6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
… when it seems that everybody is looking back over their shoulder more with nostalgia than disgust. I am not immune. Scrolling through some old emails, I came across this one called "from…
"The band Tinariwen hails from the deserts of Mali in North Africa. Its sound blends ancient Saharan instruments with electric guitars, and has earned the band devoted fans around the world.…
"The Cleveland Institute of Music has received a $150,000 grant from the Sphinx Organization, to launch an initiative for graduate students of African American and Latin descent, young profe…
"A new exhibition at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle offers a window into how the tech giant hopes to fuse art and AR for the public good." " artnet
In Los Angeles, Portland, Shanghai,. and especially San Francisco, Pamela Conrad has worked on solutions to the problems of invasive plant species, sea level rise, and earthquake readiness. …
"Something that has increasingly bothered me over 20 years as a practitioner and educator, is that "music education" as we conceive it (right down to state/county/national syllabi/standards)…
Monkman's two large paintings, the first in a series of commissions for the Met's Great Hall, "highlight the Museum as both a byproduct and beneficiary of colonizing forces, and illuminate h…
In my skeptical post last month about Cree artist Kent Monkman's plans for the Metropolitan Museum's Great Hall, I recklessly ventured some premature commentary. This "squeamish critic" has …
"[Researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill] report how they carried out an analysis of 24 emotional concepts, such as anger, love and pride, across 2,474 languages. The study also included more than…
Research released by Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) "shows an inverse relationship between institution size (based on operating budget) and the amount spent on artist fee…
"[She] is best known for having founded, in 1968, an electronic music studio at Hunter College in New York, where she taught composition and theory from 1966 until 1989. … [She] created a …
"In traditional video games, labor and capitalism have been depicted in near-frictionless harmony. Take SimCity and Civilization's dogmatic views of economic progress popular during the boom…
"The anti-slam was created by British performance artist Paula Varjack, inspired by poet Jamie DeWolf's self-reflexive and satirical performance piece, The Worst Poem Ever. In DeWolf, Varjac…
"This episode [of Jad Abumrad's Dolly Parton's America podcast] delves into the controversy surrounding Dolly Parton's Stampede (formerly known as 'Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede') " a dinner…
Okay, Lois Smith is only 89 " and she's currently on Broadway in The Inheritance. Estelle Parsons, 92, is at the Public in Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day. Vinie Burrows is 95 and be…
Just about anyone who knows a bit of ballet history has heard of Marius Petipa, the man behind Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker. Yet not many people know just how he came to en…
"The Czech State Opera hoisted an ornate curtain on Thursday as a three-year project to restore the 19th-century opera building to its original glory neared completion ahead of a planned reo…
"Archivist Anna Rimel came upon the four pieces, executed in watercolor, ink, pastel, and tempera paint, in a manila envelope while sifting through the [Smithsonian American Art Museum's] Jo…
"Researchers from University College London (UCL) found that people who engaged in the arts more frequently " every few months or more " had a 31% lower risk of dying early when compared to …
"In the more than 50 years since its debut, the animated special, directed by Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, has become a holiday classic and turned into a live-action movie, a Broadway musical…
Viengsay Valdés: "I will always defend classical technique as the artistic base for a good dancer, and from there one can grow into other types of choreography. What we must do is enrich wh…
"The International Sweethearts broke attendance records at places such as Washington DC's Howard Theatre, Harlem's Apollo Theater, Cincinnati's Cotton Club and the Riviera in St Louis. They …
"Mexican muralism taught her the importance of expressing a political and social consciousness, but she softened the militancy that was common in the post-revolutionary era. In allegorical p…
Sorkin, playwright of the Broadway adaptation: "I absolutely wanted Atticus to be a traditional protagonist, so he needed to change and have a flaw … It turned out that Harper Lee had [alr…
Alexis Soloski: "These post-curtain moments have less to do with telling the story and more with telling the audience how to feel about the story they have just seen and what they should tel…
