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Sustaining Artists in the the 21st Century: The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship
"Artists comfort and inspire us, awaken and change our minds and hearts, and ultimately have the ability to connect us all as human beings. Every time I attend the theatre, I hope to be altered in some...
View ArticleWhere Are All The Fat Girls In Literature?
I write about fat girls. Because I was a fat girl. I was the girl who dreaded the inevitable "too tight" saga whenever I went to buy clothes or even (shudder) try on my clothes from last year. It was a...
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Initiative to Foster Dialogue Amongst Diverse Communities
You For Me For You 2012: Staring Ruibo Qian and Kimberly Gilbert. Photo by Scott Suchman, courtesy of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Founder of the Minneapolis-based Mu Performing Arts, visiting...
View ArticleA Queer Orthodoxy: Post-Soviet Russian Art Movement 'Club of Friends'...
Back in 1982, artists Timur Novikov and Ivan Sotnikov had themselves photographed grinning through an empty rectangular space at the first official show of the semi-underground group TEII. The fact of...
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Cherry Blossom Special
Seong jin An, Sakura-Sakura (2014) 42.5 X 63.8 inches, injet print, face mounted on Plexiglas, image: courtesy of the artist When you first encounter the photographic works of Seong Jin An at the...
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Art and Venues
Zolla/Lieberman is going to take a break. After their consummate Deborah Butterfield show, which opens tonight, closes sometime in September, the gallery will close for six months while their space is...
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Ask the Art Professor: Should I Pursue a Career in Fine Art?
"I am a lifelong self-taught artist who has been accepted into a number of fine arts programs, including a BFA program at a local university. I'm really happy about this, but I feel torn. I have done...
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War - Art - Peace: I
War is in the air again. Be it in Ukraine, surrounded by the second largest stash of nuclear weapons on earth outside the U.S., or among the legions of child soldiers in Somalia, Congo and Sudan, or...
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The Cannes Diaries: Grace of Monaco, a Slasher, A Party Girl and SANAD
The Festival de Cannes so far has been overwhelming, and overwhelmingly amazing. Everyone is here, and I mean everyone. But beyond the celebrities, the parties, the red carpets and the premieres,...
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53+ Free Image Sources For Your Blog and Social Media Posts
In social media, we're all increasingly thinking about visual content. At Buffer, we've shared our own study on the importance of images in Twitter posts for more social sharing. We've explored tools...
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When Art and History Combine Perfectly
A photograph of a wax figure sculpted from a painting. That's the idea behind Hiroshi Sugimoto's Portraits, a series of nine-minute-long exposures of wax figures that were modeled from painted...
View ArticleTechnology and Using Your Illusion
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Erik Johansson's Surrealist-style photography comes from a long history of manipulation within the discipline itself. Any fashion magazine bears...
View ArticleLeRoi Jones' Dutchman at The Classical Theater of Harlem
The subway may be an edgy experience on a good day, but the 1964 encounter between a black man and a swivel hipped white woman, at the center of LeRoi Jones' allegory, Dutchman, may terrify today's...
View ArticleIn Defense of Plucky Heroines
Recently, a writer friend on Facebook posted a wrathful comment about female characters in contemporary fiction. "Spare me the plucky heroine," she raged. "The girl who manages to get by, no matter her...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Under My Skin Doesn't Get Below the Surface
Usually the devil gets the best lines, but since there's no devil in Under My Skin, the comedy (?) by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser at the Little Shubert, it's the angel (charismatic Dierdre...
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Street Photography in Stockholm (Pt. 2)
Just a few days left before I leave for Thailand. I'm more or less done packing. I'm traveling light. Everything I need fits in my backpack. If I need something, I'll buy it there. This gives me a very...
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The 'Financial Times' Said What...?!
Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988) LAST WEEK THE Museum of Modern Art opened the much anticipated retrospective Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988 and it is a tour-de-force....
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Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937
Artists are often dismissed as peripheral to society. Yet they continue on their way, attending to the path of their own visions. Often ahead of the curve, politically and culturally, they frequently...
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Stage Door: The Lovesong of Alfred J. Hitchcock
The British director known for his mastery of suspense and twist endings was himself riddled with anxiety and self-loathing. Heralded for his film achievements such as Vertigo, Rear Window, Shadow of...
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Cooking Art History: Dining With Matisse
I'm beyond thrilled to head to my home state of Texas in July to teach a series of classes, Dining with Matisse, inspired by the special exhibition, Matisse: Life in Color, at the San Antonio Museum of...
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