ArtsJournal1
Broadway Is Selling A Lot Of Tickets To Young Adults
The 18-to-25 demographic isn’t usually considered a target audience for a circuit where tickets are so expensive, but the last couple of seasons have...
Have A Look Around The Grand Egyptian Museum, Now Open At Long Last
“There is perhaps no institution on earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated, or as mind-bogglingly delayed. ... Its construction has been such...
All About The Ocarina
This odd wind instrument, whose name is Italian for “little goose,” was invented more-or-less by chance in 1853 in a little town near Bologna....
Maybe “Glengarry Glen Ross” Isn’t A Critique Of Cutthroat Capitalism
“What if … Glengarry is instead celebrating the deceit, in fact presenting it as the epitome of manliness? What if Glengarry Glen Ross, quite possibly in ways...
Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Smelled As Good As They Looked
“An archaeologist and curator … in Copenhagen finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents like rose, olive oil and beeswax. These...
It’s Not Easy Finding Jurors For Harvey Weinstein’s Retrial
“Several dismissed jurors were open about why they couldn’t serve fairly. (One) told a pool reporter, ‘I don’t like the guy; he is a...
Why The “Odyssey” Is All Over The Place Right Now
“The Iliad is the poem of death. Death stalks its lines, blood soaks it. Countless young men appear in the poem only to be cut down. … But...
On The “Odyssey” And Its Ubiquity And Oddity
“We can read the Odyssey today with a sense of déjà vu: we feel we know these narratives, we have met these characters, we recognize these...
Preemptive Compliance: Orlando Suspends DEI Arts Grants “Out Of An Abundance Of Caution”
“Organizations impacted include Opera Orlando, the Orlando Ballet, and the Orlando Science Center, to name a few. The canceled grants total $200,000 dollars and were earmarked for arts...
Number Of Productions Staged By British Theatres Has Plummeted Over Last Decade
“The number of plays and musicals staged by the UK's main subsidised theatres last year was down by almost a third compared with 10...
Ukraine’s Culture Minister Accuses Russians Of Selling Off Art And Artifacts They’ve Looted
“Russia has stolen more than 1.7 million pieces of Ukrainian cultural heritage since its full-scale invasion began, according to the Ukrainian Minister of Culture and...
Bigger-Bodied Ballet Dancers Are The Future, Says Head Of Royal Ballet School
“Iain Mackay, artistic director of the school, said studios were focusing on strength-based training for both sexes as ballet moved away from the ‘slim’...
After Harvard Rejects His Demands, Trump Threatens Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
“’Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting...
It’s About Time We Acknowledged That Andrew Wyeth Was A Genuinely Great Artist
“The slow collapse of the postwar avant-garde’s underlying tenets (no figuration! no storytelling! no obvious skill!) has allowed many to admit that Wyeth was...
Producer Jeffrey Seller Recounts The Gestation And Birth Of “Rent”
“In this excerpt, adapted from Seller’s memoir, Theater Kid (out on May 6 from Simon & Schuster), the producer lays out the musical’s long road from...
Um, About This Backlash Against Intimacy Coordinators …
“Recent reports of celebrity pushback against the profession, intimacy coordinators say, have created skewed narratives that breed misconceptions about their role and impact on...
Expanding The Repertoire For Harp Is A Tricky Business
Parker Ramsay: “Could you conceive of a world in which a harp work occupies your attention like an opera or a violin concerto? That...
After Last Year’s Fiasco, Dallas Black Dance Theatre Works To Rebuild “Community Trust”
“(A) task force … will convene monthly to eventually put forth recommendations ... The news comes after the dance company reached a settlement for...
Why We Went Ahead And Played At The Kennedy Center
Ryan Miller of the band Guster: “We wanted to support the staff who were caught in this political crossfire; the fans who had bought...
Pope Francis Puts Architect Antoni Gaudí On Path To Sainthood
“The architect behind the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona has been declared ‘Venerable’ by Pope Francis, the second step in the path to canonisation. Gaudí was...
Cate Blanchett Says She’s Giving Up Acting
“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting. (There are) a...
Jean Marsh, Who Co-Created And Starred In “Upstairs, Downstairs,” Is Dead At 90
While she’s best remembered for the TV series, in which she played housemaid Rose Buck, she had an extensive career in theatre, television and...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Who Attacked Degas Sculpture Convicted
“A federal jury convicted Raleigh climate activist Timothy Martin of two felonies Monday for smearing washable paint on a sculpture’s display case in the...
The Dutch Avant-Garde Theatre Company That Keeps Sending Shows To The West End And...
That company is Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, directed for 20 years by Ivo van Hove and since 2023 by Eline Arbo. Her adaptation of Annie...
The Central African Republic Has A National Ballet, And It’s Doing Important Work
Established in 2021, the company — also called the National Artistic Ensemble — works to collect and preserve the traditional dances of the many...
