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Monks Of Mellonwah New Music
When this band's name first came in front of me, I was expecting to hear some type of new music involving chanting monks from a far away land. The Monks of Mellonwah, are from far away, Sydney,...
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Quick Questions: Beautiful's Anika Larsen is Back on Broadway
I've been a fan of Anika Larsen's since seeing her in Zanna, Don't! in 2002. I share this with many people who saw the show. The day the cast of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical was announced, I...
View ArticleKathleen J. Graves' Passionate Art Advocacy of the Environment
I firmly believe that we need a chorus of voices to tell the story of female desires, and female creativity. That there is a danger in having only one voice and one vision in any given story. So over...
View ArticleMovies to See at Sundance
For 30 years, the Sundance Film Festival (January 16 to 26; sundance.org) has spread the gospel of audacious, independent filmmaking from Robert Redford's mountain fortress nestled high in the peaks of...
View ArticleDoug Argue on the ImageBlog
Cascade (Scale), Three Panels, each 80 x 54 in., Oil/Canvas, 2013, dougargue.com, edelmanarts.com
View Article"Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966," The Palm Springs Art Museum
Photos are courtesy of The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. We know (and love) Richard Diebenkorn because of his iconic Ocean Park series, which he began when he moved to Santa Monica from Berkeley in...
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Midnight Cowgirls
"We understand any movie about lesbian hookers to be universal, whether or not you've actually seen one," says director Madeleine Olnek. She's temporarily fled her NYC home for L.A., one of three...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Three Overly Similar Entries From Manhattan's January Festivals
If it's true that great minds think alike, it may be equally true that minds a notch or two below great also think alike. The probability struck me when I saw three productions one after another in...
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Creating the Bat #11: Jason Fabok
What does it take to sustain a single character for 75 years? Since Batman's first appearance in May 1939, hundreds of writers, artists, and editors have applied their craft and their personalities to...
View ArticleBuon Compleanno, Federico Fellini!
Auguri, Maestro! Si, si; January 20th marks the birthday of the wild, wacky, wondrous Federico Fellini! Arguably Italy's greatest filmmaker, Fellini crafted kaleidoscopic dreamscapes worthy of MoMA...
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Art in the Jungle
The Institute for Human Activities is a research project that is located on a former palm oil plantation on a tributary of the Congo River, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Co-sponsored by Yale...
View ArticleAftermath Film Powerfully Evokes Polish Anti-Semitism
After Germany itself, no country has been more scrutinized for its behavior during the Holocaust than Poland. This is understandable considering the fact that 3 million Jews lived in Poland and the...
View ArticleBUT, NOT AND: The Three Letter Word that Helps the Writer Best
In the years I've been teaching playwriting and writing fiction, I've set up a series of warnings that have helped me and students to get on the track again when we've slipped off. One of those...
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Ask the Art Professor: How Can I Prepare Myself for the Reality of the Future?
"I am about to enter the painting department of my school next semester and I'm very excited; I love painting deeply and have wanted to do this since I was a child. I've spent many years working...
View ArticleYelena Baturina is Changing the World Through Design, Apparently
Yelena Baturina, construction billionaire and wife of the former Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, left Russia two years ago and now divides her time between London and Austria. Amongst a number of other...
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Stage Door: Beautiful, What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
The music of the '60s and '70s is having a revival -- on stage. Two legendary composers from the time, Carole King and Burt Bacharach, are getting their theatrical due. The first, Broadway's...
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A Toga-Wearing Tattooist Creates an Antipodean Contemporary Art Experience
It is the first Friday of the New Year in the coastal town of Gisborne, New Zealand. The town has almost doubled in population with the influx of summer holiday-makers attracted by the relaxed beach...
View ArticleRockstars, Museum Endowments and Longevity
From Paris to Los Angeles, it is surprising that dinner conversation in the art world shifts its focus from the museum to the museum director. Jeffrey Deitch disappeared as the conversation centerpiece...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Frank Langella Fights the King Lear Storm and Conquers
Frank Langella is doing a completely respectable King Lear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey in William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. But wait. Better be more specific, since in...
View ArticleTime of the Empress: Architectural Identity and the Persistence of Hope
The sun has set on Art Basel Miami Beach. The art glitterati have left, marking the end of one year and heralding the next. But in a small gallery in Wynwood, time stands still where a spell has been...
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