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Contemporary Poetry Reviews #28 (National Poetry Month 2014)
Each edition of this contemporary poetry review series selects several poetry collections published in the last 10 years to recommend to its readership. These collections are selected from a pool of...
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Artist's Statements of the Old Masters
To be successful as an artist in this day and age it is crucial that you justify your work as being contemporary. To be "contemporary" your work needs to be explained and justified in the language of...
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Jaime Rojo and His Glimmering Series 'The Last Picture'
The fog rolls in and your city gently disappears into it. A young man tenderly clings to his lover under a bridge, or is he strangling her? You are studying the secret and slow language of moving...
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How Opera Can Get Its Groove Back in the 21st Century
Adapted from "The Secret to Attracting Opera Audiences." In 1861, Richard Wagner's opera, Tannhauser, premiered at the Jockey Club in Paris. Wagner's non-conformist timing of the ballet segment led...
View ArticleEgypt's History Is Being Lost to Criminals
Co-authored by Blythe Bowman A 12th century proverb warns, "Man fears time, but time fears the pyramids." That may have been true before the Arab Spring, but today, not even the pyramids are sacred....
View ArticleTheater: Michelle Williams' First Performance After Tony Snub
CABARET *** out of **** ROUNDABOUT AT STUDIO 54 Talk about motivation! Hours after her show Cabaret -- and the performance of Michelle Williams in particular -- failed to get a Tony nomination, she...
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4000 Blocks
The artist Ellie Ga has created works out of her experiences in the North Pole and more recently off the coast of Alexandria, at the site of the underwater excavation of the famous Pharos Lighthouse --...
View ArticleArts Advocacy Wave Hits Washington
It's nearly impossible to have a conversation about the federal budget these days without the words "deficit," "debt," or "reduction" entering into the mix. In the times we live in, a willingness to...
View ArticleEvery Angel Has a Dark Side: Julian Schnabel at The Dairy
What Twinkling fairy lights welcomed a beautiful crowd to the opening of Julian Schnabel's new exhibition: Every Angel Has a Darkside in aid of Chickenshed. Schnabel known both in the art and film...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Red-Eye to Havre de Grace Works and Doesn't
Before Red-Eye to Havre de Grace supposedly begins, a pleasant fellow in a Philadelphia Park Ranger's uniform steps onto the stage from a side aisle in the New York Theatre Workshop auditorium and...
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Eight Fabulous New Finds from Middle East Now Fest
Mashrou' Leila performing on opening night of Middle East Now, photograph by Stella Grotti Sometimes life can offer happy little accidents. When a favorite film festival was postponed this past April,...
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How to Save Ugly Buildings
By Julia Rocchi [Preservation Tips & Tools] How to Save Ugly Buildings from PreservationNation "It's always easier to save a place that people consider beautiful than a place -- no matter how...
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Painting Through Peru
Perched on a Rock Painting Machu Picchu For many years the New Yorker, the New York Times, Gourmet and other magazines would publish my travel drawings in their magazines. I've been to Africa, painted...
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Answered Prayers
"Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entra," were the words which Dante famous cited on the way through The Inferno. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. "Arbeit macht frei," work makes (man) free were the...
View ArticlePolitics Belong in Science Fiction
Writing in last week's USA Today, Glenn Harlan Reynolds has made a case for why he feels that politics don't belong in science fiction. He begins: There was a time when science fiction was a place to...
View ArticleThe Importance of Being Collaborative
Something very exciting has been happening on the performing arts scene in the United States and abroad for several years now. The established model of presenting new works to audiences is changing and...
View ArticleFrom Cave Painters to Cassoulet: A Trip to Southwest France 100,000 Years in...
"It's old, yes," conceded Bart. "But only 27,000 years old. Not as old as some." In fact, the cave etching we were facing, deep inside a hill in southwestern France on a walking tour in the Dordogne...
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By Leaves or Play of Sunlight, John Cage: Artist and Naturalist
Color lithograph by Lois Long in Mushroom Book, Plate VIII, 1972, 22.5 x 15 inches, Edition 51/75. © John Cage Trust at Bard College. By leaves or play of sunlight, John Cage: Artist and Naturalist at...
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Aisle View: Here Lies Love Returns
Ruthie Ann Miles (center) and the cast of Here Lies Love. Photo credit: Joan Marcus Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos have moved back into the Public Theater, and the verdict is in: Here Lies Love, David...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: James McManus's "Cherry Smoke," Oni Faida Lampley's "Tough Titty"
It's not too often that great passion doomed--make that Great Passion Doomed--hits the boards. There's Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra and Cyrano de Bergerac and West Side Story with its...
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