ArtsJournal Classic

AJ Four Ways:
Full View (by category) | Text Only (by date) | Text (by category) | headlines only

Read the story at

The Fable of One Turtle and Four Humans: A Story of Community
How did the turtle cross the road? The answer according to Greg Milo: thanks to a cardboard box and a community. One Turtle and Four Humans As a former high school teacher and ... read more
AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2017-07-20
Growing Together
Laura Gisler shares a beautiful meditation on what community means to her through these drawings and reflective, poetic words. hearts interdependently linked. growing/feeling/oxygenating/expressing/nurturing- nourishing/healing/supporting. cellularly to systemically. sustained: chloroplasticly by the sun, xylemicly by the ... read more
AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2017-07-20
So you want to see a show?
Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. For more ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-07-20
Almanac: Hannah Arendt on hypocrisy
“ What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one.” Hannah Arendt, On Revolution ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-07-20
Recent Listening In Brief: Mitchell, Zeitlin, Cole
Roscoe Mitchell, Bells For The South Side (ECM) If you have followed Mitchell’s searching music over the past 50 years, Bells For The South Side will reassure you that the septuagenarian composer, ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2017-07-19
The World Is Your Classroom (Or Gym)
Naomi Even-Aberle introduces us to her community: her gym. She shares how impactful it can be to take part in the successes, failures, and challenges of her students and peers as well as their extending ... read more
AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2017-07-19
“Money is a kind of poetry”: Lee Siegel’s The Draw
ONE of the finest memoirs I’ve read in many moons comes from veteran literary and culture critic Lee Siegel. His book The Draw tells the tale of an intellectually serious young man in a ... read more
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2017-07-19
Part of Something Bigger
Jaclyn Roessel reflects on the first time she felt like a part of a community, when she was 12 years old and had her Kinaaldá ceremony, in which she became a woman and felt the ... read more
AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2017-07-19
Snapshot: Hans Hotter sings Schubert
Hans Hotter sings Schubert’s “An die Musik” at a 1964 Tokyo recital: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-07-19
Almanac: Henry James on popularity
“You must be prepared on many occasions in life to please no-one at all—not even yourself.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (courtesy of Levi Stahl) ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-07-19
One Jupiter
Jupiter, Florida in northern Palm Beach County is home to a very large population of Guatemalan immigrants. In April 2015, Onesimo Lopez-Ramos, an 18-year-old member of that community, was murdered outside his home by a ... read more
AJBlog: Engaging MattersPublished 2017-07-18
Joe Fields, 1929-2017
On July 12 we lost Joe Fields. During his long career Fields was the guiding spirit of record labels committed to unalloyed jazz. He started the Cobblestone label and later changed its ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2017-07-18
A Real Community Will Stretch You
What are the qualities of a rubber band? Flexibility: the ability to bend without breaking. Clinnesha Sibley shares a reflection on the first time she felt the power of community as a teacher at ... read more
AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2017-07-18
Lookback: on Hollywood’s sexual double standard
From 2007: In America, only pretty young women become movie stars. Middle-aged male actors who are unattractive–or at least Bogart-ugly–can and do play romantic leads, but no actress who is much short of beautiful ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-07-18
Almanac: Evelyn Waugh on Christianity in the United States
“The United States does not form part of Christendom in the traditional sense of the word. She is the child of late 18th Century ‘enlightenment’ and the liberalism of her founders has persisted through all ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-07-18
What We Learned About Audience This Week: Meta-Data REALLY Matters
This Week’s Insights: It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that meta-data… A critic finds herself being more mom than critic… How did musical theatre suddenly become hot with European audiences?… How ... read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2017-07-17
Finding Magic in Community
Sometimes joining a new community can open up new, magical worlds that you never imagined were possible. This was Quentin Turner’s experience when he gained a new set of friends, teammates and community through ... read more
AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2017-07-17
Welcome to the Community
We are all a part of communities of many different shapes and sizes. Large or small, local to our region or universal, communities offer connection, purpose and a sense of belonging to a group larger ... read more
AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2017-07-17
Just because: Lizabeth Scott sings “He Is a Man”
Lizabeth Scott sings “He Is a Man,” by Carroll Coates and Ronnie Selby, on The Big Record, originally telecast by CBS on April 23, 1958. This was Scott’s public singing debut: (This is the ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-07-17
Almanac: Brian Garfield on Richard Stark
“If you begin a sentence—or, particularly, if you begin a book—with the word ‘When,’ then something just about has to happen right away.” Brian Garfield, interviewed by Kristi McGuire (The Chicago Blog, April 4, 2011) ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-07-17

Older posts