Basel Frazzle
What was that? Going to Miami Art Basel this year was like taking part in a high school art club mixer but what was missing was the honest enthusiasm and excitement of youth. The real buyers and scene...
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Always We Became Found: Lizzie MacKenzie and Chicago Dance Crash Make Some...
Anyone who knows Lizzie Mackenzie's choreography is probably surprised that she's not better known as a choreographer. She's widely known as a truly exceptional dancer, from her performances with...
View ArticleOne Year Later: How The Painting Table Is Helping Newtown Heal
In early 2013, the wounds in Newtown, Connecticut, were still raw. Hearts yearned to make sense of the terrible tragedy that had befallen their community, and civic and church leaders looked to each...
View ArticleDaido Moriyama: A Photograph Is the Result of a Momentary Thought
As celebrity culture, mass marketing and advertising is increasingly presented in imagery that is a mimicry of everyday life, the ultimately purely destructive force of this forgery can enslave our...
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20 Top Picks
I found 2013 to be a great year for discovery and experience in the arts, from theatre and music to television, film, and books. So, like many other writers, I have compiled a top 20 list of my...
View ArticleDiary of a Sugar Plum Fairy
Visions of Sugar Plums are dancing in my head, but not in the way portrayed in T'was the Night Before Christmas. I'm visualizing my corrections and my goals for the solo and pas de deux I perform as...
View ArticleA Solid Cast Fails to Solve Remy Bumppo's An Inspector Calls
If there's any mystery in Remy Bumppo's An Inspector Calls, it's how this play is considered a classic of the mid-20th century English theatre. J. B. Priestley's drama is less an Agatha Christie parlor...
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Installation of Hither and Thithering Waters of Night and Genesis at Haunch of Venison Gallery, Oil/Canvas, 2012, dougargue.com, edelmanarts.com
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Nicola Hicks: The Rudeness of Art and the Excellencies of Nature
First, let's consider what Robert Hooke had to say when he used the microscope to compare the head of a needle with the legs of fleas. I have had recourse to this fascinating thought before, and no...
View ArticleConstantine Cavafy: The Poet of the Diaspora
I am from Constantinople by descent but was born in Alexandria in a house on Sheriff Street. I was very young when I left for England where I spent much of my childhood. I returned to that place when I...
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15 Questions With Isabella Boylston, Nutcracker Guest Artist With the Royal...
When American Ballet Theatre opens its Nutcracker season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this weekend, soloist Isabella Boylston will be conspicuously absent. She is taking part in the company's new...
View ArticleWriter Uses His Art to Fight for Tibetan Independence
This is the sixth in a series of interviews I conducted while working last summer in Dharamsala, India. I talked with leading members of the Tibetan exile community about the freedom movement and the...
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Q&A with Shaun Reeves: On Visionquest, Detroit to Berlin and Music On
More often than not, DJing is a solitary performance -- the personal expression of one artist, choosing and performing his music, the way he or she sees fit. Collaboration, save for the impromptu...
View ArticleArt Basel Miami Beach Behind-the-Scenes: Installing a Booth With Contemporary...
People, collectors, onlookers, art advisers and even some artists never get to see the behind-the-scenes activities that happen at the Miami Beach Convention Center the day before the VIP Preview of...
View ArticleThe Interview as Cruising Ground (Part 1)
Since the publication of my second collection of interviews, Our Deep Gossip: Conversations With Gay Writers on Poetry and Desire, I have been thinking of my very first interview with a writer. When I...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Conor McPherson's 'The Night Alive' Is Mostly Alive
Kitchen sink dramas have been with us for several decades, which means they're not as startling as they were when they began rendering obsolescent the prevailing works that examined the lives of the...
View ArticleReThink Review: American Hustle -- David O. Russell Assembles His All-Stars
It's hard to believe that writer/director David O. Russell's first feature film was an incest comedy called Spanking the Monkey. Now, with his track record of critically-acclaimed dramedies, he has his...
View ArticleWriting Musicals (for Amateurs)
I had off-handedly promised a musical episode while we were a few days into shooting the pilot of Psych. It was a day when I was probably feeling full of myself, sure that my fifteen-plus years of...
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On the "A" w/Souleo: Ballet Star Misty Copeland Filming New Doc, A...
While the atmosphere was festive at last week's Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre opening night gala benefit at New York City Center, there were some who had serious issues on their minds including ballerina,...
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1960 Sunbeam Alpine Sport Series 1 (Butterfield 8), 2012 Oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches Courtesy of Martha Otero Gallery
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