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Exegette: MOMA the Destroyer?
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Friday, May 10, 2013. The former American Folk Art Museum building. New York City 1997-2001, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. Photo Giles Ashford. If MOMA goes ahead with the ill-advised destruction project, it would be committing cultural vandalism. And this horror would occur in real life- not on the silver screen. Perhaps responding to the protests, MOMA announced yesterday (May 9) that it would reconsider its plans. But as Robin Pogrebin reports in the New York Times.
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Exegette: March 2012
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Sunday, March 18, 2012. Electioneering French Style: the Red, the Rose and the Black. I periodically like to take a ramble through the French on-line press. Lately the coverage seems to be all presidential election news all the time, which, since DSK was eliminated, can be almost as boring as the American Republican Primary campaign. Sometimes, though, an interesting item or two will pop up. Today I came across a story about candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, operating in full-throated electoral mode. Thanks to ...
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Exegette: December 2009
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009. What's Doubly Wrong With Pinchuk's Prize? I can't resist including in my own blog a link to the following excellent post by Judith H. Dobrzynski in her ArtsJournal blog Real Clear Arts:. What's Wrong With This New Prize? A Lot - Real Clear Arts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Whats Doubly Wrong With Pinchuks Prize? View my complete profile.
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Exegette: James Turrell's Annus Mirabilis
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Saturday, May 11, 2013. James Turrell's Annus Mirabilis. This is James Turrell’s big year! On the festive occasion of all the above, I will reprint in a subsequent post a long article I wrote after seeing James Turrell’s 1980-81 exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York- his first and only New York museum exhibition before the forthcoming Guggenheim show (though there have been many elsewhere). My article appeared in the May 1981 issue of Art in America. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Exegette: July 2011
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Opera Starved: The Berlusconi Effect. I've just read Alex Ross's downbeat report on the "lean season" of opera performances this summer in Berlusconi's Italy ( The New Yorker. Of all the performances Ross attended, only Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Ross's comments on the Monteverdi opera reminded me of the memorable Jonathan Miller production of Poppea. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Opera Starved: The Berlusconi Effect. View my complete profile.
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Exegette: November 2008
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008. Copenhagen Pleasures: Part Two. Before leaving for Denmark, I'd taken the precaution of ordering tickets online for two tempting events- a new staging of Giselle. At the Royal Danish Ballet and a new production of Handel's Partenope. On October 25th, shortly after our arrival in Copenhagen, we attended Giselle. That he did mount. Conventional, but beautiful! The applause went on and on. No one wanted to let the dancers go home. In fact, I'd seen a glorious production of it by ...
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Exegette: The Musée Disparu: An Update
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Saturday, February 1, 2014. The Musée Disparu: An Update. In November 1995, Hector Feliciano's book, Le musée disparu. Created shockwaves in France. The Lost Museum. Published two years later by Basic Books, had a similar effect in the U.S. Feliciano's bombshell concerned a little known collection of about 2000 Nazi-looted art works returned to France after the war and retained by the French government. Labeled the Musées nationaux récupération. The Christian Science Monitor. In which I covered the Frenc...
