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Forget Where's Waldo -- Let's Play Where's the Dildo?
Um, so this is happening. A Tumblr has been created in which a dildo is poised in every photo and viewers are invited to do their best to find it. "An installation art project about the place of...
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Winter Is Coming
Last January, I had the distinct honor of swimming with the Coney Island Polar Bear Club -- "the oldest winter bathing organization in the United States." I had just decided to launch my NYC...
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Best of Venice: With Tsili Amos Gitai Explains Survival in a Desperate Universe
Meshi Olinski, Sara Adler and Adam Tsekhman in Tsili by Amos Gitai As we commemorate 100 years since the start of the First World War and after passing through the atrocities and destructive treaties...
View ArticleThink About It: A Creative Community for Peace
The Creative Community for Peace was born officially with a full-page ad in the New York Times calling the "arts (to be) used to build bridges of peace" in Israel and Palestine, and perhaps the world....
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Stella Abrera: Ballerina on a Double Mission
Ballet history is usually made in the august opera houses of St. Petersburg, Moscow, London, Paris and New York. But these days historic moments in ballet are taking place elsewhere: last week Misty...
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Silent Noir, Holy Noir
The 2014 San Francisco Silent Film Festival has finished and some moments of reflection are in order. In recent years, the musical elements of the festival have become almost as important as the films...
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The Unclenched Jaw: Melanie Daniel's 'Lotus Eaters' at Asya Geisberg Gallery
I first saw Israeli-Canadian painter Melanie Daniel's work in Echo Shield, her 2012 solo show at Asya Geisberg gallery. I had a frustrating experience with it: it was interesting work which I liked and...
View Article'This Is Our Youth': Lonergan's Lost Kids in Lonely Anguish
Early in Kenneth Lonergan's smart, funny, and poignant This Is Our Youth, now in a riveting and rowdy revival at Broadway's Cort Theater, Warren Straub confesses to his childhood friend and pot dealer...
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Cooking Art History: Cooking American
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Garden's exhibit Your Country Calls! Posters of the First World War marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the war and includes vintage...
View ArticleA Musical The Winter's Tale Brings the Community In
Longtime readers of mine know, I strongly believe in the importance of bringing new people into the theater, whether that means onstage or in the audience. I'm not a theater purist -- I still think...
View ArticleMighty Real Mighty Fun; Amiable Youth
MIGHTY REAL *** out of **** THIS IS OUR YOUTH *** out of **** MIGHTY REAL *** out of **** THEATRE AT ST. CLEMENT'S Why haven't they made a musical about Sylvester? Teasingly and boldly nicknamed the...
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Film Review: Two Days, One Night -- The Wages of Human Solidarity
The Belgian filmmaking brother duo of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne has been making documentary and social-realist fiction films since the late-1970s. While their gritty humanist features have gained...
View ArticleA Writer's Guide to Being a Writer: Part 1
Writers live a solitary existence, much like a tiger, but at least tigers get to meet other tigers during mating season. Unlike actors or musicians, who tend to congregate in clumps, writers are by...
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Hungary for Music: Folk and Electro-Folk From Hungary
The Parliament Building in Budapest is one of Hungary's iconic sights. Photo by Stephen Winick, 2014. It's no coincidence that most of the best-known Hungarian composers loved folk music; the country...
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The E in TEDx Maui 2014
The third TEDx Maui is coming on September 28, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 pm at the Castle Theater of the Maui Arts & Cultural Center in Kahului, Maui, HI. TED stands for technology, entertainment and...
View ArticleAnn Hampton Callaway Releases Tribute to Sarah Vaughan
This week, celebrated performer, Ann Hampton Callaway will release her latest album, From Sassy to Divine: The Sarah Vaughan Project, her 14th solo and/or duet album and first live recording. One of...
View ArticleMonsieur Chopin, Alive and in Concert at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
It must be such a delight to make use of your particular skill set--to be able to combine all your best talents in one special project. That's what pianist-actor-playwright-professor Hershey Felder has...
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Renzo Piano's Fondation Pathé: A Leaping Whale in a Tiny Pool
All Photos by Frank Browning Renzo Piano, notwithstanding his Pritzker Prize, seems a gentle man as his name might suggest. He speaks in a soft voice and listens carefully to the questions posed to...
View ArticleTruth Is Stronger Than Fiction: The Case for Documentaries
I just got back from the Telluride Film Festival, which took place over the Labor Day weekend in Telluride, Colorado, a beautiful town in the San Juan Mountains. The festival is always an inspiring...
View ArticlePermission Granted!
This is a bright guy sitting across from me in my office. Early 20s. Funny. Charismatic. Clothed and framed out of Elvis Costello's 1978 closet, and so suffused with post-ironic, post-modern, geek-cool...
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