Resist the Tyranny of Silence After Charlie Hebdo Attack
Note: Flemming Rose was the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten in 2005-2006 when he commissioned cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that set off a global controversy, including riots across the Muslim...
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Susan Michie: Marks, Textiles and Femininity in Art
Born into a family of artists whose work exploded with color, Susan Michie found her own path into artistic expression by eschewing bold tones and rich hues in favor of monochromatic blacks, whites and...
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Clarity Haynes
Note: This post contains depictions of artistic nudity. Liz Insogna: Clarity, after our last conversation in your studio, I thought about your work quite a lot, and the images began to shift from...
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A Profile of Choreographer Val Caniparoli -- 20th Anniversaries for...
This season marks the 20th Anniversary of choreographer Val Caniparoli's immensely popular ballet, Lambarena. The work was created in 1995 for San Francisco Ballet and - at the heart of its...
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Amanda Thorpe Bewitches the American Songbook
"Yip wrote about universal human emotions and conditions, his lyrics have remained remarkably relevant. In every day and age we have had dreamers, lovers and soul searchers. But Yip was also a human...
View ArticleWho Owns Student Artwork?
Going to college (for art students and everyone else) is an opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of ideas, academic and practical pursuits, but by enrolling in a college both the student and the...
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Allison Burnett, Ask Him Anything
Allison Burnett is a rarity in Hollywood. He is not just a successful Hollywood screenwriter, a respected novelist, and a published critic and poet, but also a film director. His new film, Ask Me...
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Top 5 Art Fairs This Winter
Celeste Sunderland, January 12, 2015 1. Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles, California January 29 - February 1, 2015 Now in its sixth year, Art Los Angeles Contemporary is once again set to...
View ArticleThe Hours Spent Out of School May Count More for Some Kids
I'm one of six kids from a single-parent home. When I was 13, we lived in a motel, and my brothers and sisters and I slept on blankets on the floor. It was the most difficult time in my childhood....
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Review: Eugene
CD Review: Eugene Artist: goste Genre: Organic, Electronic, Singer/Songwriter Release Date: Dec. 4, 2014 Reviewed by Christopher Zoukis and Randy Radic Somewhere in Brooklyn there's an "experimental...
View ArticleMet Opera: "Hoffmann's" Tales Fabulously Staged With a Sterling Cast
Everybody has at least one love affair he or she would like to forget. Hoffmann, the hapless poet hero of Les Contes d'Hoffmann, has four that haunt him in Offenbach's grand final opera, which the Met...
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Annie Terrazzo: 10 Things I Hate About Your Selfie
Annie Terrazzo: Blow Job Lips on the Enquiring Mind (2014, mixed media collage) Kill Your Selfie by Annie Terrazzo is more than just solid, if caustic, advice for mental health and self-respect --...
View ArticleDanielle Eubank's Arctic Circle Expedition, Part Two
Photos courtesy of the artist. As introduced here, Danielle Eubank recently completed an expedition to the Arctic Circle aboard the Antigua, a three-masted barquentine tall ship. She was one of 27...
View Article10 Things I Learned About Molly Ivins
Kathleen Turner is one of my favorite actresses and Molly Ivins was a hero. I had the pleasure of seeing Kathleen Turner in Red Hot Patriot The Kick-ass Wit Of Molly Ivins at the Berkeley Rep. Here are...
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Winning Over Disaster
So ladies and gentlemen, let's start with the notion of a festive celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of a museum known for rich collections and smart, edgy exhibitions. The celebration of such an...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Gyllenhaal, Wilson Illuminate Nick Payne's 'Constellations'
Nick Payne's Constellations arrives at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman after winning the 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play and receiving a clutch of rave reviews that...
View ArticleSelma's David Oyelowo on Playing MLK and What It Means to Be a Christian
"I do know the voice of God." That's what David Oyelowo, the actor who beautifully portrays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the new film Selma, told me last week. It's that voice, he said, that called...
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YZ and Her 'Amazone' Warrior Women On Senegalese Walls
According to historical accounts of the First Franco-Dahomean War, in the 1890s it was the highly trained military women who were chopping off the heads of the French. Sometimes while they slept....
View ArticleThere's Another Kind of Embargo We Need to Address in Cuba
I've generally been in support of more open U.S. relations with Cuba: A change would be good. It's about time, I often thought to myself. And I'd say that I'm still in support of change. But until the...
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Haiku Reviews: ART 2014 Roundup V
PAUL BURLIN, Said Couldn't Be Done, 1959, Oil on canvas, 78 x 72 inches Paul Burlin played an odd role in abstract expressionism - indeed, in American art as a whole. His best known work is clearly...
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