A failure of SHIFT — there wasn’t much buzz
Why I’m writing these posts about SHIFT, a festival featuring orchestras from around the U.S., coproduced in Washington by the Kennedy Center and Washington Performing Arts, with all tickets affordably priced at $25): … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2017-04-26
Out-of-Towner Downer: Metropolitan Museum Considers a Xenophobic Admission Policy
Saul Steinberg‘s famous New Yorker cover portraying how Manhattanites view the rest of the world came to mind when I read Robin Pogrebin‘s NY Times article about the Metropolitan Museum’s tentative (to my mind, wrongheaded) proposal to discriminate against out-of-towners in charging admission fees. … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-04-26
Sotheby’s Pumps A Nascent Market
It may have been just a matter of time: today Sotheby’s announced an inaugural sale of contemporary African art, saying that this market in recent years has undergone “a long-overdue correction.” … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-04-26
How Charles Lloyd stays marvelous
During the 50 years since his breakthrough album Forest Flower (released in February 1967, recorded live at the Monterey Jazz Festival the summer before) … saxophonist-flutist Charles Lloyd has been unusually popular for an adventurous jazzman. … read more
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2017-04-26