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  • The Art of Drawing
    For David Hockney "drawing by other means" included the use of lenses and other optical devices as long ago as the Renaissance, let alone more... [read more]
    AJBlog: Straight|Up Published: 2020-04-24
  • Queen bee gets stung
    In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review a webcast of the Goodman Theatre’s Chicago premiere of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-24
  • Replay: A Visit to CBS Color Television
    A Visit to CBS Color Television, an extremely rare film of a demonstration of early color television that was produced by CBS in 1954 for its... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-24
  • Almanac: Oscar Wilde on sorrow
    Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. Oscar Wilde, De Profundis Continue reading Almanac: Oscar Wilde on sorrow at About Last Night.... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-24
  • Almanac: Tennyson on sorrow
    That a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall” Continue reading Almanac: Tennyson on sorrow at About Last Night.... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-23
  • Alan Shestack, 81, Old Master Prints Scholar, Generous Mentor, Thrice Museum Director
    Considering his long, illustrious career as an art scholar and museum director, not to mention his generosity in sharing his deep insights with others (including... [read more]
    AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published: 2020-04-22
  • Snapshot: Vladimir Horowitz plays Scarlatti
    Vladimir Horowitz plays Scarlatti’s E Major Sonata, K. 380, at Carnegie Hall in 1968. The video is from a concert telecast by CBS. The audio... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-22
  • Almanac: Somerset Maugham on heroism
    “He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage Continue reading Almanac:... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-22
  • Community Citizenship
    On being good community citizens in a time of grave crisis.... [read more]
    AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published: 2020-04-21
  • The Met’s Porgy and Bess in the cold light of morning
    How often can you say that the Metropolitan Opera rocks? That happens in much of the new recording of Porgy and Bess taken from live... [read more]
    AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published: 2020-04-21
  • Lookback: David Mamet’s favorite American plays
    From 2010: I expect that David Mamet’s Theatre, which was published last week, is going to stir up a stink, and I plan to write about... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-21
  • Almanac: Disraeli on ignorance
    “Ignorance never settles a question.” Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons (May 14, 1866) Continue reading Almanac: Disraeli on ignorance at About Last... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-21
  • Revered jazz elders, deceased: portraits by Sánta István Csaba
    As a generation of jazz elders leaves our world — some hastened by the pandemic — their faces as photographed by Sánta István Csaba become... [read more]
    AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published: 2020-04-20
  • Juice, Tomato
    Of course, I had to grow, pluck my own and juice them. I even bit one on the vine like an animal — I am... [read more]
    AJBlog: Out There Published: 2020-04-20
  • Everything Pina
    I was always going to schedule Wim Wenders’ Pina for Lockdown Theatre Club. Pina Bausch’s work has been a delight and compulsion throughout my theatregoing... [read more]
    AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published: 2020-04-20
  • Tabletop worlds
    In order to divert those of you who, like me, are staying home these days, I’ve been posting images of some of the prints and... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-20
  • Just because: Kim Stanley and Geraldine Page in Chekhov’s Three Sisters
    Kim Stanley, Geraldine Page, and Sandy Dennis co-star in a 1966 Actors Studio film version of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters directed by Paul Bogart: (This is the... [read more]
    AJBlog: About Last Night Published: 2020-04-20
  • Music in Challenging Times — An Opportunity
    Back in the 1930s, American radio – that is, American commercial radio, which is all we had – knew that listeners were amenable to paying... [read more]
    AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published: 2020-04-19
  • Pina | Lockdown Theatre Club 6
    Watch Pina with Lockdown Theatre Club on Tuesday 21 April. Pina is available to rent on Amazon Prime. At 8pm everyone presses play and watches... [read more]
    AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published: 2020-04-19
  • Deaccession Concession: AAMD Bends Its “Fundamental Principle” on Art-Sale Proceeds
    Desperate times call for desperate measures? At a time when “cutbacks,” “furloughs,” “layoffs” & “cancellation” have become the baneful bywords of museum management, the Association... [read more]
    AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published: 2020-04-17

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