May 2011 Archives
Continue reading Aussie festival goes Dutch.
Cleveland's David Franklin On The Not-So-Special Google Art Project; A TED Talk, Too
Continue reading A Contrarian View On Google.
This week's video: Peggy Lee sings "When the World Was Young" on "The Judy Garland Show" in 1963.
Continue reading Snapshot.
Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" throws San Francisco's "Summer of Stein" into relief
Continue reading Woody and Gerty.
Mahler's Ninth, a symphony with nothing stable in it, drifting in a sea of loss.
Continue reading Images in a dream.
Continue reading Luisi says he won't take the Met.
Continue reading Have you heard the Palestine Lied?.
Continue reading Breaking up: Netrebko leads new exodus from Japan.
More safeguards in place, with PricewaterhouseCooper's appointment to monitor and issue public reports on workers' conditions. Will critics be satisfied?
Continue reading Workers' Rights Monitor Appointed for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
Art? Software? Graphics? Design? All of that? None of that?
Continue reading What Is It?.
Continue reading Parsing capital.
Continue reading Danes denounce Brazil conductor - but work with him anyway.
Gil Scott-Heron followed from Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Johnson, Martin Scorsese, et al
Continue reading Gil Scott-Heron of the American horror and blues traditions.
Continue reading Berlin finds new excuses for quitting Salzburg.
A $300,000 NEH grant will support far-reaching Dvorak and Copland projects by orchestras in Buffalo, Louisville, North Carolina, and Orange County (Calif.).
Continue reading Something New and Necessary for Orchestras.
Cutting back on support staff has other costs, says a recent HBR article
Continue reading Need to get more done? You may need help.
A Few Thoughts On What The Met Might Do To Make The Most Of The Whitney's Uptown Building
Continue reading The Breuer Opportunity.
American Ballet Theatre tries a mixed-repertory evening of Ratmansky, Wheeldon, Millepied, and Tudor
Continue reading Not One Bleak Swan in Sight.
Continue reading Breaking: Denmark boycotts Brazil conductor.
Continue reading Qatar picks the perfect architect for its tainted World Cup.
Continue reading Death of a secret genius.
Continue reading Exclusive: How Moscow will commemorate 9/11.
Herbert von Karajan conducts the first movement of Verdi's Requiem in 1967.
Continue reading In memoriam.
On a post by Chad Bauman at Arena Stage asking what would happen if resident theaters cast off their NFP status
Continue reading Why not rid ourselves of the nonprofit burden?.
Death at age 62 of street-poet and prophet Gil Scott-Heron is a tragic, cautionary tale
Continue reading Gil Scott-Heron, hard-eyed realist, dead of self-inflicted escapism.
Continue reading Leipzig delivers one of the great Mahler 8s.
He flourished on the west coast in the fifties and went on to gain worldwide popularity.
Continue reading Bud Shank's Birthday.
The Roundhouse presents classical music in a pop music space -- and gets a large, young audience.
Continue reading London revelations (3).
The artist's largest, most prominent NYC show since the 1975 Whitney retrospective. Watch the scribe tribe at play with sculptures.
Continue reading MeTube: Marvelous Mark di Suvero Conquers Governors Island (and me).
Stanford University's 2010-2011 Knight Fellows present 20 visions for the future of journalism
Continue reading Re-Engineering Journalism.
That Study Linking Consumption Of Culture To Less Stress...It's About The Mating Game, Too
Continue reading It's All The Way You Say It.
Reviews of CDs by a saxophonist who contains himself, a singer and a pianist of one mind, and a versatile bassist
Continue reading Recent Listening: Carter, Raney, Broadbent, Deardorf.
So far, it looks like American museums are turning their backs on the plight of Ai Weiwei.
Continue reading Have our cultural stewards abandoned one of their own?.
From Chicago, the Court Theatre's "Porgy and Bess" and TimeLine's "Front Page" reviewed.
Continue reading The church on Catfish Row.
The Guildhall school teaches improvisation to classical music students, and has them work with actors, to learn to present themselves on stage.
Continue reading London revelations (2).
An example --
Continue reading Arts Entrepreneurship Class -- Student Project.
Some things to consider for the music director who's had it up to here with the members of his or her amateur chorus
Continue reading A Note to Frustrated Choral Conductors.
It's Much, Much Smaller Than MoMA's Landmark Exhibit. But Kimbell Has iCubist!
Continue reading Why Visit Kimbell's Picasso-Braque Show?.
We need to be ready not to get in the way of our own exceptional music making
Continue reading Preparedness.
Blandness of preliminary design for looming 225,000 square feet reminds me of Guggenheim's Gwathmey Siegel annex. But judgement is premature.
Continue reading SFMOMA's Expansion Renderings: Notta Botta.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
American Ballet Theatre's opening-night gala offered the season in a nutshell
Continue reading ABT Gala: Touting the Coming Attractions.
How the London Symphony embraces alt-classical music, in ways a big American orchestra would never (so far) do.
Continue reading London revelations.
Revisiting my recent, oddly-received blogpost about the social networking tool
Continue reading Twitter Again.
Continue reading Mahler's graphic revisions uncovered.
Continue reading Guess who's moving in on the Rattle vacancy in Salzburg.
Continue reading Bregenz names Pountney's successor.
Continue reading Breaking: sacked Welsh player wins on appeal.
This week's video: Benno Moiseiwitsch plays Liszt's transcription of Wagner's "Tannhauser" Overture.
Continue reading Snapshot.
The Whitney Stages A Pep Rally, But The Result May Be A Good Thing -- Even Redemption For Piano?
Continue reading Stomp Your Feet!.
Listening for the line between performance as political inspiration vs. the manipulative power of a good beat and a great designer.
Continue reading What You Get is What You See.
No ground (or front-row dignitary) was broken during indoor "groundbreaking," reimagined by chorreographer Elizabeth Streb. See the new galleries.
Continue reading Renzo Piano's "Meteorite": Downtown Whitney Fly-Through.
Striking posters from the London Symphony and the English National Opera make classical music feel fully contemporary.
Continue reading Why they might be ahead.
In Installment #3 of the World's First Animated Art Criticism Cartoon, the Art Cops take no prisoners. Graffiti Art? Deitch? Broad? L.A.?
Continue reading John Perreault's Art Cops: Back from L.A. -- The Writing on the Wall.
Continue reading I'm thinking of tweeting the BBC Proms.
Join me and the scribe tribe absorbing the aura of this mesmerizing piece, commissioned by Alice Walton's in-construction museum.
Continue reading Crystal Bridges' Turrell Skyspace: An Optical Mystery Tour.
Barbara Hepworth Gets A New Museum, Designed By Chipperfield. Will It Change Her Reputation?
Continue reading Time To Reevaluate? .
Continue reading A funny thing happened last night at the Coliseum.
Continue reading Violin tragedy in Israel - more details emerge.
Hear me (audio embedded on CultureGrrl), along with book's co-author, Ralph Frammolino and the Getty's vice president, Ron Hartwig.
Continue reading My LA Public Radio Commentary on "Chasing Aphrodite" (Hear It Now).
The vast majority of arts and arts education funders don't fund advocacy and remain leery of it.
Continue reading Real Funding for Advocacy: What is Sorely Needed.
No more use of acquisition endowments to back bonds, as at Cleveland. Clarification on antiquities acquisitions and directors' personal collecting.
Continue reading News Flash: AAMD's revised "Professional Practices" Guidelines.
The classical music debate at Cambridge University -- fun, and the audience, just maybe, was right not to vote for my side!
Continue reading Fun in England.
Craven deference to totalitarian sensibilities. American museums cannot in good conscience continue their see-no-evil approach to Ai's detention.
Musings on various weekend cultural activities in the Bay Area
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/05/will-osb-crisis-undercut-rios-cultural-ambitions/
Continue reading Will OSB crisis undercut Rio's cultural ambitions?.
My three posts for Americans for the Arts' online discussion on the future of the nonprofit business model
Continue reading Oh, nonprofit model. Where do we go from here?.
During Its "Summer of China," Must The Museum Take Notice Of The Artist's Arrest?
Continue reading On China, Ai Weiwei And Milwaukee -- UPDATED.
Continue reading How to kick-start a solo career.
Continue reading Breaking: violin tragedy in Israel.
Now Elaine was furious and started yelling obscenities. Finally, she waded in, grabbed the brawlers by their necks and pulled them apart.
Continue reading The End Of Elaine's.
Celebrating 2010 - 11's best, Jazz Journalists Assoc. parties in NYC & beyond, June 11
Continue reading Journalists who really listen give 15th annual Jazz Awards.
Adventures of an itinerant drama critic.
Continue reading If it's Monday, I don't know where we are.
Today's entry: George Orwell on the disadvantages of writing for a living.
Continue reading Almanac.
For James Turrell's Academy Induction, Lapsed-Time Photos Of A Skyspace -- Eye Candy
Continue reading A Little Weekend Pleasure.
Who can forget Wardropper's Whopper---Gauguin's "Faux Faun," the forgery he purchased for Chicago? An otherwise distinguished track record.
Continue reading Ian Wardropper, The Frick's Surprise Choice for Director.
More government regulation? No thanks, say the two leading national professional organizations for museums. AAMD's latest gaffe.
Continue reading NY State's New Deaccession Rules: Ambivalent Response from AAM, AAMD.
From San Diego, my review of the American premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's latest play.
Continue reading Portrait of an invisible man.
Despite laudable intentions, Twitter's arts and social media event is a misfire
Continue reading Twits for the Arts.
It's Official: The Frick Has A New Director.
Continue reading Musical Chairs, Directors Category.
Spokesperson declares: "That period is over; it is history." (Or is it?) No future antiquities-related difficulties foreseen by counsel.
Continue reading "Chasing Aphrodite": My Q&A with the Getty Regarding Book's Revelations.
What Happened When The Delaware Art Museum Asked Visitors To Guess The Sex Of The Artist
Continue reading Remember "Battle Of The Sexes" Show?.
The true value of art cannot be measured in economics alone. If that were the case, we'd be in trouble. So why do we spend so much time coming up with new ways to talk abour ourselves using economics?
Continue reading The Value of Arts Is Not Going To Be Found In Economics.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Today's entry: Cyril Connolly on reputation and self-consciousness.
Continue reading Almanac.
Parallel Gertrude Stein exhibitions in San Francisco demonstrate how two large arts organizations can work together in perfect synchronicity
Continue reading Summer of Stein.
Some thoughts on not taking the joys of professional travel for granted.
Continue reading From ocean to ocean, forever.
..never meant to be more than a year's project, but something he noticed in the students who had been working on it made him extend it for another year, and then another, and then another, and then another.
Continue reading Panera's social venture.
New Deaccessioning Policy Is Measured, Reasoned, Not Perfect, But It Does Not Overreach
Continue reading NYS Regents Rule.
This week's video: Cantor Josef Rosenblatt's on-screen appearance in Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer."
Continue reading Snapshot.
Today's entry: Evelyn Waugh on learning a foreign language in adulthood.
Continue reading Almanac.
Surely you've read the news that Gadhafi is being sought for war crimes. Unlike Gadhafi, our gang is above reproach.
Continue reading Now This Is Rich.
Written story is already online. Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky calls this "extraordinary moment in the cultural history of the state."
A new, overdue national model for the regulation of museum deaccessions, enacted today by the NY State Board of Regents.
Continue reading Where's the next Beethoven cycle?.
Paging Dan Brown! Slate looks at how an ornately carved chapel ceiling may actually be a massive musical score.
Continue reading I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then....
Museums And Memory: ICOM Asks What's The Connection? Toledo Museum Provides Answers
Continue reading Misty Watercolor Memories.
Continue reading Blogs upon blogs about business models.
Continue reading Breaking: ENO puts Germans in the spotlight.
Continue reading New York Times accuses CAMI of passing off shoddy goods.
Continue reading Breaking: confessed fraudster finds new investor.
Continue reading A chip falls off a musical dynasty.
Continue reading Come sing in my choir. No, come sing in mine..
Today's entry: Cyril Connolly on the ambivalence of the good magazine editor.
Continue reading Almanac.
Curators' Choice: Winning Exhibitions And Catalogues -- Trophies Go To MoMA, The Met, MFA-Boston, And...
Continue reading The Best of 2010.
If Ai were in poor physical condition, it's unlikely wife's visit could have happened. New York's see-no-evil installation.
Continue reading Orchestra won't tour Japan? Maestro goes it alone.
An adult film company aims for transparency
Continue reading Porn Palace.
The piano is a device that never came with a set of instructions
Continue reading Stay Down.
Continue reading Truly work-stopping statistic.
Continue reading Exclusive: major diva walks out on Universal.
Continue reading Strictly for the Korngold curious.
Continue reading Breaking: opera links up with science geeks... and more.
...here is Ella Fitzgerald at 25 in 1942 in the Abbott and Costello Comedy Ride 'Em Cowboy
Continue reading Young Ella On Film.
One Lost Case: A Documentary Chronicles The Place Where Mailer, Balanchine, Newman Et. Al. Lived
Continue reading The End Of Bohemia.
New York City Ballet pays Balanchine his due with a mini-festival of superb productions
Continue reading Balanchine: Black & White.
A temporarily semi-retired boulevardier gets back in the game.
Continue reading Out of water.
Continue reading Who wins, who loses, from Berlin's slap in Salzburg's face?.
Continue reading Breaking: Berlin Philharmonic cuts links with Salzburg festival.
Continue reading Another orchestra pulls out of Japan.
Continue reading Sad news: Bernhard Greenhouse is dead.
The complicated set's sensor, not conductor's aching back, reportedly caused 40-minute curtain delay. "Spider-Man the Opera" shouldn't happen.
Continue reading Met's "Die Walküre": James Levine Sturdier Than the Glitchy Set.
Was it a convertible...and who are those boys?
Continue reading Query: The Jazz Goes To Junior College Car.
More than a curtain, this talented choreographer's stage needs a rhizome barrier.
Continue reading The Appealing Vulnerability of Daniel Adame.
Does the Met have enough important contemporary pieces to fill another museum? Maybe large-scale sculptures. (Chillida is at Nasher.)
Let's acknowledge that change is hard to achieve and harder to sustain
On a promising young composer's graduate recital
Continue reading Aaron Pike.
The Museum As A Film And Theater Experience: Are These The Galleries Of The Future?
Continue reading Coming Soon To Antwerp.
Taking a trolley to nowhere ... I don't think Tony Bennett's nostalgia quite applies.
Continue reading Funky Friday.
Continue reading A first for Carnegie Hall - but who knows?.
Continue reading Met stars crash out of Japan.
Begins May 16
Continue reading Blog Salon -- Organizational Design.
Continue reading So who is the lady in the Glyndebourne lake?.
Continue reading Koreans bring comfort music to Japan.
Young was that rare combination, a great lead trumpeter who was also a soloist of exceptional imagination, taste and humor.
Continue reading Snooky Young: 1919-2011.
"A Minister's Wife" and "King Lear" reviewed.
Continue reading Improving on Shaw.
In praise of shorter attention spans.
Continue reading Longer than Twitter, shorter than Kushner.
44 pages of essential tools for parents to use to support arts in the schools, made in America, by PS203 in Queens!!
Continue reading An Arts Education Toolkit, by Parents, for Parents.
New York City Ballet revisits the seven deadlies
Continue reading Sloth, Pride, Anger, Gluttony, Lust, Greed, and Envy (once again).
Does spending six years studying 17th century French theatre really make someone an appealing hire for Silicon Valley tech companies?
Continue reading Silicon Valley Techies Pay Lip Service to the Humanities.
A perfect storm of disgraced patron, unsold air rights, anemic attendance, general economic slump and, especially, inadequate planning, devastated AFAM.
Continue reading Museum Musical Chairs: Met at the Whitney; MoMA at Folk Art---Part I.
Continue reading Grayson takes it off for Glyndebourne.
Continue reading Boris faces the music, seriously.
Continue reading The cloud knows what you like, and where you are.
A Heartening Fable About Charity Art Sales: Lichtenstein Drawing Zooms At Christie's
Continue reading How To Turn $10 Into $2 Million.
Continue reading Big uplift for three-bies.
Continue reading A matter of Royal bad taste.
16-minute slog for a Warhol self-portrait tested auctioneer's patience: "I can't stand here doing nothing!" View my video.
Continue reading $38.44-Million Warhol Ordeal: "The Longest Lot in History" at Christie's.
A little taste of a great jazzman.
Continue reading Snooky Young, R.I.P..
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
See Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten perform Britten's "Michelangelo Sonnets" in 1956.
Continue reading Just because.
Bacigalupi asserts his museum "can't do anything about legal contract" to pay $30-million for half-share of Stieglitz Collection.
Internationalistic sax/flute modernist from Africa's southeast tip, Zim Nqgawana felled by stroke
Continue reading Zim Nqgawana, South African jazz artist, dies at 52.
SAM's Derrick Cartwright Quits; Yet Another Top Museum Is Leaderless; No Interim Appointee
Continue reading Shocker News From Seattle - UPDATED.
Continue reading Breaking: Royal news - Kate's pregnant.
Last words on a nasty man.
Continue reading Arthur Laurents, R.I.P..
Continue reading Just in: Musicians Union gives guidance on Brazil conductor.
Continue reading 1,000 school children play along with top orchestra.
Musicians influenced by the power and daring of his work are honoring the late saxophonist and composer.
Continue reading A Clifford Jordan Revival.
"By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" and "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide" reviewed.
Continue reading Slaves of the past.
This week's video: Evelyn Waugh talks about the modern novel in 1964.
Continue reading Snapshot.
Hear the Trust's communications VP discuss how Cuno finessed his extremist cultural-property stance during job interview. Podcast on CultureGrrl.
On Thursday (5/12) you can watch me live, debating the future of classical music at Cambridge University. Or watch an archive of the stream later. Details in this blog post.
Continue reading Black-tie splendour.
Continue reading News just in: Liverpool musicians submit protest to Brazilian conductor.
Continue reading A good day to announce good news - in Israel.
The Bay Area is going gaga for Gertrude Stein this summer, apparently just for kicks.
Continue reading Why so much Stein? Why Not?.
http://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2011/05/cost_squeeze_--_further_though.html
How lack of interest in classical music makes things worse. Plus links to Tony Woodcock's blog, with support for what I say, and inspiration for change.
Continue reading The cost squeeze -- further thoughts.
What we traffic in is memories. The arts are representations of parts of this world, pushed out from artists to audience with the goal of sticking in the head. So how do we make sticky memories?
Continue reading We Are The Memory Pushers.
Time For The Webby "Best Of the Web" Trophies. This Year, Very Few Arts Winners
Continue reading It's Awards Season And....
After sealing off abstract sculpture and claiming ownership of its final phase, Serra now owns drawing -- and destroys that, too.
Continue reading Richard Serra, Drawing.
Continue reading Final question for Britain's Nicked Talent star.
Continue reading In Berlin, the opera's under water.
Continue reading Another huge night for the amateurs.
What director would serve under a president with extremist views on cultural-property issues that have roiled the Getty?
Continue reading Archaeologists' Red Flag: James Cuno Named Getty Trust President.
An itinerant drama critic's summer travels are about to begin.
Continue reading The beginning of the end of the beginning (or vice versa).
Some thoughts on the New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards.
Continue reading And all must have prizes.
My talk at New England Conservatory, to a group of graduating students. With a link to a recording, and a summary of what I said.
Continue reading A bridge to the future.
Here's my guest editorial from the May/June Education Update. Sometimes it feels good to speak plainly...
Continue reading "Good Schools Have the Arts" -- What We Want For All Of Our Kids.
An inspiring visit to New England Conservatory, where students are building the future.
Continue reading Trust the young.
Student ideas and labor make Taliesin West more than a museum
Continue reading Wright's Acolytes.
Continue reading Britain's Got Talent violinist issues apology. It may not be enough.
Continue reading Breaking: Getty Trust Names New President.
Continue reading Britain's Got Talent scandal - 'I'm no fraud,' says Alexandra Parker.
Does a pianist's speaking voice influence the way they make music?
Continue reading Piano Vocal.
Update on student work --
Continue reading Arts Entrepreneurship Class Progress.
Continue reading Breaking: massive fraud alleged on Britain's Got Talent.
Continue reading Breaking: US conductor lands British orchestra.
Continue reading Aussie orchestra goes for football contract.
Continue reading BP goes for Olympic gold.
Continue reading Nurses can also sing.
Hot young players, a hot old player, a pianist's nocturnal musings, A Brazilian among the Swiss, viva Hampton Hawes
Continue reading Recent Listening: James Farm, Allen, Anschell, Et Al.
Tom Sancton makes a stage production of his book about coming of age in New Orleans
Continue reading Sancton On Stage.
National Archives' New International Research Portal For Nazi-Looted Art Will Help, But Isn't Perfect
Continue reading Tool For Discovery.
My message to Rollins College's Class of 2011.
Continue reading Pride, hope, and bagpipes.
On the turnaround at Columbus Symphony and its partnership with PACA
Continue reading Outsourcing Admin: Not Just for the Money Savings.
Continue reading Vienna Festival freshens up.
Isn't editorializing in a news story supposed to be out of bounds at The New York Times?
Continue reading Bin Laden Not Ready for His Close-Up.
Continue reading Boston without Levine: the shortlist shortens.
Continue reading The Bowman bows out.
Continue reading 85,000 tickets sold in the first afternoon.
Continue reading Influential piano teacher, Olympian husband, has died.
Continue reading Beatles man dies.
Examining Stuart Davis Painting For Today's WSJ, Informed By Hearing The Master's Voice
Continue reading Mellow, Jazzy Masterpiece.
My brief comment on Alice Walton's $800-million museum for "Marketplace" program. You can hear me now---my sexiest sentence.
Continue reading My NPR Crystal Bridges Soundbite UPDATED.
Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America's Future Through Creative Schools...Right On!!
Sneak peak of monumental interiors. Workers toil till 2 a.m. to meet Nov. 11 opening date. CultureGrrl soars over it.
Continue reading Free Nico Muhly concert from your favourite newspaper.
Continue reading Breakig: major label is sold.
They are here to stay and it would do us all good to recognize them as a fully built leg of an unfortunately unsteady table
Continue reading The Teaching Artist: A Leg of the Arts Education Table.
Continue reading Wisconsin, unplugged.
Continue reading Minczuk watch: unease at Canada competition.
Continue reading Death of a Broadway Lion.
Continue reading Bankrupt nation opens new concert hall.
Continue reading Fly me, I love classical music.
Is the volume of information we are constantly consuming in brief online snippets eroding our deeper intellectual instincts?
Continue reading Slow Down and Think About It.
David Ives' "The School for Lies" reviewed.
Continue reading Flying couplets, flying canapés.
Jazz is New York City's soundtrack and lingua franca, so get hip to the June jazz fests here
Continue reading CityArts details NYC June jazz fests: Blue Note, Vision, Undead.
What They Have To Say About Technology And About Museums: Well, It's "Raw"
Continue reading Surprise: Teen Curators Speak Out.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Continue reading Was Mahler the harbinger of today's celebrity cult.
Continue reading BP heads for Olympic bid.
Continue reading Brazil - orchestra responds to international boycott.
In case that's not enough, other donors are stepping up to the plate. My on-site video of the exterior.
Cash Crunch Coming, Embarassing Retreat From Venice Biennale, Now Director Resignation
Continue reading More Troubles For Folk Art Museum.
Continue reading 11 worst-hit US orchestras.
Continue reading Good catch for the Scots.
Why orchestra expenses keep rising -- which creates a squeeze as income falls.
Continue reading The cost squeeze -- expenses.
Continue reading Open Source Ticketing, 1.0.
This week's video: Noël Coward, Lauren Bacall, and Claudette Colbert perform the seance scene from "Blithe Spirit."
Continue reading Snapshot.
Continue reading Is Texas Falling To Pieces?.
Continue reading News just in: Barenboim whips up a storm in Gaza.
Caravaggio Gets On The Single-Painting Bandwagon -- Or Rather The Speed Does
Continue reading Can We Call It A Trend Yet?.
Continue reading Me on TV...okay, BigTen TV, but still.
It's no more than a coincidence: Bin Laden was killed on this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day. But it's worth noting.
Continue reading Holocaust Remembrance and Death of Bin Laden.
The digital robots play around with the Tristanoites. Lennie Tristano just plays.
Continue reading Tristano And The Robots.
"Daniel Barenboim" Tweeted today. Should artists have their teams Tweet for them, or does that miss the point?
Continue reading Fakin' it.
The Paris Opera Ballet's celebrated academy showcases its dancers of tomorrow.
Continue reading À la Française.
Met's installation is a coup de théâtre. "Romantic" it's not---more Poe than Wordsworth. Designs are often unwearable but unforgettable.
Continue reading Necromancy at the Met: Disturbing Allure of Alexander McQueen's Dark Art.
See Josh White sing "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out."
Continue reading Just because.
Falling donations are another reason why orchestra finances are looking bad.
Continue reading The cost squeeze -- donations.
...on yesterday's events, courtesy of W.H. Auden.
Continue reading Last words....
Apropos of "Danse Russe," last thoughts on a first night.
Continue reading All done (for now).
Osama's death postpones Mayor Bloomberg's launch of Ai Weiwei's "Circle of Animals" in jubilant New York City. Not rescheduled yet.
See Louis Armstrong and the All Stars play "Muskrat Ramble" in 1958.
Continue reading Just because.
Two New Books: Bearden Gets Scholarly Treatment; A More Popular View Of Joan Mitchell...Summer Reading?
Continue reading Reading Room.
Watch the video. Listen to the music. Cheap trash that ruins your mind? Don't tell your mama.
Continue reading R. Crumb: Lines on Paper.
A minor rant on the funder-driven 'innovation in the arts' bandwagon
Continue reading The mad, mad chase for innovation in the arts.
Sung by a trombone, Schubert's "Der Doppelganger" transfixes and amazes.
Continue reading Schubert on the Trombone.
Will thousands of brides wear the same dress? Will it be a McQueen Halloween? Where will original gown be exhibited?
Continue reading Dept. of Knockoffs: A Spate of Kates (Original dress to be displayed.).
Applying ideas and methods from complexity science to the work of problem solving
Continue reading New ways to think about solving intractable problems.
Nanos Valaoritis's 'Endless Crucifixion': Proust crucified on his memory. Rimbaud crucified on his leg. James Dean crucified on his car.
Continue reading A Poem from the Late 20th Century .
Kronos, So Percussion, eighth blackbird & Bang on A Can Allstars give Reich's pulse life
Continue reading Steve Reich @ Carnegie Hall @ 75, with devotees.
Continue reading Rebel concert in Rio: first report.
Continue reading Nastiest opera ever - first pictures.