Edward Rothstein
Edward Benjamin Rothstein (born October 16, 1952) is an American cultural critic. Rothstein wrote music criticism early in his career, but is best known for his critical analysis of museums and museum exhibitions.
Education
[edit]Rothstein holds a B.A. from Yale University (1973), an M.A. in English literature from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1994). In addition, Rothstein did graduate work in mathematics at Brandeis University.
Career
[edit]Rothstein worked at The New York Times for 20 years, from 1994 to 2014, but took a buyout (a cash payout offered to employees, with compensation based on a sliding scale of the number of years they spent working for the employer[1]) from the newspaper and joined The Wall Street Journal as a Critic at Large in 2015. He wrote in 2020 that "At The New York Times, freedom of speech gave way to group pressure, and debate turned into intimidation".[2]
Rothstein was the chief music critic for the Times, and then the paper's cultural critic-at-large,[3] particularly examining the reach and depth of museums, large and small. He was previously a music critic for The New Republic, and worked briefly as an editor at Macmillan's Free Press imprint in the mid-1980s.
Awards and honors
[edit]Rothstein is a two-time winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music criticism, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991.
Education
[edit]Rothstein holds a B.A. from Yale University (1973), an M.A. in English literature from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1994). In addition, Rothstein did graduate work in mathematics at Brandeis University.
Career
[edit]Rothstein worked at The New York Times for many years, but took a buyout (a cash payout offered to employees, with compensation based on a sliding scale of the number of years they spent working for the employer[4]) from the newspaper and joined The Wall Street Journal. He wrote in 2020 that "At The New York Times, freedom of speech gave way to group pressure, and debate turned into intimidation".[5]
Rothstein was the cultural critic-at-large for Times,[6] particularly examining the reach and depth of museums, large and small. He was as a music critic for The New Republic and the chief music critic for the Times. He worked briefly as an editor at Macmillan's Free Press imprint in the mid-1980s.
Awards and honors
[edit]Rothstein is a two-time winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music criticism and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991.
Writings
[edit]- "Mozart: In Search of the Roots of Genius", Smithsonian, February, 2006.
- "Contemplating Churchill", Smithsonian, March, 2005.
- Visions of Utopia (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities), with Herbert Muschamp and Martin E. Marty (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-19-517161-6.
- 1998 Diary in Slate
- Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics (Times Books, 1995;University of Chicago Press, 2006).
- Foreword to Arthur Loesser's Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History (1991).
- Archive of Rothstein's articles in The Wall Street Journal
- Archive of Rothstein's articles in The New York Times
- Archive of Rothstein's tech columns in The New York Times
- Archive of Rothstein's essays 1979-90 in The New York Review of Books
References
[edit]- ^ Goldfrey, Brigid (7 August 2017). "Buyouts are Changing The New York Times". MediaFile. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ^ Rothstein, Edward (9 September 2020). "Exorcism in Lieu of Enlightenment". Die Zeit. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ^ Yoe, Mary Ruth, "Everybody's a critic". University of Chicago Magazine, February 2004 (96:3). Listing for Visions of Utopia at the end of the UCM article appears to be incorrect; the corrected listing in this Wiki article is based on Amazon listing, picture of book cover at Amazon, and internal Wiki links.
- ^ Goldfrey, Brigid (7 August 2017). "Buyouts are Changing The New York Times". MediaFile. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ^ Rothstein, Edward (9 September 2020). "Exorcism in Lieu of Enlightenment". Die Zeit. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ^ Yoe, Mary Ruth, "Everybody's a critic". University of Chicago Magazine, February 2004 (96:3). Listing for Visions of Utopia at the end of the UCM article appears to be incorrect; the corrected listing in this Wiki article is based on Amazon listing, picture of book cover at Amazon, and internal Wiki links.
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