CultureCrash

I’m so sorry to report that our good friend Scott has passed away this week. Scott’s family and friends have set up a GoFundMe page. Please consider contributing. More later.

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2019/12/scott-timberg-has-passed-away.html

ONE of the best things about spring in Southern California is the Ojai Music Festival, which runs this Thursday to Sunday. I’m looking forward to this year’s festival, which was programmed by...

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2019/06/ojai-music-festival-and-jack-quartet.html

This is the second in a series of posts by guest blogger Milton Moore, a longtime music critic who has covered a wide array of genres. * * * When Scott invited me to write about the new music I w...

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2019/06/whats-in-a-name.html

A quarter century ago, a New England journalist named Milton Moore turned me – a lover of rock and jazz without much interest in music before Elvis Presley and Charlie Parker – on to Schubert...

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2019/05/time-pauses-for-valentin-silvestrov.html

A FEW weeks ago I got a historical novel, written for adults, called Little, based on the life of Madame Tussaud. I soon learned that my 12-year-old son had beaten me to this author’s work: He...

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2018/12/the-perverse-imagination-of-edward-carey.html

RECENTLY I got to spend a little time with the Los Angeles-born, Bay Area-dwelling photographer Judy Dater, whose work goes back to the 1960s. Dater’s been experiencing a bit of a career reviv...

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2018/11/the-art-of-judy-dater.html

A FEW months ago I went to see a restored 70 mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and film I had not seen (I realized) in decades. A number of things struck me, among them how beautifully and in s...

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2018/11/the-music-of-stanley-kubrick.html

NOT long ago I wrote a story about the arts in LA since the Great Recession. I spoke to so many people, some at length, that most of my reporting ended up lost in my notebook. One of the more in...

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2018/11/arts-funding-the-us-vs-the-world.html

SOME of you may know me as the author of a reasonably gloomy book on the arts, the recession, digital technology, and our fraught cultural future. When I was approached recently by the Los Angel...

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2018/11/the-arts-in-los-angeles-10-years-after.html

RAISED at a time when Europe was still the center of the art world, and coming of age as New York was beginning to replace it, the sculptor Alexander Calder can seem about as “East Coast” as...

https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2018/10/alexander-calder-in-los-angeles.html