6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
A big part of the 1969 festival's legend is that no one involved had any idea how big it was going to get and how many people would show up, and the organizers were utterly unprepared. "Wood…
Payal Kadakia, New Jersey-born daughter of two Indian immigrant chemists, got a degree from MIT while setting up one Indian dance group and worked a professional job at Bain & Company wh…
"[He] dedicated a lifetime to writing and anthologizing poetry for children, amassing troves of verse" " 120 volumes by the time he died " "to help young people navigate the unknowns of life…
"The characters were laid out on sheets of paper, frozen in dramatic poses … [and] the sets [were] storybook illustrations of extravagant palaces and howling wildernesses, to be slotted in…
"The New Colossus" ("Give me your tired, your poor, …") was not mainstream American sentiment when Emma Lazarus wrote it in 1883 (one year after the Immigrant Act and the Chinese Exclusion…
El Corazón Nunca Se Equivoca ("The Heart Is Never Wrong"), produced and set in Mexico City, is a spinoff of the popular Mi Marido Tiene Más Familia ("My Husband Has More Family"): two …
The person who gave that quote actually meant it. Tim Jonze talks to three professional figure models about the worst and best parts of their jobs. " The Guardian
Carolina Miranda: "If ever there were an urgent moment for the various culture industries " film studios, theater companies, art museums and TV production companies " to act on issues of div…
Says one who was wounded in the 2016 shooting, "They're talking about a theme-park environment where you buy memorabilia." Of the club's owner, who runs a foundation (which pays her a six-fi…
"The State and Cathedral Choir of Berlin, founded in 1465 by the ruler of Brandenburg, Fredrick II, promotes 'free musical education for boys.' … Since then, the choir, now part of Berlin'…
Here's a look at the some of the design features " often touted as amenities " that keep people from lingering, stretching out, or even sitting down in various public (or should that be "pub…
His movies earned 21 Oscar nominations over his four-decade career, and he garnered one himself for Best Picture for Costa-Gavras's 1982 film Missing. But he's best remembered for breaking t…
"Nothing but the world outside the human one." Alastair Macaulay offers an analysis (if that's the right word for a Cunningham piece) of the 1958 work Summerspace. " The New York Times
It's not only because so many people learn them as second or third languages. Recent research has indicated that, even when a language is new or developing, it has to have simple rules in or…
"The Royal Exchange is one of Manchester's best known theatres, the venue resembling a lunar landing craft located inside The Great Hall on St Ann's Square. … The Den is a lightweight, 180…
"Americans have made a political investment in a myth of racial separateness, the idea that art forms can be either 'white' or 'black' in character … This country's music is an advertiseme…
Yusef Komunyakaa on Crispus Attucks, the first American to die in the Revolutionary War; Jesmyn Ward on the 1808 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves; Darryl Pinckney on the Emancipation Pr…
Among the items imported from the People's Republic that will be subject to import duties as of Sept. 1 are "paintings, drawings, engraving, prints and lithographs, sculptures and statuary o…
"The allegations against Jamie Thomas, Indiana's personal caretaker since 2013 and a longtime island associate, are included in a counterclaim by Indiana's estate" in response to a complicat…
"Five LGBTQ channels have joined together for the suit, which alleges that YouTube has discriminated against them by hiding their videos, removing subscribers, and denying advertising. They …
"Their art was not only a response to Brown's death. It was also a way to bring understanding to issues that had angered and oppressed African Americans for generations." A package looking a…
In a 4-3 decision that's likely to satisfy no one, the board elected to cover the Life of Washington mural without destroying it. The estimated cost: $875,000. Wouldn't that money be better …
"In Sub-Saharan Africa, … 'book fairs' have been publishing industry affairs where players meet to do deals … away from the reading public. Until recently. In the last decade and a half,…
The company, which will "retain outside counsel" to look into the accusations, said in a statement that Domingo "has been a dynamic creative force in the life of LA Opera and the artistic cu…
Just hours after an AP story featured allegations of sexual harassment against the opera superstar, and shortly after the Philadelphia Orchestra disinvited him from its season-opening gala n…
