6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"For two decades, CollegeHumor rode a number of online trends and movements. The company started as the brainchild of literal teenagers, and it outlived many competitors because of this prec…
"Eight colorful banners designed [for the 1976 Bicentennial] by Alexander Calder that were lost for decades, then thought destroyed, and then serendipitously found and displayed for about si…
When we "go to work" in the arts, we often mean actually going to an official and shared physical workspace. But there's more and more opportunity and reason to cut the tether altogether " t…
Kyle Buchanan: "Of course, the decision to blow up the best-picture category wasn't greeted with nearly as much enthusiasm in June 2009 … Industry veterans worried that the expansion would…
"While high extensions can be very exciting, it is thought that this trend has led to an increase in injuries in the lower back, hips and ankles. Adam Sklute, artistic director of Ballet Wes…
When Donald Judd, the artist who came to the West Texas desert village and attracted other artists there, died in 1994, he left his foundation with $400 in the bank and Marfa faced doom. The…
Producer Greg Nobile: "Just north of 30 percent of our audience were what we call 'new to file,' which means they were actually first-time ticket buyers, which is an incredible number. Usual…
"We weren't looking to create the world's blackest material, "says the founder of Surrey Nanosystems, which introduces Vantablack in 2014. "That wasn't our thing. We were trying to solve a c…
"230 small and medium-sized venues in England and Wales will see a 50% reduction in business rates, a fee which is charged to most non-domestic properties. It should save each venue an avera…
The Newbery, for best children's book, went to Jerry Kraft's New Kid, the story of a 12-year-old who's one of the few nonwhite students at a fancy private school. Taking the Caldecott, for b…
The Dudamel/L.A. Phil recording of Andrew Norman's Sustain took Best Orchestral Performance, with Caroline Shaw's Orange by the Attacca Quartet winning Best Chamber/Small Ensemble Performanc…
Sometime between 1985 and 1988, a thief took a five-century-old Latin copy of Christopher Columbus's first letter to King Ferdinand from Venice's Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and replaced i…
The original plan, announced in 2015, was for a Smithsonian museum in the planned Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; by the next year, it had been reduced to a partnership with London's Victoria …
Never seen wearing any color but blue and never drinking water when champagne was available, the impresario born Michel Catty introduced the modern drag show to France in the 1950s with the …
Those nostalgic for the closed Moishe's Kosher Bake Shop in the East Village may wish to read this. (I walk the other way when nostalgia comes around the corner.) " Jeff Weinstein
What if I never write another book, or direct another play? Will I die a disappointed man? " Terry Teachout
Tuomas Hiltunen, the former top administrator at the Barenboim-Said Foundation who came to Fort Worth Opera after Darren Woods was fired in 2017, resigned last week, saying only that he and …
"Since the dawn of the internet, the problem of phony art being sold has only grown, experts say, and the primary coin of the forgery realm has long been the fake print, which is relatively …
"The China Independent Film Festival has held 14 editions and shown some 1,000 films since it was established in 2003 in Nanjing, the capital of coastal Jiangsu province. Many of the titles …
"Researchers at InsuranceProviders.com analyzed data from the Occupational Information Network, a national organization developed through support from the U.S. Department of Labor …, to de…
"Worn by audience members during a performance, the glasses project dialogue directly onto the lens, allowing the wearer to follow the action without having to glance toward the sides of the…
The author got a seven-figure advance, the first print run is half a million copies, the book jacket features gushing blurbs by famous writers, and the book got loads of coverage in The New …
Zach Finkelstein: "Company X is a prestigious music apprenticeship festival for instrumentalists and singers. They take in about $15 million a year in revenue, own over $80 million dollars i…
"The thinking goes: If Marfa, the pint-size Texas town located a three-hour's drive from the nearest airport, can become a site for pilgrims seeking to commune with Donald Judd's Minimalist …
Among the key findings: 74% of American adults engage with the arts via electronic media, 54.3% attend arts events, and 53.7% create or perform art themselves. Three states, D.C. and metro C…
