What Creatives Can Learn from Impressionists
Special exhibition "Faces of Impressionism: Portraits of the Musee D'Orsay" is in its final week at the Kimbell Art Museum. Exploring French portraiture and sculpture from the late 1850s until the...
View ArticleSome Sports Halls of Fame Have Art Collections
Artist Andy Warhol, claimed one of his patrons, banker Richard Weisman, "didn't know the difference between a football and a golf ball." (Really. Warhol frustrated Jack Nicklaus during a photo session...
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5 Ways Thinking Like a Ballerina Can Bring Balance to Your Life
I've been a professional ballet dancer for 15 years, and currently perform as a principal dancer for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. As a dancer, my body is my instrument, so healthy living goes...
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Old Color Photos of Native Americans
Chief James A. Garfield. Jicarilla Apache. 1899. Photo by William Henry Jackson. Source - Montana State University Library. As a filmmaker, I am drawn to images. My first love of film came from old...
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Jump Up For...
Last summer I started taking photos for my friend's style blog. I decided to take a photo of her while jumping up in the air, just to try something new. We weren't really sure how they would come out...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Halley Feiffer's "I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard" Needs More...
Although we may loathe the very suggestion, it's undoubtedly true that to some extent, we all eventually become our parents. Halley Feiffer believes we do to the most extreme extent. She demonstrates...
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Aisle View: Into the Woods, Back on Stage
The Cast of Fiasco Theater's Into the Woods at the Roundabout. Photo: Joan Marcus Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine are probably feeling pretty swell just now, with the motion picture version of their...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Hugh Leonard's 'Da,' Aaron Mark's 'Another Medea,' Damon...
In Da, now revived by the Irish Repertory Theatre during its DR2 season, Hugh Leonard deals with a couple of irrefutable psychological truths. He contends that we all internalize our parents as well as...
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Bad Girls Don't Cry
Some women don't just march to a different drummer. When push comes to shove, they become formidable badasses. While society would like them to repent of their wicked, wanton ways, they see nothing...
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The Lowline: Bright Lights (Video)
In the modern city, space, as any over zealous estate agent will gleefully tell you, is at a premium. As city-dwellers fight for living space in the heart of the metropolis, pleading not to be put out...
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An Interview With Lynda Benglis, 'Heir To Pollock,' on Process, Travel and...
At 73, Lynda Benglis is one of America's most significant living artists. She came of age in the male-dominated New York art scene of Warhol, LeWitt and Newman, transposing the vocabulary of Abstract...
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13 Quotes From Artists That Will Inspire You to Create
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams   "This world is but a canvas to our imagination." Henry David Thoreau   "Every artist was first...
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Stage Door: Da, The Woodsman
To Hugh Leonard, his father is the one thing he cannot escape. The autobiographical Da, now at the DR2 Theater off-Broadway, is the Irish Rep's revival of his bittersweet Tony-winning play. Set in...
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(R)evolution in Dance: TANZTAGE BERLIN 2015
Lea Moro's "La Sacre du Printemps: A Ballet for a Single Body" celebrates the multiplicity of the awakened kundalini power: "I am the core of the ballet. I am the dancer, the ensemble, the old wise...
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Ladies Night at New York City Ballet
New York City has enjoyed a wealth of ballet this January. Russia's Mariinsky Ballet made a visit to BAM with "Swan Lake" and Alexei Ratmansky's "Cinderella." The Joyce presented an exquisite program...
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Artist John MacConnell Discusses Painting Male Nudes (NSFW)
Portrait by Daniel Jack Lyons I became aware of John MacConnell's Instagram account this summer and was quickly hooked (flip through the slideshow attached to this post and you'll understand why). I...
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Sigmar Polke's 'Siberian Meteorites' Installed at Park Hyatt
An arty crowd recently braved January's Siberia-like winter weather to assemble at the Park Hyatt Chicago in celebration of the installation of Sigmar Polke's 10-foot tall canvas entitled Siberian...
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Mary Testa: 'Have Faith'
Mary Testa is a pro: a belter, a diva and a clown, in the most beloved Broadway sense. She is a star talent who has rarely gotten star billing. You could write a musical about her. Now, after decades...
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One Girl
Photo Lightspring/Shutterstock I woke up bright and early this morning with wind in my sails. I knew exactly what the day had in store. I had been asked if I would mentor at a high school on behalf of...
View ArticleIs It Art? Or, Is It Soup?
Is it Art? Or, is it Soup? High-brow, low-brow, middle-brow, furrowed-brow, no-brow. I graduated from college on a freezing, snow-spitting February 1964 morning and was on a 3:00 flight from glass...
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