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APT Dubai Artist Jasa Selected to Represent Slovenia at the 56th Venice...
UGM / Maribor Art Gallery, Ministry of Culture Slovenia and WEARE Production are pleased to present “Utter / The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope,” a new project by JAŠA. The artist...
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From France to India, Charlie Hebdo Reminds Us of the Real Promise of Free...
It took less than a day after the massacre of staffers, policemen, a visitor and a security guard at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris for the discussion in India to swing back towards the need for...
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Aisle View: Suicide Is Painless
Joey Slotnick (in coffin) and the Cast of Dying for It. Photo: Ahron Foster "Suicide is painless" goes that innocuous-but-satirical ditty written for the 1970 movie "M*A*S*H." Suicide was also...
View ArticleElastic Heart, Elastic Interpretation
Another day, another controversy spread across social media. I first heard about Sia's "Elastic Heart" video on Facebook, but not by seeing the actual video. My Facebook timeline was in an uproar at...
View ArticleGoin' Down to Bitsyland
Despite T.S. Eliot's claim to the contrary, for many of us, January, not April, is the cruelest month. January is burdened with following the most emotional time of the year. Just past are...
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OMG, That's SO Gay!
The late Joan Rivers was famous for pushing the envelope as hard and as far as possible. One of her signature lines ("Can we talk?") may disappear from the vernacular in years to come. In recent years,...
View ArticleTalking Rapture, Blister, Burn With the Goodman's Kimberly Senior
Rapture, Blister, Burn, Gina Gionfriddo's play about the choices women have to make -- as well as the choices they're not given a chance to make -- is at Chicago's Goodman Theatre Jan. 17 to Feb. 22....
View ArticleSadly, 'The Last Ship' Sinks
The thing Broadway producers don't seem to fathom (as reported in Patrick Healy's article in The New York Times January 7) is that musicals by their very nature are not always feel-good events. And so...
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The Failures of Architecture Criticism
Many architects are out of touch, but so are architecture critics. CCTV Tower, Beijing, 2012. Rem Koolhaas / Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Photo by Eric Gregory Powell / CNN. French filmmaker...
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Women in Art: Woman of the Year Cyndie Berthezene
In 2014, we saw amazing strides and accomplishments made by women throughout the art world. No matter where you looked, there seemed to be women artists, curators, collectors and entrepreneurs making...
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Haiku Reviews: ART 2014 Roundup IV
DAVID JOHNS, Canyon Reflection, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 55½ x 40 inches David Johns practices abstract expressionism without apology, breathing new life into a time-honored but clichéd style by...
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George Lois: Be a Cultural Provocateur
In cities across France yesterday, millions of people marched against terror. They held up pens and pencils, flags of different nations, giant posters that together created the thoughtful eyes of the...
View ArticleIn the Words of the Beatles, 'Help!'
I worry about my generation. Outside of all the chaos and destruction in the world, I worry about my generation's sense of entitlement and lack of desire to learn from, or about, its history. I was...
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Just Around the Corner to the 15th Year of Light of Day
In November of 2008, beloved Jersey rock impresario and manager Bob Benjamin rented out a small restaurant in Red Bank, New Jersey for his 40th birthday. Benjamin had recently been diagnosed with...
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The Year of the Art Film: What We Learned on the Silver Screen in 2014
I love making lists. It simplifies life and allows the indulgence of a John Cusack/High Fidelity fantasy to play in my head. However, to sum up the year with the top 10 or 15 or even 20 movies in a...
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Guardians
Everything I have to say here has been said elsewhere. Perhaps I am oversensitive, or egotistical, but I feel it incumbent upon me, as a visual artist who writes publicly, to voice my thoughts, even if...
View ArticleWhat Is the Authenticity of a Work of Art in the Era of 3D?
Cinema and music piracy on Internet made the columnists bright days while laws and regulations were endlessly issued but often helpless to fight with an economy which was developing. The revolution...
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Theatre Review: Ben Rimalower's Bad With Money
Growing up in the South, I learned at an early age that talking about money "just wasn't done." How was it that my best friend's parents could afford a new car and an annual trip to Disney World when...
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New Documentaries Touch the Holocaust
Seventy years after the end of World War II, the Holocaust remains a vital source of drama for motion pictures. Two very different documentaries opening at Manhattan's Quad Cinema this month...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Sam Harris' Expertly Baked Ham, Victor L. Cahn's Sly...
If you were to ask me who the best male pop singer in the country is -- not that anyone has -- I wouldn't immediately name bestsellers Michael Bublé or Josh Groban. I wouldn't say Tony Bennett, who, in...
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