Pete Seeger (1919-2014): He Changed the World One Song at a Time
Pete Seeger, the 94-year-old activist-singer-songwriter who tried to change the world with every note he uttered, has died, and we are all the poorer for it. A longtime friend whose letters I treasured...
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Thrills and Chills: San Francisco Ballet in Giselle
Davit Karapetyan and Yuan Yuan Tan in Helgi Tomasson's Giselle (Photo: Erik Tomasson) San Francisco Ballet unveiled its latest Parisian import in Giselle on Sunday afternoon at the War Memorial Opera...
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Proof of Ancient Aliens in the National Museum of Iraq?
One of the most amazing, inspiring museums a lot of people will (sadly) never get to visit is the National Museum Of Iraq in Baghdad. It has collections that include art and artifacts from ancient...
View ArticleWhat Novels Can Tell Us About Memory
In Gustave Flaubert's great novel, Madame Bovary, the tragic heroine Emma is waiting at a grand house for a ball to begin when she is overwhelmed by a memory of childhood: She saw the farm again, the...
View ArticlePete Seeger Passes
Pete Seeger, folk legend and social activist, died on Monday. We miss him already. Though he remained a force for positive change throughout his life -- you could see him on the streets protesting the...
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Robin Zander Rules, And I Just Talked to Him
Cheap Trick Frontman Opens Up About His Current Club Tour, Family & The Future So you know how sometimes you don't realize how much a cultural phenomenon that's kind of been on your radar forever...
View ArticleThat Obscure (Surrealist) Object of Desire
Where does the story begin? With the "savage objects" collected from Africa and Oceania by Paul Eluard? With the metronome exhibited at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1932, to which Man Ray...
View ArticlePete Seeger: Beating Flagpoles Into Ploughshares
Not only was it sad to hear the news yesterday morning of Pete Seeger's passing but startling to realize that it was 45 long years ago that we first met. It was in 1969, at Georgetown University, when...
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A 'New Ukraine' Sculpture In Kiev By Street Artist Roti
Trucks 4 Ton Marble Sculpture into Square with Crowd Watching The Prime Minister and his cabinet have quit and the freezing crowds are still demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych....
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Man in a Case at Berkeley Rep: Chekhov, Baryshnikov and Love
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tymberly Canale and Aaron Mattocks in Man in a Case: a giddy and painful attraction of opposites. Photo by T. Charles Erickson Any tale of love by Anton Chekhov is bound to be a...
View ArticleAwesome and Artful Vintage Olympic Posters
There are a lot of advertisements out there for the Sochi Olympics right now, but these vintage travel posters are the ones we prefer. By Molly Fergus, CNTraveler.com More from CondƩ Nast Traveler: Old...
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Forcing Hate to Surrender - Thank You Pete Seeger
"This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender" These are the words inscribed on Pete Seeger's banjo. I first learned of them from my friend Danny Maloney in Elmira, NY and they have stuck...
View ArticleThe Moment I Realized Pete Seeger Was My Greatest Hero
As life goes on various famous people pass on and we usually take just a little bit of time to think of their accomplishments, but when a giant of an era like Pete Seeger leaves us, it leaves a giant...
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Notes From the Road: Seattle
In Seattle, we met up with artist Susie J. Lee, who uses materials that inform our everyday contemporary lives--digital technology and video--in innovative ways that often reference images of the...
View ArticlePete Seeger's Garden
Pete Seeger upstairs at the People's Church on Lawrence Avenue in Chicago; rail thin, head thrust out, jeans and flannel shirt with rolled up sleeves, picking banjo, leading the crowd in song -- his...
View ArticlePoetry After Auschwitz: Weinberg's the Passenger
In 1949, Theodore Adorno wrote the following phrase in his essay Cultural Criticism and Society: "to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric... " In eight words, the German Jewish philosopher summed...
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These Children Are Lifting Their Voices for Social Change, Education
Music is shown to improve a child's problem solving skills. It's shown to improve a child's educational experience. It's shown to improve a child's overall mental health. That's what recent research...
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Resurrect Shadow Detail In Your Photographs With the App InstaFlash
Are the shadows in many of your images so dark it's hard to see detail in them? Would you like to see more detail in shadows without making highlights overly bright? Who doesn't have this problem?...
View Article5 Things You Need to Know About Opera Before This Super Bowl
Some people seem to have a problem with the fact that there's an opera singer singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. People like this guy, (who's he?) and this guy, who calls himself a reporter...
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Patronage 2.0 in Mexico City
This weekend, FundaciĆ³n Alumnos47 will present books from publishers at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair in keeping with its mission to promote independent publishing in Mexico. In my interview with...
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