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How to Get Someone to Change His Mind: A Film Review of Diplomacy
How To Get Someone to Change His Mind A film review of Diplomacy by Dr. Lloyd Sederer On a hot night in late August of 1944 the Allies, led by General Patton's army, had advanced to the periphery of...
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A Play for Our Times: Pia Wilson's Turning the Glass Around
A remarkable new play, Turning the Glass Around, by Pia Wilson, fearlessly plunges into the ever-morphing conversation about immigration, race and class. Turning the Glass Around evokes images of Death...
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Are We Entering the Golden Age of Opera... Marketing?
Some people say opera is dying. Others say it's experiencing a kind of rebirth. I'm in the latter camp, as I mentioned in my most recent articles about the burgeoning of exciting new opera companies in...
View ArticleRobert A. M. Stern: The Limestone Jesus
"Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga. I think it is much more exciting to enter into a dialogue with the past" says the acclaimed American architect Robert A.M. Stern in this video presenting...
View ArticleDaniel Liebeskind: The Ground Zero Master Plan
When New York was attacked on 9/11, world famous architect Daniel Libeskind was in Berlin for the opening of his Jewish Museum. At once he said: I am leaving for New York. Hear the fascinating story...
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Portrait of a Song
All images copyright David Norbut I have known David for a few years now. What first drew me to his work, were the projects and stories he would create with his photography. The first project that...
View ArticleThe (He)art of Amanda Palmer
I only discovered Amanda Palmer a year or so ago, when her TEDTalk --"The Art of Asking"-- made it into my Facebook timeline. I watched it, cried and immediately shared it to my page with the following...
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Uncoddled: Portraits of America's 'Luckiest Generation'
If there's one thing we humans like to do, it's label ourselves and one another. Sometimes those labels are quite obviously laudatory ("The Greatest Generation"). Sometimes they're pitying ("The Lost...
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Visions (and Sounds) of America: This Artweek.LA (November 3, 2014)
Amériques | The Los Angeles Philharmonic launches in/SIGHT, a groundbreaking multimedia series, with Edgard Varèse's Amériques led by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with video installation by Refik Anadol....
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What Engagement Photos Should Really Look Like
Imagine a young couple about to be married, filled with love, passion and romance. They join hand in hand, embarking on the adventure of their lifetime, choosing to journey through life together,...
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A Portrait of Parkinson's
At 47, with several projects on the horizon, the last thing one hopes for is a visit from Parkinson and for him to overstay his welcome. For those who can talk about it with calmness and serenity, the...
View ArticleTime-Lapse Video: A Young Man Transforms Into a Drag Queen
I've always been fascinated with the transformation of butterflies -- how a baby larva eats himself into becoming an earth-bound caterpillar, which then bundles up on a leaf for a couple of weeks and...
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On Abstraction, Ed Moses and the Need to Explain
When abstract painting first came into being around a century ago, the traumatic struggle of overcoming 500 years of figuration set the prevailing defensive tone shared by its "inventors." Russian...
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Jimmy Page and Jeff Koons Rock n' Roll
What is the next dream project for Jeff Koons? Designing an album cover for Jimmy Page. The visual artist and the guitar hero were at the 92nd Street Y in New York on November 3 for a discussion,...
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Gay Serial, The Prospectives, Uses Instagram to Tell the Story of Gay Men in...
Author Adam Hurly (photo credit: Nate Poekert) I was recently introduced to The Prospectives, a story, written by Adam Hurly, that follows a gay man making his way in New York City. Hurly is garnering...
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Chaos, Under Beautiful Control
As a child, I was taken to the Hermitage Museum, where I was struck by marble sculptures of Greek and Roman Gods and Heroes. So, when my parents took me to see the Nutcracker and Swan Lake, I felt that...
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Remembering Tom Slaughter
Tom Slaughter passed away on October 25th. He was a gifted artist, whose work was immediate, fun, simple, and unmistakably his own. Henry Geldzahler, the first curator for 20th Century Art at the...
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The Business of The Band Wagon at Encores!
Who even watches The Band Wagon anymore? Well, my daughters do, Lea and Sara, ages eleven and nine. The Band Wagon may be their favorite movie musical. Fred Astaire's shoe shine. Cyd Charisse's...
View ArticleA Purveyor of Truth: The Writer's Life
This will be a three part series, examining creativity, which in this writer's mind, has been extremely malnourished in today's world. The first two pieces examines the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the...
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So Your Kid Wants to Write Songs
When parents ask me how they can help their child be a songwriter, I pause. I don't want to hurt their feelings. Sometimes I'm afraid to tell them what I think. It may not be what they want to hear....
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