Snapshot: Andy Warhol talks about pop art by Terry Teachout

Andy Warhol talks about the pop-art phenomenon in a 1965 CBC profile: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:15am on April 29, 2015☆⚑

Almanac: Murray Kempton on journalism and journalists by Terry Teachout

"Journalism itself is the most sacred cow in journalism's barn." Murray Kempton, dust-jacket blurb for Richard Pollak's Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off!

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:00am on April 29, 2015☆⚑

Two blue moons by Terry Teachout

Thanks to Maria Popova, this "kinetic typography" video, in which Ira Glass talks about the problem of creativity, has been making the rounds for some time now: I only just caught up with it…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:45am on April 28, 2015☆⚑

A sad landmark by Terry Teachout

Mrs. T and I were planning to go to Baltimore on Wednesday to see Center Stage's revival of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, the second installment of that company's Herzog Festival. I'd already rev…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:30am on April 28, 2015☆⚑

Lookback: on depression by Terry Teachout

From 2005: Clinical depression really is a thing unto itself, qualitatively different from the milder mood disorders that are so frequently lumped together with it. Perhaps we do need a bett…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:15am on April 28, 2015☆⚑

Almanac: Alfred Kazin on the dangers of "good taste" by Terry Teachout

"It is undesirable to have a perfect taste, to respond properly to all the masterpieces. Unless we approach literature demandingly, as I say, unless we respect it for its influence, we fall …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:00am on April 28, 2015☆⚑

Blame it on Hitchcock by Terry Teachout

Mrs. T and I watched Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest last week for the first time in a number of years. As we did so, I remembered that I'd written an essay about the film in 1998 for …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:45am on April 27, 2015☆⚑

Love songs, R.I.P. by Terry Teachout

My essay in the May issue of Commentary is occasioned by the publication of Ted Gioia's Love Songs: The Hidden History: Most pop songs are about love. So are most classical art songs. So are…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:30am on April 27, 2015☆⚑

Just because: John Coltrane plays "Alabama" by Terry Teachout

The John Coltrane Quartet plays Coltrane's composition "Alabama" on Jazz Casual, originally telecast on Dec. 7, 1963, five weeks after the group made its studio recording of the piece. The o…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:15am on April 27, 2015☆⚑

Almanac: Evelyn Waugh vs. an agenda-driven interviewer by Terry Teachout

"Q. Are you yourself as an individual conscious of any particular failing of yourself? "A. I mean, are you asking me to confess to some moral lapse, or to inadequacy in talent? "Q. Well. I s…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:00am on April 27, 2015☆⚑

As long as the lady is paying… by Terry Teachout

In the last of three season-wrapping drama columns that appeared in The Wall Street Journal this week, I review the Broadway transfers of The Visit and Airline Highway Here's an excerpt. * *…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 6:30am on April 24, 2015☆⚑

The man who loved Shakespeare by Terry Teachout

In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I write about Henry Folger, who amassed the collection that became the Folger Shakespeare Library, and about art collectors in general. Migh…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 6:15am on April 24, 2015☆⚑

Almanac: William Hazlitt on the fragility of virtue by Terry Teachout

"The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it." William Hazlitt, "On Cant and Hypocrisy"

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 6:00am on April 24, 2015☆⚑

The doctor is out by Terry Teachout

In the second of three season-wrapping drama columns that will appear in The Wall Street Journal this week, I review two new musicals, Doctor Zhivago and Something Rotten! Here's an excerpt.…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:30am on April 23, 2015☆⚑

So you want to see a show? by Terry Teachout

Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wal…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:15am on April 23, 2015☆⚑

Almanac: Nathaniel Hawthorne on discomfort and progress by Terry Teachout

"The world owes all its onward impulse to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits." Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:00am on April 23, 2015☆⚑

Bigger and better by Terry Teachout

In the first of three season-wrapping drama columns that will appear in The Wall Street Journal this week, I review the Broadway transfers of Fun Home and Living on Love. Here's an excerpt. …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:30am on April 22, 2015☆⚑

Snapshot: Bert Lahr and Ricardo Montalban in The Fantasticks by Terry Teachout

A rare kinescope of an abridged TV adaptation of The Fantasticks, originally telecast on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1964. The production was directed by George Schaefer and the cast incl…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:15am on April 22, 2015☆⚑

Almanac: Arthur Miller on humor by Terry Teachout

"Everyone likes a kidder, but no one lends him money." Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:00am on April 22, 2015☆⚑

In the open by Terry Teachout

I love my job, but I don't much care for April, the last month of the Broadway season, when I have to spend nearly every night on the aisle seeing shows, some of them wonderful and others ap…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:30am on April 21, 2015☆⚑

Lookback: on unpunctual friends by Terry Teachout

From 2005: Why is it that only two of my friends meet me on time? Because none of the others do, not ever. As in never. N-E-V-E-R. And you know what? Even though I know they're going to be a…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:15am on April 21, 2015☆⚑

Almanac: Somerset Maugham on "men of one book" by Terry Teachout

"There is an impression abroad that everyone has it in him to write one book; but if by this is implied a good book the impression is false." W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:00am on April 21, 2015☆⚑

The shame sharks by Terry Teachout

The publication of Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed has triggered much discussion of the phenomenon of social-media "shaming," most interestingly and convincingly by my friend Meg…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:45am on April 20, 2015☆⚑

Back in the saddle again by Terry Teachout

Paul Moravec and I are at work on a new project"but this time, it isn't an opera. My old friend John Sinclair is celebrating his twenty-fifth anniversary as artistic director of the Bach Fes…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:30am on April 20, 2015☆⚑

Just because: a 1974 interview with Richard Rodgers by Terry Teachout

Richard Rodgers is interviewed by James Day on an episode of CUNY-TV's Day at Night originally taped in 1974. A new revival of The King and I, which Rodgers wrote with Oscar Hammerstein II i…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:15am on April 20, 2015☆⚑