5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
In Nigeria, 65 percent of the population is under the age of 18. Unemployment is endemic. One community organization created a jobs program through dance. "At the end of the day, dance is a …
"The exponential expansion of the culture sector rests entirely on a quite narrow demographic of white, middle class, educated staff and visitors who have signed a social contract on what an…
"In 2019, inclusive spaces that are comprised of voices from the neurodiverse and disabled community are still extremely rare. Despite the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (A…
Nearly 16,000 pages of letters, speeches, newspaper articles and other suffragist documents are now available on By the People, a crowdsourcing platform launched by the library in 2018. The …
How is the decision going down with people who've hosted awards shows in the past? Pretty well, apparently. " New York Magazine
"The Faber story certainly speaks volumes about the mix of passion, shrewdness, and luck that it takes to keep such an operation afloat; it also raises the question of who, ultimately, a pub…
Psychopaths are sick, deranged, lacking in moral conscience. In other words, they're nothing like you or me. But this is false. Rather than freakish outliers then, psychopaths reveal importa…
Phil Kennicott: "Now the war has come to Walmart. And Hooters. And Sam's Club and McDonald's, and an unnamed but homey looking restaurant that has a $7.99 Lunch Special. If this doesn't look…
"I honestly think there's almost no story you can't tell through food. If you want to read about women's lives throughout history, you can do it through cookbooks. If you want to teach math,…
Is it ego, recognition from others, the catharsis of a journey of self-discovery or the conviction the information contained in the book is something the world desperately needs? That's a co…
In a study published in a German scientific journal, anatomist and musician Andreas Otte deduced that Bach"a gifted organist and harpsichordist"had an exceptional reach at the keyboard. " Na…
The UK's international trade secretary, Liz Truss, announced on Thursday that she hopes to launch "the world's most advanced freeport model" as soon as possible, promising it will create …
"Everyone has these experiences. We all see pattern. We see what we like, or feel spurred on by. Some of us see the lineaments of social life like a bright line connecting the texts of an ar…
"In virtually every case, there lurks a question that each musical leader must ask themselves: Should I get involved or stay on the sidelines? Â It is a valid query, but one that is filled…
The researchers come up with some startling findings. In a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Quentin Brummet and Davin Reed say that urbanites move all the time, f…
In a letter on behalf of the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Opera, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Seattle Symphony, the Seattle Theatre Group and a who's who of other ritzy local inst…
The humanists tried out a lot of new punctuation ideas, but most of those marks had short life spans. Some of the printed texts that appeared in the centuries surrounding the semicolon's bir…
The same challenges apply: What are the films that can work theatrically, that can compel people to come? How can we make that collective experience really rewarding and transformative so th…
The President and CEO will be the chief visionary, strategic, and operational leader and will guide the ACT project as a champion for the diversification of varied programs and cultural offe…
Speaking during its opening weekend, Fergus Linehan, a Dubliner who has been the festival's director since 2015, said many performers had refused to be paid in sterling. " Irish Times
"A credible and qualified professional from outside Curtis and the cultural community of which it is a part ought to take an unsparing look at what if anything happened, and why, and how any…
It is hardly surprising that, especially in the United States, where the arts were expected to conform to democratic tastes, the demanding high Modernism of Adorno's aesthetic philosophy has…
According to Equity, theatre employers are not always paying industry standard terms and conditions on funded projects, despite it being a requirement of receiving a grant. It described the …
No figure in Broadway history had a bigger influence on how shows looked and behaved in the second half of the 20th century. " Los Angeles Times
Tim Mangan: "To put it briefly, these were cathedral acoustics: echoey, murky, swimmy, with a decay time of several seconds. Aurally, it was like playing in a high school gymnasium or Carlsb…
