The Wall Street Journal

Cultural Commentary: Things Get Worse at the Boston Globe and Elsewhere — More Arts Criticism Bites the Dust

Many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.

Janice September 17, 2021 at 8:39 pm on Music Remembrance: Gospel singer Lee WilliamsThat's the Williams Brothers song "Just a Nobody."
Bill Marx, Editor of The Arts Fuse September 17, 2021 at 6:40 pm on Book Review: A Retrograde Shakespearean Shout-OutJust finished reading much better book on the qualities that make Shakespeare ... Shakespeare. I would highly recommend Emma Smith's...
Steve Provizer September 17, 2021 at 3:18 pm on Jazz Appreciation: Remembering George Wein (1925-2021)It's worth noting that Wein's connection with producing jazz precedes his work at Newport by about half a decade. Dick...
Maude Boylan September 17, 2021 at 12:07 pm on Book Review: “Blue Swan Black Swan” — Madness Made BeautifulPerhaps one of the gifts bestowed on Ms. Dickinson after her own near death experience is access to another dimension...
Charlotte Graves-Taylor September 17, 2021 at 6:21 am on Book Review: Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” — Closing the Circle, PerfectlyI saw Leopoldstadt yesterday (16 September). A sombre experience, not to be missed. One feels bleak afterwards, but enveloped in...