Refreshing an Old Story
American Ballet Theatre premieres Alexei Ratmansky’s remounting of Harlequinade. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2018-06-10
Infernal “Heavenly Bodies”: How the Directorless Metropolitan Museum Went Astray
Where’s Max Hollein when we really need him? Several “what-were-they-thinking?” moments jolted me recently at the Metropolitan Museum, reaffirming my belief in a bedrock principle of museum management: … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2018-06-11
Lorraine Gordon, RIP
Lorraine Gordon, who inherited the Village Vanguard after her husband Max died in 1989, remained its proprietor and no-nonsense guiding spirit until her death yesterday in New York. She was 95. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2018-06-10
The Sacred Art of John August Swanson
Even as a lifetime religious skeptic, I’ve long been fascinated by artists, writers and other culture-makers who bring religion, spirituality, and related matters into their work. … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2018-06-11