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Here's How an Amateur Used Instagram to Become a Successful Pro Photographer
Photo Credit: Credit Brian Flaherty Have you ever felt lost? It's that feeling you get when you wake up in the morning and realize you're not living the life you intended. You try to block out the...
View ArticleReligion Is Alive and Well in Contemporary Art
On a breezy summer day, I joined a group of artists and writers in the basement of the Liberty Bar in midtown Manhattan to discuss the many places religious life meets the visual arts.* Contrary to the...
View ArticleArt in Aspen? Looks an Awful Lot Like Wildlife Exploitation
High art in Aspen is hitting a new low. The Aspen Art Museum in Colorado is hosting a controversial exhibit from Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang featuring three African sulcata tortoises, each affixed...
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Francois Laxalt: Carrying the Message of Peace Through Senbazuru
Parisian photographer Francois Laxault isn't just taking photographs of birds; he's creating a still frame of a very peaceful moment. He tracks the birds who are active participants in a zen-like dance...
View ArticleMy Cup of Coffee with Robin Williams
I woke up today and did what I know I shouldn't do first thing in the morning: check my social media feeds. At 4:23 a.m., the alarm 7 minutes from buzzing, I laid there nuzzled in my comforter with my...
View ArticleHyper-idealism and Cultural Accuracy: Why I'll Probably Sneak Into 'Boyhood'...
Do not get me wrong. I love rules. Rules keep things organized and stop people from going down the "Up" stairs at school and from letting people leave their dog's poop in my yard. But, after seeing the...
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Bring a Friend to a Cineforum
View of Ponte Gobbo, Bobbio Today I discovered a summer cinema lab (free and open to 25 participants, between 18 to 35, Italians) where all potential talents of moviemaking and short movies could...
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Changing the Dimensions of Architecture
First published in Edge Condition June 2014 What happens from the building to the printed page. I'm not an architect but I specialize in representing architecture on the printed page. I'm a graphic...
View ArticleWould You Like Your Judgement in Paper or Plastic?
My name is Meghan and I live in North Carolina. I come from a middle class family. I have a college degree. I am 27 years old and I work in a grocery store. This has turned out to be a very confusing...
View ArticleWatch: Maya Angelou on Facing Evil
Previously published on BillMoyers.com. In this second of two programs celebrating the life and work of the late Maya Angelou, I revisit a 1988 documentary in which Angelou and I attended a conference...
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What Does it All Mean?
"What does it all mean?" was ubiquitous in the late night college dorm rooms of the '60s along with the sweet smells of post coital sex and marijuana. It was tantamount to the "What? Me Worry?"...
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We Are Star Dust
Humans have always been fascinated with the heavens. Our distant ancestors understood that Mother Earth was receiving its daylight warmth from the majestic Sun, and its pale, nocturnal light from the...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: The Visit Overstays Its Welcome, Henry IV Stumbles
THE BERKSHIRES--This time of year, things are so beehive-hectic in these parts that it's easy to drive around on a single Saturday and see, say, The Visit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the...
View ArticleIs the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Art?
You've seen the videos sweeping social media. Whether it is close friends or national celebrities, the call to have a bucket of ice water dumped over one's head has nothing to do with conventional ways...
View ArticleLaugh
Life is too important to take seriously, my father used to say. He was a pretty serious scientist, given to worry and a sensitive man, so I always knew he was saying it as much to himself as to me. The...
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Lisbon Art Galore
One of the few things I knew about Lisbon's cultural scene --years before my inaugural trip there last month --was the name of Calouste Gulbenkian (1869 - 1955), a private collector of Armenian...
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Mining Creativity From a Secondhand Store: The Clayton Brothers at Mark Moore...
On August 16, the Clayton Brothers opened their first solo exhibition at Mark Moore Gallery, titled "Open to the Public". Before the opening, the collaborative duo gave an informal talk moderated by...
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Start-Art
Gertrude founder, Kenneth Schlenker, and Gertrude Curator, Astrid de Maismont, converse with Parisian Curator, Ariane de Segur Gertrude is the world's network for art events. It helps people gather to...
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A Most Wanted Man
Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance in Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man raises the question of how many cigarettes a spy can smoke and also how many drinks he can imbibe and still see straight....
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Review: Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound
Lori Emerson's Reading Writing Interfaces "When computers move into people's homes, it would be most unfortunate if they were merely black boxes whose internal workings remained the exclusive province...
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