ArtsJournal: Arts, Culture, Ideas

ArtsJournal1

ArtsJournal1
8697 POSTS 0 COMMENTS

DeafBlind People Are Adapting ASL Into A Language Of Touch

Protactile, as the new language is called, started with people (usually sighted) signing ASL into the hands of DeafBlind folks.  But many of ASL's...

Ukrainian Soldiers Make Archaeological Find While Digging Defenses In Odesa

While digging ditches in anticipation of a potential Russian attack, Ukrainian military men discovered several amphorae (bottle-necked ceramic containers) estimated to be up to...

The 389-Year-Old Oberammergau Passion Play Has Recovered From COVID

"Depicting the life, persecution, death and resurrection of Jesus, ... the oldest continuous running amateur theatre production in the world will open on Saturday...

A New Museum In Senegal For Repatriated African Art

Funded by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the museum and community center called Bët-bi (Wolof for "the eye"), to open in 2025 in...

Rescued From The Clutches Of The Sex Toy Collective, “The Believer” Magazine Will Go...

"After a journey even the creative minds at The Believer could not have imagined, the celebrated literary magazine is back in business and again...

Saved: Dallas’s Classical Radio Station Will (Probably) Be Taken Over By The Region’s NPR/PBS...

WRR — at 101, the oldest radio station in Texas — is owned by the City of Dallas, which wants out of the radio...

With A Billion Downloads, The Economist Has Become A Podcasting Powerhouse

The magazine's flagship audio property, a daily news podcast called The Intelligence, averages 3.9 million downloads each week and 2.5 million unique listeners a...

Simon Preston, Organist And Choirmaster With A Major Recording Legacy, Dead At 83

With Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music, Preston and his Choir of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford released landmark period-instrument recordings of Handel's Messiah,...

Interpretive Dance In A Session Of The EU Parliament (By A Famous Choreographer, No...

The Twitterverse had a high old time when news and photos hit of the final session of the Conference on the Future of Europe...

Keanu Reeves — “Why Do We Get So Much Out Of A Movie Star...

"He's an unknowable icon, the internet's adorably tragic boyfriend, a prolific actor who never seems to be acting. ... Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas...

A Traditional Urban House Design That Figured Out The Work-Home Life Balance

A look at the layout, functions, and history of machiya, the traditional shop-front-and-courtyard houses of Kyoto. - Bloomberg CityLab

Stage Director Ivo Van Hove Has Got Himself A Festival

The Belgium-born, Amsterdam-based director, known in the US for his Broadway stagings of A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, Network, and West Side...

Standup Comedy Classes As Psychological Treatment, Courtesy Of Britain’s National Health Service

Angie Belcher, comedian-in-residence at Bristol University (yes, really) and founder of the practice Comedy on Referral, has already had a successful NHS-funded course for...

Is Standup Comedy Becoming A Dangerous Job?

"A couple of recent high-profile physical attacks on comedians ... have left some comics wondering if the stage is becoming less safe, and have...

The Sale Of “The Believer” Magazine To The Sex Toy Collective Guy Isn’t Going...

The first article the new owner published online was a listicle of hook-up sites with an old contributor's name slapped on the byline. As...

Ex-Fox News Anchor Fired For Sexual Misconduct Drops Libel Suit Against NPR and CNN

"Ed Henry initially alleged last year that journalists at the two outlets — including NPR media reporter David Folkenflik, CNN chief media correspondent Brian...

At 71, Black Composer Anthony Davis May Finally Be Having His Breakout

With five companies (the Met, Detroit, Chicago, Omaha, and Seattle) sharing a revival of his X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X directed...

David Hockney Has Made A 314-Foot-Long Scroll Painting

Or you could call it a frieze. Hockney was inspired, he says, by the Bayeux Tapestry as well as by the seasons in Normandy,...

205 Million Subscribers — If Streaming Is Slowing Down, It’s Not At Disney

"Disney is quickly closing in on Netflix's long-established streaming lead. The entertainment giant now has 205 million paid subscribers across all of its services" ...

With No Director, No Instruments, And, Sometimes, No Concert Hall, This Sextet Of Singers...

Variant 6 does strange new music and even stranger old music in art galleries, ballets, and repurposed sawdust factories. And they know each other...

Meet The Mississippi Educator Who Was Fired For Reading Second-Graders “I Need A New...

On March 1, Toby Price, assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in the Jackson suburbs, found himself having to sub at a virtual...

The Problem With Actors Reading Audiobooks

Prompted by, among others, Diane Keating reading from Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem and Julie Harris reading Stuart Little (after which E.B. White recorded...

Depression Is Twice As Prevalent In The Performing Arts As In The General Population,...

A review, commissioned by the British branch of Actors' Equity, of 111 academic studies performed over 20 years found (among other conclusions) that, in...

Michael Tilson Thomas’s Greatest Gift To Miami: The New World Symphony Wallcasts

"(They are a) miracle that brings in throngs, as many as 3,000 or maybe more, of people out on a Saturday night" — in...

“There’s A Financial Cliff Ahead Of Us”: For Performing Arts In L.A., COVID Recovery...

As one director of a presenting venue puts it, "It's like, we're driving straight up (to) the cliff ... but we're swerving and bumping...
function my_excerpt_length($length){ return 200; } add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');