6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
Clayton Patterson's importance in general, but especially on the Lower East Side of New York City, comes from his commitment to social and political values for the good of his community. He …
Not your own rant, mind you. A pair of teachers recommends using one of those vehement complaints that turn up every so often in advice columns or blogs. "[The instructors] "note that heated…
Rachel Burttram Powers, co-founder and co-star (with husband Brendan) of Tiny_Theatre: "I started cleaning out a back closet because I thought, 'What would happen if you made a theatre at ho…
The Menil Collection's octagonal landmark, which houses 14 of Mark Rothko's black paintings, was closed in early 2019 for work that included reinforcing the walls, installing a digital light…
"The industry task force that was assembled last month to address the safety issues has generated a 30-page draft of a white paper that is designed to convince governmental officials to give…
The performance, Riccardo Muti conducting the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra in Scriabin and Mozart, will be the opening event of this year's Ravenna Festival. Attendance will be limited to…
And the music at issue is almost always in the public domain. The bots, developed and trained on popular music, are finding performance videos of, Bach, Mozart, Chopin and so on to be too si…
The issue discussed in a report just released by the Copyright Office is the DMCA's Section 512, which lays out what social media companies and Online Service Providers (e.g., Spotify, YouTu…
Marina Harss: "A masked dancer in a studio, which is empty but for a pianist, peers into her computer's camera, calling out a cheerful 'Hi, everyone! So good to see you!' In another frame, a…
"On Saturday night, about 35 cars converged at the Santa Monica Airport parking lot. Inside each vehicle, the passengers had 12 pages of instructions: Arrive exactly at 7:50 pm; stay inside …
Chris Bohjalian: "If 9/11 is a literary precedent, it could be years before we will see our first rush of novels about the coronavirus pandemic." (The first such major titles, Ian McEwan's S…
"A hummingbird of a woman at 4-foot-8, [she] was a puppeteer whose performances were mock-chaotic, subtly cerebral and always slyly subversive. She made sure to slip in a history lesson, or …
A message from Christie's CEO Guillaume Cerutti, which hit my inbox late Friday, included a boldfaced passage that struck me (and probably some of his firm's clients) as an implied gibe at a…
"Jay," the name he went by among close friends, was widely regarded as one of Germany's premiere second-generation Beat writers. But his narrative fiction " like that of William S. Burroughs…
"[He was] a co-founder and the artistic director of Repertorio Español, … [which since 1968] has reimagined Spanish classics and offered contemporary work by Latin and Latin American pl…
The fundraiser, organized by Christie's, netted €5.1 million for CARE's clean-water projects in three African countries. The prize, a small 1921 Nature morte (still-life), went to an I…
Gail Beckerman joins a New York literary salon now hosted remotely from Nairobi ("I'd never had the experience of watching in close-up such a large group of people actively listening"), the …
"The results " from a survey of roughly 1,000 people in mid-May by sports and events analytics firm Performance Research, in partnership with Full Circle Research Co. " point to just how ste…
"It was known in Cromwell's time as sudor anglicus, meaning the 'English sweat,' and there were five outbreaks of it in England, the first in 1485 and the last in 1551. Victims did, in fact,…
""This is my second plague," he said he told his company recently. 'I know it's kind of a coarse thing to say. They're different, but they have things in common.' Yes, the circumstances of t…
The Drive-In Festival, conceived by a small group of French movie execs, shows one title a day ("popular director-driven films" rather than "blockbusters or new releases") for a week, chargi…
"Even before the pandemic, the sprawling company was struggling with bloat and creative fatigue after a consortium led by an American private equity firm acquired it in 2015, and accelerated…
If, that is, the players remain one meter apart, per current regulations. The research, commissioned by the Vienna Philharmonic and carried out earlier this month, "involved members of the o…
There will be strict rules in place for the time being: audience limits of 200 indoors and 1,000 outdoors, one meter's distance between individuals, masks and temperature checks required, ma…
"With a list of conditions that will leave most venue operators scratching their heads, venues can reopen on the basis that a maximum of 30 people " including staff " are allowed in at any o…
