Ayoub Qanir Takes Time to Cannes
"Uncertainty, is where God lives." What do you get when you mix a finance manager, artist, industrial designer, and a nanotechnologist? A film writer and director that knows how to steal Time. We all...
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Aisle View: Whose Fish Is It Anyway?
Larry David in his new comedy Fish in the Dark. Photo: Joan Marcus The nerve of these people, they seem to think that you can take some TV writer--never written a play, never appeared in one unless...
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The Care and Nurturing of the Gifted Child
Not every child who enters this world is wanted. But for those who are, their futures are instantly called into question. Some parents are content simply knowing that their newborn is healthy. Others...
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: A Movie Review
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel A Movie Review by Lloyd I. Sederer, MD We enter this film by viewing one pair of the characters who charmed many a heart in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. We see...
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Dollars and No Sense
Allow me to throw around some numbers. Driving south from San Francisco I passed the new Levi's Stadium for the 49ers, which cost approximately $1.3 billion to build (Let me remind you that the NFL has...
View ArticleEating Art
The French writer Marcel Aymé once wrote a short story in which the population of a small town, starving to death, suddenly discovered that if they looked at a painting of food with enough intensity,...
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25 Stunning Photos That Will Enrich Your International Woman's Day
What a meaningful way to celebrate International Women's Day! I was filming Maasai for an NGO and came up with the idea to shoot outdoor portraits with studio light. This photo of communication between...
View Article5 Things Not to Miss at New York's Asia Week 2015
Since its 2009 inception, New York's Asia Week has flourished. A convergence of museums, dealers, collectors, gallerists, and art enthusiasts, the event features endless opportunities to view, bid, and...
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A Big Night of Music (for Opera and the #newNYCO)
It was a cold winter evening of March 4 in New York. Opera performances in an intimate setting however made the night warm and cozy yet impactful. Singers and performers mingled with opera producers,...
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In New York, 55W21 from Foster + Partners
Foster +Partner's newest design for New York takes its cues from two of the city's finer attributes: the proportions and scale of its prewar apartment buildings, and the bronze-like tint of the...
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Art Digest: Art News That's Actually Digestible
So, you like art. No, not the headline producing painting that just sold at Christie's for $125 million. Leave that for the billionaire collector. I mean art you can relate to, art you can afford. If...
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Peter Walker: A New Voice on the Dance Scene
Peter Walker is choreographing this year's commission for the School of American Ballet's Winter Ball. "If the choreographer was watching my ballet, I wouldn't want him to be like, 'oh, obviously...
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Investment or Impulse: What Kind of Collector Are You?
Kehinde Wiley, Diarra Mohamed and Mohamed Konate, 2013. © Kehinde Wiley studio and Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris. At The Armory Show, Pier 94. What kind of collector are you? Do you consider long and...
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Impossible Dreams: William Faulkner and Don Quixote
Great experimental innovators are acutely aware of the costs of their particular form of creativity, as they spend long periods in pursuit of the elusive ideal of creating art that will be as powerful,...
View ArticleMet Opera: 'Hoffmann' Redux Via Levine and Polenzani
As always with James Levine in the pit, a night at the opera is something special, and the Metropolitan Opera's second round of performances of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann with a new cast led by...
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The Ballad of Bobby Shmurda
When rappers become too established and successful they run the risk of losing their outlaw credibility. Queen Latifah is an obvious example of that phenomenon. When they go too far in trying to...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of the Greatest Generation
Magdaleno (Leno) Díaz passed way on February 10, 2015, at the age of 95. His passing gave me pause to contemplate the significance and impact of what is often referred to as The Greatest Generation, a...
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New York Street Photography And Getting Up Close, Really Close
All Photographs (c) Michael Ernest Sweet We've all likely heard the familiar Robert Capa quote, "If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough." Well, it's true. Go to Flickr or some...
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Angle of View: History in Sharp Focus
Our memories sometimes work against us. Recollections of dates, times, and names fade with each passing moment. Erasing painful images or pretending oppression does not exist will not eradicate social...
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Lead Belly: Songster of Mythic Proportions
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Following their 2012 success with Woody at 100, the folk music wizards of Smithsonian Folkways chose an even more ambitious project: a box set to represent the...
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