3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
Is the phone booth a thing of art? Of commerce? Or is it just a piece of trash from an older age " a piece of trash no one, including the phone companies, wants to deal with? While Spaniards…
Sure, some of this is funny " "One edition of Animal Farm: A Fairy Story referred to itself on the back cover as Animals Farm: A Fair Story. The preface referred to another great Orwell work…
Singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus: "Music is magic, yes, and many people use it as an outlet for their animal emotions, but I just wish people would let loose their feelings while still keeping t…
Kimberley Rampersad was a dancer who started to sense that dance jobs would dry up " and it was time to move into directing. Now, she's got Man and Superman, all six hours of it, on her plat…
Olivia Laing won a £10,000 prize for her novel Crudo over the weekend. But Laing said, in her acceptance speech, "Crudo was written against a kind of selfishness that's everywhere in the …
War and Peace? Bring it! Every single word of Silas Marner? Amateurs! What about 72 hours of Sherlock Holmes? Bliss! "'There is an appetite for the epic that has simply surpassed our expecta…
The claim: The event takes up an incredible amount of time and money, and the symphony says "our understanding of our role in the community has begun to change." Therefore, "the staff is eva…
Alvin Baltrop only had a few shows while he was alive, one of which was at a gay nightclub. Now that he's getting more attention, we can see some of the "real" New York of the 1970s and 1980…
Whoops, forgetting (or neglecting to worry about) maintenance isn't going to cut it anymore, or at least not in this case. "The five judges on a Roman court overseeing the use of public fund…
How long can this last? "This market brings together two groups who normally don't socialize: critics and collectors. There are the exotic-seeming rich people, as any reader of Henry James w…
India is a huge country with many different regional cuisines. But cookbooks haven't reflected that " until now. "As the publishing industry's view of Indian cuisine approaches homogenizatio…
Yes, that finishes as "stay together," of course. Though it's a bit unusual in the cosplay community, these women have a different idea. "It was just so nice to share our resources. It made …
Marshall, the child of immigrants from Barbados, wrote novels and short stories that connected the US African American community and the communities of the Caribbean " and influenced many wr…
Magdalene Odundo, a Kenya-born British ceramicist who hand-builds her work, says clay is a natural substance for creating bodies and other shapes. And no, she doesn't find the word "craft" o…
The company is part of Killing Eve, the movie Book Club, and around 100 other media properties, to date. Their spin: "In a world of media consolidation at an unprecedented scale, the size an…
Barnes served as a studio musician and producer for some of the most popular acts of the 1990s, including Roberta Flack, Sting, and Chaka Khan " and she propelled SNL to early viral fame on …
The 9-year-old girl's parents sued the State and Cathedral Choir of Berlin after her application was rejected, but the court ruled that "the acoustic pattern of a choir is part of its artist…
Remembering Bob Wilber, and celebrating Gunhild Carling. " Doug Ramsey
Reinholz, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, also had a hit as a playwright with Off the Rails (an adaptation of Measure for Measure) at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in…
Dorothy West was called Zora Neale Hurston's "Kid Sister," and her books were not immediate successes, partly, some say, because she wrote about the Black middle class. "She wrote 'posh blac…
Lyn Gardner says that "the fringe is like a machine churning out ever more raw talent, which is attractive to venues who buy it up cheaply. But the issue is they then offer very little ongoi…
It's not quite fair to call City Ballet principal Sara Means a force of nature because she's so hard-working and disciplined, but it's tempting. " Deborah Jowitt
But drama is actually doing well, compared to the other arts. Yikes: "Entries for music fell by 6% to 5,125, and dance dropped 18% to 1,050." " The Stage (UK)
In Brisbane, the Trace show is taking art to bakeries, luggage repair shops, and mechanic shops. The point? To "democratize" the art. " The Guardian (UK)
Don't get distracted by your feelings about obnoxiousness. Well … a little, maybe. "It's easy to see why phones can be annoying. They represent a sort of loud carelessness, the idea that s…
