Aisle View: Sex, Live on Stage
"NOTICE: THIS PLAY CONTAINS NUDITY, SEX & BAD LANGUAGE," says a bold-lettered, red-bordered sign in the box office lobby at Intimacy, the new offering from the New Group at New York City's Acorn...
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On The Streets: The Freshest Global Street Art - 24 January 2014
This week's 'On the Streets' is a hefty combination of brilliant examples of visual art in public indoor and outdoor spaces. Leading off is Logan Hicks's 'Allure of the Sea' work for the Library Street...
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Shanghai's Disappearing Doorways
Infamed for centuries as a Gateway to China for its prime port location at the mouth of the Yangtze River, Shanghai's renowned as an international settlement and commercial hub are directly attributed...
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On the "A" w/Souleo: More Than Enough White Curators?
It wasn't until graduate school that Michelle Joan Wilkinson, director of collections and exhibitions at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, realized that...
View ArticleSappho Sings Again
The world of classical literature is athrob with excitement. Dr Dirk Obbink of Oxford University has published a draft of a new pair of poems by the famous poet Sappho. Events like this are...
View ArticleFirst Voice, Our Voice...
I recently attended the opening of Galería Sin Fronteras (Gallery Without Borders), an exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. The show features 92 works by 64 artists, mostly...
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7 Amazing Coming-Of-Age Novels
People are coming of age both sooner and later nowadays: nine-year-olds taking selfies, twenty- three-year olds lingering in their parents' houses while they look for jobs. At any stray moment in that...
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Hollywood Collects
"I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me." "You just have to have the picture, there's no cure for it....
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Stage Door: A Man's A Man, Outside Mullingar
Man's capacity for deceit and violence is never-ending. But can society or circumstance alter a man's character? In Brecht's 1926 farcical play A Man's A Man, now off-Broadway at the CSC, the answer...
View ArticleA Philadelphia Artist Fights An Epic Eminent Domain Battle
Would someone please help James Dupree already? For weeks I've been following this story. Hopefully you know it by now. In case you don't, he's the artist who owns a building in West Philly and he's...
View Article3 Punctuation Marks to Incorporate Into Your Writing Today
Most people don't spend much time thinking about punctuation. We're not most people. When properly used, punctuation can enhance the rhythm of your writing or change its meaning entirely. And yet too...
View ArticleBetting the Banner XLVIII
This Sunday I will be molded to my sofa watching the big game, alas without the 49ers. The betting website oddsshark.com is reporting on activity leading up to Sunday's Super Bowl -- bets placed not on...
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Why Is Art LA Contemporary L.A.'s Leading Contemporary Art Fair?
The headline on the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair website proudly announces: ALAC returns to the Barker Hangar for its fifth edition, featuring an expanded international roster and a continued...
View ArticleReThink Review: If You Build It -- Helping Communities Through Design
For most of my life, I never gave much thought to design beyond that gut feeling of what I thought looked nice or ugly. But as I got more interested in technology, and Apple in particular, I started to...
View ArticleRethink Gift-Giving, Queen Elizabeth Style
Finally, one of my favorite holiday cards arrived in the mail -- the Miller family's annual New Year's card. It's always full of the anecdotes, accomplishments and concerns of their previous year, with...
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CoBrA on the Canal
Amsterdam's Ambassade Hotel must rank at or near the top of any listing of art hotels. Its collection is vast -- hundreds of original paintings, drawings, and sculptures, displayed not only in the...
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Cirque du Soleil's Amaluna: 5 Things That Make It Stunning
Cirque du Soleil's breathtaking "Amaluna" pushes previous creative boundaries and establishes itself as one of the most captivating and enterprising outings to unfold under the big top in some time....
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Inside the Making of Sundance Official Selection The Girl From Nagasaki With...
These questions originally appeared on Quora. Answers by Michel Comte, Director, Writer, and Producer for 2014 Sundance Official Selection The Girl From Nagasaki. Q: What should the audience to take...
View ArticleThe Apollo Theater: Behind the Legend
Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. It is bursting with music, theater and dance, and it looks marvelous, thanks to millions in renovations and upgrades -- an...
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Albrecht Dürer
Art and technology are cautious dance partners. Starting with cave painting, every means of expression beyond the voice and log drum required the development of a medium for its embodiment. This desire...
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