MOST RECENT BLOG POSTS
Vote Anti-Pop! In the context of the genre wars, Musoc.org is pretty hysterical....
Just a Girl In the Musical World, Part CDXLVIII Unless I'm just being a typical melodramatic girl, this is pretty ridiculous....
POV: The Challenge of Teaching Art in the Public School System ...to not honor and integrate the wholeness of the arts would be an exercise in futility and guaranteed failure......
Making Room At the Table: An Interview with the Author of a Needs Assessment for Arts Education and Special Needs Students in NYC Public Schools ...contributions that inadvertently undermined the arts education opportunities for students with special needs, and that such contributions were sometimes made by those most supportive of the arts....
The Big Screen Would performing arts criticism be different if journalists and artists weren't always in the same room?...
At Age 75, the National Archives Joins the YouTube Generation Introducing space walks, WWII, the depression and more on its own channel. Where are arts groups?...
Meeting Cute The sweet, warm and fuzzy comfort of cute...sells chips....
Matter of opinion ... the "best" opinions are based on information ... they are not just random thoughts...
'Pick up the gun and shoot the bastard!' That was a rogue voice at a matinee. But how should we describe audiences - sheepish collective or argumentative individuals?...
Diva details Paul Levy wishes opera singers would think about whom they're singing to...
Blogger Book Club II: Beautiful Meaninglessness Beauty is to the institutions of academia, museums, and endowments as spirituality is to organized religion. It is best experienced when these establishments get out of the way....
Blogger Book Club II: Wrestling With Beauty Ding! Ding! Ding! Attention spectators! Welcome to a rivalry that is centuries old....
Wall Street Journal's Saturday "Masterpiece" Column Is A Treasure The Alexander Sarcophagus is today's subject, and my work, but the column's attraction is broad......
Blogger Book Club II: Musician in the Middle The pleasure I get is from the puzzle--figuring it out, adding my own interpretation, trying to link it to the world around me....
The Man Could Move He was a slight man on a huge stage wearing a glittery glove. It seems like it should have been ridiculous, yet he moved and the room filled to the brim....
Blogger Book Club II: Painfully Normal and Incredibly Sincere We need art, need it to interact and communicate with us, not merely perform a series of clever tricks or abstract theories in front of us....
Blogger Book Club II: Something I Liked I had a good time disagreeing with this book--and even more fun disagreeing with it the second time I read it. So, thank you for by far the highest-quality procrastination of the week...
The triple threat Is it harder to get famous when you're good at more than one thing?...
Blogger Book Club II: I don't know if she's beautiful, but she's HOT Is it really so bad to have to look at a painting on a wall in a museum?...
Blogger Book Club II: Two-Lane Flattop The secret ballot is a hallmark of democracy as well....
Blogger Book Club II: Does a Dragon Eat Its Tail? Is Hickey saying that only the strange can be beautiful, that that which we think is beautiful but is not strange cannot be beautiful?...
Shakespeare Propelled? Paul Levy is compelled by Propeller to confront Shakespeare's anti-Semitism...
Blogger Book Club II: A Game of Risk If institutions deflate the risk out of experiencing art, what impact does that has on culture?...