- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Beat Reporter
Journal: Attitude Adjustment
January 12, 2008 – 9:55 am
There are lessons here.
I used to joke with a friend who wrote about religion that she dealt with crazy people. She saw it differently. As an arts journalist dealing with artists and their temperamental ways, I was the one dealing with the crazies. She had it lucky.
There’s some truth to it. Artists are indeed passionate […]
Journal: Trad, not fad
January 11, 2008 – 12:15 pm
From a March article I wrote about how young people are increasingly turning to old music and old-time instrumental styles. On reflection, it’s interesting (and logical) how this trend is unfolding in light of the music industry’s scramble to renew itself and in light of the growing conversation about how mass media and mass culture […]
Are economic impact studies good for the arts?
December 31, 2007 – 11:38 am
Here’s a version of a June report I wrote about the specious nature of “economic impact” studies for a daily newspaper in Georgia. I hope you find it edifying. I wrote it when I was beat reporter covering arts and culture — everything from puff pieces to annual fiscal reports to the intersection between arts […]
Journal: My interview with a ‘real’ vampire
December 28, 2007 – 2:47 pm
The following piece is from my years on “The Freak Beat,” a period of time when it seemed I wrote a lot of stories about the strange, bizarre and unexpected. But then again, I did live in Savannah at the time, a city full of ghosts, zombies and, of course, vampires. No, not role-players. Real […]
Journal: Arts and Healing
December 15, 2007 – 10:46 pm
From a May report I wrote called “An artful way to heal,” exploring a Savannah hospital’s use of art to promote healing. . . . —J.S.
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Elegant, mystical, exuding grace and light.
That’s how you might describe “Rainfall,” a life-size sculpture by Midori Harima of a gray-and-white copy-paper pony suspended by dozens of thin black […]
Journal: Daniel Johnston’s inner demon
December 10, 2007 – 11:58 pm
From an article I wrote last summer for the Savannah Morning News about rock idol Daniel Johnston . . . —J.S.
I’ve been given the brushoff over the phone before, but never by a mad genius.
That, perhaps, is getting ahead of my story.
When I first learned Daniel Johnston was going to perform in Savannah, I had […]
Journal: When orchestras come cheap
December 9, 2007 – 3:19 pm
I wrote this story a couple of years ago. It’s about orchestras being cheaper to import than to sustain in-house. That is, it was cheaper for residents of Savannah to hire a touring orchestra than to support its own orchestra, which went out of business in 2003. Given the situation in Jacksonville, where administrators and […]
