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A Weekend of Music, Movies, and Plenty of Art
If you've ever stood in front the famous 2,000-year-old Rosetta Stone at The British Museum and fantasized what it would be like to not only read its inscriptions in three different languages, but...
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Masterworks by Working Masters
One of the ongoing advantages of having a studio just a stone's throw away from the bustling Palm Beach County Convention Center is that no matter what other projects are in the works, it is simply...
View ArticleHe / She / It / ... Me
Click here to watch iO Tillett Wright's TEDTalk. First there was the woman in the stall next to me, who stopped short and stared as I passed her, but had the wherewithal to apologize at the sink. Ten...
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Making Space Solutions for Making Arts and Culture
There are lessons for the creative sector in the story of 280 Broadway, whose new tenant, Gibney Dance, opens its doors to the community to shape the future. In a real estate climate where too many...
View ArticleCanne Film Festival Diary 2014
This is an unbelievable year for Canada at the Cannes Film Festival. In addition to our film The Captive by Atom Egoyan, there are two other Canadian films in competition (Maps to the Stars directed by...
View ArticleClick: Happy Birthday, Richard Avedon
Dick Avery: "Holy Moses! You look fabulous! Look, stop. Stop!" Jo Stockton: "I can't stop. Take the picture." Dick Avery: "Stop!" Jo Stockton: "I don't want to stop. I like it. Take the picture. Take...
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The Cannes Diaries: Only a Few Hours Till D-Day
I loved receiving an email yesterday from a publicist at UniFrance films announcing that today would be "D-Day." It's so true, it feels as if everything has taken on a weird otherworldly dimension in...
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7 Years at Ground Zero (Video)
(Video at bottom.) In 2006, I entered the site of the World Trade Center attacks for the first time since the night of 9/11. It's hard to explain what it felt like being there. It was a construction...
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Art's New Centurion: This Artweek.LA (May 12, 2014)
Rose Cabat: 100 Years | Rose Cabat (b. 1914) is one of the United States' most reclusive ceramists, and certainly one of the oldest of the few well-known mid-20th century ceramists still alive and...
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Eleone Dance Theatre Inspires at Every Level
(photo courtesy of Eleone Dance Theatre) At the Freedom Theater in North Philly, Eleone Dance Theatre presented two separate programs this month, the second concert, The Soul of Philadelphia...
View ArticleMore (Lovable) Philadelphia Architecture
The Philadelphia Quakers may have been right about many things, but they were wrong about entertainment. Quakerism, for all its fine attributes in the fields of peace and justice, tended to downplay...
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The Slaves of Saint-Domingue Did Not Dream, They Exploded
I am a hypocrite; not to a large degree, only enough so it's noticeable to me, especially now, as I write a piece about Haiti. I'll explain my hypocrisy in a moment -- first, I must describe to you the...
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3 Ways to Improve Your Voice Without a Voice Teacher
Most voice teachers exercise the voice as though they were exercising in a gym, with warm-ups that are often calisthenically-based -- building technical ability, but missing the opportunity of...
View ArticleDispelling the Myth of the Poet: Why All Writers Should Defend Their Craft
I tried to dispel The Myth last night at a house party. I think it went well. Picture this: there's me (a poet), an investment banker, a real estate agent, an ads man and an environmental scientist. I...
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Spectacular Auction Results Aren't the Real Art World News
On May 13th, a painting by Barnett Newman sold at Christie's for over 84 million dollars. If you follow art world news there is a good chance you already knew that. Spectacular, over-the-top,...
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Margaux Williamson: I Could See Everything
At night I painted in the kitchen When I walked into Margaux Williamson's show, I Could See Everything at Mulherin + Pollard gallery on the Lower East Side, I thought I knew what to expect. After all,...
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Odd Job: A Short Interview With Buyer & Cellar's Christopher J. Hanke
It's hard to believe that Buyer & Cellar is actually a one-man show and a work of fiction. That's because Christopher J. Hanke, in the starring role, does so much more than show you the tale of...
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This Disc Jockey's Sketchy Marriage Proposal Rocked
As a disc jockey, Scotty Brooks is used to playing up the element of surprise. This past Sunday he perfected it in a marriage proposal for his girlfriend Dianne that can best be described as sketchy....
View ArticleTeacher: A Street Artist Trying to 'Teach Peace'
Teacher is one of the most accomplished and prolific street artists in Los Angeles. True to his name, Teacher's focus has been on education and the vital need to focus on the most important resource we...
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The Business of Arab Cinema, in Cannes: Alaa Karkouti of MAD Solutions
Put me on the spot, go ahead. Ask me to name my favorite company, for marketing, distributing and all around encouraging great cinema from the Arab world and I'll answer, without thinking or blinking:...
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