3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
The Uffizi in Florence was never shy about saying what happened to the painting Vase of Flowers by Dutch master Jan van Huysum, but soon it won't need that "STOLEN!" label on a reproduction …
The story is about 50 memoirs from the last 50 years, but The New York Times has also ranked them. Want to know what number one is? (You know BuzzFeed would make this a quiz, asking how many…
The writers/agents fight hit a new level of ugly in the last week of June. "After being slapped this week with lawsuits from two of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies, the Writers Guild of …
The vote, in which 57 voted to join the union and 20 against, will see more than 90 arts handlers and facilities staff join the same union that represents roughly the same folks at MoMA PS1.…
What a so-called "private" Sotheby's would really mean for the art world, and for art. " Lee Rosenbaum
In this short video of a bookbinding house in England, "from folding pages to sewing and gluing paper to the leather spine, skilful human hands are front and centre throughout." " Aeon Magaz…
She was most recently the executive director of the Children's Museum of the Arts in Manhattan, but "that was just the latest stop in a career that included leading Visual AIDS, an organizat…
Nah, say UK booksellers, who reported a drop in fiction-buyers last year " but who expect a couple of new books to drive strong sales soon. " The Guardian (UK)
And trying to avoid them all: "Intrepid visitors have sometimes overstepped the boundaries, forcing Ms. Viladomiu to add a barrier outside her apartment, to keep tourists at bay." " The New …
Toni Morrison, of course, and Helen Oyeyemi, and books that make her laugh, and The Beatles. Also, Smith on how useless it is to try to rate books or authors. " The Guardian (UK)
Yes, yes, AMC has done plenty of gobbling of arts theatres, or so say the (former) owners of those theatres, but now they're concerned about the films. Well, not just now: "This is not the f…
As in other countries, poetry sales rose by double-digit amounts last year in Northern Ireland, with the bulk of that purchasing coming from people under 34. Why? Let a poet explain. " BBC
Possibly! Studies certainly show that singing in groups forms cohesion quickly and increases warm feelings toward strangers both quickly and strongly. Even group singing across hundreds or t…
Given virtual reality, Snapchat filters, and so much more, is it any surprise to think that we might all walk around looking like heart-eyed puppies soon? All but those being placed in conce…
Star power " even stars like Thor and Valkyrie, er, Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thomson; even Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling, for heck's sake " is crashing and burning on the big screen this s…
Author Mona Awad: "Iwas definitely interested in leaning into that and the horror of it, the scariness of that kind of groupthink. It is scary. I guess it's one of the risks you take when yo…
When the parent company for 18 different Art Institutes closed without warning earlier in 2019, students were supposed to get their loans discharged under the Closed School Discharge program…
The fashion industry in Africa is on the rise, especially in cities like Kinshasa and Capetown. But while fashion designers might get noticed in Paris and New York, models have a different s…
And it's not only reporters. "A cohort of countries is moving toward digital authoritarianism by embracing the Chinese model of extensive censorship and automated surveillance systems." This…
That seems a little impractical, no? Well, marry someone who makes a good income, stop taking massive holiday trips, and focus on small things in the present, says one artist. " The Guardian…
And what was Universal Music Group doing in the 11 years between the fire and the news of the fire? Hmmmm. The lawsuits claim UMG was reaping hundreds of millions of insurance damages in con…
Jaffee and his wife Kay founded the group after taking a graduate class in early choral and instrumental music, and the Waverly Consort sparked interest in early music all over the world " a…
Now it's rare for animated shows on Netflix not to be unionized. "The last few months have seen the show's team organize protests, a 10-minute walk-out, and solicitation of support from both…
Uh, not good: "Amazon takes a hands-off approach to what goes on in its bookstore, never checking the authenticity, much less the quality, of what it sells. It does not oversee the sellers w…
Taring Padi have been inspiring change in Indonesia since the late 1990, and they're not stopping yet. Why? Well, governmental corruption turns out to be not only the province of one overthr…
