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Taco Bell Day and Night
'1604 S. La Brea Avenue' 12"x 11.5" Sometimes I'll paint the same composition at different times of the day or night and see how a place can change more in minutes or hours than it does in years....
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Mendelssohn Club Musically Digs in Anthracite Fields
Earlier this month, composer Julia Wolfe was a bit jet lagged returning to New York from South Korea, where she was on tour with Bang on the Can, but is already back to work on her ambitious choral...
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Show Them Your Assets
Being gifted is not enough. The real question is whether or not you can deliver on the promise of your talent. For some people, a creative career means constantly shaping, refining, and honing one's...
View ArticleMeet the New King of New York: Kenyon Phillips
Lou Reed is dead; long live the new King of New York: Kenyon Phillips. When dear Lou left this mortal coil last October, a pall settled over "our" New York -- which includes the boroughs, New Jersey,...
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Video Review: Wisdom of Changes: Richard Wilhelm and The I Ching, a...
At the turn of the twentieth century when 'Iolani graduate Sun Yat Sen, the founding father of the Republic of China was leading a revolution, German Protestant missionary Richard Wilhelm was also...
View ArticleMet Opera: DiDonato and Camarena Are a Fairy-Tale Couple in Rossini's "La...
There are few operas that can be quite as much fun as La Cenerentola, Rossini's delightful version of the Cinderella story, and there are few mistreated stepdaughters and Prince Charmings who make such...
View ArticleDialogue Isn't Just for Screenplays
With the release of The Suspect tomorrow, I will debut as a feature film writer-director. Which is not to say the film's script is my first screenplay. I've written many others over the years, though...
View ArticleLili from Belgrade
Lili from Belgrade from Jasmina Tesanovic on Vimeo. Live performance at Berlin Transmediale 2014, pacifist remake of Lili Marlene song. I am just a girl from outskirts of Belgrade all my loving goes...
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New Art Books on the Art of Afro-Cuba, Vincent Van Gogh and Wayne Thiebaud
The author Toni Morrison once offered the following wise advice: "If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." I have recently been in touch with...
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Marcello's Ogle... Cannes Is Coming!
Festival du Cannes (or Cannes International Film Festival, if you like) has its long-standing tradition of elegant and meaningful posters. Two years ago, we could see the Great Marylin Monroe, blowing...
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William Shakespeare at 450
The Sanders Portrait of Shakespeare, 1603 (Canadian Conservation Institute). How can any of us find the words to wish a happy 450th birthday to the single most significant, elegant, funny, wise and...
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Words of Wisdom From an Older Dancer
Amy Marshall Photo: Lois Greenfield 1. Treat class, and your every opportunity to dance, as a gift, as a special time for you. 2. Leave your emotional baggage outside. Let class be your chance to...
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Lights, Camera, Action: Take Two
Now that all the prayers, celebrations, and wonderful food of last week's Passover and Easter are behind us, it's time to get back to business. And I mean the business of art. Two ambitious cultural...
View ArticleDesigner Humberto Campana: A Material Flirt
Did you ever dream of design with a sense of Brazilian sensuality and playfulness? Meet Brazilian designer Humberto Campana from the renowned Campana brothers design team in this short video, where he...
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Baryshnikov at the Broad Stage
photo by T. Charles Erickson Even in this subdued and somber rendering of a pair of Chekhov stories, Mikhail Baryshnikov and his creative partners from the Big Dance Theater display a magical grace...
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A New Fair for the Underexposed: This Artweek.LA (April 21, 2014)
PHOTO INDEPENDENT | The first and only high-visibility platform for independent photographers premieres this weekend. An artist-only fair, PHOTO INDEPENDENT is a forum for direct exchange of ideas and...
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Cultural & Chartable Catch-Up: April 2014
The Cultural & Charitable Catch-Up: April 2014 Text & Photographs © Jill Lynne, 2014 The Society for The Prevention of Cruelty to Children, The ORPHAN TRAIN, the film "Belle" , The Faberge Egg...
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Classical Sounds: Italian, French and English Early Music + Bach
Great stuff and lots of fun this month as Spring has sprung and really that's all that early music was meant to be about, or needs to be to earn our undying love and sympathy. And why sympathy? Because...
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The Manly Pursuit of Desire: Heat "Stroke" at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay...
George Stravinos, The Bather, 1977, Pencil and gouache on paper, 10.25 x 10 in. Collection of Leo Paoletti. There are three ways to look at the work in the new show at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay...
View ArticleFilm Festivals: Get Your Daily Dose
Now hear this! People should attend film festivals whenever they can, even if they are not big movie lovers (like me). Why? The one film festival I attend every April is the wonderful celebration of...
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