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Introducing: Joshua Beamish, Choreographer
The Coming Golden Age of Fine Art series: Choreographers Joshua Beamish in his choreography Pierced, photo by David Cooper Marvel Comics has missed an awesome super-hero -- Choreo! Choreo speaks to...
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In Conversation With Debby Boone - Coming to Davies Hall
This Sunday, December 7, Michael Feinstein and Debby Boone welcome the holiday season at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. Under the musical direction of John Oddo, Michael and Debby will perform a...
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Beyond Therapy?
In a recent Times piece "Therapist and Patient Share a Theater of Hurt," (NYT, 11/5/14), Robert J. Landy, director of N.Y.U.'s drama therapy program makes the following statement, "With certain forms...
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5 Famous Stolen Pieces of Art (and Where to See Them)
By Tommy Burson for ShermansTravel We all love a good art heist, don't we? They've been romanticized in films like Monuments Men, The Thomas Crown Affair and, of course, the unforgettable, but...
View ArticleMet Opera: A Masterful "Die Meistersinger" With Levine As Masterconductor
The world of grand opera is generally not known for its comedies, and few are quite as grand, funny or poignant as the Metropolitan Opera's magnificent production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg,...
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Paola Antonelli: On Curating -- A Way to Communicate
Being a curator just happened. I was interested in architecture and design, and slowly, but surely, realized I became a curator because it was another way to communicate the belief that design is...
View Article#JadeTalks to Mark Powell: A Leading Voice in Arts Leadership
Even before I interviewed Mark Powell, a Ford Foundation award-winning conductor and popular instructor in the Institute for Music Leadership at the Eastman School of Music, I already knew I would be...
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'Pupils of Apelles' at Copro Gallery: One Cult, Two Masters
"The time which I have been thrown into does not interest me." - Odd Nerdrum Pupils of Apelles, a four person exhibition now on view at Copro Gallery, is about reaching far back in time for inspiration...
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The Doha Ajyal Diaries: For the Love of Cinema and Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
I fell in love with Arab cinema right here, in Doha. I hold the Doha Film Institute absolutely responsible for me catching this fantastical bug five years ago. This beautiful city, with its azure seas...
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Sensorium 2014: In Search of a 'Gathering of Poets'
Currently in India there are so many arts and literary festivals, the joke goes, that they outnumber the participants. One school of thought questions their existence -- after all, aren't writers meant...
View ArticleWhen Silence Gives the Opera Meaning
Near the very end of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro comes the moment when the philandering Count Almaviva, fresh from yet another discovery of his betrayal, asks his wife for forgiveness. "Contessa,...
View ArticleHow to Fix an Opera Company Before It's Broken -- Big Changes at Portland Opera
In the opera world, it seems like it's always the bad news that makes the headlines. While there is certainly plenty of good news from the fleet of new, lithe opera companies cropping up, we still...
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An American Legacy in New Britain
Note: This post contains artistic depictions of nudity. Douglas Hyland is the Director of the New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut. For the past 15 years he has expanded not only the...
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Proto SoHo: Artist Developers in New York City
Several years ago, I co-authored Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo. The book tells the story of SoHo's founding as an artist community through the prism of 80 Wooster Street,...
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Into the Woods at the Wallis Annenberg Center
Photo by Kevin Parry The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's revival of Stephen Sondheim's iconic musical, now playing at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills, is an uneven, if often delightful,...
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Top 5 Design Highlights of Miami Art Week
On view through December 7, 2014. Louis Vuitton Unveils "Playing with Shapes, Pierre Paulin 1972." Art Basel in Miami Beach kicks off this week, and design enthusiasts will flock to Miami to visit the...
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1,760 feet of canvas (536 meters) showing the paintings of over 1,000 Syrian refugee children was displayed at the National Mall in Washington D.C. on October 23-27 this year. Pictures of trees,...
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The Art of Widowhood
"Widow's weeds" originally intended to simplify the female form and shroud a woman's grief, but the Metropolitan's new exhibit "Death Becomes Her" proves that these ensembles did just the opposite....
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Capote's 'Christmas Memory' Set to Sweet Music
Come Christmas every year, new offerings are presented with the hope they'll become holiday perennials. In 2010 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley launched a musical adaptation of Truman Capote's...
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Finding the Right Gimmick for Your Art
It's great to be talented, but in far too many cases one's talent can be as unwieldy as an extra-large penis. Size may be impressive, but what you do with your endowment is what really counts in the...
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