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When I started writing criticism, in 1965, in almost pristine ignorance, I discovered that I was the world's leading expert in one thing: my experience. Most of what I know in a scholarly wa…
Given the art world's cherished progressive reputation, how long can it justify the extraordinarily outsize habits of its fairs, institutions, and jet-setting elites? " Artnet
The painting, discovered in 2017, is one of hundreds in South Sulawesi, including a red hand stencil, which was dated to at least 40,000 years ago. But the latest finding is exceptional as i…
Sure, some art has been dependent on wealthy patrons for centuries. But in the age of expansion and renovation, and deep income inequality, that reliance has returned with a vengeance. Take …
Not experts in art " experts in serving those populations. " Hyperallergic
Wendy Perron does a survey of this year's books about dance. Ted Shawn, Tim Miller, Jerome Robbins, Ray Bolger, Merce Cunningham and more. " Wendy Perron
But it might be awhile after The Rise of Skywalker before we know more. "'We're literally making this up from whole cloth and bringing in filmmakers to find what these stories might be,' Ken…
Long before virtual reality, and less digital (and perhaps less nausea-inducing), camera enthusiasts with money could create 3-D panoramas. "The technology was introduced commercially in 194…
But will the U.S. take that opportunity? With more than a quarter of rural lands and nearly a third of tribal lands unable to get internet access, the public sale of the spectrum could make …
Survivors of that night at Pulse and their families aren't interested in a $45 million memorial and museum, "They seek a simpler memorial and argue that the money would be better spent helpi…
The Jazz Museum in Kansas City has had financial and leadership struggles during the past couple of years, but it's clearly hoping that Rashida Phillips (a performer herself) will right the …
Hello, capitalism? An audience is calling. Watchmen on HBO was, for black superhero fans, even stronger than the next-best thing, Black Panther. So what will comics properties do with this a…
Karina became a star of French New Wave films as a teenager starring in Jean Luc Godard's The Little Soldier and went on to star in more of Godard's movies (and to marry him). She was a Rena…
Despite " or perhaps emboldened further by " Misty Copeland's criticism of the Bolshoi's use of blackface, the theatre's general director says, "La Bayadere ballet has been performed in this…
The past year has been shocking and a reversion to old, terrible ways, say the artists, galleries, and other prominent people in the Australian art scene. For instance: "'We have called poli…
The movie (which had the worst opening weekend of any Clint Eastwood-directed film) is Eastwood in chair-ranting mode, and then there's the issue of the lie that a reporter from the Atlanta …
When she was an 11-year-old performing as a local dancer filling in at a Mariinsky Ballet performance in LA, Dana Nichols didn't know she would be asked to perform in blackface until just be…
And literally no one who has ever bought a ticket through them is sad. But more seriously: "The impending civil action… is expected to claim that Live Nation violated terms of its 2010 …
Organists are not happy not to have seen pipes in the renderings of the remodeled Geffen Hall. They see it "as a chance to right a historical wrong, especially at a time when many of the wor…
As those of you who follow me in the social media may already know, Mrs. T spent Saturday night in the emergency room of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, her transplant center. Our original p…
Because of Mrs. T's illness, I didn't post quite as much in this space in 2019 as I have in previous years. Nevertheless, I've been a reasonably active blogger, and I thought you might be in…
Julie Andrews sings "I Could Have Danced All Night," from My Fair Lady, on an episode of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show originally telecast by NBC on January 12, 1958. Andrews was then app…
"Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and …
The majority of music students in the US don't listen to classical or "Western art" music at all, except in classes. For those who teach music theory, questions emerge: "How can we justify o…
Not nudity (though that may, of course, be involved), but naked emotional truth. "Authenticity can't exist without artistry. Truth in life doesn't automatically morph into truth on the page.…
