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Displaying all articles tagged:
Justin Davidson
classical-music review
Dec. 16, 2022
Geffen Hall Has Found Its Sound
It’s finally what it ought to have been all along — and it’s so clear, it may be a little too revealing for some conductors.
By
Justin Davidson
art
Jan. 14, 2014
Davidson on How to Adapt the American Folk Art Museum
Davidson: “There is a more attractive alternative.”
By
Justin Davidson
walk-through
Nov. 17, 2013
A First Look at the Queens Museum’s World of Tomorrow
Art critic Jerry Saltz and architecture critic Justin Davidson tour the museum after its $69 million renovation.
By
Justin Davidson
and
Jerry Saltz
classical music review
Sept. 18, 2013
Davidson:
Anna Nicole
the Opera Is a Big Bust
“The American idioms appear to have sprung from a phrase book edited on another planet.”
By
Justin Davidson
classical music
Aug. 3, 2013
Justin Davidson on the MoMA’s First Sound Art Exhibition
The artists in
Soundings
all seem to live in isolation booths.
By
Justin Davidson
art
June 17, 2013
Davidson on James Turrell’s Hallucinatory Guggenheim Transformation
He’s given visitors a new reason to raise their gaze.
By
Justin Davidson
music
June 9, 2013
Justin Davidson on the Transporting Power of the Nomadic Guitarist Bombino
Recently, he has embarked on a different kind of wandering, which brings him to the Celebrate Brooklyn! festival on June 21.
By
Justin Davidson
architecture
June 9, 2013
Justin Davidson on the Twin Legacies of Le Corbusier
Why architects have never stopped paying tribute to him.
By
Justin Davidson
walk-through
May 19, 2013
Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson on the Restoration of Donald Judd’s Loft
Our art and architecture critics walked through it together.
By
Jerry Saltz
and
Justin Davidson
classical music
Mar. 12, 2013
Davidson on the Vienna Philharmonic’s Suppressed Nazi Past
“The orchestra was methodical in purging its Jewish members; thirteen were expelled, and five of them were murdered.”
By
Justin Davidson
architecture
Jan. 8, 2013
Justin Davidson on Ada Louise Huxtable, 1921–2013
“At 90, she was still writing circles around the rest of us.”
By
Justin Davidson
year in culture 2012
Dec. 2, 2012
Critics’ Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?
And four other equally pertinent questions.
year in culture 2012
Dec. 2, 2012
Justin Davidson’s Top 10 Classical Music Performances of 2012
Thomas Adès’s
The Tempest,
“John Cage at 100,” and more.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
May 22, 2012
Justin Davidson on Peter Gelb’s Operatic Tyranny
“Gelb has only his own judgment to fall back on, and nobody to tell him when it’s flawed.”
By
Justin Davidson
Jan. 18, 2012
Justin Davidson on New York City Opera’s Last-Chance Season
The company has four chances to save itself.
By
Justin Davidson
classical music
Mar. 2, 2011
Davidson: The Disappearing James Levine
The current of conviction flowing from him has flickered.
By
Justin Davidson
new york philharmonic
Oct. 1, 2010
Justin Davidson on Closing the Philharmonic’s Generation Gap
Whoever succeeds Zarin Mehta as executive director will have to work to continue breaking down the idea that the Philharmonic is forbidding and elitist.
By
Justin Davidson
in the magazine
June 23, 2010
MoMA and P.S. 1’s Deliberately Flimsy
Pole Dance
“Maybe this is flimsiness’s moment.”
By
Lane Brown