Dancing Community by Artsjournal1

It wasn't the usual impersonal voice reminding those of us sitting in the Joyce Theater to please turn off our cellphones, Instead, we who were waiting to see Camille A. Brown and Dancers pe…

Accessibility and its discontents by Artsjournal1

When I started blogging a decade and a half ago, I took for granted that it would be essential to draw a bright line between the things I talked about on line and the things I kept to myself…

Kahlo: It's Fridalandia in Brooklyn by Artsjournal1

I enjoyed seeing the Brooklyn Museum's Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving, but the exhibit was about her, not about her art. (That was its goal, and it succeeded at its goal.) The bal…

Bookseller Has Emergency Surgery, And His Competitors Get Together To Keep His Store Open by Artsjournal1

Seth Marko, co-owner of the Book Catapult in San Diego, came home from a winter convention with chest pains and went straight to the hospital; his wife/co-owner had to help with his recovery…

'MoviePass Does Still Exist. They're Just A Little Harder To Find These Days.' by Artsjournal1

A reporter finds " after a lot of walking around, and behind a very inconspicuous door " the current offices of “one of the most glorious burnouts in corporate history.” The exec…

What Makes Television About History Succeed? by Artsjournal1

“Television’s scale and range testify to a remarkable level of public engagement with the past. And this makes it an excellent medium for history. The formats, so different from …

Ben Hecht Hated Hollywood. He Also Helped Create Two Of Its Most Important Genres by Artsjournal1

GuideStar And Foundation Center, Two Key Parts Of US Nonprofit Ecosystem, Will Merge by Artsjournal1

“In this case, neither organization’s name will survive, and both CEOs will be incorporated into the structure of the new organization, which now goes by the inspired name of …

How A Book Gets The Cover You Judge It By by Artsjournal1

Three senior designers at publishing houses talk about the process of conceiving and trying out different designs, then choosing the one they think works best. " The New York Times

'A Great Teacher Is A Gift. A Great Line Editor Is A Miracle.' by Artsjournal1

“Instead of thinking about line editing as a forgotten art, one callously consumed by the book business, we should consider it a privilege " a gift " enjoyed by some writers, but not m…

Dance Companies, Stop Making Dancers Pay To Audition! (An Open Letter) by Artsjournal1

Teacher and former dancer Sara Bibik: “When we ask dancers to do it, we say to ourselves, ‘We are a struggling company trying to make ends meet. We are incurring an expense and s…

Is This Leonardo Da Vinci's Only Surviving Sculpture? by Artsjournal1

A small terracotta statue, titled The Virgin with the Laughing Child and housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, has been attributed to various Italian Renaissance artists, most …

The Opéra-Bastille, The House That Gets No Respect by Artsjournal1

When it opened (not quite finished) in Paris in 1989, this joke made the rounds: “What is the difference between the Bastille Opera and the Titanic? The Titanic had an orchestra.”…

Now *This* Is Subversive: Staging 'Hair' With A Cast Of Old Folks by Artsjournal1

“This joyful staging is the first by Theater 55, a new Twin Cities company that celebrates elders as artists. And it requires more than an average suspension of disbelief. The 26-membe…

NBC Calls Off 'Hair Live!' by Artsjournal1

The real-time telecast of the classic counterculture musical had been scheduled for May 19. In a statement, NBC executives emphasized that “live musicals are a part of this networkR…

Birmingham Reduces Its Latest Round Of Arts Funding Cuts By Half by Artsjournal1

Last October, the city government announced its third round of cuts in cultural spending in the past four years. Those cuts amounted to just over £1 million, a third of the already reduce…

Lagos, Nigeria Is Finally Arriving As Africa's New Art Destination by Artsjournal1

“This enormous city " with no official census, population estimates range from 13 million to 21 million " is dynamic by disposition. … Lagosians " who are proud of their ‘hustl…

The Symphony Orchestra Of India (And Why There's Only One) by Artsjournal1

Western classical music, and orchestral music in particular, has caught on in a huge way in East Asia, but it has only ever had the most tenuous of holds in the Indian subcontinent (which ha…

National Museum Of Scotland Completes Massive 15-Year, £80 Million Makeover by Artsjournal1

“Revamped galleries devoted to Ancient Egypt, East Asia and ceramics are the last of 29 spaces to open, bringing to an end an £80m masterplan to turn the outmoded main building into…

We're outliers by Artsjournal1

Sometimes people say, not very pleasantly, that a classical concert can be too much like a museum. But it's been true for quite a while that this isn't true, because museums are far more ori…

A Visit To The Museum Of Failure by Artsjournal1

“To be displayed in this museum, objects have to have been an innovation, have to have failed and have to be interesting, explains the museum’s curator Samuel West. He defines fa…

Charles Busch, Theatre's Drag Diva, Moves Into Cabaret " As Himself, In Men's Clothes by Artsjournal1

“As an actor and writer, Busch is among the most prolific and influential drag artists of his generation, giving us memorable women (and men) in solo performance, and in plays and film…

The Last Two Years Were The Biggest Of Camille A. Brown's Career " And She Nearly Died. Twice. by Artsjournal1

“The outside eye saw the success of Once On This Island, Jesus Christ Superstar Live, ink [at the Kennedy Center], and my cover on Dance Magazine,” the dancer-choreographer write…

'I Want To Make People Shit Themselves And Throw Up': Theatre Director Ned Bennett by Artsjournal1

“Essentially, Bennett is creating a contemporary Theatre of Cruelty, giving the visceral and ritualistic techniques that Antonin Artaud advocated 80 years earlier a pyro, DayGlo twist.…

Tanglewood To Go Year-Round With New Linde Center For Music And Learning by Artsjournal1

The new four-building, $33 million complex “will be the home to the Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI) … The schedule of 140 ticketed events includes four deep-immersion weekends, n…

Minnesota Opera Purchases 350-Seat Theater by Artsjournal1

The Lab Theater, a converted warehouse, is right next door to the company’s own rehearsal and office space (called the Opera Center) in Minneapolis’s North Loop. Since 2006, inde…

Matt Salinger, J.D.'s Son, Talks About His Father's Long-Hidden Writings (And When The Hell We'll Finally See Them) by Artsjournal1

“This was somebody who was writing for 50 years without publishing, so that’s a lot of material. So there’s not a reluctance or a protectiveness: when it’s ready, we&…

Why The Academy's Attempt To Shorten The Oscars Telecast Is Wrongheaded (And Probably Futile) by Artsjournal1

“The Academy’s thinking is that awards for Sound Editing and Documentary Short eat up minutes and help push the show’s barnstorming conclusion " winners in the lead acting,…

Treasures From The World's Largest Archive Of Dance Materials by Artsjournal1

That would be none other than the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. “It regularly films dance productions in the city, preserving the present for the future; it aims to …

Spotify Buys Podcast Producer Gimlet Media by Artsjournal1

“In announcing its fourth-quarter earnings, the Stockholm company said it had acquired Gimlet Media, the studio behind the popular podcasts Crimetown, Reply All and StartUp, and Anchor…

Guthrie Theatre, No Longer Headless, Gets New Managing Director And Two Senior Staffers by Artsjournal1

“James Haskins, managing director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, will take the same title at the Guthrie,” and new development director Mollie Alexander Hogan comes from K…