Category: AJBlogs

“The Captain” is the best flick I’ve seen in years.If you need to read a review, you might as well read David Edelstein’s. My only demurral is that I see the setup as feral.

A few weeks ago we posted a link in ArtsJournal to a piece in the Toronto Star under the admittedly provocative headline: “Time To Retire Beethoven’s Ninth?” And the response on Twitter was, well …

I had a sense of déjà vu when I heard that the Frick Collection’s expansion plan grew out of the necessity of repeatedly de-installing portions of the its renowned permanent collection to accommodate major temporary exhibitions, such as …

K-rAd freely improvised and spontaneously composed an original, pulsing, burbling, chiming, floating and ripping, multi-layered, deep and flowing funky-bassed, percussion-lively suite over about three hours last night.

Sorry to learn that composer, arranger and bandleader Patrick Williams died yesterday at 79.

The decimation of the New York Daily News brings back memories of the two-and-a-half miserable years I worked there.

‘I’m just taking my friend for a walk,’ says Mary, an elderly patient in Allelujah!, Alan Bennett’s fascinating bumpy ride of a new play at London’s Bridge Theatre. She refers to the drip she lugs behind her as she crosses the stage.

The pre-performance corridors of the Fisher Center at Bard College appeared to have been invaded by The Radical Faeries  …
A report on Bard Summerscape’s revival of Lenny’s long-forgotten version of Peter Pan.

While new is always (well, often) fun, what is most important to me about this website upgrade is the opportunity to share many more resources with the community engagement field.

Charles Pillow Large Ensemble, Electric Miles (Mama Records)
Whatever the title Electric Miles might lead you to expect, chances are that it wouldn’t be an album of non-electric big band music.