6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
The gray-haired man standing outside Jacob's Pillow's Ted Shawn Theater during intermission is explaining his reaction to Andrea Miller's Boat to two attentive listeners. The members of her …
"Over four years, the fund" " a group of eight foundations " "made 89 grants to 67 groups totaling $2.27 million, helping 'build a broader commitment to a fairer and more equitable arts ecos…
"The push towards gender balanced line-ups, or so-called '50/50′ pledges, is led by the PRS Keychange initiative which calls for equal numbers of male and female performers at high pro…
"Today I ask to what extent it is a positive development that there are no discussions of race and religion in Danny Boyle's and Richard Curtis's film Yesterday, whose protagonist Jack Malik…
"Its 'participatory grant making' model, where control of the money is ceded to the community it serves, has drawn notice from bigger foundations and young philanthropists." " The Chronicle …
"Amos C. Brown, the president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, said in an interview today that the artist was simply 'presenting a critique about the warp and woof of George Washing…
"In a unique new exhibition, works from artists such as Andy Warhol and Nan Goldin, highlight the progression of transgender models and subjects." " The Guardian
"Speaking to colleagues and journalists at the show's opening, curator Clare Lilley was frank that she would have liked to include a 50/50 split of men and women " but had been unable to do …
"At college, we were assigned Barthes's S/Z , which made me understand what I could do in radio. … In S/Z, Barthes takes apart a short story by Balzac, line by line. He asks: How does this…
"Among the goods seized in the multinational operation, which was dubbed Pandora III and organised by Europol, were an ancient Mesopotamian crystal cylinder seal, a 15th-century bible that h…
Hallstatt, a pretty lakeside hamlet of 800 people, got 19,344 tour buses last year (that's an average of 53 a day, year-round) and more than a million visitors. Residents have encountered st…
Lidiya Yankovskaya (a fine example of the phenomenon herself): "In addition to their traditional duties within established institutions, an increasing number of conductors run independent or…
"More and more, critics are going beyond reviews that focus on musicality and technique to report on problems concerning diversity, politics, and workplace culture. Independent publications …
"'It was just not what we expected.' 'I was depressed by the time I left.' '… the tour was more of a scolding of the old South.' 'The brief mentions of the former owners were defamatory.' …
"Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey, who is supervising the show's development, told German fansite Deutsche Tolkien that the estate has refused to allow the series to be set during any period othe…
"To find another ballet dancer who expanded his or her range with such fortitude and ferocity, you'd have to go back to Mikhail Baryshnikov. But he transitioned into modern dance after his b…
Lyn Gardner: "Science … can give us the facts or the knowledge. But as a species we don't always respond to facts because they make us feel guilty and paralysed. What we respond to as huma…
"Since the attempted coup of 2016, according to Turkey's ministry of education, … 301,878 books [have] been destroyed as the government cracks down on anything linked to Fethullah Gülen, …
Despite many an international headline to the contrary (not to mention the wishes of some local campaigners and residents), no ban has yet been adopted into law or even government policy. Th…
"After [premiering at] Venice, American Dharma screened at the Toronto and New York film festivals and picked up strong reviews. But the idea of Bannon getting a platform at all ignited a ba…
"In a cultural medium whose producers, audiences and critics are still predominantly white, [Jackie Sibblies Drury's] Fairview challenges playgoers to think about how the different backgroun…
Lauren Wingenroth: "A Google search of that question will yield hundreds of results of impassioned arguments about whether or not we should consider dance a sport. The fact that breaking was…
"Last May, The Guardian reported that Judith Mackrell would step down from her post after a 23-year run, and Alastair Macaulay announced he was giving up his position as The New York Times' …
I didn't read any of the program notes for the Wendy Whelan-Maya Beiser-Lucinda Childs-David Lang piece the day at Jacob's Pillow. I didn't even read the spoken text. Why then, did I find te…
Getting to know opera via recording is like on-line dating " no reason why it shouldn't work, and it often does. Then you walk into something like Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane with well…
