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Butterfly Soars on Sydney Harbor
A tale of an American military man seeking a temporary marriage with a 15-year-old Asian girl is highly unpalatable to a contemporary audience. For that reason Madama Butterfly can be one of the...
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Francesco Carrozzini - Through the Lens (VIDEO)
A true master behind the lens, Francesco Carrozzini is worth watching. Cover shoots for Vogue, music videos for global pop stars, celebrity portraits and the New York Times Screen Tests for T Magazine....
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Women as Music Producers: The Movement
Photo Caption: Ebonie Smith Meet Ebonie Smith, a gifted music producer, songwriter, and entrepreneur who is committed to encouraging women to join her in her craft. This is her amazing story. Seven...
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Flashes of Light From the Annual Gala Event at the Norton Museum of Art
Leave it to a first-rate museum with a great permanent collection to host an annual gala for a local super affluent seasonal community, enticing these art aficionados into wearing their full evening...
View ArticleWhat Art Can Learn From Porn
A few months ago, I caught wind of a bit of media flak surrounding the 2013 film Blue is the Warmest Color, a lesbian love story based on the novel by Julie Maroh. While most critics agreed the movie...
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Review: Greencard Warriors
I recently saw an important new film at the Crosby Hotel presented by the Dutch Consulate. As always, the Dutch support their filmmakers with the hope of "bringing not just beauty, but enlightenment...
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Jason Shawn Alexander: Paint It Out
First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever. -- Francisco de Goya The filigree of tight lace panties, the flush of bright red ears, the architecture of a long and heavy braid, the...
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Imagination and Desire: The 2014 Biennale of Sydney
The 19th Biennale of Sydney has opened once again in locations across the city, from smaller venues to established museums. This year’s biennale, curated by Juliana Engberg of the Australian Centre for...
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Women Artists Who Broke the Mold
As March - Women's History Month - comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect on those women artists in the past who have paved the way for women artists today, challenging fiercely held...
View ArticlePeter and the Wolf: How the Opera Is Dying With Its Patrons
The announcement of the closing of the San Diego Opera is a tale of caution for nonprofits and a good lesson about engaging the next generation of donors. There were a few philanthropic issues working...
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Strong is the New Pretty: What Beauty Looks Like in the Next Generation of Girls
"You don't need to be pretty, perfect or compliant to be loved." That is the message photographer Kate T. Parker wanted to use to empower her girls when she started taking their pictures three years...
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"The Memorandum," Santa Monica Rep
Photos courtesy of Mitch Goldstrom. Josef Gross (Bart Petty) is the managing director of a business. We know neither the company's name nor its line of business. He's given a memo - the one we see...
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Questionable Role Models
In her delightfully provocative article entitled Artmaking As Irrevent Research, the Dean of Columbia University's School of the Arts, Carol Becker, makes some fascinating points: Artists will use any...
View ArticleThink of Me: Phantom and the Importance of Casting
When it was announced last week that Sierra Boggess and Norm Lewis would step into The Phantom of the Opera this May, most of the press was about the fact that Lewis was to become the first black...
View ArticleDuke & Satchmo's Jazz Manual: Eat, Pray, Swing
From Aristotle to Zen, man has always been searching for the meaning of life. Sorry, Pharrell "Happy" Williams, but finding true bliss is actually harder than solving the riddle of the Sphinx. It...
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Milwaukee Ballet and the Modern Quest for Beauty
Milwaukee Ballet Company in rehearsal (Photo: Petr Zahradnicek) Gatecrashing a rehearsal for Milwaukee Ballet's upcoming triple bill at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Ballet to the People...
View ArticleTheater: Les Miz a Pleasure (and not a Guilty One); Breathing Time Expires
LES MISERABLES *** 1/2 out of **** BREATHING TIME * 1/2 out of **** LES MISERABLES *** 1/2 out of **** IMPERIAL THEATRE I really do love Les Miserables. I listened to the cast album(s) again and again...
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A Visit to the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw,...
The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle CSW in Warsaw (Poland) is known for its diverse cultural activities, ranging from research and artistic exploration to educational workshops, concerts...
View ArticleAisle View: The Moor of Covent Garden
Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his day, collapsed while playing Othello at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in the spring of 1833 and died several weeks later. In an effort to keep the curtain up,...
View ArticleTheater: Cirque Du Soleil's Amaluna Far From Full
AMALUNA * 1/2 out of **** CITIFIELD Go to the Cirque Du Soleil website and you'll see 20 shows circling the globe under the Cirque banner. It's an impressive roster that attests to how thoroughly this...
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