5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
“Artworks were compromised,” museum spokesperson Shadia Lemus told Westword. “The individual was arrested at the museum and taken into police custody.” Whether …
Because the ideologies of the past century have been largely discredited as false utopias, we are bereft of the notion of a better future. Whether the idea of a utopia ever returns will depe…
According to the neuroscientist Matthew Walker"in his 2017 book, "Why We Sleep""insomnia, strictly defined, is a clinical disorder most commonly associated with an overactive sympathetic ner…
Using AI tools to analyze this piece of literature shed new light on key elements of emotion and memory in the book " but they did not replace the skills of an expert or scholar at interpret…
We ranked each institution based on its "centrality" a mathematical concept drawn from Network Science and one that is at the core of the Google search ranking algorithm. We discovered that,…
"Because of him, ballet could not exclude us," said Virginia Johnson, one of Mitchell's first dancers and the current artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem. "We were his army, united …
Language is a system. Sounds, words and grammar do not exist in isolation: each of these three levels of language constitutes a system in itself. And, extraordinarily, these systems chang…
Conceiving of attention as a resource misses the fact that attention is not just useful. It's more fundamental than that: attention is what joins us with the outside world. 'Instrument…
Boosted by the new movie Bohemian Rhapsody, the 1975 single and music video surpassed 1.6 billion streams globally, record company Universal Music Group said in a statement.
By way of continued labor, poets attempt to craft language that can carry their ideas beyond the passing moment, reframing their experiments as steps toward the ultimate realization of their…
The experts predicted networked artificial intelligence will amplify human effectiveness but also threaten human autonomy, agency and capabilities. They spoke of the wide-ranging possibiliti…
The Marketing Manager develops and implements marketing strategies to help promote ticket, recruitment, and fundraising goals. Is responsible for setting and meeting annual attendance and re…
“In a word: I'm against the New Play. New Plays take many forms and have been around for years, but they seem especially prized lately. They're plays with budget-friendly cast sizes, s…
The principal at the elite "Fame" school, Lisa Mars, ordered Nazi flags and symbols removed from the stage set of the beloved tale of the Von Trapp family, who fled the Nazis from their nati…
“And that to me is pure theater: the sharing through the imagination of something down to earth and concrete and appealing for the imagination, so that there's always that sense of "an…
Every night there is bad and thoughtless behavior conducted by people who may have spent hundreds of dollars on theater tickets yet seemingly have no idea how to behave in an actual theater.…
"Rather than putting the onus on employers to address this issue alone, we decided to assist them by using the best knowledge we had available " our members' experiences. We asked reps about…
“I was now connected directly to the heart of the Great American Songbook. It was like knowing a guy who knew a guy who knew God. If the comparison seems blasphemous, let's recall the …
Our big takeaway from the project was finding a common point of interest and building engagement with groups around that. If we started with people who were too far removed from the work, we…
Its primary accomplishment is its bluntness, reflected in the subtitle A Candid Look at Broadway. No writer has better captured the way theater insiders actually talk about their craft. G…
Just under half of all UK theatres currently at risk are in coastal towns, the Theatres Trust has revealed, as it issues a plea for seaside venues to be "restored and repurposed". By investi…
The online survey was held in response to news that English National Opera is seeking permission to project adverts on to its safety curtain. Of 443 respondents to the poll, which aske…
The man, who had been seated in the balcony, began shouting "Heil Hitler, Heil Trump." Immediately after that, "People started running," audience member Rich Scherr said. "I'll be honest, I …
 If Shakespeare is the only named author on the national curriculum, how is it that 31% of those surveyed failed to recognise the playwright's name? That only 53% had been on a school tri…
What if you have never been to the theatre before? Could the entrance also be seen as a barrier that feels as if it is there to keep you out just as much to welcome you in? Once you get insi…
