Tadashi Moriyama on the ImageBlog
Landscape Never Happens Twice, 2011. Acrylic on paper, 12 x 12 inches. For more information about the artist, please visit www.tadashimoriyama.com
View Article2013's Most Striking Fine Art Photography
Choosing just a handful of fine-art images to celebrate at year-end wasn't easy -- I'm always in love with each feature I publish at aCurator. I am fortunate to show quite a variety of images by both...
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Alice -- Wotcha! Gotcha! Alice?
"Alice in Wonderland is one of the earliest books written with the intention of entertaining children and not improving or educating them. It is still a breath of fresh air. I like to think that my...
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The Rubells: Design Miami/ (VIDEO)
Contemporary art is a family affair for these collectors. Their contemporary art collection is one of the largest and most impressive in the world. Don and Mera Rubell began collecting soon after...
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Simon Heijdens: Design Miami/ (VIDEO)
Inspired by the essence of Perrier-Jouët, this London-based artist's pioneering new work propels Art Nouveau into the 21st century. Text and video by Crane.tv For more cultural news follow Crane.tv on...
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Shahad Ameen's Eye & Mermaid at DIFF: The Courage To Dream
I want a film to take me to another place, another point in time, allow my heart to experience something it has never felt. The emotions can arch from sadness to joy, the places from light to dark and...
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The Solid Nonpareil
Why No Mark Twain for Our Second Gilded Age? Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com [This essay will appear in "Comedy," the Winter 2014 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted...
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Redheads -- There, Now You're Listening
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Ghirlandata (1873) © Guildhall Art Gallery via Rossetti Archive Redheads. When we hear that word, we don't think of men. We think of women: sexy, manipulative, powerful,...
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NADA Miami Beach
While many of the works at NADA Miami Beach 2013 presented trends of abstraction in painting and digital manipulation, some pieces that stood out seemed to ambulate instead toward an association with...
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The Top 20 Christmas Songs You Never Get Sick Of
A Christmas song is a complex organism. At their best, our classic yuletide anthems always seem to find that impossible balance between timelessness and nostalgia -- tapping into a sort of greater,...
View ArticleChris Trueman on the ImageBlog
“RF”, 78” x 66”, acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 2013. This painting was part of a two person exhibition with Mira Schnedler http://miraschnedler.de/ , curated by Carl Berg at Andrewshire...
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The Singapore Biennale 2013: Focus on Southeast Asia
This year’s Singapore Biennale 2013 takes on a socio-environmental tone, asking both artists and guests to reconsider solutions, outcomes and visions for our changing world. In its fourth year, “If the...
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Last Chance for Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Paintings...
The Frick Museum has been a favorite of mine since I was young. When I had an internship at The Metropolitan Museum after graduating from Williams College, and I wasn't spending my time sitting on the...
View ArticlePhiladelphia's 'Once Happy Modernist' Architect
Philadelphia architect Alvin Holm describes himself as a "once happy modernist." The affable, white-haired head of a small firm on Samson Street in Center City says he changed his mind about modernism...
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Threads in a Blanket: Creativity and Healing in the Face of Violence
John Paul Lederach has worked all over the world in conflict areas as a mediator and companion to people rebuilding lives and communities after the violence of war. In his book The Moral Imagination,...
View ArticleWhy Music Teachers Matter
When my 7-year-old daughter came home after her music recital, she announced, "I wish we could do it all over again." She had that same dreamy-eyed look that accompanies the afterglow of birthdays or...
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The Best Music Marketing of 2013
As the posts pour in reviewing the year in music (and it's been a great one) I thought it was worth looking at all the other elements that surround modern music. Driven as much by the need to recreate...
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10 Memorable Paintings From 2013
Artist Brenda Goodman in front of her painting Not a Leg to Stand On Photo: David Hornung So, just what makes a painting memorable? I guess if I knew I would be painting some memorable paintings...
View ArticleMusic and Daydreaming: Achieve Your Dreams Now
Ever since I was a child, I would daydream about having my music connect with people all around the world. I had an intuitive sense of how people make sense of the world around them through music, and...
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29 Best Movies Of 2013, According To Me
As it has been written, 2013 was a pretty great year for movies. So great, in fact, that a simple top-10 list seems inadequate at best and incomplete at worst. As such, here's my list of the 29 best...
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