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Unexpected Portraits Capture Teen Girls When They Aren't Looking
At first glance Julia Peirone's images might look like a mistake. However upon further inspection, the young female subjects betray something fascinating, each self-effacing hair flick and eye roll...
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What Is It Like to Document Endangered Tribes in Africa?
I've seen a lot of photographers traveling around Africa and shooting local tribes. It's kind of a trend in today's photography. However, none of them talks much about the feelings and emotions they've...
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Saturday New York City Art Stroll
All photos taken by me. On Saturday, April 12, I decided I would go on a New York City art stroll after I dropped off my income tax returns. On my way, the first thing I encountered that grabbed my...
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Timothy Robert Smith: 'Kaleidoscopic Realism' at Copro Gallery
Timothy Robert Smith is a Los Angeles painter whose "Kaleidoscopic Realism" jumbles and disorients. His works have an air of visionary fiction -- rather like Piranesi's prison fantasies or Tintoretto's...
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Ai Weiwei's Show at the Brooklyn Museum and the Power of Self-Expression --...
Ai Weiwei is an extraordinary man, architect, artist and activist. He is a true cultural provocateur, who works with passion, determination and conviction. His controversial status stems in part from...
View ArticleClosing an Opera With 'Dignity'
After 49 years, the San Diego Opera announced a few weeks ago, it was closing its doors. Ian Campbell, the Opera's CEO and artistic director, said: "The whole idea is to exit with dignity. ... Exiting...
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An Incredible Collection of Animal Crossing Fan Art
Barold by Amy Liu Though the community simulation game Animal Crossing has been around since 2001, it saw a surge in mid-2013 and is seeing a fresh influx of love from the online community this year....
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Rare, Old Photos of Native American Women and Children
I looked through thousands of old photos, trying to imagine the world of the characters in my new film "Moses on the Mesa." It tells the true story of a German Jewish immigrant who becomes governor of...
View ArticleTribeca Film Fest Sucks! No, It Doesn't
New Yorkers have it good. I'll say nothing more on this. You like my title, don't you? It reeks of jealousy. I won't be there this year. Damn. Tribeca Film Fest sucks anyway. No, it doesn't. It really...
View Article5 Questions for Poets: Part 3
For the third part in this series, some of America's top poets answer five more questions posed by readers of poetry for National Poetry Month. 1. How many of your poems do you throw away? Alfred Corn...
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Survey: Is Buying Artwork Scarier Than Buying a Car?
Changsoon Oh's "Seoul." Still from UGallery. Buying artwork can be scary. Many think art -- particularly original art -- is prohibitively expensive because they hear about the multimillion-dollar...
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Hindsight Is 20/20
In 2004, when Aaron Lansky's thrilling book was published, the final chapters of Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books heralded the dawn of a new era....
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Artists Give Words Their Worth
'Waves' By Rob Self-Pierson and Sally Castle. Coates image @ the artist. Photo: Clarrisa Bruce As a graphic designer and magazine art director I am regularly supplied with journalist's copy that I...
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Die Hard Without a Vengeance
What if you were told you had 24 hours to live? You could have swallowed a poison capsule by accident or perhaps you had recondite knowledge of Armageddon. What would you do? Empty the bank account...
View ArticleLessons Learned in Boston: Creative Arts Expression As a Path Toward Recovery...
It's been a year. Despite four deaths, a few hundred injured, and a merciless attack on our city's sense of safety and security, Boston is stronger now than it was before the bombs went off. The city...
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Orchestral Jazz at Its Finest
The French horn is an unusual instrument in jazz, first prominently used by Claude Thornhill in his orchestra of the late '30s and early '40s. Thornhill employed Sandy Siegelstein and John Graas to...
View ArticleThe Art Bug
I was sitting in my first grade class when the art bug first bit me. I had just learned about death. It may have been a pet goldfish, but somehow the infuriating knowledge that we all simply end had...
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Musical Treasures of D.C.
The cultural riches of Washington D.C. have been a recent discovery for my family and me despite having visited the Capital on numerous occasions. My past trips have always been in a rush, either on a...
View ArticleJARMAN (all this maddening beauty): An Interview With John Moletress and...
JARMAN promo scene featuring PUSSY NOIR from Ben Carver on Vimeo. April 17th -27th, Interdisciplinary Washington, D.C.theater company force/collision will present a new performance project, Jarman...
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Warrior Writers at Wilma's Theater's Veterans on Stage
Paula Vogel's Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq continues its month long premiere run at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia through April 22 coinciding with a series of tie-in events with veterans returning...
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