What's a $500 Painting Worth?
I was trying to talk one of my VIP clients into charging $500 plus shipping for her painting. She wrote back to me: "O.M.G., $500? Really? They're only 24″ X 24. You think?" Yes. Now, I have no idea...
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A Drawing A Day For One Year: метаморфоза Week 8
This is Week 8 of my daily drawing/collage series, метаморфоза (Metamorphosis.) I hope you enjoy it. метаморфоза is a daily drawing project, a visual trajectory, generated through free association. Its...
View ArticleAisle View: We Need a Little Christmas Story
The Tony Award race for Best Musical of the 2012-2013 season was a hard-fought battle between Matilda and Kinky Boots. The most delightful musical of the season, though -- and the one with the finest...
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Author Michael Petry Talks About His New Book Nature Morte and LGBT Issues...
This week I talked with Michael Petry, author, artist and director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in London (not to mention HuffPost blogger), about his new book Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists...
View ArticleAlicia Keys, Joni Mitchell, and Some Women of the Bible
This is a sweeping generalization, but when the narrators of popular songs represent the male perspective, allusions to sacred imagery are often part of an effort to seduce. To win over the object of...
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35 Portraits of RuPaul: The Drag Queen as Muse
Photo: Aubrey Longley-Cook Legendary drag queen RuPaul has inspired many men to don outlandish wigs, glittery dresses and towering heels to step up their lady game. For Atlanta artist Aubrey...
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Women on the Verge of a Psychotic Episode
Walls have a perverse way of defining spaces. When people feel trapped by circumstances, they often describe themselves as being "up against a wall." In a speech commemorating the 750th anniversary of...
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'LATINO/US Cotidiano,' an Exhibition of Photographers of Latino Descent
Demographers quantify the growing Latino presence in the United States but the 12 photographers in LATINO/US Cotidiano, curated by Claudi Carreras for the Museum of Latin American Art, qualify it. The...
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Cuba's Outdated Film Festival Carries On
There were no great crowds of long lines outside the movie theaters and it didn't feel like December because of the high temperatures and strong sun. These are the days of the New Latin American Film...
View Article13 Ways to Make Money From Your Songs
If you write songs, and your songs are sold, downloaded, streamed or used in many other ways, they're generating songwriter royalties for you. Awesome, right? Nowadays, the types of songwriter...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Robert Wilson's "Life and Death of Marina Abramovic," Martha...
The one thing you can safely say about The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic at the Park Avenue Armory is that it is what it is. What it is is Robert Wilson's two-hour-forty-minute take on the...
View ArticleDancing in the Streets: A Short Interview With Motown's Saycon Sengbloh
One of the most enjoyable things on Broadway this season is Motown The Musical which does more than just offer a revue of the famous hits from another era. In addition to offering a host of new songs...
View Article'My Morning Coffee Is Part of My Job'
Who needs a record company when you've got fans? With her crowdfunded album, Punk-Cabaret singer Amanda Palmer proved that the current music business is on its deathbed. She sat down with Max Tholl to...
View ArticleStars of David: Shining Across the Country Soon?
In Stars of David -- the concert "celebrating the stories of" famous Jews running that ran through Sunday, December 15 at the DR2 Theatre -- a man and a woman play Alan and Marilyn Bergman telling the...
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Software Takes Command: An Interview with New Media Theorist Lev Manovich,...
If men were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists? -- Marshall...
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What Can Small Arts Organizations Learn From Robin Thicke?
There are two flavors of art. There are the little guys and the big guys. There is the haute couture of theater, music, and dance, the avant garde, the struggling arts organization, and there is the...
View ArticleAmira Sings Balkan Sevdah at WOMEX 2013 (Video)
Sevdah, or Sevdalinka, is a folk song form common throughout the former Yugoslavia, and has origins tracing back to Ottoman times, particularly in Bosnia. These songs have been handed down, over the...
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Before You Post Your Next Selfie, Read This: 3 Tips for Face Flattering Photos
So you say you're not photogenic? That the camera puts on unwanted pounds? Or you're just too camera shy? From the Facebook news feeds I see, this isn't the case anymore. People are photographing...
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Last Days for Two of the Best Fall Bay Area Shows: City of Disappearances and...
Enrique Metinides, Mexico City, 1979, courtesy of the artist and the Zabludowicz Collection Two of the strongest shows to open this Fall illuminate the work of two of the Bay Area's most thoughtful...
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American Ballet Theatre's 'Nutcracker': A Story That Enchants by Keeping Some...
Shortly after Thanksgiving, I came across a package of cocktail napkins printed with a funny quote: "Christmas is weird. What other time of year do you sit around a dead tree and eat candy out of your...
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