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If he had any knowledge, good will, understanding of diplomacy or understanding of reality, period, he would comprehend that North Korea is now so desperately poor that it’s leader would gladly back off from nuclear provocation in exchange for aid … Continue reading →

Miller’s accusations of “cosmopolitan bias” are lifted straight from Uncle Joe’s rhetorical tool box.

Ninety-two and unquenchable, Robert Barnett has just returned from staging Serenade at the Hawaii Ballet. Serenade was Barnett’s late wife Virginia Rich’s favorite ballet.  Balanchine made it in 1934, the year Virginia was born, and while dancing at New York … Continue reading →

There are many things wrong about the new East Midtown zoning, which, according to the editorial in today’s New York Times is about to be approved by the City Council. One of the worst features is that air rights transfers … Continue reading →

The more you realize that Kennicott is right–it is disaster when four of the five Kennedy Center honorees are avatars of centralized, corporatized, for big profit popular culture. Only one, Carmen de Lavallade represents classical, non-profit art forms. It’s not … Continue reading →

Have the Kennedy Center annual honors now become another index of America’s cultural decline? Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post thinks that they have. “For years now, the Kennedy Center Honors have been devolving from an event that recognizes stellar … Continue reading →

I don’t know what it is. Wingnut author Dinesh D’Souza writes a book * accusing the left of Fascistic tactics. He knows he’s peddling bullshit, of course, and tweets that he’s at the White House to “discuss how President @realDonaldTrump … Continue reading →

A friend emailed:”Have you seen what has happened on Bleecker street where all the Marc Jacobs stores were? They are gone, driven out by the very rent increases they started.”

Jean Houston: “I have never met a stupid child. I have met incredibly stupid systems of education. . . . If you put art back as a central part of the curriculum. . . then a child is simply not … Continue reading →

So  did Kay Mazzo remark two years ago, after watching Violette Very teach her Emeralds solo to School of American Ballet students. It was unforgettably beautiful, eloquent, moving—and instructive, as Verdy explained point after point in that vivid way she … Continue reading →