ArtsJournal: Arts, Culture, Ideas

Omicron Is Soaring. Is It Ethical To Go To Concerts?

Is it a good or an ethical idea to go to a concert in the vortex of this unprecedented surge, what with local hospitals...

NBC Universal Picks New Audience-Measuring Service

The company announced today it will use data from iSpot.tv, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that measures audiences across linear TV and streaming platforms to provide...

The “Intangible Sludge”: Why Do So Many Movies Have Washed-Out Color These Days?

"Desaturation is not in and of itself bad. It's a tool that can be used poorly or well. But why is it everywhere now?...

The Pope Is Caught Shopping For CDs. Here’s What’s In His Collection

While it is mostly made up of classical music, it also includes: an old album of Édith Piaf’s greatest hits; Argentine tango tunes, especially...

Reassembled Papyrus Fragments Shed Light On The Lives Of Workers Who Built The Pyramids

The fragments are accounts and logbooks from the port from which blocks of white limestone (now long gone) that encased the Great Pyramid were...

Why Classical Music Folks Should Stay Away From NFTs

Besides the fact that "the NFT market is essentially a game of hot potato: Ditch it before the music stops, or you're stuck with...

Wkipedia Editors Decide Not To Classify NFTs As Art (And The Crypto Guys Are...

As one of the six editors who made the decision (the vote was 5-1) put it, "Wikipedia really can't be in the business of...

National Gallery In DC Will Close East Building All Spring

The I.M. Pei-designed wing, which contains the museum's collection of Modern and contemporary art, will shut down from the end of February through June...

The Armorer For “Rust”, Which Had That Fatal Shooting On Set, Sues Supplier For...

Star Alec Baldwin accidentally killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on October 21 with a prop gun that was supposed to...

She Gave Her First Piano Recital At Age Four. She’s Releasing A New Album...

Ruth Slenczynska, the last surviving student of Sergei Rachmaninoff, will see her new recording of his music and that of Chopin issued on the...

British Theatres Are Reeling From The Losses They Took Over Christmas Panto Season

The performances cancelled and ticket prices refunded when performers caught COVID and had to isolate, along with, when the show did go on, the...

AJBlogger And Wall Street Journal Theatre Critic Terry Teachout, 65

Very very sad to announce the death of one of ArtsJournal's original and most prolific bloggers. - The Wall Street Journal

Claim: UK Government Funding Of Theatre Makes No Sense

Even before Covid, the government’s (and Arts Council England’s) approach to the complex private/public ecology of the sector felt confused and outdated. Now, it...

NFTs? A Really Dumb Idea

It’s possible to see a purpose for cryptocurrencies, but NFTs are (for now) almost comically bereft of anything most of us would associate with...

Insisting That Art Focus On Social Justice Is A Narrow View Of How Art...

Consider those charitable foundations that have decided to stop funding the arts, or to only fund arts activities that explicitly promote diversity, equality, and...

Norman Mailer Wasn’t “Canceled.” (Dumb)

Instead, the publishing conglomerate’s decision to back away from Mailer points to a different set of financial imperatives, as well as a growing impulse...

Should Art Be “Relevant?” Jed Perl Thinks Not

Perl’s thesis, most succinctly framed in his concluding chapter, is that the arts, rather than being obliged to convey utilitarian messaging, must instead remain...

Workers At The Art Institute Of Chicago Unionize

The Art Institute union will be the first group of its kind at a major museum in Chicago. It comes amid a larger push...

Why Writers Can Keep Adapting And Readapting Greek Myths, Generation After Generation

Charlotte Higgins: "Greek myths don't exist in canonical forms: they are to be retold in the moment, and exist only as contaminated, and endlessly...

United States Artists Chooses Its Next President

Judilee Reed is currently the program director of creative communities for the William Penn Foundation, where she leads the organization’s arts and culture and...

The Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against UNC School Of The Arts Dance Dept. Has Gotten...

There are now 56 plaintiffs, male and female former students, and 30 defendants, including some female as well as male former faculty and administrators....

How Jazz Grew And Flourished In Japan

American troops brought jazz records with them; Japanese musicians picked up work entertaining the troops. There was a proliferation of jazz kissa (cafes), a distinctly Japanese...

Arkansas Symphony Announces Plans For New HQ (At A Surprising Price)

While the orchestra isn't changing performance venues, the 20,000-square-foot Stella Boyle Smith Music Center will include a 300-seat auditorium for rehearsals and student and...

UK Book Sales Set Records In 2021

Driven by booming appetites for crime novels, sci-fi, fantasy, romance and personal development titles, sales last year showed an increase of 5% on 2020....

This Troupe Of Performers With Learning Disabilities Goes Far Beyond Workshops In Schools And...

The London-based company Corali does, in fact, do programs in those places, but they've also worked with Sadler's Wells theatre and the Tate galleries...
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