Cultural Appropriation: The Act of Stealing and Corrupting
A person's cultural identity forms one of the most important and most vulnerable parts of who they are. We tend to define ourselves by what we believe, and the way we express our beliefs is through...
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The Manly Pursuit of Desire: High Art and Low Sex All the Way Through Evening
Young Australian filmmaker Rohan Spong's love letter to New York and a generation of young composers who died of AIDS, "All the Way Through Evening," opens at the Village East Cinema, 189 2nd Avenue...
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Creating the Bat #5: Chuck Dixon
What does it take to sustain a single character for 74 years? Since Batman's first appearance in May 1939, hundreds of writers, artists, and editors have applied their craft and their personalities to...
View ArticleMy Stop Motion Video Explains How to Curb iPhone Theft
It all started one day when my friends and I realized that there's not much you can do when your phone gets stolen. Do you report it to the police? The NYPD is simply too busy in solving other crimes....
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As Lovely as a Tree: This Artweek.LA (December 2, 2013)
Michael Kenna | Kenna has long been recognized for the dream-like landscapes that make up the majority of his work and has been exhibited internationally since the late 1970's. Kenna travels six...
View ArticleCurate NYC 2013 Celebrates New York City as the Hub of the World Art Market
For the third year, culture creators Brian Tate and Danny Simmons have successfully staged Curate NYC. Produced in partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Curate NYC is a...
View ArticleWool Worth Building
Entering the mighty Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue can be a spiritual experience for many of us, particularly when one is eagerly anticipating a riveting survey exhibition by Christopher Wool, an...
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Curtain Call at Europe's Operas for Subodh Gupta, The Simpsons and Digital Divas
Flitting around Europe to report on art events this Fall threw up evening opportunities to enjoy opera on either side of what was once the Iron Curtain. It still, in a way, remains: the stagings I saw...
View ArticleSandra Bernhard Does 'Sandyland'
It is said that well-behaved women don't change the world. Words to live by, and no one lives them better on stage than Sandra Bernhard. Uniquely poised in the performance art world, her art comes...
View ArticleMatthew Couper on the ImageBlog
'Public and Private Battles', 2012, oil on metal, 14" x 11", private collection Santa Monica, CA, USA Upcoming Exhibition: Matthew Couper: Recent Devotional Paintings....
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Daniel Kitson Strides Again at St. Ann's Warehouse
Daniel Kitson is not only a marvelous story-teller. He may be our foremost meta-storyteller, and possibly because there is no other candidate. But he doesn't earn the title merely by default, he is...
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A Review of Marlboro Musicians in Philly
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Photo: Pete Checchia It was such a dark and stormy night in Philly at the end of November, even the stellar Musicians From Marlboro could not tempt enough people...
View ArticleTheater: Daniel Kitson Returns; Musical "Oliver!" Needs More
ANALOG.UE ** 1/2 out of **** OLIVER! ** out of **** ANALOG.UE ** 1/2 out of **** ST. ANN'S WAREHOUSE Daniel Kitson is a stand-up comic when he's not being a monologist when he's not being an artiste,...
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Indo-American Arts Council at Fifteen with Who's Who of South Asian Celebrities
No one in Manhattan can throw a gala like Aroon Shivdasani, and the fifteenth anniversary fete of her Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) was everything I had hoped for and more. More than 250 of New...
View ArticleArt Basel Problems
It is Art Basel time in Miami which brings world-class art, parties, celebrities and culture and Art Basel problems. 1- How many pairs of fashionable yet comfortable shoes do I own? How many blisters...
View ArticleAwol Erizku on the ImageBlog
Two Muslim girls on their way to jumu'ah salat fromt he series, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA: THE CITY OF TRUE LOVE
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Piano's Light Touch at the Kimbell
It may be safe to say - whether you favor the site of Renzo Piano's new pavilion or not - that Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum has never looked as good as it does today. That's because the new...
View ArticleMcKellen and Stewart Wander Through Pinter's 'No Man's Land'
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are once again two lost souls searching a barren terrain for some sort of meaning to life, this time in a toney drawing room off Hampstead Heath in Harold Pinter's No...
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Madame Peripetie's Dream Sequence: A Philosophical Concept of the Beautiful...
Dream Sequence is Sylwana Zybura aka Madame Peripetie's award-winning photographic book project. It oscillates around the portraiture of unconventional fictional figures seen at the crossroads between...
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On the "A" w/Souleo: Why Iyanla Vanzant Doesn't Feel Need to Forgive DMX
While this time of year calls for giving thanks, spiritual life coach Iyanla Vanzant is focused on forgiveness with her new interactive self-help book FORGIVENESS: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for...
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