Forwards Lateral

Another thought-provoking and relative post from Laura Axelrod, You & the Needs of Your Audience:

Some people might mistake my call for cultural relevance as an urging for agit-prop. Nothing…

David Cote touches on a tough subject: what happens to the arts in an economic crisis:

Obviously, the most direct impact will be financial. I was speaking a friend who works for an…

…if there are minor arts and major arts, the latter being the ones that contain the former, there will be therefore a sovereign art, which will contain all of the other arts and sciences, and whose…

I am skeptical of artistic institutions and national artistic movements to call on us to create good theatre.  Institutions are dedicated to self-preservation: Theatre is temporary.  National…

A neat and, in some ways, inspiring story from WaPo about a man and his…butterfly:

I decided to get the butterfly something to eat at the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse across the street. My…

by Jonathan Clausen

Her heavy accent breaks my reverie,
my self-absorption gives way
to abashment.
She is a teacher in the old style:
herself, long ago, a fugitive
from a Holocaust which
…

by Jonathan Clausen

Zebras get a great deal of free publicity.  They are funny looking and who, off the tip of their tongue, knows of another animal that starts with the letter “Z”?  They do,…

by Jonathan Clausen

It’s as if I am aging in reverse.
Rekindled passions, dormant for many seasons,
speak to me now and ask questions:
was what once seemed right, instead
necessary protection…