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Ouro Preto: A Colonial City's Lessons
Ouro Preto's Santa Efigenia Church ON THE SECOND day of my Brazilian art collector tour we visited Ouro Preto, a Brazilian colonial town nestled in a mountainous region in the center of the state of...
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Lee Ranaldo's Lost Highways at Galerie Jan Dhaese
Lee Ranaldo, Iowa, marker on paper, 9x12", 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Jan Dhaese. Lee Ranaldo's exhibition, Lost Highways at Galerie Jan Dhaese, in Gent, Belgium, includes works that are...
View Article10 Terms You Need to Know to Understand Poetry
Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd...
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Emerging Artist Spotlight: An Hoang, Painter
An Hoang arrived in New York City in 2001 at the age of 23. Her first job was at an interior design firm on the Upper East Side, but the style desired by the clients didn't jibe with her sense of...
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Online Artists Offer a Heartwarming Thank You to Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki by Jackie W Of all the animated films that have arrived in the United States from Japan, those produced by Studio Ghibli have been the most broadly accepted, with films like Princess...
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"Heaven & Earth" in our City of Angels
The ancient world of pagan gods worshipped by Greeks and Romans is so, so far away; and still is so close. Need an example? What about the architecture of so many official buildings in Washington...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Hollywood Expat Soderbergh Stages "The Library"
It's close to a year since Steven Soderbergh announced he'd be quitting movies. Now he surfaces at the Public Theater as director of The Library, from a script by his frequent collaborator Scott Z....
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Hugo França: From Forest to Furniture (Video)
Brazilian artist Hugo França began his professional life as an industrial engineer in São Paulo, before making the decision to quit his job at a computer company and move into the jungles of northeast...
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Broccoli City Festival: 8 Artists on the Rise Set to Perform
As I continue my quest in tapping into my Third Metric and still finding time to twerk, this weekend I am leaving NYC and taking my talents to the Broccoli City Festival in Washington D.C. This...
View ArticleHow Maxfield Parrish's Dream Garden Mural Was Saved for Philadelphia
Recently, I gave a talk at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts on the history of Philadelphia's famous mural, Dream Garden, located in the lobby of the Curtis Building on Washington Square. The story...
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[Preservation Tips & Tools] More Preservation Organizations You Should Know
Written by Sarah Heffern The historic preservation program at University of Mary Washington (formerly Mary Washington College) in Fredericksburg, Va., is a member of the National Council for...
View ArticleA Night Out With Irvine Welsh
The acclaimed author of Trainspotting, Filth and Skagboys takes us out on the tiles in New York City. Amid the carnage, he has a ton to tell us about books, movies and why you need to have done drugs...
View ArticleCongrats, Graduates: Now Go Out There and Redefine Success
We're coming up on one of my favorite times of the year: that time, just after spring breaks out but before summer begins, in which thousands of college graduates are released into the world. And as...
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The SCADpad: Affordable Housing Inserted Into Aging Parking Decks
Ubiquitous, overbuilt and underutilized, urban parking decks are going the way of the dinosaur. "About 50 percent are empty at all times," says Christian Sottile, dean of the school of building arts at...
View ArticleArtist Resale Royalties Haven't Hindered Art Trade or Helped Artists in the U.K.
"In general, I think resale royalties is a pretty good idea," said painter Chuck Close, who with other artists and artists' estates filed in 2011 a class-action lawsuit against Christie's and Sotheby's...
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The Devil's Dictionary
The name Joe Reza "Prime" should be a household name, one that everyone should recognize. Just as other artists associated with Los Angeles like Ed Ruscha, David Hockney or Larry Bell, who have...
View ArticleGlenn Miller: Now and Then
On Sunday, April 13, the day before Passover, a man named Frazier Glenn Cross, known as Glenn Miller, is alleged to have shot and killed three people outside two Jewish facilities in Overland Park,...
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When I Die
Yesterday I spent an hour in a rose garden. I photographed some of the most beautiful roses I had ever seen. It was breathtaking, and I was so grounded in the moment that I never noticed the passing...
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Hot Dogs Under Glass
'7950 Santa Monica Boulevard' 16"x 35" oil on linen over panel If you look at the set of hot dogs in the lower right, the top one is the freshest, the one below it has been on the rollers the longest,...
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Nature Photographer James Balog Honored
Photographer James Balog accepting the 2014 LEAF award from the Nicholas School for his "Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts." The cameraman featured in the Oscar-nominated film...
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