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Who Should Be 2014's Person of the Year?
Make your list now! Culturalist.com is the place to shape, share and debate your opinions on anything and everything through Top 10 lists. Want to join the conversation? You can make your own list of...
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Alvin Ailey Unveils World Premiere, Odetta
Wednesday night I saw an array of beautiful luminaries including: the still handsome Harry Belafonte, the ever talented Ruben Santiago Hudson, and the magnificent Jessye Norman (to name just a few)...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside
I'm fascinated by the way technology simultaneously connects and isolates people. My series, Encounter, explores some of the ordinary and intriguing men behind their online identities. Photo by...
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Les Freres Corbusier Is Back! And So Is Herbert Hoover!
Now that Alex Timbers is a big Broadway director and also the co-creator/writer of an Amazon series (Mozart in the Jungle), I was afraid we wouldn't see much from his theater company, Les Freres...
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Stage Door: The Elephant Man, Lost Lake
The Elephant Man is back on Broadway -- thanks to Bradley Cooper, the Hollywood hunk who demonstrates the theatrical chops to portray the deformed Englishman John Merrick. In Victorian times, Merrick,...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Jonny Donahoe's Brilliant 'Every Brilliant Thing'
Even before Every Brilliant Thing began I realized the spunky, balding fellow racing about the in-the-round Barrow Street Theatre to hand out sheets of paper and chat with audience members was...
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Different Strokes For Different Folks
Every now and then when I'm searching for a theme to write about, I find inspiration in a most unusual source: serendipitous calendaring. Even though I might not have imagined any possible kind of idea...
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'The Alien Within - A Living Laboratory of Western Society' at Malmö...
The Alien Within - A Living Laboratory of Western Society at Malmö Konsthall in Malmö (Sweden) is a project around the multi-media installation Animatograph - Icelandic Edition. Destroy Thingvellir,...
View ArticleHeroic Donors
I have written a great deal about the various approaches that help troubled arts organizations reestablish financial stability. Developing a turnaround plan that reveals longer-term artistic plans,...
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Project 24: A Portrait Of Millennial Artist Adam Joumal Echahly
This is the third installment of Project 24, a series that documents the lives and work of millennial artists based in New York City. As a collection, these portraits explore how the latest generation...
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An Illustrated Guide to Feminism
I posted an article on my personal blog recently that received feedback in the comments section. It questioned my definition of feminism as "simplistic." I had cribbed mine from Merriam-Webster and...
View ArticleCavafy's Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Liminality
Probing the work of C. P. Cavafy has been intriguing for me, not only because he is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century European aesthetic culture, but also for another reason: as...
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Black Ties, Boleyns and News Boys: Three Shows in Four Days
The challenge was simple: Three wildly different shows in four days. My 68-year-old mother joined me and provided her input. Here's the recap: Living the History -- 125 Years of the Auditorium Theatre...
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What Taking Pictures of My Kids Taught Me About Love (and the Perfect Photo)
As a dad and a professional photographer, I have done three things right in my life: marrying my wife, having our two children, and picking up a camera (although they didn't happen in that order). The...
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Jockum Nordström's First Solo Show in the U.K. Triumphs
Jockum Nordström "Lesson," 2014. Graphite on cardboard 8 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (21.2 x 18.8 cm) Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London. For its final show of 2014, David Zwirner's London gallery is...
View ArticleRising Costs of Rare Earth Materials Driving Up Paint Prices
When the price of gasoline rises significantly, automobile owners (after all the complaining) tend to drive less and buy more fuel-efficient cars. In the face of higher food prices, consumers are apt...
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The Passionate Thief
If you want to see Anna Magnani's earthly talents turned to comic advantage then check out Mario Monicelli's The Passionate Thief (Risate di goia, l960), the restored print of which is currently...
View ArticleOutside of the (Media) Box: Music and Kids' Imagination
These days we hear so much about the debate over whether too much screen time cuts into kids' ability to imagine. There's not much research about this - after all, how could you go about measuring...
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Women, Wanderers and Wastelands
I live in a country rife with systemic inequality. These days, my Facebook feed is flooded by a certain share, friends urging friends to sign a petition: Allow Nepali citizenship to be conferred by the...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Samuel D. Hunter Puts Pocatello on the Theater Map
Throughout MacArthur Fellowship recipient Samuel D. Hunter's outstanding play The Whale, at Playwrights Horizons in 2012, the main character is a gay man isolating himself by virtue of his obesity. Now...
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