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Feminism Awakens In Himalayan Buddhist Art and Meditation
This is Mahapajapati Gotami, the Buddha's stepmother and aunt and the first woman to request and receive ordination from the Buddha. It is one detail from the mural, with two other details of the same...
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Spirit of the Hawk
Spirit of the Hawk Raven was walking along the beach. He looks far out to sea. He sees an island of fire spouting flames into the nighttime sky. Raven is not a good distance flyer. That fire is too far...
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Prologue To My Blog
Photography by Gina Sinotte (ginasinotte.com) I had a dream I would be conducting interviews for my Huffington Post Blog, a good platform for voices to be heard, with people who've inspired me and who...
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Cuba Arts Journal: Island in Flux
The parting shot as we left Miami for Cuba last week was NBC's Brian Williams reporting from Havana. Talks were under way, and news crews were on it. Andrea Mitchell was spotted crossing the Hotel...
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Bloody Valentine: National Theatre of Scotland's Let the Right One In
Rebecca Benson as Eli in John Tiffany's production of Let the Right One In. Photo by Manuel Harlan. From the haunting image of Nosferatu rising out of his coffin in silent film to the...
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'Interiors and Places': David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff at...
Helen Park Bigelow and Michael Hackett with David Park's The Bus Interiors and Places, on view at Hackett | Mill in San Francisco through March 27th, brings together a selection of 13 paintings by the...
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Keepers of the Flame
A muse and a mentor can go a long way toward helping an artist transform music into magic. While labanotation is a wonderful tool for documenting choreography, it can't capture the more intangible...
View ArticleLet Artists Dream
Virtually every arts institutions is concerned with money today--because of cuts in government funding, aging donors, reduced demand and new forms of entertainment that compete with traditional art...
View ArticleWhat Does 'Slut' Mean, Anyway?
Slut and ho are remarkably confusing insults. As I researched the ways these labels inflict harm on girls and women for I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet, I quickly realized that...
View ArticleIn With the New
Leonard Bernstein said, "The nineteenth century dies hard." By that he meant his American concert-going audience would rather hear the lush, romantic music of over a hundred years ago --Tchaikovsky,...
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New Artist Reviews: Joan Torres' All Is Fused
Music is a collection of sound waves arranged in a way that affect the body cognitively as well as physiologically. The structural elements of music are usually defined by pitch, timbre, key, harmony,...
View ArticleNot Such A Grumpy Old Man After All: A Review of Donald Hall's Essays After...
Lately, my writing about old age has been on the cheerful side. Not surprising, since I've been writing about successful aging and not about unsuccessful aging. Still, some people I know who are in...
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Judy Kuhn Sings Three Generations of Rodgers
This coming Wednesday evening, Lincoln Center's American Songbook series is presenting what promises to be a remarkable concert in the glorious Appel Room at the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle....
View ArticleTheater: Peter Dinklage At Home In The "Country"
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY ** 1/2 out of **** CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY Chekhovian before Chekhovian was cool (or even existed, actually) Ivan Turgenev's play A Month In The Country is new to me, but familiar...
View ArticleSlogging Through The Middle
It's so exciting at The Beginning, isn't it? You're learning, you're launching, you're out there on the far edge of your experience and it's a real thrill. Then. Then comes The Middle. The Middle is...
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For Ruba Katrib, Curator at SculptureCenter, Mentoring Is Beneficial to...
Ruba Katrib, curator at SculptureCenter in New York, wants to challenge popular notions of what sculpture is. "For many people," Katrib shares, "sculpture remains largely three-dimensional, but...
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Sky Country Band
Photography by Gina Sinotte (ginasinotte.com) Click and listen while you read: Sky Country Band, No Lake Ma Travel back in time with me to the Summer of 2014 for my Sky Country Band interview about...
View ArticleIt's Time to Dance With Cuba
The Malpaso Dance company is coming to Washington. I am sure that very few HuffPosters know what the Malpaso Dance company is and eight months ago, I didn't either. I read a short blurb about them in...
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Call It Sleep?
Manhattan is an enormous Jewish ghetto that many don't want to escape. French anti-Semitism has deep roots, going back to the Dreyfus case, that could be awakened by the Jihadist violence. While the...
View ArticleWhat Might Have Been; Treaties and Nation-Building
"Great nations, like great men, should keep their word." - Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Nation to Nation; Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, the recently...
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