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Ryan Phillippe Has Good Intentions
I interview Ryan Phillippe, director and star of the self-satirizing thriller Catch Hell, about Clint Eastwood, why you should never sleep with a cop's girlfriend, why comedians get away with murder,...
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First Curation of the New Year: Wini Brewer
It can put me in a weird place when asked to participate in a show as an artist or curatrix. A lot of the time, I feel it's more about the asker, who hopes I'll fall into the trap of shameless...
View ArticleSticking One's Head in the Sand
In a recent article about the impending closing of yet another American orchestra, one executive from a second orchestra was bemoaning the discussion about the reduction in interest in classical music...
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Art and Money: A Lesson From the Borgias
Periodically we hear the anguished voices of sensitive aesthetes lamenting the deplorable and degraded state of contemporary art. These ascetic sophisticates often blame the prominence of Jeff Koons,...
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New York's Hot Toddy: "Nutcracker Rouge"
During the final throes of Summer, many directors of American dance companies begin annual preparations for "The Nutcracker." Successfully grafted onto the American holiday season, this cultural dance...
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Crying Babies and Other Beautiful Blessings in Life
I love pictures of babies crying. It's not that I revel in an innocent person's anguish (although, when I was a teenager, I did used to make weird faces at babies to see how they'd respond). It's the...
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Photographing the Young Monks of Myanmar
After picking up my visa and exchanging some U.S. dollars for kyat I stepped out of the airport into the steam that is Yangon, Myanmar, during the monsoon season. A time of year good for photographers...
View ArticleThere, But for the Mambo, Go I
The Mambo craze had reached an apogee in Los Angeles in the 1940s, when my Mexican parents first met and found love. My parents, now 96, always danced well and passed their passion down to me. I am an...
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Haiku Reviews: ART 2014 Roundup I
NANCY GROSSMAN, For David Smith, 1965, Mixed media assemblage on canvas mounted on plywood, 85 x 85 x 6¾ inches Nancy Grossman's best known work is centered on the human head and face, but her...
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Robin Williams and Phil Ochs: Two Tragic Artists Shaped By Pathos and Optimism
'Comedy is acting out optimism.' Robin Williams 'In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.' Phil Ochs As I listened to Tom Paxton's "Phil," a paean song for his friend and colleague Phil...
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The Manly Pursuit of Desire: Yevgeniy Fiks and 'The Lenin Museum' at CUNY's...
Artist Yevgeniy Fiks in front of the "Lenin Museum" installation. Photo: Perry Brass A kind of Russian mystery one would expect out of Gorky Park is unfolding at the James Gallery on the first floor...
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Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper at El Museo del Barrio
Integrated into the exhibit Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper at El Museo del Barrio, are numerous wall-text quotes. Resonating deeply are the artist's words from 1989: "I've always wanted to be...
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Versailles: Gold & Marble Dappled by Death
What to do with Versailles? Arguably this great gilded temple to the unforgiveable excess of French royalty out-glitters all its ancien regime competitors. Tapestries. Marbles. Porphyrie. Filigreed...
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Paula Garcia Performs Noise Body at Fondation Beyeler (VIDEO)
This video documents the quite violent art performance Noise Body, which the New York-based Brazilian artist Paula Garcia performed at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Switzerland) as part of the...
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MutualArt's Top 10 Art Books of 2014
As we say goodbye to 2014, we thought it might be nice to look back at what the year offered us in terms of art printed on paper and bound between two covers. Whether it’s a catalogue that allows us to...
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Bitter Beer and Burning Whisky: An Interview With Musician Jeremy Mage
With the release of his latest music video, psychedelic singer-songwriter Jeremy Mage offers up a year-end toast to the "hell of a year" of 2014. Featuring Reggie Watts (incoming house band leader for...
View ArticleA Gesture for the New Year
On the evening of November 24 I was en route to Annapolis, MD to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with my aunts, uncles and cousins. It happened to be the same evening that a grand jury in Missouri...
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Art Meets Architecture for an Epic Photography Retreat
When you think of art, one might assume paintings. When you think of architecture, the idea of a bridge or interesting skyscraper might come to mind first. Not this time. The Association of Boudoir...
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From Urbanizing to Urban, According to My Facebook Cover Page
During a year filled with four trips abroad and two months away, many of my 2014 Facebook cover photos helped fill my yearly urban and exurban diaries. Themes address the overlapping (and therefore...
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Multi-Platinum Winning Songwriter and Poet in-Q Talks Poetry and How to Break...
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