Ask the Art Professor: How Do You Begin to Think Conceptually as a Visual...
"As a visual artist, I have never been able to work serially. I feel stuck in a rut that seems impossible to break out of. I thought working serially might help me break out of it but here is the...
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The Girl or Guy of Your Nightmares
What if you were grotesquely deformed and you wanted no one to see you? Yet you had a need for contact and so began to communicate online employing another avatar. This isn't even the stuff of science...
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Brett Novak: On Capturing the Grace Of Skateboarding
Looking at Brett Novak's work, the most astonishing thing is the beauty of his cinematic gaze. His videos act both as a reflection of and a medium between capturing the experience of skateboarding and...
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The Godfrey Daniels School of Charm: Class of 2015
"The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, a process of comparison of oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own...
View ArticleJohn Currin at Gagosian, Beverly Hills: Women Artists Respond
Earlier today I shared the link to John Currin's new show at Gagosian Gallery on Facebook and asked women artists to respond to the works in this exhibition. I was unable to obtain the gallery's...
View ArticleHacked
A few days ago my daughter's Instagram account was hacked and sold to a different owner in less than 15 minutes! A year and half of her work was erased completely. Crying, heartbroken screams on the...
View ArticleTwo Poems Commemorating Vietnam's End
On Coming Home From Nam She cried as he left clinging to his Saint Christopher chaining around her neck eyes kissing his as he pressed his face against the bus window for one last embrace. He cried as...
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Rob McClure's Honeymoon on Broadway
Honeymoon in Vegas is the latest film to leap off the silver screen and onto the Broadway stage. Coming off his Tony-nominated role as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin: The Musical, Rob McClure brings his...
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A Hyperrealism That Questions Reality With James Zamora and Sarah Atlee at...
For Real, the show currently on exhibition at RO2 Art is called and features two contemporary painters from the Lone Star State, James Zamora and Sarah Atlee. Both of them paint food and still life....
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Stage Door: 'One Day'
The producers of the musical Heathers have a theme: teen angst. And they are trumpeting the anthem of adolescent trauma again -- this time as a revamped version of the 1999 cult musical Inappropriate....
View ArticleFirst Nighter: James McAvoy Rules 'The Ruling Class,' A Feminized Treasure...
When Peter Barnes decided the ruling English class was nutty, he created Jack Gurney and wrote The Ruling Class, a hellzapoppin satire during most of which Gurney (James McAvoy) contends he's Jesus....
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'Humans of New York': An Afternoon With Brandon Stanton
Photo by Shori Hijikata When Maggie Williams, Director of the Institute of Politics, introduced Brandon Stanton to the audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum this week, Stanton's story was...
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Manx's Surprising Revival
Half of the world's languages are endangered, and rapidly passing into oblivion. Manx--the ancient Celtic tongue spoken on the Isle of Man--had all but vanished by the 1970s. Defying the odds, it has...
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London Says Goodbye to The Scottsboro Boys
Photograph by Johan Persson In June of 2013, I wrote about the impact of theatre on history, how Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys had helped change history. By telling the story of the...
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My Favorite Female Artists on Instagram
With a large portion of today's art scene now digital, many artists have taken their portfolios to Instagram and other social media sites as a way to share their artwork with thousands of fans. The...
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A Living Room of One's Own: Gob Squad's Western Society
In case you haven't noticed, we live in an age of constant self-documentation. This shouldn't be news to anyone, but I was reminded of this when I stopped in Starbucks and ended up in the back of...
View Article10 Books That Will Vie for the 2016 Oscars
This year's Oscar nominees feature six book to movie adaptations in the Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Actor categories. These titles, American Sniper, The Imitation Game, The Theory of...
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The Threepenny Opera at A Noise Within
Photo by Craig Schwartz A Noise Within, one of the nation's premier classical repertory companies, has mounted an ambitious, if somewhat tame, revival of the Brecht/Weill classic. With a solid...
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Chalk Painting Festival Brings Out the Best in Lake Worth
Every year we go to Lake Worth, FL for the Street Chalk Painting Festival. It's a Saturday and Sunday event; we usually head there on Sunday, because most of the art is complete, or at least near...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Stoppard's Hard Problem Neatly Solved, Last of the De Mullins...
London -- Almost immediately after Tom Stoppard's new and intellectually thrilling play, The Hard Problem, at the National Theatre's Dorfman, begins, the just-about-peerless playwright has his...
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