5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
The Las Vegas Philharmonic is in its 19th season and has established itself among the nation's leading regional orchestras. The mission is to perform music that enriches, educates, and helps…
If we're really serious about changing how social networks operate, far more radical interventions are required. Here are three possible ways to rescue social media from the market-based pre…
In its 2018 Annual Plan, the broadcaster has acknowledged that young people aged 16-24 in the UK are spending more time watching Netflix than all of the BBC's programming combined, includ…
While many continued to think of Baldwin as the spokesperson for a vision of ultimate cross-racial communion such as concluded The Fire Next Time, Baldwin's speeches and essays grew incre…
While known for mocking the powerful as they strive to become objects of mass appeal, many of Banksy's illicit street artworks ultimately belong to private landlords, not the public. After a…
By analyzing the kinds of songs and artists that had the most success on the Hot-100, we can see that in 9 short years, there have been major changes in music.
Verdi set the opera, entitled Die Macht des Schicksas, to a German-language libretto by Bläuel Wittling, a poet who ran a women-only writers commune on the banks of the Spree river north…
Practices of toleration that used to be seen as essential to freedom are being deconstructed and dismissed as structures of repression, and any ideas or beliefs that stand in the way of this…
During deep brain stimulation procedures, doctors implant electrodes in the brain to try and control tremors. The patient must be awake during surgery, so doctors can see the effects of the …
How is it that human thought is so deeply different from that of other animals, even though our brains can be quite similar? The difference is due, Andy Clark believes, to our heightened abi…
You can't measure schmoozing skills in auction data"or, can you? Trustees and big-name art collectors, after all, tend to collect (and, therefore, want to see exhibited) the kind of expensiv…
To determine the results of the study, test subjects participated in "psychometric testing and heart rate tests" as they did activities that were positive for their health including attendin…
In a backstage interview with Coltrane during intermission at the Stockholm concert, a local jazz DJ noted that some critics were finding his new sound "unbeautiful" and "angry," then asked,…
According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short-story fiction experienced far less need for "cognitive closure" compared with counterparts who…
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy's wish has come true, with President Donald Trump signing his Eliminating Government-Funded Oil-Painting -- or EGO -- Act into law on Wednesday. The cheekily nam…
"According to Nielsen Audio Fall 2017 ratings, the total weekly listeners for all programming on NPR stations is 37.7 million people " a record that has been maintained since the Spring of 2…
Beginning in the Fall 2018 semester, Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., will offer two paid graduate assistantships to students in the College's growing Master of Science in Arts Administra…
"Diversity isn't enough. The end game is not just having more black or brown people on stage, though that certainly has an impact. That is meaningful, but on its own it won't change the dire…
"It effectively says an orchestral workspace is no different from a factory," said Mark Pemberton, director of the Association of British Orchestras. "What it says is that musicians will nee…
To assess our health, we weigh ourselves, measure our blood pressure, and check our cholesterol. But one scientist is trying to figure out the connection between our well-being and something…
Nashville is cool now. Which is to say, there are parts of Nashville that serve and appeal to and are filled with members of the so-called creative class and promise a different "experience"…
While nostalgia was expected to bring in eyeballs, no one predicted such a huge turnout on premiere night for the blue-collar family sitcom with a Donald Trump-supporting protagonist, especi…
I order the set on Amazon, used, for over 100 euros. It comes with a pile of CDs and a "Handbook," basically a thick CD booklet. One morning, I make myself comfortable next to my electronic …
Much of what the orchestra does is, in fact, innovative. The orchestra is well on its way to having one of the youngest audiences in the U.S., if not the world. The orchestra's adventurous o…
When Islamabad was built as the capital of a newly independent Pakistan, it was the "old bookshops" that gave the neighbourhoods a spirit and character beyond the insipid soullessness that p…
