6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"As a composer, Bach would have been highly attuned to the effects of a church's acoustics on the performance of music. He was known, for example, to have preferred composing for the Thomask…
Performances are canceled and theaters are dark all around the world, but the long-touring Broadway production of Phantom has continued to fill a 1,600-seat house in Seoul for eight shows a …
Our loss yesterday of Christo, the canny conceptual artist with tangible appeal, is a poignant reminder of more innocent times " 16 days in early 2005 when New Yorkers from all walks of life…
The Gershwin threat was seemingly felt by all American-born classical musicians: they feared his genius. European-born classical musicians weren't threatened, and the list of Gershwin admire…
The Paris landmark, which had been the world's most visited museum, opens its doors on July 6 following the coronavirus lockdown. But safety limitations have been placed on crowd flow, and F…
"The company, which last performed live on March 11, now hopes to return with a gala on New Year's Eve after its longest interruption in more than a century. It is a gap that is projected to…
That's what Uruguayans are doing with Carrasco International Airport near Montevideo. The movies, screened every evening, range from The Lion King and Sonic the Hedgehog to Bohemian Rhapsody…
Before the coronavirus hit, the Met was going to perform a new co-production of the opera this spring at BAM. David Patrick Stearns went online to revisit the original Opera Philadelphia pro…
Here, for instance, are the rules for dance class at the Ballet du Rhin in France: "Dancers are not allowed to use changing rooms. Instead, they must go directly to the studio and stand at a…
"As most American theaters have pared down their offerings to a mix of Zoom readings, artist conversations, and archival streams, Seacoast Rep, in Portsmouth, N.H., has been web-casting new …
"It is 46 years old, weighs nearly four pounds in paperback and is about as ill-suited for the internet age as they come: The book is not even available for digital readers. And yet, in cert…
"Mrs. Dew emerged in the early 1980s as part of a group of prominent female novelists that included her friends Louise Erdrich, Anne Tyler and Nancy Thayer, a onetime neighbor in Williamstow…
"That's right: the chief curator of the 2022 Bucharest Biennial is Jarvis, an artificial intelligence program in development from the Vienna-based studio Spinnwerk. … Jarvis will 'use deep…
"The European Commission announced an ambitious seven-year budget yesterday to bail out the EU's 27 member states from the economic impact of COVID-19, but culture representatives say it fai…
Ahmed Elgammal, director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers: "Can an artificially intelligent machine be an artist in its own right? My answer is no. While the defi…
Earlier this month, 11 artists from a collective called the Consortium of Postartistic Practices carried a 46-foot-long letter about 1¼ miles to the Parliament building in Warsaw as lawma…
"Police arrested CNN journalist Omar Jimenez and his crew on air early Friday during a live broadcast in Minneapolis, as they covered riots sparked by George Floyd's death, sparking intense …
"Much like the 'stans' of pop figures and franchises, members of TikTok cults stream songs, buy merch, create news update accounts and fervently defend their leaders in the comment sections …
"An icon of the stage, Makarova was beloved for her grandeur and spontaneity, the same qualities that led her, in 1970, to become the first Russian ballerina to escape the Soviets. But she h…
"As part of our ongoing coverage about the crisis theater faces, and the possible ways out of it, [Tim Teeman] spoke to a range of theater professionals, enduring unemployment and hoping one…
Despite the fact that American pop culture and the ability to speak English are considered very cool in Japan, multinational companies want their employees to know the language, and the Japa…
The former CEO of the Kennedy Center and his colleagues at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management are giving pro bono consultations to more than 400 organizations. "In phone calls with group…
"Patients and health-care workers at Penn Medicine's six sites can now access a service that brings them archived performance videos of the Philadelphia Orchestra. … New performances will …
"[He] is most commonly associated with the Light and Space movement, which was pioneered by a group of artists working in California during the 1960s. … Alexander wound up producing unders…
Well, mostly settled. "A virtual first night in July will see more than 350 musicians play together in a Beethoven 'mash-up' [of the nine symphonies] having each recorded their part from hom…
