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'Middle East Now': Changing the World, One Film at a Time
Golshifteh Farahani in Hiner Saleem's My Sweet Pepper Land A recent blog on The Washington Post referred to John Kerry's efforts in trying to bring about a diplomatic discourse between Israel and...
View ArticleMusic I (Mostly) Hold Dear: John Adams
John Adams is one of the most frequently performed of American composers and justly so. Shaker Loops continues to hold its allure. In its well-handled diatonic materials, bravura approach to rhythm,...
View ArticleThe In-Between Places of Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow's Visual Art Practice
What do you do if you assiduously followed the guidelines and applied to be a presenter at a visual arts conference, only to be told that, although the committee approved your proposal, they failed to...
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Neither Saint Nor Sinner
There are those who sacrifice their desires for others, those who don't and those who do some sort of a turnaround where they take a vacation from self-sacrifice or from self-indulgence. Nancy...
View ArticleWe Don't Need Any More Superheroes
Breaking the April box office record with a $96 million opening weekend, Captain America: The Winter Soldier shows that the American public is hungry for tales of heroic resistance against an overly...
View Article5 Questions for Poets: Part 2
Last week, some of America's top poets answered five questions from a pool of questions offered by readers of poetry for National Poetry Month. In this second part of the series, our poets tackle five...
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Can a Play Change the Planet?
Writer/director Steve Cosson and composer Michael Friedman. (Photo by Tammy Shell) Ever heard of Colorado Island? No, there's not a floating mass mid-body of water in the middle of the country near...
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Hot 97's Shani Kulture and WBLS' Barbara De Laleu Present 'The Kulture Movement'
Hot 97 recently partnered up with VH1 to exploit their talents and invite listeners behind the scenes to New York's most influential Hip Hop radio station but I'd like to single out a particular cast...
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Most Things Don't Happen, But Sometimes They Do
"Most things don't happen. But sometime they do." -- Attributed to Harvey Lichtenstein by radio producer Steve Rathe. Harvey Lichtenstein and Pina Bausch, 1985 for the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch...
View ArticleFive Suggestions to Improve Arts Policy in DC's FY15
With the democratic primary completed, it's time to assess mayor Gray on the arts. Shortly before mayor Fenty took office, in 2006, the longtime executive director of the DC Commission on the Arts and...
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Jackson Pollock's 'Mural': Masterpiece or Macho Outburst?
Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956); "Mural," 1943; medium: oil and casein on canvas. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959. Reproduced with permission from The...
View ArticleTheater: Mild Threepenny; Blazin' Raisin for Denzel
THE THREEPENNY OPERA * 1/2 out of **** A RAISIN IN THE SUN *** 1/2 out of **** THE THREEPENNY OPERA * 1/2 out of **** ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY AT LINDA GROSS THEATER I love The Threepenny Opera even...
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W. Reveals Himself as "a Decent Amateur" Artist
It's highly unusual for a public figure -- especially a high-profile politician -- to reveal something very personal and rather uncommon about himself. And to do it willingly? Last Saturday, President...
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Waste in Focus: What America Throws Away (PHOTOS)
Photographer Peter Menzel captured America's attention with his last photo project, What the World Eats, and his book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. In that project, Menzel's images...
View ArticleThe Realistic Joneses: There Go the Neighbors
This play starts so promising, it's a shame that it heads off in such an odd direction after the opening scene. Will Eno's script calls on two new neighbors, both named the Joneses, to take advantage...
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Ebonics Made Simple
White boys often speak Ebonics to sound tough, especially white boys who don't feel very tough and in a kind of racist profiling participate in the notion that black men are more masculine and have...
View Article10 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare
The relatively few facts we know about the world's greatest poet and dramatist, William Shakespeare, have made him an enigmatic figure. Some imaginative people have even concluded that he wasn't who he...
View ArticleI'm With The Banned
After months of pleading his case, my fifteen-year-old son, Al, persuaded me to do an AMA on Reddit. First he had to tell me what Reddit is: an online community where users vote on content, making the...
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'Swoon: Submerged Motherlands,' A Tree Grows in the Brooklyn Museum
Six years ago these boats of salvaged materials were floating down the Hudson, teaming with twenty-something sea-worthy souls and bohemian performers in costume aiming for the dock at Deitch Studios....
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European Young Talents at Carnegie Hall
Not all news about Russia relates to Crimea nowadays. Carnegie Hall will be home this evening to a group of young European musicians that came to New York, invited to participate in the annual Musical...
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