5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
One of the things that copyright law allows some courts to do in the nineteenth century is to essentially exert control over what gets put onstage, because in theory, if you say this has no …
"I am not at all shy about how much personally I love it as a show. But for me, understanding what's problematic about it helps me appreciate it more and helps me understand more what is pos…
It's easy to say what a bad translation is. The ones that are accidentally jagged like the person wielding the scissors was drunk. The ones where someone has misunderstood the original, or p…
The absence of joy and pleasure"anhedonia"has, in its way, become a popular issue in the wake of the disease depression. A quarter of us are affected by it over the course of a lifetime, var…
Why does the classical music industry only look to its own professionals to solve its problems? I know musical enthusiasts whose opinions are no less informed or apposite than my own and wor…
The event marked the end of to the international investigation of black-market antiquities and the evangelical Green family, the owners of Hobby Lobby and collectors of biblical material who…
In our research " and in clinical psychology more broadly " absolutist thinking is viewed as an unhealthy thinking style that disrupts emotion-regulation and hinders people from achiev…
The critic must reconcile history and poetry. A poem is a product of its time just as much"if the poem's any good"as a triumph over its time. Many poems are so familiar we have forgotten how…
At some point in the future, could an A.I. company manufacture something akin to a neural bridge, allowing ordinary people to occasionally share their experiences? Maybe. Elon Musk recently …
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe a standing ovation should be a precious thing saved only for that rare occasion where something is so extraordinary and superlative that you can't help b…
If Sotheby's were a hospital, his department would be "the E.R. or a clinic." One analysis is like an M.R.I., and another is like a CT scan. He described analyses as "noninvasive." Mr. Marti…
Noah Charney's premise is fairly uncontroversial: He argues that our understanding of art history is skewed by survivorship bias and that to understand the art we still have, it's critica…
The channels occupy a precarious space between YouTube's algorithm and its copyright policing, drawing comparisons to the unlicensed pirate radio stations of the 20th century, recre…
Information technology and its effect on the way we think and feel is a crucial issue in our time. In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Lyotard wrote, "It is con…
Ultimately, to challenge Facebook, Google, and the many unknown players of the data economy, we must devise new business models and structural incentives that aren't rooted in manipulation a…
The museum advertised for a successor with "a highly developed EQ", and Hollein seems to fit the bill. In San Francisco, as in Frankfurt, he is credited with energising curators, pushing the…
Viewed in a vacuum, Infinity War is meaningless. As a standalone film, it's a mess. Characters pop up for one scene and then vanish again completely. Nobody has any meaningful screen time. T…
MoviePass has taken the sector by storm, attracting nearly 2 million new subscribers over the past year. But as its executives claim to be sending droves of new customers to theaters, MovieP…
"On a personal note, I would like to announce my upcoming retirement as classical music critic of the Chicago Tribune. When I step down July 1, I will have held this position at the paper fo…
Northwestern University's MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program develops leaders in business, innovation, and entrepreneurship across Entertainment, Media and the Arts. Earn your…
"We've created a scammy society where we concentrate wealth in ways that are petty and not helpful, and we've given them a world of far fewer options than we had. There's nothing I want more…
Intoning lines from a piece called "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" was probably not the best way to assuage concerns that shareholders might be making hay on the back of higher…
Horne carries her 84 years the way others carry 60. Her mind is sharp, likewise her memory, and her speaking voice retains its unmistakable metal. Dwelling on the past is not her style. "I d…
Popular YouTubers, some as young as 12, are being paid to personally endorse the service. In some of the videos YouTubers say if you cannot be bothered to do the work, EduBirdie has a "super…
The new Guide for Grand Parisians "is a guide to the present and the future," says Rémi Babinet, the president both of BETC and of the Endowment for Art and Culture of the Grand Paris Expre…
