Sometimes artists work outside genres — and sometimes they don’t convey a clear sense that they know other people have crossed those boundaries before them. Is it the job of the artist to know and acknowledge that history, or is it just critics like me — who are required by professional standards to be exposed to the breadth of the field and are the de facto guardians of the long view — to keep that memory current?

Here’s my recent comments on the French scientist-turned-performance-artist Xavier Le Roy who is in Boston on a long-term residency at MIT.

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/arts/99567-conductor-karaoke/

And yes, Danny Kaye’s concert really did happen.

Links
http://www.insituproductions.net/enterl.html
http://cavs.mit.edu