ArtsJournal1
Cultural Centers Are Burned, Bombed, And Looted In Sudan’s Savage Civil War
Museums and archives have lost their collections to bombing, at least one performing arts center has been burned down, and some places whose buildings...
On The First Day Of Threads, 30 Million Users Signed Up. Could The New...
"Threads, the latest of Meta's copycat innovations, faces a long slog in its bid to topple Twitter as the microblogging platform of choice. …...
Mario Vargas Llosa Is In The Hospital With COVID (Again)
The 87-year-old Nobel-winning novelist was hospitalized on July 1 in Madrid. This is his second bout of the respiratory illness. - CNN
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Selects An Alum As Artistic Director
As of Sept. 1, Tim Bond, who was the festival's associate artistic director from 1996-2007 and is currently AD at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, succeeds...
William Byrd: The Remarkable Life And Music Of Elizabeth I’s Favorite Composer
For years he managed the tricky business of remaining a committed Catholic at Elizabeth's Protestant court before settling in a rural haven. He wrote...
Four Leading Composers On How William Byrd’s 400-Year-Old Music Influences Their Work
Comments from Caroline Shaw, James MacMillan ("Classical music audiences tend to forget about the pre-Baroque, and it's a pity because William Byrd is one...
Wayne Sleep At 75: How The Little Firecracker Of British Ballet Became A Major...
He was a virtuoso, able to match any jump by Nureyev or Baryshnikov (and he worked with both). But, at 5'2", he'd never dance...
Another Casualty Of The Shrinking Of Dance Criticism: US Work Visas For International Dancers
Part of the stack of paperwork required for an O-1 visa is evidence that the dancer or ensemble applying possesses "extraordinary ability." Reviews from...
Here’s Stable Work That Will Use Your Studio Art MFA: Custom-Designing Corporate Artworks
"In the firms that cater to mid-market developments, art-school graduates spend their days pumping out huge volumes of the kind of innocuous work a...
Satire? Or Sunday School? Lily Janiak On The San Francisco Mime Troupe
"When I watch the shows each year, I feel like I'm at a church pageant for a religion I don't belong to. It's as...
Asian-American Actors Are Finally Getting To Move Beyond Model-Minority Characters. Way Beyond.
"For decades after The Joy Luck Club, the handful of movies with Asian-American casts mostly offered family-centric stories filled with generational hardship, sacrifice and...
Regional Theater In The US Is In A Dire State, And It’s Not All...
"The crisis is a perfect storm of bad economic and demographic trends, exacerbated by a change in cultural habits during the pandemic. … The...
Dallas Adopted A Cultural Plan In 2018. Where Does It Stand Post-Pandemic?
"By the spring of 2023, the promise of the Cultural Plan" — equity — "had gotten shoved to the side, as the so-called 'Big...
Director Of Smithsonian’s Planned Women’s History Museum Has “Withdrawn”
"Nancy Yao, who had been criticized for her handling of sexual harassment allegations at a New York museum, has withdrawn from a prestige post...
Threads, Mark Zuckerberg’s New Twitter Competitor, Makes Its Debut
"Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta's photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides 'a new, separate space for real-time updates...
One Of The World’s Oldest Newspapers Ends Its Print Edition After 320 Years
"The Wiener Zeitung, which is owned by the Austrian government but editorially independent, suffered a sharp decrease in revenue after a recent law dropped...
About Two Million Muslims Make The Pilgrimage To Mecca Every Year. What About The...
About two million people call Mecca home, and while there are concessions to the city's sacredness — no movie theaters, no loud music at...
The Jackass Who Carved Graffiti On Rome’s Colosseum Says He Had No Idea How...
"Ivan Dimitrov, a 27-year-old fitness instructor living in Bristol, wrote a letter of apology to the Rome mayor after allegedly engraving his and his...
What’s Happening With, And To, The Russian Language In Ukraine
Ten years ago, almost half of Ukrainians said Russian was their first language; now, 21% say so (or, at least, admit to it). These...
George Benjamin’s New Opera Is About, Believe It Or Not, Happiness
Not that it's cheerful, mind you: Picture a Day Like This is about a mother whose child has died. Yet, after Benjamin's brilliant-but grim...
Ireland’s Government Begins “Root And Branch” Double Inquiry Into Scandal-Rocked National Broadcaster
"The first strand will focus on (RTÉ's) governance and culture. A second review will examine contractor fees, human resources and other matters. … The...
Washington Ballet’s Post-Julie Kent Transition Won’t Be Easy
As Kent is leaving the company's artistic directorship, nearly a quarter of the dancers are leaving with her, with five of them (all men)...
MIT To Launch A Music Education Center At The Dallas Symphony
The Jeanne R. Johnson Education Center, opening next year in Dallas, is a joint project of the DSO and Tod Machover's Opera of the...
How An Enterprising Little Website Rescued Arts Coverage In Atlanta
In 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution dropped its arts section altogether, and the region's cultural community was aghast. So a couple of the AJC's laid-off...
Poor Drama Teachers Are Having To Worry About Political Battles Every Time They Put...
"Around the country, in blue states as well as red, theater teachers say it has become increasingly difficult to find plays and musicals that...
