6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"When libraries closed their doors abruptly, they immediately opened their digital communications, collaborations, and creative activity to reach their public in ways as novel as the virus t…
"The [project], which is being called 'Play at Home,' is a website (playathome.org) featuring new plays, intended to take no more than 10 minutes to read, that are free so that anyone can re…
"Ella Marchment, stage director of the International Opera Awards, is behind the scheme, which is called #OperaHarmony. … The [project] will pair composers with librettists to create piece…
"In the eight years since it was founded, the Underground Museum has become not only one of the most important destinations for black art in the country but also a crucial gathering place fo…
The male-female binary is built into the formalized structures of dance at just about every level, from the very beginning of training through the conventions of professional-level choreogra…
"[A] pianist and educator, [he] became the guiding force behind a late-20th-century resurgence in jazz. … Photogenic, erudite and fabulously talented, Mr. Marsalis's children and many othe…
"In a March 31st letter to alumni, Dean Robert Blocker outlined an ambitious plan to provide aid, including 'a one-time stipend of $500' to all students to assist with travel and expenses; f…
"Amid the far-reaching impact of the coronavirus pandemic, … domestic ticket sales turned in a combined $1.81 billion from Jan. 1 through March 19, the day when Comscore stopped reporting …
The Edinburgh International Festival, the Fringe, Book Festival, Art Festival, and Military Tattoo, which transform Scotland's capital for the month of August, have been called off for 2020.…
"Imagine you are a small businessperson or freelancer suffering a deep financial loss as a result of your city's lockdown. You apply for a grant from the government on a Friday, submitting n…
Faced with mounting pushback against its plan to consider cutbacks beginning Apr. 5, the Met has now postponed any such changes until May 2. The Frick's plans, including a temporary move to …
I've also been watching with great interest the number of arts organizations making content available online, providing virtual experiences to help us get through this. At the same time, I w…
"This is Pieter Bruegel's circa 1562 world-masterpiece painting The Triumph of Death, a panoramic pandemonium of an army of skeletons laying waste to a barren burning landscape while murderi…
She helped create the series Live From Lincoln Center, Dance in America, and Live From the Metropolitan Opera. And in 4½ years as PBS's senior vice president for programming in the late 1…
"Timur Bekmambetov, best known outside Russia for making the Angelina Jolie thriller Wanted, was midway through filming his second world war fighter-ace film V2: Escape from Hell when the co…
"The imprint at Penguin Random House [is] responsible for publishing some of history's most canonical authors, from Homer and Marcus Aurelius to James Joyce and George Eliot. Elda Rotor, who…
This summer's event would have included the premiere of a new Ring cycle staged by Valentin Schwarz with Pietari Inkinen conducting; that production will "probably" be postponed until 2022. …
Facing serious criticism for the furloughs " one congressman introduced a bill to rescind the $25 million, saying "if an organization is receiving assistance from the federal government, we …
The five-week furloughs, announced days after all National Symphony musicians were laid off with a week's notice, cover administrative employees in education, marketing, and development as w…
Alexis Soloski: "You could fill a shelf with plays of the past several decades that have dreamed bleak outcomes for humanity. And then, in a pinch, you could burn that shelf and those plays …
"Players voted last week to approve an across-the-board 20% reduction in compensation starting April 1 and lasting through the middle of September. ​Pay cuts have also been instituted…
"In this time of confinement, we have been given one immeasurable gift " the freedom to go outside. In exchange, we must abide by a simple rule: Stay six feet away from others. As choreograp…
"In a survey of 1,000 consumers in the U.S., 44% of respondents said they would attend fewer large public events, even once they are cleared by the CDC, with 38% saying they'd attend about t…
"The French tourist, who was visiting London with his parents, was pushed from the gallery's 10th floor viewing platform by a teenager with a history of mental health problems. … The boy h…
The "Mrs. T" of this blog suffered throughout our years together from pulmonary hypertension, a rare and devastating illness that gnawed inexorably at her body without touching her soul. She…
