Brigitte Engler on the ImageBlog
Installation of fabric work Moulin de Pen Castel, Morbihan, France http://www.brigitteengler.com/
View ArticleTheater: Much Ado About Rabe and Linklater
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING *** out of **** PUBLIC THEATER/SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK The more often I see Much Ado, the more I really dislike most of the male characters in the play. The more often I see Lily...
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Once Hits San Francisco: The Surprising Backstory of the Tony-winning Musical
Courtesy: TheaterWorld I often write about agents of change. You know, those enterprising souls whose work in the world somehow makes a positive difference. So inspired am I by the rare posse of...
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Drive-Thru
. '10905 Riverside Drive' 8"x 12" oil on panel This is the first Drive-Thru window I painted, I like places that people don't go to be there as subject matter and saw this as an opportunity to explore...
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The Sharing Project
Joel Tauber, Attempting To Restore Happyville (photo, 2013) from the art installation and movie, The Sharing Project. I've been struggling for the last couple of years to understand the concept of...
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For the Love of Bach ... Play On!
(c) David Newton-Dunn (2014) This Father's Day, June 15th, at Richardson Auditorium on Princeton University's campus, two giants of J.S. Bach scholarship and dedicated ambassadors for his Cantata...
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The Chateau That Sugar Built: Seven Deadly Sins
Every year for the last seventeen, France's grand Chateau Chaumont celebrates several of the world's most creative gardeners and landscape designers with a monumental garden festival that aims to...
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The Cultural Landscape Architects: Thomas J. Lax
Installation view of "When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South" (Jacolby Satterwhite, Satellites, 2014), The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2014 (Photo: Adam Reich) Currently on view...
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Cat's Meow About Great Art
Every time I go to see a movie in which the major character happens to be a painter, I brace myself for the embarrassing moment when the actor or actress, no matter how good he or she is, stands in...
View ArticleTheater: Cherry On Top, But Little Underneath in New Play
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID ** out of **** MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB This new play is set at a bed and breakfast on an island off the coast of Seattle in 1972. A mother and her teenage daughter run an...
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We Want the Fame: Holler Introduces New Talent to Broadway
I love when new talent arrives on Broadway. Just like it gives me hope when I see young faces out in the audience, I always cheer particularly loud for those making their Broadway debut (only if they...
View ArticleLearn How to Play Guitar by the End of the Week
In 1962, a little-known Liverpool rock act called the Beatles auditioned for a recording contract with Decca Records, but were rejected on the grounds that "guitar groups were on the way out." Besides...
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Encuentro: Get Ready to Manifest
Just before the International Jazz Festival, another global gathering takes place in MontrƩal as a flock of academics, artists, activists, students and enthusiasts of all kinds will come from all over...
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Meet the Tony Stark of Cardboard
Taiwanese student Kai-Xiang Xhong is a cardboard master. He's been slicing up old boxes and building 3D sculptures that are strikingly realistic (well, besides being obviously made of brown...
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The 10 Most Crushworthy Leading Men in YA
Heat up your summer with these 10 fictional hotties! From wounded musicians (of the human and werewolf variety) to sensitive skater boys and the world's most smokin' cancer patient, there's a fictional...
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In Which I Curate "Poets/Artists," an Art Magazine
I'm going to shamelessly abuse my posting privileges here to tell you about a project of mine I'm very proud of. I've spent the past few months curating an issue of the magazine Poets/Artists, and it's...
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Style Vixens of Rock and Roll
Bold, powerful women who rock hard and have the epic style to match are an integral part of rock and roll. We dug deep in our vault to present unique women who possess that out-of-this-world sartorial...
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Classic Tease: Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend
Although the seeds of ballet originated in the 17th century in the court of French King Louis XIV, "Classical" ballet as we know it today incubated in the Imperial Theater of Russia in the late 19th...
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78 Hours on the Los Angeles Art Scene
The opening of the UCLA Hammer Museum's Made in LA 2014 exhibition ANNUALLY FOR THE past four years, I've made a Los Angeles art pilgrimage in the company of prominent New York collectors Zoƫ and Joel...
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