Almost No One Saw This "Perfect" Video of Maya Angelou
In December of 1996, I was a programmer and producer of the Slamdance Film Festival, the punk alternative to Sundance. It was the third year of the festival, and we were still a very scrappy bunch. At...
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The Show Must Go on
For nearly 145 years you've come to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, thousands at a time to see men and women fly, but not merely fly -- soar, glide and dance in mid air. You've come to watch...
View ArticleNew Documentary About Black Filmmaker Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951), the son of former slaves, lived a remarkable life. He was a homesteader in South Dakota, a bestselling author of seven novels, and a filmmaker who went on to make 44 "race...
View ArticleTranshumanist Art Will Help Guide People to Becoming Masterpieces
Many people associate transhumanism -- the field of using science and technology to radically alter and improve the human being -- with scientists, technologists and futurists. Historically, this has...
View ArticleErica Ryan Stallones on the ImageBlog
That’s the Ticket, 2013, Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 40” x 30” This painting is part of an ongoing multi-media series investigating ritual, social hierarchy, and isolated feminine energy. See more...
View ArticleMoving Art Every Which Way
The New York Times recently reported on the incidence of artists and dealers taking their galleries to the streets in vans, RVs and trucks. Why? For the obvious reasons--sky-piercing rents in New York...
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Las Meninas a Day at a Time
Remember Las Meninas? Every day the diarist puts his or her mirror up to the world as he or she sees it, scouring his or her own image among others for teleological conclusions. He or she paints but...
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A Conversation with Freddy Rodríguez
Photo: Jamaal M. Levine Every life has events of consequence. Those happenings impact and direct the future flow of consciousness. Sometimes, the ramifications remain beneath the surface. In other...
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Dear Jerry: Notes on Life Drawing
The Gift-Challenge "Life drawing" is an accepted term for making drawings from direct observation of (often nude) models. In any major American city, you can find uninstructed, open-to-the-public life...
View ArticleShould MFA Programs Be Ranked?
Do you remember the scene in The Fisher King when Robin Williams, totally smitten with the Amanda Plummer character, begins singing, "Lydia, oh Lydia, Lydia the tattooed lady," and you think, "Good...
View ArticleArts Testimony for Every City Council District
I offer testimony for every NYC Council district to support robust allocations in the City's FY 2015 budget to cultural affairs and arts education. As City leadership evaluates multiple priorities for...
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Three Awesome Women Agitators Curate U.S. Pavilion at Biennale
Three American women, co-curators of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, are currently engaged in an intense cross-examination of the past 100 years of the practice of architecture in America....
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The Case Against Collaboration: A Solo Artists Manifesto
Photo by Doug Seymour With great power comes great responsibility. Whereas I could never give up the writing and arranging of my songs, things like footing the bill and promotional outreach I'd love...
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At Bergamot Station: Great Paintings for Every Taste
On a visit to Los Angeles a few days ago I saw enough terrific paintings to last me for awhile. I'm going to keep this blog short -- the images can do most of the talking -- but I do want to tell you...
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Aisle View: Branagh's Monumentally Masterful Macbeth
Photo: Stephanie Berger, courtesy of Park Avenue Armory New York has seen recent Macbeths by the handful, including two star-topped Broadway productions in the last year, but they are best forgotten....
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Discovering Azerbaijan in Cannes: A Talk with the Torn Cast and Crew
While a cacophony of media and breaking news buzz around us in our daily lives, I personally need the human touch to help me understand a country or a situation. And for that human touch I turn to...
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Late D-Day Veteran and Filmmaker Samuel Fuller Honored in Daughter's Documentary
In his memoir A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking, Samuel Fuller wrote, "Heroes? No such damned thing! You moved your ass one way. And you didn't get hit. You moved it another...
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Dean Kessmann, H.W. Janson and 'A Layered History of Art'
Dean Kessmann, A Layered History of Art: From Semitransparent to Opaque (detail), 2014, archival pigment print, 58" x 480" currently on view at FURTHERMORE LLC in Washington, D.C. Each page was removed...
View ArticleLiu Bolin - Hiding in the City
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Liu Bolin's "Hiding in the City" series stems from his questioning of, and reflection on, the development of manmade civilization and its social...
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Why It's Not Okay for Andrew Garfield to Play a Trans Woman
This post originally appeared on Bustle. By Kat Haché Recently indie band Arcade Fire released the music video for the song "We Exist." The video features Spider Man's Andrew Garfield as an individual...
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