Ways and Means: A five-part meditation on writing about the arts
What You See Is Not The Same As How You See It
If you’ve ever read one of Deborah Jowitt’s reviews in The Village Voice, then you’ll have a pretty good idea about the style of arts criticism that I’m calling non-evaluative. You know, the kind [...]
Ways and Means: A five-part meditation on writing about the arts
The O.C. (Original Critic)
As I have mentioned, I wrote (mostly) classical music criticism (there’s one review I wrote of the late Ray Charles) for The Orange County Register, the second largest newspaper in Southern California. So it is not as if…suddenly last summer…I decided [...]
Ways and Means: A five-part meditation on writing about the arts
Criticizing The Critics
This is the most fun, obviously.
Not to give him too much credit, but it was Alastair Macaualay’s first piece on Merce Cunningham that riled me up enough to write a full rebuttal. The helplessness one feels when reading a piece of criticism with [...]
Ways and Means: A five-part meditation on writing about the arts
Conflict of, like, a billion interests
People’s first concern about my writing as a critic will probably be a gut instinct presupposing that my activities as a composer and performer present an inherent conflict of interest.
One only has to point out two of the most esteemed [...]
Ways and Means: A five-part meditation on writing about the arts
Introduction
There are numerous ways to write about the arts, and probably even more numerous means to aid them.
I feel compelled, the more my personality develops on this website (and the more people read what I have to say) to wax a little on the nature [...]
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