Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
I’m off to Chicago today to visit Our Girl and see a couple of plays. I’ll be returning to New York at midday Monday. What effect my travels will have on what gets posted in this space come Monday morning remains to be seen. For that matter, OGIC and I might even blog a bit over the weekend, depending on what we get up to in Chicago. Look in on us and see for yourself!
(Did you notice all the new Top Fives, by the way?)
I’m off to Chicago today to visit Our Girl and see a couple of plays. I’ll be returning to New York at midday Monday. What effect my travels will have on what gets posted in this space come Monday morning remains to be seen. For that matter, OGIC and I might even blog a bit over the weekend, depending on what we get up to in Chicago. Look in on us and see for yourself!
(Did you notice all the new Top Fives, by the way?)
Friday again, and time as usual for my weekly Wall Street Journal drama-column teaser. This week I report on my recent visit to Wisconsin, where I saw performances by American Players Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater:
What’s in Wisconsin, America’s dairyland? Cheese (naturally), beer, bratwurst, cranberries, the Green Bay Packers and thousands of glacial lakes. Also the Milwaukee Art Museum, an insufficiently celebrated institution whose spectacular new pavilion, designed by Santiago Calatrava, has already become a regional landmark. And–no, I wasn’t forgetting–lots and lots of theater companies, three of which I saw on a recent visit that left me quite impressed….
All in all, my week in Wisconsin was hugely satisfying, and I only wish I’d had time to catch a few more plays while I was there. I don’t know whether theater-loving Wisconsinites realize how lucky they’ve got it, but I can assure them that they don’t need to go to New York–or even Chicago–to see a good show.
For details, pick up a copy of today’s Journal, or go here to subscribe to the Online Journal, which will allow you to read my column in its entirety, not to mention all sorts of other cool stuff.
Friday again, and time as usual for my weekly Wall Street Journal drama-column teaser. This week I report on my recent visit to Wisconsin, where I saw performances by American Players Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater:
What’s in Wisconsin, America’s dairyland? Cheese (naturally), beer, bratwurst, cranberries, the Green Bay Packers and thousands of glacial lakes. Also the Milwaukee Art Museum, an insufficiently celebrated institution whose spectacular new pavilion, designed by Santiago Calatrava, has already become a regional landmark. And–no, I wasn’t forgetting–lots and lots of theater companies, three of which I saw on a recent visit that left me quite impressed….
All in all, my week in Wisconsin was hugely satisfying, and I only wish I’d had time to catch a few more plays while I was there. I don’t know whether theater-loving Wisconsinites realize how lucky they’ve got it, but I can assure them that they don’t need to go to New York–or even Chicago–to see a good show.
For details, pick up a copy of today’s Journal, or go here to subscribe to the Online Journal, which will allow you to read my column in its entirety, not to mention all sorts of other cool stuff.
– Commissioning fee paid to Aaron Copland by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in 1944 for the score of Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring: $500
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $5,341.70
(Source: Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis, Copland Since 1943)
– Commissioning fee paid to Aaron Copland by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in 1944 for the score of Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring: $500
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $5,341.70
(Source: Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis, Copland Since 1943)
“We are unable to live nakedly. We must constantly wrap ourselves in a cocoon of mental constructs, our changing styles of philosophy, poetry, art. We invest meaning in that which is opposed to meaning; that ceaseless labor, that spinning is the most purely human of our activities.”
Czeslaw Milosz, “Essay in Which the Author Confesses That He Is on the Side of Man, for Lack of Anything Better”
“We are unable to live nakedly. We must constantly wrap ourselves in a cocoon of mental constructs, our changing styles of philosophy, poetry, art. We invest meaning in that which is opposed to meaning; that ceaseless labor, that spinning is the most purely human of our activities.”
Czeslaw Milosz, “Essay in Which the Author Confesses That He Is on the Side of Man, for Lack of Anything Better”
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