5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
The best of what the university has to offer lies less in its specific power to advance knowledge or solve problems in any of its many fields than in its more general, more crucial ability t…
The initiative is a socially engaged art project that pays people who wouldn't otherwise visit art museums to visit one as guest critics of the art and the institution, flipping the script b…
The bureau found Ticketmaster's advertised prices did not reflect the true cost to the consumer as the online ticket service added mandatory fees later in the purchasing process that often a…
Avid readers could build autobiographies around their favorite books and come to the realization that what they have read is almost as meaningful as when they read it. So here's a list of…
Among the works in this group of acquisitions, which will go on view at the museum in August, are Thomas's portrait of a transgender woman named Qusuquzah, Qusuquzah, une très belle négres…
"It is believed that students who spend school time in music classes, rather than further developing their skills in math, science, and English classes, will underperform in those discipline…
Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city startup from Google parent company Alphabet, has released its master innovation and development plan to turn a sizable swath of Toronto's Lake Ontario sho…
"Most of us already lead creative and cultural lives: we join book clubs, we take craft classes, we stream music," the strategy document says. "The task for the Arts Council is to enable mor…
After over 200 studies, we know that the more people endorse materialism, the worse their wellbeing. They're less empathic, less prosocial, more competitive. They're less likely to support e…
Jeremy Dutcher incorporates in his live and recorded music an unusual and affecting act of legacy, playing transcribed wax recordings from 1911 by an early anthropologist of a tribal elder s…
The group is primarily concerned about the latest design's 10% reduction in size and museum director Michael Govan's plan to disburse objects from the permanent collection to future…
The development is the latest in what has been a tumultuous year for the N.R.A. It has struggled to right its finances; faced investigations in Congress and by Letitia James, the New York…
Joseph Haj: "When I see artistic directors who have a five-show season directing three of the shows, I think: nobody's that interesting, nobody. I don't care how beautiful and thrilling a ma…
Being a philosopher on brain rest is like being a point guard on hand rest. The major asset for your profession is suddenly not working reliably. " The New York Times
Amazon remains defiant that it is doing more than enough to combat the issue. In its blog post, the company claimed that in 2018 alone it "invested over $400 million in personnel and tools b…
"Mailer on the moonshot: loads of words, loads of money. A big deal for Life magazine. And for Mailer? Grim opportunism. Out of tune, bardically bereft, plucking (as it were) flaccid s…
This vicious circle of song optimization / playlist optimization may be the path of least resistance but it can ultimately lead to an unsatisfying overall music experience. Classical music p…
Some of the earliest scientific studies of creativity focused on personality. And some evidence suggests that innovation comes easier to people with certain personality types. A 1998 review …
Apart from his tombstone and the old stone buildings, every Kafka attraction I visited was built in the 21st century. Czechoslovakia's uneasy leaders had tried to scrub Kafka from Prague's h…
For museums determined to build collections of today's contemporary art"which is also getting pricey, as works by women and artists of color steadily gain in value""it's a waiting game."Â …
Encouraging distinctly American artistic habits stands a chance of making art more accessible without making it unserious or "middlebrow." The arts are so irrelevant to most Americans' lives…
Sebastian Smee: "I ask this knowing it is the wrong question. It is wrong not just because huge numbers of people think Renoir is, in fact, great, as well as adorable, joyous and life-affirm…
Netflix is a business like any other, one locked in a seemingly unresolvable war with the movie-theater industry, which it views as a rival. Twelve percent of Americans see at least one movi…
It may take a musician's vocabulary to identify the devil's interval, but it doesn't take a musician's ear to notice that hospitals are acoustically stressful places. Noise is one of the top…
Far from having evaporated, 'folkloric disenchantment' is still common today in the writings of self-described magicians, shamans and witches. But we also find its analogue in academic disci…
