I know y’all just love it when I get all political and shit. But, as Edward Albee wrote in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, “…you make government and art, and realize that they are, must be, both the same…” I can’t think of anything more scandalous, anything we should be more concerned with, or anything [...]
Dance briefly makes home page of NYT
The good news: It’s a piece by L. Ro. The bad news: Of course it’s a ballet piece. Eh, better than being ignored altogether.
Actually in the middle; somewhat better
(Photos by Stephanie Berger) This will by no means be a full-throttle review, but, between seeing the final performance of William Forsythe’s 1988 work, “Impressing the Czar,” at the Lincoln Center Festival, and then reading Gia Kourlas’s review of it in The Times, some interesting things come to mind. I was first exposed to the [...]
On Leasing Identity: Welcome To The Coke Theater…err…I mean, KOCH Theater
It’s a funny business, fund raising. And the naming game is right at the top of schemes that arts organizations employ to get the wealthiest people to give huge gifts. I’ve always, at a basic level, distrusted this kind of philanthropy. (I may have blogged about this before.) But, it seems to be a great [...]
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