10,000 Reasons to Believe in the Power of Art in Public Space
I don't know how many times I've watched a TED talk thinking how inspiring they were, not knowing that one day, I myself would have the opportunity to share with the world the inspiration and purpose...
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"Mothers and Sons": McNally's Report Card On Gay Life
Of all the social advances over the last 30 years, few if any has been more dramatic than the widespread acceptance of gay and lesbian people into mainstream American life. Terrance McNally's wrenching...
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Thirteen Reflections on Citizen Poet Queer
1. First, questions: Who reads books by LGBTQ writers? Who are our readers? How do we find readers? Where in our communities do we talk about books? What role do books play in our lives? How do we...
View ArticleWhy I Refuse To Protest Protestors
Rock and roll has been my education ever since I dropped out of college. But not even college and certainly not rock and roll could have prepared me for what I experienced the other day. My band and I...
View ArticleThe Return of the Wonderfully Weird Dirty Little Singers
Sound the trumpets! Strike the cymbals! Shake the camphor out of your glad rags! Celebrate the return of sly, lascivious wit to our fair city -- to wit, 90 minutes of nifty, clever, devious ditties...
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Trapeze Artist Becomes a Quadriplegic and Still Flies: Olivier Meyrou's Acrobat
It was my favorite film at the recent Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: Olivier Meyrou's Acrobat, about trapeze artist Fabrice Champion, once a performer for the prestigious Les Arts Sauts troupe...
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On the "A" w/Souleo: FACE Africa Takes on the Clean Water Mission in Liberia
There is a reason why Saran Kaba Jones presented her fifth annual WASH gala for FACE Africa at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers. With its waterfront location overlooking the Hudson River you're reminded of...
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Busted: 3 Stickers for a Night in Jail
Excerpted from Ron English's Stickable Art Offenses Thursday night in Manhattan. I was feeling pretty respectable when I turned the corner onto 14th street. I had suited up and gone to dinner with my...
View ArticleJames Franco and Shia LaBeouf Flirt with Triple-X, But Do They Really Score?
We're talking erections, penetration and ejaculation here. The big EPE, as it's known in the trade, is what turns an X-rated movie into triple-X fare. A few mainstream movies in recent months have...
View ArticleRated SR - the Socially Relevant Film Festival: a Promising Start at the Quad
New film festivals are reason for cautious optimism, at least for cinephiles. They often bring new films and perspectives to audiences and in the best of cases, broaden one's horizons. The 2014...
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Helen Pashgian's "Light Invisible" at LACMA (PHOTOS)
On the night of March 26, 2014, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened its doors for its latest exhibition Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible (March 30-June 29, 2014). For the exhibition, Pashgian...
View ArticleListen to the Coolest Symphony Ever Perform a Mashup of 43 Cartoon Theme Songs
Carnegie Hall's Ensemble ACJW is pretty badass. Listen to them perform forty-three cartoon theme songs (and there's even some custom animation to give you a clue as to the cartoon). Can you guess all...
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Mistaken for Strangers
Courtesy of TFF The best documentaries are the ones that veer fearlessly into an unknown direction, where the viewer uncovers layers both painful and painfully funny, that the director himself may not...
View ArticleTheater: 'Aladdin's' Old-Fashioned Charm; McNally's Dated 'Mothers And Sons'
ALADDIN *** out of **** MOTHERS AND SONS ** out of **** ALADDIN *** out of **** NEW AMSTERDAM THEATRE Once upon a time, animated films were for kids. Sure people knew Pinocchio and Snow White and the...
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How to Ignite Your Creativity: Advice From World-Renowned Artist Julia Cameron
Ask a group of children: "Who here can draw?" and chances are they'll all raise their hands high in the air. Try asking that same thing to a group of adults. Sadly, somewhere along the journey, many of...
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To Jane, Love Andy: Warhol's First Superstar
THE PERFECT STORM The town of Palm Beach is located on a tiny sliver of sand about four blocks wide and 16 miles long. When Henry Flagler, a founder of Standard Oil, first saw this island of palms, the...
View ArticleHappy 10th Birthday, Artist Pension Trust
Ten years may be too soon to tell if the Artist Pension Trust, a program that allows fine artists to create a retirement account using their own artworks as assets, is a success, but at a decade old...
View ArticleAu Revoir Picasso
On March 8, 2014, I visited Welfare in order to pay my electric bill. I filed an application because I qualified for poverty level assistance. While I was teaching at CTAS, I made some three hundred a...
View ArticleWATCH: 3 Secrets Behind Why YouTube Videos Go Viral
Rebecca Black. Double rainbows. Nyan cat. Why do some videos made by ordinary people become internet sensations? And what do the videos we love say about who we are? YouTube's Kevin Allocca breaks it...
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Classic Childhood Books That Grow With You
Remember the books your parents/teachers/babysitters read to you when you were a kid? When it came to my parents, they chose the books they had loved as children themselves. When my mother read these...
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