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From the High Seas to Hollywood (Part I)
Though both borrow from French Revival architectural style, no two buildings could be further apart in significance than Bancroft Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood....
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Zhenya Gershman Asks: What if Art Brings Our Ancestors to Life
by Zhenya Gershman, Artist & Art Historian, Co-Founder, Project AWE What if the body is turned into a canvas? What if a painting is made on the skin? What if ancestors are made visible portrayed...
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Surface to Air : Los Angeles Artists of the 60s (VIDEO)
Genevieve Day, Director of Kayne Griffin Corcoran. Photo by EMS. On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 I had the great opportunity to film "Surface to Air: Los Angeles Artists of the '60s and the Materials that...
View ArticlePhilly's Whacky Reception Groupies
If you've ever been to an event in Center City that included a reception, such as opening night at the theater or an art gallery, you know how much fun they can be. Receptions range from high to low,...
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From Van Gogh to Kandinsky
Last week, I was supposed to travel to Holland to pay my respects to the Girl with the Pearl Earring. This famous painting by Vermeer reclaimed its place of honor in the Mauritshuis Museum in Hague...
View ArticleODDS AGAINST TOMORROW: Book Review
Nathaniel Rich has a fine sense of the apocalyptic absurd--its comical as well as its dark side. Odds Against Tomorrow sets us in the not-so-distant future, in a world where the threat of global...
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'Welling Court' 2014, A Grassroots Mural Event Turns 5 in Queens
When the revered graffiti holy place named 5Pointz in Queens, New York was buffed and slated officially for demolition last fall the collective response of the graffiti/street art fan base and...
View ArticleOf Squats, Near-Squats and After-Squats
Pockets of Artistic Creativity in Paris Gaspard Delanoe is a fighter -- his passion evident as he walks me through 59 Rivoli, a six-story commercial building in Paris's First Arrondissement. Empty for...
View ArticleLeigh Salgado on the ImageBlog
11_Panties2; acrylic on hand-cut paper, 12 x 12 inches; Exhibited at Coagula Curatorial in 2013.
View ArticleTime-lapse Selfies and Self-regard Over the Years
Have you noticed that we've now become obsessed with how we change, or how we age, at least pictorially speaking? Consider Boyhood, a new film from Richard Linklater, tracks a boy from the age of 5 to...
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Finding the Fine Arts Dialogue in Hawai'i
Following is the text of my speech at a recent presentation, sponsored by Artillery magazine. I was proud to share the stage with speakers Josh Strickland, CEO of Hawaii Camera, and artist Troy Wong....
View ArticlePurpose Can Be Something New
I quit my job almost exactly two months ago with the intention of working on Letters to Our Former Selves full-time. Very quickly though, a problem emerged. I had no structure to my days; they...
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The Manly Pursuit of Desire: Charles James at His Splendid Met Museum Show:...
Models in evening gowns by Charles James, photographed by Cecil Beaton at French & Company. One word immediately came to my mind looking at the head-turning displays of haute couture by the...
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The Experimental Genius of Gerry Goffin
I didn't know who Gerry Goffin was when I was in junior high school, and high school, in the '60s. I listened to AM radio constantly on my new transistor radio, and I knew all the songs on KEWB's...
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Crushed! Cars on Their Deathbeds
LA-based photographer Pej Behdarvand's assignment for Car & Driver magazine, to record a BMW's final moments, ("Our Bimmer Gets Gutted") progressed into his brilliant series "Deathbed." Some of the...
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1840s Famed Teenage Séance Sisters Inspire Play
The Incredible Fox Sisters, a new play with film, presented by emerging company Live Source in the Ice Factory Festival 2014 at The New Ohio, finds it's spooky roots in 1840s Upstate New York. The...
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Concert Etiquette: Get With the Program
The Venetian Theatre at Caramoor, Katonah, New York (credit: Gabe Palacio) I'd rather hear music than the person in front of me whispering. This is what I was thinking at my last concert when, plain...
View ArticleTheater: Savion Glover Prays; Broadway, Cabaret Stars Praise
SAVION GLOVER -- OM ** out of **** BROADWAY BY THE YEAR 1990-2014 *** out of **** So much theater is here and then gone in the blink of an eye. Has it really been two and a half years since Newsies...
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The Wild and Exhausting World of Brazilian Artist Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Neto is an artist comfortable in himself. So comfortable in fact, he managed to dose off during our shoot in his studio in Rio de Janeiro. We blamed it on the heat and not our company of...
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