Expanding Beyond the Perimeter
I awake to a cloudy autumn morning 15 stories above the heart of Toronto's Arts District. I am a bit tired from an all-night event called La Nuit Blanche. Fashioned after the original exhibition in...
View ArticleFilm Meets 500 Years of British Art
Three great British directors Christopher Nolan, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach explore the relationship between filmmaking and painting for Tate's new video series. Find out which artist inspired The...
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And Some See God: Getting to the CORE in the 3D and Immersive Art of Kurt...
This is the third in a series on artists using computer generated imaging (CGI) and 3D-simulation modeling, the source for special effects imaging in mainstream films, video gaming and advertising....
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ROA Gets Up With New Animals In Tow
New Work from ROA in Austria, Canada, Great Britain, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the US. Today we visit with street artist, urban naturalist, and globe trotter ROA to see what walls he...
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ARTIST DOSSIER: Ruth Asawa's Late, Meteoric Rise From Obscurity
In 1947, a 21-year-old Ruth Asawa spent a summer in the rural Mexican town of Toluca, where she saw looped wire baskets for sale in a local market. Fascinated by their form, she learned how to make the...
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A Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Why I'm Taking a Vacation From Facebook,...
When did I start needing my friends at home to tell me I'm having a good time on vacation? Travel changed for the worse when I tucked a brand new Blackberry smart phone in my pocket on a 2009 trip to...
View ArticleIndies First: Me and My Indie, Today and Every Day
For me, Thanksgiving weekend has always been a comfy cocoon of an event, a four-day haze of friends and family lazing and laughing our way through a tryptophan-soaked festival of do-nothingness. I...
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Pirira: A Riveting New Play by J. Stephen Brantley
Truly well-written and thought-provoking plays are hard to come by, but Theater 167's presentation of J. Stephen Brantley's Pirira, which I caught at its recent extended run at the West End Theater,...
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Danny Simmons: Opens Door on Hidden Treasures in his Crown Heights Home
If meeting Danny Simmons was the beginning of a novel, I might write, "the doors quietly blew open and a great smiling man beckoned us in." At six feet two inches, with sparkling eyes and a welcoming...
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A Celebration of Latin American Art
New York’s art market has taken on a Latin American flair as Pinta NY returned to the city for the seventh year, followed by the upcoming Latin American Art Modern and Contemporary sales at Christie’s...
View ArticleAisle View: Backstage Crises Through the Centuries
Even before the six actors in Terrence McNally's And Away We Go form a hand-clasping circle and murmur a silent pre-show invocation, the author has them individually come forward, kneel down to...
View ArticleAdobe Champions Creativity
"Creativity is no longer an elective. It's the future," says Adobe. Not long ago Adobe released an international research study revealing the state of creativity in education, and the economic...
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'The Crisis' and Art in Greece (and NY)
The Greek economic crisis, is, among other things, a crisis of confidence. Investors, worried about the country's finances, pulled out their capital, and in doing so drove up interest rates and drove...
View ArticleRaging Against the Dying of the Light With Imagination
I am not one to ordinarily write theater reviews, but I have just seen a play that is so worthy of acknowledgment that I feel compelled to call attention it -- particularly as it is a smaller, less...
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Who Is the Real Muslim Woman Superhero?
By now, many of you know that Marvel Comic's next Ms. Marvel will be Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old high school student from Jersey City who happens to be a Muslim. With the award-winning writer, G. Willow...
View Article9 Tacky Christmas Decorations That Will Ruin The Holidays
Not everyone decks the halls in style. Inevitably, between the poinsettias and twinkling lights there will be a collection of heinous, tacky and useless decorations. Here are nine of the most...
View ArticleJacob Hashimoto on the ImageBlog
Superabundant Atmosphere / Infinite Expanse of Sky, 2008 Paper, silk, wood, nylon Installation view Courtesy Studio la Città - Verona © Michele Alberto Sereni
View ArticleJaime Rojo on the ImageBlog
From Sky Landscape Series. Ongoing project. Air planes shot at a low exposure crisscrossing the sky.
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Stage Door: A Christmas Carol
Last year, England celebrated the 200th anniversary of novelist Charles Dickens' birth. His sharp eye for satire and his passion for social justice upended Victorian pretensions. He created some of...
View ArticleMy Oddest Aha! Jobs in Fashion
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. I'm listening to Mike Rowe talk about his Aha! moment, castrating a lamb in Craig, Colo., a few hours north of my current Colorado foothills...
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