5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
"An attack on meritocracy is invariably an attack on higher education, where meritocrats get sorted and credentialed. So the turn against meritocracy prompts big questions. Has meritocracy i…
"In hindsight, we can see how rarely one technology supersedes another: the rise of the podcast makes clear that video didn't doom audio any more than radio ended reading. Yet in 1913, a jou…
Be wary of lists such as these. The Guardian attempts to select the best dance this century. But with dance spread out all over the world, can a critic (or group of them) choose (let alone j…
Sentences and phrases of human languages, all human languages, have an inaudible and invisible hierarchical structure. When we are children, we impose this structure on the sequences of soun…
Dmitry Yakovlev, head of one of Russia's leading indie comic producers, the St Petersburg-based Bumkniga, was unfazed by the minister's dig. "Medinsky's comment was pure stupidity, therefore…
"Compact, at 22,000 square feet and 82 feet high, the library is among the finest and most uplifting public buildings New York has produced so far this century. It also cost something north …
The DeVos Institute invites applications for its Global Arts Management Fellowship " a three-year, cohort-based intensive for arts and cultural executives. Apply by Nov. 15.
Bill Irwin finds Beckett's remarkable use of language something of a balm at a time when the use of words has grown so imprecise. "Our culture runs away from words," he bemoaned. "It seems t…
"Much like the bubonic plague of 1347, silent disco is a blood-curdling infection that spreads across the city, carried on the back of headphone-wearing fleas! Fleas! Its biggest problem is …
Are we reducing everything we translate to standard English, whatever that might be? Or are we struggling to get close to the otherness of foreign texts? " New York Review of Books
"I have been working on this idea for 30 years, and the fact that it landed right on the dot amid this whole climate discussion feels a bit eerie to me," he says. " […] I am producing a ra…
"You have this $150 billion-a-year industry that has no TV network. CWe are a universal network "that means we will be distributed and consumed anywhere our audience is consuming gaming cont…
Sometimes it's a matter of establishing the upstart fair within a specific niche or by providing a new experience for collectors and gallerists. " Artsy
For Jimmy Kimmel, who produced "Live in Front of a Studio Audience" with Lear, the iconic producer is an inspiration: "To be 97 years old and looking to the future, and trying to make the wo…
On Tuesday, Amazon (AMZN) announced it will offer more than 50 million songs at CD quality and millions more tracks at even better than CD quality as part of a new tier to its streaming musi…
Oil paintings and an 18th-century icon were destroyed and other artworks damaged. And the plumes of smoke that rose up through heating vents in the floor into the cathedral's vast interior l…
John Warner defines "the writer's practice" as a set of "attitudes, skills, habits of mind, and knowledge" that writers embody, carry with them, or engage in. He describes the most important…
The Great Recession of 2008 didn't touch A-grade luxury centers, but it pulverized other tiers of malls. Green Street Advisors, a California-based real estate research firm, says the country…
Mark Swed: "None of this looks good on the surface. But poke a level deeper and what you find are two companies with exceptionally strong No. 2s, trailblazers in their own right who have alr…
The past few years have seen several of Dublin's murals painted over, street markets canceled, and bars and cultural venues closed. Often, the things replacing them are facilities for touris…
The trust, which operates the Getty Museum, has long focused on ancient Greek and Roman antiquities. This new program, however, is designed to expand the conservation efforts it underwrites …
These invectives against "political" music seem to stand out more due to our current contentious climate, which may create the impression that there has been an uptick in the number of moder…
"Artists should not feel like salespeople. There's a real danger around [perceptions of] Empire 2.0 as a consequence of Brexit. They [the British Council] need to be very careful that UK PLC…
Twenty-five projects make the list " from Tate Modern to housing in South America to New York's High Line. " The Guardian
"Twenty years on, the project is no less powerful. In fact, it seems eerily ahead of its time. The turn of the millennium was a time when "iconic" architecture was in its overblown prime, ev…
