5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
"If I want to improvise during "Mary Had a Little Lamb," for example, first I memorize it. That's because when I'm performing onstage, I want to let my mind be completely free. "Mary Had a L…
When new temporary rule changes for Oscar eligibility were announced in April because of COVID-19, Academy president David Rubin told Variety it was too soon to know how the 2021 Oscar telec…
A Cambridge spokesman told LBC News: "The University is constantly adapting to changing advice as it emerges during this pandemic. Given that it is likely that social distancing will continu…
"I came to love this image, this mysterious, nameless village by a famous but nameless artist, long before I knew anything about art or criticism. I often wonder whether I would even pause f…
Charles McNulty: "While no virus can defeat this art form, the theater will have to change to meet the challenges of a transformed world. While we're mourning the loss of playgoing among the…
Theatre Calgary is on the search for its next Executive Director
Theater owners are the most eager to get Broadway back in gear; top producers are more cautious, since they are the ones who lose their shirts over diminished demand. All acknowledge that th…
"Comparing the Covid-19 pandemic with the second world war is a perilous and largely ridiculous game. Yet in purely practical terms, the war was the last time cultural organisations ground e…
"Our images don't often depict the pandemic explicitly, say with an ambulance or an unusually empty street, but they likely convey how you are feeling through this. Anxiety, grief, boredom, …
There is a growing body of scientific evidence showing that our internal mental states, including our emotions, might also be socially transmissible. Understanding the nature and dynamics of…
Der Tagesspiegel, a local newspaper, saw the departure of the Flick collection as "further proof of Berlin's gradual metamorphosis from a creative hub into a stronghold for property speculat…
Some performers get their fans involved " whether by taking requests or doing Q&As, virtual charity festivals or tutorials like Duran Duran star John Taylor with his bass masterclasses a…
Rothenberg's paintings are spare and stark"frequently understated in their color palette and simple in their form. But through even the vague suggestion of figures, Rothenberg was able to cr…
Young Iranian composers have set up a network for mentorship, commissioning and presenting. " The New York Times
ArtUK has released a tool that allows anyone to build, annotate and share their own online show of digital art. Which art? Anything in public collections in the UK, so there's a lot to choos…
When processed by childhood Pokémon players, the images lit up a small groove in the temporal lobe that remained mostly inactive in the brains of Pokémon newbies. " Aeon
Publishing books about an unfolding calamity, when the duration and outcome remain uncertain, carries obvious risks for authors and publishers. With so many unanswered questions about the vi…
"In fact, no correlation exists between population density and rates of COVID-19 infection, according to recent studies examining the disease in China and Chicago. But if state and local gov…
Goethe genuinely advanced fields of scientific inquiry such as geology and colour theory; Nabokov is always said to have been an eminent entomologist. Leonardo da Vinci, naturally, is an obv…
The shift to an almost purely commodified art world surely begins with the rise of the art dealer as influential trend-setter and arbiter of taste from the 1870s onwards; it has reached its …
Understanding consciousness might be the greatest scientific challenge of our time. How can physical stuff, eg electrical impulses, explain mental stuff, eg dreams or the sense of self? Why …
"In a world where we are already confronting critical interconnected challenges: climate change, the refugee crisis, food scarcity, system collapse, etc. I think it is essential that we cont…
Nearly all the jobs in this supersector involve some form of in-person services rendered for gatherings of people " which, of course, became impossible to maintain when social distancing req…
"In The Long Haul" draws on the painful financial aftermath of the 2008 recession. The report concludes that nonprofits can expect attendance, subscriptions, working capital and corporate gi…
City of Philadelphia political leaders must recognize that arts, culture and the creative economy are a critical part of the City's economy and quality of life and it is a "must have" functi…
