6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
Reporter Michael Cooper joins the choreographer as he examines photos from the history of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and tells stories of the time Robert Mapplethorpe photographed …
The 16½-foot-tall sculpture, titled Quasi and perched on top of City Gallery Wellington to glare at passersby, was sent up from Christchurch by its creator, artist Ronnie van Hout " and W…
Amanda Hess: "As its gurus lead the men (and occasionally, women) in dabbing on eye cream, selecting West Elm furniture, preparing squid-ink risotto and acquiring gym memberships, they are b…
The parents of the boy, who had brought him from France to London on holiday, say that the full extent of his injuries is still uncertain, but that he suffered broken bones in the back, arms…
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), a film-noirish comedy, was the first Hollywood film to show live actors and animated characters interacting in ways that looked seamlessly real. … Mr. Will…
"The Regio V dig has already yielded skeletons, coins, a wooden bed, a stable harboring the remains of a thoroughbred horse (bronze-plated wooden horns on the saddle; iron harness with small…
After weeks of Sunday protests in the Russian capital against the disqualification of opposition candidates for the city council, on August 10 famous actors, artists, and rappers started to …
A character called Le Sauvage, covered in black face makeup, is featured on one of 22 floats in a traditional parade as part of the Ducasse d'Ath, held in late August in a small town in Wall…
At age 90, the MIT professor has been an éminence grise of the American left for so long that it's easy to forget that he is, above all, an academic linguist who has made major (if controve…
A national online survey of 800 adults found that 83% of respondents believe that government funding of orchestras should be maintained or increased, 70% say orchestras are economically sign…
"Theaters across the country may offer various accommodations, including captioning devices and sign interpretation. But the Kennedy Center is one of the few to add another layer to its live…
As with most really good ideas, it's not terribly complicated. It's simply a 'note to self' to check in on all past engagement relationships on a regular (at least annual) basis. This simple…
The controversy at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival (aka Banglewood) in Massachusetts broke out over the use of didgeridoos in the 1990 work Thousand Year Dreaming by 80-year-old New Zealan…
Until April (when she left amid worries about "corporate sabotage"), Chase Robinson was "vice president of production and finance' at De Niro's Canal Productions, drawing a $300,000 salary. …
First, we're not talking about Scots Gaelic, the Celtic language closely related to Irish. Scots is the language of Robert Burns and Irvine Welsh and a few million souls in the Scottish lowl…
"The ballet company and a redevelopment company are joining forces to unveil a major arts-driven development for a well-established Carmel intersection. It includes a four-story mixed-use bu…
When Janet Eilber, artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, stepped through Jacob's Pillow's front curtain to introduce the group's performance, she mentioned that this was the …
A group of about 800 so-called National Portfolio Organisations " from giants like the Royal Opera House and Southbank Centre and its residents such as the National Theatre (who receive tens…
Kunihiko Hashimoto, then a 26-year-old insurance worker, attended a New York Philharmonic concert in Tokyo in 1979, and he went backstage afterward to meet Bernstein, soon to turn 61. They f…
"Members of the nation's newly empowered far right " from grass-roots organizers to federal lawmakers " say their movement would not have risen so far, so fast, without YouTube's recommendat…
Rochester Cathedral has mini-golf (okay, an "educational adventure golf course'). Norwich Cathedral has a "helter-skelter" (a tarted-up sliding board), ostensibly so that visitors can get a …
"On 12 August, 24 national branches [of ICOM] " including those of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Canada and Russia, along with five museums' international committees " requested the postpon…
"Meritocracy has created a competition that, even when everyone plays by the rules, only the rich can win. But what, exactly, have the rich won? Even meritocracy's beneficiaries now suffer o…
"By terms of a settlement announced Monday, Aug. 19, [Carole] Shorenstein Hays will give up her half ownership of SHN, operator of the Orpheum and Golden Gate Theatre. [She] will retain her …
From one year to the next, he manipulated the Comédie-Française, selecting plays and scheduling performances on or around his birthday (which fell, conveniently, on a major Catholic feas…
