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Snarkitecture in Black and White
For a person like me, who thrives in bold color combinations and patterns, it's fair to say that the monochromatic black and white palette that is almost always used by Snarkitecture took me out of my...
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Ask the Art Professor: How Do I Find the Right Graduate School for Fine Arts?
"My friends and I are all beginning to look into graduate school and what our future may hold for us as fine artists. We range in age from our mid-20s to mid-30s and are at all at different stages of...
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Rooting for The Last Ship and Applauding MTC
Two things happened in theater yesterday that had me thinking -- The New York Times reported Sting was going into The Last Ship, which he wrote the score for, and The Country House closed. These two...
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Saxophonist Michael Blake Pays Homage to Pres and Hawk on Tiddy Boom
Saxophonist Michael (not Mike) Blake is one of those artists who have a sustained appreciation of the tradition and for those who have come before him. In 1984 while still in Canada he had an...
View ArticleFilm Review: Time Is IllMatic Directed by One9
Let me start by being completely honest. I won't call myself a true Nas fan. I definitely listened to a few of his songs when they came on the radio, and danced to some, when they were spun in the...
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Museum Selfie-ishness
Recently, at the Museum of Modern Art with my niece, I found something unexpected blocking my favorite Van Gogh: a young woman standing with her back six inches away from the canvas, taking a...
View ArticleMy Conversation with Joni Mitchell
Tonight on PBS, I'm joined for a rare interview by Joni Mitchell, who has just released a four-disc collection of newly remastered tracks spanning some 40 years of recording by the iconic...
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Peter Murray Advocates for Safer Cycling in London (VIDEO)
Self-proclaimed cycling aficionado Peter Murray has a thing or two to say about London's infrastructure, a city that's widely known to be not particularly cyclist-friendly. With his lifelong...
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In New York, Yun-Chin Zhou Seduces Zankel Hall Audience
Last week I attended the Peter Marino Concert opening the 54th Young Concert Artists Series at Carnegie's Zankel Hall. I was prepared to hear an excellent pianist. It turned out that Yun-Chin Zhou was...
View ArticleThe Real 'Anna Karenina': Through Tolstoy's Eyes
Anna Karenina gets around. She's had a second career touring the world, dropping in on television studios and movie sets, portrayed by Greta Garbo, Sophie Marceau, Vivien Leigh, and Jacqueline Bisset,...
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet Collaborates With Terence Blanchard to...
Complexions Contemporary Ballet is celebrating its 20th anniversary season with a run at the Joyce Theater in New York City from now until November 30th. The program consists of repertory favorites and...
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Matisse's Cut-Outs at MoMA
Was Matisse a designer manqué? His parents's involvement with textiles and fabric design has always been considered an influence on his work (viz.Matisse, His Art and His Textiles by Ann Dumas, Jack...
View ArticleMurder Mystery
The reports last week of the ghastly murder of rabbis at prayer in a Jerusalem synagogue seemed to us to echo a terrible crime long ago, captured in images and in words that were painfully familiar. It...
View ArticleEve and Adam (After a Crayon and Pencil Drawing by Francoise Gilot)
You force fed me your forbidden fruit. I choked on that red offering. I could not swallow anymore. You smiled with sadistic scorn. You didn't wait for my coughs to stop. You thrust more apple down my...
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LOCOS REDUX: The Lost LA Years
Jack Kerouac said in On the Road that "Somebody tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs came rolling to LA in the southwest corner." And that seems pretty accurate....
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Towards 'Canine Equity' in the City
Now is the time for the urban dog. One of the most immediate cultural distinctions a traveler notices in France is omnipresent,well-behaved dogs, often quite unlike their detached American cousins...
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Rossini's Hot Playlist
What is it about Rossini operas that make them still hot tickets? Could it be those galloping orchestrals or heart-stopping vocal vaults? Or perhaps those preposterous story lines are needed...
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Legendary Artists vs. Legendary Designer
As far back as I can remember, I always admired the graffiti art surrounding California, especially three legendary graffiti artists, Jason Willams known as Revok, Victor Chapa known Reye, and Jeffrey...
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Museums and Cathedrals: In Art, We Trust
Every time I go to London, I spend a disproportionate amount of time at its National Gallery. Not out of a sense of obligation, but out of sheer love and amazement for all its art treasures. You name...
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The Secret Side of Childhood
All Images Copyright Patrick St-Hilaire Interview by Paula Gardner Winter Rose As a portrait photographer, I am always inspired by other photographers that have the ability to capture a portrait that...
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