ArtsJournal1
Uffizi Gallery In Florence Will Spend €50 Million To Renovate The Medici’s Grand Gardens
The "Boboli 2030" project will include new amenities for visitors, gallery infrastructure, shoring up the landscaping against climate change, and conservation/restoration of the original...
Edinburgh Fringe Performers Are Staying In Tents And Trailers Because Lodging There Has Become...
New local laws that limit Airbnb-style short-term rentals and encourage students to keep their apartments over the summer are good for the city's permanent...
Flim-Flam In Flux: How Profanity Changed Through The 16th Century
The age of the Tudors in England is when words about sexuality and scatology started to be considered profane rather than simply matter-of-fact. Yet...
What’s The Difference Between Understudies, Alternates, Standbys, And Swings? A Broadway Explainer
They've all been heroes over the past year, often stepping in at the last minute to keep the show going on after a cast...
One Of New York’s Most Beloved Dance Teachers Finds His Way Back To Class...
"Many of the dancers who know Zvi Gotheiner best have never doubted he'd make it — perhaps slowly, but surely. In part, it seems,...
“Manuscripts Don’t Burn”: How “The Master And Margarita” Survived Stalin’s Regime And Made It...
Elena Bulgakova preserved her late husband's manuscript for 20 years, retyped it, got it published first in translation in Soviet-occupied Estonia, then, in Russian,...
The Royal Opera House At Versailles: A Brief History
The theater was conceived by Louis XIV but only completed in time for the wedding of the future Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. It's...
San Francisco Arts Commission Executive Used Grant Money To Pay For Her Hawaii Vacation
The grant, earmarked for an Indigenous artist and awarded for a short documentary, was instead used by then-director of community investments Barbara Mumby-Huerta for...
George Bartenieff, An Eminence Grise Of Off-Off-Broadway, Is Dead At 89
He could easily have been one of the cohort of mainstream New York stage actors who pay their bills with guest spots in TV...
Reviving Brooklyn’s Golden Age Of Ashkenazi Cantorial Singing
Back in the 1920s, there was a group of cantors who combined traditional liturgical chanting with improvisation and operatic vocal technique, which they never...
Why Was “Batgirl” Canceled? For a Tax Writedown, Say Sources
"Batgirl was a casualty of new corporate strategy from Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who opted to shelve the project in order to...
Here Are Ten More Movies Hollywood Completed And Then Shelved
In honor of Batgirl, Ernie Smith remembers a group of other films — seven of which are from since the turn of the millennium,...
Met Museum Makes Max Hollein CEO As Well As Director
"The move returns the museum to its single chief management structure. ... The Met's current two-pronged leadership structure, which is unusual for art museums,...
Professional Theater Has Been Endangering Its Actors, Literally, For Generations. Now Actors Are Finally...
"In return for the privilege of scraping by in a field they love, they are commonly expected to endanger themselves physically and emotionally." Long...
Trying To Figure Out The Sexual-Abuse Scandal At Boston Ballet (Which Doesn’t Involve The...
The accusations are by ex-students of former principal ballerina Dusty Buttons and, especially, her husband. Gretchen Voss spent months investigating the case: "I made...
Europe’s Radio Orchestras Mustn’t Be Allowed To Disappear
"Public service radio orchestras have been one of the great civilising forces of the last century. That may be an unsexy proposition but ......
Barrington Stage Company, One Of The Berkshires’ Major Theatres, Names Its New (And Only...
"Alan Paul, the associate artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, will ... (take) over the nonprofit theater company in Western Massachusetts...
Finally, A TV Series About American Indians, By Indians, For Indians
David Treuer (Ojibwe) meets the creators and writers of Reservation Dogs and explains the ways in which the FX series is wildly, blessedly different...
Larry Josephson, A Public Radio Pioneer Several Times Over, Is Dead At 83
In the mid-1960s, with his daily morning show at New York's WBAI, Josephson helped invent freeform radio. In the 1980s, he pioneered the job...
Reinventing San Francisco’s Business District, Where The Office Culture May Never Fully Return
Office occupancy downtown is still less than a third of what it was before COVID arrived, so the public-private "community benefits district" for the...
Outsider Artist Henry Darger’s Distant Cousins Sue His Old Landlady Over Rights To His...
After Darger died in 1973, his landlords began promoting the art he'd made for 40 years and left behind in his apartment. (Darger had...
Bernard Marson, The Man Who Made SoHo Artists’ Lofts Legally Possible, Is Dead At...
In the late 1970s, artists were settling, illegally, in vacated factory space in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood. Marson, an architect and developer, spotted a...
Documenta Is Hit With A Second Anti-Semitic-Imagery Controversy
On display at one of the art festival's venues is a facsimile of a 1988 brochure about the PLO; inside the brochure are drawings...
Has New York City Ballet’s Summer Season In Saratoga Shrunk Permanently?
The amphitheater at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center was built as the summer home of the company, which, not so long ago, had a...
South Korea’s New President Orders Billions To Be Spent On Arts And Culture
"Not even two months after taking office, Yoon Suk-yeol has made a huge investment in the country's culture: a $3.7 billion fund for film,...
