6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"Working in a highly visual art form, [Chad] Allen managed to create an auditory experience that closely mimics the sensation of reading a comic book. A whooshing sound occurs whenever a pan…
"No longer do household machines merely bing or plink or blamp, as they might have in a previous era when such alerts simply indicated that the clothes were dry or the coffee was brewed. ……
A proposal discussed by the French President Macron and Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis would see a "temporary exchange," timed for the 2021 bicentennial celebration of Greek independence, o…
"A record overall tally of 3,012,490 for Fringe events was announced as the international and book festivals also reported a surge in business at the box office. The combined audience for cu…
"The dance field isn't immune to the 'gig economy' that's disrupting everything from buying groceries to getting a ride to the airport. … So it's no surprise that artists feel anxious abou…
"A new study [commissioned by Arts Council England] has quantified just how much arts offerings influence people's choice to relocate or stay in a particular city. And as it turns out, the p…
For years, standing and sitting in that hours-long queue for free Shakespeare in the Park tickets has been almost as much a part of the experience as the performance itself. But not everyone…
Headphones can enable an intimate listening experience even in a busy venue such as a train station. They can make up for the acoustic inadequacies of a room (or the outdoors), so that there…
"Netflix may have been the first to crack the key European market, with locally produced hit Money Heist, but the streamer is now facing heated competition from the likes of Amazon, HBO, Via…
"Brian (Rizzo) Frankel, … a veteran of both the Air Force and Broadway " he's been in the business since 1980 " is long-haired and goateed, with necklaces, bracelets, a wildly patterned sh…
"Uganda was once at the fulcrum of African literature. It was at Makerere University, on a hill above Kampala, that giants such as Chinua Achebe and NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong'o gathered in 1962 …
On Monday morning, as Good Morning America host Lara Spencer was trying to make amends for her faux pas of last week, Travis Wall (of So You Think You Can Dance) and Robbie Fairchild (former…
A self-effacing conductor may seem almost impossible in itself, but in the job held by Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle? Kirill Petrenko " who was e…
Guardian arts editor Alex Needham started a Twitter tempest with this: "Dear curators, in the same way that I don't get a byline when I commission and edit a piece, chances are you won't get…
"In 2015, Italy unveiled a series of reforms that had the potential to transform the country's storied museums. For the first time, foreign museum directors took the helm at major institutio…
In late June, Gov. Mike Dunleavy exercised a line-item veto over the $3.87 million in funding for the Alaska State Council on the Arts. An attempt to override that veto in July failed and th…
In response to the suspension of a government funding program for film and TV over LGBT+ projects, culture minister Henrique Pires said, "It is very clear that I am out of tune with … the …
"Ramping up the drive into censorship in Brazil, its Minister of Citizenship, Omar Terra, has suspended a call for applications for governmental TV funding … Terra's announcement comes jus…
With the Broadway run of the show having ended, 14-year-old Rosdely Ciprian will travel with the production to the Kennedy Center whole 17-year-old Thursday Williams heads off to college. Th…
In the 1980s the singer Lisa Rich seemed on her way to a long and successful career, and she recorded Highwire in 1987. For reasons not disclosed by Tritone Records, the album was not releas…
Earlier this month I had the privilege and pleasure to speak at the Meighan Forum at the Stratford Festival. Since the Q&A was not captured in the transcript, I thought I'd reflect on a …
Zora Neale Hurston Hurston heard concert spirituals "squeezing all of the rich black juice out of the songs," a "flight from blackness," a "musical octoroon." She listed Harry Burleigh among…
"Taller Leñateros is Mexico's first and only Tzotzil Maya book- and papermaking collective. Founded in 1975 [in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas] by the Mexican-American poet Amba…
"A new symphonic experience showcases an original documentary covering 800 years of feminist history and the development of women's civil and human rights in 80 minutes. ​Orchestra Mo…
Amy Steiger: "Not only do students recognize misogynist and colonialist language in acting textbooks " as well as an insistence on the gender binary that sometimes makes them wonder if there…
