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A Brief Rant on the Exhaustion of the Avant-Garde, Zombie Formalism and What...
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Nude in the Sun, circa 1875-6, oil on canvas, 32" × 25.6" "...Try to explain to Monsieur Renoir that a woman's torso is not a mass of decomposing flesh with those purplish-green...
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Musings on Kim Fowley and Edgar Froese
Edgar Froese founder of Tangerine Dream, and Kim Fowley, the music producer/songwriter/professional creep, both died this week. They both had long-lasting careers on the edges of rock n' roll. These...
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Fine Art of Art Documentary
As faithful listeners of KCRW's Art Talk, I hope you know of the very special Monday night cultural program at Laemmle theaters that offers us, art and culture lovers, live screenings of high profile...
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Moving can be traumatic. (Ever hear of the study which reportedly found that moving measures high on the trauma scale just after death and divorce?) But last week, when the cast of the hit Broadway...
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Love and Art Are on Full Display in Stoppard's 'Indian Ink' at American...
Nirad Das (Firdous Bamji) paints a portrait of free-spirited English poet Flora Crewe in 1930s India in Indian Ink, Tom Stoppard's epic romance that weaves decades, continents, and cultures. Photo by...
View ArticleCommunity Civility and a Response to the Controversy Over The Vagina...
I'd like to follow up on my previous blog post on the Mount Holyoke College controversy surrounding The Vagina Monologues because of the responses I've received. They've run the gamut from praise to...
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CultureZohn: Down Havana Way: Why Artists Are the Hope for Normalization
Old Havana Courtyard To be in Havana this past week was exciting. Media crews from all over covering the Normalization and Trade talks made Havana seem like the center of the world. And in a way it...
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Skiing Cities of Serenissima: Swoon Vessels In The Snowy Woods
Swoon has sent her vessels out to the countryside to reunite with the soil and trees. Most art conservators and archivists make it their business to preserve a piece for posterity. Once art is created...
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The Work of Artists Is Not Play
When the public reads stories in the media about visual artists, it is all too often about art stars that are selling their works for six-figure sums or an item detailing glamorous parties on the art...
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The Arts Thrive in Cuba
These has been a lot of ink about Cuba in the last few weeks ...about immigrants in rafts, Cuban doctors treating Ebola patients, the Summit of the Americas and of course, Lifting of the Embargo! The...
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Chris Ofili: Night and Day
There's a lot of good shit in Chris Ofili: Night and Day currently on exhibit at the New Museum. Not the selfies of shit that are popping up on iPhones these days, but dung. Ofili is quoted as saying...
View ArticleSounds and SoundBox: Shaking It Up at the San Francisco Symphony
It seems safe to say that Michael Tilson Thomas--or MTT, as he's been known since street banners announcing his appointment as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, 20 years ago, went up all...
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CD Review: Heartbeat Serenade
CommonUnion59 is made up of two people: Steve McKenzie and Laura Malasig. Their latest offering, Heartbeat Serenade, is slated for release shortly and boy, is it a doozy! What makes Heartbeat Serenade...
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David Altmejd's First French Retrospective Arrives in Paris
Born in Montreal in 1974, David Altmejd is a sculptor based in New York City. Rather than the substantial materials and rigid forms of traditional sculpture, he usually combines malleable, volatile...
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Interview: Artist Peter Max Comes to Naples, FL
First, let me preface this brief interview by saying that I don't typically cover art, but I do enjoy it. Which is why I recently jumped at the chance to interview America's most popular living Artist,...
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Art's Seductive Veil of Beauty: This Artweek. LA (January 26, 2015)
Jim Morphesis: Wounds of Existence | Curated by Peter Selz, Ph.D., this exhibition examines an impressive oeuvre of one of the most influential members of the Neo-Expressionist art movement in Los...
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CD Review: Reviver by The Torn Images
Album: Reviver Arist: The Torn Images Style: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock Released: November 19, 2014 Reviewed by: Christopher Zoukis and Randy Radic The Torn Images recently released their first...
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Hemingway's Paris, Revisited for 2015
Robert Wheeler picked up his first book by Ernest Hemingway in 1986. On the first page of the posthumously published novel, The Garden of Eden, the author vividly described a young couple madly in...
View ArticleFamous Writers Share How They Handle Writer's Block
During her lifetime, Maya Angelou, the great author and poet, was nominated for a Pulitzer, awarded the National Medal of Arts, given over fifty honorary degrees and wrote the acclaimed memoir I Know...
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Jason DeCaires Taylor and the Sublime Cancun
Underwater sculptures. The sublime is something that moves up profoundly, that lifts us. There is no sublimation without passion. This experience full of beauty, exalts the viewer to unusual levels of...
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