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What Is So Great About Martin Scorsese?
This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Ken Miyamoto, Produced screenwriter, former Sony Pictures script reader/story analyst, former Sony Studios liaison Martin Scorsese is an American...
View ArticleOn Deborah Solomon's Norman Rockwell
American Mirror, Deborah Solomon's new biography of Norman Rockwell, has become controversial. But what is the controversy about? Simple. Solomon has presented a dishonest picture of Rockwell's...
View ArticleCould This Be the Coolest Building in New York City? Architect Thom Mayne on...
In 2009 a spaceship landed in the middle of old New York. At 41 Cooper Square, Thom Mayne's iconic building shines like a diamond in the rough, transparent, light and extremely cool. In this...
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Sy Smith: Just the Thought of You
Sy Smith is one of the most versatile and compelling vocal artists anywhere around. She drives through the fast lanes of contemporary music and then hovers with ease over a vintage standard. With her...
View ArticleSpinning Platters On The Broadway Jukebox
Beautiful is the latest in a long string of jukebox musicals devoted to the pop and rock tunes of one person. Unlike the others, this one at least attempts to uncover some kind of story about the...
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William Wray: Superhero Mythos to Mundane (Video)
William Wray. Los Angeles studio. Photo by Eric Minh Swenson Like most kids of the Reagan generation, before social media and smart phones or Oval Office trysts, I grew up collecting comic books. I...
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Q&A With Barry McGovern of Beckett's "I'll Go On" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
A celebrated interpreter of Beckett, Barry McGovern is known to Los Angeles audiences for his performance as Vladimir in the acclaimed 2012 production of "Waiting for Godot" at the Mark Taper Forum...
View ArticleAPAP 2014: Six Things the Performing Arts Should Be Talking About in 2014
If you work in the performing arts, and this is the first time you've read one of my annual lists, here's a quick primer: Every year around APAP, I select a number of topics that I feel the performing...
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The Dream of Maribarbola
As you know, I am your loyal painter and arts blogger. But perhaps you didn't know that I have also been working on a historical fantasy novel these many years, Railroad to Zanzibar. I have started...
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Yoga at the Smithsonian
Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Museum of Asian art You have about two weeks to get to Washington, D.C., to view the magnificent exhibit, "Yoga: The Art of Transformation." Mounted at the Smithsonian...
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Ward Roberts: A Conversation About Maximum Minimalism
The compelling and mysterious photographs of Australian artist Ward Roberts ask more questions than they answer -- to begin with, why are they photographs at all? Their profoundly delicate and...
View ArticleThe Words of a Creative Genius
Dear Reader, I decided to help Alex Schattner out today. I can't tell you my name -- it is not for the ears of mortals -- but suffice it to say that I am Alex's assigned daemon, or genius (if your...
View Article5 Reasons Why You Should be Listening to International Hip-Hop
A few years ago I was invited to a university in South Africa to deliver a speech on ways to improve education by focusing on youth culture. I gladly accepted the invitation, and was excited to get a...
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Santa Fe's One-time Treasure: See It Now!
You have to ask yourself -- as did I: Why is the exhibit currently at the New Mexico Art Museum, in the art-mad capital city of Santa Fe, in multicultural New Mexico, attracting so many visiting...
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Everything is Transient (So Hold On Tightly)
Two years ago on Thanksgiving, not long after I had moved here from London, I was driving through LA with my partner's sister after picking up a few forgotten items from the grocery store. Stopped at a...
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Go Breastfeed in the Bathroom? Thanks, But No Thanks.
It wasn't my original intention to photograph hundreds of breastfeeding women. But when you have brave and bare women with babies or toddlers who breastfeed, the children naturally, innocently and...
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'The Shawati' Interviews': When I Saw You Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir
Starting Wednesday, January 15th, New Yorkers will finally get to savor the beauty of Annemarie Jacir's poetic masterpiece When I Saw You (Lamma Shoftak in Arabic) firsthand when the film begins a...
View ArticleThe Two Americas of Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)
"The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people."...
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Tribal Art Enjoys its Time in the Spotlight
Exotic, extraordinary, unexpected and unusual are just a few of the adjectives used to describe primitive and tribal art. With its roots in Africa, Oceania, Asia and South America, artifacts and...
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Theater: Tales of Two Kings -- Carole and Rodney
BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL *** out of **** RODNEY KING *** out of **** BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL *** out of **** STEPHEN SONDHEIM THEATRE It's poor praise to say Beautiful is the best...
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