6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
Q: How do you invite thieves to steal a famous, expensive, publicly exhibited artwork? A: Publicly announce that no guards are protecting it. " Lee Rosenbaum
Dave Douglas is a trumpeter whose adherence to basic jazz values fully justifies the title of the new album he shares with pianist Uri Caine and drummer Andrew Cyrille in their unusual trio.…
Kate McLeod, Head of School and Teacher Services at Atlanta's High Museum of Art: "One of the High's overarching goals in the past few years is to grow and expand inclusive programming for a…
"Nourished by Kenyan culture, the transnational artist is filling the niches on the Fifth Avenue facade, for the first time in the Met's history. It's a step on the museum's rocky road towar…
"Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins speaks to Tom Wicker about mourning Toni Morrison, his love for London and how his play Appropriate " being staged at the Donmar " has become …
"Photographer Richard Ross has documented the U.S. juvenile justice system for the better part of a decade. In tonight's 'Brief But Spectacular', Ross shares what it feels like to honor the …
"[The Kennedy Center has] long struggled with a sense of isolation, a geographic and elite island apart from the surrounding city. To counter that, the center began its popular and free Mill…
"Making classical music a more equitable place demands a cultural change " and cultural changes don't happen without conversation and action. Just in the past five or so years, there has bee…
"The latest episode is tied to the fight for control of the commission, which will shift from the mayor's office to an independent agency Oct. 1," pursuant to legislation by the city council…
The Las Vegas-based network, which operates a classical station in the city and a news station which is re-transmitted throughout the state, expanded into Reno (a market that already had two…
An Armenian born in Iran and raised in Iraq, Martin came to New York to study and met Scorsese in the early 1960s. He worked on the director's first feature (Who's That Knocking at My Door?)…
There was a point at which a number of African-American composers were writing serious, important work, writes Joseph Horowitz. "Racial prejudice, personal and institutional, obviously inhib…
"It turns out that there are a lot of forces converging to make this shape ideal, and to get the whole picture, we'll have to look from three angles: the anatomy of a reader, the history of …
Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf "has been part of the canon since it became a Broadway hit in 1976. Still, [the play] doesn't get a lo…
"Jenet Le Lacheur " a transfeminine Brit who earned recognition, before coming out, in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child " has … [recently starred] as Hamlet in …
Davis, now 77, will have been music director and principal conductor at Lyric for 21 years when he retires at the end of next season (2020-21) Succeeding him will be Italian conductor Enriqu…
"In a move that will be welcome news to publishers and other rights holders, advocate general Maciej Szpunar has ruled sites such as Tom Kabinet that sell second-hand ebooks 'unlawful under …
"The ancient city of Hasankeyf, which sits on the banks of the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey, is believed to be one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited settlements." Yet it co…
"The state has reached the benchmark for 'universal arts education access', meaning each one of its public schools provides some type of school-based arts instruction during the school day f…
Dvořák predicted that a 'great and noble school' of American classical music would arise from 'Negro melodies.' But the black musical motherlode migrated to popular genres; American c…
"He's just completed a residency at the Belhaven University Dance Department in Jackson, Mississippi, and teaches ballet around the state, where he resides in a small town outside Hattiesbur…
Aaron Peckham started the site back in 1999 at least partly as a joke, but it quickly became a genuinely valuable reference, with users constantly submitting and updating definitions for sla…
A reporter visits Los Angeles County Museum of Art, conservator Kamila Korbela as she works on restoring Frank Stella's enormous Bampur. The challenge: the hue that's fading fastest is one o…
Management had Meyerhoff Symphony Hall open and ready for rehearsal for this weekend's scheduled season opening, but the musicians say they won't play without a contract " and they've now re…
"We are witnessing a great convergence between politics and culture, citizenship and commerce, ideology and aesthetics. Civic participation has been converted seamlessly into consumer practi…
