Renowned singer and actress Annie Ross is urgently in need of financial assistance to pay for home care during this pandemic.
Commentary
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.
Arts Remembrance: Saxophonist Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz was, with Sonny Rollins, one of the last of his great generation of jazz men still swinging hard.
Arts Commentary: Endangered Species — Independent, Small Venues
What’s happening right now, this is a bloodbath. It is full on slaughter of small businesses. They lie in the streets gasping for breath.
Visual Arts Commentary: The Shock of the Cute — Too Much of a Cute Thing?
What gives with the overbearing presence of cuteness throughout the world of contemporary visual art?
Arts Commentary: COVID-19 and the Desperation of Dumping Art
There’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.
Theater Commentary: Peering into the Post-Covid Future for the New Play Sector
I’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.
Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part Two — “When the Impossible Really Begins”
Theater is seen as a cleansing illness that sets out to obliterate the illness we blithely accept as health.
Cultural Commentary: Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic
At a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.
Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part One — Karel Čapek’s”The White Plague”
The 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.