6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"If you thought the controversy over library book scanning ended with the Google case, think again. This week the National Writers Union became the latest organization to join the outcry ove…
Stephen Buescher, former head of movement for the San Francisco theater's MFA program and choreographer for several of its mainstage productions, says that he was underpaid for his work and …
"The head of the planning committee for the Paris 2024 games, Tony Estanguet, announced today that break dancing was one of the four new proposed events. Its inclusion is contingent upon app…
"You may never have heard the Ken Nordine name, but there is no doubt you have heard him. … [He was] one of the few people in the history of radio to use the medium to its fullest potentia…
"Researchers examined more than 40,000 artworks in the collections of 18 museums across the US, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the A…
Peter Dobrin on the 270-seat hall in the Rhoden Arts Center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: "New halls take a while to settle in, and this one, which employs an extensive sound…
Scott Rudin, lead producer of the Aaron Sorkin adaptation now on Broadway and likely to tour eventually, has been trying to block stagings of the older version, written half a century ago by…
"Prosecutors dropped the rape investigation into allegations by the actor Sand Van Roy who told police in May that she had been repeatedly raped by Besson, 59, during an on-off relationship.…
"Throughout her career, Ms. Zadek was praised by critics for her dark-hued voice, dramatic intensity and fine musicality. Before retiring from the stage in 1971, she also sang at the Metropo…
"In China and Korea, millions of fans make micropayments to writers for incremental updates in their serialized stories." Now a Korean entrepreneur has launched Radish, which offers a simila…
"How do you memorialize a holocaust that even now, seven decades after it took place, may still not be entirely safe to talk about?" India's Partition Museum, which opened in 2017 in Amritsa…
"A half-mile apart on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, two buildings claim to be putting on theater for the PUBLIC, using boldfaced font to advertise their mission. … The Public Theater, …
"Set in an alternate universe during the 2008 primaries, as she fights for survival against a charismatic upstart … [and] unfolding around a pivotal moment in the contest, it examined how …
In a new production at ACT in Seattle, Juliet will speak English while Romeo will sign. (Interpreters will translate other roles' lines into ASL.) In a process involving several steps, Shake…
The sleeper-hit musical's composer and lyricist, Joe Iconis, has kept around him a group of performers (who call themselves the Family) who've all been waiting for their big breaks together …
Lynn Nottage: "I've become so known for my tragedies, these very heavy, social realist plays, and I think people forget that I'm a satirist as well and that I can be very, very funny. I thou…
Ai: “When I see your earlier work, the models that look like you crumpled up a piece of paper that you were going to throw out, I think that's a breakthrough.” Gehry: “You …
“Books have used the ‘XYZ: A Novel’ format since the 17th century, when realistic fiction started getting popular. The term ‘novel’ was a way to distinguish the…
“Soundies” were three-minute musical films meant to be played on jukeboxes, and Lee starred in more than 100 of them. In a career that stretched from the age of nine to this past…
“‘Spain’ and ‘September 1, 1939’ would be variously revised and amended before Auden finally excised them altogether from his corpus, the first because he saw i…
Think that’s a ghastly idea for a Broadway show? So did audiences in 1971, when try-out audiences in Philadelphia and Boston hated Lolita, My Love so much that the Broadway run was cal…
Scholar of comedy Matthew McMahan: “Just as Michel Foucault encourages historians to look to moments of rupture and discontinuity when trying to decipher how a culture thinks and acts,…
While other nations have had traditions of blackening the face to portray a particular character (e.g., Holland’s Zwarte Piet), “a man named Thomas Dartmouth Rice first brought A…
Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke: “What we struggled with, I think, was putting too much focus on a narrow prestige lane. I don't think we had diverse-enough points of view in the s…
“Less than two years after an acquisition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it had handed over a first-century BC gilded coffin to the Manhattan district attorney fo…
