5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
All told, glass buildings are responsible for up to one billion bird deaths in the United States each year. At a time when two-thirds of North American birds are in danger of extinction from…
Wasting no time, the Kremlin on Wednesday posted a list of 75 members of a working group appointed to draft the constitutional amendments, including a range of political and cultural figures…
Elsewhere, we carp, battle and grind one another down for bragging rights and total triumph. Sports culture and champion-making has seeped into nearly every aspect of life. It's all just a l…
Virginia Johnson, a founding member of Dance Theater of Harlem who was named artistic director in 2009, said the gift would go toward increasing the size of the company from 18 to 20 dancers…
Junior publicists work directly under Center Theatre Group's Head of Publicity and closely with playwrights, directors, actors as well as other theatre artists, producers and arts administra…
In Germany, the home of modern board-gaming, the industry has grown by over 40% in the past five years; the four-day SPIEL trade fair this year saw 1,500 new board and card game releases, wi…
The more popular the book, the more pervasive the SlideShare piracy. Searches for the top five fiction and nonfiction books on the New York Times bestseller list (which includes authors rang…
Over the past two or three decades, the historical study of emotions has developed a rich set of tools with which to chart the ways that emotions have changed over time. Emotions such as ang…
The decline was not unexpected, as sales in 2018 were driven by strong performances of a plethora of political books and the blockbuster success of Michelle Obama's Becoming, which was the t…
At age 28, Dudamel started his appointment as the L.A. Phil's music director in 2009, his original five-year term quickly extended through the 2018-19 season and later through mid-2022. With…
Dan Lewis: "My vision is to ensure opportunities to learn, perform and create music are available to all young people. Ideally, this would be happening in every school, but that isn't the ca…
There's always been a divide between what the critical culture celebrates and what audience members actually want to see. "This three-and-a-half-hour Turkish film about the struggle between …
Pop-star holograms are exploding out of a chemical reaction between three elements that have been influencing human decision-making for thousands of years: supply, demand, and survival insti…
Many people no longer hold the kind of religious views according to which our time of death is not allowed to be of our choosing. There are an increasing number of countries where physician-…
Seriously, is this the brave new world of streaming? Where press releases go out daily about the wildly "diverse" television creators drafted by Netflix (and to a lesser extent Amazon) but t…
After Netflix received 24 Oscar nominations on Monday " the most of any studio and the highest level to date for the streaming giant " both chains said that they wouldn't screen its movies. …
Though he was born into genuine if provincial affluence, with second-tier European royalty filling out the family's dance card on vacation, he chose to become a working stiff. Reversing the …
Friar Niccolò da Poggibonsi took notes on gesso tablets while he traveled, and when he returned to Venice in 1350, wrote down his full firsthand account. The oldest manuscript of the work…
'The' tops the league tables of most frequently used words in English, accounting for 5% of every 100 words used. "'The' really is miles above everything else," says Jonathan Culpeper, profe…
On Saturday, officials announced that the government would withdraw, at least temporarily, a plan that would have raised the full-benefit retirement age, now 62 for many workers, to 64 for a…
Yup. A startup called Quibi has raised $1 billion in investment capital from every major Hollywood studio and most of the major tech companies. It has corralled an A-list tsunami to make pro…
The new database hosts profiles of underrepresented critics and journalists and invites media outlets, studios, networks, talent and film and television critics associations to find and cont…
Some film critics now differentiate themselves from amateurs through the practice of Extreme Film Criticism. In it, critics subject themselves to physical, film-related challenges that bear …
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra seeks a dynamic, data-oriented, and business-minded leader with a strong record of financial planning, analysis, and accounting to serve as CFO. This person…
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