6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
Peter Brook posited that any empty space in which one actor walks as someone else watched could be a theatre. The next year, Samuel Beckett wrote a play with no actors. And onward the idea h…
"Chaucer was able to transform English poetry the way he did precisely because of his internationalism, not his nationalism. Like all educated men of his day, he was multilingual. He devoure…
Justin Peters: "Listening to the show is sort of like crashing an intense, intimate dinner party in which the only courses are whiskey and weed. … The Joe Rogan Experience has become one o…
The little Bach-bot "promises to take any two-bar melody you type in and turn it into a Bach, or Bachlike, chorale in four parts, played by charming little music-box figures of bewigged 18th…
"The Cultural Infrastructure Plan sets out … why it's important to support the capital's venues and studios; how they are at risk; what can be done to protect them; and what resources the …
"I'm not creative all the time, I'm just not. Each role depletes me in some way, and I know that I do my best work when I've had time to remain fallow." " The New York Times
"In the early 1920s, a secret file scandalized white women reformers in the United States. It was known as the Secret Dance File, its contents too shocking (and titillating) to print or even…
"The first tribunal devoted exclusively to art disputes, the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA), will open for business 1 April in the Hague. … Instead of judges unfamiliar with evaluatin…
Oluwaseyi Omooba, who had been cast as Celie, a queer character, in the revival by the Curve Theatre in Leicester and the Birmingham Hippodrome in England, wrote on the social media site fiv…
Wilkins, the BSO's conductor for young people's and family concerts, makes his subscription-season debut this weekend with a program of music by Florence Price, Adolphus Hailstork, Roberto S…
Just a couple of days after the National Portrait Gallery in London announced that it was turning down £1 million from the family whose company makes OxyContin, the Tate announced that, w…
"Matthew Feargrieve, 42, was accused at Westminster Magistrates Court of repeatedly punching Ulrich Engler on the shoulder in the performance of Wagner's Siegfried at the world-famous [Royal…
There's the tuk-tuk bookmobile toodling around Jakarta schools. "There is the Perahu Pustaka, a library boat that sails around West Sulawesi. There are libraries on the back of vegetable car…
"Make Online has been created by [Talawa] Theatre Company for artists across the UK, and is described as an online community that will give black British artists 'ownership and agency of the…
As a dancer with hemiplegia cerebral palsy, Jerron Herman has never been far from the physical therapy room " or an occupational therapist or some kind of medical interventionist. 'I'm almos…
Great Shakespeare plays take the color of their surroundings " if the production is doing its job " and Broadway' new King Lear is accomplishing that. But how could any alert, modern Lear pr…
A Rifftides reader recently confessed to never having heard Slim Gaillard's "Poppity Pop,"a 1945 recording with Charlie Parker as a sideman. The record might be dismissed as a period piece, …
Oh yes, he traveled by subway during his years (1908-11) as director of the New York Philharmonic. (He'd have taken one of the BMT lines to conduct at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the n…
Caryn James: "A nude scene! Abortion; birth control; prostitution! In the silent-movie era, Lois Weber's films were shockingly ahead of their time " and also immensely popular. She wrote, di…
In the 2015 Deaf West revival of Spring Awakening, Stroker became the first wheelchair-user Broadway actor, and she's now playing Ado Annie (the girl who can't say "no") in the revisionist D…
The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a 1939 diorama purporting to show a diplomatic meeting between governor Peter Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam (today's Manhattan) and some …
Says a statement from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, "In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father Samuel, now divorced, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted class…
In addition to performing as a solo pianist and bandleader, "he applied his vast knowledge of music to transcribing early jazz works from recordings, most notably in his 1982 book Ferdinand …
"The apocalypse can facilitate a different kind of social world," says scholar Caroline Edwards. "That might seem horrifying to the protagonists, but the writer is posing a serious question:…
"The youthful musical director of the Louisville Orchestra, who has built a national reputation as a creative and innovative force on the music scene, has signed an 'unprecedented' five-year…
