5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
Doesn't translating a work of literature inevitably involve moving things around and altering many of the relations between the words in the original? In which case, either the original's al…
Much of the debate among researchers falls into two opposing camps. One group claims that our ability to reason is hijacked by our partisan convictions: that is, we're prone to rationalizati…
It alleges that Bona Yoo, a former director who is now working at Lévy Gorvy gallery as a sales director, "surreptitiously copied valuable trade secrets" from Lehmann Maupin's computer syst…
Boutique renovations, like most renovations, are often delayed. They frequently run over budget. But rarely are they delayed and over budget because a mysterious artwork more than three cent…
I’d like to ask for your help. ArtsJournal has traditionally not linked to stories behind hard paywalls because our readers can’t see them unless they pay. We have, however, link…
That Mike Pence and other standard-bearers within this movement can regularly lean on King's legacy is a consequence of how the civil-rights leader has been canonized. When President Ronald …
Matt Bray spent a year traveling all over the world filming himself dancing with whomever was where he was. He calls it the “1000 People of Dance” project, and it’s fun. &#…
Statistics from UK book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan show that sales grew by just over 12% last year, for the second year in a row. In total, 1.3m volumes of poetry were sold in 2018, addi…
The £288 million it will cost will all come from private donations, and the hall's backers know critics will say now is not the time for such an expensive building. "Now is never the time…
Images show a place of open foyers dotted with informal performance spaces, where mezzanines, stairs and escalators create a vertical parade of places to see and be seen. Architect Diller de…
The tour starts with a mock-up of a chief officer's work space. A mannequin wearing a K.G.B. chief officer's uniformis at a desk with a flag of Soviet Russia behind him. To the mannequin'…
It was a tough decision says Edwin Torres, the organization’s new leader. Do we live our values or not? So GIA arranged to move its sessions to cultural venues all over Oakland. It mad…
China's box office hit new heights in 2018, raking in about $9 billion, but it was also a year of drastic regulatory changes and a government tax crackdown that have spooked investors and pu…
The loss is primarily because of the company’s investment in the Hulu streaming service. Disney has announced its own streaming service Disney+ which is supposed to launch later this y…
Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics and, more specifically, on age progression (e.g., how people are likely to look as they get old…
Robert Alter's method of peeling down to the strangeness of the original in order to reveal another kind of beauty can be bracing, like seeing a familiar painting with its accumulations ofÂ…
The classical field is now waiting to see what Mr. Salonen will do in his career's full maturity. He has announced a benevolent little think-tank army of artists who will be helping him, inc…
“I think our job as cultural leaders is to empower that conversation, to say 'Let's elevate artists' leadership at this time when we need people to articulate a future that we can all …
The name has become an adjective as well as a noun " Bauhaus style, Bauhaus look. And now it is coming up for the centenary of its founding, which shows both that what was called the "…
Netflix published the figures for some of their biggest recent releases – Sex Education, You and Bird Box. And those numbers were pretty impressive, with the two series on course to be…
Twenty years ago Hollywood earned 30 percent of its revenue internationally. Now it’s 70 percent. And that means what Hollywood makes is more and more influenced by the international m…
“LADY FILMING IN THE 4th ROW, PLEASE STOP IT, I gotta holler just to be heard…” he rapped, according to his tweet. The clever diss replaced the line, “The problem is …
Put the word "national" in your name and you become a receptacle for a country's values. In what you do, the nation will seek to see the very definition of itself; a definition perhaps vague…
Mark Wigglesworth wants to make "opera accessible to all" and "all", by definition, includes riff-raff. He sees this as the ENO's mission. "Accessibility," he writes, "is not really about th…
Sometimes he wrote columns in which all of the proper names had been excised, which rendered them useless as gallery PR; others featured pseudonymous composite characters like "Gaston Porcil…
