Stage Door: Forbidden Broadway's Gerard Alessandrini
As always, the legendary Forbidden Broadway franchise at the Davenport Theater is a satiric love letter to Broadway musicals. Writer/creator Gerard Alessandrini is The Great White Way's ultimate...
View ArticleA-Sides With Jon Chattman: Tony Awards Spotlight on Beautiful's Jarrod Spector
Jarrod Spector a is making quite a name for himself on Broadway by playing music icons. First, he played a record 1,500 performances as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys, and this year, he's nominated for a...
View ArticleNight and Her Stars, the Garage Theatre in Collision With Alive Theatre, Long...
At first we can't name the protagonist in Richard Greenberg's "Night and Her Stars," directed with pitch perfect precision by Matt Anderson for The Garage Theatre In Collision With Alive Theatre. It...
View ArticleStage Door: A Loss of Roses
William Inge is a dark chronicler of small-town Midwest lives. The roles of alcohol and sexual impropriety are familiar threads in his work -- a striking contrast to the white-picket fence world of...
View ArticleApril Nordbee: Small Town Duchamp
April Nordbee, a 29-year-old mother of two who lives in Swedborg Falls, Wisconsin, has found her life completely changed over the past two years, all as the result of a lucky keystroke error she made...
View ArticleThe Drama Desks, All The Way, M&M's and More
My fair readers -- it is a week before the Tony Awards. What does that mean? It's time for The Drama Desk Awards. There are a good amount of awards that honor theater, but the Drama Desk is certainly...
View ArticleJudy Chicago on the ImageBlog
Judy Chicago Bronze Flowering Head 2013 Patinated bronze, lacquer and flame worked glass on acrylic base, 15” x 16” x 16” © Judy Chicago Photo © Donald Woodman www.judychicago.com...
View ArticleWilliam Louis-Dreyfus's Extraordinary Love for Art, Country
When six-year-old William Louis-Dreyfus saw a blind beggar in tinted glasses waving a tin cup on a Paris street, he emptied his pockets of coins for the man. William's wealthy grandmother looked on...
View ArticleThe Enduring Legacy of Clark Hulings
Clark Hulings was an American master painter who was said to be able to describe air itself with paint. Surviving, even thriving, as a realist painter throughout the second half of the 20th century was...
View ArticleEXPO/CHICAGO Announces Participation of Premier Galleries and Citywide...
A well-traveled Tony Karman, President and Director of EXPO CHICAGO, recently returned from visiting Galleries in Berlin, Paris, Milan, Madrid, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Mexico City, Basel, Canada and...
View ArticleDexter Payne's Beautiful Brazilian Music CD Has a Great Backstory
Dexter Payne's new CD, Pra Vocè ("For You"), delights listeners with the swing-powered sounds of Brazilian choro and baião. But the Colorado clarinetist's sound started with a more Manhattan muse:...
View ArticleDS+R Scanning Beyond Fashion at the Met
Charles James: Beyond Fashion is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 10, 2014. Special events will take place at the exhibit 6/12, 6/22, 7/18, and 7/26. Before architect Ludwig...
View ArticleAsk the Art Professor: What Can a Painting Student Do to Be Relevant in a...
"My daughter is a freshman at art school this year. She has chosen painting as her major. How does an artist in a classical medium like painting choose electives that will make them relevant in a...
View ArticleBold As Love -- Past Is Prologue
In the year following the release of Jimi Hendrix's third masterpiece album, Electric Ladyland, it was apparent that the band with which he had skyrocketed to fame, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, had...
View ArticleJoy to the World!
It's not always easy to find a quick pick-me-up at the movies. The standard multiplex now offers a pre-show featuring 15-20 minutes of loud (and frequently overproduced) promotional pieces. What if you...
View ArticleHow to Be Rich as an Artist
People assume that if they've heard of you, you must be raking it in. The theory goes something like this: If you work for yourself and make things that other people buy, your income magically...
View ArticleAndy Warhol: Experiments With New Media
Following the recent news on Andy Warhol's newly discovered Amiga experiments last month, Eric Shiner, the director of The Andy Warhol Museum said Warhol saw no limits to his art practice. These...
View ArticleCan't Read? Go To the Library
The impending doom of bookstores and libraries is a hot topic these days. For me, a bookseller, the issue is even hotter. Sometimes it feels as though I am surrounded by a modern-day Greek chorus...
View ArticleAnimation Is a Rube Goldberg Machine
Rube Goldberg machines are awesome. It's not just that they're indescribably cool or painstaking to make -- no, Rube Goldbergs are so captivating because they're animation that happens in the real...
View ArticleIn Remembrance of Maya Angelou
When I checked my Twitter feed last Wednesday, I was greeted with unsettling news. I read of Maya Angelou's death and instantly burst into tears. To me, Maya was everyone's mother, grandmother, sister,...
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