December 2010 Archives
It's from Wile E. Coyote.
Continue reading A message of hope for 2011.
In waning hours of year's end, I struggle to recall great music live and best in fixed form
Continue reading Jazz-beyond-jazz music moments + records of future jazz 2010.
Local Praise For A Little Museum Prompts Me To Take A Look -- And Concur
Continue reading Ending 2010 On A Small Upnote .
... from the smartest guy on the planet. OK, one of the smartest.
Continue reading A Thought for 2011.
Downloaded music that sounds good and other jokes
Continue reading An Audiophile Walks Into an Apple Store....
Downloaded music that sounds good and other jokes
Continue reading An Audiophile Walks Into an Apple Store....
A conductor's reminiscence
Continue reading The secret torments of Emil Gilels.
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2010/12/classical_music_site_gets_take.html
Free classical download #12
Continue reading It Ain't Necessarily So.
Sunday Is His Birthday. Here's How The Foes Of The Move Will Celebrate: A NEW COURT CHALLENGE
Continue reading A Birthday Present For Doctor Barnes -- UPDATED.
My resistance is no match for Francis Davis, who compiles the annual Village Voice jazz critics poll.
Continue reading The Reluctant Lister: A Confession.
Thoughts on the year just past and the one to come. Among other things, I've written a play.
Continue reading The old year passeth.
Steppenwolf's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" reviewed--plus a recording of the play's original Broadway cast.
Continue reading Deep down in their private lives.
See Glynis Johns and Len Cariou sing "Send in the Clowns."
Continue reading Just because.
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2010/12/three_fiddlers_in_the_drink.html
Continue reading Three fiddlers in the drink.
It keeps losing conductors
Continue reading What's wrong with Chicago?.
A CultureGrrl First as we approach 2011---my narrated slideshow of BMFA's interior architecture and installations. Great bathroom! Where's George?
Continue reading Reinstalled Art at "New" BMFA: My Irreverent Slideshow (and video).
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Starting shot in a long process
Continue reading Cuts announced to German orchestras.
Egos go to war in a ratings loser
Continue reading It's Rattle's Dude vs Thielemann - German TV's New Year reality show.
Continue reading Low down and dirty - free classical download #11.
An Online Gambit To Attract Money: Will The New Donor Generation Go Along?
Continue reading Game-Playing At The Whitney.
"A sense of proportion is required." Also, have a look at museum's "unlisted" "Hide/Seek" peep show. (I've got its number.)
He's baring his soul on WQXR
Continue reading What Franz Welser-Möst would die for.
Proposals are circulating to end or significantly change the charitable deduction.
Continue reading What will happen if charitable gifts are not tax deductible?.
free classical download #10
Continue reading A world premiere gift from Slipped Disc.
Arianna's dim view of backlit art. I'm okay with apps; just don't make me use them! Youth will be served.
Continue reading Huffington's Post: Are "Museums 2.0" a No-Go? UPDATED.
This week's video: Alec Guinness as Father Brown, plus a rare sound newsreel of G.K. Chesterton.
Continue reading Snapshot.
Times accords puff-piece, front-page treatment to Met's Velázquez story, ignores lawsuit claiming Met's Cézanne. Pitfalls of privileged access.
Continue reading Hits and Misses: NY Times as House Organ for the Met.
"New Media Evangelist" Is Reluctant To Advocate Social Media; Worries About Existential Point
Continue reading Ariana Huffington On Museums.
...spacing, lineation, and pagination have been insufficiently considered. Music has been treated as prose
Continue reading Line break.
Talk of the German literary scene: It sounds like he's gossiping about gangsters.
Continue reading Sprechen Sie Deutsch?.
Free classical download #9
Continue reading Mahler as you've never heard him before.
Every year, the founding choreographer seems stronger than ever, and the rest of the rep as bad as it ever was.
Continue reading The annual Ailey surprise. .
The Morgan Starts Putting Music Manuscripts Online, Like Juilliard. Is There A Way To Step It Up?
Continue reading Do I See A Waltz?.
For me, this condition-compromised canvas was dead on arrival (unlike last year's Velázquez upgrade). Museum itself low-keyed it.
Continue reading Met's Lackluster Velázquez Rediscovery: "Exceptionally High Quality"?.
For me, this condition-compromised canvas was dead on arrival (unlike last year's Velázquez upgrade). Museum itself low-keyed it.
Continue reading Met's Lackluster Velázquez Rediscovery: "Exceptionally High Quality"?.
I had expected reasonable people (like Ross) to disagree with me. I hadn't anticipated the twitterati's distortions and name-calling.
Continue reading BlogBacks: The Twitterati and David Ross on "Hide/Seek".
Continue reading Ten top music exclusives of 2010.
Continue reading Here's where it gets serious - free classical download #8.
"Gymnopédie No. 1" has entered the jazz repertoire, but how many jazz listeners know it as Satie wrote it?
Continue reading Other Matters: Ciccolini Plays Satie.
Who remembers the great radio comedian today?
Continue reading Night thoughts on Jack Benny.
See Ben Webster and Gerry Mulligan play "Who's Got Rhythm" in 1963.
Continue reading Just because.
Continue reading The world's most romantic concerto - free classical download #7.
Continue reading Unheard treasure ... free classical download #6.
Prescient American contemporary collector and major benefactor of the Met, Whitney, MoMA and his eponymous museum at Purchase College, NY.
Continue reading Roy Neuberger, Mega-Collector and Museum Patron, Dies UPDATED.
On the Russian Consulate of San Francisco's interesting approach to supporting Russian-relevant cultural programming
Continue reading Igor.
Should Clough resign? Removal of posthumously altered video isn't sole criterion by which Smithsonian Secretary's job performance should be judged.
Get into the spirit of the season with this true story of two accidental elves.
Continue reading Dear Santa in Apt. 7A.
Two Moscow Artists Give A Gift To Ice Sculptors...A Freezing Museum Extends Art's Life
Continue reading Grab Your Down Coat.
Continue reading Greetings from Mahler's town of Jihlava (Iglau).
True tales of musical life in 2010, red in tooth and claw
Continue reading Then the conductor pulled a revolver and pointed it at the audience....
Continue reading End of Chopin year - free classical download #5.
"This video has been removed by the user" (or by the Whitney?). Fly-through is grounded. But images linger on.
Here's my annual best-of-the-year Wall Street Journal drama column for 2010.
Continue reading Safety first, surprises second.
Hear Louis Armstrong recite "The Night Before Christmas."
Continue reading 'Tis the season (IV).
A Christmas gift from the distant past--the first recordings of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
Continue reading The beautiful sound of sorrow.
A new art installation projects larger-than-life images of passersby on a wall in downtown San Francisco
Continue reading Narcissism As Art.
Paul Levy alters his opinion of a brave man and praises a production he didn't review
Continue reading What I regret about 2010.
With Paintings! The Nelson-Atkins Again Sets A Model That Can Be Broadened Out
Continue reading Spreading Christmas Spirit.
Last blog post till next year, with some Christmas music happiness.
Continue reading Christmas cheer.
Join me for my first view of Boston MFA's Foster wing façade. See the building acquired for its NEXT expansion!
Continue reading MeTube: Outdoors Ramble Around the Expanded BMFA---Part II.
This is not an April Fools joke: Math teachers are excessed instead of art teachers...
Continue reading To Turn Her Middle School Around, A Principal Invests in the Arts.
on alcohol and drug abuse in orchestras
Continue reading So how many is too many? Some additional evidence.
Free classical download #4
Continue reading Whatever became of Respighi?.
Continue reading Breaking news: Czech Phil takes new chief from its dark past.
The dead come back to define what's fresh
Continue reading Picasso's flesh world.
NEA's advisory body gets someone with serious visual arts creds. But Landesman's opportunity to push for artists' fellowships has passed.
Continue reading Agnes Gund Named to National Council on the Arts.
Video: Julian Assange speaks to David Frost. Video: Fear is also contagious, fanned by "shock-jock politicians."
Continue reading 'Courage Is Contagious'.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
"Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol."
Continue reading 'Tis the season (III).
..."One year later, after 14 years of teaching, I was laid off."
Continue reading The Challenge of Teaching Art in the Public School System: Part Two.
On why we shouldn't pay too much attention to Gramophone's rankings and musings about three recent choral concerts I attended
SF Asian Art Museum Gets Brief Reprieve To Work Out Financial Woes -- Or Else: Bankruptcy?
Continue reading 30-Day Deadline.
We don't know what the existing classical audience hears at concerts -- how close attention they pay, how much they know about the music.
Continue reading How do they listen?.
More holiday CD picks -- belated, but they're marvelous: Maya Beiser and Carlo Bergonzi.
Continue reading How could I forget?.
Hike with me around the vast perimeter of the expanded Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Norman Foster's wing is...where?
Continue reading MeTube: Outdoors Ramble Around the Expanded BMFA.
Another one jailed for child molestation
Continue reading Why is it always music teachers?.
"Those of you that love music, love art..."
Continue reading Arne Duncan and Neko Case: We Have To Do More With The Arts..
Watch it live on webcam!
Continue reading Breaking news: Abbey Road saved forever.
And here's a star concerto as free track #3
Continue reading More labels join free classical downloads on Slipped Disc .
What shall we do with the drunk musician?
Continue reading So how many is too many?.
This week's video: the King's College Choir sings Peter Warlock's "Balulalow."
Continue reading Snapshot.
Do They Reveal More Than We Know? Some High-Placed Italian Experts Think They Do
Continue reading Oh Those Mona Lisa Eyes.
Now you can! (Update: Maybe not.) Cavernous, sunlit spaces. Where do small-scale works go? Yet to raise---$200 million.
Continue reading Wanna Glide Through Renzo Piano's New Whitney Downtown? UPDATED.
..."Exposure to Arts Means Higher SAT scores"
Continue reading The Choice is Art: A New Public Awareness Campaign in Arizona.
Trumpeter-composer Randall Sandke writes that blacks' centrality in jazz is over-hyped
Continue reading Is jazz biased against white musicians?.
A performance of the Hallelujah Chorus results in a mall's evacuation.
Continue reading Messiah in the Mall.
Am I the only artworld observer who believes Smithsonian Secretary Clough did the right (or, at least, politically astute) thing?
Continue reading Just Posted: My New Huffington Post "Hide/Seek" Piece.
Jonathan Katz defends his alteration of Wojnarovicz's video for museum display; other readers maintain that museums do show gay content.
Performance innovator Herring's 21 day-long "Actions" at Meulensteen were like group meditations rather than some anti-audience, anti-viewer, sacrificial rite.
Continue reading Oliver Herring: Lights, Camera, Action.
Continue reading Breaking news: Anti-Tory opera to open in Cheltenham.
Continue reading Dutch play 4'33" on prime time TV.
The last of the series
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011, Task #10.
Continue reading You gotta hear this - free classical download #2.
A case study of public service equivocation
Continue reading Why the BBC won't play 4'33".
See Bing Crosby sing "White Christmas" in "Holiday Inn."
Continue reading 'Tis the season (II).
Twelve Museums Send A Monthly Masterpiece "Greeting Card" To The Dulwich Picture Gallery
Continue reading What A Birthday Celebration!.
AAMD-mandated transparency starts at home (or should). Its president's Minneapolis Institute won't come clean about dirt-encrusted Greek krater.
Continue reading Transparency Gap: Minneapolis Institute Refuses to Discuss Greek Hot Pot.
Three recordings I love -- Stockausen, Stewart Goodyear, and René Jacobs's Magic Flute.
Continue reading Gifts.
44 entries
Continue reading The Second Year of Pianomorphosis Posts.
Musings about a choral concert in the heart of Yosemite and a choral documentary from the heart of Minnesota
Continue reading Never Stop Singing & Holiday Pops With the Andrea Fulton Chorale.
Technology, technology, technology
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011, Task #9.
Continue reading Free classical download #1 - exclusive to Slipped Disc.
for snowbound musicians
Continue reading Spare a thought....
The Morgan Library Puts On A Show To Delight Book Lovers, Library Lovers, Photography Lovers
Continue reading Listri's Libraries.
Recent results from online coupons.
Continue reading Using online coupons to expand the audience.
This week's video: Mel Tormé and Judy Garland sing "The Christmas Song" in 1963.
Continue reading Snapshot.
A captivating, completely audio-driven scavenger hunt navigated by only your wits and your ears.
Continue reading Taking the Video Out of the Game: Papa Sangre.
What might a slow arts movement look like?
Continue reading Slow Food: a model for the arts and culture sector?.
Biden's sick-making Wikileaks contradictions... Zombie lies in the decade of the living dead... Is there no concept of objective truth?
Continue reading Greenwald to Krugman to Orwell.
Government support: rethink it...
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011, Task #8.
If you don't mind adventurism in holiday music, Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O gives you plenty of it.
Continue reading Christmas CDs: Matt Wilson, Matassa/Anderson.
The artist wrote it in the Wall Street Journal
Continue reading The Blog Posting I Don't Need to Write.
Musings about a choral concert in the heart of Yosemite and a choral documentary from the heart of Minnesota
Continue reading Never Stop Singing & Holiday Pops With the Andrea Fulton Chorale.
Even kids on American Bandstand dug Don Van Vliet (1/15/41-12/17/10)
Continue reading Captain Beefheart, avant bluesman, mourned and celebrated.
Iconography -
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011, Task #7.
We are not there yet.
Per Husby writes: I'd like to share a little remembrance of mine of James Moody - from Oslo, Norway somewhere around 1990
Continue reading Correspondence, With Music: Moody Concerned.
Two Norton Museum Curators, In Five Days, Prowled Miami Beach Fairs: The Results
Continue reading What Happened With Now WHAT?.
In another sign of big changes coming to classical music, the Cleveland Orchestra wants a younger audience.
Continue reading Another portent.
Art of the Americas isn't BMFA's only reinstallation news. Let's visit the first gallery in Shackelford's European arts re-do.
Continue reading Boston MeTube: My BMFA Hanukkah with Curator George Shackelford .
Continue reading Breaking news: Free classical downloads from Slipped Disc.
The roundup and the rap continue ...
Continue reading Wikileaks Wrap.
Not-for-Profit v. Commercial Art --
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011, Task #6.
Mary Zimmerman's "Candide" reviewed.
Continue reading Taking another shot at "Candide".
The Walker's Crowdsourced 50-50 Exhibit; A Model For The 21st Century? Or Abdication?
Continue reading Everyone's A Curator.
In "The Hard Nut" Mark Morris's renegade streak has every opportunity to flourish
Continue reading Winter Solstice No. 3: "The Nutcracker" According to Morris.
Work for NYC freelance musicians is drying up -- a serious sign that classical music is in trouble.
Continue reading Portent.
Curator Katz's inflammatory "American Taliban" quote. Plus his public admission of tampering with Wojnarowicz's video for "museological" purposes. Curatorial license?
Continue reading "Hide/Seek" Flap: "Silence = Death" (but so does intemperate rhetoric).
...When people think say that arts education is elite, I point to the art of espresso
Continue reading Espresso Arts Education (Updated).
Short and simple --
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011, Task #5.
Join me at NYPL, seated beside National Portrait Gallery director Martin Sullivan, and listen to "Hide/Seek's" curators (and Martin) expound.
Continue reading MeTube: Curators and Director Discuss "Hide/Seek" Controversy in NYC.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Artist-Collector Donates 400 Works By Women: Bourgeois, Spero, Neel, Coe, Saar...More
Continue reading Pennsylvania Academy Is Feminized.
Museum's officials "haven't heard a peep from Sotheby's" about art-rental nibbles. Will the Shigeru Ban addition ever get built?
Continue reading MeTube: Rose Art Museum (and its former director) in Recovery Mode.
...I learned that Washington never told a lie. I learned that soldiers seldom die.
Continue reading What Did You Learn in School Today?.
Continue reading Slightly less bad hair in Birmingham.
Continuing the series --
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011, Task #4.
Actually, many themes - new piece by young Chinese composer
Continue reading Rhapsody on a Theme by Mahler.
Reasonable people can disagree, and I disagree with just about everyone on Smithsonian "Hide/Seek" controversy. Most rational voice: David Wojnarowicz.
Continue reading Alienating Everyone: My Huffington Post Piece on "Hide/Seek".
Admired for his trumpet, flugelhorn, singing and blues mumbling, CT has been an inspiration to generations of musicians.
Continue reading Clark Terry Is 90.
Revealing Statistics On Who Came, Why, What They Spent...$784 Million In Economic Activity
Continue reading The Met's Blockbuster Summer.
This week's video: Bert Lahr and Stanley Holloway in the 1964 TV version of "The Fantasticks."
Continue reading Snapshot.
Why reduce your yearly experiences to ten items when the sum of all the parts can generate something like this
Continue reading Fire Up Your Netflix Queue.
Fairouz singing Mahler Fourth? Could be...
Continue reading Have yourself a merry multiculture.
Continue reading Breaking news: first woman Keeper at Royal Academy.
Cooperative ventures --
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011, Task #3.
New Book Tells How Even van Gogh's Roommate -- A Great Dealer -- Missed His Genius...Was It The Suicide Pact?
Continue reading Great Scot!.
Farewell to Peter Andry, EMI's spinmeister
Continue reading There goes another music man.
John Cage's silent piece, 4'33", might just go to the top of the British pop chart.s
Continue reading Cage Against the Machine.
Violence in the streets scares the shit out of the authorities more than guerrilla geeks. Internet attacks are an abstraction.
Continue reading Student Riots vs. Internet Attacks.
Weekend cultural happenings...
Continue reading A Tempest, A Train and A Triple Lutz.
How far back should museums go to right historic wrongs? Is a claim related to Russian Revolution expropriations too stale?
...the forces conspiring to diminish the field of concert music are much more complex, difficult to understand, and perhaps impossible to alter than most people might believe or admit
Continue reading On The Declining Field of Concert Music.
How sex and celebrity distort the high fliers
Continue reading Sorting out the fluffy fiddle stars.
Continuing the list --
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011, Task #2.
Crisis mounts for second-city arts
Continue reading Bad hair day in Birmingham.
A reader wondered why she had never heard Moody's "I'm in the Mood For Love." So do I. Here it is.
Continue reading How Moody Became Famous.
It Works: MFA-Boston Says It Will Reinstate Its Prize For Women Artists In 2011
Continue reading A Little Nagging Is A Good Thing.
Jacob Lateiner was a leader in a generation of pianists who regarded the composer... as its highest authority
Continue reading Jacob Lateiner (1928-2010).
Nancy LaMott, who died fifteen years ago this Monday, sings "Time After Time."
Continue reading In memory of an old friend.
Counterpoint, the think tank for the British Council, publishes a new pamphlet on culture and class.
Continue reading Who has access to 'culture'? Who gets to define it?.
Will digital natives think "about anything bigger than our Facebook profiles and our TV screens"?
Continue reading When the Connected World Turns Upside Down.
Thoughts on Deborah Hay's "Lecture on Beauty" at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Dan Flavin installation at The Menil Collection's Richmond Hall, and the influence of the Waco limestone flats on theater director and artist Robert Wilson. Author Theodore Bale begins an adventure of looking at art and performance in Texas.
Continue reading Looking Up in Texas.
A Top Ten list for the arts sector
Continue reading Ten Work Items for 2011.
How funders can increase their effectiveness -- my response to the capitalization report.
An op-ed denouncing Simon Cowell and the Tate
Continue reading How the Turner Prize and the X Factor are allies in anti-art.
Carter and Barzun, the great survivors
Continue reading Two centenarians on video.
Continue reading Anna Mahler on live radio.
A key figure in the Shostakovich controversy
Continue reading Death of a terrorised resistant.
Ex-Director Of Rose Art Museum Lands A Job In East Lansing, At The Broad Art Museum
Continue reading Life After Brandeis.
On feeling bad about interviewee comments not making it into the final cut of an article
Continue reading Cutting Room Floor.
Skilled at fundraising, eager to mount single-lender blockbusters (even at high cost). He partly funded current Nigerian show himself.
Continue reading Peter Marzio, 67, Director of Houston MFA, Dies UPDATED and CORRECTED.
Often we worry that bad things will happen if classical music changes. But aren't we just speculating?
Continue reading A cautionary tale.
How did this beloved, very familiar painting grow eightfold after leaving the Met? Vogel doesn't say. I blame the Brits!
Continue reading NY Times Scoop: Met's "Card Players" on Steroids!.
Sad News From Houston MFA...UPDATED With Some Personal Reflections On The Man
Continue reading Peter Marzio Has Died.
...access to this heritage, in a manner that provides engagement and ultimately ownership, is fundamental to what education is ultimately about.
Continue reading Made in America: Our Cultural Heritage.
It's the new work on the block
Continue reading Break a neck?.
Continue reading A fond memory of Hugues Cuénod as a young tenor.
Eighteen years after his death, he still makes the monkeys dance
Continue reading Welcome back, David Wojnarowicz.
We knew it was coming. That doesn't make it easier.
Continue reading James Moody, 1925-2010.
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's "I Capture the Castle" reviewed.
Continue reading The girl in the kitchen sink.
How Adolf Busch wrecked his career by doing the right thing.
Continue reading The man who said no to Hitler.
Moody's music was virtuosic, warm and humorous; he died of pancreatic cancer, age 85
Continue reading James Moody, bop saxophonist, flutist, humorist: 3/25/25 - 12/9/10.
The trend in Manhattan's main clubs is red, hot, wild electric, post-genre eclectic improv
Continue reading Jazz fusion heats up NYC venues at holidays.
People who didn't like my "Orchestra Scoreboards" post seem unfair to new listeners.
Continue reading Scoreboards -- yes or no?.
Neil Young and Joanna Newsom help to raise millions to support a new children's hospital. If only their performances could have been better
Continue reading Raising Money In Spite of Iffy Entertainment.
Morgan's study plus two spaces opened for first time---J.P.'s vault, his librarian's office. Trying to tame Piano's immense atrium.
Those who are very high on high-stakes accountability, will surely deride this film as being against rigor, another swipe at failed progressive notions in education.
Lucky Dallas Museum Of Art Offers "Big New Field"...No Pandering Here
Continue reading Turning Sports Fans Into Art-Lovers.
Continue reading The fine art of self destruction.
For those who think arts education is part of the core, shall we look to high flying Shanghai?
Continue reading The Shanghaiing of Arts Education.
"... when the operation of the machine becomes so odious ... you've got to put your bodies upon the gears..."
Continue reading Re Wikileaks & Operation Payback, Remember What Mario Savio Said.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
The Henry dips into the image stream
Continue reading Image Transfer - Remix Culture at the Henry Gallery.
Does Times really want to return Rosetta Stone, Nefertiti to Egypt? Stop berating the NPG: Instead, call for "Hide/Seek" tour!
Roman Bust, 2nd Century, Fetches Multiples of Its $2- To $3-Million Presale Estimate
Continue reading An Old Boy Proves Popular.
Two iconic images
Continue reading Imagine. It's 30 years today since Lennon was killed.
Continue reading It's Mahler day upstate tomorrow.
This week's video: Sammy Davis, Jr., and the Will Mastin Trio perform an excerpt from their nightclub act in 1954.
Continue reading Snapshot.
An unusual animated film captures the frustrations of trying to raise money as a non-profit arts organization
Continue reading Impasse.
From a student frustrated by orchestra concerts -- an idea to make them more comprehensible.
Continue reading Orchestra scoreboards.
Continue reading Join me for an on-line chat on Wednesday....
Continue reading Chart-toppers of London 2012.
Armory's Rebecca Robertson On The Challenge Of Doing All The Arts "Equally"...A WSJ Cultural Conversation
Continue reading Who's On Park?.
Time to look back, so we know where to go
Continue reading Hats Off to the Ghosts of Us.
Continue reading World's oldest tenor gives up.
a rare look at the classic quartet--Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello--at the Blackhawk
Continue reading Take 90: Brubeck At The Blackhawk.
I don't know yet whether it was "Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Fire," but it sure was "BMFA Evacuated"!
Continue reading MeTube: Boston Museum of Fine Arts Evacuated UPDATED.
The last living member of the Northwest School checks out
Continue reading Bill Cumming 1917-2010.
A quick summary of four interesting and contrasting events around town
Continue reading Weekend Roundup: From Tango to El Nino .
Students in my music criticism class write something terrific -- perceptive, and evocative, too.
Continue reading Wonderful students.
Virtuoso playing can almost physically uplift us... I'd like to root the word "virtuosity" in "virtue"
Continue reading "Of which vertu".
Balanchine's vintage Nutcracker--with Sara Mearns
Continue reading Winter Solstice No. 2: "The Nutcracker" According to Balanchine.
A Quibble Or Two And A Question Or Two
Continue reading On Censorship, Free Speech And The National Portrait Gallery.
Among the thorny issues raised by the Detroit Symphony strike is whether orchestras can afford to offer "full-time" jobs to their musicians -- and the consequences. If I seem unsympathetic to the players, it's because I've heard the union litany once too often.
Continue reading The Detroit Symphony, Service Exchange, and "Full-Time" Jobs.
How Mrs. T and I escaped from a Philadelphia.
Continue reading The horror! The horror!.
See American Ballet Theatre dance Antony Tudor's "Pillar of Fire" in 1973.
Continue reading Just because.
Protesters assert one was handcuffed and both banned for life from Smithsonian. See video of the incident on CultureGrrl.
Vandalism On Latches Lane: Meant To Intimidate Foes Of The Barnes Foundation Move?
Continue reading Let's Not Get Physical .
Who, or what, is harmed by broadening the definition of art?
Continue reading Somebody better call the art police..
Better off without it?
Continue reading Government -- Impediment to Artistic Growth?.
Continue reading The one that Mahler dropped.
My second attempt to make it to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' American wing, the new Norman Foster expansion.
Continue reading Lost in Boston: Getting Back on Course.
David Lynch is now writing electro-pop
Continue reading The Threat of Ordinary Objects.
From Today's WSJ Masterpiece Column: Beckmann's Self-Portrait In A Tuxedo, From 1927
Continue reading It's Easy To See Why.
Bruce Ricker and Clint Eastwood coalesce and blend disparate elements into a coherent and entertaining story of an amazing life.
Continue reading The New Brubeck Documentary.
Unlike "Piss Christ" artist Andres Serrano, David Wojnarowicz isn't around to enjoy the wider audience. Flagged as "inappropriate" on YouTube.
Continue reading BlogBacks on "Hide/Seek" (and new exposure for Wojnarowicz) UPDATED.
"Unwarranted, uninformed censorship from politicians" who hadn't seen the show or the hot-button video. Removal of work "extremely regrettable."
Continue reading AAMD's Strong Statement on "Hide/Seek" Controversy.
A service organization for chamber music gets to grips with the fast-changing artistic landscape
Continue reading Defining Chamber Music - A Moving Target.
Commitments to consignors, whether or not bidding reaches promised price, up 14-fold from year ago. Irrevocable bids a factor.
Continue reading Non-Basel Art Market Indicator: Sotheby's Ups Its Guarantees.
Commitments to consignors, whether or not bidding reaches promised price, up 14-fold from year ago. Irrevocable bids a factor.
Continue reading Non-Basel Art Market Indicator: Sotheby's Ups Its Guarantees.
Commitments to consignors, whether or not bidding reaches promised price, up 14-fold from year ago. Irrevocable bids a factor.
Continue reading Non-Basel Art Market Indicator: Sotheby's Ups Its Guarantees.
Looking for a special little gift?
Here's one way the print version of a daily newspaper beats the online version.
Continue reading Editorial Substance vs. Online Style.
Continue reading Breaking news: Mikhail Pletnev cleared of sex charges.
A fine singer re-examines her 'suppressed' songs
Continue reading The Case for Alma Mahler.
Weston explores African rhythms, McNeil and McHenry go west coasting, sort of
Continue reading Recent Listening: Randy Weston, McNeil/McHenry Quartet.
See Rudolf Serkin, Eugene Ormandy, and the Vienna Philharmonic perform Mozart's C Major Piano Concerto.
Continue reading Just because.
Pennsylvania Officials, Assessing Economy, May Help Foes Of The Barnes Move
Continue reading Hope Springs Eternal.
National pride can be a beautiful thing to express as an artist, especially if it's expressed in a unique way
Continue reading Nationalism - A Dirty Word?.
Even though most of his figures were born old, warped in time and oppressed by place, they kick up their misshaped legs to dance
Continue reading Alden Mason - to live in a brighter world.
Continue reading Major J S Bach investment disclosed.
Are The 92nd Street Y, Peter Greenaway and The Hide/Seek Incident Saying The Same Thing?
Continue reading Is Art Boring?.
Continue reading Is dynamic pricing a wolf in sheep's clothing?.
AAMD's contacts with Crystal Bridges did nothing to dissuade Alice Walton's planned museum from exploiting Fisk's disregard of donor intent.
Continue reading Fisk to AG: Let's Go to the Court of Appeals!.
Spiffy new branding at Lincoln Center might backfire.
Continue reading Colliding with reality.
AAMD's contacts with Crystal Bridges did nothing to dissuade Alice Walton's planned museum from exploiting Fisk's disregard of donor intent.
Continue reading Fisk to Attorney General: Let's Go to the Court of Appeals!.
I was never much of a boy band fan, but the Maccabeats, coming to us out of Yeshiva University, have stolen my heart.
Continue reading Flip Your Latkes In the Air.
or why the hapless director of the National Portrait Gallery should reconsider or resign
Continue reading Gay Performance, Gay Censorship.
Mahler's time has truly come
Continue reading Two resurrections on the same night.
Continue reading A Hanukah story of interfaith harmony.
With Dave Brubeck's 90th birthday five days away, anticipation of the event is widespread
Continue reading Dave Brubeck At 90: Was He Cool Or What?.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Surely The Red Shoes, created by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is the most beloved ballet film of all time. My innocent eyes and heart were ravished by it shortly after its premiere in 1948.
Continue reading They Lost It at the Movies.
You can hear me now...along with National Portrait Gallery director Martin Sullivan and newly minted art critics lambasting Wojnarowicz.
Continue reading Audio's Up: NPR's "Hide/Seek" Podcast (and me).
National Portrait Gallery tells me why it agreed to jettison the controversial Wojnarowicz video; says there won't be other changes.
Continue reading My Q&A with the Smithsonian on "Hide/Seek" (and NPR's interview with me).
From Picasso and Francis Bacon to the detachment of the austistic
Continue reading Noah Davis - back to the future of painting.
Apollo Magazine Honors Excellence: Person, Book, Acquisition, Exhibition And Museum Opening
Continue reading The "Best" Of 2010.
Tales from the pre-Christmas trade
Continue reading On the book trail, intersecting with Alex Ross.
Why always look to the East for inner peace when a western concert hall will do?
Continue reading Classical Music and Meditation .