5,874 stories by "Artsjournal"
UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary shows how, when confronted with people across the globe who perceived their own lives "in ways radically antagonistic to the requirements of capitalist pr…
"Look at the stuff. The Things. Objects. The products that overflow our commercial marketplace, designed for our consumption, that we loved, loathed, mocked, coveted, worried about, or just …
"The single undoubted success of the modernist movement was to spread through clever propaganda: first by co-opting the term "modern," then by covering up a long string of practical failures…
Instead, at the other end of the decade, ebook sales seem to have stabilized at around 20 percent of total book sales, with print sales making up the remaining 80 percent. " Vox
Within the monoculture obsession, there are two concerns. The first is that in the digital streaming era we have lost a perceived ability to connect over media products as reference points t…
"I know readers only have time anymore to read lists, but bear with me. Here are the best kinds of shows we watched over the past 10 years. Many of them belong to more than one category " a …
"Within the past year, most opera companies have started holding regular sexual harassment workshops, and many distribute and read aloud their sexual harassment policy to incoming casts befo…
"The second decade of the 20th century began at the apex of naivete about the potential for the internet to enhance democracy and improve the quality of life on Earth. By the end of 2019, ve…
"Like all stories, it's just about cats, but none of these stories work without the big issues underneath. Eliot was writing as much about humans as cats; he was writing about humans through…
The banality of encores has long been a frustration for some musicians, but, in recent years, a growing number of notable acts have taken a stand against performing them at all. " Toronto St…
From Noam Chomsky on the responsibility of intellectuals after 9/11, to our forum on why empathy can be a bad thing, the following were all ambitious efforts and help chart a decade of think…
"Writing is lonely; directing and acting, if you're overlapping them, is challenging but fun. But producing is just pushing a rock up a hill. And sometimes it rolls over you on the way back …
"Every morning, I wake up before dawn to take a walk with my dog around the countryside, before I return to my home (still before dawn) to bake a loaf of bread and write for four hours in my…
Yes, every culture that we know of has some kind of music"but do these diverse musics share anything in common, for example in terms of function, affect and content? An extensive ethnographi…
"Egypt's Sunken Cities" helped the museum double its income from program activities to $4.9 million in the year ended June 30. Membership increased 30 percent to 52,102 members, and attendan…
Results from six studies support this idea that focusing on the pursuit of a goal can be helpful in the long term. The researchers encouraged more than 1,600 people who had just achieved a p…
Wags had taken to calling the Met the Necropolitan and said it suffered from hardening of the galleries. The New Yorker sniped that the acting director still wrote with a quill pen and consi…
The Executive Director will provide imaginative leadership toward the development and realization of the Festival's world-class artistic and intellectual programs.
From "The Big Short" to Naomi Klein to "Normal People," a list of books that made an impact. " The Guardian
In 2012, Burning Man organizers reimbursed the BLM nearly $1.4 million in expenses, a 60 per cent year-over-year increase, though the event population increased by only 4 per cent that year,…
For Franzo and Marina King, who had begun taking Coltrane's music and ideas seriously as a world view, he had not passed away. He had merely ascended. Franzo had always imagined becoming a p…
He performed at the Berlin State Opera in his native East Germany and at Milan's La Scala, as well as a 25-year run at the famed Salzburg festival. One of his specialties was performing and …
Bailing out the recycling industry may sound like a benign proposal. The funds might even be a wise infusion at such a precarious moment for scrap buyers, processors, and sellers. But the ha…
"As I rose through the ranks, people would ask me, 'Did the art background and training have an effect?' There is something to that. By training in the art field, your brain tends to adapt a…
High tech video billboards are multiplying in city spaces across the world, woven into the fabric of everyday life, from ribbon videos down escalators on the London underground, to French me…
