What's In A Brow?

Little thoughts on high, middle, and low art.

I started working on a profile of Mikhail Baryshnikov for the New York Times Magazine two weeks before my wife got pregnant. My baby turned seven months last week, so you do the math and figure out how long it took for the thing to see the light of day (online today, in print this weekend) for an idea of how long these things can sometimes take. Some wr…