5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
Last month The Atlantic published an essay by an Elizabethan scholar that suggested that "an Elizabethan writer named Emilia Bassano might have had a hand, or more, in the creation of Willia…
The Tonys ceremony, a local party opened to the nation by the patronage of CBS, is a more welcoming showcase for idealism than the billion-dollar business of Broadway. But in paying tribute …
"People trust books. When they read books by experts, they often assume that they're as serious, and as carefully verified, as scientific papers " or at least that there's some vetting in pl…
Do you wish to have your feet in one world and a voice in another? Come join the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance and experience Opera and Ballet productions all in the same organization.
They have been the face of the company for years " or, rather, the faces. Mr. Taylor picked his dancers for their individuality, both in looks and in spirit. And now they're moving on… " T…
After 70 years, most people still don't live within easy reach " in any sense " of the artistic riches enabled by Arts Council funding. After 70 years, most artists still earn very little fo…
Phil Kennicott: "The best thing about Ron Howard's polished new documentary, "Pavarotti," is its compassion for the man, who emerges frail but not hollow, merely human and not the pathetic c…
The concert business, according to Pollstar, set records in 2018 with more than 152 million tickets moved and $10.4 billion in sales nationally. The live industry's growth was necessary to o…
Meet someone you thought was ugly but then decided they were beautiful? Or someone you thought was gorgeous but then were mystified why you ever thought so? Our sense of physical beauty is a…
When mammals stalk, hunt, and escape, they find themselves in ever-new situations and environments. Marc Bekoff, a researcher at the University of Colorado and a lifelong student of animal b…
"As of August 2017, more than 70 percent of viewing time was being driven by automatic recommendations. And the content that gets promoted is even more aggressively selected for engage…
"By September 2020, I will have been at the League for twenty-two years and CEO for twelve," Rosen said in his remarks to delegates during the League's 74th National Conference in Nash…
They sold money they printed themselves as art works, and used the funds to buy up £1.2 million of debt on the secondary market, where lenders sell bad debts. " The New York Times
Publishers Lunch's Michael Cader writes that the deal is for "a modest $6.50 per share," putting the value of the transaction at some $477 million, "plus the assumption of long-term debt …
As the legendary Humpty Dumpty cracked, never to be repaired, Internet 1.0 is shattering, too. Now we are hammering the internet into a splinternet of different forms. Regional digi…
"We're trying to create a balance between things we know are really good and things that we maybe aren't sure about but don't 'fit in' to the typical new music ideal. It's tricky " there are…
"Despite the constant avowal and assertion of the intrinsic value of arts and culture, funding for art and culture is still often treated as a discretionary spend which is somehow secondary …
"A survey from the Pew Research Center in 2016 found that, among US workers employed part-time, 64 per cent prefer it that way. Meanwhile, 20 per cent of full-time workers " that's alm…
"Our results indicate that happiness is expressed only on the left side. According to some influential theories of emotion neuropsychology, we here interpreted the Mona Lisa asymmetric smile…
"Although entertainment-industry protests have previously helped derail socially conservative legislation in Georgia, studios didn't voice significant opposition to the new abortion la…
All kinds of companies pick through our online behavior for clues about how we might be convinced to spend money. These practices particularly affect poor people, who are more dependent on c…
"When people are told which way to turn, it relieves them of the need to create their own routes and remember them. They pay less attention to their surroundings. And neuroscientists can now…
When one small bookstore owner tells customers they could buy it cheaper if they ordered it themselves, she says they tell her: "Amazon doesn't play with my kids; Amazon doesn't bring author…
"I don't feel respected as a reader when I feel like the subtitle was created not to give me a feeling of what kind of reading experience I may get, but for search engines."Â " Washington…
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center seeks a creative, high energy, collaborative Public Relations Manager to design and execute all public relations outreach for this premier interna…
