Archives for December 13, 2006

Doug: By actual count there are 4,217 really good ideas in your five paragraphs. Well, maybe one or two less, but they’re all piquant and deserve response. Here’s a start: Just as artists resent others laying their taste/biases/criteria on them, so might critics object when artists (or their enabling presenters, and I was one of […]

For the next week, critic John Rockwell will be joining me in a conversation on ArtsJournal. John started working at the New York Times as a critic in 1972, and is currently the paper’s chief dance critic. He was also the paper’s first pop music critic, wrote extensively about classical music, invented a “job” prowling […]

We’ve had lots of comments on the new design for ArtsJournal – many of them positive – and then a full-throated chorus of those who find the new look wanting (ouch). I’ve changed a number of things based on these comments. The biggest change is restoring the topic groupings to the newsletters. Many complained that […]