6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
Did you see that video of two teenagers baffled by a dial phone? Nothing is guaranteed to make you feel jurassic like watching the routine technology of your childhood appear irrefutably for…
Joan Acocella: "A lot of modern-dance companies are talking about 'legacy' and trying to come up with ways to perpetuate it. Why? Well, the art form is more than a century old. Many modern-d…
Just three years ago, it seemed (at least to the outside world) that the company was turning into an improv empire: multiple locations in NYC and LA, a TV deal, corporate workshops, thousand…
A Friday afternoon announcement said that Janelle McCoy would be leaving after this year's festival (which begins Friday) and that her job is being eliminated due to budget cuts. In 2017, sh…
In the two years he's been artistic director of Hong Kong Ballet (where he arrived one year after leaving the same job in DC), Webre has added to the company's repertoire, brought in high-pr…
Not, argues David Sims, that you could tell from the big New York Times package on the future of movies. We need to keep in mind that "Netflix is still a young company, one that's sitting on…
He'd completed a doctorate in literature at Cambridge and wasn't sure what to do with himself next when, on a visit to London, he saw the 17th-century woodcarvings by Grinling Gibbons in St.…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan (The Kentucky Cycle) adapted the special counsel's notoriously careful report into a drama titled The Investigation: A Search for the Truth…
"[She] wrote a Facebook post late Friday … 'Just 30 teensy hours after a five-hour open-heart surgery (10 years after my OTHER open-heart surgery to repair a dissected aorta), I am tube- a…
Susannah Clapp: "There used to be a template for the artistic directors of theatres. A template about as restricted as candidates for the Tory party leadership. White and male. Obviously. Th…
He's already got the building: the spectacular Royal Opera House, Muscat, which opened in 2011 and is reportedly the Omani capital's second-most-popular tourist attraction. The Economist loo…
The Brooklyn, Queens, and New York Public Library systems began offering cardholders free access to the well-regarded service Kanopy in 2017, and last year about 1% of cardholders used the s…
"The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the organisation that oversees Berlin's state museums, says it will appeal to the United States Supreme Court to dismiss a claim for the Guelph Tr…
Babe.net, which marketed itself as "for girls who don't give a fuck," was an HR professional's nightmare, and a journalism professor's nightmare, too. Allison P. Davis reports on how its big…
"The 275-year-old auction house " which agreed … to sell itself for $2.66 billion to French telecom tycoon Patrick Drahi " could soon get at least two counteroffers from rival investors, T…
Even as the number of LGBTQ stories told in young adult literature keeps growing, there are still many teens whose libraries don't offer it and who don't feel comfortable asking for that sub…
In March the Brazilian president posted a video clip shot at a gay street party during São Paulo's Carnival, tweeting, "We have to expose the truth so the population are aware of their pr…
"Co-founder of [the company] Part of the Night, Olivia Munk, said: 'My co-founder Jessica Bickel-Barlow and I realised that while we weren't comfortable going to a pub or club alone, we alwa…
"In its 15-year history, more than half of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru's productions have been directed by women and close to half have been written by female playwrights. Notably, of the comp…
"Terence Blanchard knows from experience that an opera that sounds and looks different from the classic repertory can bring new audiences to an old art form. 'An elderly African American man…
"Among the throng of honky-tonk bars in downtown Nashville is the Z. Alexander Looby Theatre " home to the Tennessee Women's Theater Project. American Theatre caught up with company's foundi…
"This tribal district, located about 85 miles west of Islamabad, is best known for its sprawling weapons bazaar. … A local book lover, Raj Muhammad, hopes it becomes known as the home of t…
In order to avoid the unreasonably high VAT on tampons in many European countries, a startup in Germany (where the tax is 19%!) has started packaging 15 tampons with a 46-page booklet about …
Andrea Smardon: "To answer these questions, I talked with innovative producers who are working on projects that attempt to bridge political and cultural divides. This work is going on across…
"Stopping at sites including the Harriet Tubman Memorial and the former Lenox Lounge " now a Wells Fargo " the 16-part ritual tells the story of a tribe fighting for its freedom with the hel…
