6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"A series of frescoes showing the life and death of John the Baptist in the cathedral of the Bavarian city of Augsburg have been recently dated to the first decade of the 11th century, ranki…
"'We are now where you will be in a few days,' wrote novelist Francesca Melandri in a piece for the Guardian newspaper in late March 2020. Her moving 'letter from your future' coincided with…
While the UK was in the EU, a British musician could pretty much just accept a gig and go. Now she has to apply to each member country for a separate short-term work permit, with all the emb…
The choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker shares her creative process and the connection between movement and discord. " Aaron Dworkin
The novel has been misinterpreted for a long time: just after it was published, Fitzgerald complained to Edmund Wilson that "of all the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the s…
"I realized right away with COVID that people were becoming dancers, in that their spatial awareness was growing. We were literally afraid of each other's presences. We were backing away fro…
The cinema chain Malco has been doing this in six Southern states since November, and the South Korean chain CGV started it in January. With prices for a small group of players running aroun…
"Peter Barnes had 14 soliloquies on BBC Radio 3 [in the late '80s] under the umbrella titles Barnes' People and More Barnes' People. They attracted remarkable actors, including Laurence Oliv…
A sting of Robert Altman films in the 1970s made her into a major movie star with a Best Actress win at Cannes. Then came Kubrick's The Shining, a physically and emotionally grueling film sh…
Anthony Tommasini: "[The format] locks them into standard-issue, week-after-week programs loaded with the classics and sprinkled, at best, with unusual or new choices. … Why can't orchestr…
"Researchers discovered the breakfast area within the ruins [of Hadrian's Villa east of Rome], and it reveals how the emperor and his wife began each day with an impressive display of power.…
"I asked you to stop watching the show and thank God almighty for you, you did," he told an audience in Austin. "You made that show worthless because without your eyes, it's nothing. And you…
"Museum of Contemporary Art Director Klaus Biesenbach will take on a new role as artistic director … [and] will focus on programming, collections and exhibitions, international and digital…
"Adelaide Fringe festival is scrambling to determine how the sudden closure of South Australia's borders to Melbourne residents may affect dozens of its shows. The festival, the second large…
"Since the 1960s, Mr. Corea had been a prolific and dynamic force in music, building on his early training in classical music, Latin jazz and traditional jazz to build an original style that…
"When Professor Herbert began delving into Impressionism, the field was threatened by a kind of anemic gentility, arid formalism and French literary theory. His method, by contrast, was to l…
"Almost nine years ago, two thieves carried out a near-perfect heist at the National Gallery in Athens, taking two works by modern masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, as well as a a ske…
Some of the recommendations are both obvious and overdue: no more yellowface/brownface/blackface, hire more diverse choreographers (but classical choreographers, not contemporary or hip-hop …
The ancient conch shell was discovered at the site of some cave art in the French Pyrenees back in 1931, when archaeologists figured it must have been some sort of ceremonial cup. Now resear…
"The story of breaking's meteoric rise to the Olympic stage " it's set to make its debut at the Paris Summer Games in 2024 " involved an unlikely and reluctant partnership between street-sav…
What you get is writer-performer Kris Andersson's Dixie's Happy Hour, "a 95-minute performance streamed to patrons of 21 arts centers and theaters across the country. … A year into the pan…
"That semicolons, unlike most other punctuation marks, are fully optional and relatively unusual lends them power; when you use one, you are doing something purposefully, by choice, at a tim…
"Veteran producers Bruce Hendricks and Galen Walker have optioned the rights to the late Stanley Kubrick's unmade film Lunatic At Large, and have plans to bring the film-noir storyline to th…
The 41-year-old Austrian-born maestro, who recently completed his term as chief conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic in Croatia, takes up the baton in Portland this fall. He succeeds Carlos …
"Many private Polish TV channels and radio stations fell silent and online sites and newspapers ran black front pages on Wednesday in a concerted protest over a planned tax that critics fear…
