5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
"I concluded from my reading of classical economics that the creation of poverty is as fully intentional as the creation of wealth. Progress is dynamic, self-generating, unpredictable. Pover…
"So far the assaults have mostly been rhetorical rather than real. Universities and the press have fared somewhat worse. But straws in the wind include the rewriting of the narrative at the …
People "often assume that their own interest or passion just needs to be 'found' or revealed. Once revealed, it will be in a fully formed state," said Paul A. O'Keefe, an assistant professor…
There are five, each of whom will get $75,000 to "push their art forward." " Los Angeles Times
"The moral of the story, then, is not that children should always tell the truth, but that education is paramount, enabling both liberation from a life of brutal toil, and, more important, s…
Wadsworth founded Young Concert Artists in 1961 with the aim of finding great young musicians and giving their careers a boost. "The results speak for themselves: Among the more than 270 alu…
For its defenders, much of the appeal of The Bell Curve resided in the deliberate challenge it posed to post-1960s racial liberalism. Advocates cheered how Herrnstein and Murray disobe…
Had anyone ever proposed that the creator of those extraordinary women might be a woman? Each of the male possibilities requires an elaborate theory to explain his use of another's name. Non…
Sontag wrote her groundbreaking essay in 1963. In 58 paragraphs, she conducted an intuitive yet rigorous examination of a phenomenon that she defined as "a badge of identity among small urba…
Academics and their allies need to advocate for a fundamental shift in the social contract around the nature of higher education, moving it away from short-term job training to long-term car…
Those under age 25 will get in free. AGO director Stephen Jost says he initially pitched this idea to this staff two years ago, and wanted the age limit to be 18, but "honestly it was our st…
What's astonishing about his research is how little has changed in the last 1,000 years. Guy Shrubsole's figures reveal that the aristocracy and landed gentry " many the descendants of those…
It happened spontaneously at a concert in Boston's Symphony Hall last Sunday. After a beat, as Ronan's awe-filled "Wow!" echoed throughout the hall, the audience burst into laughter and chee…
Reporting to and partnering with the Executive Director, the Director of Development will work closely with a committed board of directors to engage in the identification, cultivation, and s…
Will the festival commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the iconic Woodstock Festival actually go on this August? The advance organization is a mess, the financing has been withdrawn, an…
Just as the CIA sponsored leftist magazines and abstract expressionism to assert American cultural supremacy (and to make censorship seem like something that only happened in communist count…
The evidence is so compelling, in fact, that many leading researchers now believe it's conclusive. "I have no hesitation whatsoever to say that air pollution causes dementia," says Caleb Fin…
Woolly Mammoth invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of the field's leading regional companies. The next Managing Director will join Artistic Director Maria …
The conversation about AI is full of confusion, misinformation, and people talking past each other " in large part because we use the word "AI" to refer to so many things. So here's the big …
The ancient country, known as Doggerland, which could once have had great plains with rich soils, formed an important land bridge between Britain and northern Europe. It was long believed to…
Seventy percent said they had kept their disability hidden because of worries it would damage a relationship with a venue, promoter or festival, while two thirds said they had to "compromise…
It's an issue, since the beginning of art. Where does one person's art end and another's begin. The lines are quite blurry… " Smithsonian
So was it a troll? " Washington Post
"In our own world, filled with ubiquitous date marks, it is easy to underestimate the sheer novelty, and so historical significance, of this mass year-marking. But, in the ancient world, thi…
Primary market galleries in Italy no longer have to pay the artist's resale right (ARR) when selling a work for the first time on behalf of an artist, meaning only works being resold are sub…
