5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
"There is a certain truth to this recent narrative of humanistic decline as it plays out in liberal arts schools, but it is not that of obsolescence or expense. Nor is it reducible to the li…
Champions and leaders of community youth music programs are heroes. The Lewis Prize for Music celebrates mentors who empower and inspire young people to use music as a force for good. The Le…
Phil Kennicott: "When the Kennedy Center was built, it was designed to fulfill a specific sets of needs and functions. Now it is has been expanded to enfold an unknown number of new function…
Mark Swed: "I'm not so sure I buy the mystique business. The ego issue is clearly complicated. But his two concerts in the Festspielhaus in Salzburg, the first a repeat of the Beethoven Nint…
"I've heard Blockbuster called "the Walmart of video stores," which illustrates not only their sales strategy, but their history as an industry Goliath. Like the chain of retail megastores, …
The original urban crisis of the 1960s and 1970s was a crisis of economic failure, spurred on by the movement of people, jobs, and industry to the suburbs; the hollowing out of city economic…
The Fox Theatre Tucson invites applications for the position of Executive Director.
Her village doesn't have a stage, so she gathers her performers under a walnut tree in her garden for rehearsals while they do their domestic chores. Her love of theatre is apparently�…
"The authoritative Theatres Trust reckons there are currently 263 theatres in London. It's about the same number as Tokyo, whereas Paris has around 350. New York tops the list with well over…
The top-line message from the organization is that the combined revenue of the participating publishers for the first six months of the year was nearly US$6 billion. The previous caveat in p…
Combined with rising production costs and, as Interim General Director Sue Dixon puts it, "the shifting philanthropic landscape of Portland," there was the very real possibility of the organ…
"Academic freedom is no simple matter. We have distinct ways of understanding it, often according to class, discipline, race, gender, and ideology. At base, academic freedom entitles us, as …
Once we thought drivers, doctors, accountants, and lawyers were irreplaceable. And yet we are beginning to see computers encroaching on those fields. Now, even the most human of professions"…
"Theatre is ephemeral, we explain endlessly. Every time we raise five thousand dollars to put up a show in some under-lit black box, we find ourselves trying to justify the existence of a wo…
"In the decades since the 1980s, and after the victory of capitalism over communism in the cold war, we have lived, Chantal Mouffe told me, within a sense of the "normal" to which there has …
"The bottom line is that classical streaming is here, and, despite the kinks and quirks, it works. The problem of access has been solved. Although classical music is a very small piece of th…
This scare, now mostly forgotten, was a frantic panic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that contaminated books"particularly ones lent out from libraries"could spread deadly dise…
Max Anderson: "If their portfolios continue to be awash with stocks in petroleum companies, big pharma, and arms merchants, they will remain open to charges of hypocrisy. But if they change …
The report says that 41% of visual arts audiences are aged between 16 and 34, whereas for other artforms this demographic comprises 13% of visitors. In contrast, 41% of museum audiences are …
"Going to so many shows in such a short period of time underscored the reality that while the majority of Broadway productions are good and worth seeing, the truly great shows are rare, and …
Charles Schulz did not create Charlie Brown and Linus and Lucy to talk"or act"like normal children. He created them to be funny, and to act out what became a deeply personal theater of cruel…
It's fascinating work, but lately, something else is pulling me back to my computer late at night. I get carried away in such guilty pleasure that if my husband walks in unexpectedly, I'm pr…
"Not surprisingly, women in books are beautiful and men are true-hearted! Yup, when positively described, women (or other traditionally gender-specific female nouns, like stewardess or daugh…
In a letter to Makan Delrahim, the assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, the senators, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota " both Democrats " called…
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