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All Is Possible: Hubbard Street's Summer Series
Hubbard Street Dancers in "The Impossible" by Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, from left: Jessica Tong, Ana Lopez, Jonathan Fredrickson and Andrew Murdock. Photo by Todd Rosenberg Hubbard...
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Tony Night: Awards and After-Parties
I sometimes feel like I have my own Tony Awards black cloud. Last year, my guest got injured at Party #2 (and Matilda lost, which made me sad). This year, I decided to go solo, and I got food poisoning...
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CultureZohn: The 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, Parte Due
Once you leave the main pavilion of the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice, all bets are off. Rem Koolhaas, the architect-curator, challenged the 66-plus countries that entered to respond to the...
View ArticleCreating Moments at the Big Island Film Festival 2014
Creating moments is what The Big Island Film Festival is all about. You can create moments in the present, while you're there sharing your passion for film with the other filmmakers, celebrities, and...
View ArticleMy Banned Book
Barnes & Noble refuses to stock my book. All but one of the independent booksellers in my area refuse to sell it. You see, in their estimation, I've signed a deal with the devil. Much of the...
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Mei Xian Qiu: It's All in the Name
My name has always been a matter of pride and wonder to me. Partly as a result, I traveled this year to Estonia, the land of my ancestors on my father's side. We have a long history there, us Kolls. We...
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Aisle View: It Takes a Village Bike
Greta Gerwig and Scott Shepherd in THE VILLAGE BIKE (photo by Matthew Murphy) Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike was termed "a provocative and darkly comic look at fantasy and romance" when it was...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Ayckbourn's Small Family Business Large and in HD
Alan Ayckbourn is the chronicler of the middle class. Up in Scarborough, England, where he turns his plays out and puts them on -- or has done for many years -- he looks at people from every angle. He...
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Another Man's Treasure: 'Art Is Trash' Creates On The Street
Converting Your Garbage Into a Fleeting Work of Art With legal murals proliferating through the neighborhoods and cities that are embracing and inviting street art, it is refreshing to see that the...
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Toygodd Attends Stepping Through Walls at TAG
Toy Art Gallery presented Stepping Through Walls, featuring the works of Bwana Spoons, Johan Ulrich, Joseph Harmon, Martin Ontiveros, Rampage Toys, and T9G. Take a step into the cosmic toy frontier...
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On Trial: Judgement vs. Expression
On Trial (2011), Daniel Leighton I struggled to write this article. I was imagining people scouring the article for every little thing I did wrong. I was constantly questioning the worth and validity...
View ArticleBadass Latina Visual Artist Celebrates Pussy Power in Philly
It's not every day that you see the f-bomb prominently displayed in an art gallery, but if you're walking into the Iconography of Meaning exhibit at the Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia, you'd...
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It's Not Always About Food: Charles James at the Met Museum
Part of the Accidental Locavore's manifesto for 2014 was a resolution to see more art, and so far I've seen some great shows. Keeping to my plan, I carved out some time last week to see the Charles...
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Bunny Yeager's Vibrant Legacy Lives on in Las Vegas
On a white sand beach, a toned and tanned young woman extends her leg, arches her back and twists her naked torso towards the camera. Behind her on the otherwise deserted beach, a tangle of foliage...
View ArticleThe American South: The Perfect Setting for a Jane Austen Novel?
A lot of readers believe Jane Austen is Regency literature, but I say without the Regency era, there would be no Jane Austen. At least, not as we know her. It follows that any honest effort at a Jane...
View ArticleNew Wave Women: AIPAD
Below is a sampling of photographs by women at the Association of International Photography Art Dealers Show, held at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. MONA KUHN Mona Kuhn's first studies in art...
View ArticleHow Concert Halls Enhance Crescendos
One of the most dramatic moments in classical music is when an orchestra plays a crescendo, starting from a quiet mummer and ending in an immense fortissimo. Listening to this can raise the hairs on...
View ArticleThe Art of Moshe Rynecki
The category of Jewish Art History cannot simply be subsumed into a generalized European art history. The modern artist as the author-agent of the work of art is a relatively new persona and figure for...
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Free People Ballet-gate
Free People Presents: FP Movement Ballet was posted on YouTube on May 12th. Yet, reflecting on it barely a month later, I know I'm late to the party in commenting on Free People Ballet-gate. So goes...
View ArticleHow Gavin Sheppard Is Rallying a City's Creative Community
Prior to studying at Yale as a World Fellow, The Remix Project co-founder and TEDx speaker Gavin Sheppard dropped out of high school once (he returned to complete his studies). He spent a few of his...
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