David Hanlon
@herxanthikles.bsky.social
Music written, conducted, played, mostly opera.
WTF New Yorker?!?!!
December 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
WTF New Yorker?!?!!
As an audience member and certainly critic, ideally you are open-minded and fair. As an artist, your opinions are of primary value in shaping your own art. Those opinions could be WILDLY unfair, but if it helps you figure out what you want to create, that's OK!
Yeah honestly I am agnostic on this and most other things QT, but there is a stan-culture-adjacent, all-or-nothing quality to the insistence that a perfect artist must have perfect opinions and someone with bad opinions must be judged a bad artist. Just live with the sloppiness and dissonance!
I am actually pro-Tarantino talking shit. Not only has he always been obnoxious, his bad opinions serve as an important reminder we should not ask or demand that our beloved artists share our sensibilities. I also think Paul Dano will be FINE, and what QT espouses here is relatively benign.
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As an audience member and certainly critic, ideally you are open-minded and fair. As an artist, your opinions are of primary value in shaping your own art. Those opinions could be WILDLY unfair, but if it helps you figure out what you want to create, that's OK!
Reposted by David Hanlon
Between The Post's new theater critic not being local and now this, it has been dispiriting to see how the paper of record guts its local arts coverage. When our arts community suffers, so do we.
Washington Post Kills Column on Local Artists and Gallery Exhibits
Mark Jenkins’ final column ran Aug. 25; the local art coverage cut follows the recent hiring of a New Yorker to handle theater reviews.
washingtoncitypaper.com
August 27, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Between The Post's new theater critic not being local and now this, it has been dispiriting to see how the paper of record guts its local arts coverage. When our arts community suffers, so do we.