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My Long Distance Relationship With New York City
I grew up in Connecticut where I had the luxury of hopping on a Metro North train and arriving in Grand Central Station in about an hour. When the train door opened and the stale stench of Grand...
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Unconstitutionally Long Copyright Terms Stifle Content Creation, Just Ask Disney
R Street Institute recently released a report on copyright duration entitled: "Guarding Against Abuse -- Restoring Constitutional Copyright." The report examines how copyright terms today are...
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A Touch of Aloha, A Pinch of Japan
Most film festivals feature a selection of documentaries (some festivals are devoted entirely to documentary film). What I have always loved about San Francisco's Asian-American International Film...
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Does Literary Fiction Challenge Racial Stereotypes?
A book is a mirror: if a fool looks in, do not expect an apostle to look out. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) Reading literary fiction can be highly pleasurable, but does it also make you a...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: A Night Out At Pioneer Works' Village FĂȘte
Judging by the number of Audi town cars crammed into the corner of Pioneer and Imlay Streets in Red Hook, Brooklyn, this was not your ordinary Sunday night. On the evening of May 4, the fundraising...
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To San Diego for Art
I always think about San Diego as an old friend. But somehow, I haven't been there for a few years. So, come last Sunday, I jumped in a car and, two hours later, I was in Heaven, though the locals...
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Artist Adrien Broom Reveals the Inspiration Behind Her Fanciful Photos
(Photos Courtesy of Adrien Broom) By Mila Pantovich There are many different types of artists out there, from photographers and painters to sculptors and filmmakers, and some artists are talented...
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Kara Walker And Her Sugar Sphinx At The Old Domino Factory
Refining, as Creative Time's Chief Curator Nato Thompson reminds us inside this 30,000 square foot former Domino Sugar facility, is a process whereby coarse cane is decolorized, and brown is turned...
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It's Personal for Both Mothers and Sons
HIV/AIDS, like any other life-threatening disease, does more than impact those who have it -- it ravages the lives of friends and family, too. Many movies, books and plays have explored this effect,...
View ArticleIllmatic: 20 Years Later
By Brandon Gross As life-altering introductions to new music usually go, they typically happen by way of an older sibling, or in my case, my best friend's older sibling. In hindsight my influence's...
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Ask the Art Professor: How Do I Become a Teaching Assistant?
"I am an undergraduate student in art school, and I'm interested in being a teaching assistant. How do I become a TA and what is involved?" Many students are often times confused about how to get a TA...
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Orson Welles's Othello
Is it possible the famed death procession at the finale of Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) was influenced by the prologue to Orson Welles's Othello (1952). A newly restored print of Othello is being...
View ArticleYutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman on the ImageBlog
Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman, Cat Rock, 2007-2009, Acrylic on canvas board, 18 x 24 inches, Courtesy of the artists Featured in the exhibition What Every Snowflake Knows in Its Heart, that was on...
View ArticleHow Do You Make Your Living?
I recently read an article over on BrainPickings.org. It highlighted a letter that Sherwood Anderson had written to his son back in 1927, offering his advice on life and the artistic process: The...
View ArticleOver Here
Pacifist remake of the song "Over There" Over Here from Jasmina Tesanovic on Vimeo. Yankee wants some fun with a gun wants some fun always on the run on the run with a gun Hear your heart and try to be...
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Paris Photo LA at Paramount Studios (PHOTOS)
Paris Photo LA on the Paramount Studio lot. Photo by EMS. Paris Photo Los Angeles kicked off it's sophomore year once again at the infamous outdoor set of Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Most notably,...
View ArticleTap for Tickets: Why Broadway Going Mobile Is The Ultimate Second Act
"I just love waiting on line for Broadway tickets," said no one, ever. Equally unlikely to be said is, "I'm really looking forward to spending thirty minutes on the phone with Ticketmaster and paying...
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Forget Google, Memorize Poems
We live in the I-can-always-look-it-up era. One consequence: not much need to memorize. Actually, forgetting to memorize was in vogue long before Google, Wikipedia, and the galaxy of search tools and...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Concertos
My friend Stephen Albert once said that he couldn't imagine writing a string quartet after those of Bartok. I countered with what still seems to me an appropriate response: How can you write a symphony...
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A Most Exquisite Exhibit: Degas/Cassatt at the National Gallery
Degas/Cassatt May 11 - October 5, 2014 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Edgar Degas's influence on fellow Impressionist Mary Cassatt is widely known, but her role in shaping his work and...
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