ArtsJournal: Arts, Culture, Ideas

Prehistoric Rock Art In Texas “Irreparably Damaged” By Jackass Vandals

The petroglyphs, at least 4,500 years old, in Big Bend National Park were ruined by "Isaac, Ariel, Norma, (and) Adrian," who carved their names...

President Of America’s Largest Public Radio Station Departs After Two Difficult Years

Goli Sheikholeslami, who's leaving to become CEO of Politico, faced a firestorm over a program cancellation the week after she arrived at WNYC, where...

The Reason Audie Cornish Left NPR Was To Take A Job At CNN

"Cornish will host a weekly show for the network’s subscription streaming service, set to debut in the spring, and will contribute to its live...

Mezzo-Soprano Maria Ewing Dead At 71

Perhaps best known these days as the mother of Rebecca Hall and the ex-wife of Peter Hall, she had a stellar career in the...

The Magic Of A Rare Bach Recording

Of vinyl, Ralph Kirkpatrick, a perfect winter for merging records - and a desire for order. "The forms and functions of the WTC offer...

American Shakespeare Center Names A New Director

Brandon Carter, a resident actor with ASC since 2018, assumes the directorship in a new management structure that the company describes as “a coequal...

It’s Hollywood Awards Season. But It’s Awfully Quiet…

The AFI Awards were postponed. The Critics’ Choice Awards — scheduled to be televised Sunday night in hopes of filling the void left by...

Fascinating: Have We Got So Much Data That We’re Entering Into A Post-Hypothesis Era...

The complexity that this wealth of data has revealed to us cannot be captured by theory as traditionally understood. “We have leapfrogged over our...

This Year’s Golden Globes Event Was an Embarrassing Mess

Given the award show’s banishment from longtime home NBC and its failure to secure a new broadcaster, this year’s Globes were tweeted out from...

How AI Is Replacing Millions Of Jobs

While AI job automation has already replaced around 400,000 factory jobs in the U.S. from 1990 to 2007, with another 2 million on the way, AI...

Thriller: How A Famous Music School Was Airlifted Out Of Afghanistan

“It became clear, just in a matter of days, that the only way to salvage the school was to actually do a mass evacuation...

How Traditional Architecture Has Become A Right-Wing Culture Wars Battleground

This time around, the traditionalist lunatics have succeeded in taking over the asylum. Reactionary ideas hostile to the cosmopolitan, to Modernism, to modernity itself,...

The Game’s Afoot: Why Did Conan-Doyle Sign A Pirate Version Of His Holmes Novel

Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sign a pirate edition of “The Sign of the Four,” the second of the four Sherlock Holmes novels?...

We Hardly Knew Ya: Dausgaard Abruptly Quits Seattle Symphony

Seattle Symphony music director Thomas Dausgaard has abruptly stepped down from his post, midway through his third season at the top of Seattle’s flagship...

How Do You Change Dance’s Culture Of Injury?

From a very early age, dancers are taught that pain comes with the territory. “Dance is not natural. We’re stretching our bodies to extremes.”...

Why A New Version Of Citizen Kane Proves That Technology Is Making Movies Better

And that tech isn't just for action films. Citizen Kane's 4K changes are "clear even before the first shot. In the 4K transfer, the...

Artists In Canada Say They’ve Lost Half Of Their Incomes, Or More, In The...

One arts council president says bluntly that the artists need more funding, or "this situation is definitely going to have long-term consequences." - CBC

The Irish Government Is Planning To Pay A Basic Income To Two Thousand Artists

The artists - visual and performing - will earn a basic payment each week to pursue their arts, for up to three years. -...

The Tutu, In Decline

What's the issue with the classic ballet costume? Well, they're just a costume, says one former prima ballerina - and a restrictive one, at...

Sydney Poitier Gave A Lot More To Film And Theatre Than He Ever Got...

James Baldwin got it. "Baldwin acknowledged the restrictions placed on Poitier and other Black actors at the time, but he also recognized Black agency...

The List Of Golden Globes Winners

Just in case you care, after all of the info of last year that tanked "one of the glitziest awards shows in Hollywood," the...

Broadway Producers And Unions Are Not On The Same Page About Omicron Cancellations

We're not all in this together, clearly. The Broadway League "proposed to the unions representing Broadway workers that those workers take a 50 percent...

Oscar Winning Actor Mark Rylance Very Much Prefers Theatre To Film

Hey, there's money, and then there's art. Rylance: "Theatre is so flexible and it’s so different from being an actor in a film. It’s...

Thanks, Pandemic, For Probably Another Depressing Year At The Box Office

Even before omicron hit, "the red flags were flying low back in 2021. The monstrous success of Spider-Man helped paper over the cracks of...

Starring In ‘Wit’ While Dealing With Terminal Cancer

Erin Cronican says, "It’s a very complicated acting challenge. In rehearsals when I open up, I just start crying. We don’t want to create...
function my_excerpt_length($length){ return 200; } add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');