6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"Ushers in some theaters are wearing latex gloves. Museums are installing hand sanitizer dispensers as if they were pieces of art. Audience members are being told: If you have a cough, pleas…
"The Southern Rep Theatre company has laid off six staff members and canceled an upcoming play as it struggles to pay expenses and debt, artistic director Aimee Hayes said Thursday. The 34-y…
Jeremy Reynolds took a couple of friends to their first symphony concert and sent them home at intermission " and not because they were misbehaving or ill. Here he explains why. (Even interm…
Says choreographer Andrew McNicol, "With McNicol Ballet Collective I wanted to create a new type of company that offers world-class dancers a flexible performance platform that's able to fit…
Siobhan Burke: "Divulging this information has never been simple, not during the four and a half years I spent touring, on and off, with the Irish dance extravaganza, and not in the decade s…
"'Stone,' says architect Amin Taha, 'is the great forgotten material of our time. In 99% of cases, it's cheaper and greener to use stone in a structural way, as opposed to concrete or steel,…
"Noël Coward's fantastic, but all I could think was: What's the use of having an American one?" says Richard Greenberg. To him, writes Kurt Soller in this profile, "that comparison has al…
This Imperial Russian tale of an Indian temple dancer may be the most egregious collection of outdated orientalist caricatures in the entire ballet canon. But it remains popular, and many da…
Co-founder of the firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Cobb did have well-known buildings in other cities: Place Ville-Marie (Montreal), Fountain Place (Dallas), the U.S. Bank Tower (Los Ange…
"Since Sunday, the Louvre's staff had been refusing to work, fearful they might catch the coronavirus from someone among the museum's more than 30,000 daily visitors. … The museum's manage…
"Greenawald's position has put her in charge of both phases of the San Francisco Opera's training wing, which attracts young opera singers from around the world. Each summer, around 30 artis…
The $35 annual levy passed in a 2012 referendum by 62% to 38%; now its unpopularity is a running joke in town. Regular taxpayers don't like it because it was badly designed and implemented, …
After a career spent largely in Toronto, most recently running the city's Opera Atelier, Barretto came to the Harris as a marketer in 2015 and became CEO in 2017. One of her "singular achiev…
Lili Loofbourow: "We don't have much of a vocabulary for what happens in a victim's life after the painful past has been excavated. … What is the situation of survivors who saw the injury …
"Mohammad Rasoulof's [one-year] sentence came from three films he made that authorities found to be 'propaganda against the system,' his lawyer [said]. … Rasoulof [received] the Berlin Fil…
"The story of the theremin and its inventor has it all: drama, suspense, geopolitics, and, above all, tragedy. It's a wonder Hollywood hasn't yet made a movie about it." " Quartz
"From cat brains to dismembered tongues, the teams behind theatre's bloodiest shows reveal how they made audiences shriek with horror and delight." " The Guardian
In the late 19th century, few believed that anyone, literate or not, could have memorized something as long as the Iliad or Odyssey. (The main argument at the time was whether "Homer" was on…
For The Washington Ballet, Dr. Natalie Rouland studies the history of great Russian story ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, going all the way back to the written stage direction…
"The common line among museums and theaters is that they are monitoring the situation and planning to operate as usual, unless told otherwise by county or state health departments, the Cente…
The country's cinema has a redoubtable history (think of KieÅ›lowski and Wajda), famous auteurs at their peak (PaweÅ‚ Pawlikowski, Agnieszka Holland), and an impressive younger generat…
His various art "actions" (as he calls them), along with his apparently high pain threshold, have earned him international notoriety and a good deal of sympathy. Yet he seems to have squande…
For essentially the same reasons that some people wanted the murals at George Washington High School in San Francisco to be covered over or removed. " Artnet
Where they came from in the first place, how they're made (and laundered), and why they got Nijinsky fired. " The Stage
"The movie in question is the documentary Shakedown, from filmmaker and conceptual artist Leilah Weinraub. It hails from the upper echelons of the art world, where the project enjoyed a pres…
