21,643 stories from ArtsJournal
Generally speaking, an innovation is more than an idea and more than an invention. Yet beyond that, things get confusing. We live in a moment when we're barraged by new stuff every day " new…
Behind the scenes, the media faced a genuine crisis over and above its ordinary instability. Publications folded, mass layoffs ensued, and with months of pre-written content suddenly obsolet…
On Monday, Tabitha Jackson, the festival's director, unveiled her preliminary plans for the 2021 edition, a gathering expected to take place under social distancing restrictions and with a C…
Though Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream, he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time. His projects and endeavors during the p…
The event organizer has been badly affected by lockdowns and bans on public gatherings in recent months as governments have tried to restrict the spread of the coronavirus. The MCH group dec…
Amy Helm: "It's interesting as a musician to go to so many different places and play for so many different people and have such a direct connection with them. That's not something you get in…
For performing arts venues where a high level of public funding is invested, this may be the time to let go of the myth that somehow, a member of the audience of venue A is exclusive to that…
A three-day "herd immunity" music festival scheduled to take place in Ringle, Wisconsin, in mid-July is taking this energy to the, uh, extreme. With the exception of drive-in concerts and pe…
The Broadway League said Monday that theater owners and producers will refund or exchange tickets previously purchased for shows through Jan. 3. Given the unpredictability of the coronavirus…
The band names are a symbol " just a symbol, perhaps, but a strong one. However: "The question is not, "'hould bands whose names have ties to slavery change them?' The question is: Are we co…
TV execs hold a roundtable to discuss (tiny) ways some things might change, including centering stories written by and about African Americans. "You have to be very front and center about th…
It started as math, transitioned to both epidemiology and morality, and now holds sway among the public as well. But the idea of a "wave" wasn't inevitable. " Boston Review
Solanas is most famous for having shot Andy Warhol, of course, but she had an artistic life long before that moment. In the beginning, the writer and Warhol Factory superstar Ultra Violet wr…
The world of Law & Order was so attractive, the righteousness of its heroes so, well, right. Then college happened, and a lot of getting pulled over. "Too often, cop-centered stories por…
They've been trying for years to bar Trump from using "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as his walk-off music at rallies " and their efforts have always been in vain. Until now, perhaps. …
The Federalist organized the 150-person protest at the statue. "Speakers supporting the statue used the protest to rail against a broad range of issues including abortion and religion. One w…
From just about everything on TikTok to Broadway performers singing Sondheim on YouTube, there's a lot of culture on the internet right now " and very few of the creators of that culture are…
Public funding was the way. However: "Back then there was even less agreement on a public role for creatives. The Writers' Project assigned them a public role in producing travel guidebooks,…
Without a change in this design, nothing else can change. Moderation is impractical when you have 3 billion users speaking hundreds of languages in dozens of political cultures. AI is hopele…
People are right to be frustrated about the lack of diversity backstage, says the president of the Broadway League, which is ready to perform a "diversity audit" of many parts of Broadway. S…
The form of "novel" is young, but its conventions are mostly clear " and the novel of ideas is different. "Whether executed as science fiction, bildungsroman, or more recently, the satirical…
"I've survived," tweeted Michael Rosen. "The 74-year-old author, performer and broadcaster is one of Britain's most beloved writers, the author of more than 140 books including We're Goin…
Well, maybe something is salvageable (though very possibly not, as numbers of infections continue to mount): "If audiences show faith in theaters' revamped safety, social-distancing, and cle…
"Lewes's major work, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality (1988), traced the evolution of the prevailing view that homosexuality was a curable illness and explored what he c…
Without the small stages, emerging voices in British theatre don't have much of a chance. One playwright: "Uncertainty is dreadfully demotivating. I intended to use the lockdown to write a n…
