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'Bullpen Therapy' for the Central Park Five
From left to right, Raymond Santana Jr., State Sen. Bill Perkins, Joe Assadourian, Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, and producer Eric Krebs (credit: Ben Mann). Saturday, Feb. 7, was the third time I saw...
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Boys Will Be Boys
What gives some musicals longevity and makes others fade from popular culture? No doubt, the demands for a viable book, an impressive score, and a high entertainment quotient are important. But if...
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Social Media Is Another Canvas for Millennial Artists
I was born at an interesting time because my generation has grown up right in the middle of the internet age. I remember learning how to use Internet Explorer on a bulky desktop computer in grade...
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X's and O's: America's Obsession With Football at Berkeley Rep
Eddie Ray Jackson and Bill Geisslinger in the world premiere of X's and O's (A Football Love Story) at Berkeley Rep. (Photo: Kevin Berne) Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a concussion sport. -...
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Perfect Weekend for the Festivals
The weather could not be more perfect for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival and St. Stephen's Art Show running all weekend in the center of Coconut Grove. 50 degrees in the morning, 60 degrees during...
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Cartoons: Art and Entertainment or Lethal Weapons?
Saturday's smaller replay in Copenhagen of Paris' Charlie Hebdo massacre that left three dead (including the suspected shooter) and several injured begs the question: are cartoons art and entertainment...
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Demiurge
I saw him paint. Steven Assael is a figurative painter, as I am. But he does not paint a thing like how I paint. Consider the figurative painter. This painter would be moving, in the end, toward having...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Ronald Keaton Makes an Imposing 'Churchill'
When I was at college, a favorite pastime of mine was sitting around with a bunch of other procrastinators keen on determining the most important person of the 20th century. I maintained it was Winston...
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The Rocky Road to Self-Awareness
Getting to know yourself better, deeper, and more intimately has fallen under all kinds of labels from meditation to masturbation, from navel gazing to spiritual grazing. The truth is, some people...
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Lisa Small: On Curating "Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe"
Lisa Small, Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, an exhibition curated by Lisa Small, Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, examines "the...
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Martha Graham Dance Company Is As Relevant as Ever in Its Joyce Season
In 1960, dance critic Jill Johnston reviewed Martha Graham's season at the 5th Street Theatre. She likened the choreographer to "a kind of high priestess of the arts," her folkloric, fairytale...
View ArticleResponse: Why Alexandra Villarreal Matters to the Dance World
Millions of Americans tuned in for the Grammys, and many were dazzled, amazed, and touched by the emotionally-charged, nude leotard clad performance of Sia's Chandelier by Kristen Wiig and Maddie...
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Dennis Hare: 'Without Restraint,' at the Bakersfield Museum of Art
At the Bakersfield Museum of Art, artist Dennis Hare is the subject of a retrospective curated by Vikki Cruz featuring 26 paintings and assemblages. Hare's oeuvre consists of a wide range of both...
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Interview With Yue Minjun
Yue Minjun (1962) is considered one of the most prominent Chinese artists of our time. He was born in the Heilongjiang province, situated in the North-East of China and belongs to a generation of...
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Stage Door: Breaking The Silence With Girl Be Heard
The power of theater will be aptly demonstrated at the SoHo Playhouse, which is devoting three nights, February 19, 20 and 21, for Breaking the Silence With Girl Be Heard, a unique theatrical work...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Equality
I saw two movies this weekend, Fifty Shades of Grey and Jupiter Ascending. Fifty Shades of Grey is a movie by, for and about women. The women in it are real people, given real lives which they control....
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Fifty Shades of Grey
Love Story was the big splashy romance of 1970 which every serious filmgoer and critic loved to trash. Fifty Shades of Grey is the candidate for 2015. The difference was--and it would be quite telling...
View ArticleReaction Action Time
What you do to pull me through the reaction, the positioned postured action of devolving, evolving spiraling down to the bottomed out triangulation- That's your action... Reaction. Your step by step....
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Gem and Jam: Crown Jewell of Southwest Festival Scene
The southwest has its own particular energy. The Sonoran Desert, the crossroads between north and south, Native American history that goes back a thousand years and the confluence of art and culture in...
View ArticleMet Opera: DiDonato Soars in Rossini's "La Donna del Lago"
It is always a special occasion when the Metropolitan Opera stages a premiere and its first production of Rossini's melodious and stirring La Donna del Lago boasts the exquisite Joyce DiDonato in the...
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