Across From Bloody Mary's Bar and Grill
The final sun of the year is broken upon the water, an accident no longer waiting to happen, a bulb con- solidated no longer, a shattered whole comprised of the sum of its several solar parts, a...
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Second City's Marc Warzecha and Frank Caeti from A Christmas Carol: Twist...
Hello, Marc. Second City, via its production of Twist Your Dickens, made its way to Culver City's Kirk Douglas Theatre last year, to rave reviews. What have you been up to since? Well, just before we...
View ArticleMust-see Painting Shows: January 2014
I looked at a lot of art while hunkering down to escape the subarctic temperatures blasting through Boston and much of the country last week. My monthly review of more than 400 gallery shows yielded...
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Artist Clifford Ross Has Taken the Road Less Traveled: Stained Glass (Part 2)
The Austin Wall as seen from the main lobby of the Austin Federal Courthouse. Copyright: Clifford Ross All Rights Reserved This is the second half of my interview with the artist Clifford Ross,...
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Hurray to Pope Francis and MOCA Trustees
First of all, a belated Happy New Year to you, my friends. May I ask what is on your list of New Years' resolutions? Oh, never mind your waistline. What is next on your list? As for me, I hope to see...
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REVS Is The Iron Man In New York Graffiti
How often do you find a new tag from an '80s graffiti writer? How often is it made of iron? REVS is back. Or maybe he never left. It is impossible to tell when the tag is a welded sculpture on a large...
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'The Shawati' Interviews': Wadjda Filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour
Haifaa Al-Mansour, image courtesy of the Dubai International Film Festival To me, Haifaa Al-Mansour's beautiful film Wadjda represents everything that is right with the world. The Arab world. I make...
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The Knot Has It So Wrong
Every year the big box wedding mega sites love to come out with their lists of "must-have" wedding photos, and so as not to disappoint, The Knot published their latest list of 50. Fifty wedding photos...
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Both Sides of the Canvas: An Interview With Doris Mirescu
PARIS BELONGS TO US - trailer on Vimeo from Dangerous Ground on Vimeo. Doris Mirescu is an accomplished director and experimental multi-media theater maker who uses live video feed to create three...
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When Art Framed War
"How are you going to commemorate the Great War?" As the head of a history museum, this is the sort of question I'm used to hearing -- and given the fact that 2014 marks the centennial of the outbreak...
View ArticleThe Revolution of Philippe Sollers
Since I began reading Philippe Sollers, I have witnessed the unfolding of four major "periods" in his work. His youthful novels: the strange solitude, the conjoined apprenticeship in desire and...
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Alex Prager is Not Another Face in the Crowd
I became acquainted with Alex Prager's highly cinematic photographs about five years ago and I immediately knew she was on to something big. The saturated colors, the sharpness of the images, the...
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Does Umbrella Bed Refill or Rehash 2 Tone Ska?
When Jamaican rural Mento music migrated into a jazzy, brassy urban sound, Ska was born. While Mento offered a real slice of Jamaican life in the 1950s, Ska filled the streets and resort areas and...
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Art and Artists III: Forms of Beauty
The Blind Prophet. Let me conclude this sequence of posts with a slightly more detailed examination of what it means to an artist -- in this case me -- to be able to follow in real time the work of...
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Notes From the Road: Texas
We've now visited more than 500 artists around the U.S. as we continue building the exhibition State of the Art, which will debut at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art next September. Early on in...
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'The Shawati' Interviews': Emirati Filmmaker Khalid Al Mahmood
Khalid Al Mahmood, image courtesy of the filmmaker While I am the first to hate labels imposed by the world around us, I made a conscious choice to include "Emirati filmmaker" in the title of this...
View ArticleExposed: Blackfish Documentary Affects Big Business and How Anyone Can Help...
By Donald Julius Rapier, 17 Donald Julius Rapier is a 17-year-old junior at Lindblom Math & Science Academy. He is a participant in the Youth Narrating Our World (YNOW) through the OpEd Project....
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Ask the Art Professor: How Do I Choose a Field for Graduate School?
"I am a junior art major, and I cannot really tell what I would like to focus on if I go on to graduate school. It makes it even harder for me to choose schools because I don't know what field of art I...
View ArticleHow to Save Local Bookstores in Two Easy Steps
All across the planet, particularly in more computerized nations, bookstores are facing increasing challenges, from the dual competition of e-books and Amazon, or both simultaneously. Amazon beats...
View ArticleMiyoshi Barosh on the ImageBlog
Feel Better, 2012, acrylic and oil paint, high-density and upholstery foam on canvas, 93 x 132 x 8 inches. See the work in progress:...
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