3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
Show-don't-tell is a mantra for early writers, the training wheels on the bike, the interior wax holding up a bronze sculpture. But. "The real goal of 'show, don't tell' is to force a discip…
To be fair, the architecture was a lot more barbaric at the beginning of the zoo. Now design is more focused on attempts to break down the human/animal barrier … invisibly. But is that eno…
Yes indeed, historically speaking. "Tap and jazz grew up together, and in the 1930s and '40s, it was assumed that the greatest jazz bands " Duke Ellington's, Count Basie's " would bring tap …
That's right, streaming film criticism, in which critics break down scenes through clips and show how lighting, sound, or other effects add to the emotional and intellectual resonance of a m…
Dewey is a legend " you know, the Dewey decimal system for ordering library books? " and perhaps was responsible for the entry of women into the profession. Yay, but, he also was censured an…
Tom Greyeyes' art career started in a jail cell after an activist installation he created was considered vandalism by the Flagstaff police. Now the artist, who has had residencies and big ga…
Sometimes, if you're a US person and have British friends, the Brits will enjoy talking about how long the US had slavery. An important discussion, no doubt " but guess what? The British are…
Author Fatima Bhutto thinks so. "Hollywood is no longer the center. America is no longer the center. Now we have a multipolar world. So Turkey is a center. India is a center. Pakistan is a c…
His career spanned four decades and millions of albums, and the singer was nominated for six Grammys, though he never won. (The Los Angeles Times has collected five of the best of José's pe…
Bloom "was horn royalty. As Szell's principal horn in Cleveland for more than two decades, he appeared on many of the orchestra's celebrated recordings, and was the soloist in its classic…
Conchi León and her touring cast and crew had been making Chicago-specific plans since March, building a special traveling set for her Yucatán- set play La TÃa Mariela. It was set t…
In 2013, in the war-ravaged town of Daraya, people collected books after shelling and wrapped them in blankets to take them to a secret basement location. "The self-appointed chief librarian…
A "comic strip" of the time shows that "although the work of the great Italian was popular in his time, an extensive new study of the artist to be published this week has outlined evid…
And so, it seems, are audiences. What's the deal with these less than biopics, more like thanatopics? Ah: "Each movie is too enamored of its legend, of her talent and beauty, to acknowledge …
Seriously, excuse us? "A prison in Ohio blocked an inmate from receiving a biology textbook over concerns that it contained nudity. In Colorado, prison officials rejected Barack Obama's memo…
The Canadian Opera Company is trying to figure that out, but it's complex. The pseudo-Asian characters Ping, Pang, and Pong have been renamed in Toronto, but tenor Julius Ahn, who sings Pang…
Who could say it better than Philip Kennicott? "The old-fashioned, ceremonial unveiling of a statue is mostly extinct as a cultural spectacle. New art works are generally introduced quietly,…
True, the Guerrilla Girls famously asked if women had to be naked to get into the Met (the percentages are not great), but the unseen labor of women artists and women museum professionals is…
So we're pursuing "joy" instead " something that comes and goes and that we don't feel we need to sustain. Could this actually be a boon for the arts as we start to realize that collective e…
Sure, there's more craft beer and more restaurants than there were 10 or 15 years ago " and there are also a lot of Millennials who left Columbus for the city, and then returned because Colu…
Kickstarter, where thousands of artists and writers and circus performers and musicians and etc. have gotten millions of dollars of funding, fired two union organizers a couple of weeks ago.…
We don't know who he is, or at least many of us don't, but one instructor says it's time for writing students to take lessons from his clear prose. He has great topic sentences! He knows how…
College students actually do just fine without it, or so Cal State says. This probably won't shock a lot of humanities majors, but an administrator says, "The traditional pathway, where we h…
The answer is yes. Yes, they sure are. And it's not just Harry Potter or And Tango Makes Three. "Our government doesn't actually ban books, does it? Sure it does! The federal gov…
As the end of WWI led to economic crises, many German towns and villages issued their own emergency cash, or "notgeld." The designs range widely from local legends, including fairytales, to …
