6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
Had you told me in 1963 " or 1985 " that I would live to see a fully mobile phone in every person's pocket, I would have laughed in your face. And it's easy to forget that as late as 1940, 4…
The municipal council of Perth and Kinross, alarmed by poor attendance and financial performance at the Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall, warned the nonprofit which operates the twin ven…
Mind you, the operating surplus was only just over $342,000 (in local dollars), but even that isn't bad for such a money-losing art form. But several million dollars in bequests came in last…
Adam Roberts: "Over five years ago, Gail Dalrymple, Robert Pierson, and I sat down to conceive of a performance company that would celebrate the creative work of adult actors with disabiliti…
"At a moment when there is a longstanding heated debate over how artists and pop culture figures should engage in social activism, the life and career of musical legend Edward Kennedy 'Duke'…
Vu Le: "'Solutions Privilege' [is] the privilege of expecting easy and instant solutions that would align with one's worldview and not challenge one's privilege. It manifests in the followin…
Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, argues that the most important thing that grant makers can do is make sure the nonprofits they fund can attract good staff …
Reporter John-John Williams IV profiles Soulful Symphony, a racially and culturally diverse orchestra which begins a three-year residency at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. i…
Among the questions: whether Oklahoma! choreographer John Heginbotham was snubbed, why Casey Nicholaw (The Prom) was nominated for Best Director but not Best Choreography, the wonderfulness …
"If YouTubers represent the epitome of the uphill battle to create stable employment and meaningful connection all in one place, they may also offer clues to an alternative approach to work …
The Oscar winner and third generation of a four-generation movie dynasty (so far) speaks very plainly about her complicated relations with her family members and romantic partners (i.e., Jac…
As Sarah Malley discovered while working at an independent bookshop, some routine practices legally qualified at least in her state) as wage theft. And it's far more common for indie booksto…
Bret Easton Ellis grants that almost no house would publish American Psycho today (he wouldn't even want to write it today), and it's hard to imagine any American publisher releasing Lolita …
"Empowering the female lead may be a celebratory hook for selling a show, particularly given that women buy the bulk of Broadway tickets. But on closer inspection, it is rarely the women tha…
"ALL " a physical poem of protest … explores what [Mia] Habib refers to as 'the protesting body.' It can be performed for up to 12 hours, though the New York iteration will clock in at a b…
Stagecoach South East, a bus company that offers service to the host city of this year's prize exhibition (the seaside town of Margate), has for a chairman Sir Brian Souter, who spent heavil…
In 2016, the Charlottesville City Council voted to remove statues of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson that were erected in the 1920s. (It was this vote that the notorious 2017 Unite the…
"To improve their chances of winning a grant, foundation officers and professional grant writers say charities should avoid making the following mistakes in grant proposals and applications.…
The Cerruti Collection, worth more than €500 million and housed in a villa near Turin specially built for it by collector Francesco Federico Cerruti, "includes Medieval and Baroque mas…
Well, since this is the UK, it's 50p. Citizens Theatre in Glasgow offers 100 tickets at that price for every production, writes artistic director Dominic Hill " and there are also £2 tick…
"A sketch of a bearded man lost in thought, preserved for 500 years among the papers of Leonardo da Vinci, has now been identified as a rare portrait of the Renaissance master himself." " Th…
"No definitive answer is possible," writes Peter Dobrin about the 270-seat venue at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "because it is in a way not a single hall, but many." " The Phi…
Among participants in the program, called SinfonÃa por el Perú and founded by tenor Juan Diego Flórez in 2011, "[there has been] a 75% decrease in unwanted pregnancies, another 51% …
The self-portrait of Gentileschi as St. Catherine of Alexandria, purchased by the UK's National Gallery last year, is currently in a GP's office in East Yorkshire; before that, it was at Gla…
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its 2019 award winners. Among them are Ahmad Jamal, Wayne Shorter, Linda May Han Oh, and Bobby Sanabria's Multiverse Big Band. " Doug Ramsey
