Monday, August 22, 2016
Last week the Brooklyn artist space National Sawdust announced it had hired away Steve Smith from the Boston Globe to start an ambitious new culture journal. Smith is a former NYTimeser, a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:57AMSunday, August 21, 2016
This Week: An artist collective skewers Trump… How Florence’s Uffizi is dramatically addressing its problems… Our fetishizing of “authenticity” doesn’t ri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:53PMMonday, August 15, 2016
One of the biggest comforts of fast food is its familiarity. Generic from location to location, you know not only what the food will be and how it will taste, but that the ritual of the expe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:09PMSunday, August 14, 2016
This Week: Is the music industry’s piracy war really about higher royalty payments?… There are signs the Golden Age of TV might be ending… Theatre’s emotional toll o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:57PMFriday, August 12, 2016
It’s a more difficult question than you might think. There’s a maxim in the education world that only subjects that are tested are funded. Thus the imperative for arts education …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMSunday, August 7, 2016
This Week: The ways in which we experience art are about to change in big ways… Auction houses are becoming shadow banks for the super-wealthy with money to stash… The Met Museum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:39PMFriday, August 5, 2016
Last year I was producing the live streaming of the Ojai Music Festival and we decided to use YouTube to carry the streams. In a small outdoor venue, the number of seats is limited to a few …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMThursday, August 4, 2016
Over on Slate this week Brian Wise posted a piece about Donald Trump and his playing of Puccini’s Nussun Dorma at campaign events. Trump had been using a recording of Pavarotti singing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:25AMWednesday, August 3, 2016
Are the arts about selling tickets to shows or about art? Of course performances and exhibitions don’t happen if they don’t have money to be produced, but – as evidenced at…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:22PMTuesday, August 2, 2016
A 2015 survey by blogger Mae Mai reported that 260 new opera companies started since 2000 in the United States. There are 80 opera companies now working in New York alone. Over the past co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:46PMMonday, August 1, 2016
As the digital world pummels us with more information and choice, many of us react by walling off the things we simply won’t pay attention to. It’s a survival strategy. We increa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:31PMSunday, July 31, 2016
This Week: In an age of artists what is the definition of being an artist?… Canadian study says arts workers are most at risk… What is R&D in the arts?… Edinburgh Festi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:09PMSunday, July 24, 2016
This week: How did our culture get to the point we don’t trust facts?… Are artists actually detrimental to neighborhoods?… Our notions of “greatness” need an ov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:09PMSunday, July 17, 2016
This week: A penetrating portrait of artist Chuck Close, a reality check on meritocracy as a concept, a look at anger and our access to visceral emotion in a media-saturated world, the endur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:57PMMonday, July 11, 2016
Around the beginning of the 20th Century, several French artists were asked to design a series of cards that would imagine what life would be like 100 years in the future in the year 2000. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30AMSunday, July 10, 2016
This week: What ethical responsibilities do funders and funded have to one another?… The gatekeeper problem is still a thing in the internet age… What should the measure of succ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:25PMTuesday, July 5, 2016
This week: Alas, hard work probably doesn’t trump innate ability… It’s tempting to believe extravagant claims for technology, but there are limits… Yes, by all means …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:55AMSunday, June 26, 2016
Clearly Brexit is a cultural decision, and it will have a big impact… A new jazz scene emerges and re-energizes the art form… There’s a practical reason there are so few wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Can computers help us better understand art? What the world thinks is creative. Why is it still okay to discriminate against stupid people? How gaming is taking over. And the “Rotten T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:59AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Maybe our biggest problem with teaching music in schools is the way we teach it. Hollywood thought making blockbusters would save it. Surprise! How charity auctions take advantage of artists…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMMonday, June 6, 2016
I would say based on the thousands of stories we sift through every day at ArtsJournal, diversity and cultural equity (along with funding) are right now probably the biggest issues being tal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PMSunday, June 5, 2016
A new music director for the Met Opera, and what it means. A looming college crisis and what it means. How art is changing politics. Is art driving ISIS? And flooding threatened the Louvre, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PMSunday, May 29, 2016
When arts planning becomes the point rather than the process. Why your creativity may be dependent on being bored. Are MFA degrees a waste of time if you want to be an artist? Broadway break…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMSunday, May 22, 2016
Why aren’t the arts something we can all get behind? Maybe it’s somewhere in the psychology of how we like what we like? Revealed: nobody reads arts reviews anymore (says an edit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:15PMSunday, May 15, 2016
Disrupting the orchestra model, doing away with artistic directors, a cure for what ails the Met Opera, how our ideas about knowledge are changing, and recreating Leonardo (no kidding!) What…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:14PMMonday, May 9, 2016
This week: a great example of the de-monetization of audience, the deadening burden of being a critic, some contradictions about how we use data in the arts, why technology is complicating o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:57AMMonday, May 2, 2016
What Does “Inclusive” Mean To A Performing Arts Center? The Kennedy Center held an event to talk about inclusiveness of its offerings. But no one seemed to be able to define exac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:51PMSunday, April 24, 2016
This week: Do the Met Museum’s financial woes say anything about today’s museum business? Who wants to see art in mobbed museums anyway? Prince’s career as a control freak.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PMSunday, April 17, 2016
This week, a groundbreaking deal for Broadway actors and dancers, James Levine finally decides to retire from the Met Opera, a debacle at the National Ballet of Romania that quickly escalat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PMSunday, April 10, 2016
What business success in theatre looks like, our over-obsession with creativity as a catch-all answer to success, how the art markets really work, how taste gets confused with pretension, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:49PMMonday, April 4, 2016
A number of stories this week tackled the meaning of greatness in art (even if they didn’t explicitly frame it that way). A changing culture requires changing definitions of greatness,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:14AM 
