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Ballet for Your Weekend [by Stacey Harwood Lehman]
Cynthia Gregory was one of the great prima ballerinas of the last century. I'd seen her American Ballet Theater performances countless times and the "after image" of her Odette-Odile in Swan Lake is indelible.…
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Winter, “with all its tits in the right bra cup” [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Have we considered that Shakespeare’s sonnet “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” was written for a winter’s day? It depends what one calls lovely and what kind of temperament you woke up hoping…
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Reading Milosz with Robert Hass [by Mindy Aloff]
“Reading Miłosz: The Short Course” Six winter 2022 Thursdays to consider the poetry of Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004), Lithuanian-born poet, novelist, lawyer, diplomat, Berkeley professor of Slavic languages, and Nobelist. Guide: Robert Hass, poet, teacher,…
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Cognition, perception & whatever works, works in painting, poetics and dance [by Tracy Danison]
Like Dance, capital “D”, Kiefer’s show is a “whole” in constant movement: everything around it is in it and everything within it can be found outside it. That includes Grand Palais Ephémère, an enormous…
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January 26 [by Thomas Moody]
January 26 is officially Australia Day, however, many Australians refer to the date as Invasion Day, which is, let’s face it, the far more compelling title, and in point of fact, the more accurate.…
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Talking Pictures: On “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) [by David Lehman]
On The Manchurian Candidate (1962): " John Frankenheimer’s masterpiece remains supreme in the field of conspiracy-theory celluloid." <<< When The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon, was released in 1962, Pauline…
