6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"The question of how to stage gendered violence ethically and responsibly is not new, but it is newly urgent as we approach the third decade of the twenty-first century. The contributions to…
"Backlash against the Sackler Trust's donations to global arts institutions has raised questions over how organisations should respond to gifts from ethically dubious sources." " European CEO
"We work at StageSource, which represents both the individual theatre artists and the theatrical organizations of New England. Part of our mission is to provide resources to empower our comm…
Howard Sherman: "While New York stages increasingly showcase the talents of queer, trans, non-binary, and intersex artists " I recently saw a gender-identity diverse cast in a reading of the…
"Born during the AIDS crisis to raise money for dancers, the festival turns 25, mixing celebration with sorrow." " The New York Times
Bob Sheppard, The Fine Line (Challenge)The veteran saxophonist/flutist's career as a collaborator and L.A. film and TV musicians may account for his not having achieved greater fan recogniti…
Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Faust, Father and Son, Mother and Son) set up the Primer Intonatsii (Example of Intonation) foundation in 2013 to aid young Russian filmmakers. But the organi…
Other institutions have said they'll stop accepting Sackler money, but none have said they'll drop the name from any existing buildings. "That is because removing a name, even one that has b…
"In a lawsuit filed this week in New York State Supreme Court, Manhattan collector Stuart Pivar, a one-time friend of Andy Warhol, says he was swindled out of a 1920 cast of the sculpture [M…
"She had been due to star in the ENO's Orpheus and Eurydice, which is choreographer Wayne McGregor's opera directing debut, this October. Alice Coote will step in to play the role of Orpheus…
Ilya Vidrin was a competitive ballroom dancer until the day he fractured his back while partnering. "In the years since, the incident has led him into a deep exploration of the less tangible…
Trapeze, an Orion/Hachette imprint, is starting to do just that. David Barnett observes that almost 60 people were involved in the publication of his new novel: "the editors, the marketing a…
"At issue is a controversial nominee for state laureate, private negotiations with a governor who says he's 'not a poetry expert,' and a bit of verse that an elected official described to me…
Tristan Baker and Oliver Royds first became business partners in 2015, when they designed and built the pop-up theatre in London that housed Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeare trilogy a…
Luisi, music director of the Zurich Opera House and former principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, only took up the post (one created for him) at the Tuscan music festival-cum-opera h…
"Zohra, a 35-member orchestra, performed at a concert on July 13 at the Pohoda Festival in the [Slovakian] town of Trencin … Four members went missing from their hotel on July 14, police s…
City officials in West Palm Beach, Florida have been playing an endless loop of the songs "Baby Shark" and "Raining Tacos" to drive away a group of homeless people who'd been camping on the …
"Starting in April, it took 18 workers 25 days to install more than 250 priceless pieces in 'The Life of Animals in Japanese Art,' the National Gallery of Art's summer exhibition that has de…
"The audit, conducted by SC&H Group and dated July 15, … suggests that the arts group is in such grave financial straits that neither the legislated cash infusion from the state nor th…
"A study of apes watching videos suggests human social bonding may have deeper evolutionary roots than previously thought. … Researchers said they found that the animals approached their p…
A new court filing in the lawsuit by former student Andrew Lipian against the countertenor and the University of Michigan (where he is tenured faculty) "cites a handful of witnesses who spok…
"It's not just, or maybe even primarily, the size of the company that is giving people the shakes. It's the fact that a single film corporation now seems to own everything worth having " at …
Randi Hutter Epstein: "Nothing in science is 100 percent certain. Scientists talk in probabilities. That's why doctors never say 'guarantee.' They say things like 'chances are.' … How do I…
"[She] danced her first Swan Lake on her 15th birthday, … went on to be the first western ballerina to perform with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet in 1957 and became director of the London Festiv…
"As mobile phones have replaced landlines, call quality has, strangely, gone down. The general connectivity of the world " including the ease of international video calls and the use of fore…
