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Sónar Festival Offers More Than You Might Expect
Since launching in 1994 Sónar Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art has drawn international audiences. Those who have not made the trip to Barcelona before might be surprised by the genuinely...
View ArticleThe Amateur and Her Audience: In Praise of the Lawyers Philharmonic
I praise the Lawyers Philharmonic of Los Angeles. I heard them perform this past weekend. When they arranged themselves on stage in the glorious Walt Disney Hall, they looked exactly like a...
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On the "A" w/Souleo: Wendell Headley, A Fashion World Outsider, Comes To The...
In an unfurnished New York City apartment with bare white walls, Wendell Headley paces the room with an intense energy bordering on unease. He's indoors--at what will soon be the home of an art...
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Famous Favorites: Read The Books That Spurred Your Idols To Greatness
How did Oprah become so wise, Bill Gates so successful, and J.K. Rowling so creative? We think the answer is something along the lines of "you are what you read." Even the president, Mark Zuckerberg,...
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Venus in Fur: The Master and the Muse
The first time I ever saw Emmanuelle Seigner I was a 15 year old grunge kid, and she was the gorgeous vulnerable seductress Mimi, intertwined in her husband Roman Polanski's fatally passionate love...
View ArticleThinking About Theater and Ode to Joy
For a change of pace, today I'm offering you a series of random theater-related thoughts. None of which could take up a post on its own, but together they seem worthy. Although it got a couple of great...
View ArticleCan Pi Be Trademarked?
Background Intellectual property law is complex and varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but, roughly speaking, creative works can be copyrighted, while inventions and processes can be patented....
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"Manuel Carrillo, Mi Querido Mexico (My Beloved Mexico)", Museum of Latin...
"Mi Querido Mexico (My Beloved Mexico): The Photographs of Manuel Carrillo," curated for the Museum of Latin American Art by its President and CEO Stuart A. Ashman, looks like a village. A small...
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Reach Out and Touch Someone
When people think about artistic achievement, many focus on an individual's triumph in winning an award, a trophy, or some honor to recognize his talent, effort, and skill. The truth, however, is that...
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Stage Door: Barceló Con Hielo
Illness is the great leveler. It renders us vulnerable and open to truths we've consciously hidden from others and ourselves. For Nino, his sickness results in hallucinations. His fevered dreams of a...
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Universal Humanism or Identity Art? Which Works Better for You?
Whenever I meet people I always approach them from the standpoint of the most basic things we have in common. We each have a physical structure, a mind, emotions. We are all born in the same way and we...
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Blacker and Better: Jessica Lea Mayfield
"This is a cruel joke" she says staring at the tour van bench seat in the green room. "She" is Jessica Lea Mayfield, lead and namesake of the trio that just performed; frailly thin, soft-spoken, black...
View ArticleM.F.A Abstraction, Crapstraction, Dropcloth Abstraction or Zombie...
Recommended Reading #2 (What is this? See last week's post.) #1. If you haven't seen this series of videos, they're a great learning/teaching resource on the painting techniques of the Abstract...
View ArticleArt, Mental Illness and Frances Bean Cobain
A little under two weeks ago Lana Del Rey was interviewed by The Guardian. The resulting post was titled "Lana Del Rey: 'I wish I was dead already,'" after one of the pop star's more provocative...
View ArticleAfloat on the Joys of San Francisco Opera's Showboat
I'm surprised at the opera snobbishness of the people who've wondered why San Francisco Opera is presenting a musical this summer -- that is to say, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat. Have...
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Effigy and Exile
Effigy and Exile is the third installment of the Minneapolis collective Holdfast, a group dedicated to finding the timeless in the contemporary by calling attention to the best in the figurative arts....
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OkayAfrica and Electrafrique at SummerStage: The Whole World Is Africa
New York -- There are many religious and spiritual practices around the world that utilize rhythms and chants as part of their ritual, with their shamanic leaders surrounded by frenzied adherents....
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Agnieszka Holland's Burning Bush
Agnieszka Holland's Burning Bush, playing at Film Forum through Tuesday, takes place in the aftermath of Prague Spring when Russian tanks invaded and repressed the Czech revolution. The movie,...
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In Search of the Sea Gypsies (PHOTOS)
After a long tedious flight cramped into a seat built for a munchkin instead of a 6'4" Swede, I was finally there. Stepping off the plane was an experience in itself. As a cold-blooded Scandinavian,...
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Joy Syringe : A Fissure and a Fusion
Shortly after my essay "After Malevich" was posted here on the Huffington Post my long time friend and fellow artist Joseph Imhauser emailed me the following. "hey j can you send me some detail info...
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