Commentary
“Art . . . is . . . fundamental equipment for existence on human terms.” — Albert Murray
A Painter of Our Time is a gorgeous rumination on art, love, sexuality, revolution, capitalism, exile, propaganda, politics, human nature, and society.
Now, more than ever, It’s worth being reminded of our natural potential for good.
Who might be chosen to receive a Kennedy Center Honor from President Trump who wouldn’t refuse it?
Why haven’t American theater companies dealt seriously with climate change?
Our Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances.
Many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.

Book Review and Commentary: Albert Murray’s Non-fiction – A Balm in Columbia
At his best, Albert Murray is a thinker passionately in love with thinking, a virtuoso of verbal music, an American to his core.
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