culture

Poet Anne Waldman’s Star Turn

The Line Between the Sacred and the Profane

YouTube, aka the Biggest Platform on Earth, Has Deleted All My Albums

In Praise of Art Collecting

Phillis Wheatley: Genius, Poet, and Pioneer in the Face of Slavery

Rivette’s The Nun: a Note on Cinematic Censorship

New Bach, Old Doubts

Without a Discography, We Have Nothing: A Review of Strike While the Needle is Hot

Monet and Venice

Wigmore Wonders: the Dunedin Consort in Praise of Purcell

H: Kathryn Bigelow’s Empire of Fear

A Palestinian Anne Frank

Aeolian Amrum:  Found Sound, Lost Childhood

Eternal Spring:  Emilie Mayer in Autumnal Berlin

King of the North Sea: The Glories of Göteborg Organ Culture 

Walls of Shame, Hall of Fame: Barenboim in Berlin

Pynchon’s Farewell to America’s Vanishing Dream

The Relevance in Arthur Carrillo’s Art Aesthetics  

One Battle After Another in the Context of the Present Day 

Flights of the Imagination: Jesus Christ Superstar at Tempelhof Airport

The Weather of Memory

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

L’Opera è Mobile: Rigoletto in Berlin 

Smoke and Light in Soho

Sight and Sound in Berlin: Saturday at the Movies, Sunday in the Church

Teaching as a Political Activity

Fired for Advocating Socialism: Professor Tom Alter Speaks Out

American History is Black History – We Will Not Be Erased

The Right Side of History Has Never Been the Right

Sic Transit Gloria Maestro

Stunning New Film Exposes “Earth’s Greatest Enemy”

The Agile and the Aged: Paris Comes to Berlin’s Musikfest

Presidential Caricature

Salonen and the Swans

The Movie “Adjunct” Effectively Depicts Gig Faculty Work