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We’re not in European art film territory here.
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This performance was far more than special and crazily beautiful — it was extraordinary.
Read MoreNichita Stănescu is one of the poets who broke through the socialist-realism sound barrier and propelled Romanian poetry into new spheres.
Read MoreIn the encyclopedic, fascinating, and intermittently infuriating “The Woman Reader,” author Belinda Jack argues that we should not fear the battle between paper vs. pixels, but value reading and the ways it nourishes a woman’s inner life.
Read MoreThere is an almost Biblical resonance of utter destruction and an improbable, fervid humor in the prose of ANIMALINSIDE as the beast speaks directly to us, its voice moving between trapped panic, cunning hunger, and a vicious savagery.
Read MoreBeyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience by Julius Novick. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; paperback 2009, 200 pages. Reviewed by Caldwell Titcomb The Jewish presence in the United States goes back to the16th century. In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh recruited the expert Prague-born Jewish metallurgist and mining engineer Joachim Gans/Gaunse to join…
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This impressive show of more than 32 works concentrates on what Isamu Noguchi could do with stone, sometimes just leaving it in abstract forms, either raw or polished, often imagining it (and cutting it) into what were meant to be essential shapes.
Read MoreI never knew I needed to own a book like this, but I undoubtedly do. If there is anyone you know who loves singing and isn’t a snob about genre, this book would be a great holiday gift. It’s a colossal achievement that is also marvelously idiosyncratic. A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and…
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This album may be too mellow, too grim, too serious for the average listener but hear me: This is an amazing and important work of art, quite possibly the legendary songwriter’s own elegy.
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Arts Commentary: Music for Times of Trouble
I’ve been most impressed by the manner in which these composers, in these works, took strong moral and/or political stands.
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