Archives
Monthly Archives
- 2009.07.24: Knowing the Plot
- 2009.07.19: Dance That Isn't Ballet But Is Still Dance
- 2009.07.19: The failings of arts journalism, in print and on the internet
- 2009.07.18: One Kind of Dance
- 2009.07.05: Pina Bausch and the Definition of Dance
- 2009.07.03: Givin' It All Up for Nothin'
- 2009.07.02: M & M, a farewell
- 2009.06.29: "Coraline" (the show, not the novel or the animated film)
- 2009.06.29: Michael Jackson REDUX
- 2009.06.25: Conflicting thickets
- 2009.06.20: Between Collaboration and Resistance
- 2009.06.18: Tokenism
- 2009.06.18: Preserving a legacy, without a company and without notation
- 2009.06.13: Thinking Dance
- 2009.06.13: A Possible Precedent?
- 2009.06.06: Smelly Opera
- 2009.06.03: Elisabeth Sifton on book publishing and Amazon's presumption
- 2009.06.01: An Idiosyncratic Opera Chronicle
- 2009.06.01: An Historical Anomaly?
- 2009.05.31: Storm King
- 2009.05.25: Dance, thematically if perhaps spuriously linked
- 2009.05.25: Salzburg Tries an Old/New Tack
- 2009.05.23: Ye Olde Arts Journalism
- 2009.05.10: It doesn't work until it works
- 2009.05.10: An anniversary "In C"
- 2009.05.09: Some Dance (and a little related music)
- 2009.03.26: Housekeeping and a Link
- 2009.03.19: London a ye olde model for life on the Internet
- 2009.03.19: Snobbery Lives!
- 2009.02.04: Gyorgy vs. Big Ben
- 2009.02.03: Max Neuhaus, R.I.P.
- 2009.02.03: Unwanted liberty vs. death
- 2009.01.20: A Secretary of the Arts?
- 2009.01.13: Deadlines and Guilt
- 2009.01.11: Saltwater Geechee Culture
- 2009.01.10: Alain Platel, Sophie Fiennes and Everyone's a Critic
- 2009.01.06: Betty Freeman
- 2009.01.06: Earphones vs. loudspeakers; low end vs. high end
- 2008.12.17: Me and the Bamboo Blues: Coming to Terms with Pina Bausch
- 2008.12.16: Pressure to Be Positive? Joni Mitchell and Me
- 2008.12.11: "Boston Legal" and "30 Rock"; "Twilight" and "True Blood"
- 2008.12.11: Acting, Theatricality and Me
- 2008.12.09: Claus: Not the Santa but the Theater Critic
- 2008.12.03: Commercial Art
- 2008.12.02: Harvey Milk, Gus Van Sant and Kenneth Anger
- 2008.12.02: Whining
- 2008.11.26: Old Saws Revisited, and Hence Made Older Still
- 2008.11.20: A Sellars Duo and Trilogy
- 2008.11.18: Slow Journalism
- 2008.11.15: Patti Smith has her McGarrigles moment
- 2008.11.12: Peter Brook's Simplicity
- 2008.11.11: Shallow Stages at the Met
- 2008.11.11: Page One Collectibles
- 2008.11.09: Another Met disappointment, with ramifications
- 2008.11.07: Gerard Mortier's New York City Farewell
- 2008.11.06: Antony Tudor and the Fragility of Dance
- 2008.11.04: The President and the Arts
- 2008.11.02: Two movies, America and France
- 2008.11.01: Opera, Amplification and a Terrific DVD
- 2008.10.28: Personal Contact and "Objectivity"
- 2008.10.25: Leonard Bernstein's Mass, Happily Reconsidered
- 2008.10.23: Dance, Modern/Contemporary/Physical
- 2008.10.21: Commerciality and high-low angst
- 2008.10.16: A New York Times book review
- 2008.10.15: A Good Day
- 2008.10.14: A Peter Gelb Misstep
- 2008.10.08: The Bonesetter's Daughter
- 2008.10.08: RM the Reboot
- 2008.09.11: Ratmansky at Ballet Theatre
- 2008.09.11: Frozen River
- 2008.09.11: Dead All Over
- 2008.08.29: Vibrato, portamento, Elgar and me
- 2008.08.29: Critical Meanies
- 2008.08.29: Half of Hair
- 2008.08.14: Golden Oldies
- 2008.08.14: Presumptuous Presumptions
- 2008.07.20: Mongols Everywhere
- 2008.07.20: The Obamas, the New Yorker and Satire
- 2008.07.19: Romeo, Juliet, Rabbit and Rogue
- 2008.07.19: Get Smart Gets Stupid, at least about geriatric L.A. conductors
- 2008.07.17: Edgar Vincent and Publicists as a Breed
- 2008.06.10: A Wordy Bagatelle
- 2008.06.10: Jerome Robbins at City Ballet
- 2008.06.01: Female Fragility
- 2008.06.01: The Return of Karen Allen
- 2008.05.27: An arts community, and writing for your life
- 2008.05.27: Mahalia and melisma
- 2008.05.27: Cai and Tan (and Chen and Murakami, too)
- 2008.05.27: Pleasantville at the museum
- 2008.05.20: Rock Geezers Galore
- 2008.05.15: South Africana
- 2008.05.06: The Internationalism of Dance Today
- 2008.04.28: Alan Rich and Gerhard Samuel
- 2008.04.22: The Bayreuth Saga
- 2008.04.22: Embedded errors and false "facts" in perpetuity
- 2008.04.22: "Satyagraha" at the Met
- 2008.04.17: A Friendly Nod to a Guy I've Never Met
- 2008.04.17: A Grump on the (South Pacific) Beach
- 2008.04.17: Thematic Perils
- 2008.04.03: Link to Levine
- 2008.04.03: Deborah Jowitt
- 2008.03.24: The Disappearing Divide
- 2008.03.23: Paul Giamatti
- 2008.03.20: "Saturday Night Live" and Us
- 2008.03.18: Thomas Quasthoff and the Perfection of God's Creation
- 2008.03.17: Easter Festival
- 2008.03.13: Wiley
- 2008.03.10: Editors, Editing and Me
- 2008.03.10: Another WNYC link
- 2008.03.09: NAJP/ARTicles link
- 2008.03.09: Mark Morris's "King Arthur"
- 2008.03.09: Muhly and more
- 2008.03.06: Ballet and History
- 2008.03.05: William Bolcom's Eighth Symphony
- 2008.03.05: My latest radio broadcast
- 2008.01.28: Rockwell Matters on WNYC.FM
- 2008.01.27: Blogroll
- 2008.01.27: Rockwell Matters
- 2008.01.27: John Rockwell
- 2008.01.27: Contact me
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