"Terrible Americans" Defended

The Chinese pop music scene is like no other ...

The best part of him will never leave the building ...

Like all chart categories, "country" is an arbitrary heading under which one finds the ridiculous, the sublime, and everything in between. On the sublime end, a track that I have been listening to over and over for the last six months: Wynnona Judd's version of "She Is His Only Need." The way she sings it, irony is not a color or even a set of contrasting colors; it is iridescence.

Does Miles Davis belong in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame? Here's my take on his career ...

Attention, high school jazz listeners ...

Painter of light (and darkness) ...

Here's my best shot at taking Scorcese down a few pegs ...

"Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" appeared at the National Gallery of Art in Washington this fall ...

Paul Klee was not childish, despite frequent comparisons between his art and that of children...

Rent my "Dadioguide" tour of the Dada show (before it moves to MoMA) ...