6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"With her soft, high voice, Ms. Yao was long referred to as one of the seven great singing stars of Shanghai, … [whose popular music] bore not only the rhythms of jazz, but also global sou…
"While the iconic precision dance troupe has of course always had artistic leaders for each of its shows, its parent organization, Madison Square Garden Company, is now looking to hire someo…
"Wang Zhi … says he can make a tidy 2m yuan ($290,000) a year from his cross-dressing routines. … He regularly appears on nationally televised variety shows. Officials often invite him t…
"At 44, he's also making a triumphant return to London after the rollercoaster ride of being music director of English National Opera from 2007 to 2015 " one of the most troubled periods of …
The drawing Reclining Nude Girl (1918) was found by a part-time art handler at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore in the Queens neighborhood of Woodside and authenticated by Jane Kallir, who wro…
"Their pay packet for the month is said to be nearly £200 more than for the average female worker " both on and off-stage. The disparity is despite the research finding that women are "do…
The resistance got its way: Warren Kanders, whose weapons-related business activities were attacked by protesters, has resigned from the Whitney Museum's board. Therein lies a big problem, n…
"While the average person aged 65 and over watches 33 minutes of TV news a day, this falls to just two minutes among people aged 16-24, according [to OFCOM's] annual news consumption report.…
"Many of the more than three dozen former employees who spoke to HuffPost said they entered the company hungry and hopeful, only to feel twisted around by a publicly woke company that privat…
The standards set by the French-born ballet master in his decades at the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg have had a defining influence on the art form ever since. But only three of his sto…
"In a 40-year stage career, mostly with the Royal Ballet, she created roles for a host of eminent choreographers, among them Frederick Ashton, John Cranko, Robert Helpmann, Andrée Howard, K…
"St. John says she was repeatedly sexually abused by the man trusted to hone her talent, renowned violinist and teacher Jascha Brodsky. Then, she says, she was disregarded when she reported …
"'When you're looking at categories of programming that people respond to globally, food and cooking shows are on the top of that list,' explains Brandon Riegg, Netflix VP of nonfiction seri…
Finally released from (repeatedly extended) home confinement on criminal charges many think are trumped up, the director has staged and sent to the Avignon Festival (he himself still can't l…
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"Protesters had demanded Mr. Kanders's resignation, or removal from the board, after reports that [his company] Safariland's tear-gas grenades had been used against migrants at the United St…
"The news of [the Canadian Opera Co. director's] return to the Opéra national, where he worked more than a decade ago, comes after the months of speculation in opera circles about Neef's fu…
Producers of Tea at Five, a solo show by Matthew Lombardo about Katherine Hepburn that had been in a pre-Broadway tryout in Boston, said that they had "terminated their relationship" with Du…
The museum, which is believed to house the world's largest collection of Matisse's work (more than 1,200 items), will open the Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies, a 3,500-square-foot …
"[He was] a rugged Dutch actor who played Nazis, action heroes and bloodsucking vampires [in both movies and television], but who was best known as the android outlaw in the science-fiction …
"Christian Book Distributors, also known as CBD, was started four decades ago by brothers Ray and Stephen Hendrickson, selling Christian books, Bibles, home-schooling materials, toys and gam…
The Society of London Theatre is starting to provide front-of-house employees body cameras to record patron behaviour because of stories like these. "Ushers reported being spat and shouted a…
Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire, written in Urdu and translated by the author into English in 1998, "tells a completist and syncretistic version of 2,500 years of history in modern-day Ind…
"Six years ago, conversations about diversity and representation had yet to become the lingua franca, in part because Orange had yet to start them. People of color, LGBT people, immigrants, …
David Dorfman: "Dancemakers: Talk about money with the same knowledge and passion with which we talk about our mentors, our dances and the art form's history. Research the roots of our curre…
