First Nighter: George Kelly's Fatal Weakness Not Fatally Weak
In Craig's Wife, George Kelly's 1925 play subsequently filmed twice with Rosalind Russell and then Joan Crawford as the title figure, the woman in the chilling character study is someone so...
View ArticleThe River of Dreams: Olwen Fouéré Talks About riverrun
I fell in love with the Irish theatre scene, both present and past, after spending a summer studying abroad in Dublin. Since then, to fuel my need to hear the rhythms and spirit of that place that I...
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Chasing Windmills In Spain With The Masters
For centuries, Spain has been home to some of the world's greatest artists. Imagine what it would be like to have coffee at a local cafe in Madrid with some of these legends from across time. Perhaps...
View Article'My Mañana Comes': Trouble in the Kitchen
The plight of the struggling class, bypassed entirely by the slow economic recovery, and the inequities of our immigration laws come into sharp focus in Elizabeth Irwin's timely and ultimately...
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Celebrating Bernstein on Broadway With a Special Bernstein Event
As rehearsals continued for the upcoming Broadway revival of On the Town, New York City audiences had a more immediate opportunity to celebrate Leonard Bernstein's first musical about sailors on leave...
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Fred Fleisher: Addressing the Cultural Noise Through Contemporary and Vintage...
Fred Fleisher was born in Pennsylvania and lives in Brooklyn, NY. After an enlistment in the Army he earned a BFA and a BS from Penn State and an MFA from Queens College, CUNY. His work is represented...
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Part and Parcel: Okla Elliott
In Part and Parcel, I talk with writers and artists about a fascinating facet of their work. "Perch, please, with me on the edge/ of an apocalypse," reads a line in Okla Elliott's debut full-length...
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5 Representational Painters Reflect on Their Art in a Digital Age
John Nava, Our Torture is Better Than Their Torture, 2008, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches. As a representational painter with some skills, I often wonder what relevance my art form has in the...
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Weekend at Berman's: This Artweek.LA (September 15, 2014)
The 35 Year Anniversary Show | In Fall 2014, Robert Berman kicks off a four-month slate of rotating exhibitions and events, covering his 35 years of gallery exhibition history across seven locations...
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Art Versus Tech in San Francisco
Piero Manrique's "San Francisco Night." Still from UGallery. If you live in San Francisco, you know how much people like to talk about astronomical rents and the resulting disappearance of our city's...
View ArticleA Conversation with Christopher Makos
A conversation with Christopher Makos from Major POP on Vimeo. Being a huge fan of the progressive arts movement of the 1970s and '80s, I wholeheartedly commend Ports 1961 Creative Director Fiona...
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Crystal Bridges Exhibition Reveals Curatorial Missteps
Covering over 19,000 square feet of exhibition space, State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas is an enormous undertaking...
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Music Turns Me on: A Conversation With the Hot Band Dopapod
Dopapod is a band that can make me dance even when I don't feel like dancing. They are exploding on the scene and their audience is growing by the second. Listening to music is one way I thrive in this...
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Abstract vs. Figurative
Among the most well known and commercially successful American artists today are Kehinde Wiley and John Currin, both figurative painters of amazing skill, and both drawing inspiration from the art of...
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What Do Blank Paintings Mean, Starting With Yves Klein
In museums every day people come into contact with blank, empty paintings. There's seemingly nothing to be seen in or on them except for one color (or white or black) and some texture, maybe. French...
View ArticlePublic Art: More Than a Background for Selfies
During the busy summer travel months, your Facebook feeds and shared slideshows are likely filled with photos of friends on vacation. Odds are those photos included public art: faces reflected in...
View ArticleHippie Blues: 45 Years of Led Zeppelin
It used to be said that somewhere in the world, at any given moment, "Stairway to Heaven" is playing on the radio. This 1971 track from the fourth Led Zeppelin album, with its mellow guitar intro...
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Sweden Starts "No Limit" Mural Festival in Borås
It isn't just Nuart any more. Scandinavia is taking their mural festivals seriously thanks to buoyant economies, arts programming support, and a growing global appreciation for art in the streets in...
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Being Brave in Sexy Black Underwear
I have had 35 years on this Earth. I've been a wife for 13 years, a mother for 11 years to now five children, and a blogger for four years. Last year, I started speaking. In public. In front of people....
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My Brightest Diamond Album Stumps Writer
The latest experimental epic from My Brightest Diamond, entitled This is My Hand, is an album with really only one problem: I have no idea what to say about it. Breaking down the fourth wall here: I'm...
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