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Soaring With the Washington Ballet's Noche de Pasión: The Tango Soirée
It was a lovely evening for fundraising with The Washington Ballet Saturday, 8 November 2014. The new edition of performers and the charm of the artistic director Septime Webre were only exceeded by...
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When a Body Needs a Body
"Have we got a corpse?" I suppose that's the first question asked in certain types of police procedurals. And, of corpse, if there is one, the next question is "Whodunit?" Sometimes, however, the...
View ArticleImportant Lesson for Artists: How to Introduce Themselves
There are times when you can assume that you will be the center of conversation -- for instance, in your studio during an open-studio event, in your booth at an art fair, at a gallery opening of your...
View ArticleYoung Patrons Groups
There is one suggestion I have heard very frequently from board members that is sure to elicit groans from the development department of an arts organization: Form a young donors group so that there...
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Bong Jung Kim Gets Right to the Point
Bong Jung Kim, Trace (2013), mixed media on canvas, 38 X 74 inches Bong Jung Kim has a very deliberate and consistent way of working. His intention, which is navigated through bold combinations and...
View ArticleRecording Is the Art of Forgetting - Enjoy Yourself
"Recording is the art of forgetting." I found the phrase written in my journal the other day. I suppose it's only fitting that I seem to have forgotten where I first heard it. If the phrase is true,...
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Celebrating Boston's Architectural Legacy
Text and photography by Lee F. Mindel for Architectural Digest. A Frank Gehry-designed building at MIT. As a young architecture student immersed in my studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design,...
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A Day Without Art: Looking Back 25 Years
Twenty-five years ago today, the first Day Without Art began as the US art world's national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. To make the public aware that HIV-AIDS can touch...
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The Devil You Know
When we first meet Frannie, the protagonist of writer-director Liz Tuccillo's debut feature, Take Care, she's fresh from the hospital, arm in a sling, leg in a brace, being wrangled from a cab by her...
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Le jour se lève
Marcel Carne was renowned for Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise, l945). Le jour se leve, (Daybreak, l939), which was recently revived at Film Forum, is a relatively minor melodrama. However...
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The Eternal Recurrence of a Spotless Mind
Everyone is always told that you have to love your significant other warts and all. But what if he or she or it could journey to a parallel universe where none of their positive attributes would be...
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), which was recently revived as part of the Mario Monicelli series at Film Forum is literally Roman comedy. On its most basic level it's a comic heist movie that takes...
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deepsouth : An Interview With Filmmaker Lisa Biagiotti
It's an exciting time for independent filmmaking. Storytellers are using grassroots campaigning techniques to raise crucial funds online. This also enables a direct link to the communities they're...
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Playing the Long Game: BAK on Curating the Political
Alice Creischer, In the Stomach of the Predators, 2013-2014, installation view (fragment), BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2014. (photography: Tom Janssen). On screen, a wolf, a jackal, a...
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Stacey Moore: Curiosity Rover
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust "They look like everything except what they are." -- Stacey Moore Stacey Moore: Sea Grid...
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Sweet Covers O' Mine: The Top 15 Cover Songs
Photo credit: tumblr.com source: ruinscape via: let--it--roll I've been a music junkie ever since I could remember. I'll never forget being four years old and asking my mom to cut the shoulders off of...
View ArticleA Song to Sing with My Brothers and Sisters
At an impressionable age in the 1960s and into the 1970s, I longed to be a folk singer. I was too young to be in Washington for The March and I was certainly not old enough to head to the Haight. But I...
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Pat Passlof: Paintings From the 50's -- Restating the Question of Meaning
Safe Arrival, 1950 Image courtesy of the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation Pat Passlof's writing --provided by The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation--points time and again at how...
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5 Reasons to Suck It Up and Watch Frozen
So, you're one of the 5 people left on planet earth who hasn't seen Frozen yet. Congratulations - you are very renegade. But as this holiday season is upon us, the ice princesses of Disney are showing...
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Mark Strand
On June 27th, 1980, before his MacArthur fellowship, his Pulitzer Prize and his Poet Laureate gig, Mark Strand visited my East Village studio for a portrait. Mark looked at my prints of Willem...
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