Notes & Comments November 2021
Education apocalypse now
On the firing of the Art Institute of Chicago’s unpaid docents.
On the firing of the Art Institute of Chicago’s unpaid docents.
On “Geoffrey Todd Smith: Sordid Orchestra” at Western Exhibitions, Chicago & “Maia Cruz Palileo: The Answer is the Waves of The Sea” at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.
On the lost promises of New York and Chicago.
On an exhibition of Édouard Manet’s later works at the Art Institute of Chicago.
On Aida at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
On the Saint Louis Opera world premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
On the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s premiere production of Handel’s Ariodante.
George Loomis on William Schuman’s Ninth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
On Richard Strauss’s Elektra at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
On the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s premiere production of Massenet’s Cendrillon.