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April 2, 2020 at 2:55 PM ‘The man next to us is honking like a seal,’ whispered my friend Mel at the interval of One Man, Two Guvnors at the National Theatre back in 2011. Tonight the National Theatre will stream their film of the show (available on YouTube for a week afterwards), and I’ve just found the review I wrote for Plays International. – David Jays Tags: Art, Mel, Ajblogs, 04.02.2075 people like this. Like
April 1, 2020 at 2:54 PM Faced with mounting pushback against its plan to consider cutbacks beginning Apr. 5, the Met has now postponed any such changes until May 2. The Frick’s plans, including a temporary move to the Breuer, have not changed. – Lee Rosenbaum Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Breuer, 04.01.20, Met 's Endangered Staff148 people like this. Like
April 1, 2020 at 2:55 PM I’ve also been watching with great interest the number of arts organizations making content available online, providing virtual experiences to help us get through this. At the same time, I wonder if a myopia inherent in our industry might get in the way of doing even greater good. – Doug Borwick Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 04.01.2074 people like this. Like
March 31, 2020 at 2:53 PM The Amazon delivery guy rang the bell, then scampered off to safety behind the garden gate, a good distance, but not so far that he couldn’t hear and acknowledge my “thank you.” – Paul Levy Tags: Amazon, Art, Ajblogs, 03.31.20115 people like this. Like
March 31, 2020 at 2:55 PM Out in the woods for today’s video, on Charles Lindblom’s classic essay “The science of ‘muddling through’”. When an arts organization sets out to form a strategic plan, what exactly is it doing? – Michael Rushton Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Charles Lindblom, 03.31.20108 people like this. Like
March 31, 2020 at 2:56 PM The “Mrs. T” of this blog suffered throughout our years together from pulmonary hypertension, a rare and devastating illness that gnawed inexorably at her body without touching her soul. She faced death as she faced life, with indomitable courage. – Terry Teachout Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.31.20, Hilary Teachout81 people like this. Like
March 30, 2020 at 2:54 PM I can’t believe I’m posting this message, but…after looking at this morning’s stats, Mrs. T’s doctors now believe … – Terry Teachout Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.30.20125 people like this. Like
March 30, 2020 at 2:55 PM Asked about his intriguing new album, west coast trumpeter Dick Titterington talked about the project’s genesis during a Christmas party. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Dick Titterington, 03.30.20134 people like this. Like
March 25, 2020 at 2:53 PM I am ecstatic to report that I just got off the phone with Mrs. T. It was, of course, a one-way conversation, since she’s intubated, but her nurse informed me that she is now fully conscious, nodding her head vigorously and moving her mouth in response to questions. – Terry Teachout Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.25.2094 people like this. Like
March 25, 2020 at 2:58 PM At a moment when museums around the country are shattered, shuttered and bracing for hard times, what could be more shockingly tone-deaf than Holland Cotter’s 3,000-word “manifesto”? – Lee Rosenbaum Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Holland Cotter, 03.25.20142 people like this. Like
March 24, 2020 at 2:55 PM We are making the adjustment to teaching arts policy at a distance for the remainder of the semester, and so I’m about to get used to (and hopefully better at) short videos for students, practitioners, anyone with an interest. – Michael Rushton Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.24.2089 people like this. Like
March 23, 2020 at 2:53 PM Thanks to a kind-hearted, quick-witted nurse in New York-Presbyterian’s cardio-thoracic ICU, I was able to see and speak to Mrs. T via Skype on Sunday night. – Terry Teachout Tags: Art, New York, Skype, Ajblogs, 03.23.20126 people like this. Like
March 23, 2020 at 2:54 PM Concerned about the advance of the coronavirus, pianist Fred Hersch has announced his approach to providing, if not relief from the threat, a way to get it off your mind for a while: a live-streamed concert each day. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Fred Hersch, 03.21.2076 people like this. Like
March 23, 2020 at 2:55 PM Since most jazz musicians (and jazz journalists) are self-employed freelancers, it’s probably essential to rely on ourselves and do it ourselves.. Adapting or heightening one’s media game may seem tiresome if not daunting, but in reality it’s no longer so time intensive and difficult. – Howard Mandel Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.22.20149 people like this. Like
March 18, 2020 at 2:55 PM With my lens as an advocate for community engagement, I think of the many (many, many) people who have told me they just don’t have time to devote to making connections with their communities. There are too many other tasks to do. But now … – Doug Borwick Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.18.20140 people like this. Like
March 18, 2020 at 2:54 PM Last Wednesday, the Met invited me to the press preview for the 150th anniversary show Making the Met; Thursday, the museum announced it was closing. On Mar. 11, the Association of Art Museum Directors began a running list of member institutions that had closed; as of today, all of them have. – Lee Rosenbaum Tags: Art, Ajblogs, COVID, 03.18.2057 people like this. Like
March 17, 2020 at 2:54 PM I doubt it will surprise any of you to learn that I’d been growing increasingly worried about the inability of Mrs. T’s doctors to rouse her from the medically induced coma into which she was placed after her double-lung transplant surgery two weeks ago. – Terry Teachout Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.17.2058 people like this. Like
March 17, 2020 at 2:55 PM Jazz doesn’t want to stay home and chill, so members of the Jazz Journalists Association have launched JazzOnLockdown: Hear It Here, a series of curated v-logs featuring performance videos of musicians whose gigs have been postponed or cancelled due to coronavirus concerns. – Howard Mandel Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Jazz Journalists Association, 03.17.20145 people like this. Like
March 16, 2020 at 2:45 PM Books continue to be written about what it was like to live in Germany under Hitler. I wonder if any of the authors have auditioned Wilhelm Furtwängler’s wartime broadcasts with the Berlin Philharmonic. They should – and also ponder a kindred question: the function of culture in the life of a nation. – Joseph Horowitz Tags: Art, Germany, Berlin, Hitler, Ajblogs, Shostakovich, Furtwängler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, 03.15.20110 people like this. Like
March 12, 2020 at 2:55 PM James Moody told me that his Georgia-born grandmother said one morning while looking through the newspaper, “Folks is dyin’ what ain’t never died befo’.” The trend continues, as it always has.” – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, Georgia, Ajblogs, McCoy Tyner, James Moody, Bill Smith, 03.12.2069 people like this. Like
March 9, 2020 at 2:56 PM I am certain Beethoven was a funny guy. The evidence, the jokes are all over the music. – Bruce Brubaker Tags: Art, Beethoven, Ajblogs, 03.09.20144 people like this. Like
March 3, 2020 at 2:57 PM I’m overjoyed to report that her condition has improved significantly since yesterday. The internal bleeding has stopped, she is resting comfortably, and her doctors are completely satisfied with her progress to date. – Terry Teachout Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.03.2072 people like this. Like
March 3, 2020 at 2:58 PM When dealing with new communities, staff and board members of nonprofit arts organizations are sometimes puzzled when things they thought would work crash and burn. Often, there is really no mystery. – Doug Borwick Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.03.20102 people like this. Like
March 2, 2020 at 2:55 PM Mrs. T survived her double-lung transplant surgery and has been moved to the cardio-thoracic ICU. As her surgeon put it, “We’re not out of the woods yet, but we’re moving in the right direction.” – Terry Teachout Tags: Art, Ajblogs, 03.02.20, Mrs T. Mrs145 people like this. Like
March 2, 2020 at 2:54 PM In one, concentrating on songs with winter themes, she is accompanied by a distinguished European quartet. A second album finds her alone with the harmonically resourceful and swinging Chicago guitarist Andy Brown. – Doug Ramsey Tags: Art, Chicago, Ajblogs, Rebecca Kilgore, 03.02.2041 people like this. Like
February 25, 2020 at 2:49 PM The English National Opera is having a tough old time, but the company is still capable of both daring and successful ventures, such as the new Luisa Miller, a Verdi rarity last staged in London in 1858. – Paul Levy Tags: Art, London, Verdi, Miller, Ajblogs, Eno, Luisa Miller, 02.22.20118 people like this. Like
February 25, 2020 at 2:57 PM Books continue to be written about what it was like to live in Germany under Hitler. I wonder if any of the authors have auditioned Wilhelm Furtwängler’s wartime broadcasts with the Berlin Philharmonic. They should. – Joseph Horowitz Tags: Art, Germany, Berlin, Hitler, Ajblogs, Wilhelm Furtwängler, 02.25.2072 people like this. Like
February 25, 2020 at 2:58 PM Alla Kovgan’s new film Cunningham not only shoots its dancers in three dimensions, but collages historic, two-dimensional black-and-white images in smaller sizes on the screen, often overlaid with print. This practice allows us to choose (or stumble upon) those visions most meaningful to us, or to accept multiplicity and not worry about what we didn’t see. – Deborah Jowitt Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Cunningham, Merce, Alla Kovgan, 02.24.2064 people like this. Like
February 24, 2020 at 2:57 PM Tobi was among the first group of writers I invited to blog on ArtsJournal. I had read her for years and appreciated her elegance, clarity and erudition. Though her judgments were crisp, they were never made lightly. She knew the art deeply and it informed her judgments. – Douglas McLennan Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Tobi, Tobi Tobias, 02.22.2062 people like this. Like
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