Bay Uno: "Wait for Your Love"
A video arrived in my inbox last week. Ordinarily, I would delete such emails, but this time I hit play and enjoyed it and now my girlfriend has this song on repeat and so I thought I'd share. It comes...
View ArticleThe Poetry of Leadership
No matter what corner of the globe we live in, when we hear songs such as "No woman, No cry" by Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley, or the acclaimed song by U2 "Beautiful Day," our brains seem to...
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Could Your Fitbit Steps Be Art?
In the Kennedy era, the concept of "wearable technology" that would capture your every motion and wink of sleep was the stuff of science fiction. But for conceptual artist On Kawara (1933-2014),...
View Article10,000 Songs and Counting: An Interview With Savant
Meet Savant. The 27-year-old Norwegian DJ recently referred to by EDM giant Deadmau5 as "the change EDM needs, if it doesn't sink itself entirely." And not without reason. Since Aleksander Vinter...
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BIG's Hybrid Places
Hualien Hills / BIG The dynamics of BIG, one of the world's hottest architecture and urban design firms, are laid bare in a new exhibition at the National Building Museum and companion book. Taking on...
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Dan McCleary: 'Every Day Sacred,' Paintings from 1993 to 2013, at the USC...
Dan McCleary: Photo by Wayne Shimabukuro Painter Dan McCleary, who in 2010 founded Art Division, which serves young adult art students in the Rampart District of Los Angeles, has a deep feeling for...
View ArticleThese Love Notes Found In Used Books Will Make You Swoon
Besides awesome old black and white photos, one of my favorite things to find in used books at The Strand is love notes. Sure, some of these couples may have broken up long ago, but at least at the...
View ArticleIs Culture Just for Rich Kids Now?
A class war is raging in British culture. James McAvoy, the star of the X-Men reboots, is the latest actor to wade into the debate, when he told The Herald of Scotland that an acting career was...
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DANCE REVIEW: Ballerina Wendy Whelan, Restless for a Reason
At left, an iconic photograph of George Balanchine partnering Suzanne Farrell in "Don Quixote" for New York City Ballet. Wendy Whelan/Restless Creature, which we enjoyed Saturday evening in Long Beach,...
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Blanco. Fernando Manso
Air, fog, mist... An Apollonian veil that covers everything with an Olympic brightness. Within white itself is the search for peace, purity and spirituality, evoking a world beyond reality. This is...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: John Cariani's Love/Sick, Brian Dykstra's Selling Out
Sometimes playwright John Cariani looks at the world -- actually the worlds of love and relationships -- through rose-colored glasses. Just as often he views those worlds through lenses tinted a...
View ArticleUnspeakable Hope
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as the very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom; it has a mighty intimidating power. It...
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Land of the Wire
You drive down to the old Lexington Market in Baltimore, famous for its crab cakes and other sea food. The market, which was started in 1782, is an old and venerable institution. However, an adjacent...
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Playfully Sensual Rococo Portraits Captured In-Studio with Thousands of Real...
In a photography world increasingly prone to "fixing it in post," Alexia Sinclair stands as a beacon to the hardworking artist who accepts nothing short of perfection. For each collection she creates,...
View ArticleMortality
This essay is dedicated to Christopher Hitchens. The IV stuck out of my arm. My heart beat tender paces. Inside my neck a small mass that borrowed its head into the muscle. Under the mass, a sack of...
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Reading Cities, Cover to Cover, And Why
Click to view slideshow. Open a book, read only, say, page 77, and the prose may please the mind or heart, but the richness of the story may suffer. Why? Because the plot is still unclear. Reading the...
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The Hunger Games of Violin at Carnegie Hall: The Story of a Juilliard...
In any competition there is only one underlying mantra: Winning. We saw this beautifully played out at Carnegie Recital Hall (Weill Hall) last January 11th during the final round of the Violin...
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Campfires, Socialism, and Multi-Level Selection
Joel Tauber, "SHARE" (photo direction: Joel Tauber, shot by Kristi Chan) from the art installation and movie, "The Sharing Project" When we went camping late last summer, I was struck by a sense of...
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CD Review: "Sir Cadian Rhythm"
Album: Sir Cadian Rhythm Artist: Sir Cadian Rhythm Style: Alternative, Rock, Jazz, Pop Scheduled for Release: February 7, 2015 Reviewed by: Christopher Zoukis and Randy Radic In March 2014, five...
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Sarah Elise Abramson: The Cosmos in the Chaos
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -- Carl Jung Josephine Photographer Sarah Elise Abramson's aesthetic is at...
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