6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
The hottest tickets in London last Saturday, on the hottest day in London for at least forty years, were both at the Barbican " the Lee Krasner retrospective and Rattle conducting the LSO in…
Peter Furlan Project, Between The Lines (Beany Bops Music)Stan Getz: Getz At The Gate (Verve)" Doug Ramsey
The best setting of Walt Whitman's words by an American composer may just be a 30-minute radio play by Norman Corwin and Bernard Herrmann. " Joe Horowitz
"When, back in May 2018, Pittsburgh's Quantum Theatre programmed E.M. Lewis's The Gun Show for the following February, it was with the intention of starting a conversation around gun violenc…
"Meet ChamberQUEER, a plucky new group dedicated to unstraightening the smaller musical spaces that fill [New York City]. … National Sawdust Log recently sat down with two ChamberQUEER co-…
The results of this year's analysis of the 2019-2020 seasons of the world's top orchestras by DONNE, Women in Music, which is founded and curated by soprano Gabriella Di Laccio, show that ou…
Yes, with this recent bulletin, les immortels of the august body founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1634 want to be sure that all French-speakers properly distinguish between une salope (a slu…
"A federal judge in New York rejected Sotheby's bid to dismiss a $380 million lawsuit where Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of helping his longtime art dealer…
Turns out Stanley Kubrick and colleagues worked on and rehearsed the scene for weeks, and it was highly (if not always clearly) thought out. Then Kubrick died, and the rest of the team had t…
"[Prumsodun] Ok, a Long Beach, California, native whose parents were Cambodian refugees, not only restages traditional works of Khmer classical dance but also uses the stories and vocabulary…
Jaap van Zweden: "If you see Dallas, it's a real sports town. If you see Hong Kong, it's a real business town. And I think we are both very fortunate because New York is a real arts town. Th…
"The American billionaire hedge fund manager and art collector J. Tomilson Hill is the mysterious buyer of an early 17th-century canvas billed as a rediscovered masterpiece by Caravaggio, ac…
After six years in charge of LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in Manhattan, Lisa Mars has resigned. "For years, Mars' leadership … has been criticized for what students, facul…
The Pulitzer-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, Wonder Boys and The Yiddish Policemen's Union will be in charge of Star Trek: Picard, the upcoming CBS…
Contributions from board members and others will cover the cost of the health insurance for July and August, and management will end the lockout on Sept. 9 if no contract agreement has been …
"In just the past few years, [SEIU] has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country." " Sp…
"First brought against the Met in 2016, the suit alleged that Picasso's The Actor (1904-05) was subject to restitution laws and should therefore be returned to the family of its original own…
In the opening scene of the Restoration tragedy Venice Preserved at the RSC, a rebel recruits a desperate friend to the cause. His indignation is scorching hot, so of course he pulls out a l…
It wasn't just Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. In the 1930s and '40s, André Breton, Leonora Carrington, JoseÌ and Kati Horna, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, and others flocked to Mex…
"In cities including Savannah and Charleston, … for years, tours of historic homes would focus on their architecture and fine furniture, but not on how the wealth so clearly displayed depe…
Marianne Preger-Simon recounts how she saw the great choreographer perform in the French capital in 1949, and how she contrived to meet him " ultimately to become his first student and then …
"Working largely in steel, made massive geometric forms that often seemed to defy gravity " giant squares or slabs appearing to float in the air or balance precariously on a point. His works…
"Mr. Brown began his career producing advertising for television before branching out as a freelance writer, playwright and, for several years, the co-creator of a syndicated comic strip. A …
"Women in medieval Japan were discouraged from studying kanji " characters modelled on written Chinese which represent individual words " and began using kana, which transcribe words phoneti…
Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune begins with noisy sex in the dark, then the lights come up on the actors getting out of bed naked. It's always been a delicate scen…
