6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
The days of the in-person first audition (and maybe even second) are over, writes Melissa Errico: even well-established performers like herself and Raúl Esparza have to send in videos of …
"In August 2015, the then Italian culture minister, Dario Franceschini, announced the first 20 'super directors' of national museums, granting those institutions fiscal autonomy for the firs…
A new video titled Dirtiest Porn Ever shows us the basic sex on a beach " except that this beach is absolutely covered with plastic trash, which workers in Pornhub-branded protective suits p…
"Before you start loading up your fall culture calendar, take a moment this Labor Day Weekend to reflect on those people who make sure that the city's cultural events … go off without a hi…
Jenna Wortham writes about a set of recent films that "points a finger directly at the greed of empire, and at the deliberate and elaborate social construction of whiteness to oppress, to ra…
Kathryn Lewek just finished a run as Eurydice in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld at the Salzburg Festival, one of her first performances since giving birth earlier this year. After a f…
Sergey Chernyshev, 18, began learning breakdancing from his father, also named Sergey, who picked it up from VHS tapes that made it into newly de-Sovietized Russia in the 1990s. "In many way…
With his Stanley Love Performance Group, "[he] helped shape New York's downtown performance scene since the mid-1990s with large-scale, vibrant performances that he set to pop music." " ARTn…
"In general, [new Seattle Opera general director Christina Schippelmann] and others say, the absence of women in top positions results more from systemic factors than intentional discriminat…
NYFOS's annual August concert at the tip of Long Island's North Fork is always adventurous, even by its standards. This year's program set conventional art song (Bizet, Ned Rorem) alongside …
Mary-Kay Wilmers, co-founder and longtime editor of the London Review of Books, takes apart the ways that book reviewers do their work. " Literary Hub
In a Q&A, the director of St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, and Phantom of the Opera talks about his own wild youth (he began drinking at 9 an…
Content, a seven-episode series produced by the other ABC (that's the Australian Broadcasting Corp.), "is a comedy about a narcissistic millennial determined to become an online influencer, …
"Shaker dance both embodied and performed a gender-egalitarian community, one whose primary method of reproduction was not sexual." (They increased their numbers through recruitment, for whi…
"Like many of his fellow composers in the 1950s and '60s, Mr. Davidovsky was drawn to the new possibilities offered by technology. But he was uneasy with the prospect of music that was immun…
"An elite team of film archivists here is working to conserve [reels of film] as part of a years-long government program that aims to digitize about a century's worth of Afghan documentaries…
Staff writer Andrew Ferguson: "By play's end, it's become clear that if the young [Heidi] Schreck did indeed love the Constitution, it's because she misunderstood it; and if her passion for …
The proposal, which has the support of London mayor Sadiq Khan, comes from the Fabian Society, a socialist organization that dates back to 1884. The Fabians say that a slavery museum would e…
"The museum said Tuesday that the 'caterpillar' escalator as well as the sloping stone plaza in front of the iconic structure were closed to the public Tuesday for work expected to last unti…
"A snapshot survey of the West End in 2019, 2014, 2009 and 1999 has revealed the proportion of original plays is at its highest now, accounting for more than a fifth (21%) of all productions…
"'I am fascinated by the feeling of flying a plane," said the 43-year-old, who has just stepped down as music director of the Orchestre de Paris. "In the spring I will join Air France as a c…
It's a truism that, as aesthetic movements go, the visual arts get there first. Think of Impressionism, which didn't begin to inflect music until Debussy and Ravel " decades after Monet. Exp…
He almost single-handedly turned the fading Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye into one of the world's secondhand book capitals and a model followed by towns in more than a few other countries. " T…
The Wizard of Oz's Glinda the Good Witch of the North was the first sorceress figure not to wear black, cackle, have a cartoonishly ugly face, or do evil " and so became the grandmother of S…
"There's a long, tangled debate over how to teach engineers ethics " and whether it's even worth doing. … But Team Ethics is making a comeback. With the morality of Big Tech again called i…
