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Stage Door: Wiesenthal
Known as the "Jewish James Bond," Simon Wiesenthal is credited with bringing 1,100 Nazis war criminals to justice, including a role in the capture of Adolph Eichmann, the architect of The Final...
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Color Blocking in A/W 14 with Liberty London Girl (VIDEO)
With the darker and colder days glooming, it's normal to not want to let go of Summer, of the warmth, the brightness and the colors. It just so happens that one trend this Fall season will allow you...
View ArticleRevealed: Ayn Rand's Movie Script Glorifying the Atomic Bomb
As some of you may know, Ayn Rand, like many famous novelists, had a period when she "went Hollywood." True, she was no Faulkner or Fitzgerald, but in 1943, Rand sold the rights for The Fountainhead to...
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At the Penn & Teller Show: 7 Questions With Teller
Teller, of the magic duo Penn & Teller, is most famous for not uttering a single word. He has perfected the "silent" character in Vegas' renowned Penn & Teller show with unprecedented success....
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Bondi Sculptures Cause a Seaside Spectacle
It's the time of year for unusual sightings in Bondi, Australia. The coastal track between Bondi Beach and Tamarama Beach is my regular route for an after-work run. But it's difficult to concentrate on...
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The Importance Of Polaroid - Why I Still Love To Shoot With Instant Film
My fashion photography is grounded in art. I love the old, painterly feel that a Polaroid gives and the excitement of seeing how it will turn out, and never really knowing. Polaroid film is old, and...
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Keeping a Firm Grip on Their Audience
For some performers, the toughest challenge is to keep an audience eating out of their hands. Others may be more acutely focused on retaining their market share of a tiny piece of bandwidth within the...
View ArticleTheater: Bill Pullman Shines in Sticks And Bones
STICKS AND BONES ** out of **** THE NEW GROUP AT SIGNATURE THEATRE David Rabe's Sticks And Bones is unquestionably a dated play. But what does that mean? People often use "dated" to refer to a work...
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Now and Then
Remember wondering how in the world things might change in our world as much as they had in our parents' lifetime? This past week Carnegie Hall started a series of live, web-streamed concerts with...
View Article"Sticks and Bones": The Way We Were During Vietnam Via Rabe
The rage that polarized the country over the Vietnam War now, decades later, often seems a distant memory. A gripping revival of David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, led by excellent performances from Bill...
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Men and War: Art Review
There's a stunning exhibition of paintings by the early 20th century American artist Marsden Hartley at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The fact that this substantial body of work spans only two...
View ArticleArt in Small Doses: Video Art in Hong Kong Subway Stations
Commuters in Hong Kong might notice something unusual on their route through the subways this month. In between the barrage of commercial advertisements directed at them (not to mention the throngs of...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: London Gets Musicalized With Sunny Afternoon, Made in...
Because jukebox musicals by definition have marquee-name value, they're not likely any time soon to stop playing -- and costing much more than 25 or 50 cents a selection. The latest is Sunny Afternoon,...
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UPAJ: Improvise Blazes at San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival
At the heart of UPAJ: Improvise -- a documentary about the unlikely liaison between an elder statesman of Indian classical dance and a rebellious young African American tap dancer -- is a bracing...
View ArticleShut up and Sing
A singer singing is naked. The singer is the matador to the listener's bull. A pianist can still depress the keys, a violinist still stop the strings, even a wind player can still count on the...
View ArticleRocking the Wall -- The Berlin Concert that Changed the World
In 2089, when Germany looks back to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, historians and sociologists will have a different perspective on all the myriad of reasons that...
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Art Still Offers Hope: My Interview With Peter Seibt
Artist, Peter Seibt We may all be familiar with the critiques of the art world. It is a world more concerned about manipulating and controlling the monetary price of art than about the value of art....
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Top 5 Contemporary Art Auctions This Fall
Andy Warhol's "A Group of Four Portraits of São Schlumberger" Contemporary art auctions have caused quite a stir in recent years with buyers bidding record-breaking numbers. For those who want in on...
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Misty Copeland Talks Fashion, Memoir and Body Image
It's quite overwhelming to be in the presence of someone who crushes multiple stereotypes, and does it with grace. Misty Copeland is African American. She does not have the typical "ballerina's body."...
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The Berlin Wall: Richard Avedon's Rendezvous With History
Twenty-five years ago the Berlin Wall started to crumble -- one of the most striking historical events of the twentieth century. World-renowned photographer Richard Avedon's visual account of this...
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