The dreaded "Editor's Note:"

A Critic's Notebook article on July 20 about the Lincoln Center Festival examined the dance aspects of Robert Wilson's "I La Galigo" and Ariane Mnouchkine's "Dernier Caravansérail," and festival reviews on July 21 and 23 discussed the choreographer Shen Wei and Random Dance's "AtaXia." All three articles were by The Times's chief dance critic, John Rockwell. Mr. Rockwell joined Lincoln Center in 1994 as the founding director of the festival after working as a critic at The Times for 22 years, and he returned to the newspaper in 1998. While his activities at Lincoln Center had no relation to the works or the artists he reviewed this season, his connection should have been mentioned in a note to readers.

The founding director of the festival wrote a critique of the festival. It must be hard to find good help in the artistic criticism department these days.

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