January 2011 Archives
I'm writing a foreword for two upcoming volumes in the University of Chicago Press' uniform edition of Richard Stark's Parker novels.
Continue reading I'll work it in somewhere.
Three-person panel (including National Gallery's Powell) supports Clough's current stance on sensitive shows. No deletions without "meaningful consultation."
In recessionary times, weakest arts institutions (including museums like Jersey City's) may go under. NEA's Landesman roils the theater world.
Continue reading Financial Shakeout: Do We Need Fewer Arts Organizations?.
Google engineer Alexander Chen + HTML5 + NYC subway scheduling equals sonic art using tension in the line.
Continue reading Take the A Train (HTML5 Edition).
One Year's Experience: Did The Art Gallery Of Alberta Become A Northern Guggenheim Bilbao?
Continue reading Destination Edmonton?.
The cache, dubbed "william s. burroughs word horde 2.0," is priced at $260,000.
Continue reading Literary Papers for Sale.
Remembering that there is a rarefied strata where composer/scientists explore the most complex of musical worlds.
Continue reading A High Priest of Music: Milton Babbitt.
Should objects be repatriated if they may not be safe? Hawass unconvincingly argues what happened in Cairo could happen anywhere.
Continue reading Damage Control: Zahi Hawass' and American Preservationists' Statements.
Adam Huttler from Fractured Atlas, Jean Cook from Future of Music Coalition, and AJ editor Douglas McLennan start a blog together
Continue reading New AJ Blog on arts, values and technology.
Continue reading Sad death of a great leader.
Continue reading Breaking: Big Canadian coup at Scottish orchestra.
If you're not accustomed to willowy young women emulating James P. Johnson, get used to it, is my advice.
Continue reading Neat Trick.
A vivid New York Times story from 1922 shows young girls screaming for Geraldine Farrar.
Continue reading When opera was popular.
Margaret Maitland's Comments On Damage Plus Al Jazeera's Videos; Now With Link To Hawass's Own Report
Continue reading Up-To-Date Information On Cairo Museum -- UPDATED.
Continue reading He's not good enough for New York (but we'll tell you about him, anyway).
In musing about whether we have too many cultural organizations, let's talk about what's working, not what isn't.
Continue reading What next, death panels?.
Survey the woeful damage along with the soldiers patrolling the vandalized museum, via a YouTube video from the Associated Press.
Continue reading AP's Video of Looting's Aftermath at Egyptian Museum, Cairo UPDATED.
An all-star quartet re-ignites the explosive, relevant sound of late, great Tony Williams
Continue reading Jazz-rock & beyond for today's musical emergency.
Continue reading Two musical deaths - Milton Babbitt and Dame Margaret Price.
Message of the NYT Magazine article on Assange: "un-bathed," "paranoid," "disheveled," "filthy," like a "bag lady," "contemptuous of American government."
Continue reading The Smelly One Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
...Tax payers still fund more than 99 percent of the cost of K-12 education. Private foundations should not be setting public policy for them.
Continue reading Got Dough: How Billionaires Rule Our Schools (Dissent Magazine).
Continue reading Visualizing the networked nonprofit.
Continue reading Auschwitz violinist in new stage drama.
.... the mystery of a diminishing role
Continue reading Find me a concertmaster.
... on paralysis at Arts Council
Continue reading Question for the Culture Secretary.
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/01/what_joshua_bell_does_when_his.html
Continue reading What Joshua Bell does when his venue cancels.
Pogrebin gives the other side of deaccessions---refining collections. That doesn't excuse the abuses, which she mostly overlooks.
Continue reading Deaccession Digressions in NY Times: What Matters, What Doesn't.
Thoughts regarding a musical and a photography exhibition as well as news about a new critic's gig for me
Thoughts regarding a musical and a photography exhibition as well as news about a new critic's gig for me
Continue reading Views and News.
French And Italian Museums Sell Ad Billboards; Conductor Noseda Comes Prospecting Here
Continue reading Financial Binds In Europe.
Palm Beach Dramaworks' "Freud's Last Session" reviewed.
Continue reading To believe, or not to believe?.
On George Balanchine's birthday, January 22, New York City Ballet offered a marathon tribute
Continue reading Custodial Care.
Continue reading Cellist bounces back from prolonged shoulder paralysis.
That's my spring semester Juilliard course on the future of classical music. You can see what it's all about -- and even do the assignments -- online.
Continue reading Classical Music in an Age of Pop.
Oh, gee. Bill Keller, NYT executive editor, is terribly upset. File his complaint under Gilbert and Sullivan.
Continue reading From the Musical Comedy Dept..
Pics of the sort of snow you have to shovel by layers...
Continue reading Dispatch from the East: Calcium Light Night And The Morning Snow.
A long-deserved award
Continue reading Big one for Brigitte.
Continue reading Bad day for burying good news.
Continue reading Breaking news: Menuhin Foundation goes bust.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Larry Starr's superb new book is a manifesto for the "new Gershwin."
Continue reading The Gershwin Moment (continued).
Ineradicable American roots feed power pop, alt.-folk, jazz, boomer rock and r&b
Continue reading The new blues by Prince, Wynton, Clapton, Chocolate Drops et al.
How Healthy Is The Non-Profit Sector, Financially? You Can Help Provide The Answer
Continue reading Wouldn't You Like To Know?.
Triumverate reviewing Smithsonian policies, post-"Hide/Seek," presents report to Board of Regents Monday. So THAT'S what Gergen was doing!
What I've learned so far in directing "Satchmo at the Waldorf."
Continue reading Tentative axioms of a novice stage director.
A surreal conversation about whether people who work in the non-profit arts sector should be paid or donate their time.
Continue reading Outrageous Pasadena Woman.
Obama's and the arts' missed opportunity: Art as innovation stimulator and force for civility. Kimmelman's misconception about British broad-mindedness.
Continue reading What Obama Didn't Say: Why Art is Crucial to the State of the Union.
Reprieve for a dismantled corporate victim
Continue reading Breaking news: Giant label rises from the ashes.
...despite the coalition's size, its deep pockets and its muscular public relations operation, Mr. Bloomberg's campaign has failed to force major strengthening of federal gun control laws.
German film titan, author of Downfall
Continue reading Bernd Eichinger is dead.
Continue reading Back to business models.
When museum websites wag the dog, the braid become a net. Net Art search.
Continue reading Did Art Museums Have A Future?.
A new phase in the great love fest
Continue reading Philharmonic proposes civil partnership to New York Times.
A minute's silence at noon
Continue reading Pause for a poet murdered in the Moscow bomb.
between steps and ideas in dance
Continue reading The unnecessary battle .
A Memphis Group Has Its Own Idea And Is Starting To Act On It
Continue reading What Living Artist Deserves His Own Museum?.
They're certainly not programming them like that anymore.
Continue reading The Sound Palette of the '80s.
Rethinking my approach to social media and some words about the Jacaranda Music Series
Continue reading Epiphany on the Way to LA.
Republican Study Committee's proposed assault on cultural spending would amount to three-tenths of one percent of total savings sought.
Continue reading Zero for NEA, NEH, PBS? Colin Powell Prefers Military Cuts.
"...other nations are catching up and surpassing us is because they are building their middle class while the United States is pursuing policies that destroy theirs."
Continue reading The National Arts Index, recession edition.
A clue: don't leave it to a copyist or Sibelius 7
Continue reading How to write a good symphony.
Continue reading Exclusive: Arts Council banned from Covent Garden.
A gift for coining phrases and making up terms
Continue reading Writing about Music Is Like, er, Writing About Food.
2009-10 Season Awards Go To Matisse, Pop Women, Heat Waves, Fallen Blossoms And More
Continue reading Critics' Picks: The Best Exhibitions.
Why you can fall in love with, and mourn, an unmet movie star
Continue reading Susannah York, 'Tom Jones,' JFK, 'Killing of Sister George'.
An overlapped, simultaneous performance by 2 pianists... Is it Girl Talk Classical?
Continue reading Simultaneous transmission.
The Goldstone Report, just published in an edited version, is offered as "a corrective to the attacks" on the original.
Continue reading They Died in Gaza.
Continue reading The rise of 'car-chitecture'?.
Classical performances that don't have the deadly refinement of classical music.
Continue reading The classical music aura.
Howard Garnder said in an e-mail that the results "throw down the gauntlet to those progressive educators, myself included."
Continue reading Two Directions At Once: The Push-Pull in Education.
Howard Garnder said in an e-mail that the results "throw down the gauntlet to those progressive educators, myself included."
Continue reading Two Directions At Once: The Push-Pull in Education.
with a studio in lotus land
Continue reading Want to get on record? Chris Craker's back....
Arts Council chief appears before Parliamentary committee
Continue reading Four questions for Dame Liz.
Come hear me talk about "Danse Russe" on Tuesday night at Florida's Rollins College.
Continue reading For Floridians only (cont'd).
Are we operating under a delusion that there's any such thing as 'reliable revenue that meets or exceeds expenses'?
Continue reading Waiting for a new business model in the arts..
Why Did An 18th Century Mahogony Desk Fetch More Than Five Times Its High Estimate?
Continue reading It's A Record And A Mystery.
Continue reading 'Like a scurvy politician' - a compelling King Lear from the RSC.
Two Yup'ik Masks Sell Immediately, Setting Known Records; Recognition At Last
Continue reading Big Wins For Native American Art.
Paul Levy finds an exhibition at the RA fatuous
Continue reading Modern British Sculpture?.
Clough told the LA Times he "didn't judge" Wojnarovicz's removed video. He told me he did. Hijacking the curatorial mandate.
Continue reading Clough's LA Flip-Flop on the Removal of "Hide/Seek" Video UPDATED.
A contest for the best composition (or song, or sound art, or whatever) about conversation. Easy to enter -- just submit four minutes of something you've already done.
Continue reading Conversation contest.
Contemporary art specialist, formerly director of the Aldrich, will oversee PAFA's largely historic collection. Will he reconsider dubious deaccessions?
Continue reading Philly Philbrick: New Director for Pennsylvania Academy's Museum.
I have a soft spot for epic tales delivered via song
Continue reading Dear Customer Complaint Department.
Continue reading Happy birthday, Placido. We're trashing your legacy..
Continue reading Trouble at mill for Elgar's northern lass.
Continue reading How Mahler invented musical America.
The bash is overwhelmingly pop, secondarily heritage and minimally jazz. That doesn't bother the promoters and doesn't bother New Orleans
Continue reading They Still Call It JazzFest.
In Sarasota, Florida, Asolo Rep's "Twelve Angry Men" reviewed.
Continue reading Twelve superior actors.
to find a niche for Black Swan (camp classic! horror movie!) that they didn't catch its tone. To make up for them, Foot considers tone via a bunch of works.
Continue reading Critics were so quick .
I tried to give NPG's curator a chance to talk about something other than Wojnarovicz. Somehow, we wound up there.
Continue reading MeTube: David Ward on the Genesis of "Hide/Seek" (and on Wojnarovicz).
I'm REALLY angry about the thwarted attempt to shut down a student production of an August Wilson play.
Continue reading Afraid of the dark.
Picasso Exhibition Provides A Lifeline To Seattle Museum: Attendance And Membership Set Records
Continue reading A Happy Ending.
A great South African band is perfectly capable of pleasing US audiences without drawing on its 80s impresario
Continue reading Ladysmith should put Paul Simon to Rest.
Continue reading The opera Mahler never wrote.
Not the next Charlotte Church?
Continue reading Music giant makes desperate pitch for kiddie star.
New York conductor decried as brattish and rude
Continue reading Alan Gilbert - the first dissenting voices.
How does an engineer analyze an arts crisis? By "doing the math." Probing his thoughts in a wide-ranging discussion.
Continue reading My Huffington Post Interview with Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough.
An executive from the Elle Group helps us think about how to lead teams.
Continue reading MRI = "Most Respectful Interpretation".
Lessons In Risk From The Asian Art Museum; Good Programming Begets Donors
Continue reading Museums And High Finance.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
One of the most unintentionally funny commercials ever filmed.
Continue reading Just because.
Feeling sluggish or uninspired in your creative life as you cruise into 2011? Here's some inspiration.
Continue reading Big Adventure.
Catlett: None-Too-Innovative Or Pioneering Artist? Young Artists Say
Continue reading The Bronx Museum Has A Point To Prove.
Did young composer really mean to say that?
Continue reading My soloist is a witch.
On the Bay Area's only commercial classical radio station changing its business model.
Continue reading KDFC Goes Non-Profit: Will its Programming also Venture that Way?.
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/01/why_is_it_always_music_teacher_1.html
An organist hounded to his death
Continue reading Why is it always music teachers? Maybe it isn't....
Having once written a spoof piece about the Guggenheim Antarctica, I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. No architect, no vision.
Continue reading Guggenheim Helsinki: Might Antarctica Be Next?.
Desmond: "I don't know whether it was professional courtesy or the half-pint of bourbon, but old Charlie talked up a storm."
Continue reading Correspondence (Illustrated): Bird And Desmond.
This week's video: Louis Prima and Keely Smith sing "That Old Black Magic."
Continue reading Snapshot.
A pilgrimage to Port Arthur in honor of my first and foremost diva, Janis Joplin.
Continue reading Singin' the Turtle Blues in Port Arthur.
At the Guggenheim Museum, the Works & Process series explained Pacific Northwest Ballet's upcoming scholarship-fueled "Giselle"
Continue reading Looking Backward.
A David Daniels' concert in Berkeley provokes an oenophile-like response
Continue reading Evaluating Countertenors Like They're Fine Wines.
Is the most famous classical music so often performed that it's worn out?
Continue reading Used Up -- or Barely Begun?.
What do the "edu-experts" have to say?
Continue reading How Would You Spend $100 Million on Education????.
Continue reading Man in a kilt is the new Handel master.
Expect the full English from flying maestro?
Continue reading Dude bones up on his Elgar.
Not long ago, we told you about stealth comments intended to lure Rifftides readers to websites that sell stuff
Continue reading Attention Acne Sufferers And Musicologists.
Come see me talk about Duke Ellington at Florida's Rollins College on Tuesday night.
Continue reading For Floridians only.
See Duke Ellington perform "Satin Doll" in 1962.
Continue reading Just because.
32 Old Master Works, From Another Museum Deaccessioning, Head For The Sotheby's Sale Room
Continue reading Going, Going... .
Theatre productions based on films are undeniably crowd pleasing. But can they go further than mere entertainment?
Continue reading Film Plays.
Theatre productions based on films are undeniably crowd pleasing. But can they go further than mere entertainment?
Continue reading Film Plays.
On Martin Luther King Day, let's see...
Continue reading The Difference between Decency and Civility?.
Government funding cuts...
Continue reading Devastating Impact.
The cultural elite, those naked emperors trying to control everyone, are not actually art gallery curators and orchestra CEOs, but rather the marketing arms of corporations
Continue reading A Matter of Taste (Judgment Edition).
An old-fashioned label tiff
Continue reading My soprano's bigger than yours.
Experiments with a scanner
Continue reading What music really does to your brain.
Continue reading Wanted: new head of medical practice.
Pennsylvania Academy bankrolled curatorial spending sprees by selling works previously deemed important enough for inclusion in traveling exhibitions. Robinson's "masterpiece."
Continue reading PAFA's Folly: "Off the Wall" Deaccessions.
Or, how I flew from Florida to Philadelphia and back again to make "Danse Russe" a better opera.
Continue reading Adventures of a peripatetic librettist.
Nazi-looted Painting, Held By Zimmerli Art Museum, Returned To Goodmans, But Its Travels Continue
Continue reading New Restitution Case.
Reflections on the unsustainable and uncontrollable growth of the arts sector
Continue reading overstocked arts pond: fish too big & fish too many.
Continue reading Conductor dies during funeral march - an update and a warning.
I see there's a new one-man show on the boards, "Abbie," starring a lookalike. I remember the real one-man show.
Continue reading The Real 'Abbie Hoffman' Show.
To know who you are, you must know where you come from.
Continue reading The History of Teaching Artistry, by Eric Booth.
Dramatic 17th Century Ivory Reemerges - What Musculature! -- And Given New Attribution
Continue reading Another Saturday, Another Icon In WSJ.
There is good news for jazz listeners in Southern California. The Jazz Bakery can stop roaming.
Continue reading New Life For The Jazz Bakery.
Architects need to come up with design that makes sense as an art museum. But let's stop the Broad-bashing.
Trisha Brown's radical dances from the Seventies, performed at MoMA, are as fresh as ever
Continue reading Mining the Past.
A Whole New Mind about Travel Tips
Continue reading Daniel Pink's Travel Tips.
A San Francisco student's impressions of a music biz event
Continue reading Guest Blogger Alexis Snyder on GRAMMY Career Day.
Viewing three versions has convinced me we need to ask not only "Whose 'Belly' Is It?" but also, "Which Belly...?"
Continue reading MoMA Gets "Fire" in Its Belly; NPG Hosts "Hide/Seek," the Symposium.
Continue reading Conductor dies during funeral march.
Continue reading Ever tried opera-oke?.
More breakages in the classical supermarket
Continue reading Breaking news: Another wheel comes off the big machine.
Solo improvisation by Jarrett, a virtuoso who's tried to free himself in public for 40 years
Continue reading Keith Jarrett and his piano, coming to Carnegie alone together.
Florida Rep's "Sylvia" and the Roundabout Theatre Company's "Importance of Being Earnest" reviewed.
Continue reading She's a real dog.
Drop Dead. His Proposed Budget Eliminates All State Funding For Public Libraries
Continue reading Gov. Brown To California Libraries:.
Before we start digging rock music's grave, we should stop to consider how to define the genre
Continue reading What Is Rock?.
Images of what Pennsylvania Academy has lost and what it has gained. It should abort its misconceived deaccession plan.
Continue reading PAFA's Folly: Art Sales v. Acquisitions.
Whiting recorded "Moonlight in Vermont" when she was 19. It helped make her a star.
Continue reading Margaret Whiting.
..."I think, a source of a great deal of frustration that exists between people in creative and non-creative universes,"
Continue reading Malcolm Gladwell on Creative Types: Embrace Chaos.
Continue reading Ten trends of 20-somethings.
Why can music be heard live for free, but not downloaded?
Continue reading Free downloads - a paradox.
High ratings for contemporary music
Continue reading Free classical downloads - results and conclusions.
Retiring from Chicago Opera Theater
Continue reading Breaking news: Brian Dickie is coming home.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
A beautifully reprocessed color kinescope from the Fifties.
Continue reading Margaret Whiting, R.I.P..
A conversation with pianist Jonathan Biss about expressiveness in classical music performance.
Continue reading Let's get physical.
Art Institute Changes Its Hours, Closes Friday Nights; "Target Shoe" Set To Drop In May
Continue reading Wrong Way In Chicago.
Chinese authorities' ominous promise is devastatingly fulfilled. See online photos. Human Rights Watch publishes "Promises Unfulfilled" on China's violations.
Continue reading Sorry Sight: Ai Weiwei's Shanghai Studio Demolished.
Knighting jazz elders, live & forever on the web -- $ for 15 stages - talk at JEN and APAP
Continue reading NEA Jazz Masters on ustream, 1/4 mil $ for gigs, conference buzz.
Coming up with a list of top Bay Area world premieres every year isn't as hard as I invariably think it's going to be
Continue reading Annual Theatre Surprise.
Smithsonian Secretary's powers of persuasion changed mind of one skeptic. Clough needs to get out in front of this issue.
Reflections of a man in a state of snowstorm-induced suspended animation.
Continue reading Out of joint.
Ed Smith resumes his Mersey beat
Continue reading It's not the leaving of Liverpool....
Two new classical ventures
Continue reading Breaking moulds in the agency business.
Another innocent is lured to Sony
Continue reading Plus an arm and a leg.
For decades James Thurber (1894-1961) entertained readers with the incisiveness and wit of his stories and drawings.
Continue reading Other Matters: The Unicorn In The Garden.
Agenda For Meeting In Puerto Rico, Plus A Visit To The New Home Of Flaming June
Continue reading Museum Directors Head South.
Come see the latest workshop performances of my new opera this weekend.
Continue reading Two giant steps.
On making audiences feel like expert panelists
Continue reading Fantasy Festival.
Continue reading Cautiously pessimistic.
Continue reading Ilan heads north.
It's not the Titanic
Continue reading Yet another EMI v-p goes overboard.
http://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2011/01/culture_change_2_--_hideseek.html
Classical music can't make cultural statements the way visual art can -- more evidence that it's grown distant from our culture.
Continue reading Culture change 2 -- Hide/Seek.
AAMD precipitously endorses private sales of historic art for acquisitions of very recent, demographicaly correct examples. Trendy choices, belated "transparency."
Continue reading PAFA's Ditzy Deaccessions: What It Gained vs. What It Lost.
Out Goes Hassam, Chase, Twachtman, Prendergast, Benson, With Five More To Go; Half-Transparency
Continue reading Still More Housecleaning.
Having singers and not celebrities host the Met HD Broadcasts is another "shrewd move" by Peter Gelb.
Continue reading Ready for their close-ups.
Does Times critic who lobbied for the current music director know a perfunctory performance of Mozart when he hears it?
Continue reading Alan Gilbert's Mozart: "Lean and Lithe" or Flaccid and Flat-Footed?.
Ol' amigo Norman O. Mustill's collage says plenty about that.
Continue reading Crosshairs? What Crosshairs?.
Big classical music institutions have cut, sometimes drastically, the number of performances they're giving. From a terrific essay on the current state of classical music, by Brian Wise.
Continue reading Troubled silence.
Imagine that: People dancing at a chamber music concert!
Continue reading String Quintet Boogie.
Play gains resonance in light of horrifying Arizona events. Green Day frontman makes the experience real, rather than tribute-band.
Live: Tuesday, January 11th, 3:00pm-4:00pm (EDT)
What Villazon did next
Continue reading Oh no, Rolando.
Selling Braque, Picasso, Matisse, Romney. But Just How Did We Learn About Sales?
Continue reading Two Museums Clean House.
Read the last two paragraphs of the newly written second chapter of my Duke Ellington book.
Continue reading Landmark.
See Miles Davis and the Gil Evans Orchestra play Dave Brubeck's "The Duke."
Continue reading Just because.
Rick Robinson rethinks classical music
Continue reading Being a bridge.
Same small grants, more hoop jumping ...
Continue reading Strategic Partnerships Between Funders & Arts Orgs..
Is making your brain stronger the best reason to play or listen to music?
Continue reading Eat your spinach, and other arguments for learning to play music.
The manuscript, before your very eyes
Continue reading Mahler's fifth symphony goes online.
Is the term "jazz journalist" limiting, ghettoizing? I hope not, but if so: Shoe fits, I wear it
Continue reading Call a spade a spade: I'm a journalist and a "jazz" journalist.
Cowper was right: "Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour."
Continue reading Recent Listening: Partyka-Philipp, Blackwell-Smith, Hackett-Haggart.
Bad move by young baton
Continue reading Yannick to Chicago: I got no time for you.
Assange and Wikileaks get the Vanity Fair treatment.
Continue reading Wikileaks Update.
A Short Story About A Yup'ik Windmaker Mask That Inspired The Surrealists...In Today's WSJ
Continue reading Backstory On An Icon.
Viklický played a lovely Petrof grand piano. Robinson used only three instruments from his armory--soprano and tenor saxophones and euphonium.
Continue reading The Viklický-Robinson Concert: A Video Report.
Perhaps an art-museum first: No art on the walls! Making skylit space hospitable to light-sensitive works still unresolved.
Continue reading Wanna Fly Through Eli Broad's Planned LA Museum?.
To honor a family member who died, I'm going to write music today. After retiring from a long career in physics, he devoted himself to making art -- inspiring...
Continue reading In honor of a death....
The pros...and cons...of taking an arts program on public radio to the next level
Continue reading RIP Live to Tape.
Continue reading Breaking news: Graham Sheffield quits Hong Kong.
Continue reading Ring rumours #379 - Katie wants Wim.
He calls out Lang Lang for a duel
Continue reading Bad Boy Organist: what happened next.
It's Chaliapin singing Anton Rubinstein.
Continue reading The Greatest Vocal Recording of All Time, etc..
Hadda Brooks sings Ray Noble's "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" in Nicholas Ray's "In a Lonely Place."
Continue reading Just because.
While San Francisco's Asian Art Museum Restructures Debt, Seattle Gets A Gift
Continue reading Two West Coast Museums Get Lifelines - UPDATED.
John Simon, Jacques le Sourd, Michael Riedel, and I chat about theater on TV Saturday night.
Continue reading Tune in tomorrow.
"Dracula" reviewed.
Continue reading The kids are all wrong.
The difference between Stephen Sondheim and Ira Gershwin.
Continue reading Head of the Nice Guys Club.
A guerrilla video-jazz news clip initiative calls for applicants (no experience necessary)
Continue reading Look and listen here: eyeJAZZ.tv.
Why Glee spells trouble for classical music.
Continue reading Culture change -- Glee.
...of classical music trouble: the aging audience, the falling percentage of people going to classical concerts, and the retreat of classical music from mainstream media.
Continue reading Troubling long-term signs....
Pre-press conference look at plans for 120,000-square-foot home for Broad's trove. Still a drive-through museum? No.
Continue reading Road to "The Broad": Design Announced for Eli's LA Museum UPDATED.
Bay Area baristas esspress themselves with their esspreso-making skills
Continue reading Coffee as Art?.
Continue reading Three monkeys in a record store.
'Due to challenging financial circumstances'
Continue reading Cardiff singer shrinks.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
A Who's Who Of Members On Newly Appointed Advisory Committee
Continue reading NYS Regents Move On Deaccessioning .
An ad hoc Gerry Mulligan quartet with Bob Brookmeyer, Ray Brown and Art Blakey
Continue reading A Rare "Bernie's Tune".
Guitarists proposed to drummer onstage, she said yes, now they groove as one
Continue reading Sweet Latin-Jazz fusion: Santana and Blackman wed.
Specific tuning, and the ensuing beating that occurs between notes, influences pace and rhythmic delivery. Pianists are responders
Continue reading Lost Temper.
One who saw and discussed original video with Wojnarovicz in 1987 says artist's "intent has been changed" by posthumous alterations.
...now that your jaws are weary: Alexei Ratmansky's wondrous new version and Mark Morris's wondrous old.
Continue reading More Nuts to crack.
Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan dances in worn, old shoes
Continue reading Ballet Cliché.
Musicians, journalists, presenters and educators convene; NEA Jazz Masters stream online
Continue reading Jazz get-togethers in NYC, New Orleans & the Marsalis clan.
"They have reduced themselves to a cipher. They vote. The vote totals up. But it means nothing."
Continue reading Nader on the Retreat of the Left.
60% drop in Google searches for art? Comparing Warhol to bananas. Plus In new census, what is a household? What is tract? Where are artists?
Continue reading The Decline of Art and Other Visualizations.
This week's video: Ralph Richardson appears as the mystery guest on "What's My Line?" in 1963.
Continue reading Snapshot.
Continue reading Ten music predictions for 2011.
Continue reading How green is your orchestra?.
With former Bloomberg-ian at the helm, will emphasis shift from art history and criticism, towards news and finance?
Continue reading Lindsay Pollock Named "Art in America's" New Editor-in-Chief UPDATED.
With "Connections." Nice Idea, New Entry Points To Collections. But, Alas, Big Flaws, Too
Continue reading Met's Digital Media Department Debuts.
Jimmy Kimmel's musical guests have impressed me before, and they continue to do so.
Continue reading The Best Fake Album of 2011.
Developing a plan to help a new generation of independent cultural journalists grow their ideas
Continue reading Towards an Ethics Toolkit for Cultural Journalist-Entrepreneurs .
Continue reading Excavating Alma Mahler (oh, not again).
Already A Destination Starchitect Museum Is Set To Open...Linking Art And Science
Continue reading The Year Is Young, But....
Brief reflections on professional aims for the New Year
Continue reading On Not Going to New York for the Holidays.
A personally tough year for me was still a reasonably good year for CultureGrrl. Top 20 CultureGrrl Stories of 2010.
Continue reading The Year in CultureGrrl, 2010 Edition.
A rare human being whose identity transcended all the categories that defined her -- poet, teacher, feminist, human-rights activist.
Continue reading Janine Pommy Vega, R.I.P..
Continue reading The Maestro and Madonna - it must be the date from hell.
Continue reading Last two free classical downloads.
Neologism Offers A Challenge To Cultural Institutions In 2011: A Goal To Keep In Mind
Continue reading MIT Has A (New) Word For It.
If you want your regional drama company to get reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, here's what to do.
Continue reading So you want to get reviewed.
Continue reading Free classical download #14 for a Sunday morning.
If Broadway is 'Spider-Man' and 'Jersey Boys', why is getting there still the ultimate goal for Off-Broadway productions?
Continue reading On and Off Broadway.
Continue reading Australian pianist dies.
free download #13 is another world premiere
Continue reading Fifth label joins free classical downloads.
The Rifftides staff hopes that your 2011 will be as happy as this performance by Venezuela's Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra
Continue reading Happy New Year.
Alexei Ratmansky's new Nutcracker for ABT is comfortably positioned between the old and the new
Continue reading Winter Solstice No. 4: "The Nutcracker" According to Ratmansky.