5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
Television was a revolution in the way people accessed information and entertainment. We forget now, but artists were intrigued not just by by the medium’s possibilities but also by it…
Eric Booth: “Teachings artistry lives in the hybrid zone, where two essential human realms meet"art and learning"to enrich one another and create the most fecund human space. Indeed, t…
Many tribal art dealers feel that their work in restoring and preserving pieces, documenting information about them and helping to establish collections, has been misrepresented and point to…
Peter Galison: “The general project that I'm working on is about the self and technology"what we understand by the self and how it's changed over time. My sense is that the self is not…
It was a big year in literary deaths. End-of-an-era stuff… – LitHub
Once a writer dies, their work is controlled by an estate. Of course. But that control can often result in censorship, unreasonable demands for fees, and suppression of scholarship. Pity the…
Small gains were made in other key behind-the-scenes positions, the study found. Women accounted for a greater percentage of producers, executive producers, writers and editors, compared wit…
“We assume that a search engine company builds a model of human knowledge and allows us to query that model, or that some other company (or maybe it's the same company) builds a model …
This residency is for Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders who are ready, willing, and able to affect systems-level change across disciplines and cultures.
City of Austin's Economic Development Department is seeking a key senior staff member within its Cultural Arts Division, to develop, shape, and administer funding and capacity building progr…
It's a particularly stark reminder that no organization is purely good when money is the major organizing principle. The art and search for meaning that constitute the best expression of hum…
The experiment has already dipped into some North American venues where the virtual likeness of deceased crooner Roy Orbison received mixed reviews a few months ago. Opera singer Maria…
“Conceptually, one might argue, Western classical music is tailor-made for global promulgation since a score written in country A in year X could theoretically be rendered equally well…
So much of critical authority depends on confidence of opinion. To change your mind risks undermining that authority, an act of self-subversion. But I still think the better path is honesty.…
Eike Schmidt, who is German himself, said Berlin had a moral duty to give back the painting, Vase of Flowers, by the 18th century Dutch artist Jan van Huysum. It was looted from Florence …
A revolutionary, and now widely accepted, countermodel to Freud's scheme goes by the term "predictive mind." The theory comes in different flavors, but overall it holds that automatic proces…
Tribune, which controls 33 broadcast stations across the affected markets, had asked Charter to pay more than twice what it currently does for the same content going forward, said Charter sp…
London's mistreatment of its nightlife is such a tragedy. A city without clubs is a colorless place, and allowing them to disappear means marginalized communities vanish; young people fle…
The rise of the Internet and its remix culture means that a lot of people now benefit from a growing public domain in ways that weren’t true in 1998. That includes big companies like G…
The rise of cord-cutting (people ditching cable packages for cheaper digital options) is beginning to reduce financial margins at cable and satellite providers, and channels that aren&…
“If we truly believe in values that we can all identify with and aspire to " a recognition of truth, an understanding of science, an appreciation of the self, a respect for life and a …
He rocketed to fame after performing at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding. “If his star was already in the ascendant before 2018, becoming the first black instrumentalist …
"The Catcher in the Rye" was not originally marketed as a book for teens, but they responded to it as their anthem: More than 65Â million copies have been sold. I suspect, though, that the…
Kids still get picture books read to them. But now that we all communicate in writing so much more often, kids also read text messages. For a kid to get a text message written directly for t…
"Netflix is facing increased competition from some of its previous content suppliers," said Richard Broughton, an analyst at Ampere Analysis. "Despite its major focus on original content the…
