6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
The Amazon delivery guy rang the bell, then scampered off to safety behind the garden gate, a good distance, but not so far that he couldn't hear and acknowledge my "thank you." " Paul Levy
Out in the woods for today's video, on Charles Lindblom's classic essay "The science of 'muddling through'". When an arts organization sets out to form a strategic plan, what exactly is it d…
In addition to calling off all events in the June 24-August 30 festival, Jacob's Pillow administration is making staffing and salary cuts. However, said director Pamela Tatge, "[if] people a…
Alex Greenberger: "[There's] a difference between Hopper's forlorn subjects and so many of us right now. They choose to live in modernity and find themselves alienated because of it. We choo…
Jonathan Jones: "If [the widely-shared tweet is true], a crisis of loneliness is impending that may be one of the most fraught social consequences of COVID-19. The loss of direct human conta…
"Ars Nova did not seek an article about the course it has chosen. On the contrary, [its directors] worried that discussing it publicly could look like they were shaming colleagues amid an in…
Sharon Stern was a vivacious, popular, hard-working actor when she enrolled in the MFA program at America's first Buddhist university. There she met Butoh master Katsura Kan and became his f…
"Mr. Tarr left his mark on every aspect of the trumpet world. As a player he set new standards of lyricism on an instrument long associated with military bravado. As a scholar he hunted for …
"A fiery champion of social justice and sustainability in architecture and urban planning, [he] emerged as one of his profession's most incisive public intellectuals over a multifaceted care…
"Hours after municipal authorities in Shanghai gave more than 200 cinemas the greenlight to re-open Saturday, national-level Chinese authorities on Friday ordered all theaters throughout the…
With libraries and bookstores closed across the U.S., and with teachers searching for materials to use for remote teaching, the Internet Archive decided to lift all restrictions on access to…
The city's largest theatre nonprofit, which operates the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Kirk Douglas Theatre, will maintain health insurance for its workers but send half of them ho…
She brought to Miami (and, later, Fort Lauderdale) such artists as Vladimir Horowitz, Mstislav Rostropovich, Itzhak Perlman, Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne, Beverly Sills, Dmitri Hvorostov…
With its building closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, the museum's administration let go most of its employees with a promise to pay them only through April 4; that promise …
"The Aldeburgh Festival is the latest cultural casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. The classical music event founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten will not go ahead, it has been announced." …
I can't believe I'm posting this message, but…after looking at this morning's stats, Mrs. T's doctors now believe … " Terry Teachout
Asked about his intriguing new album, west coast trumpeter Dick Titterington talked about the project's genesis during a Christmas party. " Doug Ramsey
"With a minimal camera and sound crew, Mr. Marre visited Jamaican dance halls, Brazilian favelas, Appalachian churches, Egyptian temples, South African workers' hostels and Bollywood soundst…
In a project called "One on One", the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, known as one of the most innovative in Russia, will let 850 people (as many as the auditorium could hold) register for a …
Tuany Nascimento grew up in Complexo do Alemão, a poor and often dangerous group of hillside slums in Rio de Janeiro. She studied dance with hopes of becoming a professional ballerina, a …
All salary and benefits for the players wil be maintained through the end of the 2019-20 season in June " thanks, according to executive director Danny Beckley, to increased support from pat…
"Anticipating lost revenues of more than $5 million because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced it will immediately furlough all part-time staff and temporaril…
"The new two-month National Theatre at Home programme will begin with One Man, Two Guvnors, the Richard Bean comedy starring James Corden. The films will be shown at 7pm every Thursday to tr…
"The bill includes $75 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 'to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for fiscal stabilization grants to public telecommu…
"It is the middle of a plague " 'a pestilence so great and universal, that already it has been three months since it started, and many have died and many more continue to die.' This does lit…
