The Incensed Professor In the Air 1: Delta Dilemmas
I decided to take a musical tour of Vienna, Prague, and Leipzig (for the Bach Festival), followed by a couple of weeks at my club in London. As I wanted to blog the [Read More]
The Incensed Professor
Incensed Professor: Delta Dilemmas
I decided to take a musical tour of Vienna, Prague, and Leipzig (for the Bach Festival), followed by a couple of weeks at my club in London. As I wanted to blog the trip, I [Read More]
Incensed professor discusses liberal arts
My disenchantment with American education, including the Universities over which I once swooned, is that, like the Church at Ephesus, Universities (at least in this country) [Read More]
Incensed Professor: The Soft Sciences
Professor C. S. Lewis indicated we no longer burn witches because we no longer believe they can harm us. The corollary must be that we believe wholeheartedly in science [Read More]
Hard to beat Japanese metal work
In considering the magnificent oeuvre of Peter Carl Fabergé, I may have given the impression that his creations are my favorite goldsmith’s work. In Western Art, that [Read More]
Sounding off on art collecting
If you can find something, like antique Japanese scroll paintings, for instance, that can still be acquired fairly cheaply (well, at least until recently – Westerners are [Read More]
Incensed Professor: Chinese art market
The operative word in “Art Market” isn’t “Art.” I learned this many years ago, and indeed some of the more modern stuff that sells for a fortune does not seem at [Read More]
Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?
The important thing to recognize about Shakespeare scholarship is that it is an industry. Scholars know that they gain fame and academic clout by “discovering” things [Read More]
Lists by Sei Shōnagon; and Errors of youth
Heian Japan is a fascinating period in world history, not because of its politics (the Fujiwara family had more power than the Emperor), but because it was an age in which [Read More]
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