21,645 stories from ArtsJournal
In a sort of sequel to last week's New Republic article on how Mr. Condé Montrose Nast created the high-end glossy magazine industry, writer Reeves Wiedeman visits the (shrinking) Condé Na…
"Anupama Chandrasekhar isn't one to shy away from a tough subject. The Indian playwright has written about acid attacks, sex tapes and her home country's culture of patriarchal violence. 'I …
A 78-episode adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayana, broadcast every Sunday morning for 18 months in 1987-88 on what was then India's only TV channel, was seen by up to 100 million people. Li…
"An institution in Britain, Have I Got News For You began airing in 1990 and runs on Friday nights on the BBC's main channel, averaging 4 million viewers. … Political guests are subject to…
This January, the American Booksellers Association Bookshop will launch Bookshop, "a mobile-friendly website with one-click ordering à la Amazon that … will sell physical books and digi…
The fortieth episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listen…
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
IBM Presents Clarence Darrow, a TV version of David W. Rintels' one-man play, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Rich. This performance, taped at a live performance of the show, was o…
"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth." Christopher Hampton, The Philant…
It wasn't until I sat down with this album from my father's collection that I started to grasp that its star was far more than just a charming but old-fashioned minstrel-show entertainer wit…
The track on this Duke Ellington LP that hit me hardest was "Sepia Panorama," which featured Jimmy Blanton. I had only just started teaching myself how to play string badd, and Blanton was t…
The young Canadian drummer Harry Vetro has followed his debut album as a leader, Northern Ranger, with a shorter CD of four tracks. The new album has a similar title, Eastern Stranger, but p…
Help the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts move into the next phase of organizational development as it builds off of the success of a recently competed capital campaign.
In Saudi Arabia apostasy is punishable by death. Unless artists are willing to make their host's state control of expression an explicit subject of their work, those who participate cannot e…
ATT&T said Monday its DirecTV and its U-Verse television business in the third quarter lost a staggering 1.2 million customers, as more consumers cut the cord and migrate to video stream…
Named for Rocinha, with 70,000 residents the largest favela in Brazil, Rocywood is a production company formed by five young Rio filmmakers. Their budget per film averages around $50 (US), w…
In a couple of weeks, you'll have so many options to pay for content à la carte, you won't really know where to start. And yes, you'll be paying extra for the inconvenience. " Shelly Palm…
Founding music director Marat Bisangaliev says that launching the Symphony Orchestra of India back in 2006 was a serious challenge: with the country's own art music traditions dominant, the …
General infallibility is a tempting proposition. Treating an individual's attitudes and preferences as givens " as matters beyond debate or criticism " might seem to promote human dignity by…
"The part of our brain that regulates our time perception has been overloaded and exhausted, causing our sense of past, present and future to melt together." " The Guardian
Kim Gaynor joined the opera three years ago, and was given the challenge of moving the company from a traditional season (or "stagione") model to a festival with a number of events during a …
It's an impressive roll call (and all women): Executive director of the Vancouver International Film Festival, Jacqueline Dupuis. Ballet BC artistic director Emily Molnar. Vancouver's Chutzp…
DHR International has been exclusively retained to conduct the search for Executive Director of the South Carolina State Museum, the state's largest and most comprehensive museum.
The letter " organized by a group of artists and activists including Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis, Downtown Boys' Joey La Neve DeFrancesco, Evan Greer, Adult Mom, @k8_or_die, Carmen Perry, an…
Head usher Tanya Heath at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia begins working her miracle with a talk like this: "May I have your attention, please. We are at minute five out of a 20-minute i…
