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Dancer Lauren Lovette Comes Home as a Choreographer
The Thousand Oaks-bred ballerina talks about growing into a choreographer and what inspires her By Tom Teicholz May 21, 2021 American Ballet Theatre in Lauren Lovette’s La Follia Variations (Photo by Todd Rosenberg) On April 25, a landmark event occurred at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts: American Ballet Theater (ABT) dancers performed for the […]
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Dylan Casts A Surprising Shadow
August 10, 2021 By Tom Teicholz This article appeared on Forbes.com: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2021/08/10/dylan-casts-a-surprising-shadow/?sh=29cc937768eb Trailer for Shadow Kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwI_OtESIE&ab_channel=BobDylan You’ve got to hand it to Bob Dylan. He continues to surprise. And delight. And confound. And to earn our respect simply, as he once wrote of Woody Guthrie, “Cause there’s not many men that done the things that you’ve […]
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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