I'm a Pop Singer and Spotify Works for Me
The Internet is buzzing with the news of Taylor Swift's big move away from Spotify. Artists are firing up their torches and grabbing their pitchforks to slay the gnarling, evil dragon that is...
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A Souvenir of Terror
Twenty-five years ago it was torn down. I was a little boy when it was erected and I remember thinking, "What kind of country needs to build a wall to keep its citizens in? Why would anyone want to do...
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Egon Schiele: Portraits at Neue Galerie
In 1963, Dr. Alessandra Comini saw a small exhibit of Austrian Expressionists. It was her first time viewing the work of Egon Schiele. She described it as "an apocalypse that changed my life." It put...
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Bill Reynolds Honored: Old Time Vaqueros Celebrate Tradition and History
By Nancy Chuda Editor in Chief of LuxEcoLiving and co-founder of Healthy Child Healthy World Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum and Carriage House LuxEcoLiving Custom Saddle by Doug Cox "Out where the...
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Dan Flavin's "Monument" / Can Minimalism Protest a War?
Dan Flavin, monument 4 those who have been killed in ambush (to P.K. who reminded me about death), 1966. Red fluorescent light. 8 ft. (244 cm) wide, 8 ft. (244 cm) deep. CL no. 108. Photograph by...
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Inherent Advice: An AFI Fest Essay
Making a film is the art of retroactive hypnotism. And there is no greater cinema hypnotist than Paul Thomas Anderson. It's rare to see a movie simultaneously this interesting and this good; this...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Heidi Schreck's 'Grand Concourse, 'En Garde Arts 'Basetrack,'...
What Heidi Schreck's Grand Concourse, at Playwrights Horizons, is really about is only revealed in the final minute. So be assured the wonderfully eye-widening revelation won't be described here. Until...
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The Human Dimension of Mixed-Use Development
On a walk from Fréjus to Saint-Raphaël last week, an elderly man asked us, in French, why I had just taken a photograph of his house. I offered to erase the photograph, which was intended to show, in...
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Black and White Photography: Dancers in the Dark
Birth Over the last ten years as a photographer, it's been a beautiful pleasure to work with incredible dancers from around the world. The following images from my ongoing series Dancers in the Dark...
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The California College of the Arts Gets Elemental at Nightlife
Walk into, "All is Not Lost," a 25 foot high inflatable iceberg by artist/designers Raphael Ajl, Brooke Francesi, Aaron Levin, Rob Sieg, and Lake Buckley The California Academy of Sciences' Thursday...
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San Pedro Gallery's Art Gets Habit Forming
Jen Foti's spun silk embodies Cornelius Projects' investigation of the blurred boundaries that define art. There's a photographer working the Los Angeles art scene so determined to mark his territory...
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The Art of Transformation Is Here!
There was a time when if you said the name Opa-locka, what came to the minds of anyone not from Opa-locka was drugs, The Triangle and the irony that this small 4.2 mile City also housed the private...
View ArticleTheater: Some Disappointments and a Promising Young Composer -- Stephen Sondheim
LOST LAKE ** out of **** MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB GRAND CONCOURSE ** out of **** PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS SATURDAY NIGHT *** out of **** YORK THEATRE COMPANY AT ST. PETER'S Some people imagine critics relish...
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The Custom Motorcycle Movement & the Road to Self-Expression
Arthur De Kersauson, The Greasy Hands Preachers director, airs out flat tracker The growing impulse to customize motorcycles undoubtedly taps into a deep human desire to express personal tastes,...
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Michael Sweet's Top 25 Holiday Gifts For Photographers
Film Canister Toilet Paper Holder #6 On The List Lists are never definitive, never. They are, at best, simply a good collection genuinely reflective of the person who made them. This list is mine. The...
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Are We All Urban Now? Is There a Here and There?
Asks Newly Appointed Dean of MIT School of Architecture Hashim Sarkis' office overlooks the rooftops of Harvard Yard, the Harvard Lampoon, the newly renovated Harvard Art Museums opening this week and...
View ArticleA Bad Sign
There has been much reporting about the attempt of Jewish families to reclaim works of art that had been pilfered by the Nazis. The recent discovery of 1280 works of art in the Schwabing apartment of...
View ArticleConfessions of a Teamster Monk
The Gospels were copied by hand. Every scroll in the Library of Alexandria was. The knowledge that survived the Dark Ages did so in manuscripts that were hand copied, mainly by monks. Came the...
View ArticleAn American in Paris Without Gene Kelly?
When I learned recently that so many of my good friends were cast in the upcoming "reimagining" of An American in Paris, I eagerly went to the website to read about the new production scheduled to...
View ArticleFrom Rodin to Reward Pathways: The Science of Art
The first time I saw Rodin's The Thinker I was nine, at the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. It was a small, unassuming bronze cast in a room of eye-catching paintings, but there was something powerful...
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