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Bluntry Musician Grace Askew's Road Trip from Memphis to L.A. and Back, and...
Country-blues artist Grace Askew, who brought down the house on The Voice (Season 4) with her "bluntry" version of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," is sitting right now in her big 'ole black 2007...
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'It's a Bitter Little World': The Courmayeur Noir in Festival
Nestled at the foot of the Mont Blanc, Courmayeur is an Italian town long known as the sky resort of the rich and famous. My own personal connection with the place goes back to the time when mom, as a...
View ArticleAnd The Word is STEAM
Last month, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL), Co-Chairs of a Congressional Caucus committed to putting A (the role the arts play in nurturing young peoples new...
View ArticleMet Opera: Maestri and Levine Team for a Joyful New 'Falstaff'
The world's favorite fat, foolish lover returned to the Metropolitan Opera stage last night in a new production of Verdi's Falstaff that with the splendid Anbrogio Maestri singing the knightly knave...
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That You Krampus? 19 Spine-Tingling Dolls of Golgothia
As an early entry in the Visions of Sugarplums but Darker category, the Eerie Dolls of Golgothia show debuts tonight at Green Eyed Gator Gallery in New Orleans' French Quarter. The show is curated by...
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Surviving the Transition From Stage to Screen
Many a play has been adapted for the silver screen. Some benefit from the ability to expand the action to more locations; others (like Jack Goes Boating) implode under the added weight. In some cases...
View ArticleDavid Cerny: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Provocateur
He started out his career by painting a tank pink. In 1991, David Cerny was an art student in Prague. For years he had walked by the Soviet tank mounted on a pedestal in Kinsky Square and fumed. The...
View ArticleChristian Rex van Minnen on the ImageBlog
"Killing Whitey", 2013, Oil on Panel, 36 x 24"
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A Photographic Love Letter to Hong Kong That Will Flip Your World Upside Down...
Global Yodel recently caught up with photographer and designer Romain Jacquet-Lagreze and asked him about life as a local in Hong Kong and his amazing 'Vertical Horizons' project dedicated to the...
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Revisiting Power: The Aesthetics of Public Policy
Back in February, the Bloomberg administration's New York City Housing Administration (NYCHA) announced a land lease plan. The plan sought to offset public housing costs by leasing latent property to...
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New on CD: As Long As There Are Songs by Stephanie Blythe
Live and unplugged is the closest way to describe the sound of the newly released CD, As Long As There Are Songs by Stephanie Blythe and pianist Craig Terry. Recorded in the Pearson Theatre at the...
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On Breaking Books
First published on the History of Text Technologies. In 2010, Christie's sold a beautiful, de luxe Book of Hours that had been made in Northern France in about 1460 and contained over two hundred and...
View ArticleThe Legalities of Street Art
From its origins as a form of anti-establishment political protest to its' present day incarnation as a multi million pound industry, street art has not only radically transformed the way we view our...
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Beyond the Paint: Philadelphia's Mural Arts
Love Letter by Steven Powers, 2010. Photo: Adam Wallacavage I have heard that Paul Gauguin once said, "There are only two kinds of artists- revolutionaries and plagiarists." Not being a person that is...
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My Picks for the Best of Jazz 2013
This year was a particularly fertile year for new, contemporary music by young composers. If the music has to be categorized at all it probably falls into that all-encompassing genre we call " jazz."...
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Ask the Art Professor: How Do I Help My Daughter Reach Her Potential in Art?
"My daughter is 14 and has not had any training but we think she has talent. What advice would you give for helping guide us to help her reach her potential in art?" I started to demonstrate artistic...
View ArticleThe Reading Series: Lonely Christopher's 'Grown Ups'
Our identifies are shaped by our perceptions of the world, and how we react when our world is changed. In Lonely Christopher's video poem, "Grown Ups," which is a translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet...
View ArticleA Holiday Letter to Dancers
Lately I've been floating on this nostalgic sensation, remorseful over this time period even though it isn't over. I simply cannot put into words how grateful I am to have the opportunity to be a...
View ArticleGreat Marley's Ghost! "A Christmas Carol: The Concert" Enchants and Breaks...
Bah humbug, indeed. Nobody would blame you for grumbling that movie, television, stage and radio adaptations of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" have been done to death over the years -- like a...
View ArticleMatt Arbuckle on the ImageBlog
, 'Indoor Ciggies' 2013, Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 25cm Upcoming exhibition: 'Paintings Make Paintings' at PAULNACHE, January 2014. www.paulnache.com Indoor Ciggies is a reference to been allowed to...
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