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Whimsy and terror: Mark Morris returns to Berkeley
It was a global nail-biter last week, but after Scotland voted to uphold their often rocky 300-year union with England, Mark Morris' The Muir and A Wooden Tree, which opened his troupe's season at Cal...
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The Trip to Bountiful
Photo by Craig Schwartz. Horton Foote's enchanting tale of an old woman's single-minded quest to return to her childhood home gets a memorable production under the deft direction of Michael Wilson and...
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The Radical Images of Lewis Hine, Documentary Photographer
Many great photographers -- including Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Milton Rogovin, Margaret Bourke-White, and Dorothea Lange (the subject of a recent PBS documentary) -- have used the...
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Why I Collect Racism
Image courtesy of Verso Books I have started to collect racist ephemera -- specifically directed toward Asian immigrants and their American descendants. I mean artifacts in paper such as pamphlets...
View ArticleEveryone Loves Illustration Art, But Where Does One See It?
Here's the problem: There is a growing recognition that the commercial work known as illustration art is an important part of American fine art. For instance, Debra Force, former head of Christie's...
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Not an Ordinary Dog: The Story of Bob
In 2012 while cataloging a photograph album complied by Carson Drauker (1895-1971) as part of an NEH-funded ephemera grant, we were first introduced to Bob, the beloved pet of Philadelphia commercial...
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Michael Sweet's Disposable Camera
All Photographs Copyright Michael Ernest Sweet For some time now I've been working on a series of photographs taken with disposable cameras. It's called, well, "Michael Sweet's Disposable Camera"....
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The Six O'Clock: A New Short Film by Judy Starkman
THE SIX O'CLOCK, a tightly crafted, elegantly photographed short film from director Judy Starkman tells the story of a man who is driven to perfection by his job. Opening on a sunny Pasadena afternoon,...
View ArticleKelli O'Hara Found a Life in Music, Now Gives it Back
Five-time TONY nominee, Kelli O'Hara has had a busy year and it's not going to calm down any time soon. Last seen starring in the Broadway musical The Bridges of Madison County, in December O'Hara will...
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REVIEW: Mats Ek's 'Juliet & Romeo' by Royal Swedish Ballet
Photo by Gert Weigelt What's in a name? In the case of Mats Ek's Juliet & Romeo, which Royal Swedish Ballet presented last week at Sadler's Wells, the switched-up name is just the first of many...
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Art, Beats and Lyrics: An Art Show for the Creatively Curious
As I entered the lofty warehouse located in downtown Atlanta, I took note of the enormous moveable white walls that surrounded me. Some featured partially completed works of art; some with just...
View Article"You Can't Take It With You": James Earl Jones Amid Mayhem
It's hard to beat kittens and fireworks as sure-fire crowd pleasers and the new Broadway revival of You Can't Take It With You has both along with the venerable James Earl Jones at center stage to give...
View ArticleRappaccini's Daughter: Opera Blooms at Theatre for the New City
In the double bill, "The Power of Love," two new one act operas graced the stage of the TNC, a theatre complex that has been offering up original works in the East Village for many years. While much...
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Drawn at Sea -- Drawing no.05
Drawing no.05 Stromness, Orkney Mainland - Wick, Scotland Mainland by way of Pentland Firth. 10:30 - Friday, September 19, 2014 58° 57.640 n, 3° 17.864 w - 13°C We pushed off on time today with...
View ArticleMatt Arbuckle on the ImageBlog
Matt Arbuckle, 'Kill your Darlings' 2013, Mixed Media on Paper, 29 x 21cm Upcoming exhibition: 'Paintings Make Paintings' at PAULNACHE, January 2014. www.paulnache.com "Perception is externally guided...
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Diminished Borders: Europe, Europe at Astrup Fearnley Museet
Camille Henrot, The Descendants of Pirogues, 2013. Courtesy of Kamel Mennour. Artists from across Europe are the focus of a new show which opened last week at Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museet....
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Markus Potter's 'Stalking the Bogeyman,' Ira Lewis's 'Chinese...
When he was 7 and his family was making new friends after relocating in Anchorage, David Holthouse (Roderick Hill) was raped by Nathan Crawford (Erik Heger), the 17-year-old son of a couple to whose...
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The Look and Feel of 'Inevitably Urban'
We've been heading in an urban direction for a very long time. Let's look more closely at the role of the people. Inevitable Urban Times These times seem so inevitably urban. Of course, my wry remark...
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Incredible Free Museums Around the World
(Photo: The British Museum) Jetting around the world isn't free, but cultural enrichment can be. We uncovered 10 incredible museums—from Paris to Beijing—where cultural discovery is rich but admission...
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