The Sound of Jeanne Lee’s Voice
Jeanne Lee (1939-2000) was a poet and vocalist of wide-ranging musical talents who pushed the forma…
Can Sports Be an Aesthetic Experience?
Contingency and unpredictability can elevate a football game into a kind of theater.
Vanguard Voices
“If creative music is under celebrated and under documented compared to other eras in jazz, t…
Winnowing The Wynn
A critic surveys the Wynn Las Vegas art holdings and asks, “What can compete with a hanging p…
When the Shows Stopped
In 2020 actor Kait Russell got her big break – her first audition for a Broadway musical. But…
Have Skateboard. Dive Deep.
Poet Anders Carlson-Wee on the skateboarding aesthetic, the benefits of dumpster diving, and the da…
How to Tell a Dance on Film
Elliot Caplan and Mirra Bank watch dance with eyes and minds open to creative possibilities. They e…
Drop Out. Tune In. Start a Revolution.
Mario Torero on leaving art school, his place in the Chicano art movement, and fifty years of bring…
Begin at the End
Ken Thomson exemplifies a new generation of composers tasked with picking up the pieces of music hi…
How a 19th-Century Idea Could Rescue 21st-Century Art
October 20, 2020• Commentary, Reported, Visual Art