5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
Siobhan Burke: "Those 90-minute lessons " advancing from a warm-up of the back and feet to more complex coordinations of the torso and legs to jumping sequences that flew across the room " w…
A spokeswoman for National Museums Liverpool defended its use of the enhanced surveillance technology as an additional security measure for the exhibition, titled "China's First Emperor and …
Since the advent of sound, movies treated jazz as a marker of modernity and youth, a soundtrack to a fledgling America further distancing itself from Europe and charting a path through its s…
Attendance dropped by 1% in both 2017 and 2016, and by 0.5% in 2015. But new figures from the national tourism agency show a decisive turnaround, with attendance across 444 museums and art g…
Few of the newspaper obituarists seemed to know quite what he had done. He had been involved in something that had changed the way texts are interpreted; but it was not really clear why that…
Franz Boas concluded that "there is not one human culture but many, and he started referring to 'cultures,' in the plural. He was engaged in ethnography, and he believed that the job of the …
Nottage is the only woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: for Sweat and Ruined. The former reached Broadway, while the latter " a story about women in war-torn Congo " played a su…
Louis Menand: "There are many canards about that generation, but the most persistent is that the boomers were central to the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties. Apart from be…
"Here there's a problem where even when the community values this, they think it'll be supported by wealthy industrialists. But those days are over, and we need to say we've got a lot of wea…
He's led the sort of life that generates fascinating stories, which is perhaps what makes his much-anticipated memoir, "Possibilities," such an occasionally frustrating read. " Los Angeles T…
"How, then, do you avoid the cringingly awful? The shows so bad you feel you're never going to get those precious moments of your finite life back again? McGowan smiles and looks up " as she…
"In both rural and urban areas, innovation is closely tied to the degree of presence of the creative class, with the innovation index being positively associated with the percent of the work…
Charles Desmarais: "As important as the Arnautoff murals are, as art and as American history, the issues raised by the attempt to destroy or obscure them are larger than this single controve…
"We are just as ignorant about what has been happening to our faces when they're scanned by the property developers, shopping centres, museums, conference centres and casinos that have also …
"In my late twenties (living in Portland, Oregon as an artist and emerging curator), I recognized that the art institutions at the time had settled on mission-priorities that would follow th…
"I turned the essay in at the end of June, substantially the same as what appears here. A regretful Folio Society editor told me that Marvel Comics (evidently the co-publisher of the book) i…
"There is anecdotal evidence that gender affects every step of the publishing process. In 2015, Catherine Nichols submitted proposals for a novel to agents and publishers under both her own …
"People think that all you have to do is have certain postures, wear certain clothes, dance to certain music" to make it hip hop, Michele Byrd-McPhee says, pointing out that simply donning t…
So why aren't there more realistic, or semi-realistic, or, dare it be suggested, hopeful films about climate change? Because, several directors said, it is hard to find financing for movies …
This figure is still 15% short of the NT's stated 50/50 target for gender representation, which the theatre has said it will achieve by 2021. It is also below the 42% figure recorded in 2016…
Native Hawaiians agree that Mauna Kea connects humanity to the universe " as an umbilical cord between Earth and space. The peak at Mauna Kea is the "highest point where land touches the sky…
"There's a tendency among some Anglophones to see the official struggle to resist English as somewhat hysterical. That attitude partly reflects the smugness of a people who increasingly expe…
Amazon's new use case takes Rekognition to a new level. Now you can now use the software to take a pretty good guess at what a person in an image or a video is feeling. What could possibly g…
"His inventions and scientific theories, as well as his painstaking painting technique, were all of a piece: science and art were not separate modes of thinking. His investigations into geol…
"What mobile AR adds is the ability to changefocus by actively moving around a simulated object in real space. The technology wants you to do that. So it may just not be the ideal way to exp…
