5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
Only so many movies are chosen, and the road isn’t straight. Here is a movie-by-movie account of how each got to be a best picture nominee. – Deadline
“Modern thinking around disability looks to a social model: people are disabled by society's structures, the stairs they can't climb and the doors a wheelchair can't fit though are sim…
“Since the financial crash of 2008, across Europe and in the United States, there has been (to borrow a phrase from Frank Kermode) a "sense of an ending". Liberal orthodoxies have fall…
Writing in 1994, Sven Birkerts worried that distractedness and surficiality would win out. The "duration state" we enter through a turned page would be lost in a world of increasing speed an…
Former Hollywood film director Anthony Wilkinson " now director of Wimbledon International Music Festival " is looking to raise around £100 million for the concert hall. Wilkinson told th…
“Fiscal responsibility is good business. But it is immaterial with respect to, and when contrasted with, a nonprofit's impact. Fiscal responsibility, then, has no place anywhere near a…
The weekends revolve around the concerts, held on Fridays. There are sometimes other notable events, like hot-air balloon rides. Mr. Bocelli performed on the same weekend as a well-known …
English has lost more students than other subjects. Undergraduate enrolments on English degrees have also fallen: from an all-time high of around 51,000 in 2011/12 to 39,000 last year, altho…
This may not feel like a particularly revolutionary time. But, if we look closely, we can see current economic, social, and political forces pulling us in two directions. One direction will …
Photography has long played a crucial role in how we shape the narrative of our lives. Milestones are documented, creating an archive that can be looked back on for years to come. But the va…
This idea that animals are conscious was long unpopular in the West, but it has lately found favor among scientists who study animal cognition. And not just the obvious cases"primates, dogs,…
Augsburg University in Minnesota suspended a professor for using the N-word during a class discussion about a James Baldwin book in which the word appeared — and for sharing essays …
"(Gimme some of that) Ol' Atonal Music," by the singer Merle Hazard, details in sunny and endearing tones a love of atonality, while explaining to newbies what that is (music that isn't in o…
At some tech companies, faith in the mission is encouraged to the point that it resembles religious belief. Employees are invited to see themselves as proselytizers for the transformation of…
Our ears perceive loudness in an environment by reflexively noting the dynamic range " the difference between the softest and loudest sounds (in this case, the environment is the recor…
The deal, reached between Actors' Equity, a union representing 51,000 performers and stage managers, and the Broadway League, a trade organization for producers, is a milestone, markin…
 A few years ago there was an expectation that stars such as Sturgill Simpson and Margo Price might bring a new sound and sensibility to country music. Instead, they became their own subg…
“People trying to assess Peter Martins's career should keep in mind that, in the history of ballet, he had what was probably the worst case, ever, of big shoes to fill. Balanchine was …
If you explained Twitter, the blogosphere, and newsy partisan outlets like Daily Kos or National Review to the Founding Fathers, they'd recognize them instantly. A resurrected Franklin…
“As a letter signed this week by human rights organisations, lawyers, academics and musicians argues, criminalising artists in this way is both unjust and ineffective. It is unju…
"We are working on an opera right now called ‘A Good Boy,’ which is about families who have loved ones living on death row,” Marc Callahan, who is responsible for directing…
“The purpose of this study was to comparatively examine the ways in which Communities of Music Therapy and El Sistema programs may address the empowerment needs of individuals and comm…
The foundation in recent years has focused itself around social justice and equity issues. But this is the first time it has got into programming itself. "Art fosters representation, and we …
Phil Kennicott: “This is a perfect film for the age of Donald Trump, a revenge fantasy perpetrated against elites, who are caricatured as venal, corrupt and beyond redemption. And desp…
"While it does take longer for artists to get to their first album, once they are there, everything accelerates. Suddenly they reach a level that might have previously been reached by album …
