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A Unique Way to Celebrate the Arts and Support a Good Cause
I was honored this summer to be invited by Down East Magazine, the magazine of Maine, to be one of their cover artists for Down East Magazine's 60th anniversary issue. Joining me were artists Alex...
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Part and Parcel: Susan Rich
In Part and Parcel, I talk with writers and artists about a fascinating facet of their work. The condition of looking creates longing--or maybe it's the other way around. Art always finds a way to...
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5 Stunning Art Hotels
By Laura Pearson for the Orbitz Travel Blog Drab landscape paintings, sad still lifes, framed stock photos, garish lobby sculptures. Too often hotel art is amateurish and unconsidered—if not an...
View ArticleCinderella: San Francisco Opera's Whipped Cream Atop a Delightful Season
I've had a great time at the opera house this year. Thank you, San Francisco Opera -- the programming has been nicely varied, and every production I've seen, going back to the summer's La Traviata and...
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Power Plays by Robert Dekkers for Post:Ballet
Like a René Magritte painting come to life, Robert Dekkers' latest assault on the conventions of theatrical dance piles up one absurd image on another in precise, deliberate fashion, leading us...
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Stage Door: The River, It's Only A Play
Hugh Jackman is a big Broadway draw. Even though his current drama The River at Circle in the Square drowns in insignificance. Ticket prices exceed the most expensive musical; it's a lot to pay to...
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"Oedipus," San Pedro Rep
Photos courtesy of Louella Allen Photography. Credibility begets anticipation. Having earned an imprimatur with their prior production of "The Lady of Shalott," the verdict that awaited San Pedro Rep's...
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Painters: Submit Your Memorable Paintings from 2014
Attention all painters: Send me an image of your most memorable painting from 2014 for possible inclusion in my year-end blog: Ten Memorable Paintings from 2014 To view last year's blog: 10 Memorable...
View Article'Rosewater': A Film Review
I'm sorry, Jon Stewart. I'm really sorry because I love your Daily Show. I love that your satire holds the feet of politicians to the fire. But your film... well, someone needs to say this: it's not...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Shepard's "A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)," Behar's...
Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea have collaborated on projects for 40 years, ever since Shepard directed Rea in a Royal Court production of Shepard's Geography of a Horse Dreamer. More recently, Rea...
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Shaping A Show One Pixel At A Time
The use of creative lighting techniques as an integral part of stagecraft has progressed by leaps and bounds since the day when the introduction of a single-lens slide projector was considered a...
View ArticleWhat I Am Giving Thanks for This Year
This has been a momentous year in my life, and I have a great deal to be thankful for. I am thankful for having had almost 14 years as President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
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Artist Explores Disillusionment With Chase Bank
Co-authored by Jonas Kooyman "Chase Manhattan Plaza" -- Sara Shaoul I grew up overseas as a Chase Kid. My father always said: If you're ever lost If you are ever in trouble If someone takes you If you...
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Life with Lyme
A view into the life of Sarah Davenport as she struggles with late stage Lyme Disease. Photos & words by David Norbut On a crisp November morning I arrive to spend some time with Sarah. I am...
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CultureZohn: Picasso Threeway, Part II, Picasso and Jacqueline
Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline avec une Écharpe Noire (Jacqueline with a Black Scarf), October 11, 1954, Private Collection Photograph by Claude Germain At Pace Gallery, where Arne Glimcher has kept his...
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Does a Museum Visit Really Require Homework?
That's what The Washington Post recently advised in a long article that was supposed to take the anxiety out of art: Our response to art is directly proportional to our knowledge of it. In this sense,...
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A Paris Landmark Evolves With the Seasons
Text and photography by Lee F. Mindel for Architectural Digest. Luxembourg Palace, photographed in summer. Whenever I visit Paris, I make a point of strolling through the Luxembourg Garden, which --...
View Article'A Particle of Dread': Shepard's Oedipus At Cucamonga
The perils of parenthood are myriad and have been the subject of countless tragedies and comedies in the theater for over 2,500 years. Sam Shepard has explored the theme often, but rarely with such...
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Rosewater
The Daily Show is considered primarily a comedy program finding it's provenance in That Was the Week That Was and the media parodies on SNL. However, there's undoubtedly a substantial segment of The...
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Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw at the Mark Taper Forum
photo by Craig Schwartz British playwright Joe Orton, who rose from a working class background and a stint in prison to a short but prolific life as one of Britain's most outstanding playwrights,...
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