The most conspicuous writing on Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's art-world past went up on the Huffington Post last week; Bettina Korek briefly chronicling Bigelow's "life in art," and quoting from…
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Happy birthday to the great, and still active and vital, Mr. Coleman, seen above with his son Denardo in Shirley Clarke's wonderful (and criminally ill-available) 1985 Ornette: Made In America.
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I've just returned from a screening of Shutter Island. I think I'm not yet permitted to review it, and want some time to gather my thoughts in any case. (I…
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So long, songbird.She really was impeccable; always a pleasure to hear. I think her Gershwin songbook gives Ella's a run for its money, really I do.
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Any of you out there ever read Miles Davis' autobiography, co-written with the incredibly patient and scrupulous poet Quincey Troupe? If you have, then you know that there's no greater…
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One of my favorite songwriters, and, I have to admit (the spirit of the full disclosure print journalist intrudes) one of my favorite people, ever, at his most off-handedly…
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