3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
What freaked out Elizabethan England? A dance from (gasp!) Italy, of course, where "a man clasped his female partner tightly around the waist with his left hand, took hold of the busk (the r…
A case study comes via Portland Center Stage in Oregon, where the theatre had a funded chance to experiment to see what works … and what doesn't. Turns out, exterior bus advertising and bi…
Predictable results of the homophobic censorship attempt (which was headed off by the judge as an issue of freedom of expression): "Copies of the comic book, Avengers: The Children's Crusade…
Bryce Dallas Howard is a little fed up with watching actresses constantly being asked about parenting, and actors never getting asked. "It's dangerous, because the assumption is a father doe…
Hint: They didn't do it for themselves. " Aeon
Toledo's art met social activism at every turn. For instance, "in December 2014, from his studio in Oaxaca, Mexico, he made a series of kites adorned with portraits of the '43,' or the 43 co…
Goodreads is essentially a good listmaking app, a place where readers go to, well, make lists. Is it a community of readers? Um. "Goodreads lingers in the dustbin of the early aughts, doomed…
Truly they are, and it's probably because of humans. But in what way? "In a study last year that analyzed more than 1 million individual recordings of whale calls, scale shifts were fo…
Or not. Ann Powers, NPR's music critic, published this piece about the singer Lana Del Rey, and Del Rey tweeted some of her displeasure on Twitter, and then her stans " super fans " started …
But, an opinion writer says, Nashville needs to remember what's important. "Independent bookstores don't operate according to the normal rules of capitalism. They aren't trying to beat each …
No. "The subject's brains were creating meaning from the words in the same way, regardless if they were listening or reading. In fact, the brain maps for both auditory and visual input they …
Well, let's be real: Susanna Sirefman wanted a better design for the "sidewalk shed" portion of scaffolding " that is, the part that people (say, New Yorkers) generally walk through. "The wi…
What did it mean to be the daughter of two people who profoundly shaped the look of the 20th century " and today? "My father stepped into my beige-carpeted room and said, 'These old places s…
Well, here's why " it's a numbers thing. "The authoritative Theatres Trust reckons there are currently 263 theatres in London. It's about the same number as Tokyo, whereas Paris has around 3…
Emily Nussbaum, TV critic for The New Yorker, is over the "false hierarchy" of TV shows, especially when they center men behaving badly. "It's not about creating a new hierarchy. It's about …
Not to mention the demands on the set dresser. No, really, this is how Succession works: "They decided it would be impractical to haul equipment and a crew to shoot in a hunting lodge near […
How close do you need to be? Well, this exhibit tells you: In May, an artist "planted a patch of corn within the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and has surrounded it with large yellow megaphones th…
Simon Starling, a Scottish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen: "I have occasionally made shows where I try to connect to two venues in a single exhibition, and I guess, because of what…
Yes, in terms of numbers, "the cassette is a needle in a haystack. … Nevertheless, it is there, flag of a community of aficionados in revolt against modernity and the music industry." "…
Wait, what? "In the first act, the principal presides over a 'Community Activated Conversation' with parents (also known as a Facebook Live chat) to talk about an outbreak of mum…
Sure, there are many political writers, and of course all writing is political in some way. "Much harder to find, however, is an example of what one might call the campaigning novel: that su…
O'Brien's new novel Girl is her 19th, and it's different from the rest. The veteran writer is now 88, and she says it may be her last. Her first three novels, in the 1960s, "articulated what…
Santore reached millions of people through his illustrations for the covers of TV Guide before he turned to classic literature for children. His TV Guide covers were legendary, and as a matt…
López, a Mexican director and writer, defied convention and expectations to create a new horror film that addresses the real-life horrors of drug cartels (with a side dose of fantasy alon…
There's a brand of young straight men who are "relying on the gifts of biology to flesh out a personality. It works for a while, because viewers like to be complimented and to watch an attra…
