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Neïl Beloufa and Theo Danjuma -- Artist and Collector in Conversation at the...
When a young artist and a collector are in conversation, it's usually about one thing: art. Neïl Beloufa and Theo Danjuma are no exception. French-Algerian artist Beloufa works across a range of...
View Article'This Place' Exhibition in Prague in DOX
This Place is the name of an International exhibition currently shown in the DOX gallery in Prague. The DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design has been organizing and hosting...
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31 Days of Mystery: The "Banksy Does New York" Documentary
The Director and Producers Talk About Their New Street Art Documentary. The Banksy show is about to begin again. For those who are not familiar with what that statement implies, you'll definitely be...
View ArticlePicasso's New Home
The Picasso Museum -- housed in the elegant Hôtel Salé in the Marais area of Paris -- has gone through turmoil. Since shutting its doors in 2009 in order to undertake a complete renovation, it ran into...
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My Mother's Sin: A Performance for the Hellenes of the World
Greek theater does not merely consist of tragedy and satire from ancient drama. For, today, numerous modern performances of renowned Greek plays adorn various Athenian venues, offering up a taste of...
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Just Desserts in the Valley of the Green Giants
Wayne Thiebaud, Cherry Cake, 2013, oil on canvas, 11 x 14 in. (Image courtesy of Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, www.paulthiebaudgallery.com. Photo credit John White/Phocasso. © Wayne...
View ArticleGet Over Selfie
Recent research by The Body Shop reveals that the average young woman spends 753 hours of her life, that's approximately ONE MONTH, taking, editing and uploading the perfect selfie. True story. I have...
View ArticleGreek Tragedy and John Wick
Revenge rules. I recently gave a talk after a marathon day of theater. The Cutting Ball, an avant-garde company in San Francisco, performed the Oresteia, the great Greek tragedy by Aeschylus. The...
View ArticleIn Memoriam
Paul Margulies: The Man Who Wrote "Plop Plop Fizz Fizz" My father always thought it was ironic that people swooned when they found out that he was the genius behind the famous ad campaign for Alka...
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"Days of Endless Time" at the Hirshhorn Delivers an Antidote to Information...
Siebren Versteeg, Neither There nor There, 2005. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Photo by Lee The average person checks his phone 150 times a day. As a...
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Modern Glamour: A/W 14 Party Season Trends with Fashion Foie Gras
For quite some time now, fashion bloggers have been well en route to becoming Fashion's loudest voices when it comes to bringing trends to the people. The American force behind UK favourite Fashion...
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Venice, in Prose and Photographs
If Venice is a dream state, then a new book about the city built on a lagoon is its vivid interpretation. Dream of Venice, by JoAnn Locktov and Charles Christopher Dream of Venice is a book full of...
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How Taylor Swift's Music Helped Me When My Mom Died
Let's bring it back to 2007 for a minute. I was an awkward 7th grader from a small town in Connecticut who happened to stumble across the newest act in country music. I instantly fell in love, although...
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New York's Water Towers Have Inspired Photographer Ronnie Farley for Over 30...
A true artist sees things the rest of us don't see, and refreshes our vision in new and different ways. Such is the case with acclaimed photojournalist Ronnie Farley, whom I wrote about in 2012 when...
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Art & the Tyranny of the New
New. Fresh. Revolutionary. Am I talking about laundry detergent or art? The tyranny of the new controls artists' creativity just as it does the world of commerce. Yet great art springs not from what...
View Article5 Tips for Curing Writer's Block
"Hitting a creative wall? Take a break from work to watch a procedural. They always solve the case and so will you" -- Lena Dunham's dad in Not That Kind of Girl While some may consider it an excuse,...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Essaouira at the Heart of Judeo-Arabic Culture
The 11th Edition of the Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques The autumn evening is still balmy and Essaouira's large sports hall is packed on this last Thursday, Oct. 30. Rabbi Haïm Louk has now taken...
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Goodbye to Language: Brecht in 3-D
There's Godard's much talked about dog Roxy who has more than a cameo in Goodbye to Language and there's the subversive use of 3-D. In a kind of cinematic guerilla warfare, this highest level of...
View ArticleTheater: Show Boat Sings (Thankfully)
SHOW BOAT *** out of **** AVERY FISHER HALL AT LINCOLN CENTER Show Boat is an excellent show for the New York Philharmonic to present in concert. It's almost absurdly overstuffed with performers,...
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Waning Light of Autumn in Art
Autumn can be an intense time. There is an instinct to gather food and firewood and reading material and hunker down for the long winter ahead...but at the same time there is much beauty yet to...
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