5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
Many New Orleans artists make at least 50 percent, and some as many as 75 to 100 percent, of their income during festival seasons. "New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Essence Music Fe…
Return on investment (ROI) logic has become a dominant motif of much of philanthropy today. Many contemporary philanthropists perceive themselves as social entrepreneurs, doing well by doing…
The new season will include in-person Masterworks concerts at the Carpenter Theatre at the Dominion Energy Center in September, October and November. The capacity of the Carpenter Theatre wi…
Over the last half-century, Warhol has been merchandised into the trite, plastic banality he supposedly critiqued, but as Blake Gopnik reminds us, the artist is much harsher, and more cynica…
The cuts are needed to address the financial challenges of the pandemic-related shutdown, Kennedy Center president and chief executive Deborah Rutter said in an interview. The arts center pr…
Writing today in the journal Science, dozens of researchers from around the world show that the seismic activity from our civilization plummeted as lockdowns went into effect. This "anthropo…
There was a time, not that long ago, when"like most of America"publishers thought that this Trump boom would end when the president left office. It increasingly seems like it could outlast T…
Some of these people have taken the opportunity to begin a radical rethinking of their operations. Others are doing their best to maintain a connection with their patrons and audiences that …
If, as I gloomily expect, this pandemic mushrooms into a huge, epochal shift in the social, economical and political landscape of the United States, then history teaches us perfectly clearly…
German scientists are planning to equip 4,000 pop music fans with tracking gadgets and bottles of fluorescent disinfectant to get a clearer picture of how Covid-19 could be prevented from sp…
After months of monotone condolences and a vague "five-step roadmap" from culture secretary Oliver Dowden, the British government Beyoncéd the arts community on 5 July by announcing a surpr…
Dancers, unlike baseball players, may not be known for virus-spreading habits like spitting, but their job poses multiple risks. They work in studio spaces with varying degrees of ventilatio…
Far from being embraced as a high-minded salute to free speech and the bracing effects of political discourse, the letter was blasted for messages its authors swear were never intended. " Wa…
The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Flynn) is located in downtown Burlington, Vermont, and has been at the center of Vermont's cultural landscape throughout its 90-year history.
The online dramas that so many theatres have made available, from the RSC to the National Theatre, have had a hugely democratising effect on an art form that is often accused of being elitis…
For many professors, the sudden transition was a struggle. For Malan, it was the natural extension of a decade's worth of experimentation. "Our team is fortunate to have been doing this blen…
No one has had time to truly refine their ideas about personal life in a state of widespread isolation and existential dread, and literature, even when political, is a fundamentally personal…
The workers " public-facing staffers who watched over galleries and answered questions about art " had announced plans to unionize with AFSCME in early November over concerns related to wage…
"It's the first time in my position that I feel like I'm truly being heard," she explains of how she's using her voice to raise awareness, later adding, "This has been my life's work as a da…
Her departure has unleashed a tempest in the art circles of Canada, where the Montreal museum is viewed as something of a national treasure; the debate over why Nathalie Bondil was let go ha…
"While we never mind insisting that art can change the world, we get fuzzy when pressed on the details of how. In pursuing "usefulness," the past decades have witnessed an increasing instrum…
"We put over 100 people who were madly in love into a brain scanner using fMRI. We noticed those who had fallen in love in the first eight months had a lot of activity in brain regions linke…
What is needed is "not just a bailout" but a "long-term plan" that would enable the sector to "come out the other side. What we've seen is a lack of joined-up thinking across government," he…
"In the 15 years between the inception of a fully-integrated bi-directional digital medium"the internet"and the onset of the coronavirus pandemic bringing with it imposed social distancing, …
If cancellation is removal from a position of prominence on the basis of an ideological crime, it might appear that there is a case to be made for canceling Aristotle. He has much prominence…
