3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
They tried to have a panel about it during SXSW. But even the panel showed the problem: "Issues surrounding sexual harassment and misconduct are one of the greatest challenges facing not onl…
A group called Factum Arte is using high-quality 3D scanners to bring works of art that have been damaged or partially lost back to life. And it has some intense results: "It's absolutely br…
Propwatch: the axe in Buggy Baby It was Chekhov who defined the essential rule of theatre props. 'If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall,' he told a friend in 1889, 'then in …
Not in the way you might expect, though. "Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper, without focusing on t…
Amid the emergence of a far-right, anti-refugee coalition government in the country, "the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz is using the eerie sound of fingers rubbed on water-filled glasses to…
And this is from the students themselves, who ranked arts degrees above language, history, and philosophy. This may be more a reflection of the schools than the subject, however. One student…
Basically, women with money donate gowns, and the students at Juilliard get to go "shopping" when the racks of designer wear come in. The students "are expected to be outfitted in fancy atti…
After some years in the doldrums, TV has caught back on to New York as one large studio - a boon for New York actors, of course, and perhaps largely the result of an expansion of tax breaks …
This isn't new; once digital designs became possible, and embroidery machines could run all day and night, the costumes had to step it up to match. The early days of change were harsh: "Iris…
The status to be moved is of songwriter Stephen Foster - and, in words written at the time the status was created in 1900, "an old darkey reclining at his feet strumming negro airs upon an o…
Is it all a feint to ensure that the focus is off Levine as a sexual predator and instead focused on Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met? Or do Levine's legal complaints have a basis …
Alix Ohlin is taking on at least the first task for a program that has been in disarray since the suspension and firing of its former chair, Stephen Galloway, under accusations of sexual har…
Daniel Wu's life is not well-known in the U.S., even though he's a Cali native. Why? He randomly took a trip to Hong Kong after he got an architecture degree, and in Hong Kong, he was discov…
Maeve Brennan "would not have left Ireland at the age of 17 if she'd been given the choice, and yet in her adult years she didn't choose to return. A displaced person, always on provisional …
Erdem Moralioglu's company is famous for its evening gowns and "decadent craftsmanship." How will he work with dancers at the Royal Ballet in London?
Bulick, a folk musician and potter and human of many talents,"supervised the nation's first comprehensive regional cultural planning process, Arts Plan 2000. That document led to the creatio…
Are you writing a role for a woman on the phone, just holding out for info about her man? What about a hapless yet winsomely inspiring girl (the child kind, not the girlfriend kind)? Stop it…
Well, it didn't actually save itself. Instead, there was a dramatic discovery, a dramatic check delivery, a dramatic intermission meeting, a dramatic announcement - and then some fundraising…
The woman who wrote the "Overlooked" New York Times obit for Plath says, "The obituary I was going to write would be very different from the obituary we would have written when Plath died. I…
The internet has made the pace of language change much, much faster. "Now that every English speaker in the world can talk to every other English speaker in the world, the virus is mutating …
These awards happened this weekend, and yes: "If the Grammys are out of touch, the iHeartRadio awards are almost too in touch, celebrating the most popular of popular music and rejecting stu…
Well, the Los Angeles Times has you covered, with what they're calling "the Pantherpedia."
Instead, of, say, No Country for Old Men, this genre pulls from a different strand of thought. "Solarpunk prioritizes hope and resilience in the face of the climate crisis. The stories in ea…
Armando Iannucci: "This act of censorship gave me no joy; the overwhelming emotion has been one of sad disappointment that in the world of instant communication, and the anarchic disseminati…
Liv Wyntner was one of four teaching artists-in-residence at the Tate for 2017-2018, but when Tate director Maria Banshaw made what seemed to many dismissive statements about harassment and …
