Live and Dangerous: Firefly Music Festival 2014
The Firefly Music Festival is a mixed-genre, down to earth music festival held yearly in the lush, wooded landscape of Dover, Delaware. Thanks to a consistently stellar lineup and drama-free...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: New Musical "Fly By Night" Doesn't Fly, Then Does
Fly By Night, the Will Connolly-Michael Mitnick-Kim Rosenstock (who also conceived the enterprise) musical at Playwrights Horizons starts off cute as can be. Depending on your tolerance for...
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'F/8 and Be There' -- as True Now as It Was in Weegee's Day
Ask any veteran street photographer and they'll likely recall with excruciating detail "the one that got away." Can there be a worst feeling as a photographer than fumbling with your settings while...
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Wafaa Bilal Meditates on Liminal Spaces in "The Ashes Series"
Saddam's Bedroom, 2003-2013 The Dark Palace, 2003-2013 It takes a minute to realize Wafaa Bilal's photographs of familiar images from the aftermath of the war in Iraq are actually miniature...
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AMBI's Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino: Changing the World, One Film at a...
I'm always pleasantly surprised when I sit down to interview a powerful, beautiful, intelligent woman who is not afraid to mix her wisdom with her femininity. And even more amazed when she's...
View ArticleWhere I Get My Inspiration
"DC or Marvel?" To many comics fans, this question is as fundamental as "Chocolate or vanilla?" "Yankees or Red Sox?" "Boxers or briefs?" I've been creating graphic novels since 2002, and I have a dark...
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From Picasso to Joyce, Dylan, and Jobs
In 1923, T.S. Eliot wrote that in Ulysses, James Joyce had "arrived at a very singular and perhaps unique literary distinction: the distinction of having, not in a negative but a very positive sense,...
View ArticleArt Through the Eyes of a Legend: Danny Simmons
I have no idea about the world of art. In school, I just loved colors. I tried my hand at sketching, calligraphy, photography, fashion design, dance and piano. You name it, I tried. it. I was up for...
View ArticleEliot Saarinen on the ImageBlog
“Pareidolia”, 2012 Mason Jars, Acrylic and Wood, 55” x 64” “Pareidolia” is meant to take away the function of the glass jars. From the blurred meaning of art, I am lead to think that anything that...
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Hit the Road India: Rolling Out Loud Fun on a Rickshaw
Every once in a while, a truly fun original documentary comes along. Hit The Road: India is an adventure documentary that follows two friends, Ric Gazarian and Keith King, as they participate in the...
View ArticleIs There One Right Way to Achieve Creativity? (Spoiler Alert: No)
Michael Jordan's high school coach told him that there is "no I in team," to which the budding superstar replied, "Yes, but there is in win." These two contradictory approaches to creative success are...
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Remembering Her Ladyship: Mary Soames
The loss of Lady Mary Soames, Winston Churchill's youngest daughter and last surviving child, who died on May 31 at the age of 91, deprives the world of its finest direct Churchillian link. For me, it...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel is not so much a visual movie as a furnished movie. And what's it furnished with? Neologisms made up of Mitteleuropaische sounding words (a joke that begins to pale), bloody...
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Fritz Koenig's Sphere: Michael Burke's Call to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum foundation, with its new museum recently opened in Manhattan, often speaks of its "stakeholders": family members of victims, survivors, first responders,...
View ArticleAsk the Art Professor: Is the Internet Necessary to be a Successful Artist?
I've been working in a small gallery that's all about social media and using it to promote their gallery and artists. I, on the other hand, choose to have a very minimal online presence. I only...
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Changing the Art Movement
Around the world, artists come together and decide to work, create, and at times even live under the same roof. There are many reasons for this phenomenon, including community-building, artistic...
View ArticleFor Pride Month, Daring to Be Wild and Precious in a New One-man Show
"I want to celebrate that we've come so far in my life from not having words for our experience -- 'the love that dare not speak its name' -- to being able to celebrate it." Boston psychotherapist...
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Warming Into June: Cultural ^ Charitable Catch-Up
Warming Into June; Cultural & Charitable Catch-Up Central Parks Mini-Regatta, MFIT's Couture Council, Designer Ralph Rucci, The Lighthouse Gild's POSH Sale, Gala & Interesting History, Audra...
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Brimming With Excitement, 84” x 72”, Oil on Panel, 2014
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On the "A" w/Souleo: Happy 80th Birthday Apollo Theater
The Apollo Theater has transformed the lives of many singers that performed on its stage such as Stevie Wonder, James Brown and Lauryn Hill. But sometimes in a transcendent moment the lives of audience...
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