Wall Street Journal architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable’s was “one of the first comprehensive critiques to appear in the mainstream media, and it didn’t so much run as detonate. At a stroke it shifted the ground of the debate from the library’s “What” to the critics’ “Why?”—galvanizing the opposition and establishing itself as the touchstone for all subsequent discussions of the issue, whatever side you were on.”
Tag: 05.15.14
Big Generational Change At The New York Philharmonic
“The orchestra has begun the process of auditioning, hiring and breaking in five new principals, including a concertmaster to replace the retiring violinist Glenn Dicterow, who has helped shape its sound for more than three decades.”
Chipotle Cups Will Now Feature Stories By Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Malcolm Gladwell
It all started when Foer was eating at Chipotle one day and found that he had nothing to read. (includes stories by Foer, Morrison, and Michael Lewis)