5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
As we try to navigate through an age defined by particularly egregious bullshit, writers have a moral obligation to avoid infecting the universe with more careless storytelling. It's a privi…
Those who are familiar with the state's cultural agenda in Russia are no longer surprised by these kinds of events, but it's still difficult to get used to. You're a good artist if you earn …
Bulgarian engineers and cyberneticians, champions of this new technology, increasingly worried about what this meant. In the ivory towers of places such as the Institute of Technical Cyberne…
It hardly seems likely that the life of an obscure Anglican clergyman should recommend itself to the attention of a modern biographer; the shelves of second-hand bookshops are the sepulchers…
A study of 234 performing-arts professionals found those who experienced intense childhood trauma"about 18 percent of the participants"reported higher levels of anxiety and internalized sham…
If Stuart Kells wants to show that libraries are human places, he has also chosen stories that reveal their venal side. His librarians can be thieves, hoarders, or shameful caretakers. Even …
Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, who chairs the jury, said the judges had chosen "an outstanding group of artists, all of whom are tackling the most pressing political and humanitaria…
The Teatro Regio appointed a new superintendent, William Graziosi, this week, which means Mr. Noseda would have had to reapply to keep his post as music director, the position he has held si…
"I never thought of music as just the basic energetic impulse that makes you want to dance; it was always like a textbook, something worth studying. If you consider choreography to be an org…
It was around this time in the interview that all hell broke loose. After sharing that I had made the trip from Los Angeles expressly to see her Lear, I told her that she had helped me to he…
The Arts Professional Ethics survey tells us that 73% of arts organisation employees consider their employer to be at reputational risk through association with a sponsor or major donor whos…
The survey findings raise the question of 'whose ethics' arts organisations should adopt. "It is important to look across the whole of society and not the organisation's own immediate echo c…
The fall is mainly due to weather problems in Europe, which caused hardships for wine producers in the region. Poor weather conditions including droughts and storms hindered production in th…
Can the arrival of Western culture in the Middle East be equated simply with European imperialism? Is this how the European bourgeoisie, as Marx would say, 'creates the world after its own i…
BAX is seeking a dynamic, experienced Executive/Artistic leader, with the capacity and willingness to embrace the values that define BAX, while furthering the mission and vision that have ma…
For more than two decades, geographers and sociologists have debated the character and role of cities in globalisation. Historians have been a step behind, producing less and more cautious w…
The investigation did not find "systemic discrimination" that was known to, and tolerated by, senior management. The investigation also largely absolved Laura R. Walker, the president and ch…
Mathematics and poetry are both "formats that can convey multiple meanings." In mathematics, a single object or idea might take different forms. A quadratic equation, for example, can be und…
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens Thursday on a six-acre site overlooking the Alabama state capital, is dedicated to the victims of American white supremacy. And it de…
After The Chronicle spent more than a week trying to verify Drew Cloud's existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Cloud was fake. "Drew Cloud is a pseudonym th…
The way to document the finished works hasn't been completed yet, but each will be accompanied by extensive musical notes, Labanotation " a method for recording dances " interviews with danc…
I've run a handful of races per year since my first 5K in 2008, and have done enough theme/costume runs to be used to seeing women (and occasionally men) in fluffy statement skirts"sometimes…
Even though the technologies are new, the horror and despair of the current informational carnage are not unprecedented. Since the beginning of the Internet, the unintended consequences of i…
If we can't rely on what they say to get a clear sense of how Facebook et al see themselves and the way they are reshaping the world, then what clues do we have? The biggest and most concret…
I've termed it 'metric fixation'. The key components of metric fixation are the belief that it is possible " and desirable " to replace professional judgment (acquired through personal…
