6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"Content warnings" " a more effective term than "trigger warnings" " "aren't about treating audiences like they are incapable of handling the material a play presents. Instead, warnings are …
"Right now, Thomas is starring in the Canadian Opera Company's latest production of Otello in Toronto. In the past, the role has received criticism for casting white actors who have had thei…
"In mid-April, Performance Space New York hosted I wanna be with you everywhere (IWBWYE), a three-day festival "of, by, and for" disabled artists and writers. … The organizers adhere to th…
Hilary Amnah: "While working in the public sector for much of my arts administration career, I have been complicit in adhering to largely inequitable practices " especially when it comes to …
Aileen Alon: "While most of my career has been in the arts, I've never been employed by an arts organization. … In fact, I've probably been able to do more for the arts and culture sector …
Americans for the Arts CEO Robert Lynch says that his organization's Arts + Social Impact Explorer "consolidates and highlights concrete ways in which the arts intersect with and have an imp…
"Ballet Moves began in 2014 when the father of a young girl with Down syndrome asked if any of the classes suited her needs. The answer was no. But Julie Sunderland, who trained with Boston …
It's the same reason that Law and Order is good for New York theater, only more so " GoT has arguably pulled some new audiences to see, for example, some Christopher Marlowe and Sam Shepard.…
In recent years, the Israeli contemporary dance troupe has faced petitions and demonstrations by BDS activists almost everywhere it has performed abroad. Back home in Tel Aviv, the company's…
"[Garin Nugroho's] Memories of My Body follows four stages in the life of Juno, a young boy in a Central Java village who becomes infatuated by the lengger lanang, a traditional dance that o…
"Before the nineteen-sixties, the books Presidential candidates wrote weren't usually memoirs; they were collections of speeches." Now? "Sometimes Presidential candidates write books about t…
Performing at a comedy club in Naples, Fla., "[Egyptian-American comedian Ahmed] Ahmed asked if anyone of Middle Eastern descent was in the audience. After a few people clapped, Ahmed replie…
The rising young maestra was about to make her Montreal Symphony debut on May 15 when she and the orchestra got word that pianist Daniil Trifonov, the soloist for the concerto that formed th…
"The theme is not a gentle salve for the American underslept; it is several swimming pools of Red Bull, delivered via helicopter drop, to a stadium full of management consultants. … Now Mo…
The six-painting series known as the poesie, commissioned by Philip II of Spain and based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, were last displayed together in 1704. Five of them will be reunited and exh…
The dismissal and subsequent reinstatement of dancer Amar Ramasar at New York City Ballet is the most high-profile of several recent cases where a performer was fired after a credible compla…
"It seemed like a good idea at the time. Bringing hundreds of Australian artists together in [an inland, non-state-capital] city for a large arts festival could turbo-charge Ballarat's creat…
Jane Howard: "I frame this as a serious question: what is the use of investment in the arts if climate change is continually ignored? … Or, to put it another way, if politicians won't even…
When an early photo of this animal's perpetual scowl appeared online and promptly went viral, her human, a Phoenix-area waitress named Tabatha Bundesen, was soon able to quit her job. Grumpy…
Founded in 1995 as one of the first internet-only general-interest newsmagazines, Salon has been losing money for its entire history, and the company warned that it may have to be liquidated…
The Song Company, a chamber group that has been performing repertoire from the medieval to the brand-new for 35 years, abruptly announced that it is entering (as it's called in Australia) Vo…
The Met's now-defunct Sackler Enclave " a 600-square-foot office and storage space on the museum's premises, named for the oldest brother, Arthur (who died before OxyContin was developed), r…
The exact date is uncertain, but we know who was with Hubbard in this L.A. all-star band. They play "Ride With The Wind." " Doug Ramsey
"In a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Romance Studies, Gerard Cheshire, a research associate at the University of Bristol, argues the manuscript is … a type of therapeutic ref…
"A physical form of prayer and symbol of protection, a daily exercise, and a moment of intense concentration and meditation, drawing kolam is an important household ritual that has a lot mor…
