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Hard Choices: Dance Theatre of San Francisco Aims High
Dance Theatre of San Francisco is the new kid on the block -- a precocious kid on a block crammed with nimble little dance companies that turn out adventurous new work on a shoestring. Like many...
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Why Comics Are More Important Than Ever
Seven years after the Kindle debuted and more than twenty since the web went public, the publishing field still contemplates a transition from print to digital, a change that seems inevitable every...
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What It Means to be an Artist
One of my great discoveries this past summer was a debut novel by a young writer from Bangladesh, Zia Haider Rahman, called In The Light of What We Know. I adore first novels as they are often an...
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George Clinton's Journey to the Edge of Funk
"If it weren't for flashbacks I wouldn't have no memory at all," George Clinton said onstage Monday night at the Museum of the Moving Image, only half-jokingly. The mammoth leader of the...
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Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Somewhere in Alejandro's Inarritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) lurks a decent short story. Maybe not a great short story like the Raymond Carver story, "What We Talk About When We...
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Halloween Portraits- Let the Fun Begin
Halloween, a time to push the limits in editing photographs, a chance to break the rules and to have so much fun doing it. Every year, my daughter and her friends pose to provide images of imaginary...
View ArticleNew York Museum Zen
Traveling teaches you to appreciate the value of solitude. Sometimes one needs to step away and have silence and peace and reflection. Zen can be found be in cities. Museums are where moments of...
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I Went to the Appalachian Queer Film Festival
Photo credit: Valentina I. Valentini I wasn't nervous about going to rural West Virginia until people asked me if I was. "They do a lot of pills," my sister said. "They drink a lot," said someone else....
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Jim Heimann's Very Brief History of L.A. for Visitors
The following interview with Jim Heimann was translated into Chinese for the ForYourArt Guide to Los Angeles, published on the occasion of The Los Angeles Project, an exhibition of Los Angeles artists...
View ArticlePlaying Along to Stay Alive: Surviving Molestation
This story was written and performed by Darrin Larson for the live, personal storytelling series Oral Fixation (An Obsession With True Life Tales) at The Winspear Opera House in Dallas, on March 17,...
View ArticleFast Art, Fast Money
On February 20, 1909, Filippo Mariinetti and Umberto Boccioni declared a new aesthetic of speed in their Futurist Manifesto. "We say the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty; the...
View Article9 Tips for Dealing with the Emotions When Writing a Memoir
Writing a memoir is much like going through your trunk of family treasures and keepsakes. At times the memories may be fuzzy, just like the ink on the pages of that 70-year-old journal your...
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Part and Parcel: Danielle Krysa
In Part and Parcel, I talk with writers and artists about a fascinating facet of their work. Recently, I watched a documentary about Steve Sabol, the irrepressibly creative president and co-founder of...
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Visit a Real Haunted Location This Halloween, the Feds Can Help
Halloween is a great time to visit your local haunted locations. I am sure your neighborhood ghost will appreciate it. In fact, ghosts might moan just to dramatically make it known they are bored, just...
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The Coming Golden Age of Fine Art
We are on the threshold of a Golden Age in Fine Art. We are now witnessing its origins; our children will benefit from its treasures. After decades of declining activity in the fine arts, and the...
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Reflections on Photographing Tragedy
#457912672 / gettyimages.com Last Friday morning I found myself frantically running out of the house to get to Marysville-Pilchuck High School. I arrived to find a chaotic, scary, and tragic scene....
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Treefellers
In Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa, a group of Afrikaans men live on the outskirts of of the coastal city. The photographs I plan to share reflect an intimate look into the lives of these men; how...
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The Price of Sex
After returning to her childhood village in western Bulgaria, where she lived until the age of 11, Mimi Chakarova decided to investigate the devastating effects to Eastern European women who have been...
View ArticleIn Support of the Arts as Conduit for Extreme Expression and Catharsis
Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day is a panel discussion event moderated by NPR National Correspondent Kelly McEvers, part of the Spirit & Place Festival and sponsored by the Vonnegut Memorial Library,...
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How Making Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain Changed Me
I had the privilege of making a film that changed the way I see things in life. Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, which is being released next month, is inspired by the world's worst industrial disaster which...
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