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Robert Jackson: 'Tinkering with Reality'
In Need of a Plan, Oil on linen, 40 x 30 inches Painter Robert C. Jackson likes things... lots of them. His current show at Gallery Henoch, Tinkering with Reality, is populated by cosmologies of...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: 'The Band Wagon' Is Worth Jumping on
The list of delightful ingredients in the Encores! Series revival of The Band Wagon with its Arthur Schwartz-Howard Dietz score and--when it bowed in 1931--its Dietz-George S. Kaufman libretto is so...
View ArticleNo News Is Bad News
I am a voracious consumer of arts news; I read as many news stories, reviews and features as I can in newspapers, websites and other electronic outlets. Yet, as a new arts season has begun, I have been...
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
If you grew up in the 50's and 60's and had the opportunity of seeing Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour(1959) which is currently completing a revival Film Forum at you might have been haunted or...
View ArticleHow the 'Psychological Drama' Taught Peter Lorre How to Act
Even if you don't know his name, and even if you were born 30 years after he died, chances are you recognize the actor who played the creepy guy in the 1942 film Casablanca. Peter Lorre 's life ended...
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7 Real Art Ideas for a Cultured and Sophisticated Home
Nothing will make your home look more grown-up and cultured than art. At this point, you can do so much better than cliche, college dorm staples of "Starry Night" and "Marilyn Diptych" posters. When it...
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A River Runs Through Borden Auditorium at the Manhattan School of Music
On Friday November 7, 2014, the Manhattan School of Music's Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra, under the able direction of maestro Justin DiCioccio, produced a river of sound that washed through the...
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10 Budget-Friendly Street Photography Books
Image Copyright Michael Ernest Sweet Courtesy of Brooklyn Arts Press Photography books can be really expensive. I know, I've said this before. But seriously, some of us just don't want to fork over...
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Pas de Deux
Co-authored by Cynthia Penna, Art Director at Art 1307 Pas de Deux: A succession of passes in a dance performed by two people with perfect balance. The exhibition of Laddie John Dill and Todd...
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New York Inspires
I've been thinking a lot about inspiration and what drives me to take a picture. I always have a camera with me and it's in my nature as a photographer to need to capture where I am at any given time....
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I am the Jackie Robinson of Hip Hop Graphic Design!
It was 1987. I had just gotten off work and walked across the Kitsap Mall to Sam Goody to look for this album. I heard that it had just got out and I wanted to be the first of my friends to have it. I...
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You Can't Take the Country out of Brooklyn!
The borough may be best known as a hub of hip-hop and artsy indie rock, but Kings County is also home to a vibrant country music community, made up of both urban musicians with Southern roots and...
View ArticleThat's the Ticket
Recently on a visit to family in Chicago, I bought a ticket over the phone for the quite wonderful Writers Theatre in suburban Glencoe, where they currently have the Midwest premiere of an...
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Taylor: Swift Boat or Love Boat
Feature Flash/Shutterstock.com Last week was a convenient window for Taylor Swift haters to come out. She pulled her songs from Spotify and now has the only debut album of 2014 to go platinum in one...
View ArticleLaurie Krauz's "Jazz Soup" -- Presents a Tribute to Bebop Icon -- Sheila Jordan
One aspect that distinguishes many jazz singers from other vocalists is the tight collaboration between the singer and their instrumentalist colleagues. Not only does the artist work in tandem with his...
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Giuseppe Tornatore Remembers as Cinema Paradiso Turns 25
Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso won the 1990 Best Foreign Film Oscar after setting box-office records the previous year all over the world. Paradiso had a rough journey on its road to glory,...
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A Radiant Saturday Night and a Ghostly Chamber Musical
Ben Fankhauser in Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night. Photo: Jenny Anderson Charm comes bounding over the footlights in Stephen Sondheim's relatively little-known Saturday Night, which remains at the...
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The Female Farmer Project
All Images Copyright Audra Gaines Mulkern I first met Audra Mulkern through a mobile photography community in Seattle. We hit it off with our mutual passion for photography and then found that our love...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Smokey Robinson
Tonight I'm joined by Smokey Robinson, a man many consider to be among the finest songwriters this country has ever produced. Smokey has been writing, producing and recording hits for almost 50 years....
View ArticleVeterans, Healing and the Arts
Today is Veterans Day, a time when our nation reflects on the contribution, sacrifice and legacy of our military service members and their families. For many of us, these reflections can turn deeply...
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