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(and Arts Council England’s) approach to the complex private/public ecology of the sector felt confused and outdated.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...
Image Of Maya Angelou To Be Featured On US Quarter
The quarter features an image of Angelou with her arms uplifted, a bird in flight and a rising sun behind her, with a portrait...
Would Paul Gauguin Care About The Moral Condemnation He Gets Today? Just Read His...
As writer Laura Gascoigne puts it here, "Is Gauguin redeemable? By today's standards, no. Would he want to be redeemed? Almost certainly not." -...
Shaping The Noises Of Animals Into A Grand Symphonic Sound Installation
Composer-performer and "soundscape ecologist" Bernie Krause has used 5,000 hours of field recordings, made over 50 years and featuring 15,000 species, to create The...
Medieval Runes Discovered In Oslo For First Time In Three Decades
Researchers found two objects, a rune stick with text in both Latin and Norse and a piece of bone with a Norse inscription, in...
NPR Does Its Own Report On How It Is “Hemorrhaging Hosts From Marginalized Backgrounds”
The job went to media reporter David Folkenflik, by now quite experienced in, and respected for, stories about his employer — and he finds...
Netscape Founder James Clark Surrenders Millions Worth Of Cambodian Antiquities Now Thought To Be...
Clark, who gave up 35 items he bought between 2003 and 2008, is "the latest in a line of people taken in by Douglas...
Even The Louvre Is Creating An Immersive Art Show — And With The Mona...
The world's most visited museum is teaming up with another Paris institution, the Grand Palais, to crate the light show, which will debut in...
