5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
"He would reject work, but praise the writing. His form rejections included a note: "It happens that I am both the editor of the Blue Moon and also the head of a critical revision business. …
The project reached its crescendo, transitioning from theoretical to actual, last month when the Port of San Diego agreed to lease a 3.68-acre site on Embarcadero Marina Park to the symphony…
Jimmy Kimmel Live! was fined $350,000 by the FCC for a sketch about the presidential alert system. " New York Magazine
Beethoven's political engagement is indisputable, but whether it finds direct expression in his work " aside from dedications and commissions " is a sticky topic. " New Statesman
"I think that to him, in his head, he was just a big star and everyone wanted him. And to the rest of us he was just, you know, this creepy guy that could make or break your career." " Los A…
We can calculate what gravity does " whether to a cup elbowed off the edge of a table or the disk of light bent around a black hole " but we still don't have a clue what causes it. " Washing…
In the enduringly expensive world of the multi-day music jamboree " where power bills alone can reach £100,000 for a 10,000-capacity event " ticket refunds are just one problem. " The Gua…
Linguistic decline is the cultural equivalent of the boy who cried wolf, except the wolf never turns up. Perhaps this is why, even though the idea that language is going to the dogs is wides…
"Artist studios get filled up pretty quickly," he said. "And people are getting priced out." " Artsy
Roughly 100 people, most of them St. Louis Public Radio members and supporters, paid $120 to attend. They visited St. Louis Public Radio's community room in the city's downtown Grand Center …
"It took seeing the museum's powerful survey of Bill Viola's rich, deep and deeply moving video work to fully understand what is so hollow and dispiriting about the main galleries of the col…
Despite it being a show that satirised the appropriation of disabled roles by non-disabled actors, few assumed someone with cerebral palsy might have staged it. That he did " and so well " f…
"Such a document tries to persuade you to believe (that it is right to do) something because many people, some of whom are authorities, believe it (is the right thing to do). It is not alway…
So many of the metaphors which we use to describe art are biological in nature, from calling a work "my baby" to William S. Burroughs' contention about language's viral nature. How some peop…
The one art form that interests Mr. Trump is the art of the deal, though the book about it published under his byline was ghostwritten by someone else. Its only reference to music is hostile…
"Why Leonardo abandoned this first composition still remains a mystery. Handprints resulting from patting down the priming on the panel to create an even layer of more or less uniform thickn…
"It may now seem inevitable that the world's most glamorous conductor ended up leading what may be the world's most admired orchestra, that a young Latin American hero would settle in a Lati…
In Europe, there were no immediate cancellations of the 78-year-old Domingo's performances and even some words of support for the star. Opera world officials noted that no charges had been b…
Everyone had an opinion about what Kanye did. The VMAs were viewed by 11 million people that year, though the crush of coverage after the fact was more comparable to that of a Super Bowl, wh…
"Today, the forces of entertainment marketing, social media and grievance culture are increasingly colliding, with the casualty being the movies themselves. Why wait to actually see "The Iri…
Manson had three primary lures: LSD, sex, and music. But music, and its power to unite a community of outsiders and misfits, remains the least-examined weapon in his arsenal. " The New Yorker
"Some scholars herald artificial moral advisors as vast improvements over morally frail humans, as presenting the best opportunity for avoiding the extinction of human life from our own hand…
Mark Swed: "The ramifications are considerable. If proved true, the allegations would be a tragic ending to one of the great careers in the history of opera, a tenor and now baritone who has…
Alex Ross: "A master of late-Romantic opulence, Korngold shaped the sonic texture of Golden Age Hollywood. To say that his work sounds like movie music is an elementary fallacy, a confusion …
When we learn how the world is made through words, we also learn to be sceptical of our current iteration of reality and more tolerant of other perspectives. If life can be differently worde…
