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The Bottom-Line Patterns of Urban Street Design
A recent collaboration suggests that we should explicitly recognize historic patterns of pedestrian city settings in contemporary urban design and policies. Historic Cours Mirabeau, a 440m walkable...
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Lekha Singh's Global Society
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." -- Rumi As an artform, photography's magic lies in its unique choreography of documentation and interpretation. This paradox unfolds as the choices the...
View ArticleTheater: 'Broadway By The Year' Hits New Peak; 'A Second Chance' Falls Flat
BROADWAY BY THE YEAR 1940-1964 *** 1/2 out of **** A SECOND CHANCE ** out of **** BROADWAY BY THE YEAR 1940-1964 *** 1/2 out of **** THE TOWN HALL Broadway By The Year has become an institution for the...
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Sentry
Margot Datz and Old Whaling Church Mural by Carl Wendte (1843) Re-creation by Margot Datz (2014) Photo by Ray Ewing for the Vineyard Gazette. Copyright Vineyard Gazette 2013, all rights reserved Used...
View ArticleI Want Poetry to Matter: A Manifesto
In celebration of National Poetry Month 2014, I present my new poem: a poetic manifesto for a new world. By the way, I also think that we need to queer or gayify National Poetry Month! "I Want Poetry...
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Ai Weiwei's Evidence: Major Solo Exhibition in Berlin (VIDEO)
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (born 1957) is one of the world's most famous artists. The Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin is now staging his largest solo exhibition to date. On 3,000 square meters in 18 rooms...
View ArticleA View From a Son
Last week, I attended the opening night of Terrence McNally's latest play, Mothers and Sons with my mom, Marilu Henner. The play represents, as announced at curtain call that evening, the first time...
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How Hand-Painted Signs Helped Revitalize a Mississippi Main Street
By Lauren Walser Artist Bill Warren hand paints the lettering on a window at The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery. There's a renaissance happening in the small town of Water Valley, Miss., as you read in...
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Such Hope
Here is something I have learned. There is a genius to mortality. Imagine Gallery 39 at the British Museum on a Wednesday morning. Outside, a typical London February. Cold. Windy. Passing showers....
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What Buying Signs From the Homeless Has Taught Me About Home
This story was written and performed by Willie Baronet for the live, personal storytelling series Oral Fixation (An Obsession With True Life Tales) at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, TX on...
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The Self-Fulfillment of Socially Engaged Art
Alongside the recent press about a new Gilded Age of art economics (replace Carnegie and Frick with Arnault and Walton) there is a movement of socially engaged art that is gathering momentum. While...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Encores! Most Happy Fella Mostly Happy
Perhaps more than any of his Broadway songwriting peers Frank Loesser disliked repeating himself. When he produced book, music and lyrics for The Most Happy Fella in 1956, now this week's Encores!...
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Alfred Leslie: The Last of the Really Great Abstract Expressionists, Now a...
"Pink Square"1957-60, Oil on Canvas, 11 ft.hx13ft.w Tim Thayer Photography, Courtesy Hill Gallery Bill de Kooning in 1966 (2011), Oil Pastel on Linen Copyright Alfred Leslie, Courtesy Janet Borden,...
View ArticleNew Wave Women: Illumination
KARIN APOLLONIA MÜLLER (GERMANY) Karin Apollonia Müller starts with photographs taken from a space telescope hundreds of miles above the earth. She molds them into a romantic globe, where geography is...
View ArticleProtecting Scholars of Art From Persecution
The United States is a world leader in providing a safe haven to political activists fleeing oppressive dictatorships. But what if your only crime is that you are an artist whose work is viewed as...
View ArticleLive & Dangerous: Coachella 2014
Next Friday marks the 16th annual opening weekend of one of the most talked about festivals in the world, Coachella. Once again, the California festival will span 2 identical weekends -- Weekend 1 from...
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The Internet (Odd Future) Wants Your Soul
Matt Martians and Syd The Kid (Photo: Devon Jefferson) I'm guessing you've heard of the California hip-hop collective Odd Future (OFWGKTA). If you haven't, it's probably because you're too old (I'm...
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An Exhibit of Latino Illustrations
Jennifer Dasal is on a mission. The associate curator of contemporary art at the North Carolina Museum of Art is dedicated to bringing Latino graphic art and illustrations out into the mainstream....
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Exposing The Creative Process
The artistic process has always held a kind of alluring mystique. Unknown to the average person, the methods behind art making have always fascinated viewers not only for the technical skill involved...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Denzel Washington Good, Not So Good in "A Raisin in the Sun"
Has The Broadway League or anyone else ever thought of an official commendation for movie stars and television names who make a point of appearing in what nowadays has come to be called "live theater"?...
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