ArtsJournal Classic

AJ Four Ways: Text Only (by date) | headlines only

DANCE

    IDEAS

    ISSUES

    MEDIA

    MUSIC

    PEOPLE

    PEOPLE

    THEATRE

      VISUAL

      • It’s Not Just Physical Media

        Landlines are making a slightly abashed return. “The phone itself is a sleek black with gold trim, and the cord connecting the receiver is all coiled up—just like the ones I grew up with back in the ’90s.” – Maclean‘s

      • Why Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Is Destined To Be Forgotten

        It’s “a nearly three-hour barn burner, racing from event to event with whirlwind kinetic energy. … Nolan’s reluctance to take a pause should, actually, give us pause. After all, Homer’s poem doesn’t just involve a lot of waiting. It is a postwar tale about waiting.” – Boston Globe

      • What To Do With All Of Europe’s Empty Churches?

        Sure, indoor pickleball courts can work, but there are many arts options. – The New York Times

      • Have We Wrecked Childhood?

        This doesn’t sound like a very nice life, does it? It’s an existence in which you’re micromanaged and surveilled, given almost no freedom or privacy, and put under constant pressure while, at the same time, being seen as incompetent and lazy.  – The New Yorker

      • Twilight Of The Oxford Dons

        These same dons disdained Britain’s provincial universities—known pejoratively as Redbrick—as well as academics in the U.S., whom they scorned for going about their business with “woefully unnecessary seriousness.” A don, by contrast, was effortlessly successful. – The Wall Street Journal

      WORDS