3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
They're niche, and sometimes they include industry professionals, but also, they're more than that. "These expanded horizons imply responsibility: 'You know these meetings are a tryout. The …
This music story has more sports metaphors than most sports stories, but let's just run with it: Lang Lang got injured and could only perform one of the five concertos, and now, 'four pianis…
For a podcast " transcribed here " writers Daniel José Older and Marlon James (Booker prizewinner for 2015) talk with creative writing profs about what genre even is, and why it's better no…
Ferrante: "I chose to write out of a fear of handling more concrete and dangerous forms of power. And also perhaps out of a strong feeling of alienation from the techniques of domination, so…
You know Flow. It's a psychological idea that basically, psychologists say, describes "a state of engagement that arises when people are completely focused on an activity, such as tennis or …
Here's how the play's director responded to a mild backlash: "All I was doing was trying to put on a show. … It's a community theater and the community of people that showed up to audition…
And, she says, it's time to stop seeing playwrights as god. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm: "What I enjoy more as a creator is to be in a room with a bunch of people working it out together. … We ne…
Seriously. There are small planets, Earth-sized planets, huge planets, and humongous planets. What there aren't are planets that are 1.5-2 times as big as our Earth. Uh? Where are they? (No,…
Last year, the festival kicked off a 50/50 pledge " but there's much work to be done, and the EU commission will gather Europe-wide data and report on best practices. As for now, a report sa…
Ratmansky has been with ABT longer than anywhere else " and it shows. "By now, some Ballet Theater dancers have spent their entire careers performing his dances; the famously difficult chore…
Google said it's reviewing the orders; meanwhile, it's complying. "The move could hobble Huawei's smartphone business outside China as the tech giant will immediately lose access to updates …
Are cities urban anymore? Or are the suburbs moving in? New buildings across the country are offering parking, private entrances, "parks," and other perks of suburban life " downtown. Yes, "…
Wouk shot to the top of the lists with The Caine Mutiny in 1951, and he remained there "for most of a career that extended past his 100th year thanks to page-turners like Marjorie Morningsta…
Plot twists, bingeing, and deep curiosity about characters are nothing new. Cuba exported tons of radionovelas, as they were called, from the 1930s through the 1950s. After the Revolution, "…
Nozkowski's "small, insistent, richly hued abstractions upended the heroic scale of postwar New York art and helped push painting in a more accessible, personal and wryly self-aware directio…
Will this start some dominos falling or reinforce the agencies' intransigence? "Verve, a young Los Angeles agency focusing primarily on writers, is the biggest agency so far to make peace wi…
Aïda Muluneh once worked as a photojournalist for The Washington Post. That didn't go perfectly. "'Are you an artist, or are you a journalist?' her boss asked." By now, the answer is clea…
Beckford danced with the companies of Florelle Batsford, Anna Halprin, and Welland Lathrop " and "when Beckford came onstage, the audience would gasp in surprise." In 1947, for the Oakland D…
Jatra stars used to be major celebrities, but now they have to work second (or third) jobs to make ends meet. "Jatra originated in Bangladesh and the eastern Indian states of Odisha and Biha…
A board member made the announcement of her gift at a quasi-40th birthday party for the museum on Saturday night. That fits with new director Klaus Biesenbach's vision. "'We are not aiming a…
Why? Because of some not so great romance novel tropes. Novelist Liz Lincoln: "We need to start putting abortion in our books. … As an alternative to marrying virtual strangers after a sur…
It's time to stop being angry about classical music's place in the world, and move toward acceptance. " Greg Sandow
Or, if not to blame, then to illuminate how we understand our moon. "If technologies once found only in SF do sometimes become real they do not, in so doing, always cease to be science ficti…
There is, however, downward pressure on the market " which may eventually hit actors, directors, and everyone else working on films in the pocketbook. And " let's face it " Disney is a chall…
On the night of the Whitney Biennial opening," a crowd of over 150 activists gathered at the Whitney Museum for their largest action yet: a culmination of Nine Weeks of Art and Action, a …
