5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
Peter Schjeldahl: Online "virtual tours" add insult to injury, in my view, as strictly spectacular, amorphous disembodiments of aesthetic experience. Inaccessible, the works conjure in the i…
Lara Downes: "Two weeks of dates cancelled, and then before we knew it, two months. Every single concert, opera, festival, club date"our calendars were wiped clean. When it happened, some of…
Normally, Josh Kantor is in a perch at Boston's venerable baseball park, churning out tunes as the home team's official organist. In late March, with the season put on pause due to coronavir…
"The paper's remaining staffers are now faced with a devastating decision: they can either leave and let the state's largest paper, (and the country's first News Guild), die, ceding victory …
Plywood started going up about two weeks ago after vandals began smashing windows of closed businesses. That led to more plywood from store owners who feared they might be next. Things were …
"When suddenly we have to care about climate, health, and jobs and housing and care and communities, is there a framework around that can help us with all of that? Yes there is, and it is re…
"The huge growth of the art market at its top end is surely, as Michael Shnayerson suggests, a function of the spiralling number of billionaires and increasing disparities of wealth. He also…
Artistic or creative pursuits, endeavors that are typically pursued for the intrinsic joy of sharing one's gifts, are also frequently commoditized and placed on the market. Are they part of …
Musicians have lost the battle to monetize recordings. With the internet awash in cheap streaming and free videos, our income now comes from live performance alone. Even if livestreams end u…
The two leading platforms are Spotify with 35 percent and Apple Music, with 19 percent. Amazon Music is third with 15 percent of market share. Paid subscriptions represented 80 percent of to…
"[It's] the greatest art scam in Canadian history," says art dealer Don Robinson, who suffered a stroke because of the stress he endured in his campaign against a market awash with forgeries…
Representatives of those artists or their estates sued Universal in June, arguing that the company had been negligent in protecting their tapes and that the company had a duty to share with …
As it has always been, history will be written by the "victors" of the COVID-19 crisis. Every nation, and increasingly every individual, is experiencing the societal strain of this disease i…
Jennifer Koh got to work on Alone Together, an online performance series for which she hyper-compressed her usual process of discovering composers by asking 21 of them with some level of fin…
COVID is a social disease, a pathological experiment on the nature of our social relations. It is experienced in our social life in four major ways, and our responses bear upon the nature of…
While overall crime in the city fell in March compared with a year earlier, commercial and residential burglaries rose 26% to 942, according to a New York City Police report. The sometimes e…
Jerry Saltz: "Even an art-lover lifer like me has to admit much of the art world infrastructure feels like it's already in the balance. Some of it may be gone even now. In three months, or s…
In 1895 Ladies' Home Journal began to offer unfrilly, family-friendly architectural plans in its pages. They were mainly colonial, Craftsman, or modern ranch-style houses, and many still sta…
Essentially, it's a site that recommends the very best and most relevant books, podcasts, scientific articles, videos and journalism to anyone who wants a better understanding of the world. …
Live events and entertainment are people-based businesses that rely on the creation of emotional experiences and human interactions. Shedding too many employees, or the wrong employees, may …
In the age of GPS, we tend to take our navigation and spatial abilities for granted, until they " or the technology " let us down. It is easy to forget that they have sustained us for tens o…
As the undemocratic features of the Orbán regime became increasingly obvious, the cunning liberal directors would choose productions that, with even minimum sensibility, could be interpre…
The fact that all 28 Van Gogh paintings, from six separate thefts, were eventually recovered should offer hope that The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring will eventually return to its hom…
The absence rate appears particularly high in schools with many low-income students, whose access to home computers and internet connections can be spotty. Some teachers report that less tha…
As we are seeing with the coronavirus today, disease can profoundly impact a community"upending routines and rattling nerves as it spreads from person to person. But the effects of epidemics…
