5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the r…
Their most striking finding: The best-selling pop songs almost uniformly contain violent imagery. Amazingly, 99.5 percent of the pop hits they analyzed (198 in total) referred to violent act…
Of course, translating isn't only the business of people who get paid to do it. Around 300 languages are used daily in London, and New York may be home to as many as 800, according to the En…
The dismissive term "Pinkering" has been coined to describe applying a too-sunny gloss to world events. A cartoon strip published in Current Affairs shows a crazed-looking Pinker st…
The key to making the most out of small talk, according to Harvard researchers, is to simply ask the other person follow-up questions. In a series of experiments, researchers analyzed more t…
When you hear music " or any rhythmic sound " it activates the portion of the brain that coordinates and times movement, the same neural pathways that regulate your running pace. While any u…
"The mission of a university I believe should be to understand. And if you do a great job of research, that can be the basis for all kinds of activism later. But if you start with a commitme…
So Wikipedia cites a source for a piece of information. The source cites Wikipedia. And around and around it goes. Trying to find out the original sourcing can be a frustratingly circular ex…
Overall, the researchers found no significant differences in the amount of content the kids retained, regardless of which version of the lessons they received. But the arts-infused approach …
For Hollywood, classical music has become the trademark of villains. On screen, orchestral melodies accompany the meditations of mad geniuses and pouting serial killers. Norman Bates practic…
Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become Managing Director of Pittsburgh Playhouse/Director of the Center for Entertainment Manag…
The closure comes after months of troubles that seeped into public view.In October, the Art Institute of Seattle laid off most of its full-time faculty as Dream Center announced 18 of …
Artistic Director /Dean of the Conservatory for the Performing Arts Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA invites qualified candidates to submit applications
Sunset Cultural Center, Inc. (SCC) in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, seeks a dynamic fundraising professional with an interest in community engagement for the position of Director …
Gone are the sound-absorbing dropped ceilings and acoustical tile, cubicle dividers, wall-to-wall carpets, and upholstered chairs. In their place are reflective high ceilings with exposed H.…
"As an artist I like to understand how things work. I only refer to that in my performances, because I hate it when people say, "You should do this, you should do that." I never try to do th…
"We have heard stories about people finding the confidence to get their first ever job or making new friendships with people from a different generation, area or culture who they didn't thin…
It's still obvious to even the most casual viewer that Netflix hates movies, because they won't offer their viewers something that theaters, LaserDiscs, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-rays, and even …
Composed in 1924, the 'Andante' melody had originally been scribbled by Elgar on a sheet of manuscript paper, which he signed clearly with his name. But for more than a century, it was hidde…
The role of copies still raises larger questions about the mission of museums and the nature of authenticity. Does it matter if the works of art or historical objects on display are copies? …
If they hadn't found each other in the New York art scene, the players involved could have met on a Spike Jonze film set: a computer scientist commanding five-figure print sales from softwar…
The recent phenomenon of so-called cancel culture " the notion of withholding moral, financial and other support for prominent figures deemed problematic " has grown to become the default…
One of this Broadway season's clearest successes, the play, directed by Ivo van Hove and also starring Tony Goldwyn and Tatiana Maslany, routinely posts weekly box office of $1 million or mo…
Buddy Guy is eighty-two and a master of the blues. What weighs on him is the idea that he may be the last. Several years ago, after the funeral of B. B. King, he was overcome not only …
While we tend to condemn clichés harshly, the scholar of rhetoric Ruth Amossy at Tel Aviv University has shown that they're in fact crucial to the way we bond with and read other human bein…
