6,111 stories by "Artsjournal1"
"Why invent things when nature and life supply so many strange events? … Why bother proving a lie when truth needs no preface? I sometimes fear that all of humankind may sooner or later co…
"'Keep your fingers straight and off the trigger. Do not point the rifle at anyone you do not intend to shoot.' That's Roman Baca, a U.S. marine and Iraq War veteran. But he's not speaking t…
"The Road Runner … can run through paintings, or invisible brick walls, or across vast stretches of open sky. His pursuer cannot. Wile E. Coyote's schemes and traps sometimes fall apart du…
"Fuller was pursuing out-there ideas in design and architecture, and it often fell to Mr. Sadao to do the practical work of implementing them. … [He] filled a similar role with Noguchi, th…
"Now, in an era in which authenticity and representation have become entertainment industry watchwords, the presenters of some of the many theatrical adaptations that are staged every winter…
Salt water from the lagoon covered 80% of the city, reaching levels of up to six feet, the second-highest since records began about 90 years ago. The Biennale, the Peggy Guggenheim Collectio…
The Museu de Arte do Rio, opened in 2013 in the Praça Mauá on the city's waterfront, has not been receiving its scheduled payments from the Rio de Janeiro prefecture government; all 12…
Today's announcement by the Metropolitan Museum about the "exceptional bequest" by trustee emerita Jayne Wrightsman (who died in April at 99) omits mention of a crucial way in which this win…
"It could be a dream or a nightmare. You're 84. What would it be like to have an artistic conversation with your 30-year-old self? [Rainer] is finding that out as she reconstructs, in collab…
"[He] helped sculpt the rich and quietly splendorous sound of ECM Records, an influential label that has produced timeless jazz and contemporary classical recordings." " The New York Times
Yes, scofflaw diplomats have been a problem for ages (ask any New Yorker who's been clipped, or worse, by a UN delegate's car), but over the past few years, artworks have been disappearing f…
"As one editor who has been doing this type of work for 30 years and worked for nearly every major studio in Hollywood tells InsideHook, 'The studios, outside of the creative groups, are ful…
"At a table reading of Live Bodies for Sale, a new docudrama about human trafficking in Northeast Ohio, playwright Christopher Johnston addresses the assembled cast and crew. 'Everybody in t…
"To Oz, writing in Hebrew was like sculpting in solid rock and crusted sand at the same time. With one foot in the Hebrew of the Bible and the other in the mélange of linguistic influences …
"In a collaboration influenced by [music director Gianandrea] Noseda's role as principal guest conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra, the British symphony's record label " LSO Live " w…
"As one of the first initiatives under the leadership of new CEO James Daunt, Barnes & Noble has announced the shortlist for a new Book of the Year award. Books are nominated by B&N …
BBC arts editor Will Gompertz: "It has never been an easy task, but … what has become absolutely clear over the past 12 months is that arts organisations have to up their game when it come…
Best known in the U.S. for his years as assistant and associate conductor and conductor-in-residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra and as music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemp…
The Wife of Willesden will be a monologue giving Smith's modern spin on The Wife of Bath's Tale from Canterbury Tales. The piece will premiere next year in her home neighborhood, the northwe…
The Estonian kannel is primarily a plucked folk instrument, but these two young ladies " both of whom have studied music academically " had not played it until they found one, and decided to…
At last week's very sparsely attended press preview for this week's major auctions, I got a chance to chat about Sotheby's era of uncertainty with four of the company's principals. " Lee Ros…
"Shortly after a fundraising gala-brunch on Saturday, Nov. 2, Intiman announced it had raised $130,000 in one month (including the brunch), putting the theater close to its year-end goal of …
Consultant Lauren Tan watched footage of Leonard Bernstein, Gustavo Dudamel, Manfred Honeck, and others for what their hands, eyes, faces and postures can show the rest of us about non-verba…
The six-year-old French tourist who was hurled from the London museum's 10th-floor viewing platform in August has now been moved from intensive care (in a "full armour of splints") to a reha…
"It took years [for the organizer, artist Dread Scott,] to raise the funds of over $1m, which included money from 500 individual donations, to pull off the spectacle. But as word of mouth ab…
