3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
Issues: "Change will feel snail-like as long as white organizational leaders, tenured professors, board members, and funders control and dictate, the pace of inclusion and the adoption of an…
In 1917, Warner Bros. had eight films directed by women. In 2017, it had … one. What the heck? Well, for one thing: "Female-focused stories that perform well at the box office are repeated…
This is a twisty, turny saga that does not in any way make the original media empire " Bon Appetit, of course " look any better, but the public peeling of "problematic media property" layers…
Members of De La Soul were, suddenly, characters on Teen Titans Go!, where in one episode, "the plot revolves around a fraught real-life issue: the ownership and availability of the group's …
Davis "presided over the field during boon years in New York in the 1960s and '70s, when performances were plentiful and tickets relatively cheap, and when the ups and downs of a performer's…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has some issues, with members describing monthly meetings as battle zones. The HFPA includes zero Black members. It's "an embattled organization still…
A new emphasis has also changed how design firms feel about commissions. "For the new guard of playground design, the boundary between play equipment and public sculpture is blurring. … Pl…
It's an honorary, spokesperson role during a year when Fringe Fest may be online or may be in-person, or both, depending. Fleabag got its start at Fringe in 2013. Waller-Bridge: "From leakin…
The register of Jewish burials in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca between 1836 and 1899, is one of very few documents left after more than 18,000 Hungarian-speaking Jews were deported from …
In the wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country, Ballet West's Black dancers were asked by their artistic director what needed to change. The…
You'd think the director of Precious, The Butler, and more could get funding. But … "'Studios will give you about $10 to make a black movie. I'm exaggerating, but you get the point,' he sa…
Before she burst onto the art scene with performance art with an edge, O'Grady "had worked for the Labor and State Departments, including as an intelligence analyst in the period leading up …
York was enslaved by William Clark and remained enslaved after the expedition returned. The memorial bust, which is on a pedestal where a statue of a conservative newspaper editor used to st…
There's no Indigenous Artist of the Year award in Saskatchewan this year, and when a committee was discussing why not, well: "Somebody made a comment about 'why should we give them an award …
A researcher comes up against French bureaucracy: "To learn more about the day-to-day life of Parisians during the war, I turned to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). This mo…
The Marsh family of Faversham are dealing with Britain's lockdowns by performing parodies. "This six-voice choir, with its sweet harmonies and the occasional wobbly note, is creating songs t…
Not for nothing " for a new museum of contemporary art. But … really? "'We invited the Department of Cultural Affairs,' Carrie Wood, a member of a campaign to save the mural called Keep…
Boyer signed on with Disney as a sketch artist in 1960 " and never left. "Boyer was made a Disney Legend in 2005, the equivalent of membership in the company's Hall of Fame, with a window on…
The new show demonstrates just how drastically far food shows have come " but reminds us of how far that had to be, especially when we can always rewatch Nadiya Hussain's GBBO flavors making…
Or they might, soon. London needs "infrastructure week," but for real, and for much longer than a week. Take Hammersmith. "It's obvious whom to blame: politicians are guilty to varying degre…
Artists need studios, and usually studios with light … and churches often have that. "Places of worship are typically built to outlast their parishioners. The steepled Protestant churches …
Stanfield says it's not only therapy that has made the last year bearable. "The one good thing about this pandemic is being able to sit at home by yourself and deal with yourself and just yo…
The Grammy-winning architect of modern music "is best known for designing and producing microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and mixing consoles that are sought after in the ind…
Archaeologists "were hopeful of unearthing something of interest because the area has been occupied for more than 3,000 years. But nothing prepared them for the excitement of discovering an …
Honestly, will we never learn? "Americans have expressed their concerns about each new form of media through fears about children and youth. Younger Americans were supposed to be especially …
