3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
Of course there's the Jeff Koons "Balloon Dog (Orange)," but as a museum of the Dachshund opens in Bavaria and the American Kennel Club prepares to move its AKC Museum of the Dog from St. Lo…
Acosta, who had a painful separation from his country and family in order to become a star in Europe and the U.S., says "I want to bring them to the world, but also to bring the world to the…
There are slip-ups, and then there's the CNN Incident. "Many of the obits were filled in with text from Britain's Queen Mother, who had died the year before, including a description of Dick …
The writers are from Iowa, of course. One of them says: "We just knew inherently those were dangerous. They were always things that farmers and parents said to stay away from, because you ca…
Thandie Newton, on getting equal pay to the men of HBO's Westworld for the upcoming Season 3: "It's unprecedented. It's " goodness; it shatters so much calcified pain, resentment, frustratio…
There's a reason this might be happening: "More often than not, the passcodes that appear in my Google Authenticator app seem tailored to reduce the cognitive burden of storing them in my wo…
The thing is, "the museum received a blistering report from a City Council-hired consultant earlier this month calling for a 'complete rebirth; and reorganized leadership. Museum Management …
Here's the deal: "We owe translators, and perhaps also ourselves, some recognition of what it might have meant to have handled every single word (space and punctuation mark) of the writing-t…
La Salle Art Museum's Promo Video Highlights Deaccessioned Works "Wander through six permanentgalleries [emphasis added]," the caption for the video walk-through on the La Salle Univer…
He led the museum through competing curatorial arguments, staff strikes, and more, while also getting a massive expansion and a boost to the endowment. But it all began with books, and a clo…
Lubaina Himid won the prize in 2017 and has shows planned all over Europe this year. "All were programmed before the prize was announced, but Ms. Himid is now using her enhanced clout to req…
Renaissance tapestries are cold, ice cold - no one seems to want to spend substantial amounts of money on them. But new tapestries? Think computer-assisted, bright, and built to last. "Artis…
Mont-Saint-Michel, in northwestern France, was evacuated Sunday after a man made threatening remarks on a morning shuttle to the site, got into a fight with café owners, and made threats ag…
Mark Swed: Terry Riley's 'In C' "is simply a collection of 53 melodic motives, all in or around the key of C. Any instrument or vocalist " and any number of them " can play or sing. Each mot…
Tim Hetherington, killed on assignment in 2011, "abhorred violence, but he took it upon himself to explore the subject of war on the front lines, alongside soldiers in Liberia, Afghanistan, …
"The union that represents stage performers announced this week that it would cease using the title 'Gypsy Robe' to describe one of its most cherished insider rituals " the passing of a colo…
Here's why: "Literary recognition would transform every other young black boy writing rhymes. It would stick two fingers up at the notion that the only way young black boys can get respect i…
Violinist and Pulitzer jury member Regina Carter: "I just sat down and it was like wow. I just felt like what he had to say and how he would say it, you had to really sit down and think abou…
Mattel's been met with a temporary injunction after "Kahlo's great-niece Mara de Anda Romeo argued in a Mexican court that Mattel does not have the rights to use Kahlo's image as part of its…
This wasn't a fast decision about the man who didn't use anesthesia when he performed experimental surgeries on the women. "The removal of his 80-year-old statue comes after eight years of p…
Jaina Lee Ortiz is starring in a show about firefighters, so naturally, she "signed herself up for the firefighter's Candidate Physical Abilities Test as soon as she landed the Station 19 ro…
Eliot, whose non-pen-name was Mary Ann Evans, lived for decades with her partner, whose open marriage meant that when his wife had a baby with a different man, he was fine with it (and suppo…
Look, Australia only has about 24 million people, and not that many of them are in acting. So that means, when U.S. streaming services start bringing in the Aussie content by the bucketful, …
The museum buzzword is "transhistorical," and it's being applied to everything from Franz Hals paintings to the Met's big "Unfinished" exhibition from 2016. "Suzanne Sanders, an art historia…
The British writer and lyricist Marita Phillips, a descendant of Pushkin's, grew up with a large book of his fairy tales, and she's wanted to mount an opera about him, and his tragically ear…
