WATCH: Does Money Make You Mean?
It's amazing what a rigged game of Monopoly can reveal. Psychologist Paul Piff shares research showing that people who feel wealthy tend to behave badly. Why is that? And what does it mean for America?...
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(R)evolution at the 64th Berlinale: Clooneymania to Nymphomania Climaxing in...
Clooneymania at The Monuments Men red carpet of the European premiere in Berlin where much of the movie was filmed. (AP Photo) "George Clooney kommt." The 64th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Be a Professional Artist?
Artists and writers often face a major reality check when they leave the confines of academia. It can be a sobering experience to question whether you have the commitment it takes to pursue a career in...
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The Art of Y: Redefining the Music Industry
On Jan. 30, I spoke with singer/songwriter Lily Viriginia. After several years in the making, her self-titled EP is debuting on March 8th along with a secret multimedia presentation, and a party at 7...
View ArticleWhy Art Is Dangerous: Making Art Is Making Trouble
Above the entrance to an exhibition in Paris in 2011 at the Centre Pompidou called The Promises of the Past was written the claim that the function of art was to make the world better. Better than it...
View ArticleThe Beginner's Guide to Digital Crate Digging
Crate digging -- the act of searching for the perfect record in a crate of dusty LPs -- has long since been the audiophile's preferred pastime. Hours are spent sorting through the racks in used record...
View ArticleI Respect Music: Artists' Pay for Radio Play
Inspired by the over 40,000 "likes" that Blake Morgan received last December on his Huffington Post article, "Art and Music Are Professions Worth Fighting For," Morgan decided the time was right to...
View ArticleCreativity: Myths and Misconceptions
Sebastian Campanario, who writes for La Nacion in Buenos Aires, recently sent me three questions for an article he was writing on myths about creativity. I thought I would reproduce those questions and...
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God Save This Queen
The bottom line is simple: Coming out of the closet is not only good for anyone who is gay, it helps the people in his life secure a desperate grasp on reality. Once a person lets his friends, family...
View ArticleHip Hop Hooray: A Wonderful Glimpse into a Cultural Phenomenon
On Thursday night, the Paley Center in New York City hosted a first look at the upcoming VH1 documentary, The Tanning of America: One Nation Under Hip Hop, that debuts this week. Attendees got to see...
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Tim Vermeulen: Speaking to Shared Experience
Tim Vermeulen's recent paintings -- on view at the George Billis Gallery, New York through March 15th -- are awkwardly confessional: just as the artist intends. Strong autobiographical, psychological...
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Tim Vermeulen: Speaking to Shared Experience
Tim Vermeulen's recent paintings -- on view at the George Billis Gallery, New York through March 15th -- are awkwardly confessional: just as the artist intends. Strong autobiographical, psychological...
View ArticlePre-Live Tweeting the 86th Annual Academy Awards: The Gravity of Living in...
Video killed the radio star decades ago. Internet killed everything else. Personally, it utterly destroyed living in the moment. Too often, as I watch my favorite television shows or awards shows I'm...
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Creating Connections With Nature Via Art
Often times in our busy lives, we seem to take some of the important things for granted. It seems to be that more and more each day, the connection between us and our planet earth drifts further and...
View ArticleJulia Schwartz on the ImageBlog
the awkwardness after you reject me, 2013 oil on canvas 10x8 inches, to be shown in The Ghost in You in Gallery 304, Chelsea, NY July 2013. This was the first in a series of text paintings. I suppose...
View ArticleMaking Sondheim Sing: Interview with Michael Mahler, Music Director of...
Beginning March 13, Chicago Shakespeare Theater will debut a revised version of Road Show, a show that Chicago audiences first saw in 2003 at the Goodman Theatre, albeit with a very different book, a...
View ArticleMusic to Words: The Things I Never Said to My Father
In 2011, I started a project called Music to Words, an original writing concept aimed at bridging the worlds of music and writing with words inspired by sound. This song submission was sent to me last...
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Nan Still Stands: "Nan Goldin: Nine Self-Portraits" at Fraenkel Gallery
This article first appeared on Writhing in Apathy, the website of Larissa Archer's writings on art and events and her personal essays. In my hall, Berlin, November 2013 © Nan Goldin, courtesy Fraenkel...
View ArticleConflict and Culture at New York's Jewish Museum
In December I enjoyed announcing to the guards at The Jewish Museum that my name was Sigmund Freud, and that I was coming for the Wish You Were Here event. I died in 1939 (and it was enough already),...
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