Ancient article, I know, but still I wanted to commend you on your insight. I knew Amanda before she was famous and yeah, it helps to spend a college year aboard soaking in tropes about Weimar Ge...
So sorry this posting is so late - I am truly behind the times. It would be hard to imagine a better or more dedicated musician than Chris O'Riley at the helm of 'From the Top'. It was founded by...
Sort of like Elvis copying black music for a white audience, Helen Kane copied Baby Esther Jones and Josephine Baker in the boop-owp-ee-doop category. They were black vaudeville performers who ha...
https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2016/12/on-stage-with-the-marx-bros.html#comment-312511
Deeply saddening news. I learned so much from his blogs, reports about good books to read, insightful cultural analysis, informative perspectives on an eclectic range of interests. He set the sta...
https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2019/12/scott-timberg-has-passed-away.html#comment-311451
The re-release included a new cover design and several new tracks that were originally composed for the project. Richter also released another single, "Cypher", which is an 8 minutes classical-el...
In the end..... Koons does not 'make' his pieces.... He conceives the ideas, has someone else produce the work, and then puts his name on it when it's ready to be unveiled. To me, that is a fraud...
https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2014/09/the-big-lie-of-jeff-koons.html#comment-309627
In reply to richard kooyman. How about this for a reason.... He steals other people's i...
https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2014/09/the-big-lie-of-jeff-koons.html#comment-309439
Hi Scott, in Germany we have the method of primarily public arts funding and it´s not a model either. In fact, I would call the American way of arts funding more scientific and diverse than many...
Weak sauce. Apart from a couple of quotes from Cultural Affairs, it is a myopic rehash of the fortunes of massive organizations - the ones with fortunes on the boards.
So nice to hear about the dynamic Rachael Worby who I remember well as the builder of the Wheeling Symphony. She took a rag-tag band of high school music teachers and brought discipline and a gre...
https://www.artsjournal.com/culturecrash/2018/10/rachael-worby-and-muse-ique.html#comment-303530