An Interview with Terry Teachout
- 12.13.2007 - 4:07 PMIn our December interview with Terry Teachout, the veteran contributor to COMMENTARY and horizon regular discusses the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea and Peter Gay’s new book Modernism: The Lure of Heresy. He also takes readers on an absorbing outing to New York City’s historic Knoedler & Company, one of Manhattan’s premiere art galleries, to explore a show of paintings by the late Jules Olitski, one of the founders of the Color Field movement in American abstraction (and a longtime subscriber to COMMENTARY).
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December 14th, 2007 at 10:12 AM
Terry Teachout is worth the price of admission to any Commentary piece. His rhetoric is clear and concise, he writes and speaks as someone who is interested in his subjects, and has respect for the difficulties–or, as he said in today’s piece–lack thereof-of those who make art. And unlike so many critics, he’s not a wiseguy. I love him, and I’m not even interested in some of the art forms he writes about