Dance critic Clive Barnes has died

We've all read his work. To those of us who love dance, Clive Barnes was the writer who's opinion mattered most. His all-embracing enthusiasm for dance, especially American modern dance, drew us like a magnet to his byline. His decades-long career at the New York Times and the New York Post spanned a golden age of dance in America. He caught its illusive newness and greatness, and distilled it for us.

Mr. Barnes died Wednesday, Nov. 19, in Manhattan at the age of 81.