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Pyrenees Journal: Spellbound
What was more brilliant, Alfred Hitchcock choosing to use Salvador Dali to create the dream sequences in Spellbound or Dali's creation of these iconic sequences himself? The sequences if you recall...
View ArticleTalkin' Johnny Winter Blues
When I read that blues legend and guitar virtuoso Johnny Winter died July 16, a flutter of goose bumps ran down my arm, although I'd only spent a total of maybe three hours on the phone with the man in...
View ArticleBroadway Starring Crime and Violence
Jazz hands and... murder? It seems that the Great White Way might have a heart of darkness. With a friend coming to visit me in New York City, I was recently perusing the current Broadway listings. As...
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Kashink Uses Hairy Four-Eyed Men to Examine Gender Assumptions
The international Street Art scene boasts a small percentage of women artists and KASHINK may perplex even that statistic with her mustache. It's the same mustache you'll see on many of her big hairy...
View ArticleArtists Rediscover the Value of Making Their Own Paints
When he was just starting out as a painter in the early 1970s, Carl Plansky's main criterion for buying paints was "whatever was on sale. I was very poor." Even as he earned enough from one job or...
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Absence Makes the Dance Grow Stronger
Michael Estanich and Lucy Vurusic-Riner Mutual respect. These are two words that form the cornerstone of any healthy long-term relationship -- personal or professional. Even so, it's often hard to...
View ArticleBeyond Mare Nostrum: Italian Theater Launches International Project for...
As 200 rescued African immigrants, including children, arrived by bus at a refugee center in Bologna, I sat down with acclaimed Teatroaperto founder/director Guido Ferrarini in this northern Italian...
View ArticleWomen in Print: Five Must-Reads for Your Summer List
I can't believe there are only five weeks until the unofficial end of summer. If you're lucky enough to be planning a few beach days or weekend getaway and need a break from emails and news headlines,...
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Confessions of a Serial Songwriter: Hashtag Hiatus
I ran into Wendy Wilson (of Wilson Phillips) at M.Fredric clothing store on Ventura Boulevard last week. I was killing some time before my mani-pedi. My daughter had just dropped me off. That was a...
View ArticleJames Baldwin: My Uncle and His Love Life
August 2, 2014 is the day my family and I gather in New York City to celebrate Uncle Jimmy's 90th birthday with the gift of co-naming 128th Street "James Baldwin Place." Harlem wasn't just a regular...
View ArticleJon Pylypchuk on the ImageBlog
i have conjured my dark forces to love you baby, 2013; Oil paint, enamel paint, acrylic house paint, spray paint, wood glue, fabric, cardboard, sand paper, sand, stones, paper, pencil, varathane, 84 x...
View ArticleOnegin: The Perfect Libretto
"Dear Maestro," dazzled, seven-year-old-Daron wrote to conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn, then music director of the Milwaukee Symphony. I bit the end of my pencil, wracked my brain for the perfect word:...
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The Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the Ford Theater
I've had the privilege to hear a lot of great music, performed by some of the recognized masters in their fields. But an amazing thing happens when the Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes stage and...
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Here's How a Mountain Dweller Became a Highly Sought After Photographer
Have you ever felt that you had a disadvantage in life? Perhaps there were others that had something you didn't have that gave them a leg up on the competition. How did you react to this handicap? Did...
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Review: Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant in 'PUSH'
For dancers, the peaks of artistry and athleticism rarely coincide. But when they do, one amplifies the other, and the result is dazzling. Such was the case Tuesday night at the London Coliseum, where...
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Realizing Cross-Sector Collaboration in the Arts: CUNY Offers a Case Study
For those of us developing strategies to advance the arts and culture, a new program of the City University of New York (CUNY) demonstrates the power of cross-sector collaboration. Announced with...
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Is De-Skilling Killing Your Arts Education?
F. Scott Hess, Time, 2005, oil on canvas, 54 × 66 inches, Number 6 in The Seven Laughters of God series. In 1974, when I was a freshman art student at a small Midwestern liberal arts college in...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: 'Sex With Strangers' Is Sexy With Straining
Olivia (Anna Gunn), who's pushing 40, and 28-year-old Ethan (Billy Magnussen) meet kinda-sorta cute. On a dark and stormy night, she's already ensconced in the comfy lobby of an upper Michigan...
View ArticleShakespeare's Hamlet Heads to Honduras
By now, anyone who is a fan of William Shakespeare knows that this year marks the 450th anniversary of the English playwright's birth in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, England. While not entirely...
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Big Dreams Over Broadway (#ArtofY)
Do you have big Broadway dreams? Read on as Synthia Link, a Swing in Bullets Over Broadway, shares how she landed her versatile and coveted role in Woody Allen's jazz-age spectacle. Don't know what a...
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