ArtsJournal1
Young Chinese Women Are Reviving Interest In A Centuries-Old, Secret Females-Only Script
Nüshu developed among women in the south of Hunan who were barred from education. By the end of the 20th century the script had...
Exurbanism Is The New Urbanism
American downtowns may have mattered before 2020, but the enormous growth of remote work (with the resulting rise in office vacancy rates) and the...
The Video-Game Actors’ Strike Could Be Even More Significant Than Last Year’s Hollywood Strikes
"Gaming employees at every level … (labor in) a highly profitable and popular sector that has long exploited their creativity and devalued their work....
After Only Six Months, Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director Resigns
Leanne Benjamin, a former principal and then coach at London's Royal Ballet, returned home to Queensland early this year to take the helm at...
State Of The Arts In The US: Report With Greatly Expanded Data
In late April, SMU Data Arts released its 2024 "National Trends for Arts and Cultural Organizations," analyzing figures from 233 institutions of varying sizes....
The Public Theater In New York Faces Big Deficits
"When it disclosed layoffs last July, the renowned nonprofit company said that it hoped to avoid a budget deficit in the year ending in...
Analysis: U.S. Ballet Companies’ Budgets Rebounded In The Year After The Pandemic Collapse
In FY 2021, aggregate spending by the 150 largest U.S. ballet companies had fallen by 39% from FY 2019. In FY 2022, spending rose...
Founder Of Collapsed American National Ballet Convicted Of Shooting Her Ex-Husband
Ashley Benefield was acquitted of second-degree murder but convicted of manslaughter in the 2020 death of her ex-husband in Florida. The Benefields were the...
Looks Like Someone’s Been Peddling Another (Potentially) Fake Basquiat
"An intermediary said to be acting on behalf of the American tech company Co2Bit Technologies was reportedly planning to exhibit an unauthenticated Jean-Michel Basquiat...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Appoints Houston Symphony’s CEO As General Director
John Mangum, 49, has no professional experience in opera, but he has spent a career in artistic administration at the Los Angeles and New...
One of Oakland’s Favorite Bookstores Is Destroyed By Fire
Firefighters arrived at East Bay Booksellers just before 5:30 am on July 30 and were able to keep the flames from spreading, but the...
Ukraine’s Badass Art Rescuers
"With the help of a motley group of intrepid friends, (Leonid) Marushchak has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has organised the evacuation of dozens...
Samuel Zimmerman Wants You To Be Terrified, And Knows Just The Way To Do...
"He’s the curator at Shudder, the bespoke streaming service owned by AMC Networks that, alongside the movie studios Blumhouse and A24, is shaping the...
Dressage: The Olympic Sport Of Teaching A Horse To Dance
"Popularly known as horse dancing, dressage involves riders directing their horses to perform a series of moves, including pirouettes, that are thought to have...
Lewis Lapham’s Secret For Great Editing? “Steal”
"Many of Lapham’s innovations at Harper’s and LQ were elegant systems of thievery. (Copyright holders were always paid for the republication of their poetry...
John Eliot Gardiner Is Completely Repentant — Isn’t He?
"I was very dehydrated. … I didn’t strike him too hard. I did nonetheless cuff or biff a young singer. … There is no...
Baritone Benjamin Luxon, One Of 20th-Century English Music’s Greatest Interpreters, Has Died At 87
He had an international career in a wide repertory and was a star at English National Opera, but his greatest contribution was in British...
“Blues For Mister Charlie” — Reconsidering James Baldwin’s Broadway Debut, 60 Years Later
"An impassioned play about the murder of a Black man that implicates progressive white viewers … which opened in a white-dominated environment inimical to...
After 25 Years, Mass MoCA Is A Great Museum. But Has It Been Great...
"One 2017 study put its annual lift to Berkshire County at just more than $50 million. But the numbers tell a less convincing story...
Britain’s New Labour Government Cancels Planned Stonehenge Highway Tunnel
"Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the exchequer, told Parliament on Monday that the tunnel 'would not move forward.' Scrapping the project, which had a proposed...
One Of Edinburgh’s Best-Loved Arts Venues Has Been Saved
"Arts and cultural leaders were alarmed about Summerhall’s future, and the future of Scotland’s independent arts scene, after it emerged in May that the...
Pole-Dancing’s Long, And Probably Futile, Struggle To Become An Olympic Sport
Despite the long and serious effort to codify it as an athletic discipline, complete with approved moves, scoring, and judging criteria, pole dancing has...
A North Texas Deputy Spent Two Years Trying To Charge School Librarians With Obscenity
Scott London, a chief deputy constable in the rural DFW exurb of Granbury, secured subpoenas, filed public records requests, received names of students who’d...
Journalists At Five Of Australia’s Major Dailies Are On Strike For Higher Pay
"Editorial staff at Nine Entertainment, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), The Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday, stopped...
Professor Fired For Showing Medieval Persian Image Of Muhammad Settles With University That Fired...
"Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, has reached a settlement in its religious discrimination case with former art history professor Erika López Prater." The...
