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Visual Arts Commentary: Two Books and a Play — Creating Architectural Literacy

Given the current state of play, any attempts to enrich our knowledge of the built environment are valuable.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: David Hare, Mark Favermann, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Straight Line Crazy, The Borders of Chinese Architecture

Book Review: The Climate Crisis and the “Race for Tomorrow”

If there is one book to pick up that will get you interested in what is happening to our climate, Race for Tomorrow is it.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Climate Crisis, Ed Meek, Race for Tomorrow, Simon Mundy

Arts Commentary: The Oscars 2022 — No Longer So White, But Still Not So Hot

It was soon clear what Oscar was after: two separate younger demographics — one with plebeian cinematic tastes, the other with hip politics.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Beyonce, Chris Rock, Daniel Gewertz, Will Smith

Arts Commentary: The 2022 Academy Awards — “Timmy, Don’t Hit Your Sister”

Aside from the multiple awards Dune won for technological brilliance, the 94th Academy Awards was a very different sort of “Hooray for Hollywood.”

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: 2022 Academy Awards, Tim Jackson

Music Commentary: Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto — The Universal Concerto?

Sibelius’s Violin Concerto is almost something of a phenomenon now: in just eight months, I’ve heard it played by three different fiddlers — Baiba Skride, Lisa Batiashvili, and Inmo Yang.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Baiba Skride, Inmo Yang, Jean-sibelius, Jonathan Blumofer, Lisa Batiashvili, Violin Concerto in D minor

Arts Commentary: Containing Multitudes — Five Shows Explore the Intersections of Identity and Performance

In dealing with the turmoil of ‘real’ life, the art of illusion found in cinemas, theaters, and museums will help us regain a sense of who we are as communal beings.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: and Things, Duncan Macmillan, El Father Plays Himself, Erving Goffman, Jorge Thielen Armand, People, Places, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Tim Jackson

Author Reconsideration: The A, B, and C of Sue Grafton

The conveniently tidy endings do turn killing into an entertainment. They also allow us to briefly believe in redemption. And that is not the vainest of hopes.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Daniel Gewertz, Edmund-Wilson, Kinsey Millhone, Mystery novels, Sue Grafton

Book Review: “We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive

What do the words of an imprisoned Uyghur dissident tell us about the desperate plight of China’s ethnic minorities today?

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: China, Ilham Tohti, Jeremy Ray Jewell, Uyghur, Verso Books, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Book Review: “Literature for a Changing Planet” — A Crash Course

Martin Puchner is stumped because what is called for is a genuinely radical rethink about what role literature and literary studies should play in avoiding the global meltdown to come.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Climate Change, Climate Crisis, literature, Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner, Princeton University Press

Cultural Commentary: The Gergiev Case

There are times – and we’ve been living in these for several years now – when boldness is required, especially from artists.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Anna Netrebko, Denis-Matsuev, Putin, Ukraine, Valery-Gergiev, Wilhelm Furtwängler

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