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Artist Amy Sherald Delivers ‘The Great American Fact’
April 16, 2021 By Tom Teicholz Amy Sherald’s new work, on exhibit at Hauser Wirth Los Angeles until June 6, 2021 (her first West Coast solo show) is a pleasure, a wonder, a breath of fresh air, a corrective, a display of mastery, brilliance, and soulfulness. It is about America, about the dignity of regular […]
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Inside The Newly Renovated Museum Of Modern Art
In the waning hours before coronavirus shut down New York, I visited a more-empty-than-usual Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The Museum re-opened last October after several months of closure for expansion, renovation, and re-installation of the collection. Let me cut to the chase here: I love what the Museum has done MoMA has found a […]
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My Cousin Mike: Michael Sherwood 1923-2018
My Cousin Mike: Michael Sherwood 1923-2018 April 8, 2018 By Tom Teicholz My father’s cousin Michael Sherwood, 95, — died this week. He was probably the last person who knew my father in Poland and knew of their life then. Here is the eulogy I wrote to be read at his funeral (which I was […]
The British Museum: The Problematic Yet Enduring Appeal of Antiquities
In London last month, my first stop was to visit the British Museum. Going there seemed an urgent priority. My thinking was that in such turbulent contemporary times, it is reassuring to see the classics of antiquity, those fundaments of Western Civilization that remain. At the same time, given our shifting ethical rationales concerning antiquities, […]
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Using the Blues to Bridge Across the Great Americana Divide
One of the things I most enjoy about benefit concerts (beyond the whole save-the-world ethos), and music award shows (beyond the awards themselves) is seeing a wide spectrum of artists, each doing 3-5 songs. It’s sort the musical equivalent of a smorgasbord – enough to hear a favorite artist or song and discover someone worth […]
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Luciana Souza's New Recording, "The Book of Longing" Translates Poetry into Jazz
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/11/23/luciana-souzas-new-recording-the-book-of-longing-translates-poetry-into-jazz/#30ef91717901 On her new recording, “The Book of Longing,” Luciana Souza marries poetry and Jazz in an idiom all her own with spare accompaniment and her uniquely atmospheric vocals to haunting effect. Souza will be performing her lyrical new songs along with some of her more Brazilian-inflected tunes at UCLA’s Royce Hall on December 1 […]
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