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Theater Review: Stoppard's The Real Thing From Roundabout Theater
Currently in previews at the American Airlines Theater, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing has all the right elements: an all star cast, a hip set, a great soundtrack featuring 60s pop and operatic...
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The second Qalandiya International (Qi), also known as the Palestine Biennial, will take place from October 22 - November 15. It's the largest contemporary art event in Palestine. Exhibitions and...
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A Quiet Place: The Windhover Contemplative Center at Stanford
"The concept of wings as metaphors for the soaring of one's mind suggests a sense of contemplation, a sense of spirit..." - Nathan Oliveira A panoramic view of the Windhover Contemplative Center The...
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Master Class
Steven Assael said always to consider the interior of things. He drew a parallel between the literal interior volume of a form, and the internal meaning of art. He said this meaning was a precious...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Gotham Opera Company Enlivens Two Martinu Works
Leave it to Neal Goren. He's cherry-picked Bohuslav Martinu's comic one-acts Alexandre Bis and Comedy on the Bridge as the first of the Gotham Opera Company's 2014-15 season, and he's owed three or...
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The Art of Falling: Hubbard Street Dance and Second City's Comic Liaisons
"If music be the food of love/ then laughter is its queen" - Procol Harum, A Whiter Shade of Pale Early on in the ingenious collaboration between Second City and Hubbard Street Dance, Procol Harum's...
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From Lizzy Bennet to Fanny Price: My Jane Austen Journey
At age 12, my obliviousness was a survival instinct. As my peers experimented with make-up and clothes, I wore a sports bra to school, my hair frizzing into the stratosphere. Most days were spent doing...
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Tilt Shift Terror With Photographer Rob Reeves
All Images Copyright Rob Reeves As Halloween draws closer and closer, I decided I'd need to find some spooky photos to feature here on the blog. As luck would have it, Rob Reeves and his tilt shift...
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Birdman: Existentialist Selfie
I like Alejandro G. Iñárritu's directorial work, and a movie starring Michael Keaton was a plus. A trusted friend had seen Birdman in Telluride and gave it high marks. Off to the movies! Keaton's work...
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The Fabulous Broadway Season So Far
Is this the best fall theater season in years? I think so. While I don't do reviews really, I felt the need to discuss this amazing season we're having. It would kick last season's butt in almost any...
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Why We Take Pictures
"Why do you take pictures?" It's a loaded question that I get asked all the time and there's definitely more than one answer. My first camera was a purple Le Clic that my parents gave me on my 12th...
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Uncovering a Free Black Man's Past: Buying a Slave to Unite His Family
My ancestor, Lewis Freeman, was a free Negro who lived in Chatham, North Carolina from at least 1800 until his death in 1845. I would like to know when he was born. - Harold F. _________ Dear Harold,...
View ArticleAn Undying Bicycle Tradition
Post by Mimo Khair Photography. Shanghai, a charming and unique city of contrasts, continues to develop and grow as it evolves into a modern day metropolis and a financial center in China. Despite its...
View Article3 Things You Learn When 15 million People Suddenly Know Who You Are
Let me preface this list by saying that in no way, shape or form do I confuse myself for famous. But it's certainly not every day that you find yourself in front of 15 million new people, performing...
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Dave Hickey: 'I Will Never Retire From Art or Writing'
"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?" -- Diogenes Whatever you think of writer/critic Dave Hickey, you have to give him this: He speaks his mind. Retired from "The Art...
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Walkabout: David Garrick and Unexpected Harmony in the Library
I don't get around much anymore; not like I used to. Age, children and, yes, a diminishing cityscape are all factors. With once-ample opportunities for aesthetic nourishment in steep decline around...
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In With the New: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Marks Seventh Season at The Joyce
ASFB performing Nicolo Fonte's "Heart(s)pace," photo by Sharen Bradford What do New Yorkers love most about New York? The new part. That could be why Aspen Santa Fe Ballet -- which runs this week at...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago Landmarks
Text and photography by Lee F. Mindel for Architectural Digest Inside Frank Lloyd Wright's home in Oak Park, Illinois. Frank Lloyd Wright traveled to Chicago in search of employment in 1887, a time...
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State of Art
I first came upon Claudia Paneca's work when The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn hosted one of their first annual open studio events. As I wove through the wonderfully diverse and extremely...
View ArticleFolk Stalwart Loudon Wainwright III Offers "Lots of Family Material"
Having turned 68 last month, the iconoclastic folk singer and frequent actor in Judd Apatow films, Loudon Wainwright III looks sort of like Dennis the Menace all grown up. He's tall, lean, has a...
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