5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
In a new study, technology replaces language as a means of communicating by directly linking the activity of human brains. Electrical activity from the brains of a pair of human subjects was…
On Wednesday the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced Sandra Jackson-Dumont as its new director and chief executive officer. She comes to L.A. from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, …
"The Yoko Years. The Decade of Dora. Accounts of the muse"artist relation were anchored in the idea of male cultural production as a special category, one with particular needs"usually sexua…
When the creators of GPT-2 gave the AI model a single sentence referencing J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series, the machine generated a few paragraphs of Tolkien-esque prose"capturing …
"Happiness is in many ways the marketing breakthrough of the past decade, with self-care and anti-stress products now rounding out the bestseller list on Amazon (think of 'gravity blankets',…
"Was it really okay, I wondered, to let holograms stand in for once-vital, important artists and carry out new performances? Was this an inevitable development in the interweaving of high te…
Lear deBessonet is best known as the founder of Public Works, a much-lauded program of the Public Theater that once a year stages a new musical adaptation of a classic story, which is perfor…
Last week, the company announced that Sue Dixon, who has been acting general director since Christopher Mattaliano's departure, will officially take on the job. " Willamette Week
" They apparently kept being surprised at their experience, and not just through its now-infamous, unseen pilot, which the duo has long admitted was a complete disaster. It just seems like e…
"Given all the excellent writing about the challenges of rendering otherness, someone who asks this question in 2019 probably has not done the reading. But the question is a Trojan horse, po…
Sandra Jackson-Dumont: "I'm trying to move the idea away from people being visitors to the museum to being users. You to go to a library to use it, right? You're not a visitor to the library…
Southern California architectural historian Alan Hess called it a "real loss to the architectural heritage of Los Angeles." "It was an early Ellwood design, but demonstrated all his distinct…
Boston Landmarks Orchestra seeks an inspiring leader to advance the Orchestra's mission of building community through innovative, free classical musical programming, accessibility and inclus…
"I always imagined I would be a playwright at night and a CPA or something in the day," Lauren Yee said. "I'm pretty organized and disciplined. There are times when I'm thinking about a proj…
Joseph Young: "I went up to her and said 'I really want to go to grad school for conducting' and she said 'why don't you come study with me.' That moment changed my life. Before that I had n…
"Since being elected to the Vermont House of Representatives last fall, my perspective has dramatically changed as to how best advocate for the arts and, in fact, how siloed arts organizatio…
The Getty is still safe and secure, representatives said. But the fire, which has burned more than 650 acres and prompted mass evacuations, was only 15% contained Tuesday afternoon, and the …
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…
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…
"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
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…
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…
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 …
