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Reed Luplau's Wilde Dances in Opera Philadelphia's Oscar
Opera Philadelphia is presenting the East Coast premiere of Oscar by composer Theodore Morrison and librettist John Cox. The production is a co-commission with The Santa Fe Opera, where it opened at...
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Brains and Bottoms
Paris has a new, state-of-the-art concert hall, something the French have been waiting for since they dispatched Louis XVI in 1793, thus making possible government- funded arts venues for the people....
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Breaking Broadway
A year ago Giselle Alvarez was waiting tables at Soho's Boqueria unsure if a dance career was still in the cards. After a wonderful education at Miami City Ballet, she was hired by a dance company that...
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Songs of Freedom: Celebrating Bob Marley on his 70th Birthday
Bob Marley by Ian Dickson In an arc stretching from Kingston, Jamaica, to Birmingham, England, our photographers captured many special moments with the reggae master Bob Marley, born 70 years ago this...
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New Combinations at New York City Ballet
Sara Mearns and Amar Ramasar in Justin Peck's "Rōdē,ō: Four Dance Episodes." Photo by Paul Kolnik. "New Combinations" was the perfect title for the program at New York City Ballet, which presented the...
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A Conversation With Pianist Hélène Grimaud -- At Davies Symphony Hall, 2/15-16
Pianist Hélène Grimaud returns to Davies Symphony Hall on February 15 and 16 with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. The Sunday concert begins at 7 p.m. and features Brahms'...
View ArticleNew York Magazine's Art Critic Jerry Saltz Is Killing It At Instagram
New York Magazine's Art Critic Jerry Saltz maintains a pretty fantastic instagram account. With over 900 posts, 87,000 followers, and a committed audience of likers and commenters, Saltz has generated...
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Lose Yourself in This Collection of Entrancing Spiral Staircase Photos
You're either about to get dizzy, or hypnotized... or possibly both. Spiral staircases are a favorite subject for photographers of all kinds. Whether you're an Urbex shooter who stumbles across an...
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Exclusive Interview With Photographer and Documentary Filmmaker Nora De Angelli
Nora De Angelli - Photo: Elena Sandu Nora de Angelli is a London-based freelance photographer and documentary filmmaker. Until 2011, when she graduated from London College of Communication's...
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London's Tate Modern Celebrates Marlene Dumas
Can genius be hit and miss? Can an artist capture the essence of the human spirit in one image and produce a bad painting in the next? This seems to be the crux of the Marion Dumas retrospective at...
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Paul Gauguin at Fondation Beyeler (VIDEO)
The exhibition Paul Gauguin at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Basel, Switzerland) is one of the highlights of the art year 2015. The show brings together about fifty masterpieces by Paul Gauguin from...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Joe Pintauro's 'Snow Orchid,' Benjamin Scheuer's 'The Lion'
If forgiveness is divine, what is the inability to forgive? Joe Pintauro's hard-nosed Snow Orchid, at the Lion, doesn't provide an answer. Instead, through the up-close-and-extremely-personal look at...
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In and Out of Africa
During the past 75 years, the world has witnessed the transformation of Asian nations like Japan and China into modern-day superpowers. The 2014 United States-African Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleA Love Song for a Whale (video)
As Kathryn Roberts explains in this video, she has a thing for whales and always wanted to sing a song about one. But she did not want to sing a traditional whaling song, in which the subject is...
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Reflections of an Octogenarian III: My Students, My Loves -- A Visual Tribute
We speak of the impact teachers have on their students. This post is how students affect the life of their teachers. Memories of my students have been an ongoing source of comfort, meaning, and...
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Can Art Bring Our Memories Alive
SKIN-4: a unique multimedia art exploration of our living connection to ancestors by figurative painter Zhenya Gershman, renowned photographer Michele Mattei, and Oscar nominated filmmaker Carlos A....
View ArticleExecutive Committees
I am not a fan of too many board committees. I find that when board members spend hour after hour in committee meetings, they are less likely to have the time to spend reaching into the community,...
View ArticleArtsts Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga Shock and Awe and the Dallas...
Art is a strange and wondrous thing. It helps us to relate to and understand the world around us. It helps us to relate to and understand one another. But sometimes it raises more questions that...
View ArticleA High-Def 'Selfie' With the Arts and Humanities
Co-authored with Katherine Walker, Assistant Professor of Music at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. We delight in the art of taking selfies, brought to us this year in higher resolution and...
View ArticleI Don't Take Any Sugar
Everybody has to start somewhere. I went to New York University in the '60s believing that when I graduated, I would start my career in a $10,000-a-year position. Turned out to be more like 60 dollars...
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