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Björk Retrospective at MoMA, New York (VIDEO)
Until June 7, 2015, the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, in New York presents Björk, an exhibition dedicated to the work of the singer, composer, and musician Björk. The retrospective is conceived and...
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'Wet Hot American Summer... the play?', Garage Theatre, Long Beach, CA
Written and directed by Ryan McClary for the Garage Theatre, "Wet Hot American Summer...the play?" at first seems slapdash, listing, and awkward. Then it feels jejune, hormonal, and uberconfessional....
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Fiennes in Shaw's 'Man and Superman,' Patrick Marber's Revived...
London -- George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman isn't produced very often, in part because of its length. To be more precise, the entire script isn't frequently staged. The third act, "Don Juan in...
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The Reality Behind Nixon and Khrushchev's Kitchen Debate: Cabbage Soup vs....
Pictures can lie even at times when technology did not allow doctoring a photograph. To see how pictures can change the reality, and make the history, just take a look at before and after of an iconic...
View ArticleNasim Nasr's Zaeefeh (The Wretchedness) and Shadi (Happiness), GAGPROJECTS...
Nasim Nasr has two new bodies of work. One is called Zaeefeh (The Wretchedness), 2015. Across her portraits of historical Persian shahs, the artist has inscribed Farsi quotes. These quotes include...
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How the Intersection of Art and Science Made History
Co-authored by Theodora Karamanlis Image by Disney For thousands of years, what many failed to perceive of their ever-changing surroundings, artists found alternate ways to express through new and...
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Run, Don't Walk, to Final Days of Natvar Bhavsar Exhibit at Tower49 Gallery...
Recently, I visited New York to see an exhibition of Natvar Bhavsar's magnificent paintings at the Tower49 Gallery. Natu's wife, Janet, and I had taught art together in suburban Philadelphia when I...
View ArticleWhy Michelle Rodriguez's Apology Is Lame
In June of 2009, John Jennings and Damian Duffy hosted an art exhibition called Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics at the Krannert Art Museum. The show focused on work by women...
View ArticleWhere Is Earned Income Growth?
I recently read an article in Slate that extolled how cheap it was to purchase classical music and dance and theater in many American cities. The thesis of the story was that arts institutions in many...
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Collected Stories
From left to right, Kirsten Quinn (Lisa Morrison) and co-star Renee Weisband (Ruth Steiner). Photo by Kristine DiGrigoli An innocent meeting between mentor and student soon evolves into something...
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Redefining Regional: Contemporary Art and the Montclair Art Museum (MAM)
The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) and the Whole Foods Market face each other on opposite sides of Bloomfield Avenue. Five years ago, the regional museum known for its distinctive collection of Native...
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A Collection of Gold Gowns Exploit Millennial Narcissism
For my senior thesis at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), I created a conceptually-driven womenswear collection of sculptural, gold-foiled pieces which I called "Delusions of Grandeur."...
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'The Audience': Long Live Helen Mirren
In an episode of Prime Suspect, the gripping 1991 TV crime series, the remarkable Helen Mirren, playing DCI Jane Tennison, snaps at a detective who addresses her with the deference due her rank: "Don't...
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EverydayClimateChange
Show, don't tell. One thing I have learned from living for over two decades in Japan is that words can only do so much. The most cleverly crafted debate, delivered with too much passion here, can be...
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CultureZohn: Women, Where Are We Going? I Thought We Were All in This Together!
Elisabeth Moss as Heidi in The Heidi Chronicles Photo by Joan Marcus In 1988 I took a friend with me to see Wendy Wasserstein's play The Heidi Chronicles at Playwrights Horizons on 42nd Street. Wendy...
View ArticleWhy the World Needs to See India's Daughter
If the words "India's Daughter" haven't caught your attention yet, chances are you may never catch a glimpse of the documentary that sparked the controversy. Recently, the BBC launched a severe, global...
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Nicaragua: Barb of Sorrow
Exactly ten years ago, clinging to a rope in the belfry of the Basílica Menor de San Sebastián, Diriamba, Nicaragua, I looked down to see the Christ hanging above the altar, hands and feet nailed with...
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Pasts, Presence and Futures
A zeitgeist of "being present" definitely is in the air these days. In an era where people at restaurants peruse their smart phones instead of talking to that person sitting across from them (and detox...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Stephen Schwartz!
Today is an important day in the musical theater world -- the 67th birthday of Stephen Schwartz, the Tony-nominated composer and lyricist of shows such as Pippin, Godspell, Children of Eden, both the...
View ArticleGeorge Osodi and Hassan Hajjaj at the Newark Museum
Two weeks ago, the Newark Museum opened two photography exhibitions: George Osodi's Royals and Regalia: Inside the Palaces of Nigeria's Monarchs and Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars. In terms of the...
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