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7 Last-Minute Christmas Gifts That Don't Look Last-Minute (PHOTOS)
If you're reading this then you know you're way behind the 8-ball with holiday shopping. While Santa was making his list and checking it twice, you were watching Scandal and drinking gingerbread...
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First Impressions
On Friday morning, I exchanged New York's winter for Brazil's summer. As per my usual back-and-forthing between the U.S. and Brazil, I've just arrived in São Paulo for a six-week stay. There's so much...
View ArticleThe Dying Art of Mixtapes
I've been trying to put together an ideal song-mix for the very long holiday journey south, which made me think about all the hours I've spent crafting mixes for other people. First things first: the...
View ArticleEliot Saarinen on the ImageBlog
Mason Jar Lids and Resin on Canvas, 36” x 36” This piece was assembled from mason jar lids. Being separated with it’s other half (mason jar) the lids become useless. By taking away the use, the lids...
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Rosalie O'Connor On the Art of Animal Photography
Co-authored by Ellen Dobbyn-Blackmore Rosalie O'Connor, Dance (and Pet) Photographer Photo by Clinton Luckett The thing that makes Rosalie O'Connor's animal portraits compelling is their charming blend...
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Maestros Ready
Two last minute substitute maestros on the Philadelphia Orchestra podium this month were anything but knock-offs. The celebrated pianist Helene Grimaud, was to perform with the orchestra and Yannick...
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How Artists (and Gallerists) Survive, Part 6: They Go Surfing
My friend Peter Frank called up last night and said: "Hey, you want go see this new show up on Venice Blvd.? It's near Centinela I think. The c.nichols project." Being a Venice local, my first thought...
View ArticleThe Year of the List
It's the most wonderful time of the year! There'll be much mistle-toeing, and hearts will be glowing, and -- year-ending lists! That's right. 'Tis the season to count down everything about the past...
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Creating the Bat #8: Scott Peterson, Part II
What does it take to sustain a single character for 74 years? Since Batman's first appearance in May 1939, hundreds of writers, artists and editors have applied their craft and their personalities to...
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Stories From the Bible
The Bible has been inspiring to me, and to many artists throughout the ages. In the forty years of my artistic career, I have been working on a series of Bible paintings. This is the first time I show...
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As Da Art World Might Turn (the series) Watch Episodes 1-6
Me as Pisces Wells performing at an opening. Shot at Arts@29 Garden Harvard Wrapping up 2013 and a gift to those who follow my work closely, I am releasing all six episodes of my latest web series As...
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Women: A Year in Review, From the Arts and Beyond
The appointment of Marjorie Scardino as the first female board member of Twitter resonates on so many levels -- sparking, for me, a year-end look-back at how women fared in 2013. At Pen and Brush, we...
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Henry James on Late Bloomers
Psychologists believe that creativity is only for the young. They are wrong. They don't understand experimental creativity. They might take a lesson from Henry James, who did. Portrait of Henry James...
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The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
Hope, History, and Unpredictability Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than...
View ArticleCatharsis: My Poem
The concept of catharsis was introduced by Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) in his Poetics, as a means to offer an outlet for powerful feelings through the relief provided by artistic activities. Ca-thar-sis:...
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A Drawing A Day For One Year: метаморфоза Week 9
This is Week 9 of my daily drawing/collage series, метаморфоза (Metamorphosis.) I hope you enjoy it. метаморфоза is a daily drawing project, a visual trajectory, generated through free association. Its...
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Pushing the Envelope
Many claim that theater holds a mirror up to society. But all too often, when society gets a look at its reflection, the results are not pretty. Boris Aronson's famous set design for 1966's...
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How Norman Rockwell Invented Christmas
--Illustration by Eliane Gerrits In Christmas week my home town of Princeton, N.J., turns into a setting for a fairytale. The gargoyles on the university chapel are dusted with snow. The turrets on...
View ArticleThe Most Wonderful Time of the Year
As a natural result of growing up, some things become less fun than they used to be. Getting sick no longer means watching TV all day and your mom letting you drink Kool Aid, it means making up a...
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Software Takes Command: An Interview With New Media Theorist Lev Manovich,...
This is part 2 of my interview with Lev Manovich, author of the new book Software Takes Command; part 1 can be read here. Still from Jeremy Blake's digital animation, Sodium Fox (2005), courtesy Kinz...
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