5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
People are usually sure that they're living within a particular culture, but typically wonder if what they have is a civilization. It's been that way since the days of Madame de Staël and…
We arrive ready to interact with other humans and our culture. The real genius of human babies is not simply that they learn from the environment " other animals can do that. Human babies ca…
Just as the advent of the commercial recording industry (and, later, the evolution of analog recording formats, from wax cylinders to 78-r.p.m. disks and long-playing vinyl records) changed …
To find out, we examined the educational histories of 100 curators who specialize in contemporary art at 69 fine art museums in 32 states. We found that there is no one way to become a curat…
"Much of the public conversation about important issues in the music business seems light in nutritional value, or narrowly focused on the concerns and actions of a handful of superstars. If…
Scientists studying the site have been able to present some remarkable theories. For one, we haven't found any direct evidence of a king. The city's extensive mural paintings contain no obvi…
Much of the analysis that followed focused on the show's politics: Star Roseanne Barr is an eager champion of debunked right-wing conspiracies, and the premiere's storyline hinged on her cha…
What is it about dance, a non-verbal art, that allows it to do what words cannot? Is it that it is physical/gestural rather than verbal, or instead that it is characteristically artistic�…
Italy's far-right Lega party, which won almost 18% of the vote in the general election on 4 March and could form part of the next coalition government, wants to turn a former Fascist party h…
Geoffrey C. Bunn argues that the history of the lie detector doubles as the history of an attempt to contend with the rise of mass culture: the machine, as a manifestation of a widespread de…
The vital signs of classical music all tend in the wrong direction, says Joseph Horowitz. The conductors fly in and leave. The musicianship is superior but dull. The composer is long dead, a…
AI researcher Robbie Barrat decided to see what would happen when he fed a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) thousands of nude portraits from a dataset and then trained it to create…
"Virtual reality confounds the idea of the 'mind-body problem,' the relationship between the conscious mind and physical body that's remained a staple of the philosophy of mind since Aristot…
To assess their creativity, all students performed a series of problems from the Alternative Uses Task, a common measure of creative ability in which one is asked to come up with novel us…
"One reason for this is that they do not appear on stage. Unlike conductors, who stand in front of an orchestra and wave a baton, they are invisible artists whose work is done when the curta…
According to Sir Brian Vickers, a major reason he has not yet found a home for his complete edition of works by Thomas Kyd is that his "reputation as a scholar has been damaged by a string o…
The free-to-play Fortnite: Battle Royale has become a cultural sensation with a wide-ranging playerbase. How do we know? Because professional sports players won't stop mimicking the game's w…
Egyptian mummies pose a unique challenge because the desert's scorching climate rapidly degrades DNA. Earlier attempts at obtaining their ancient DNA either failed or produced results contam…
Today's Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is in large measure Tovey's creation, having brought in more than half the players and significantly raised performance standards, as anyone could testif…
They anointed themselves the "most accessible orchestra on the planet," and have gone some ways toward justifying that superlative. Tickets are cheaper than at other orchestras; my press sea…
By rewording the ads to appeal to the respondents' underlying psychological disposition, the researchers were able to influence and change their opinions. According to Sumner, "Using psychog…
"Our staffs increasingly reflect the communities in which we operate. Â But our Boards do not. Â Larger, euro-centric mainstay arts organization boards are largely composed of an elite g…
"Whenever a fact contradicts one of our beliefs, we are prompted to restore consistency by revising some of the beliefs in our web. But in choosing what to revise, we are no longer guided by…
"That night, it didn't take long for some rather prominent coughing to break out, before the crowd let loose with less subtle forms of protest: boos and catcalls, the agitation growing over …
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity seeks dynamic, people-oriented and assertive Managing Director to oversee the curation, executive production, quality control, and overall mission alignm…
