6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
It's been two years since I posted my effort at categorizing the benefits of the arts. The subject is an urgent one because of both the social and political pressures to justify funding and …
"A French street art association is the unexpected beneficiary in the years-long legal battle brought by the French schoolteacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas against Facebook over censorshi…
If they do, they can get €400 tickets. And if they try to wade in the Trevi Fountain the way Anita Ekberg did in La Dolce Vita? €450. Those guys in centurion costumes who pose wi…
Now that Warren Kanders ("the tear-gas CEO") has been chased off the Whitney's board, "which institution might wind up in the crosshairs next? We looked at the makeup of various museums and …
Britain's biggest bookstore chain was near bankruptcy when James Daunt became CEO in 2011, and "[he] steered Waterstones out of a death spiral by rethinking every cranny of the company, from…
It was the first symphony orchestra in the entire Far East, founded in 1879. (That's only 37 years after the New York Philharmonic, the United States' oldest orchestra.) Says music director …
"In almost all the ways that concert promoters measure the success and smooth operation of their events, Woodstock was a failure." Crowd control. Sanitation. Traffic. Profit. (The producers …
Not David Marchese's writing; he does a fine job. But Cage showed up for the interview wearing "oversize sunglasses, a dragon ring the size of a walnut and a black velveteen jacket over a Br…
Laura Miller: "For many kids, reading the Scary Stories books represented a first tentative step toward growing up and into independence. … Unlike, say, a Playboy magazine, they weren't ab…
"In the play's first few moments " its preamble, really " [Heidi] Schreck lays out the elements for its perfect union of form and function: direct address, displayed enactment, meta-theatric…
Brooklyn director Terry Greiss worked with the NYPD to develop a program called To Serve, to Protect, and to Understand, which brings officers and civilians together with meals and acting ga…
"The pieces were originally composed by Proust in his early 20s for inclusion in his first book, Les Plaisirs et les jours (Pleasures and Days), a collection of poems and short stories first…
He began his career on conventional instruments and spent six years as the Concertgebouw Orchestra's principal cellist before becoming one of the key artists of the European period-instrumen…
"Directions on how institutions should incorporate these objectives were left intentionally vague. Rather than issuing blanket checklists, the city wanted individual institutions to formulat…
"The settlement brought the court battle to a close just as it threatened to air more dirty laundry about both Mr. Levine … and the Met" " which would be why settlement terms weren't discl…
"[Alf] Clausen joined The Simpsons during its second season and worked on the show for 27 years. When he was let go in 2017, he said he received a call from Simpsons producer Richard Sakai, …
"The painter, known for his wry, carefully composed investigations into the nature of art making " say, analyzing every shade of paint used in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, then rende…
To be clear, government censorship wasn't involved, although a number of right-wing politicians criticized the show. Titled After "Freedom of Expression?", the exhibition at the Aichi Trienn…
When Avichai Scher was a young student, no teacher or other authority figure ever said a word to him about when or how to start wearing a dance belt, which led to some very embarrassing mome…
When I watch a dance that I've also seen a few years earlier, I perceive it differently. Has it changed? Maybe. Have I changed? Of course. I've viewed and written about all but one of the Ky…
Der Rosendorn (The Rose Thorn), about a young woman's argument with her own vagina about which of them men care more about, had been thought to date from the early 16th century. But a strip …
"Even leftwing performers in Edinburgh seem unsure what the best response to current affairs should be. Some feel that making Brexit party leader Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Tory MP, …
Most textbooks have said that the first English sonnet sequence was Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella (1591). Yet three decades earlier, Anne Vaughan Lock's A Meditation of a Penitent Sin…
With many of Hong Kong's main cultural institutions being government-operated or -funded, a large number of workers in the arts-and-culture field are considered civil servants, which means t…
"La Folia" seems to have appeared first as a folk-dance tune in late medieval Portugal. Over the next century, it spread to Spain and Italy and composers started adapting it; in the 17th and…
