6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
I had a range of thoughts about Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins's opera p r i s m, which won the Pulitzer Prize. And it made me long for the days, decades ago, when artistic music-t…
Here's some history of a 1980s funding coup pulled off by opera companies, theater companies, and Broadway producers " one that made a huge difference for some great artists who had been cau…
CultureGrrl takes in Reich Richter Pärt; Trisha Donnelly's untitled, unexplained, and almost unlit installation; and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy. " Lee Rosenbaum
No, it's not because they want to launder money. "While these requirements could have significant benefits in terms of helping to curtail money laundering by bringing greater oversight to an…
"His films, usually relatively short, did not have stars or plots in any conventional sense; he was after something more cerebral." Said one colleague, "Phil considered the film frame as a p…
"We asked Mary Norris, The New Yorker's 'comma queen,' and … Benjamin Dreyer, copy chief of Random House, … about their love of editing, the mistakes people make, and whether or not this…
Just this year so far, she's made high-profile work for the Martha Graham and Paul Taylor companies, New York City Ballet, and Ballet Across America at the Kennedy Center " and her own compa…
Actress Vicky McClure got the idea to form the choir after seeing how much her ailing grandmother was helped by singing together. A BBC crew watches the choir rehearse, perform, and take par…
Ink, a London transfer, starring Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller and directed by Rupert Goold, about Rupert Murdoch's transformation of Britain's The Sun into the notorious tabloid it is …
"For some contestants, winning might usher in 15 minutes of fame and a small, unexpected windfall." And then there's Ken Jennings, who launched a couple of new careers as a result. Reporter …
Liu Xiaobo was in prison when he won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, and ever since then, his wife, Liu Xia, had been under house arrest. After he died, still in custody, in 2017, she was suicid…
Britain's highest-profile art prize is getting heavy criticism for taking as a lead sponsor the bus company Stagecoach: its chairman, Brian Souter, was a leading opponent of extending marria…
Very carefully, of course. As for how, specifically, you go about it, reporter Ted Loos looked in on the handlers and shippers of William-Adolphe Bouguereau's La Jeunesse de Bacchus (1884) a…
The ever-controversial writer and social critic has been teaching at Philadelphia's University of the Arts for 30 years and is one of the few faculty members there with tenure. Now, a petiti…
"[Stage plays] once entertained the tired businessman, and also somehow managed to stir hearts and minds with piercing social critique. Eugene O'Neill made the cover of Time four times in hi…
"Condé Nast wants Madison Avenue to believe that its video programming represents a 'new primetime' for reaching coveted audiences that are abandoning TV. … All told, [the media company] …
The once-enormous market for popular crime novels in India's most widely spoken language began falling off a cliff in the 1990s. Then Minakshi Thakur, an executive at HarperCollins India too…
South Korea's flagship orchestra has been without a music director since Myung-Whun Chung resigned at the end of 2015, toward the end of an astoundingly tumultuous period at the ensemble. VÃ…
"The government-owned Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid acquired hundreds of artworks, including the Pissarro, from the [eponymous] baron in 1993 for $350 million. The U.S. court r…
Linda May Han Oh, Aventurine (Biophilia)There's plenty of adventure here in the bassist-composer's instrumentation, textures and rhythmic values. The name was suggested, however, by a certai…
This post responds to three things I've read recently that have me stewing (again) about the future of big- (and medium-) box nonprofit arts organizations, the ones that bear the DNA of the …
"Provost Persis Drell told the Faculty Senate Thursday that the university was ending that funding. She cited a tight budget ahead, due to a smaller than anticipated payout coming from the e…
Australian theatre artist David Finnigan's first piece on the subject was, perhaps imprudently, titled Kill Climate Deniers. (It was about an attack by, er, highly motivated environmental ac…
"We asked five people who cover pop culture for The Times " Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, chief film critics; Wesley Morris, critic at large; Kyle Buchanan, pop culture reporter; and Aisha …
Last summer, Broadway Break Thru, a theatre education outfit in Chicago, held its first College Break Thru, designed to prepare high school students for the process of auditioning for compet…
