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Franz Wright, 62

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Michel du Cille, 58

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Claudia Emerson, 57

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Mark Strand, 80

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Galway Kinnell, 87

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Justin Kaplan, 88

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Maxine Kumin, 88

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Oscar Hijuelos, 62

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Ada Louise Huxtable, 91

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Alan M. Kreigsman, 84 (obit from The Washington Post)

Carbonneau said Mr. Kriegsman was not didactic in his writing, nor did he enter a performance with preconceived ideas about how an artist should interpret a work. “Mike was always willing to turn himself over imaginatively to whatever a work was and to see what this particular work had to say to us,” she said.

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Donal Henahan, music critic, 91

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Dance critic Tobi Tobias receives honor

While I was away on vacation this month, dance critic Tobi Tobias--my dear colleague and former review editor from my early days at Dance Magazine, who now blogs on dance for ArtsJournal.com--sent word that she had been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism!

My congratulations to the Pulitzer winner, Wesley Morris, film critic at The Boston Globe, but I'm going to continue to borrow a little of Tobi's glow to bask in for the arts of dance and dance writing! Note the historic nature of this honor: "...the first time a dance critic has been given the Pulitzer distinction for work created for the Internet...."

We're on the move!

Here's Tobi's note:

Dear Readers,

I want to share with you the honor and pleasure I feel in having been named a finalist in this year's Pulitzer Prize for criticism.  The citation reads: “For work appearing on ArtsJournal.com that reveals passion as well as deep historical knowledge of dance, her well-expressed arguments coming from the heart as well as the head.”

This year's winner is Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe for film criticism; the other finalist is Philip Kennicott of The Washington Post for cultural criticism. 

I'm especially pleased about the fact that this is the first time a dance critic has been given the Pulitzer distinction for work created for the Internet--in my case, reviews written for my column, "Seeing Things," which appears in ArtsJournal.

Readers are an essential part of a writer's life.  I thank you--friends, colleagues, and hundreds of people I've never met--for your contribution to my work.

tt

Hearty congratulations, Tobi!

Lanford Wilson, 73

Lanford Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, Dies at 73
by Margalit Fox, The New York Times, March 24, 2011

Congratulations, Cotter!

Holland Cotter is one of my favorite arts writers. Hats off to him for this well-deserved honor!

2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism
by The New York Times, April 20, 2009

Holland Cotter, Times Art Critic, Wins Pulitzer Prize
by Dave Itzkoff, ArtsBeat, The New York Times, April 21, 2009