January 2009
On the first day of holiday . . .
On dismaying disappearances from Junior’s dictionary
On dismaying disappearances from Junior’s dictionary
On the folly of speculating on contemporary art.
An introduction to our symposium “The Dictatorship of Relativism: Who Will Stand Up for Western Values Now?”
On the moral consequences of relativism (from “The Dictatorship of Relativism.”)
On the dangers of relativism to the nation-state (from “The Dictatorship of Relativism.”)
On the relativist threat to science (from “The Dictatorship of Relativism.”)
On the Pontiff’s fight against relativism (from The Dictatorship of Relativism.)
On the misguided notion of “virtuous” jihad (from “The Dictatorship of Relativism.”)
On Jerome Robbins.
On Farragut North at the Atlantic Theater Company, Prayer for My Enemy at Playwrights Horizon, and Mouth to Mouth at the New Group.
On “Daniel Maclise: Romancing the Past” at the Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland, October 23, 2008 through February 14, 2009.
On “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” at The New Museum, New York.
On “Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six Decades” at Knoedler & Co.
On the Kirov Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, Richard Egarr and Levine & Barenboim at Weill Recital Hall, Weilerstein & Maazel and Elektra at the New York Philharmonic, the Damnation of Faust and Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera, The Dream of Jacob’s Ladder at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie Hall, and Chanticleer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On the media’s game of good and evil.
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