6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"In previous decades, musicians may have learned [such] skills [as grant writing, marketing, and audience development] on the fly, but more and more educational institutions are beginning to…
"A priority for educational philanthropists is to help schools compensate for social inequalities, which was true of the funders who supported arts education in Baltimore and Boston. But inc…
"A new orchestra of musicians from multiple South Asian countries aims to promote understanding through music. Co-founder Nirupama Rao discusses the role orchestras can play in building brid…
The nation's largest city has the nation's largest Native American population, with 112,000 individuals representing more than 75 tribal nations. Most of those people arrive in New York City…
"The purpose of this study was to explore a fledgling community-school music partnership, Making Music, and to examine the benefits and challenges of this partnership. The partnership was in…
"The choreographer's commitment to dance as a catalyst for social change can be seen at a museum show in Seattle and in a new work for the Alvin Ailey company." " The New York Times
Leon J. Hilton explores the recent production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest created by Spectrum Theatre Ensemble, a company dedicated to making theatre with and for neurodiverse artists…
"In the following conversation, theatremaker Lauren E. Turner recounts her courageous healing journey from the depths of sustained racialized trauma working in a New Orleans theatre to the l…
"News that the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the arts would fall victim to budget constraints raised a collective groan from the nation's arts advocates earlier this year. M…
"The poem we call Gilgamesh is based on copies of a work assembled over a millennium after the earliest stories were written in Old Babylonian. … A specific scribe, editor, collator, poet …
"Star Wars Kabuki-Rennosuke and The Three Light Sabers, which are being staged in Tokyo, will combine plots from each of the franchise's latest trilogy, substituting plots drawn from the day…
"It's not that plays are new to recordings, or that corporations never before invested in the stage. What is novel is how this company is commissioning dramatists to write plays for its glob…
"Police have said they plan to seize six religious sculptures that are on display at an art museum in the Belgian town of Leuven. The authorities acted following a complaint by a Belgian chu…
Our Thanksgiving team of William S. Burroughs and Norman O. Mustill has been a longtime happy pairing. It still is. So here they are again, sweetened by Heathcote Williams's words in a narra…
Roberta Smith: "What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I've spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museu…
"The Conservative Party confirmed in its manifesto that it plans to move forward with the cultural Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland if it wins the UK general election on 12 Dec…
"[This] is BBC Culture's biggest and most international poll yet: 761 different films were voted for by 368 film experts " critics, journalists, festival programmers and academics " who came…
"This was not entirely a source of pleasure to the man who, under duress, had invented the term" as a compromise title for his very influential 1972 book. "In a 2009 essay on outsider art an…
"To arrive at this conclusion, researchers spent five years painstakingly creating a database that features music created by people across the globe. They dubbed it the Natural History of So…
"Musical systems around the world and across historical eras have been diverse, but octaves are commonly a feature of them. The acoustic structure of octaves is always the same: The frequenc…
The daughters of the author, the most internationally famous Arabic-language writer in modern history, have repeatedly sued the American University in Cairo Press for what they claim are lar…
"Uniquely for Africa, Palais de Lomé, which is housed in a restored colonial-era palace, was fully financed by the state. … Set on the seafront in the Togolese capital of Lomé, the Palai…
"[Paul] Sills, who directed the show, came up to him, and said, 'Mike, I want you to meet the only other person on campus who's as hostile as you are: Elaine May.' She looked over Mike's sho…
"The massive cyberattack just before Thanksgiving 2014 crippled a studio, embarrassed executives and reshaped Hollywood. The FBI blamed a North Korea scheme to retaliate for the comedy The I…
"The five-year extension [of his contract as general manager] … will give Mr. Gelb at least a 21-year reign at the opera house, the largest performing arts organization in the United State…
