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Interview with Mindy Aloff, Editor of Dance in America: A Reader’s Anthology
Library of America’s latest anthology, Dance in America, brings together dancers and choreographers, impresarios and critics, and enthusiastic literary observers to present a kaleidoscopic portrait of a great art form. Edited by the veteran dance…
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Sonnets and Seeds [by Hollis Robbins}
Metaphors of seeds appear in three sonnets by African American poets during the two decades of literary optimism of the 1920s and 1930s often referred to as the Harlem Renaissance. These are not seeds…
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Cold Blood runs on the boulevard de Strasbourg [by Tracy Danison]
Cold Blood: Photo©JulienLambert03122015-JL-5187.jpg It turns out that “You don’t need language to understand it” about a performance piece is just as true as that other cliché I once doubted, “He done drank himself to…
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What do Mahler, Matisse, Artie Shaw, Doris Day, and Cannonball Adderley Have in Common?
Coming from Pittsburgh on April 2: Lehman’s latest “writing spree” pays tribute to acclaimed poet Ammons PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Written on the daily installment plan between November 21, 2017, and January 15, 2018, David Lehman’s new…
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When You Discover A Bruegel Is Not A Bruegel [by Lloyd Schwartz]
(Ed note: Lloyd Schwartz made an interesting discovery. Read about here and over at ARTery. sdl)The Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569) is one of the most admired painters in the history of…
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Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson: Encounters of the Intriguing Type [by Tracy Danison]
Photo©Martin Argyroglo From “Forme Simple”, around the Goldberg variations by performer, choreographer and professor Loïc Touzé at the Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson I’ve always liked the expression haut comme trois pommes. It means “rather (darlingly)…
