6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"The Metropolitan Opera has named Lisette Oropesa the 2019 recipient of the Beverly Sills Artist Award, just one month after the young soprano was announced as this year's Richard Tucker Awa…
"[She] was among Brazil's most celebrated singers, with a husky alto voice that soundtracked dances, street parties and the earsplitting, eye-widening Carnival festival … [She] filled socc…
While things will proceed as planned for the rest of this year, from 2020 onward, the Lucerne Festival will redirect focus and resources to its flagship late-summer event and its in-house or…
"Despite running a ballet company " and his many commissions for ballet companies " Mr. Cherkaoui is still largely seen as a contemporary dance-maker … [and he] seem[s] half-amused, half-p…
The online-shopping juggernaut is reportedly in talks with those three outlets (and possibly others) "about deals that would reward them for expanding their international presence, specifica…
"Known for his incisive, off-kilter and sometimes controversial approach to joking about race, family and relationships, Chappelle has influenced a generation of younger comedians since beco…
The streaming series, a spinoff of the old broadcast series The Good Wife, is known for its satirical Schoolhouse Rock-style cartoons called Good Fight Shorts. Last week, in place of the Sho…
A particularly lovely passage in François Matarasso's recent book, A Restless Art: How participation won and why it matters, describes the opportunity of art-making for children, which Ma…
Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy: Legacy Alive (Onyx)Paying concentrated attention to all of the new releases that arrive at Rifftides is out of the question. Some, however, simply …
Jonah Bokaer says that working with Team USA ice dancers Lorraine McNamara and Quinn Carpenter has been one of the most rewarding projects of his life. " Dance Magazine
The Vent Haven Museum, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati in northern Kentucky, houses nearly 1,000 dummies, some 150 years old. Most of them, especially those that are or used to be famo…
"Soros Arts Fellowship [is] an initiative to support innovative mid-career artists using art and public space to advance 'pluralistic, democratic, and just societies.' The eight fellows rece…
The ousted chief of the chain, Demos Parneros, sued over his dismissal (as one does if one is a CEO), so B&N decided to countersue, demanding to claw back some of the CEO's compensation …
Orbital Reflector, sculptor Trevor Paglen's 100-foot-long, titanium oxide-coated, $1.5 million diamond-shaped Mylar balloon, was launched into orbit in December and was meant to be visible f…
Since 2004, Ã’ran Mór in Scotland's largest city has been presenting A Play, a Pie and a Pint, which is exactly what it says: a meat pie and a pint of ale for lunch, along with an hour…
"These recordings " half-erotica, half-radio play " have long flourished on Reddit communities like GoneWildAudio or PillowTalkAudio. Now, entrepreneurs bet it can go mainstream " and make m…
"The idea behind the app" " PoemPortraits " "which was jointly conceived by artist and stage designer Es Devlin and the creative technologist Ross Goodwin, is for users to 'donate' a single …
"They come in all shapes and sizes, from Nintendo's Pokémon Sword and Shield, which riffs on the architecture of Oxbridge and London, to PanicBarn's anti-Brexit polemic Not Tonight. Most be…
"For a woman who, on arriving in New York, had worked as a housekeeper for $1 a day " and a woman who had taught herself English with the help of romance novels ('because I always wanted to …
In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a black population in Spain, mostly brought over from the Latin American colonies, and they did take part in the development of flamenco. "[But] as …
"[She] was the youngest recruit and last survivor of the original Lindy Hoppers, the all-black Herbert White troupe that broke in at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom and popularized the Lindy Hop in …
"Beyond the humorous, ironic façade of these performances is a sincere craft that has exploded in popularity over the past couple of decades." Ethnomusicologist Byrd McDaniel explains how…
"During restoration work [on Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window], conservators discovered, to their surprise, that the naked figure " which dominates the upper right section of the pict…
A friend sent this photo of Marcus Bowcott's Trans Am Totem, which stands amid the traffic in Vancouver. For me the sculpture brings to mind Heathcote Williams's 1991 chapbook Autogeddon. " …
Some anecdotes from the backstage front lines (so to speak) of opera in the US in the 1980s. " Greg Sandow
