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Fly By Night: Believe in Stars, Believe in Love?
This week is almost all about the Tony Awards. (I know, I have to report the results of my Tony voters poll to about a dozen producers today.) But I'm already looking beyond the Tonys. You know, the...
View ArticleMatthew Couper on the ImageBlog
Matthew Couper, ''Creator, Nurturer, Lifegiver', 2010, oil on three metal panels, 41" x 107", Sir James Wallace Arts Trust Collection, Auckland, New Zealand. Upcoming Exhibition: Matthew Couper: Recent...
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Theater Review: Just Jim Dale, a Slim and Stale Musical Memoir
Photo credit: Joan Marcus, courtesy of the Roundabout Theatre Roundabout's puzzling summer selection at the Laura Pels Theatre (a replacement for Bekah Brunstetter's postponed Cutie and Bear) seems to...
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Aisle View: Lambeth Lad Makes Good
The Roundabout gives us just Jim Dale -- casually attired in gray trousers, gray shirt and gray hair, on an empty stage but for a baby grand piano -- in their latest offering at the Laura Pels. Dale...
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5 Ways Libraries Cultivate Community Art
At the Library as Incubator Project, we work hard to highlight the many ways that libraries and artists can support each other, and not just because makerspaces are cool. We believe that creativity is...
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Capturing the Moment Requires Vision, Patience and Luck
When making a picture of someone, there are many ways to draw attention to your subject. One common technique is to use a shallow depth of field to blur the background or foreground. Another option is...
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The 27 Club in Rock Limbo via New Paradise Laboratories
(photo: Matt Saunders) Putting deceased rock stars onstage usually means a pasty musical wrapped in creepy facsimiles of dead celebrities. New Paradise Laboratory director Whit MacLaughlin avoids such...
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Mohamed Hefzy: Ismailia Film Fest Director, Film Clinic Producer & Filmmaker
Until about a year ago, I found little reason to watch modern Egyptian cinema. Besides a film like The Yacoubian Building, which offered glimpses into some well-drawn human characters, cinema from...
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India's First Street Art Fest and the Largest Gandhi Portrait Ever
St.ART Dehli 2014 Hosts 60 Artists As street art continues to go global here in the twenty-teens, today we bring you images showing that Dehli has become one of the latest cities to showcase it. In...
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Back from the Valley: Sebastian Junger on Korengal
Sebastian Junger has made a career of documenting why some people embrace danger as a way of life. His debut book, The Perfect Storm, chronicles the deaths of a crew of Gloucester, Mass. fishermen...
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CultureZohn: Fundamentals: The 2014 Biennale Strips Down
I am staying in a Venetian hotel once the home of Alma Mahler, the woman who sent many talented hearts reeling and walking along the narrow often slightly off-fragrant Venetian streets that writer Mary...
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Veterans, the Exquisite Corpse, and Our Unquiet Dead
I like to think of it as an elegant Mad Lib, but its real title is the Exquisite Corpse -- or, this time around, the Exquisite Corpse of the Unknown Soldier, part of the "Surrealism & War" exhibit...
View Article9 Book Recommendations Based On Your Favorite Pop Songs
There's a recipe for having the best vacation ever: perfect summer jam + perfect summer read = beach blanket bliss. This guide will help you match the song you'll be playing on repeat till Labor Day...
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Exclusive Interview With Andres Serrano, Photographer of 'Piss Christ'
© Irina Movmyga 1. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself, your likes, and your dislikes? I like to keep busy, whether it's making art, taking pictures, gardening or antiquing. I always like to...
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My Love Affair With the Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival is the best film festival in the world. It is where every director dreams of premiering his or her film one day. It is also the place where movie deals are made on a daily...
View Article"We Deserve to Die Well"
World-renowned artist Marina Abramović walked the Great Wall of China, had a loaded gun pointed at her head and sat in silence for over 700 hours -- all to give art a new meaning. She told Max Tholl...
View ArticleAct One, Two Memories
Towards the end of the second act of Act One at Lincoln Center Theater, I felt myself transported back to the fall of 1979. My father had just dropped me off at the corner of 110th and Amsterdam to...
View Article7 Best Book-To-TV Adaptations
Whenever I have a novel out (The Lemon Orchard in trade paperback, May 27) my thoughts turn to casting. I can't help it. A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television--by way of TNT, CBS,...
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Ménage to Rock it Out at Portugal Day Events in Toronto, Montreal and New...
All over the world, Portuguese people will be joyfully celebrating the days around June 10, the tiny Iberian country's national holiday which is called Portugal Day. Cities like Toronto, Montreal and...
View ArticleThe 2014 Lilly Awards Burst Into Bloom
On Monday, June 2, the fifth annual Lilly Awards Ceremony lit up Playwrights Horizons (416 West 42nd St.). The Lilly Awards, affectionately called "The Lillies," were founded in 2010 by Julia Jordan,...
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