What Makes Art Sell? 10 Questions That Establish the Value of a Painting
Two years ago a version of Edvard Munch's The Scream fetched $120 million at auction. Last year a Francis Bacon portrait reached $143 million. To the outside world, the pricing of art is a mystery. Why...
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Wisdom For My Children, Using Photography to Share Life Lessons
Raising children is the most important thing I'll ever do with my life. A year ago I started to use double exposures to portray life lessons and wisdom inspired by issues that came about in my...
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Is It Too Late to Reclaim the Rainbow Pride Flag?
When one thinks of rainbows in the United States, a few things immediately come to mind: pots of gold, Judy Garland, and gay pride. And if we're being honest, the last two may as well be one and the...
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The Art of Dialogue: Talking Peace Through #Art4Peace
Zina: Peace Comes From Within, 2014 In an increasingly diverse and conflicted world, more collaborative effort needs to be made towards ensuring open community dialogue towards conflict prevention....
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Drawn at Sea: Drawing no.06
Drawing no.06 Wick to Inverness 6:20 - Saturday, September 20, 2014 58° 26.391 n, 3° 05.061 w Leaving at first light with the dew covered drawing machine lashed to the cabins roof we motoring out of...
View ArticleExplosion on Broadway: You Can't Take It With You
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play staged like a Feydeau farce! Doors slam on a boisterous set aclutter with tchotchkes and eccentrics as fireworks go off from the basement....
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Sex & Nature: Evocative Paintings by Mark Henson
Sex arouses the body, nature enriches the soul, and art inspires the mind. Artist Mark Henson makes love visible with a paintbrush. It's not porn, and it's not exactly what you were thinking but it...
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The Da Vinci Initiative
The stone has been thrown. The splash is being made and as the repercussions arc across the surface of the representational revolution, they are intercepted as inspiration, as ideas, and The Da Vinci...
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The List of Everything
As proud as I am to share this list with you dear readers, I'd be remiss in not thanking Sheldon Kroitenberg and his wife Carol for assisting in this most important project. Without their dedication,...
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The Paradox of Contemporary Poetry
There is a great paradox in contemporary poetry. On the one hand, poetry seems to be dwindling -- in bookstore shelves and traditional academic curricula -- so much so that it has become fashionable...
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Andy at the Top of His Game
Using electric chairs, car crashes or a grief-stricken Jackie as subjects in his art, Andy Warhol knew better than anyone else how to stop us in our tracks and force us to stare -- and stare again --...
View ArticleGet a Job (or, How My Wife Let Me Quit and Write a Novel)
Recently, I was at a party with my wife, Kate, and we were cheering full champagne flutes, in honor of a friend's success. He had just published his first novel, to great acclaim. We raised our...
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YNS Crosses Many Borders, Musical and Otherwise
Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Nézet-Séguin (photo: DS / Philadelphia Orchestra) With enthusiastic ease, Yannick Nézet-Séguin divides his time between musical directorships of the Philadelphia...
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Stage Door: Uncle Vanya
Life in Czarist Russia at the turn of the 20th century is bleak. The general malaise infects eco-forward Dr. Astrov, estate manager Vanya and his niece Sonya, while the serfs have little expectation...
View ArticlePure Abandon
I love the theater for one reason above all: Those moments I get to witness an inspired performance by a gifted actor. I will forgive a show nearly any flaw if I can watch a person on stage transcend...
View ArticleCrazy Ladies and Other Images of Women From the New York Film Festival
With the New York Film Festival in full swing, it feels like New York's cultural season has officially launched. Helmed by the amiable Kent Jones in year No. 2 as Director of Programming, the Film...
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Photographing The Toughest Of Moments With Shaun Connell
All Photographs Copyright Shaun Connell We don't often see photographs of funerals. I guess most people are there to grieve and likely are not in the frame of mind to take photographs. This is...
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As Above, So Below: Lezley Saar's "Monad" at Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Cellestial Bridge, Lezley Saar, 2014 Not Born Under a Rhyming Planet, Lezley Saar, 2014 Lezley Saar's latest exhibition "Monad" features mixed-media paintings of melancholic Victorian ladies floating...
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Your Instagrams Are Richard Prince Artworks
Richard Prince, Untitled (portrait), 2014. Ink jet on canvas. 65 3/4 x 48 3/4 inches (167 x 123.8 cm). © Richard Prince. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever. American artist...
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12 Underground Acts You Need to Hear at Sacramento's TBD Festival
While summer is the season for festivals, that doesn't mean it's the only time you can enjoy one. Big names like Electric Zoo, Lollapalooza and Governor's Ball may grab all the attention, but there are...
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