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The Amazing Graffiti Art in the Ruins of the Darul Aman Palace
On the edge of Kabul, Afghanistan, framed by the snowy peaks of the Hindu Kush, lies the Darul Aman Palace, the former home of Afghan King Amanullah Khan. Built in the 1920s as part of a modernization...
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Notes from the Road: Artists at Work
As Chad and Don are beginning to wrap up their long months of studio visits, we've been talking with them to get a sense of the big picture in American art to distill some of the themes and trends...
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They: An Answer
GARY LLOYD at CSU CHANNEL ISLANDS Confrontational art proved itself alive and well at California State University Channel Islands, where the Art Department sponsored an installation and accompanying...
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Gary Lang At Ace Gallery (PHOTOS)
On Thursday, February 27, 2014, ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills, held an exhibition of work by Gary Lang titled "Circles/ Words," exploring for the first time, in combination, Lang's two distinct bodies of...
View ArticleHow Culture Is Transforming our City
I know first-hand how art and culture can transform individuals and communities. I grew up in Minnesota, at a time when I thought I had to be either black or white. As an Asian American, I was neither....
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Richard Mosse Captures the DRC in Candy-Colored Infrared
Platon, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2012 Invasive Exotics, 2014 Untitled Transient, 2012 The Weeping Song, 2014 In candy-colored infrared, Richard Mosse captures the lush Democratic Republic of Congo...
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Moby Talks Apocalypse and True Detective
According to musician, Moby, an artist who has sold over 20 million records and whose song "Extreme Ways" plays prominently at the end of every Bourne film, the apocalypse happened back in December...
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Diana Al-Hadid's Melting Sculptures and Panels
Suspended After Image, 2012 Diana Al-Hadid's monumental sculptures and panels are classically crafted, yet ephemeral. Built up from paint and plaster remains they appear hollow, almost broken, toying...
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The Artful Dodger
When something painful happens, do you immediately think you can make it worthwhile by transforming it into a great work of art that will make you famous? Do you find yourself using your iPhone to take...
View ArticlePitching for Manipur: Documentary Sheds New Light on Northeast India Through...
I often write about fantasies, but the dreams and nightmares depicted in Mirra Bank's The Only Real Game are astoundingly, heartrendingly real. Since 2006, the critically acclaimed director (Last...
View ArticleGoodman's Venus in Fur: A Power Play With a Twist
Where to start with David Ives' twisting, tantalizing and tawdry dark comedy? This is the kind of work that delights and surprises in the moment, yet following the event you begin to look past the...
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Creating Art from Direct Experience
It could and has been said that there are two types of artists, those who conceptualize what they experience and want to express, and those who express the experience of feeling deeply connected to...
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9 Terribly Dysfunctional Marriages in Literature
Oh marital misery, what would we do without you? Here lies one of the great subjects of fiction, a chance to peer in close at desire, betrayal, hatred, lust, love, grief, boredom, disappointment,...
View ArticleTheology, Taboos, and Creative Thinking
During the 1976 presidential campaign, then-candidate Jimmy Carter famously told Playboy magazine: "I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times." Carter's...
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The Golden Triangle and The Opium Museum
Thailand has had a long and complicated drug history with Burma and Laos, centered in the area where the countries meet at the Golden Triangle. The involvement of this area traces at least to the early...
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Truth to Power
The other night I heard a work that I had not come across for many years. It was a big symphonic piece that lasts about 30 minutes by the German composer Paul Hindemith called Mathias the Painter....
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745 Foot Sky Sculpture Hovers over TED Talks in Vancouver
Janet Echelman, an urban airpsace artist is a dream weaver or Spider Woman. Hover over the City of Vancouver, she has suspended a 745-foot sculpture in the sky, half the size of the Brooklyn Bridge,...
View ArticleAisle View: Brass Lamp Turns Gold
It is untoward and beside the point to compare Aladdin and Rocky; Aladdin being the new Disney musical based on the widely celebrated 1992 animated film about the poor slub from the streets of Agrabah...
View ArticleWATCH: This Woman Has A Powerful Reason For Wanting More Stay-At-Home Dads...
Why is it more prestigious to be a CEO than it is to take care of your family? Why aren't caregivers and breadwinners equally celebrated? And do women actually have more choices than men? Watch this...
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Polo: An Argentine Legacy (VIDEO)
To some people, Polo might be all about fast-paced horse riding, beautiful women and sunny afternoons on the field with a glass of champagne. But look a little deeper and it's also the oldest team...
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