6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"While best known for his anchor work [as co-founder of what is now The PBS NewsHour], which he shared for two decades with his colleague Robert MacNeil, Mr. Lehrer moderated a dozen preside…
Some three-and-a-half weeks after Mehta's death, the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf has appointed Reagan Arthur, currently senior vice president and publisher at Little, Brown, to succeed …
In 2004, Steve Dunstone and Timothy Awoyemi, on a Police Expedition Society goodwill trip, were on a boat on the Niger River being greeted by the people of a southern Nigerian town. As the e…
"One of my happiest moments, in my years as a journalist, was when I got Ice-T to stop saying something homophobic and cruel in his live shows." " Greg Sandow
"The BBC came very close to erasing all of the original Python tapes, at least from the first season. What happened was that we got word from our editor that the BBC was about to wipe all th…
Philippa Chong asked them. "Critics were understandably ambivalent towards amateur reviewers despite their appreciation for general readers' enthusiasm about books. … If the critics I inte…
On the surface, yes, of course they were " and there are some modern-day emoji that look surprisingly like their Pharaonic predecessors. The differences, though, are deep. " The New York Tim…
Michelle Herman: "In that very first class, long before I had any idea what I was doing, … I had a moment of what seemed like perfect clarity: My body and my mind were working as one. And …
"Performance Space New York [formerly P.S. 122], the historic performance arts nonprofit in Manhattan's East Village, will shift to a new, artist-run model for 2020. A cohort of NYC-based ar…
A key point that many people don't realize is that the site does not use any algorithms: each review that goes into a movie's or TV show's Tomatometer score is read and evaluated by a human …
Despite his success with revisionist productions of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller plays, Ivo van Hove seemed an unlikely choice to direct a major revival of the Bernstein-Laurents-Son…
The Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale was founded in 1969 as the world's first law enforcement service to specialize in art and cultural heritage. Its agents have worked from R…
Erik Lee Preminger (his father was film director Otto Preminger) started traveling with his mother while still an infant, got his first jobs with her show before he was old enough to go to s…
Jader Bignamini's first performances with the DSO were unexpected: in 2018, due to cardiac surgery, outgoing music director Leonard Slatkin had to cancel the final concerts of his tenure wit…
"According to a company press release [about the two artistic directors], Öhman is leaving to accept a directorship at Swedish contemporary dance presenter Dansens Hus. Waltz" " whose ap…
Yelena Eckemoff, Nocturnal Animals (L&H Productions)Russian-born pianist and composer Eckemoff, long a New York resident, collaborates with a superb rhythm section of Scandinavian musici…
"In an era when many of his peers have been buffeted by economic challenges, Mr. Volpe, 62, has kept the orchestra on firm footing by capitalizing on what he has referred to as its 'multiple…
"While officially working on a fax machine project, Mr. Starkweather began to experiment in his spare time with copy machines and digital technology, in effect trying to merge the two. … […
"From an African girl who was 'gifted' to Queen Victoria to a slave who took on his master in a British court, several little-known but remarkable chapters of black British history are being…
On the third floor of Destination, a nightclub-turned-cultural center that's one of the few such places in the country to expressly welcome queer people, is ART.Des, a (very rare) gallery th…
The Speaker of the House told a town meeting last month, "I truly believe that [the arts are] something where we find our common ground." Would that it were so, writes Lucas Justinien Perez:…
"After huge success with Python in the 1970s and early '80s, including [directing and acting in] the feature films Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, Jon…
Last week, Deborah Dugan was placed on "administrative leave" following what the Academy's board called "serious concerns" about her mistreatment of staff. Dugan responded by filing an EEOC …
Pete Wells: "Restaurants are loud because we're loud. With a few exceptions, when we complain about the noise, we're complaining about ourselves. … Far from being an accidental side effect…
The company's labor action is yet another part of the series of national protests against President Macron's planned pension reforms. The twist is that, as we know, ballet is not like other …
