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Lo-Fi Street Photography and Why I Love It
All Photographs (c) Michael Ernest Sweet Whether analog or digital, I've been drawn to lo-fi photography for some time. I just love it. I like the process, the gear and the way the final images look...
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Confessions of a Serial Songwriter: To All the Guitar Players I've Loved Before
It started when I was very young. This was my first. Something New Album Cover There was a little flutter in my heart. Ok -- So the flutter wasn't only in my heart. But this is a G-rated blog so I...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Mark Rylance in 'Farinelli and the King,' John Hollingworth's...
London -- Since William Congreve wrote that "music hath charm to soothe a savage breast," people have assumed he was right. The composer Claire van Kampen has decided to demonstrate its truth by...
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Bather's Delights
Phhwww! February has gone away. The Seine is turning blue again. And despite the looming Ides of March, the love of beautiful bodies is returning to Paris--at least in this city's more interesting...
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'The Heidi Chronicles': Playing It Forward
I hadn't thought about Wendy Wasserstein and The Heidi Chronicles in an awfully long time. Now, with the play back on Broadway (opening March 19), I find myself pondering: Why now? The answer I arrive...
View ArticleFlagstad -- Triumph and Tragedy -- At NYC's Scandinavia House
The Scandinavia House is one of the most delightful destinations in NYC. Just cross-town from the touristy Times Square, it sits quietly, yet alluringly at 58 Park Avenue, offering a restaurant, gift...
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Chicago Seven Bring Art to The People
left to right - Chicago "Seven over Seven": Dan Rizzo-Orr, Mika Horibuchi, Ellis von Sternberg, Claire Molek, (curator), Valentina Zamfirescu, Kenrick Mcfarlane, Nick Nes Knowlton, Anders Lindseth....
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A-Sides With Jon Chattman: The Amazin' Mets of AJR; March Into '5' for Fighting
Do you remember those old commercials where off-beat salesmen ramble on about their item that does it all or simply "slices and dices?" No? Well, watch this and you're welcome. Moving on, NYC-bred band...
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How Verdi Transcends Weltschmerz
-- drawing by Eliane Gerrits Were you born here?" I ask Michael, the stonemason who repairs the flagstones along my driveway. They are in shambles because of the constant freezing, thawing and...
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The Oscars Of The GIF World Needs You
And you! And you and you and you. Kindly turn your attention to the only Vice-approved ceremony of awards season: The .GIFYs, a yearly event honoring the gems that sparkle in the dust of this terrible...
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The Model of a Modern Music Entrepreneur: Irving Fine
The classical music industry and conservatories have spent the last few years coming to terms with the exploding field of music entrepreneurship. The Juilliard School recently announced that it is...
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ZZK Records Remixes Luzmila Caprio's Music of the Indigenous
Since the mid-60's, Bolivian singer Luzmila Caprio has represented the culture, community, and stories of the indigenous people that inhabit the mountains and valleys of the Andes. Her music touches...
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Evelyn Hankins of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Discusses the...
As a curator you have to be conscious of who you are showing and why you are showing that artist. It is not enough to say that you are showing women artists, because different groups of women struggle...
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Interview With Fernando Botero
The international contemporary art fair, ArcoMadrid, will open its doors on February 25th, in association with Colombia, as an invited nation. The Fernando Botero (MedellÃn, Colombia - 1932) art...
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(R)evolution as Contemporary Body: Holly Zausner's Resplendent Unsettled Matter
The quantum wae collapse is embodied into multimedia artist Holly Zausner's visually stunning and dynamically assertive Unsettled Matter premiering at LOOCK Gallerie in Berlin before arriving at...
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A Conversation With Luke Ingham, Principal Dancer at San Francisco Ballet
Principal Dancer Luke Ingham delivered a spectacular performance in San Francisco Ballet's opening night presentation of Liam Scarlett's Hummingbird. Part of Program 4, it shares a double-bill with...
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8 Fairs to Visit During Armory Week
Brienne Walsh, March 3, 2015 This week is Armory Week in New York, which means that the piers over the frozen waters of New York's rivers will be inhabited by a variety of art fairs. Whether you're a...
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'The Temptation of Saint Antony,' Four Larks, Los Angeles
One of the actors, citing her skills in the production's playbill, says she's a "things meshed together" artist. She acts, she sings, and she makes music. Throw in the making of art and that's what...
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A Mexican Mural 'Manifesto,' Blackened Flags And Censorship
Striking and massive murals by international street artists have been populating the walls of Mexico City for the last five years thanks to the emergence of a global Street Art scene, a rise in mural...
View ArticleLosing: The Soul of a Writer
In June 2013, the New Yorker paid tribute to Vasily Grossman, unheralded Russian war correspondent and novelist. Unheralded to me, at least. Apparently not to the rest of the literate public. The full...
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