I was driving last night, and listening to Bach cantatas, from the latest installment of the John Eliot Gardner series, the recordings he produces himself, and which have the most striking classical CD covers I’ve ever seen. For example: The performances, I’m finding, are marvelous, devotional, but also dramatic and dance-like. They’re true to the covers, or, if you like, the covers are true to the performances. This is devotional music, the covers say, and it could speak to anybody; that’s why we show you people from … [Read more...]
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Louis, you're entitled to your opinion, but not to your own facts. Museums of contemporary art routinely exhibit realist work,...Greg Sandow on …for…
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