Commentary
Lee Konitz was, with Sonny Rollins, one of the last of his great generation of jazz men still swinging hard.
Read MoreWhat’s happening right now, this is a bloodbath. It is full on slaughter of small businesses. They lie in the streets gasping for breath.
Read MoreWhat gives with the overbearing presence of cuteness throughout the world of contemporary visual art?
Read MoreThere’s a story yet to be written about art dumping; theater and dance dumping; even film and TV dumping now that live performance and production of all kinds has shut down.
Read MoreI’m curious to see what happens next. I’ll keep writing plays, but I might need to hone my skills as a handyman just in case this whole theater thing doesn’t pan out.
Read MoreAt a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.
Read MoreThe White Plague uses dread to shock us into empathy for ourselves, to be alarmed by the fragility of our bodies as well as the resources and ethics of the medical system.
Read MoreTour de force? Not quite. Joycean? Perhaps in the way contemporary individuals overlap with ancient, mythical counterparts.
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Arts Commentary: Two “Killer” Worldviews
I’m suddenly startled by the almost simultaneous appearance of two killers, neither of them COVID-19, each seemingly unbeatable in its own way.
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