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'Lucrezia Borgia' at Caramoor
As I have many times in past years, I ventured up to Katonah, New York for a beautiful evening of singing at Caramoor's Summer Music Festival. You will recall my fondness for this venue, for the...
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Youngho Kang: 99 Variations of a Self-Portrait
Photographers have been turning the camera toward themselves for years. From Andy Warhol to Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman to Francesca Woodman, Lee Friedlander to -- well, you name it. These are...
View ArticleInstagram, Aby Warburg, and the Physical Structure of the Internet
#1 Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain "One moment you're conscious, the next you're not. For the first time, researchers have switched off consciousness by electrically stimulating a...
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Charles de Lisle talks designing Maximo Bistro
"Sometimes the best projects are the ones that are not about paying the rent, but loving what you are doing." Interior designer, Charles de Lisle met the owners of Maximo Bistro, Gabriella and Lalo, in...
View ArticleBehold, The Digital Revolution That's Sweeping The Contemporary Art World
You don't just see The Barbican's recently opened Digital Revolution exhibition in London, you live it, breathe it, even make it. Including contributions from artists, musicians, video game developers...
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Bien Urbain 2014 in Besançon, France
Artistic Routes Through and with Public Spaces The month long 4th Edition of Bien Urbain just wrapped in Besançon, France and the results are predictably rather awesome due to the quality of the work,...
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Watching Richard Linklater's Boyhood one can't help imagining what Girlhood would have been like. Is such a follow up project in the works? At the end of the movie a young woman who Mason (Ellar...
View Article10 Things About Having an Opera Career That You Don't Learn in School
So you have a bachelors and a masters degree in... opera singing. Congratulations! According to about 85% of the population, you may as well have an advanced degree in underwater basket weaving. Now...
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'Romeo and Juliet' Review: Classical Theater of Harlem Earns Its Stripes
Sheldon Best and Natalie Paul as Romeo and Juliet in the Classical Theatre of Harlem's free summer production.(Photo credit: Jill Jones) I recently had the pleasure of waiting a mere six hours to get...
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Meet the 8 Artists You'd Never Guess Were in the Rock Hall (#1: Alabama Shakes)
In their earliest days as a group, the members of Alabama Shakes honed their chops playing classics by James Brown and Otis Redding, but also by Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. "We had to find music we could...
View ArticleMusic Is but a Conversation Between Likened Hearts
I'm sitting here listening to Arrival of the Birds by The Cinematic Orchestra. From years of classical training in flute and playing in school bands and orchestras, my mind understands the technical...
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Meet the 8 Artists You'd Never Guess Were in the Rock Hall (#2: The Black Keys)
Since the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in 1986 -- when the likes of Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley were inducted -- more than 300 people have been honored with a...
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In Art and Life: Perfectionism is the Enemy
Perfectionism is the enemy in art -- and just about everything. Over the last 10 years, I've developed a pattern of procrastination when I begin a new illustration. I circle over my Arche's...
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Through the Lens: My Journey to Celebrate Trans Lives Across the U.S.
I remember the first time I heard the sound of the shutter. It was like magic. It was my dad's old Olympus OM-10, and, thinking it was broken, he'd given it to me. It turned out that it just needed a...
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Sex Lessons from the Old Masters (NSFW)
NICOLAS POUSSIN, Jupiter & Antiope, oil on canvas. With the debut of the cable series Masters of Sex, any purely art historical Google search for risque old master paintings is now totally skewed...
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Top 5 Reasons Every New Yorker Should Attend the Theatre
1. It is affordable I hate the word affordable as it is usually used to describe $300 a night hotels, however in this case it is apt. TDF is the most well-known source for less expensive tickets....
View ArticleEverything Must Be Queered... or Gayified, or Lavenderized, or Bent
For many years I have been thinking more and more that everything must be, should be, and can be queered, or gayified, or lavenderized, or bent. At conferences, or in classes, or during conversations,...
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Venice Biennale Dance 2014's Sweeping Showcase of Contemporary Dance
For the past month, Venice, Italy, bathed in splendorous sun-soaked weather, hosted the 9th International Contemporary Dance Festival as part of the performance arm of one of the world's oldest...
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Meet the 8 Artists You'd Never Guess Were in the Rock Hall (#3: Bruno Mars)
Back in 1993, the NFL was looking for a way to better keep viewers tuned into the Super Bowl during halftime and into the game's second half. The solution? Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee and King...
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Amerigo Gazaway: For Love of Hip Hop
Music has a funny way of imprinting a time period in the listener's head. And maybe that's why we like it. As a work of both art and performance, listening to music becomes more than a passive...
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