Assailing the Sales: La Salle’s Art History Chair Says: “We Were Not Consulted”
With opposition continuing to growover La Salle University’s plan to sell 46 prime artworks from its collection through Christie’s to fund non-museum activities, Susan Dixon, chair of the Philadelphia institution’s art-history faculty, has circulated … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2018-01-12
Recent Listening: Kathrine Windfeld Big Band
Kathrine Windfeld Big Band, Latency (Stunt Records) Kathrine Winfeld’s second album further establishes the 30-year-old Dane in the vanguard of new arranger-composers and bandleaders. Her young, experienced, adventurous musicians from Denmark, Sweden … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-01-12
Unfit for New Year’s?
Strange thing I just realized. The Met Opera celebrated New Year’s Eve with a new production of Tosca. Made sense to me when I first heard about it. An opera people love, some grand singing, … read more
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2018-01-12
Replay: Miles Davis plays “So What”
The Miles Davis Quintet plays Davis’ “So What.” The band consists of Davis on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums. This performance … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-01-12
Almanac: Yeats on genius and national character
“When a country produces a man of genius he is never what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.” W.B. Yeats, The Death of Synge: Extracts from a … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-01-12
Derision for Admission Revision: Parsing the Metropolitan Museum’s New Mandatory Fees
Although I share the dismay over the Metropolitan Museum’s new admissions policy (which, nevertheless, I grudgingly acknowledge may be necessary), I’ve been equally unsettled by the misconceptions and misinformation promulgated by many of the pundits … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2018-01-11