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Human and Superhuman: Ballet San Jose in MasterPieces of American Ballet
(Foreground) Allison Stroming, Akira Takahashi, Ihosvany Rodriguez and Cindy Huang, (Background) Sarah Stein, Jing Zhang and Amy Marie Briones of Ballet San Jose in Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room...
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Charmed, I'm Sure!
When people with widely disparate cultural beliefs meet up in real life, several outcomes are possible. In some cases, a refusal to respect one another's core belief systems may lead to rudeness,...
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Autopsy of a Fraud: Update on Deborah Solomon's Disastrous Norman Rockwell Bio
"On Top of the World," Norman Rockwell; 1928. Why did Deborah Solomon think she could get away with writing a fraudulent biography of Norman Rockwell, the great American illustrator? Why did a...
View ArticleOrganizational Culture
I am becoming increasingly interested in the culture of arts organizations. Spending as much time as I do now consulting to numerous arts organizations across the nation, I have observed distinct...
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The Sound of Whiplash (Video)
Thomas Curley and his team were over the moon, when they won the Bafta for Production Sound Mixing for Whiplash, already anticipating going to the Academy Awards a few weeks later. But despite the...
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Bellydancing Gave Her Confidence and a Pain-Free Body
Mention bellydancing to most Americans and they'll envision sultry slave girls in a James Bond movie or sex workers in a tawdry lap dance club. But like most things the Western world has appropriated...
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The Last Five Years' Richard Lagravanese: How Glee Made His Film Possible
"It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils." --Richard Lagravanese, The Fisher King He did it the hard way, like David battling Goliath this past Valentine's Day. Yes, Richard...
View ArticleThe Oscar's 'Meta-Film' Bias and What This Says About Human Nature
For the third time in four years, the Oscar for Best Picture has gone to a film about film -- a "meta-film" if you will. In 2011, The Artist examined film and art from behind the scenes and last year,...
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7 Questions for CineKink Founder Lisa Vandever
This Tuesday on February 24, 2015, "the kinky film festival" CineKink NYC opens its 12th season. On occasion of my own film being in this year's lineup, I asked CineKink founder Lisa Vandever these 7...
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Where Is Rocky II? Pierre Bismuth Seeks Long-Lost Artwork by Ed Ruscha
 Pierre Bismuth, Where is Rocky II?, 2015. Courtesy of Where is Rocky II? film campaign. It all starts in 2009, when artist Pierre Bismuth attends a press conference for Ed Ruscha's retrospective...
View ArticleOscars' Near Misses: Poverty Documentaries
In the lead up to the 87th Annual Oscars ceremony, 134 documentaries were submitted for consideration by the Academy. Only 5 were nominated. Amongst the 129 near misses, was a list of films...
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Interview With Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang observing one of the sculptures in the Patio during the exhibition I Want to Believe at Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, 2009 One morning in May we arrived at the apartment that Cai shares...
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They're Still Young
Photographer Douglas Kirkland's new book of photographs is a collaboration with his wife and partner of 47 years, Francoise. It is a love story as well as a story of innocence and freedom and of a time...
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China Cracks Down on 'Western Values' in Textbooks, but Embraces Hollywood's...
HOLLYWOOD -- The Federalist Papers may be out, but "Captain America" is in. China's top education authorities have recently launched a campaign to curb the teaching of "Western values" in universities...
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The Immersive and Minimal Black & White Mountain Landscape Photography of...
I spent a solid hour browsing through a single photographer's account on 500px last night. This, for a photo editor who spends all his time looking at beautiful photography, is not normal -- but...
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A Visit to Henri Matisse: The Cut Outs, On Closing Weekend
Excerpt from: www.CityLately.com It was a heavy Sunday morning, the kind that anchors you in bed until the urgency of your to do list somehow overcomes your procrastination. The neverending winter...
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Don't Rain on Her Parade: Kimberly Faye Greenberg Brings Fanny Brice to...
Kimberly Faye Greenberg in character as Fanny Brice; photo credit: Jessica Fallon Gordon "You are born whoever you are," says Kimberly Faye Greenberg, "And I'm a broad." The actress and singer is...
View ArticleKanye, Kurt Cobain, and the Wish Fulfillment of a Musical Genre
Kanye West isn't a real person. He's the unfortunate manifestation of the ideals set forth in his musical genre. He joins a tragic and unique group, which includes Tupac, Sid Vicious, and Kurt Cobain....
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How Instagram Is Helping Me Recover From an Eating Disorder
By Nicole I first came across the idea of an Instagram recovery account during my first admission to an adolescent unit. While in the hospital, I often found myself in conversation with other patients...
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Princes & Crows Wallpaper, Murals and Decor by Alix Soubiran
Photo by Miles Najera Even since the days of early human existence, mankind has shared an inexplicable need to decorate their humble abodes. From archaic cave drawings to complex hieroglyphs,...
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