6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
My work in the Pennsylvania city came in the middle of a long-term project of commissioning murals for the city. In October one was completed that impressed me so much I had to share it here…
The cliché is that the South African Broadcasting Corporation's apartheid-era Radio Bantu churned out nothing but propaganda to bolster the government's racial separation policies. That was…
Ntozake Shange didn't write the role of the Lady in Purple in her "choreopoem" for a deaf performer, but she happily approved casting Alexandria Wailes in the current New York revival. Gia K…
"These are all cultural products set firmly in the realm of values. They are not concerned with which billionaire son inherits his father's empire, but rather focus on ordinary people strugg…
Even at age 89, Walter Cole dons a sequined gown and frizzy wig four nights a week to perform as Darcelle XV. And he does it at his own bar, which he opened with his first wife a few years a…
"Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack was pulled from West Virginia's Upshur County public library earlier this week, according to local press reports, after a local church minister called it…
"Not even 20 years ago we mostly read about things in lag, on thin slices of tree, whereas now we do " well, this, whatever this is. Yet instead of technology superannuating literature once …
"Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec were first given two-year suspended terms in 2015 after being convicted of possession of stolen goods over the huge trove of works by Picasso, including nine …
"Perth and Sydney have recognised [their responsibilities] by commissioning diverse local artists working in diverse forms. These festivals are engaging with their place in contemporary cult…
Says Max Hollein, "Art cannot solely be perceived in regard to its beauty and craftsmanship. You also have to evaluate it in light of its political messages. … If you have one of the great…
"What of the storefronts, those famous Chicago institutions where a full house can mean 80 people and where artists frequently toil for little or even no compensation? Can they claim a signi…
The daughter of the late King Sihanouk. she began dancing at age 5; by age 16, she was a leader of the royal dance company and a mainstay of Cambodian cultural diplomacy. She fled the countr…
The country's first post-Soviet president, the autocratic and eccentric Sapurmurat Niyazov, banned opera in 2001 as "incompatible with Turkmen mentality." His successor (and former dentist),…
The production presented this week at Suffolk University in Boston, is, according to Wilder's estate, the first time all seven one-acts will be performed together in a single program." " Ame…
General Jean-Louis Georgelin, a brusque army man appointed by President Macron to oversee the reconstruction of the fire-damaged cathedral, was speaking to the cultural affairs committee of …
"Provocative subject matter isn't foreign to [the director of Queen & Slim], who was raised in the Bronx by a Cuban mother and a Jewish Greek father, whom she describes as 'freedom fight…
After all, argues Courtney Escoyne (reacting to news of a second Polunin documentary), it only encourages him. "I'm not sure that it matters what stance this documentary takes. It's yet anot…
Adam Frankel, a former member of Obama's speechwriting team: "'Something about this draft just doesn't feel right.' That, or something like it, is probably the most frequent feedback a speec…
"Keeping a large collection of books in a canal city prone to flooding was always a dangerous idea, which is why Venice's Libreria Acqua Alta (High Water Bookshop) had decided to store its b…
Lorna Fulton, head of Middlesbrough Town Hall, declined to book comedian Roy Chubby Brown because she thought local audiences might find his act offensive and his 2015 performance sold poorl…
"The Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, a branch of the Italian carabinieri responsible for combatting art and antiquities crimes, believe the suspects are members of an crimin…
"E. Loren Meeker was announced Friday as the company's general and artistic director, and Francesco Milioto will become music director. Meeker replaces both Adam Diegel, who departed as arti…
"Last November, French President Emmanuel Macron commissioned a report recommending the repatriation of looted African cultural objects from France's public collections, spurring a national …
"The [London] museum exists thanks to a public fundraising drive, with more than 1,000 people collectively donating almost £50,000. The director, Florence Schechter, says her motivation b…
Dozens of records, stacked and ready for selection. Before the walkman, spotify and sodcasting, they let you decide your own mood music. Public yet personal, sweetly selfish " the jukebox fl…
