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Great Classical Music Festivals of 2014: Music Academy of the West
One of the great places to hear chamber music during the summer is at the Music Academy of the West, in the sleepy town of Montecito up the coast from Los Angeles. This was demonstrated in a once in a...
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Sublime Errors: Wade Guyton's Imperfect Paintings
Wade Guyton is one of those names that constantly pops up in frenzied contemporary art auctions, such as the wildly successful Christie's sale this past May, "If I Live I'll See You Tuesday." The event...
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"This Is Your Shot:" New York New Works Theatre Festival Presents Tomorrow's...
All pictures were kindly provided by the New York New Works Theatre Festival. Did you know that Snickers is gluten-free....(whenever you are trying to justify the ordinary munchies)? Or that death...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Restaurant Play 'My Manana Comes' Is a Tangy Dish
Four busboys are hustling non-stop at Frederick's Madison, an Upper East Side Manhattan restaurant, when Elizabeth Irwin's My Manana Comes -- ultimately an ironic title -- begins with velocity and...
View ArticleHarmony in Tragedy: Palestinian and Israeli Teens Write a Song Together
During a recent 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a delegation of Israeli and Palestinian teens traveled 5,000 miles to join 18 young people born in the United States and war-torn regions...
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'Myth and Image' at El Camino College Art Gallery
Now on view at the El Camino College Art Gallery, Myth and Image is an exhibition that explores the relationship of traditional mythology to contemporary visual imagery. The exhibit was organized by...
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Art Galleries Get Wise During the Busiest Time of the Year
Each year, Los Angeles galleries return from summer vacation choosing a date for their next big opening. The Saturday after Labor Day has notoriously been the busiest day in the LA art world. Photo:...
View ArticleThis PROVES once again, it's not the CAMERA, it's the person behind it
I love seeing basic gear capture solid images. It hammers home that it's the photographer not the gear, most of the time. In this case the photographer was working with some basic Nikon's and doing a...
View ArticleOn the Road with Curtin
One of my favorite things about being in a touring band is that in addition to getting to drive around the country playing music with good friends, I get to take photos all along the way. This past...
View ArticleThe DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland
Last week, the DeVos Institute of Arts Management officially moved to the University of Maryland. The Institute was created at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2001, was named the...
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Madonna, Meet Madison - Your New Photographer
I see a lot of bad photography. The other day I spent over an hour looking through the 'editor's picks' on 500px. I was not impressed. Who are these editors? I must qualify this statement however. I'm...
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A Progression of Identity Through Self-Portraiture
A self-portrait is a representation of how we see and document ourselves. Self-portraiture can record desire for who we can become or be a critique of who we are at the time. A portrait can also depict...
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New in St. Petersburg: Fashion, Fabergé and a Luxe Roman Spa
In 1764, Russia's art-loving Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum with the first of many paintings acquisitions. This year, to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the Hermitage has organized a...
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At the Izmir Jazz Festival: Exploring the Connections Between Turkish and...
A few years ago I discovered the music of the Janusz Prusinowski Trio, and it led to an invitation to the very exciting Mazurka Festival that they organize in Warsaw every year. I had no idea,...
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Electrifying the Folk
Pennsylvania's Marah at work. Photo courtesy of Marah. I've always loved European-style folk-rock, also known as electric folk: the application of electric instruments and rock techniques to...
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Cindy Jackson's Stalled Rapture
Photo by EMS In this world everything is assigned meaning -- natural phenomena, choreographed ablutions, invented signifiers, obscure scripture, works of art. Our hyperbolic media-driven...
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Space Station 76: Jack Plotnick's Refreshing Take on Sci-Fi
Matt Bomer and Patrick Wilson in Space Station 76 About a month ago I was fortunate to catch Space Station 76 at Outfest. Fresh, unique and thoroughly entertaining, the film was directed by the...
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Going the Distance in the Entertainment Industry
"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson What's it take to go the distance in the entertainment industry? There's no single answer. There are four: pursue,...
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In Plain Sight
As I walked up to the quiet entrance of the NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale's The Miami Generation: Revisited exhibit, I remembered the busloads of 'cultural tourists' I'd seen line up at studios in...
View ArticleThat Woman Behind The Curtain
In so many showbiz movie musicals, a young ingénue makes her way to New York with nothing more than the dream of hitting it big on Broadway. However, what's never shown is when their dream is not to be...
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