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Edwige Fouvry at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Edwige Fouvry, a Brussels-based painter who is having her second solo exhibition at Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, is interested in finding order and structure in chaos. Her painterly...
View Article8 Book Recommendations Based On Your Favorite 80s Movies
Forgive us our nostalgia. All of us. When I was kid, I bemoaned my parents' lionization of the 50s and 60s, but now here I am, approaching middle age, and I'm spending an awful lot of time reflecting...
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Ask the Art Professor: To What Extent Do Grades Define an Academic Career in...
Lately, I have been receiving opinions from my peers (and even professors) that grades are irrelevant. I don't want to imply a lack of rigor or competence present at the school I attend. The school I...
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Opera in America: Is it Circling the Toilet?
Man, it has been a rough couple of years for regional opera companies. My husband hosts an opera podcast on which he has had to add a segment called "The Weekly Dirge" where they discuss which opera...
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What's Paris to Do With Its Abandoned Subway Stations? Turn Them Into Dance...
Paris mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet has been doing a lot of thinking about Paris' abandoned "ghost stations," unused subway platforms that have most recently been populated only by...
View Article'Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1' Review: Lars Von Trier's Gritty Sex Drama Comes With...
After a two-year media blitz featuring one salacious blurb after another, the expectations going into Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac" are understandably bloated. Just how explicit are the sex scenes?...
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A Tribute to a Blues Triumvirate
After retiring from VCU 10 years ago, a gifted Chuck Scalin began teaching courses in collage and assemblage at Richmond's Studio School of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Now he's pulled together a...
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Abandoned Hotel Becomes a Temporary Street Art Gallery
Somewhere deep in the U.K. is an abandoned hotel. While busy wasting away in the foggy land, a collective group of street artists decided it should serve as their next temporary canvas. Creating an...
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A Haunting Look at the Italian Mafia
Valerio Spada (1972, Milan) is not merely a photographer, but a careful observer; a geologist who deeply knows how the human being functions, thinks, and loves. To him, Art means faith: "Not a way to...
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Det. Sonny Grosso, Joe DiMaggio and an Ongoing Love Affair With the Yankees
New York and baseball's Yankees, it's a love affair that might've ended in some recrimination in the previous fall, but in spring, hope does spring eternal, and the Yankees become the main game in...
View ArticleT. E. Hulme: The First Modern Poet?
Who wrote the first modern English poem? When -- and, indeed, where -- was it written? There are numerous candidates, but one could do worse than propose the answer 'T. E. Hulme, in 1908, on the back...
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And Now for Something Completely Different
In the modern era, conceptual innovators have radically transformed the function and role of style in the arts. Traditionally, style was the artist's signature or trademark, the unique and distinctive...
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In Pursuit of Magnificent Obsessions
The winding path from curiosity to passion and onward to embracing a full-blown fetish is a very strange one. Sometimes a person's enthusiasm for a certain type of object is sparked by a gift, a novel...
View ArticleSXSW 2014: Networking Down 6th St.
Between Doritos trotting out Lady Gaga, Samsung tapping Jay-Z and Kanye West, and iTunes hosting Coldplay, corporate-sponsored music clearly dominated SXSW in 2014, but what I found most notable was...
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ODC's Electrifying boulders and bones
Dancers from ODC Dance (l to r): Natasha Adorlee Johnson, Josie G. Sadan, Zoe Keating, Dennis Adams, Anne Zivolich perform in the world premiere of boulders and bones. (Photo: Marie-Pier Frigon) ... I...
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Reunion, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa
Three chums meet up in a motel room after their 25th high school reunion. It's the same room they had 25 years ago, after graduation. There's ritual, there's anticipation, and there's the chance to...
View ArticleStage Door: Rocky, All The Way
Boxing has taken center stage on Broadway: Clifford Odets' extraordinary drama Golden Boy, was revived in 2012, and now movie-turned-musical Rocky, is at the Winter Garden. But the differences between...
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Eduardo Alvarado at Galerie d'art Anne Broitman Biarritz
Eduardo Alvarado -- a contemporary Spanish artist who has been influenced by Bay Area Figurative art -- has an austere approach to painting that is meant to stand on its own. His sparely brushed nudes...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Christopher Durang's 'Beyond Therapy' Back After Its Time
To be blunt about it, I've never thought much of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy as a play, but I'm always willing to change my mind about these things. So I went to The Actors Company Theatre...
View ArticleCabaret: Everybody Loves a Winner Once
I read Michael Riedel's column in last Friday's New York Post with the kind of dumbfounded look I have on my face when I see really bad theater that somehow made it to Broadway. I thought: "Could...
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