Brilliant Ventures Out of the Box With 'Kid Box' From Feng Dance Theater at...
For the first time, the Feng Dance Theater from Tainan, Taiwan is making its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And boy, have they exploded onto the international stage. Brilliant, captivating,...
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Top Off-Broadway Shows to Watch in NYC: Part Two
From an over-the-top dinner and theater experience to a risqué revue about naked men singing and dancing, read about the intimate, and often interactive, shows you can only experience off-Broadway in...
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Saluting Speight Through Opera
The curtain is falling on Speight Jenkins' 30-year tenure as General Director of the Seattle Opera. He is not just one of the giants of the opera world -- Evans Mirages, artistic director of Cincinnati...
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State of the Art: The Transformation Has Begun
On November 11, 2013, the second anniversary of the Museum's opening, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now. As part of the initiative, Museum...
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How to Take Low Light Action Photos and Portraits
Please follow along as I give you a first person perspective on photographing Maria as she works out at the gym. My goal is to show you exactly how I work on a photo shoot. Yes, I am going a lot slower...
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Richard Prince: It's a Free Concert (VIDEO)
The American artist Richard Prince is mainly known for his photographs of iconic pictures from pop culture and his text images of chauvinist jokes. The exhibition It's a Free Concert at the Peter...
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Review: Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev in 'Solo For Two'
Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova in "Mercy," photo by Gene Schiavone I have to hand it to Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev. Easily the world's most exciting ballet couple, they could probably spend...
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NYC Photographer Leverages Instagram to Plot the Future of Marketing
In the past two years Instagram has shot to mainstream popularity. For those who may have just recently jumped on the bandwagon, you may not know that Instagrams' early adopters were photographers....
View Article'Romantic Romeo' From Captivate Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Introducing Shakespeare to a young audience is no easy task. Captivate Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival doesn't shy away. With a double offering of Romantic Romeo and Brave Macbeth, the...
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A Face of the Middle Passage
Slave ships carried at least 11,000,000 captive Africans across the Atlantic, but we know the faces of hardly any of these people. Portraits of individual Africans who were enslaved and brought to the...
View ArticleNew Music for Old Instruments
As a composer of concert music and member of an organization (Chicago's Fifth House Ensemble) that specializes in presenting cutting-edge music by living composers, I've enjoyed the chance to become...
View ArticleFrom Whale Songs to the Beatles: Computer Analysis of Musical Styles
Dr. Eric Schulman proposed the contention that "the purpose of science is to get paid for doing fun stuff if you're not a good enough programmer to write computer games for a living." I disagree with...
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Keith Richards, Firestones and the Persevering Artist (How Sensitive Creators...
(Sussman Lawrence Band 1981) "You're too emotional," my friend's been telling me, "hyper-sensitive." He says that's why I got replaced as the composer for a hit TV show several years ago. He says...
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The Sadder But Wiser Girl
It's amazing how one song can capture a culture's idealized view of women. In 1919, the great American songwriter, Irving Berlin, had been hired by Florenz Ziegfeld to write a musical number which...
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View ArticleMaria Anghelache Dialogues With Nature
Colors erupt in a riotous celebration: Everywhere, there seems to be blues, greens, yellows and reds. There is an undeniable warm tropical feel to this lively new body of work from Maria Anghelache,...
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Armenia and Its Russian-Imperialism Problem
Earlier this summer, a minor kerfuffle over an exhibition of artworks by famed Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990) underscored a more serious problem facing Armenian culture and Armenia in...
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Time Release
After opens like a horror story. An ominous undertow pervades its early frames, giving us the feeling we are watching a scary movie that will tighten its screws and escalate our dread until something...
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Sustainability of traditional art forms..
From the early civilization days, human beings believed in culture. Every society practiced one or the other form of art or craft. Despite the rapid industrialization of the world, the rural...
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