Holistic Hollein: A Halting Conversation With The Metropolitan Museum’s New Director

AJBlogs Posted: September 16, 2018 11:55 am

Hollein is still optimistic about not being the CEO, but will that last?

Jayne Wrightsman’s “No Loans” Edict for Gifts & Bequests to the Metropolitan Museum
Today’s announcement by the Metropolitan Museum about the “exceptional bequest” by trustee emerita Jayne Wrightsman (who died in April at 99) omits mention of a ... read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2019-11-13
Big Learning Curve for Sotheby’s New CEO in a Season of Lowered Expectations: My Q&As
With art-market pundits expressing cautious pessimism (here, here and here) about the prospects for this week’s underwhelming Impressionist/Modern and Contemporary offerings at the New York ... read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2019-11-12
Duo Ruut plays at the Sharq Taronalari Festival
The second in this series on the Sharq Taronalari Festival in Samarkand is comprised of two separate performances by Duo Ruut, one in the vast ... read more
AJBlog: OtherWorldlyPublished 2019-11-12
Bill Mays And Bobby Shew Then…& Mays Now
Bobby Shew And Bill Mays, Telepathy It was a coincidence that could not have been more welcome if it had had been planned; One day, ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2019-11-11
The twenty-five record albums that changed my life (20)
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-11
The eleventh day of the eleventh month
I posted this for the first time on November 11, 2008. It’s still relevant, and (I suspect) always will be. * * * On October ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-11
Just because: Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers meet face to face before HUAC
British Pathé newsreel coverage of the hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities on August 25, 1948, during which Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-11
Almanac: Dostoyevsky on martyrdom
“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (trans. Constance Garnett) ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-11
A Silent Empire Against Conciliation
“… even sweetest lies (the bright vermillion of wayward litanies and disbelief) wear out the bond of trust …” Click to enlarge. ‘Against Conciliation’ (deformed ... read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2019-11-09
Porgy — Take Four
Curtain call for “Porgy and Bess” with Rouben Mamoulian in glasses The latest installment of Conrad L. Osborne’s indispensable opera blog takes stock of ... read more
AJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2019-11-09
Weekend Listening Tip: Ernestine Anderson
On his Jazz Northwest broadcast this weekend, Jim Wilke remembers Ernestine Anderson, a singer who began making an impact in the music when she was ... read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2019-11-08
Triumph of the robots
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review two new musicals, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and Cyrano. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Yet another new ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-08
A land without classics
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I explain how American theaters rarely perform older plays—and what effect that has on our theatrical culture. Here’s ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-08
The twenty-five record albums that changed my life (19)
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call “The Twenty-Five ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-08
Replay: Buddy Rich appears on The Mike Douglas Show
Buddy Rich appears with his band on a 1967 episode of The Mike Douglas Show: (This is the latest in a series of arts- ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-08
Almanac: H.L. Mencken on justice
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.” H.L. Mencken, “Footnote on Criticism” ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-08
Hear me talking to you (cont’d)
Titus Techera, who hosts a podcast for the American Cinema Foundation on which he and his guests discuss important films of the past and ... read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2019-11-07
Response to The Chasm of Disbelief
The following is an incredibly thoughtful response written by Carter Gilles to my post The Chasm of Disbelief. I am particularly grateful to him for ... read more
AJBlog: Engaging MattersPublished 2019-11-05