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Lookback From 2005, the value of getting out of town--even on business....
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Almanac Today's entry: Somerset Maugham on Englishmen abroad....
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Point, Counterpoint Secret Donor Gives $15 Million To The Miami Art Museum, With $12 Million In Cash To Double The Endowment,...
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Sitting Still with Clyfford Still I didn't think that painting could be a time-based art until I sat down with the great abstract expressionist's works....
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The Monday post This week's fascinating fact: Even in the 1880s, audiences didn't like new music....
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Richard Feynman's 'Ode to a Flower' Yet he speaks with a heavy New Yawk accent that tells us he's a streetwise city boy through and through....
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Jazz & blues indie Delmark turns 60: Catalog classics Bob Koester's record label for Chicago's rough, tough, edgy, real music...
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Dvorovenko Moves On On May 18, Irina Dvorovenko gave her final performance with American Ballet Theatre as Tatiana in John Cranko's Onegin....
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A Status Report on City Opera It's out of the wilderness, but still seeking the Promised Land...
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In the beginning How a ballet changed my life....
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Just because Today's video: Donald Wolfit and Hildegarde Knef in a scene from the 1954 film version of "Svengali."...
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Almanac Today's entry: Nietzsche on loquacious artists....
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At War In Cincinnati? No Wonder Aaron Betsky Is Up For Another Job: He's At Odds With Some Donors, Employees, Ex-Trustees......
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The Attraction of Opposites Two diverse works in a New York week: Pam Tanowitz's The Spectators; Bill Young and Colleen Thomas's There's a Place...
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Scalpers How do we explain their existence?...
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Can a Royal Party Boy Really Change His Stripes? How do you "turn a plutocratic oaf into a lovable national treasure instead of a casually racist and unthinking parasite"?...
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A Day In Denver Highlights from a sunny Saturday in the Mile High City...
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Karaoke Comedy A Denver theatre company explores the magical connection singing and booze...
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The Arts Benefit from Engagement Engagement can enhance/enrich the work of artists....
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Dancers in the Architecture The debut of HomeLA, featuring choreographers in private homes...
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I Have A Little List The Times Of London Names The Fifty Best Art Museums In The World: Who's On, Who's Off? Do You Agree?...
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"Thus I turn my back" In Washington, D.C., Patrick Page's "Coriolanus" reviewed....
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Almanac Today's entry: Laurence Sterne on the cant of criticism....
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Thomas Messer, 93, Guggenheim's Rock-Solid Director Simple rectitude for simpler times. Astute, generously shared insights on museum-management issues. Our late encounter on the Wright ramps....
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The economic impact of everything: a response Are the arts just another sector of the economy?...
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In the mirror Here's how it felt for me to read the uncorrected page proofs of my Due Ellington biography last night....
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Unbuttoned: Samuel Beckett Meets William Osborne I had never heard the details. Now at last the full story!...
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Special Events: Why I've Stopped Writing (for now) Wanna know why I've not been blogging or tweeting lately? Sometimes life intervenes (in a good way)....
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From Tunis to Ithaca Jonah Bokaer collaborates with his father, Tsvi Bokaer, on The Ulysses Syndrome....
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Amazon and economic impact: either/or Who doesn't have an economic impact?...
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So you want to see a show? Here's my weekly theater guide....