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Love Supreme
Victoria Renaux with Lyana. Photo by Vadim Abdulajev. Used by permission. Ten years ago, Victoria Renaux met God in a small Parisian circus. It was not her intention. She would not tell you that that...
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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
What does it feel like to be loved for one's beauty or perfection? Naturally, it's something that everyone who has never had that kind of beauty or talent imagines.? Tanaquil Le Clercq was one of the...
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The Naked Maja in My Camera
"Goya," he said, "that's who your work reminds me of." I didn't expect that coming from a client. "It looks like a painting" is what I usually hear from people when they see my portrait and wedding...
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Jamie Johnson: Vices, or I Will Not...
The photographs in Jamie Johnson's new series, Vices, or I Will Not..., comprise an updated twist on the old-timey school-days punishment of writing on the chalkboard; but her titles refer to the...
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Mardi Gras 2014: Soggy Fun in the Marigny!
Mardi Gras was wet this year. And cold. Everyone I know looked at the weather forecasts the night of Lundi Gras and said "there go MY costume plans." It was an eerie, sad feeling as we went to bed on...
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Spring Wrap Up
I've been ever hopeful for an early song bird or tip of a crocus to announce spring's near arrival, but here it is the fifth day of March and the gloom of February continues to seep. Tiring of the sun...
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I Was Tired of Pressure to Get Married, So I Started a Mannequin Family
What would drive you to pack a family of mannequins into your station wagon, and take them on a road trip? Enough pressure to conform will send anyone packing. Conform to what? Well, it was getting...
View ArticleAt the SPRING/BREAK Art Show: A Live Performance Exploring Meditation and the...
The calling of art affords the creative artist an opportunity to journey through the full spectrum of creation and destruction, joy and suffering in the microcosm of her creative process. This...
View ArticleTheater: 'Antony And Cleopatra' Doomed Love, Dumb Setting
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ** out of **** PUBLIC THEATER What to do with all those Playbills? I was moving and debated: should I really keep every single one? Well, no. First, I got rid of the ones for shows...
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The Next Hit Show?
"This is a story about how love changes over time...The hope is that the emotion of that theme + a twisting thriller plot + great tunes = something unique and exciting for audiences." - Kyle Jarrow...
View ArticleMust See Painting Shows: March 2014
So I got a little carried away this month. There are so many strong shows around the country that this month's must see list contains twenty-eight exhibtitons, and I could have easily added more. It is...
View ArticleHow Netflix Is Ruining My Relationship (And Might Be Ruining Yours)
My boyfriend and I watch most of the TV shows we watch together. There are a few exceptions. He got really into "Sherlock." I didn't. We used to make a point of watching "Girls" together. Now we find...
View ArticleUncovering the Mysteries of the Picasso Jewels
On March 18, Skinner Auction House in Boston will be auctioning my rare pieces of jewelry made by Pablo Picasso. These pieces -- the satyr, the sun and a portrait of Claude Picasso -- were given to me...
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The Man Behind "The Monuments Men": David Finley and the Roberts Commission
Written by Katherine Flynn In 1956, Finley brought his case for saving the historic Patent Office Building in downtown D.C. before President Eisenhower. He was successful, and today the building houses...
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Starving Artist
I met John Gargano when I was a lead design architect for HOK in Denver. He was working for another prestigious architectural firm in the building, which was an old renovated warehouse at the end of...
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On the "A" w/Souleo: Two Art Projects Aim to Rebuild Community
Can art serve as a catalyst for revitalizing neighborhoods? It's a question being explored by two unique art projects: "Back in the Bronx," a new campaign launched by the Bronx Museum of the Arts and...
View ArticleHow the Arts Are Reinventing, Not Replacing, Existing Centers
Many of the country's arts centers that were built during the '60s and '70s building boom are in less than desirable condition. Due to budget constraints and the issue of displacing audiences, leaders...
View ArticleAisle View: The Demon Barber of Lincoln Center
There is always a place for a production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, especially one that gives us an oversized orchestra filling the hall with Sondheim's masterful score. The...
View ArticleAn Unknown Home: My Journey to the True/False Film Festival
"I'm jealous of all you people who live here!" exclaimed the MC introducing The Green Prince, fresh from its Sundance triumph. I never thought I would hear these words pronounced about my mid-Missouri...
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