Archive for April, 2008
Bad Art vs. “Bad Art”
from The Berkshire Review for the Arts: Many art dealers and some curators find any number of artworks randomly passing under their noses in endless variety on an almost daily basis. One can go from a putative Michelangelo to a catalogue of the work of some obscure short-lived Soviet abstractionist to, for example, a certain [...]
Some Christmas Thoughts, 2007: the Death Penalty and other matters
If you go to church this Christmas, you will very likely hear, either as a passing remark, or even as the topic of the sermon, some lament about how secularized, commercialized, bland, and ultimately faceless the season has become. News announcers hover over the pulse of the retail sector like a doctor in an old [...]
O Joy O Rapture Unforseen! The Australian Election: Howard and the Liberals Out, Rudd and Labour In
Alan Miller, December 4, 2007 Did it really happen? Is he really gone? The anxiety, the fear campaign, the year of a hundred opinion polls; they’re all over. John Winston Howard, Liberal, former member for Bennelong, George W. Bush’s “man of steel,” the most willing of the coalition, Australia’s second longest serving and most conservative [...]
Disgusting…of Christoph Büchel and Mass MoCA, Bright Eyes and Tanglewood, Nalini Ghuman and U.S. Immigration, and George W. Bush
by Michael Miller, September 24, 2007 In recent months local arts organizations have had their share of controversy. One has attracted interest in the outside world, and the other, fortunately, not. A third should be attracting more. Mass MoCA, after the collapse of its project with the important Swiss installation artist Christoph Büchel, made itself [...]
More from Edinburgh and London…and more Elgar at Bard
This week more reviews from Edinburgh and London will appear, as well as from Annandale-on-Hudson, including a symposium on Anglophilia, no less. There was a fine evening of Mendelssohn with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Frans Brüggen with the distinguished young violinist Viviane Hagner, Wagner’s Siegfried, from the Royal Opera’s new Ring Cycle, which is receiving its first full performances this year, and—most British of all—the final weekend of the Elgar Festival at Bard. Reviews of several important exhibitions will follow in coming weeks: Richard Long and the Queen’s Flemish pictures in Edinburgh, and in London, the wonderful Millais exhibition at Tate Britain, al well as the major exhibition of the Queen’s Italian art, a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to see great paintings, drawings, and decorative arts rarely shown in public, including the recently “discovered” Caravaggio, which has been so much in the news.
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