6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"By day Dr. Bernard was an English professor at Long Island University, a job he took in 1959 and held for more than 40 years. By night he was a central figure in the experimental theater mo…
"With the virus still on a rampage, many of the age-old, hands-on ways of training musicians, dancers and actors have had to be tossed out the window or, at the very least, drastically resha…
Leave it to the ingenious Dutch. With both the Rotterdam Ahoy conference and exhibition center and the city's Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen closed due to the pandemic, the two institutions g…
"It's easy to pin the current squabbles on the coronavirus. Look more closely, and you'll see evidence of deeper frustrations at play that marketers and media outlets have known about for ye…
It's American history's oldest mystery: in 1587, 100-odd colonists sent by Walter Raleigh settled on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina's Outer Banks. Within a few weeks, their lea…
"It was not immediately clear how many shows would be eligible for consideration. Twenty plays and musicals opened during the abbreviated 2019-20 season, but a few might be deemed ineligible…
On the day in March when the Bay Area got lockdown orders, Berkeley Repertory Theatre called the cast of Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, which was still in rehe…
As one of the authors of UCLA's annual Hollywood Diversity Report put it, "There are almost no people of color in the film industry who have the power to say, 'This movie is getting made and…
Directors UK (the Brit equivalent of the Directors Guild) has published Intimacy in the Time of COVID-19, a new set of guidelines for the planning, staging and recording of sex scenes, start…
Researchers at the University of Bristol used 25 professional singers of various genres as subjects, having them speak and sing at various levels, and found that singing at a conversational …
As New York City's major museums prepare to reopen, the experience of the the first major U.S. art museum out of the re-starting gate " the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which intrepidly inv…
A series of collected strips, in a new English translation, about the funny little Gaul and his fellows resisting the Romans is now being released in the U.S. That's bringing new attention t…
It's not news that the Khomeinite doctrines that drive the Islamic Republic's authorities are dead set against dance, music, and any other way that women might display themselves to the publ…
"Admittedly, preschoolers, Zoom and opera don't immediately sound like the makings of a successful project, but each installment I watched of Opera Starts With Oh! " helmed by director, chor…
Mycologist? That's mushroom maven to you and me. The late composer was fascinated by the fungi throughout his life, often foraging for them and at one point making money selling his finds to…
"Earlier this week, leading German epidemiologists from the prestigious Clinic Charité published a revised study suggesting that the opera houses and concert halls should allow every seat i…
"In such an expansive catalog, encompassing films from more than 40 countries, the relative absence of African-American filmmakers stands out. There are, for example, more directors in the C…
"The theaters are mostly small, and it remains unclear how calls for change in the industry will (or won't) affect life at larger institutions, many of which have been programmatically and f…
"Female film critics contributed 35% of the film reviews across print, broadcast and online outlets, up 1% from 2019, according to the report, titled Thumbs Down 2020: Film Critics and Gende…
A German couple going swimming in the Grand Canal. An Austrian breaking the toe off a statue when he climbed on it for a selfie. A French woman writing her name in felt-tip pen on the Ponte …
Well, as long as Jersey, 14 miles off the coast of France but 85 miles from England, counts as the British Isles. "The designs were scratched into small ornamental tablets known as plaquette…
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California has ruled that the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation in Madrid is the owner of Camille Pissarro's 1897 painting Rue Sain…
"People have been saying to me, 'Oh, I'm so sorry you had to go through that!' Well I'm not sorry " I think it's the best thing that could have happened to me, considering where I am now. I …
"Technology and trivia may not be obvious bedfellows. But trivia enthusiasts in the postwar-trivia boom of the 1950s would surely look in envy at technologies we take for granted today: word…
Artists and institutions in Beirut, large and small, have rebuilt several times since the outbreak of Lebanon's 15-year civil war in 1975 and through subsequent conflict. But even before the…
