The decline of BAM

Laurie Anderson in the NYT: “I used to go to BAM in the ’80s and ’90s once every couple of weeks and I’ve only been a couple times a year in the last few years. Sometimes the programming wasn’t something I was so into — not as experimental. I like stuff that’s way out on a limb.” It might be added that BAM's current production of A Streetcar Named Desire is not, contrary to what the article claims, "the sort of buzzy production that was once a staple of the Brooklyn Academy of Music." The institution reached its peak offering Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Mark Morris, and other artists of high imagination — not shows trading on Hollywood celebrity.