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Warren Dykeman's bad boy boogalo Recessionary pricing in Seattle...
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Has the egalitarian approach of postmodernism, with every element equal to every element, reached its sell-by date? Foot asks on the occasion of Wally Cardona's "Really Real" at BAM and Bill T. Jones's touring Lincoln pieces...
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Notes Going Into The Weekend Eddie Locke may have been typecast late in life, but he was flexible and thoroughly modern....
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Choosing Wisely If you label your opening night "special," what does that make the rest of the concerts on your season?...
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Left behind (2) More on why contemporary classical music -- as defined by the classical music mainstream -- is a generation out of date....
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Left behind First of three posts, about why contemporary classical music is a generation out of date, at least as it's featured at mainstream classical music institutions....
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Architectural Trauma: Downsized Berkeley Art Museum Plans May Not Include Toyo Ito Another acclaimed design joins the Museum of the Unbuilt. No decision yet on whether same architect will design diminished project....
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An American Farce Do American theatre companies and audiences understand farce?...
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Full weekend of typical (splendid) variety Jazzy improv, classic Cage, Armstrong studies, Guadeloupean zouk, live music as usual in NYC...
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Museum Mile Is Getting Longer Museum For African Art Rises, With Plans To Be More Than A Museum. Foreign Policy Anyone?...
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Indelible Lines ...we're finding it difficult to let go of thoughts about Johnny Mercer. Lines from his songs won't go away -- ever....
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Before I Die - Nicole Kenney & ks rives Remember the only joke in "Pulp Fiction"? Catch up....
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"Home," at last "The Orphans' Home Cycle, Part 1" and "In the Next Room or the vibrator play" reviewed....
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Almanac Today's entry: Frank Zappa on rock journalism....
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Sympathy for soliders Anti-war no longer means anti-troops...
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Mies van der Rohe: Celebrated at MoMA, Destroyed in Chicago Is it a "clunky brick box" or like "a minor work by Mozart"? It's making way for a new train station....
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Jazz.com -- in transition, or trouble? Ted Gioia, founding editor of a jazz webnode, "steps down" -- what's up with that?...
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Jeanne-Claude, 74, Gatekeeper of the Christo/Jeanne-Claude Artistic Partnership Friendly, frank and funny, the late Jeanne-Claude was first among equals when it came to logistics, finances, press relations....
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When Necessity Feels Like Luxury Those of us who live in a place where the public library is not only open but open late have reason to marvel....
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Wynton Marsalis, le Chevalier 25 years at the top in New York City, still playing and working at jazz...
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Big Bang On a missed opportunity to make the audience run for cover...
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News Happens: Time To Play Catch-Up Developments at the Jewish Museum, ArtPrize, The New York Sun, Another Theft...
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Adams, Nixon and a new Eastman House project The relationship between Nicholas Nixon & Robert Adams as told via some special photographs at SFMOMA...
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Metropolitan Museum's Red-Ink 2009 Annual Report, Now Online Operating deficit: $8.4 million. Total endowment funds down 26%. With budgetary cutbacks accomplished, can Campbell focus on art, not money?...
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Little girl, you've had a busy day "My Wonderful Day," "On the Town," and "Ragtime" reviewed....
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Almanac Today's entry: Somerset Maugham on ambition....
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JIm Riswold: That's not funny How many critics does it take to change a lightbulb?...
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An Art Theft Riddle What Is The Most Stolen Work Of Art In Recorded History? You Will Never Guess. It's Not A Picasso, Or A Leonardo...
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Where Did the Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Come From? Matt Taibbi, Maureen Dowd, and The New York Times have a lot to answer for....
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One of these things is not like the other How do we experience concerts that we're told will be special differently?...
dance
Ah, the French! What they make of ballet in Frederick Wiseman's "La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet"...
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Knox-ious Notoriety (and the MoMA Monster mash): "Knox Notch" in the New Yorker Remains of Martin's mural show up in full-page photo of Nouvel tower. Paul Goldberger says MoMA Monster is eviscerated....
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Self-Marketing Artists shouldn't expect presenters do all their marketing...
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Edward Burtynsky's 'Oil' at the Corcoran Starting with the image around which the show revolves: a picture of Talladega Superspeedway...
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My chat with Bill Ivey Exploring art, policy, and expressive life with the former NEA chairman....
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Wednesday news and notes Museum news galore from Los Angeles, considering conservation and earthworks and more...