6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
Yes, my recent car crash scared me terribly, and yes, I know how very lucky I was to escape without a scratch. Even so, that seems to have been the end of it. I haven't had any flashbacks, o…
David Friesen, My Faith, My Life (Origin)Friesen's virtuosity brought him to prominence as a bassist nearly fifty years ago. This two-CD album presents him on the first disc playing his comp…
Susan Tallman: "The claim for af Klint as an inventor of abstract art runs into two serious problems. The first is that it doesn't seem to match how she thought the work should function. The…
"Ann Carlson is not the type of a choreographer who makes what are known as dancey-dances. Steps aren't really her thing. She works with everyday movement, text and props. She has choreograp…
Peter Boal of Pacific Northwest Ballet writes about his January trip around the US to audition dancers " and about how what he saw in the museums and galleries he visited made him think abou…
Evan Williams: "The persistence of this label is unnecessary to appreciate music by these individuals, and that it is a dangerous myth that great art can only be the product of genius. Such …
"I could tell you that bel canto operas tend to have dated plots, filled with romance-novel-ish retellings of history, and heroines who keep going mad at inopportune moments. Or I could tell…
"A man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the apparent desecration of surrealist artist Man Ray's tomb in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris, a municipal official said. An AFP photogr…
"Luis Biava joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1968 as a violinist and ended up staying more than three decades, but he never had a title that fully captured everything he meant to the ens…
The East Harlem museum was founded 50 years ago by local artists and teachers who felt that the existing museums and institutions in New York had shut them out. Since then, the museum has ex…
One of the biggest corporate donors to the arts in the US is the tobacco conglomerate Altria (formerly Philip Morris): among the major recipients of Altria support in 2018 alone were Alvin A…
In England, the US, and elsewhere, a big group of orchestras and opera houses is looking for music directors or chief conductors " and, for the first time, there's a sizable group of female …
I.M. Pei's glass structure may be a beloved icon now, but from the time the design was revealed to opening day, the resistance was ferocious. "A foreign body, showing such disregard for hist…
Denouncing the staging (which no one had yet seen) as "Afrophobic, colonialist and racist," protesters forced the Sorbonne to cancel a performance of The Suppliants at the university's annua…
"Poland's current Minister of Culture, Piotr GliÅ„ski, a leading member of the rightwing governing Law and Justice party (PiS), is accused of attempting to take control of the [European S…
"With subtitles, audiences will be able to understand a feature film titled SGaawaay K'uuna, translated as Edge of the Knife, which has its UK premiere in April. It is in two dialects of the…
Long-distance drug-dealing gangs known as "county lines" have hit North Wales hard, with all the attendant violence and human misery. Theatr Clwyd, a professional company in the region, is t…
Said the organizers of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, devoted to books from publishers with five or fewer employees, "While the competitive dynamic of prizes points readers towards 'th…
Liza Jessie Peterson, playwright and star of The Peculiar Patriot: "I came to Columbus Circle [in Manhattan] at midnight and found a whole fleet of buses. All these women, children and even …
Logan Strosahl, Sure (Sunnyside)Piping at the high end of the flute's range, guttural near the tenor sax's low end, sliding, slurring and sometimes punching notes on alto saxophone, Strosahl…
Queen Lili'uokalani steered her people through the difficult period of annexation and prevented a war " and she was also a highly trained musician who wrote some 200 songs (the most famous o…
Ever since Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer persuaded James Comey to write what became A Higher Loyalty, edited the manuscript, and worked a skillful media campaign around it, their agency, Jav…
"It wasn't exactly that Heathers contained no [John] Hughesian influence. The types and tropes were all there " mean girls, jocks, bullying, upper-middle-class ennui, idiotic or abusive pare…
In 1963, de Mille sent a sealed envelope to her union, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, with a handwritten note saying not to open it because it had the "eminently stealable" …
Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, Taylor Mac's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me, Anais Mitchell's Hadestown, Daniel Fish's very revisi…
