Last week the Brooklyn artist space National Sawdust announced it had hired away Steve Smith from the Boston Globe to start an ambitious new culture journal. Smith is a former NYTimeser, a serious journalist, and an ambitious hire. So why? According to Smith: Our new journal initiative is not meant to be an alarmed response to that changing status quo, but rather to foster awareness of the … [Read more...]
Archives for August 21, 2016
This Week In Culture – Some ArtsJournal Highlights
This Week: An artist collective skewers Trump... How Florence's Uffizi is dramatically addressing its problems... Our fetishizing of "authenticity" doesn't ring true... So what if Google is changing the way you think... An inspiring comeback after medical calamity by one of America's best musicians. The Naked Trump: Five American cities woke up this week to statues of a naked Donald Trump … [Read more...]