“In an instant all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.”When the actor Wendell Pierce spoke these words in performances of “Waiting for Godot” here last month, he really was in the middle of nothingness, or what looked a lot like it.
The performances, by the Classical Theater of Harlem, [...]
06/12/2007
New Orleans evokes vast void in ‘Godot’
06/12/2007
The Cult of the Difficult
By Terry Teachout
The history of Western art in the 20th century is a tempestuous chronicle of rebellion, transformation, re-evaluation, and renewal. For those of us who lived through its latter half, it hardly seems possible that the story is now over—that modernism, to put it another way, is a thing of the past. Though a [...]
