Denis Darzacq on the ImageBlog
Maloyn Chatelin, Brest France 2011, digital C-print, 49 x 35 Inch Act is the result of Darzacq’s long work with handicapped persons. Though some of the subjects are also actors, athletes and dancers,...
View ArticleWhy College Music School Rankings Are All Wrong
I have a history with researching music schools as a prospective student. Seeing the recent ranking of the "Top 10 Music Colleges in the United States" posted by USA Today brought back the feelings of...
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On Metamodern Dada
Screens. Bright fingers that claw at our eyes. Expressions of tenderness, movements of thought, sexual fantasies, our greatest battles. More and more, we occur on screens over invisible waves. That...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Naomi Wallace's And I and Silence and Not Much
If you tend to think of playwright Naomi Wallace as compulsively pretentious--I do--be advised that And I and Silence, the title of her recent work, now at The Pershing Square Signature Center, won't...
View ArticleThe Creative Class With Legendary Music Producer Bob Ezrin (VIDEO)
The Creative Class video series celebrates innovative creators across disciplines. This week features Bob Ezrin, one of the most commercially successful producers of all time. He's worked with many of...
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7 Trilogies That Are As Good As 'Lord Of The Rings'
I wonder how many authors set out to write trilogies. Tolkien, for instance, intended the Lord of the Rings to be the first big ass volume of a two-volume set (the second being the equally big ass The...
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That 'Temporary' Frick Garden -- It Was Created to Be Permanent
In a bit of revisionist history, the garden at the Frick Collection designed by the world-famous British landscape architect Russell Page (1906-1985) and once hailed by the New York Times as one of his...
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Where Art Meets Science: A Conversation with Dr. Hank Hine on Marvels of...
Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (Homage to Rothko), 1976 © Salvador Dali. Fundacion Gala-Salvador Dali, (Artist Rights Society),...
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JeanPaul Mallozzi: Emotional States
Jean Paul Mallozzi, Purify (study), detail Artist JeanPaul Mallozzi, a native of New York City now working in Miami, is a kind of psychic Surrealist who creates dreamlike personal narratives that...
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Choreographer Mark Dendy Enters the Labyrinth
I will never forgot the day OBIE and Bessie Award-winning choreographer Mark Dendy (pictured at far left with Stephen Donovan, Matthew Hardy and Heather Christian) taught me how to lift a chair. We...
View ArticleThe Republic of Writers
Under Communism, the government cared a great deal about what you wrote. If you were part of the system, the government promoted your work. If you were against the system, the government censored you...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie: A Line Had to Be Defended
"It wasn't only about me. It was a moment, when a line had to held when you could not conceive the fight", says the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rusdie, in this outtake from a longer interview...
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Wendy Whelan: Curious and Open (With a Sense of Humor)
co-authored by Ellen Dobbyn-Blackmore New York City Ballet's Wendy Whelan, photo by David Michalek Wendy Whelan, the much beloved principal dancer for New York City Ballet, is already a legend. Her...
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Jeff Koons at the Whitney
Among the highlights of the Whitney Museum's Jeff Koons retrospective, Play-Doh -- a "ten-foot-tall, metastasized childhood nightmare in painted aluminum that has taken Koons two decades to realize,...
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To Rome with Audrey, with Turrell to the Sky
I've been in love with Audrey Hepburn all my life. Well, not really all my life, but at least since the moment I saw her in William Wyler's 1953 classic film, Roman Holiday. I was just a kid living in...
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Is Banksy Over?
This post (like the previous posts in this series) was originally supposed to go into depth about one work by one artist: "Girl With Balloon" (also known as "There is Always Hope") by Banksy. Banksy,...
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Standing At The Gates: An Interview With Addie Johnson Talbott
Pictured, producer and performer Addie Johnson Talbott. As the Kilroys and Killjoys document responses to Arena Stage's Summit, an important way to continue the conversation about underrepresented...
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Shepard Fairey And The Future In New York's Little Italy
Before the summer ends, New York is still happily awash in myriad public festivals, concerts, street fairs, free Shakespeare in the park, stoop sales, fire hydrant fountains, rooftop parties and of...
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All Singing, All Dancing, All Dynamic Pricing: The New Broadway Musical Season
The best musicals are priceless. No musical, however, is worth $299 -- the going rate for a premium seat at too many Broadway musical box offices today. Years ago, when I was writing Ever After: The...
View Article"Atavisms": Eddie Colla Examines Survival Instincts in a Disintegrating World
This past week, Bay Area artist Eddie Colla opened his latest solo show at Ian Ross Gallery in San Francisco. Titled "Atavisms," the exhibition is comprised of large-scale portraits and mixed-media...
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