6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"Among the findings inside the tombs were evidence of gold-lined floors, a golden seal ring and a gold pendant with the image of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor. The amulet suggests that…
With funding from the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, the News is hiring Tim Diovanni on a one-year, renewable basis. Tim will work with veteran Scott Cantrell, a former News staffer an…
A new facsimile publication of J.M. Barrie's handwritten first version "demonstrates how Barrie toned down Peter Pan's character to suit audiences in 1911, after having second thoughts about…
Conservators working on the five lower central panels discovered that the Van Eyck brothers' original work had been painted over as early as the mid-16th century; removal of those additions …
"The House approved a $1.4-trillion spending package on Tuesday that includes a $7.25-million increase for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This increase is the largest for the NEA…
Mrs. T, who is a very private person (that's why I refer to her as "Mrs. T" in this space) and thus has been reluctant to be entirely frank about her illness in public, decided last night th…
"Since 2011, from late October to January, Hallmark has broadcast Christmas movies nearly twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. … During this year's holiday season, the programming, …
Laura Cappelle: "When this newspaper came up with the idea of sending an unsuspecting foreigner to a series of pantos, I wondered how different it could really be from family-friendly entert…
"[He was] a fervent supporter of experimental choreographers as a dance critic for The New York Times and the author of critical biographies of George Balanchine and Martha Graham … [as we…
The satirical group Porta dos Fundos ("Back Door") has made irreverent holiday satires about Jesus Christ before (2018's was The Last Hangover), but this year's Netflix special, The First Te…
"Until quite recently, archaeologists mostly thought about the hardware involved in ancient food " the utensils people cooked with and the pots and beakers they ate and drank from " as well …
At the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Monday night, the performance of the musical had to stop for ten minutes after the actor playing Javert accidentally lit part of the set on fire …
"The reputation of the orchestra lifts the reputation of the whole region," says the orchestra's CEO, and several business figures say that that reputation has led overseas companies and wor…
An Austrian government commission found that, at the ballet academy at the Vienna State Opera, "it is clear that children and adolescents are not sufficiently protected from discrimination, …
Laura Miller: "As a book publishing phenomenon, young adult literature entered the decade like a lion. At the beginning of the 2010s, a generation that had grown up obsessed with Harry Potte…
Staffers at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, the organization that oversees the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo Mural Diego Rivera, and Museo Tamayo, shut down b…
"Perched on a wheeled stool under a bright spotlight [at the National Gallery of Art], [Robert] Price leaned into a 200-year-old marble sculpture carved by Frenchman Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tass…
"America's forbidden composer" is Arthur Farwell (1872-1952), leader of the "Indianists" movement in music. Politically, he seems hopelessly incorrect today. But his significance is not mere…
"For most of his career, he was known as an accompanist, outdated nomenclature that cannot begin to describe his musical sensitivity to the needs of a singer. … His association with singer…
"All these prizes are, effectively, marketing exercises. That does not make them bad things … Today, though, artists and judges alike are more attuned to the difficulty in choosing 'the be…
"She will take up the position at the start of 2022 when the orchestra returns to its home at the Sydney Opera House following the two-year closure of the Concert Hall for a major upgrade, i…
"In classrooms and daily conversations, young people are changing the way they speak and write " replacing the masculine 'o' or the feminine 'a' with the gender-neutral 'e' in certain words …
"An Egyptian archaeological mission from the Ministry of Antiquities has unearthed a red granite royal bust of King Ramses II emblazoned with the Ka, a symbol of power, life force and spirit…
"Speaking at a public forum in Westminster this week, [BP's UK chief] Peter Mather said 'the most important debate of our generation' " climate change " was best served by BP continuing to s…
"Breakout stars, paradigm shifters, game changers. Our annual list of the dancers, choreographers and companies that are on the verge of skyrocketing has a knack for illuminating where the d…
