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Nancy Levinson on architecture
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About Last Night
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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The Artful Manager
Andrew Taylor on the business of Arts & Culture
A recurring chrysalis My colleague Paul Beard was telling me about the Smith Center for the Performing Arts now in development in Las Vegas, and remarked that it was actually two entirely different creatures living in the same space. The day before it...Posted January 24, 2012SOPA and PIPA untangled If you use the Internet, you likely have heard or read rumblings about legislation currently in Congress about Internet piracy. SOPA and PIPA were the inspiration for a blackout of several major web sites this week over concerns that the...Posted January 20, 2012The rise of the 'edge-pert' A recurring theme at this year's Arts Presenters conference in New York was boundary crossing. Artists and arts organizations were celebrated for dancing with unexpected partners -- city planners, farmers, inner-city kids, health professionals. Other speakers encouraged such new connections...Posted January 18, 2012Power, Influence, and Performing Arts I'm attending the Association of Performing Arts Presenters annual conference in New York this weekend, along with six of my MBA students from the Wisconsin School of Business. For the seventh year running, the student team has been commissioned by...Posted January 6, 2012Sustaining, breakout, and disruptive innovation 'Innovation' is the buzz word at many arts conferences these days, and among many funders. With so many things changing in our environment -- all of the STEEP variables at once (Sociological, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political) -- innovation in programming,...Posted January 5, 2012blog riley
rock culture approximately
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diacritical
Douglas McLennan's blog
Sorry, but I'll take experience over artistry Professional sports has more money than God, and they spend more to attract and entertain fans than anyone else. So how does the NFL sell itself? Not by touting the quality of its games. They sell the contest. They sell...Posted July 30, 2010
The Lang Lang Experience, Live And In 3D Is the future of live classical music recitals to turn them into a multimedia experience that is somehow more "familiar" to a generation raised on video screens. Here's a report from Lang Lang's concert in London over the weekend:He is...Posted May 24, 2010
How many True Fans do you have? How do you make a living as an artist? In the old mass-culture model you needed a distribution and marketing engine that could fire up on your behalf to reach as many people as possible. Sell a million albums and...Posted April 18, 2010
Beware the mushy middle The NYT's Charles Isherwood writes about what he calls the "odd-man-out" syndrome: This can roughly be described as the experience of attending an event at which much of the audience appears to be having a rollicking good time, while you...Posted April 16, 2010
We're All For Technology Except When... Nick Carr has a great post about the course of technology development. Progress doesn't always go the way we think it ought to (even if we're right).Progress may, for a time, intersect with one's own personal ideology, and during that...Posted April 15, 2010
Straight Up |
Jan Herman - Arts, Media & Culture News with 'tude
Edition of 'Death in Paris' Is Now in Print This is not a sales pitch. I'm only kvelling. The printed edition is stunningly handsome, a magnificent artifact in memory of its author, the late Carl Weissner, dear friend and co-conspirator from the '60s. If you would like to read...Posted May 18, 2012
Mustill's Message on a Postcard (2) © 1997 by Norman O. Mustill. From a postcard series of eight....Posted March 8, 2012
A Long Shot for Carl the Survivor "Death, the last cut, always leaves a bitter feeling mixed with pain & loss . . . and because of its finality gives you no choice but to look back." -- Jurgen Ploog...Posted February 18, 2012
Portrait of the Writer Broadcast after his death....Posted February 15, 2012
Ave Atque Vale 1940-2012. Carl Weissner died on Jan. 24, in Mannheim. Carl wrote his first book, The Braille Film, in English. I published it in 1970, under the Nova Broadcast imprint. Although his native language was German, he had an incomparable ear...Posted February 4, 2012
DANCE
Foot in MouthMEDIA
Apollinaire Scherr and guests talk about dance
Mutant remakes street dance On the occasion of Jonah Weiner's in-depth profile in The New Yorker on Brooklyn's most eccentric (and mesmerizing) street dancer, Storyboard P, I offer a review I wrote on his BEAT Brooklyn outing. Here are the first couple paragraphs:Almost everything...Posted December 30, 2013
Theatre of the Unjust If crimes against humanity were theatre, what form would they take? That is the question African dance-theatre artists Panaibra Canda and Boyze Cekwana raise in "The Inkomati (dis)cord," at New York Live Arts as part of the Crossing the...Posted November 26, 2013
Ballet Bug In art as in life, there is no such thing as being faithful enough. Fidelity is an absolute. It cannot be measured in numbers of steps or scenes preserved any more than a romantic betrayal can be calibrated by the...Posted October 8, 2013
Purgatory at the New York City Ballet About a week ago, New York City Ballet announced its annual promotions. For those dancers moved up from the corps, it is impossible not to add worry to the elation. The problem this year is not what it sometimes is--that...Posted March 3, 2013
Uptown, Downtown Dance in January is dizzying and divided even by New York standards. Uptown, New York City Ballet gets back to mixed programmes, almost always with a blast of Balanchine in the first week or two. This year, it's two weeks...Posted January 18, 2013
Seeing Things
Tobi Tobias on Dance et al.
Ave Atque Vale Merce Cunningham Dance Company / BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, NY / December 7-10, 2011 In addition to showing us wonders we'd never even dreamed of, Merce Cunningham (1919-2009), that inscrutable genius of modern dance, taught us a tough,...Posted December 14, 2011
Veiled in Darkness Angel Reapers, by Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry / Joyce Theater, NYC / November 29 - December 11, 2011 The oddest thing about Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry's Angel Reapers is that it has no plot. This despite the fact...Posted December 1, 2011
By George! New York City Ballet: The Nutcracker / David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / November 25 - December 31, 2010 God Is in the Details: George Balanchine, creator of the New York City Ballet's The Nutcracker, coaching the smallest...Posted November 28, 2011
The Other Face of ABT American Ballet Theatre / City Center, NYC / November 8-13, 2011 This season's gala-event costumes for women of a certain income emphasize cascading ruffles in weak-willed pastels or glowing jewel tones. The men continue to sport black-tie mufti with almost...Posted November 20, 2011
Promises, promises Duŝan Týnek Dance Theatre / Tribeca PAC, NYC / October 27-29; November 3-5, 2011 Duŝan Týnek Dance Theatre Photo: Julieta Cervantes Seeing the Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre, recently at Tribeca PAC, in the second of the two programs it offered,...Posted November 7, 2011
Serious PopcornMUSIC
Martha Bayles on Film...
The Ultimate Social Network NOH HAO, at 25 the social media's youngest - and first female - multibillionaire, explains her meteoric success in an exclusive interview with MARTHA BAYLES.Cambridge, MA, March 15, 2014 - "Meet me at the Harvard Square Peet's!" The suggestion evokes...Posted May 25, 2011
A pinch of merriment If you need a few minutes of joy, open this link to a live performance by Straight No Chaser (after the ad) ....Posted December 27, 2010
"Sex and the City" Redux "Later that night I got to thinking about safe sex. We talk about it as something physical. But what about the emotions? Is sex ever safe?" So writes Carrie Bradshaw, trendy newspaper columnist in Sex and the City. Played by...Posted November 27, 2010
SUSPENDED ANIMATION If you are still checking Serious Popcorn, you are a true and loyal reader. You also may have noticed that SP has been estivating (the summer version of hibernating).Snails do it, frogs do it,Tortoises and salamanders do it,Let's do it,...Posted August 15, 2010
Animation and Aspiration George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, once quipped, "Creating a universe is daunting." This is true, as anyone can tell from a quick perusal of the book of Genesis. But for animators, being daunted does not pay. From the...Posted April 2, 2010
PUBLISHINGPage not found | ArtsJournal function my_excerpt_length($length){ return 200; } add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');The Future of Classical Music?
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Rebirth: The Future of Classical Music
Brief outline What's missing from this outline: details, objections to what I say (and my answers), liveliness, fun, and music. I'll spend...Posted September 24, 2009
Old versions: First try
Episode 1: Mark, Jed, and Beny Moré Episode 2: An Odd Blankness Episode 3: What Is Classical Music, Anyway? Episode...Posted September 22, 2009
Old versions: Second try
Introduction: An overview [You can read a summary of the introduction, or each part individually.] 1. "Starting Again" 2....Posted September 22, 2009
Book 2.0
Episode 16: Modernism, Analysed and Tamed For earlier episodes, see my summary at the start of the last one. If you'd like to be notified (by...Posted December 21, 2006
Book 2.0
Episode 15: Glorious Noise In recent episodes: I've been talking about the origins of the classical music world as we know it today. In...Posted November 28, 2006
On the Record
Exloring America's Orchestras with Henry Fogel
Farewell I remember a moment during the summer of 2002, when I looked at my wife and told her that I needed to make a change in my professional life. I had been managing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for seventeen years--a...Posted October 30, 2009
Declining Arts Participation: A Topic for Broad-Based National Dialogue Earlier this year the National Endowment for the Arts released its 2008 Arts Participation Survey, and the picture it paints is worrisome. The study was done in May, 2008, six months into the recession, and certainly we can draw a...Posted October 23, 2009
The Case for Subsidizing Ticket Prices If you go to symphony concerts in Europe or South America, you see audiences that tend to be more diverse than ours in the United States--more young people, more ethnic diversity, more apparent diversity of economic and demographic background. Since...Posted October 16, 2009
Artistic Authority in Orchestras: A Tricky Balance I appear to have caused some confusion in the past with my comments about orchestra board members who try to wield too much authority in programming decisions, and conversely about conductors who adopt an autocratic, almost dictatorial stance, saying, "I...Posted October 9, 2009
The Music Director Search: Integrity and Commitment In last week's blog, I began a discussion of some of the questions I am most frequently asked by orchestras engaged in music director searches. This week, I am continuing that subject.What do we do when we start getting local...Posted October 2, 2009
PostClassic
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Language-Spinners and Image-Cutters I've been thinking about the style-and-narrative issue from a new angle, and as you know, my blog thinkpieces tend to come in groups of three anyway. During the semester I rain forth repertoire on my students, and sometimes when...Posted January 6, 2011
Space Is the Place After a dry fall I have two big performances coming up within a week of each other. Steve Bodner, dynamic young conductor who gave the American premiere of my Sunken City, has his annual I/O Festival coming up Jan. 6-8 at Williams...Posted January 5, 2011
Gambling Tips for Smart Performers I want to draw attention to Allan Kozinn's thinkpiece about the vagaries of new-music performance in yesterday's Times (tried to post then, got caught in a holding pattern involving site changes), which is pitch-perfect in talking about why, how, and with what expectations...Posted January 3, 2011
Resisting the Narrative One of the things I love about Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music is its emphasis on how an evolving public narrative privileges some composers and marginalizes others. For instance, he writes about how when Ligeti came to...Posted December 24, 2010
Doing the Wave Without a Sound OK, you really do have to watch the video of Cage Against the Machine recording 4'33". Its good-natured absurdity would have made a joyful climax to my book, had I not already finished it....Posted December 20, 2010
Rifftides
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
Frishberg, Wellstood And Sullivan, Restored The Rifftides staff discovered, by chance, that an essential element in a two-and-a-half-year-old entry about Dick Wellstood and two other pianists had suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous YouTube fortune. The video of Wellstood playing was removed by...Posted March 4, 2011
Webb City I'm still tucking in the frayed ends of daily life after extended duty in the trenches of extracurricular writing. Soon, there will be a new batch of Doug's Picks as the blogging routine returns to normal, whatever that is. I...Posted March 2, 2011
Sonny Rollins Among NEA Honorees Today at the White House, President Obama will present the National Medal of Arts to ten creative Americans, including Sonny Rollins and Quincy Jones. From the announcement by the National Endowment for the Arts, here is the complete list of...Posted March 2, 2011
Progress Report In my Modern Jazz Quartet project, I'm roundin' third and headin' home (for mystified readers in Brussels or Bangkok, that's a baseball metaphor). I hope to be back to more or less regular blogging early this week. In the next...Posted February 28, 2011
Ron Hudson, Photographer The fine jazz photographer Ron Hudson died at his Seattle home on Tuesday. He was 71. For more than 30 years, Hudson captured memorable images of Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Woody Herman, Milt Jackson, Bud Shank and dozens more of...Posted February 25, 2011
Sandow
Greg Sandow on the future of classical music
Going fishing I'm going on vacation, and won't blog again till after Labor Day. Or, more evocatively, I'm going to treat myself to some time in my private art colony, aka my country home in Warwick, NY. Where I'll relaunch my book...Posted August 17, 2011
One look at the future I'm delighted -- amazed, thrilled, just over the moon -- about next season's programs at the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the first season under the orchestra's new conductor, Alan Pierson. Talk about the future of classical music! Pierson, an indie classical musician...Posted August 3, 2011
Arresting data I'm a little bemused at the debates that still seem to rage about whether classical music -- as an activity in our culture -- has declined. Seems to me that the only way you can think it hasn't is...Posted August 1, 2011
Intermezzo As I've tweeted, and posted on Facebook -- here's a sound I just love. Is it an animal, singing? Is it music from some other culture? No, it's an escalator at the Archives stop on the Washington DC Metro. Somehow...Posted July 26, 2011
The culture I've seen Orchestra culture, I mean. A few years ago, I was visiting a friend, who also had another visitor -- the concertmaster of a Group 1 orchestra (referring to the League of American Orchestras classification of orchestras by budget size, in which...Posted July 20, 2011
book/daddyVISUAL
Jerome Weeks on books
Or: Stanley Kowalski with a collection of first editions It's taken me awhile to get around to this -- busy, busy, busy -- but Katie Roiphe wrote an essay, "The Naked and Conflicted," for the cover of last Sunday's New York Times Book Review. It's an essay that's generated...Posted January 7, 2010
Big-City Texas in the '80s: Black Water Rising Attica Locke is a bit of a rarity. She's an African-American, female novelist from Texas who's made her debut with a big-city crime novel. It's called Black Water Rising, and rarer still, Locke is getting compared to such master thriller...Posted August 6, 2009
Fluxus in Texas Allison McElroy, 411 #2, rolled-up phonebook pages, wire, black frame, 2009 Anarchic and whimsical, Fluxus was a little-known art movement in the '60s -- little-known, even though Yoko Ono was an occasional and influential Fluxite. (John Lennon once quipped...Posted July 15, 2009
All that glitters can be sold How to Sell: I love the title with its echoes of business advice books. It's easy to imagine someone picking up Clancy Martin's novel to get tips on closing a sale - only to get a shock. But I hope...Posted June 10, 2009
Money for Art, Pt. 2: Replaying the '50s and '90s Justine Smith, Absolute Power, dollar bills, 2005Money for Art, Pt 1: Arts Funding in AmericaDavid A. Smith's Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy recounts the history of federal funding of the arts...Posted June 5, 2009
Artopia
John Perreault's Art Diary
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CultureGrrl
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Antiquities Collecting in Spotlight at AAMD’s Midwinter Meeting Dallas Museum of Art director Max Anderson, chair of AAMD's Task Force on Archaeological Material & Ancient ArtI can't take any credit for this, but when it meets in Kansas City next week, the Association of Art Museum Directors...Posted January 24, 2013
Coin Toss: Hispanic Society’s Contradictory Stances on Rights of Archer Huntington’s Heirs The far-flung, tortuous odyssey continues for the superlative collection of coins related to Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries that were once owned by collector/philanthropist Archer Huntington and were donated by him in 1946 to the Hispanic Society of America....Posted January 23, 2013
BlogBack: More on AAMD’s (Mis)use of Its Object Registry for Antiquities Alyssa HagenIt seems to me that art museums' use, misuse and non-use of the Association of Art Museum's Object Registry should be ripe for review at AAMD's imminent midwinter meeting, Jan. 27-30 in Kansas City.In the meantime, perhaps the association's...Posted January 21, 2013
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won’t Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Soon-to-be-removed: The New York Public Library's stacks, which support the weight of its Main Reading RoomWithout naming her newspaper's late architecture critic, the Wall Street Journal's Jennifer Maloney on Wednesday published the New York Public Library's rejoinder to one of...Posted January 18, 2013
AAMD Has "Every Confidence" in Members’ Appropriate Use of Their Antiquities Object Registry In my Sunday post on recent cultural-property news and controversies, I argued (and demonstrated) that some members of the Association of Art Museum Directors appeared to be using the group's Object Registry "as a pretext to skirt the UNESCO guidelines...Posted January 17, 2013
Modern Art Notes
Tyler Green's modern and contemporary art blog
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