Category: Points of View
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Contemporary Dance Is Not Stripping
Or, Alastair Macaulay should try thinking above the belt from time to time.
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A Few Thoughts on Art As a Lived Experience
What a poor self-initiated restoration job undertaken by an old Spanish woman can tell us about art as a vital part of our daily lives
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Serious Arts Criticism, or, The Curse of Black, Licorice-Flavored Jelly Beans
Parsing Richard Dare’s well-reasoned rant on HuffPo to get to the nitty-gritty of what he really means: That art is like black jelly beans no one wants to eat like vegetables except that vegetables are good for you and art’s not but should be like broccoli instead
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The Bessies Respond to Criticism
Lucy Sexton responds to Gia Kourlas–and the field’s–critique of this year’s Bessie categories, but fails to grapple with the root cause
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Some Thoughts on Attention, Language and Demand
Andy shares some thoughts on the nature of attention and how to talk about it.
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Empire Strikes NYC! or, My Adventures in SpiegelWorld
The ImpRossArio brings Spiegeltent back to NYC, this time to Times Square and it is better than ever! Andy recounts his long and lascivious history with this peripatetic circus of debauchery and glamor.
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Let’s Catch Up with Andy!
Andy catches us up on what he’s been doing since May 10 and what is coming up in the next few weeks.
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Fusebox Festival Wrap-Up
We’re back from a super-fantastic weekend at The Fusebox Festival. Here’s a look back.
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An Essay on Ibrahim El-Husseini’s “Comedy of Sorrows”
Guest contributor Hani Omar Khalil explores Ibrahim El-Husseini’s “Comedy of Sorrows” (“Commedia Al-Ahzaan”), a theatrical response to the Egyptian Revolution