- 5/20/13 /
- Comment
Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson on the Restoration of Donald Judd’s Loft
Our art and architecture critics walked through it together.
Justin Davidson
- 3/12/13 /
- Comment
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."
- 1/8/13 /
- Comment
Justin Davidson on Ada Louise Huxtable, 1921–2013
"At 90, she was still writing circles around the rest of us."
- 12/3/12 /
- Comment
Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?
And four other equally pertinent questions.
- 12/3/12 /
- Comment
Justin Davidson's Top 10 Classical Music Performances of 2012
Thomas Adès’s The Tempest, “John Cage at 100,” and more.
- 5/22/12 /
- Comment
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."
- 1/19/12 /
- Comment
Justin Davidson on New York City Opera’s Last-Chance Season
The company has four chances to save itself.
- 3/2/11 /
- Comment
Justin Davidson on the Disappearing Conductor James Levine
The current of conviction flowing from him has flickered.
- 10/1/10 /
- Comment
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.
- 6/23/10 /
- Comment
Davidson on MoMA and P.S. 1’s Deliberately Flimsy Pole Dance
"Maybe this is flimsiness’s moment."