5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
"The global poverty rate is now lower than it has ever been in recorded history," Jim Yong Kim, a former president of the World Bank, recently argued. "This is one of the greatest human achi…
The MOCAD board brought in outside counsel to investigate the allegations against Elysia Borowy-Reeder, who became director in 2013. In a release announcing her termination, the board said t…
Even in the best years, funding for arts and culture in our city does not meet the needs of the communities we serve. It is time to expose this hard truth and build the support needed to foc…
Amid this deluge of performance art offerings flowing into my house, I realized two words marred my experience: remote and control. With remote clenched in one hand and phone in the other, i…
"As protesters have remade this avenue, forcing the removal of memorials to men who betrayed their country, covering the remaining plinths with graffiti and activating the street day and nig…
In a stunning reversal, AMC Theatres has struck a historic agreement with Universal that will allow the studio's movies to be made available on premium video-on-demand after just 17 days of …
Reading Mozart's correspondence is like being tugged by an enthusiastic, garrulous friend right into the green room of 18th-century European culture. The cast list extends from Empress Maria…
It was called Bookman, started in 1895, and was the only place you could see which books were selling. "Once invented, the best seller could be discussed in literary journals, trade publicat…
The move to Freeview, the digital network free to all UK residents, has been under discussion for years and is motivated by "a passion to get as much content to as many people as possible an…
In 2014, he secured $17 million from Mrs. O'Donnell to create the institute of art history. In 2017, UTD partnered with the late Margaret McDermott to create the Richard Brettell Award in th…
Tim Parks: "All of narrative fiction, I've suggested, can be sorted into four grand categories. Each presents a rich world of feeling in which any number of stories can be told and positions…
Introduced in 1832, the radical idea was called the National Equitable Labour Exchange " a system of currency built on the idea that labour is the source of all wealth, and that goods should…
Anyone concerned with the question of charismatic political leaders necessarily stands in the shadow of Max Weber, the great German sociologist who wrote sketches of the subject not long bef…
Netflix dominated the 72nd Emmy Award nominations on Tuesday, breaking the record for the most nominations ever, and a newcomer to the streaming universe, Disney+, scored a nomination in a b…
Along with AMC and Cinemark, Regal closed down U.S. sites in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic " which profoundly altered the spring and summer slate. "Wonder Woman 1984" was moved to O…
PlayPenn doesn't have new leadership yet, but its old leadership is gone. Earlier this week the organization's board accepted the resignation of its founding artistic director, Paul Meshejia…
Warner Bros. finally acknowledged reality: The U.S. is simply not ready for big films to return, and the country has lost its position as the most important movie market in the world. " The …
If you're somehow not familiar with the name, Bob Ross is probably America's most famous painter. With his distinctive hair, gentle voice, and signature expressions like "happy little trees,…
"I think that's an exciting direction for public art to take, for people to feel a sense of authority and ownership over their shared space and what it should look like. We have a city full …
According to the Canadian Independent Venue Coalition, which has launched an online campaign to support Canadian venues, without government support, more than 90 per cent of independent venu…
Golden Thread Productions is seeking a new Executive Artistic Director to follow in the footsteps of Founding Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian.
Doug Shipman said he informed the Woodruff in February of his intentions to leave after three years of leading the organization. The Woodruff Arts Center is Atlanta's foundational arts or…
The bus from the airport to my resort gave me plenty of time to contemplate my life decisions. An air-conditioned trip through a hot zone of the worst disease outbreak in a century will conc…
Most writers have novels that never see the light of day. But 13? That's serious dedication. The books were written over a decade while Sanderson was working as a night clerk at a hotel " a …
His work will appear next summer in his first published collection. Nadim does not write down his poems though. He dictates them. And that's because Nadim doesn't really read and write yet. …
