Portait of the sculptor Alessandro Vittoria, Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1551-1552, oil on canvas, 87.5 cm × 70 cm (34.4 in × 28 in), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. #portraiture #arthistory #moroni

Grateful for the glimpses I had of his world, however fleeting. He was a great light in darkness.

(13/14)
...a meditation on grief and grace. That short review is available online here < bit.ly/4514Tkb >.

(1/14)
So many tributes these past few days in honor of Robert Wilson (1941–2025) — widely hailed as the most significant American theater director of his generation. Here’s a memorial thread. #RobertWilson #avantgarde #contrmporary #opera #performance #theaterhistory #theater #InMemoriam

See also, this beauty:

Needed a momentary break from the headlines, the gloom, and the doom, so took a daytrip into the city to catch Cy Twombly at the Gagosian, and Isabelle Huppert and Robert Wilson at NYU’s Skirball Center. 💛 #cytwombly #isabellehuppert #robertwilson #contemporaryart #nyc #nyu

Really wishing I lived in London right now, not least of all so I could go catch Jonathan Bailey play Richard II at the Bridge Theater. I meannnnnn....

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/t...

#williamshakespeare #theater #londontheater #jonathanbailey

Spending the afternoon in editor mode, working to prepare a new collection of the nonfiction writings of Thornton Wilder. Here he is with Gertrude Stein, visiting her summer home in Bilignin, France, ca. 1937/1938. #thorntonwilder #gertrudestein #moderndrama #modernism

Opening this week in Saratoga Springs, NY, a *major* exhibition of queer lives, queer visual art, queer performances, and queer archival practices.

"a field of bloom and hum"
Tang Museum
Feb 14-Jul 20
#queer #queerlives #queerart #queerarchives 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Info below: ⬇️ ⬇️

tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/...

Here’s the political theorist and historian of reactionary conservatism, Corey Robin, writing on Facebook about recent a recent shift in how left-liberal pundits are responding to our country’s unfolding hostile takeover.

@joriegraham.bsky.social

The political theorist Corey Robin had an excellent and widely shared rejoinder to this latest from Klein (and others) Well worth a read for his assessment of the media is repositioning itself in light of our new situation. You may have already seen it; if not I can try to send a link…

John Singer Sargeant, “Piazza Navona, Rome,” 1906, watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper (21 x 17 in.)

RIP Richard Foreman (1937–2025), American #avant-garde playwright and #theater director extraordinaire.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/t...

📸: Joseph Moran/Brooklyn Rail.

#newyorktheater #downtown #contemporary #performance #postdramatic #richardforeman #RIP

For the last issue of *PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art*, editor Bonnie Marranca invited me to contribute something on the subject of criticism. The issue's now available online and my essay’s available for open access. (Link in comments below.)