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After Ever After: Musicals and What I Have (and Have Not) Missed
There was no YouTube the last time I wrote about the Broadway musical. There was no Twitter, no Facebook, no iPhone, no Glee. Ten years ago this past month, my book Ever After: The Last Years of...
View Article7 Things That Will Never Happen To You In High School Despite What YA Books Say
I really, really wanted to go to high school. And who could blame me? After spending much of junior high inhaling John Hughes movies and devouring copy after copy of Sweet Valley High, I was pretty...
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Experiences We Don't Experience
In the movie Memento Leonard Shelby (played by Guy Pearce) has completely lost his ability to make new memories and and finds his way in the world by obsessively photographing everything and every...
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Great Design Made to Measure: Books, Dead or Alive?
Images courtesy of Ken Carbone The Rizzoli bookstore on Manhattan's West 57th street shuttered their doors in April. Despite the promises of reopening at a new location, book lovers in New York yet...
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Jayson Gillham Takes Gold in Montréal's Grand Prix Piano Competition
Jayson Gillham Takes Home the Gold. Photo by Antoine Saito The streets of Montreal these days are littered with a dazzling range of Ferraris, Bentleys and other exotic super cars that would make Monte...
View ArticlePrimavera Sound 2014: John Talabot Recaps the Year's Best Music Festival
Although perhaps best known as a rock-centric music festival, Barcelona's Primavera Sound is also a full-scale conference with presentations, panels, lectures on the state of the music industry, music...
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Learning Los Angeles: Judy Baca, Artist as Activist
Judy Baca recognizes that collective mural making can bring communities together 'in the soil and spirit of the people,' dignifying public memory. Baca is an artist, educator, UCLA Professor of...
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Still Edgy After All These Years: Jacaranda Music's First Decade
Listening to Jacaranda Music's last concert of its eleventh season, two opposing thoughts struck me. One was astonishment that its first decade (the anniversary was last October) had flown by so...
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Young Chinese Artists
Chinese artist Sun Xun with his painting installation at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (Florida), part of the historic museum show, My Generation: Young Chinese Artists GO FIGURE. A new artistic...
View ArticleLet There Be Light
Few artists paint from the perspective that "You're only as big as the canvas that's facing you." Sculpted by the father-and-son team of Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial...
View ArticleEngagement Féminin: Women, Education and Contemporary Dance in West Africa
Over 200 young women have been kidnapped and remain missing in northeast Nigeria, as part of a horrifying crusade against women's education that is difficult to comprehend. Their scared, haunted...
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'Locke': A Film Review
Locke A film written and directed by Steven Knight and starring Tom Hardy Review by Lloyd I. Sederer, MD Locke, Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) that is, has a moral quandary whose resolution is the centerpiece...
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Sounds of One Hand Clapping
The "Tibet and India Buddhist Traditions and Transformations" show at the Met has just closed. But the writing was or, if we thinking in terms of timelessness, is on the wall--literally. Here is a...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Ann Chwatsky's Photography
I happened upon her large iris digital prints on watercolor paper in an exhibition, and I was transfixed. I identified immediately with the narrator of these photographs. The young girl growing up in...
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Zombie Conceptualism: The Next Art World Trend?
On April 3 of this year, critic Walter Robinson first identified and blogged about "Zombie Formalism," a multi-various and market-savvy approach that he sees as characterizing a recent clustering of...
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Through A Lens, Darkly
Have you ever sat through a full-length feature that could have ended several times? Or been trimmed by at least 20 minutes? If so, you might find a treasure trove of cinema in the recent crop of short...
View Article"Cartographia: Artifacts of a Creative Journey," Torrance Art Museum
This represents part of an online exhibition at the Torrance Art Museum, June 7 - July 26. "At our best, we don't make road maps so much as chart the territory (...) Each of us stands at one unique...
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Jacob's Pillow Dance: Looking Forward To Summer 2014
Dance Heginbotham at Jacob's Pillow Every June, my wife, dance videographer Nel Shelby, and I move back into our cabin in the Berkshires to spend the summer filming and photographing the incredible...
View ArticleFan Zeng, Mirror of the Invisible
The vicissitudes of history have never really interrupted the life of the Chinese art, in the era of a dematerialized cyberspace the "Four Treasures of the Study" ("Wen Fang Si Bao"), the brush, the...
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Kenneth Branagh and Macbeth in Manhattan
Waiting under the banners outside the Park Avenue Armory (photo by me) Why keep you in suspense? The play will, but I won't: GO. Just go. Now, for a measured review of the new production of William...
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