Met Opera: Damrau and Camarena Turn 'La Sonnambula' Into a Dream
It's not all that often the soprano turns cartwheels after a show, no matter how great it has been. But in the finale of the Met Opera's smashing revival of Bellini's La Sonnambula Diana Damrau kicks...
View ArticleLegendary Queen of Pop Sings in Queens, NY
After a week of meetings at the UN celebrating the 58th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and Women's History month, running around Manhattan with our subway system undergoing construction, and...
View ArticleThe Best Arts Job in the World
The Kennedy Center recently announced that Deborah Rutter will become its new president in September. It is with great ambivalence that I leave my job to Deborah. Not because I have any doubt she will...
View ArticlePhilip Roth, Bound and Unbound: An Interview with Claudia Roth Pierpont
In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes / How do you measure, a year in the life?-- Jonathan Larson I was so blue after helping to plan, and ultimately attending Mr. Roth's 80th...
View Article10 Food Trucks You Need To Visit In Austin, TX
Austin has once again been taken over by South by Southwest. To the casual observer, it may appear that this is merely a music festival; however, look closer -- with your stomach eyes --and you will...
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SXSW Interview: Stars Natalia Dyer and Peter Vack on Complicated Young Love...
Young love is typically treated one of two ways in feature films made by adults: either as gauzy, treacly fairy tales of first kisses and two-straw milkshakes or as raunchy comedies where losing one's...
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Drummer Matt Wilson Summons All to His Gathering Call
In music, and especially contemporary improvised music, the role of the drummer has greatly expanded beyond the traditional role of keeper of time. Witness the current crop of albums that have recently...
View Article274 Faces in 30 Seconds
I was asked to contribute an art piece to the ongoing series of art shows in Los Angeles known as "CREATE:FIXATE" and I wasn't sure what to do. Michelle Berc, the curator and owner of C:F has asked me...
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John Tweddle and Ken Price at Kayne Griffin Corcoran (Photos)
Kayne Griffin Corcoran held its first exhibition of work by John Tweddle on Saturday, March 15th, 2014. The exhibition is curated by Alanna Heiss. Heiss chose works from Tweddle's Scull Collection,...
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32 Magical Photos of Ireland
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Did you know we celebrate March 17 to honor Saint Patrick, the most widely-recognised patron saint of Ireland? To add to your festivities, we've gathered 32 magical photos of...
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J. J. Grandville and His Fantastic Creatures
In Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux (The Private and Public Lives of Animals), first published in 1842, Animals of the world decide to do away with human oppression, and assemble a parliament on the...
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Je t'aime, je t'aime
The French love memory. Proust's masterpiece was A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, In Search of Lost Time or The Remembrance of Things Past, as it's most often translated. The French philosopher Henri...
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Artist Profile: Interview With David Crowell, Brooklyn-based Composer &...
David Crowell is a Brooklyn-based composer and multi-instrumentalist who creates rhythmically complex music with an easy, almost floating quality to it. His work has been performed at numerous...
View ArticleHow 'Moonrise, Hernandez' Came to Be One of the Iconic Photographs of the...
Driving back to Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 31, 1941, after what had been a disappointing day for picture-taking, photographer Ansel Adams (1902-84) brought his car to an abrupt stop, yelling to...
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Rwanda: First-Ever Reality Show Zamuka Models Entrepreneurism
Search for Common Ground (SFGC), an international NGO, is hoping to inspire and launch a new generation of young entrepreneurs with Zamuka -- the first ever, Rwandan reality TV show. Unlike the...
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The Most Powerful Painting I Have Ever Seen... And How it Freed Someone From...
My good friend and colleague, Anthony Papa, found his passion for art while serving a 15-to-life sentence in Sing-Sing. Papa painted hundreds of pieces while behind bars, but one of them stands out and...
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Brothers Hypnotic -- An Inspiring Documentary About Music, Politics, and Family
At the start of the film Brothers Hypnotic, we see seven young black men walking leisurely along rusted train tracks carrying musical instruments -- four with trumpets, one with a trombone, one with a...
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Belo: Canada's Artist with a Cause
Canadian artist Belo does things big. He's an up and coming artist generating quite the buzz (at least I think so). Like many artists, Belo's art comes with an important message (famous street artist...
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Spring/Summer 2014 Styled By Fashion Experts
Fashion bloggers and stylists are normally most comfortable working alone, but on this occasion they joined forces, stepping away from their collective comfort zones and into a more collaborative...
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