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Barnes Names Brooklyn's Judith Dolkart as Chief Curator She's a European paintings specialist. But what about the African sculpture and the metalwork?...
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Art museums: I'm glad I'm not in charge Art museums must attract the public but also mange the public they attract...
music
Write a blues, win a prize Jazz at Lincoln Center tickets or Wynton & Willie play Ray dvds, for bein' moody...
culture
And How Did Rocco Play In Peoria? The NEA Chairman Makes His First Whistle-Stop Visit, And Manages to Avoid (Mostly) Provocation...
music
Listen To The Bass Player: Part 6, Scott LaFaro Bill Evans had been looking for, dreaming of, a bassist who thought about music, and specifically about time, as he did....
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Gun in America The crazy bone in the country's body...
culture
You Cannot Make this Stuff Up: NYC Department of Ed and its Hypnotherapist How 'bout a choice: a hypnotherapy consultant or free arts curricula?? Which one would you choose?...
theatre
Should Playwrights Direct Their Own Plays? Three playwrights muse on a timeless question...
music
No-star game No star power at the season openings of the Met, the NY Philharmonic, and now the New York City Opera. Why this is a problem....
publishing
The Book Tour ... in 140 characters, max....
issues
Circles of Influence Mapping the social links between the members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities....
visual
Where Art Theft Flourishes Is It Better To Own A Picasso In France Or Italy? New Data Reveals The Answer...
ideas
Oh, the power(lessness), the absolute power(lessness) Finally, a 'top 20' list in the arts we can all aspire to be on....
music
The U.S. remains jazz-central Foreign musicians and fests vie to appear where the music was born and still calls home...
visual
Karen Sargsyan's Scrap Baroque High drama from paper cutouts...
culture
That Bloomsbury Voice Paul Levy listens to Virginia Woolf, but yearns for the sound of Lytton Strachey's voice...
issues
If it isn't spreadable, it's dead Nina Simon, art museums, the Internet and Frank O'Hara...
music
LIsten To The Bass Player: Part 5, Red Mitchell Bill Crow, the hero of part 3, has kindly agreed to expand on some of the reasons for Mitchell's importance....
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BlogBack: Reader Calls for an NEA Voucher System Should individual taxpapers funnel federal arts dollars to their favorite cultural institutions? Should commercial rappers and country singers get funds?...
theatre
All the way home "The Understudy" and "Nightingale" reviewed....
ideas
Almanac Today's entry: Edmund Burke on posterity....
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News Flash: Dia to Build New Facility in Chelsea No architect, no budget, but an address: 545 West 22nd Street---a site that Dia owns. Who's got the money?...
dance
Choreographer Karole Armitage uses Africans as props; Taiwanese dance and music troupe brings ancient debauchery to life...
music
American Wins In London David T. Little Is Digital Composer-In-Residence: And What Precisely Does That Mean?...
culture
The Things I Hear About Arts Education ...People say the STRANGEST things!!!...
music
Henry Threadgill, seer beyond 'jazz' A prophet, urgent in the wilderness? An American composer with a new language?...
visual
Dream homes for solitaries All I need is a room somewhere...
theatre
Abrupt Mood Changes On the challenges of going from comedy to tragedy and visa versa on stage...
music
Quotation of the day My wife nails how uncomfortable classical music was at the White House. Zombieland did it better...
music
Unexpected classical music How the Marriage of Figaro shows up in Zombieland....
music
Crossing cultures How I learned to hear microtones, and more....
music
Mr. Brendel, thank you ... an unseen hand has kept its hold over a player and his listeners alike for decades ... Through a long and magnificent career, Mr. Brendel has brought us to an understanding, and a love...
music
So What Happened At The White House Music Event? President Obama Reveals His Status As A Classical Rookie...
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Lounging at Lincoln Center A few elegant chairs. That's all it took to significantly ameliorate a design disaster....
music
Public Concert, Private Music Andre Watts gives a recital...
ideas
Almanac Today's entry: Arthur Schopenhauer on going to the theater....
culture
Epic Advertising Are your community's cultural institutions up for a painfully honest and remarkably blunt marketing campaign?...
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Streaming Live Tonight, From The White House The Classical Music Concert: What Will The President Say?...
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Our Sense of Place, Dismantled What happens when our newspapers disappear....