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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About Last Night
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Artful Manager
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
blog riley
rock culture approximately
rock culture approximately
critical difference
Laura Collins-Hughes on arts, culture and coverage
Laura Collins-Hughes on arts, culture and coverage
Dewey21C
Richard Kessler on arts education
Richard Kessler on arts education
diacritical
Douglas McLennan's blog
Douglas McLennan's blog
Dog Days
Dalouge Smith advocates for the Arts
Dalouge Smith advocates for the Arts
Flyover
Art from the American Outback
Art from the American Outback
Life's a Pitch
For immediate release: the arts are marketable
For immediate release: the arts are marketable
Mind the Gap
No genre is the new genre
No genre is the new genre
Performance Monkey
David Jays on theatre and dance
David Jays on theatre and dance
Plain English
Paul Levy measures the Angles
Paul Levy measures the Angles
Real Clear Arts
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
Rockwell Matters
John Rockwell on the arts
John Rockwell on the arts
Straight Up |
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
dance
Foot in Mouth
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Seeing Things
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...
jazz
Jazz Beyond Jazz
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
ListenGood
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Rifftides
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
media
Out There
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Serious Popcorn
Martha Bayles on Film...
Martha Bayles on Film...
classical music
Creative Destruction
Fresh ideas on building arts communities
Fresh ideas on building arts communities
The Future of Classical Music?
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
On the Record
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Overflow
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
PianoMorphosis
Bruce Brubaker on all things Piano
Bruce Brubaker on all things Piano
PostClassic
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Sandow
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Slipped Disc
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
publishing
book/daddy
Jerome Weeks on Books
Jerome Weeks on Books
Quick Study
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
theatre
Drama Queen
Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off
Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off
lies like truth
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
visual
Aesthetic Grounds
Public Art, Public Space
Public Art, Public Space
Another Bouncing Ball
Regina Hackett takes her Art To Go
Regina Hackett takes her Art To Go
Artopia
John Perreault's art diary
John Perreault's art diary
CultureGrrl
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Modern Art Notes
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
