Enjoying 'Enjoy Yourself'
Thanksgiving is the best holiday, the cliché goes, and New Year's Eve is the worst. Personally, I'm not so wild about Thanksgiving, when we're pressured to be (or act) grateful no matter how we...
View ArticleGregory Euclide on the ImageBlog
WITH MY DISTANCE REACHING TOWARD THE BLANKET EMBRACING OF YOUR ADVANCE • CATEGORIES: FLAT,RELIEF • YEAR: 2013 • MEDIA: ACRYLIC, BAMBOO, CIGARETTE BUTTS, FOAM, LICHEN, EUROCAST HOUSES, PORCELAIN COATED...
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Woody Allen Is Zhenya Gershman's 'Sunny Side Up'
By Zhenya Gershman artist, historian, and LuxEcoLiving contributor Photo courtesy of Dean Chapple It really happened! My dream come true- Woody Allen held my painting lovingly in his arms...on stage!...
View ArticleAbout Dreams and Inspiration
When I was a child, I read the Spanish dramatist, Pedro Calderon de la Barca's play, "Life is a Dream". The story is about Segismundo, Prince of Poland, who has been hidden and imprisoned in a tower by...
View ArticleYutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman on the ImageBlog
Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman, Pink Backside, 2007-2009, Acrylic on paper, 42 x 52 ½ inches, Courtesy of the artists Featured in the exhibition What Every Snowflake Knows in Its Heart, on view at...
View ArticleThe Last of the Midwest (for Now)
After my stay in the Chicago, I traveled through a large swath of the Midwest, starting with Lafayette, home of Purdue University, a place as flat as flat can be. I gave my "Breath In a Ram's Horn"...
View ArticleElaine Stritch Wrestles Happiness to the Ground at the Rubin
Elaine Stritch, the veteran Broadway baby, was not happy when she turned up at The Rubin Museum of Art for her on-stage conversation on the subject of happiness. When I approached her in the summer of...
View ArticleRemembering Rodrigue: The Blue Dog Blues
Blue dog. Possibly one of the most iconic pop art figures, has been everywhere from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian to the White House and then the George W. Bush Library, and has been seen...
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5 British Poets to Watch in 2014
Last year, I tipped my hat to five British poets, each with a unique voice and strong commitment to writing, whose reputations had not yet transcended national borders. Since that time, they all have...
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Intrepid Travels: The Bus That Fell Behind The Times
You might need a little more than just the sonospheric groove in the album, Intrepid Travels, in order to experience Sound Strider's out-of-this-world bus ride. Fasten your seatbelts; the music is...
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Brazil: A Looming Anniversary
Since arriving in São Paulo two-weeks ago, I have been struck by the number of times Brazilians have mentioned the fact that 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the dictatorship. Beginning...
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What's All the Artsy Fartsy Fuss About?
Fashion's 15 minutes of fame are over. The new kid on the block is art. By this I mean, the 'see and be seen' place of the moment is no longer fashion shows, but art fairs. And the granddaddy of them...
View ArticleWangechi Mutu on the ImageBlog
I Belong to You, You Belong to Me, 2007. Mixed media, Ink, paint, plant material, and plastic pearls on Mylar, 92 x 53 inches. Private collection, London. Image courtesy of the Artist.
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Huffington Magazine This Week: Photographic Memories
In this week's special photo issue, we pause to reflect on the year's most memorable moments. During a time when "twerking" eclipsed coverage of the war in Syria, and our government literally stopped...
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An Alluring Woman With Fries and McDonaldization in Art
Nadine Robbins, Mrs. McDonald, oil on linen board, 18 x 24 inches When I first glanced at Nadine Robbins' painting Mrs. McDonald a quote from the anthropologist Margaret Mead popped into my head:...
View ArticleThe Other Carnaval in Brazil
Carnaval in Recife, Brazil It's a sweltering mid-summer night, and the pulsating crowd only adds to the heat. The shout, "Tu Maraca! Tu Maraca!" by musician Naná Vasconcelos reverberates throughout...
View ArticleThe Filmmaker and the Pirate Negotiator: A Curious Case
When you get your first call from the FBI, you never forget it. The conversation usually starts off as if it were a bill collector, but the voice on the other end of the line sounds more like special...
View ArticleHow We Wrote a Book Together and Still Like Each Other
Many moons ago, when we were each experiencing the excitement of publishing our first young adult novels, we met on MySpace and became fans of each other's work; an email correspondence began, with us...
View ArticleCharisma and Character of Public Figures Define Documentaries of 2013
There's nothing like a film about a champion. Two surprisingly fascinating documentary films about two extraordinary people were released this year: Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way, directed by the...
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