6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"The biennial, six-day celebration known as the Gateways Music Festival has brought black classical musicians together since 1993. The festival was founded by pianist and former Eastman Scho…
"A New Green Federal Theatre would document the efforts of the Green New Deal to deliver economic justice and sustainable life-styles to the people while mitigating and adapting to the clima…
Rebecca Jennings " who confesses to having read each of the Harry Potter books at least ten times and insists she's "not advocating for laziness" " points to research on "repeated hedonic ex…
"As a recent graduate with a BFA in acting, I could have been stuck lip-synching to Buddy Holly at an amusement park or being cast as a Native American in a problematic outdoor drama in Chil…
At the Madhavendra Palace, just outside Jaipur, "floral murals, elaborate arches, patterned columns, dark paneled doors, and stone-lined courtyards serve as maximal backdrops for sculptures …
The 376-foot sculpture was commissioned by Johnson, then London's Mayor, for the 2012 Olympics, and he had hoped that it would become London's answer to the Eiffel Tower (7 million annual vi…
"[The dissident artist] said he initially chose Germany after leaving China as it had worked so hard for his freedom, but now felt that Germany had changed and he was once again an exile. 'T…
"We shouldn't be a white castle on the hill. Our new vision is about deepening the cultural life of every resident in the county. That is a very outward vision," says Los Angeles Music Cente…
"Given the trend over the last few years to use comedy as therapy, to use laughter to counterpoint pain, a complicated subject like abortion is no less likely to be a topic for comedy than m…
There are more and more outlets, but they pay writers less and less; there are huge quantities of new music pouring out, but large bodies of readers are going to click on pieces about artist…
"New York City-based choreographer and director Jennifer Weber once worked on a project with a strict social media policy: "Hire no one with less than 10K, period' " and that was a few years…
Says the former director of public programming at Lincoln Center, who has moved on to a new arts center in Abu Dhabi, "I'm someone who dreaded talkbacks and Q&As. While I was in New York…
"It's 2047, 100 years after India's independence, and in the fictional nation of Aryavarta, water is scarce. The republic's authoritarian rulers are seizing children of mixed parentage from …
"Times change" is a time-dishonored argument for justifying moral lapses, whether they're #MeToo transgressions (Plácido Domingo) or retention of antiquities that were likely looted (Phil…
Natalia Dashan, who was a full-scholarship student at Yale and witnessed such imbroglios as the Halloween Costumes fiasco up close, looks at the underlying dynamic by which, among a very pri…
There are still transformiste cabarets, with what might be called female impersonators (talk about old-school) lip-synching impressions of famous chanteuses for an audience little different …
The Montreal-based touring company Le Patin Libre is "not interested in putting contemporary dance on ice, but in doing with skating what 20th-century modern art movements have done with oth…
"Few men in America are as popular among American men as Joe Rogan. It's a massive group congregating in plain sight, and it's made up of people you know from high school, guys who work thre…
Okay, they didn't win every single prize there was at the annual honors for science fiction (men won for the best film and television scripts, for instance), but female creators took home th…
"In a 5-0 decision, the appeals court rejected artists' contentions that the limits covering Central Park south of 86th Street, Battery Park, High Line Park and Union Square Park violated th…
"When Franklin died, at age 76, her family believed she had no will. Under Michigan law, that meant her estate would be divided equally among her sons. … But Franklin's case is especially …
The "anchor institution approach" for nonprofits " using their purchasing decisions, hiring, and other business practices to actively affect their communities' economic well-being, especiall…
The lockout began in May because there has been no musicians' contract since January and management, which wants to end the orchestra's year-round status and shut down during the summers, de…
"No one set out to turn the airwaves into a political weapon " much less deputize talk-radio hosts as the ideological enforcers of a major American political party. Instead the story of how …
"Madeline Gins and her husband, Shusaku Arakawa (who went only by his last name), 1960s New York conceptual artists and amateur architects who are regarded as a bridge between the Dada and F…
