Category: AJBlogs

“Arcane side deals” trouble the waters, and the value, of the auction house.

It’s time to rename ‘nonprofit’ and ‘not-for-profit’ and other arts orgs that aren’t fully private or fully government-created.

My critical analysis at the end of last spring’s round of major New York art auctions … has been supported by the figures in Sotheby’s earnings report issued Monday.

I am returning to the topic of Furtwängler because my previous blog produced a minor miracle – a thread of responses that yielded heightened understanding of a complex topic. … I now feel impelled to revisit Topic A – not Furtwängler the man (B), but Furtwängler the conductor – and see what A and B put together look like today.

“Over the last twenty years I have played for children and adults with special needs, dementia patients, hospitalized children, grieving parents, and veterans in rehab or hospice. …” A guest post by Penny Brill, an alumna of the Community Engagement Training offered by ArtsEngaged.

As the Rifftides staff heads back from vacation, they want to be sure that you’re up to date on listening opportunities. So they customized this announcement from Jim Wilke about his next presentation on Jazz Northwest.

Joseph Horowitz, whose Understanding Toscanini (1987) deals extensively with the American career of Wilhelm Furtwängler, traditionally seen as an artistic opposite pole to Arturo Toscanini, reviews Roger Allen’s Wilhelm Furtwängler: Art and the Politics of the Unpolitical.

Some were willing to give Biesenbach leeway … until an interview with The New York Times made him look like he didn’t know much (at all) about Los Angeles.

Was there a characteristically German cultural-philosophical mind-set that helped produce Hitler, and did Fürtwangler embody it?

When journalist Frank Scully met Luigi Pirandello before WWII, they talked about Mussolini.