- 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: Journal
Journal: Bush, Iraq, and postmodernism
December 6, 2007 – 10:20 am
From a speech by McClatchy Washington bureau chief John Walcott to the World Affairs Council of Hilton Head Island. He gave this speech on Feb. 16, 2007. I found it on Bill Moyers’ website while searching for references to a book called Fear of Knowledge by New York University professor of philosophy Paul Boghossian.
Walcott [...]
Journal: TV’s nightmare
December 5, 2007 – 8:21 am
From my Freeze Frame column in today’s City Paper . . .
I had a dream last week, a nightmare really, about being chased and then eaten alive. Sounds like a scene from Night of the Living Dead? Yep. But that’s not the weird part.
That night I did indeed watch for the first time the 1968 [...]
Journal: The Eyes of War
December 5, 2007 – 8:16 am
From my review in today’s City Paper . . .
When I learned of an exhibit at the Center for Photography at Alterman Studios featuring the war portfolios of three Air Force photographers, I was skeptical.
First, because pictures of military action in Iraq and Afghanistan are censored by the U.S. Department of Defense. Second, because combat [...]
Journal: Journalists v. Intellectuals
December 5, 2007 – 8:06 am
From Richard Florida’s blog . . .
Is this the difference between academic and journalistic styles and norms? In my experience, academics are much tougher critics of ideas than journalists, but they tend to be more civil. That is, they want to take down an idea, not a person. So, they tend to restrict their criticisms [...]
Journal: Decline of the (Daily) Newspaper Critic
December 4, 2007 – 6:11 pm
From the Hartford Courant . . .
The era of the newspaper film critic, the era of newspaper criticism, seems to be coming to a rapid and unceremonious end.
As recently as a decade ago, no self-respecting mid-sized daily newspaper would have dreamed of publishing without a film critic.
These days only major cities have them and [...]
Journal: ArtForum’s best books of ‘07
December 4, 2007 – 1:32 pm
From Art Forum . . .
ARTHUR C. DANTO, contributing editor of Artforum:
Carolyn Brown joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at its inception in 1953 at Black Mountain College, and she remained with the company for twenty years, becoming one of its star dancers. Her book Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham (Knopf) [...]
Journal: News on the “illegal” lockout in Jax
December 4, 2007 – 12:33 pm
From today’s Florida Times-Union . . .
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra musicians have filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board accusing symphony management of unfair labor practices by locking them out.
Symphony management declared a lockout last month when negotiations for a new five-year contract reached an impasse.
The Jacksonville Symphony Players Association claims the action [...]
Journal: Schlesinger’s view of multiculturalism
December 3, 2007 – 2:45 pm
Quoted in today’s New York Sun from an editorial regarding the donation of 300 linear feet of papers to the New York Public Library written by the late historian and adviser to JFK, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.:
Another of the benefits of the acquisition is that it may provide scholars insights into Schlesinger’s views on multiculturalism, [...]
Journal: Facts don’t show good faith in Jax
December 3, 2007 – 8:25 am
From Adaptistration, a blog about orchestral management . . .
How can the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s board claim to negotiate in good faith when they were prepared to cancel concerts and lockout the musicians after barely three months of active bargaining, especially when most other professional orchestras take at least that much time or longer during [...]
Journal: Musicians not worth much in Bubbaville, evidently
December 2, 2007 – 4:25 pm
From a letter to the editor published in the Florida Times-Union Friday . . .
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Musicians are stereotyped
I work for the Riverside Fine Arts Association as the outreach coordinator.
I am fortunate to be able to work with area musicians and utilize them in school programs. [...]
