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Ray Atkeson: Pacific Northwest
The current exhibition at Duncan Miller Gallery is Pacific Northwest: Vintage Photographs by Ray Atkeson. On view through March 29, this exhibition presents rare darkroom-printed photographs, many of...
View ArticleCafé Au Go Go: Still Blowing the Winds of Change
New York -- Like many people, I grew up with an almost mythical idea of New York's Greenwich Village. Arriving to the party late, my early nineties introduction was nonetheless filled with sights...
View ArticleInterview With MoMA Curator David Platzker About the New Exhibition on John Cage
The uniting of the worlds of visual art and music is a trend that is getting a boost from a major new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, focusing on the composer John Cage and his monumental --...
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Mother Love vs. the Bureaucracy: Review of Child's Pose
American movies apply a pretty straightforward technique to devastate an audience: build up the emotion; accelerate the cutting; maybe throw in some shouting; add a swell of music; boom, you're there....
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Ms. Marvel #1 Review
Despite having to brave a Hoth-like terrain, I made it to a comic book shop this week to pick up Ms. Marvel #1. Written by G. Willow Wilson and illustrated by Adrian Alphona, this book is super...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Andrew Lloyd Webber's So Low 'Stephen Ward' and Solo 'Tell Me...
Andrew Lloyd Webber rules Brittania's West End and, as will come as a surprise to few, has for just about 40 years. Right now, three of his musicals are at hand. The Phantom of the Opera is in its...
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Bull Market: Today's Billionaire Egomaniacs Have Turned the Art World Into a...
I have been an invited interloper in the fiefdoms of the decimal-pointed rich long enough now to know that when rich men want to distinguish themselves from other rich men they buy art. Among...
View ArticleAisle View: Information Overload
The set is a cube, with receding walls, ceiling and floor comprised of graph-paper squares. Two actors are on stage. One asks the other to share the secret, she finally whispers the secret. Blackout,...
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All You Need Is Love... and Information: Caryl Churchill's Love and Information
Left to Right Top Row: Irene Sofia Lucio, Noah Galvin Bottom Row: Karen Kandel, Adante Power, Zoë Winters, James Waterston, Lucas Caleb Rooney I like to think of Caryl Churchill as the Emily Dickinson...
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The Gravedigger Scene
You read terrible news stories which you can't get out of your mind, like the Bangladeshi mother trapped in the rubble in the collapse of the Rana Plaza who only wanted to see her child again ("Last...
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Movie Review: Omar
Who is the traitor? That question of loyalty, deception and betrayal haunts the Oscar-nominated film Omar by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, whose dark, weirdly funny Paradise Now was also an...
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Gregory Porter and the Gospel of Jazz
Photo: Shawn Peters "Divine," comes to mind, "charismatic," "dignified," and a voice that is "habit forming." Only a few positive associations and by far not enough of them, describing a singer that...
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The Artist Is Not Present
In the following account, I contemplate my upcoming retrospective exhibition. In response to being asked to describe my feelings surrounding the event, I wrote a story from the perspective of a...
View ArticleAdoption Reunion Documentary, Closure, Raises Interesting Questions
Closure is a well-made film of a personal and very emotional journey. It documents Angela's search and reunion with her black birth father and mother and their extended families. Raised by white...
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The Joys of Screen-Free Thinking
This post was originally written by hand. I like my Internet fast but my reading and writing slow. I have been writing, but if you follow me online there's no way you could have seen it. In December,...
View ArticleOptimism in Check, Nihilism at Bay
In keeping with one of my literary heroes, Raymond Carver, I have two three-by-five note cards taped to the wall beside my desk. On of one of them I've written down something the South African artist...
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In Paris, a New Source for Interiors
Let's say you're an English-speaking expat and a Francophile wandering the streets of Paris in search of a pair of easy chairs designed by modernist Oscar Niemeyer in 1948. Where would you go? If you...
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Heart Bombs 2014: Five Events that Showed Historic Places the Love
Written by Julia Rocchi Heart bombing the Sattler Theatre in Buffalo Heart bombing: an idea born of love, affection, and untold amounts of construction paper. It's a bright, beautiful way to spotlight...
View ArticleThe Apollo Theater Before 125th Street Was the Black Main Street
George Carlin had a famous comedy routine called "White Harlem." I met him a couple of years before he died and when I told him I wrote Showtime at the Apollo, he became animated and excitedly told me...
View ArticleAisle View: Bridge Over Troubled Adaptation
The attributes of The Bridges of Madison County, the new musical at the Schoenfeld, are vibrant and most welcome: the strong singing/acting performances of Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale; the score...
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