dust" (German and Spanish have their own words for cocaine). Finding equivalents for the contractions and non-standard grammar in the libre…
"He got hooked on the idea that movie title sequences could be more than just 'book covers,' as he once described it, and he parlayed that concept into a 50-year career designing title seque…
"Working with dancers, a lot gets communicated non-verbally, but with untrained dancers you need to find a specific and deliberate language around movement because there is no shared languag…
Barely more than a week ago, the board of the Seattle company said there wasn't money to continue operating even for another month and was prepared to close. (This just nine months after Int…
Just a couple of months ago, it looked like the foreign administrators brought in to reform Italy's museums would all be chased out of the country by the populist government. Then that gover…
The news that Darren Walker has been named as one of the National Gallery of Art's five general trustees gave me pause. My misgivings arose from what struck me as his astonishingly clueless …
With virtually no public money flowing in, U.S. arts organizations have, understandably, been most concerned with the interests of those who fund the enterprise. This narrowness of attention…
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm assembled their book of stories as folklorists, not children's authors, and they intended their book for adult students of German culture, not for parents to read to …
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim looks at the uses of well-placed pauses for the purposes of acoustical clarity, rhetoric, drama, surprise, and even humor, traveling from chanting monks and Monte…
Spoken-word artist and author Abd el Malik is staging Camus's The Just Assassins, now considered a classic play in France, at the Théâtre du Châtelet with R&B and hip-hop accompan…
At the city's major museum for Tibetan and Himalayan art, "staff will be reduced by 25%, going down from 89 to 67 employees, across operational and curatorial departments. Starting in Januar…
