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Crowd-Sourced Filmmaking: Depending on the Kindness of Strangers
OK, stay calm! I want you to push the orange lever forward... slowly! If the pilot of a 767 died, could you land it while the control tower talked you through it over the radio? This is akin to my...
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ACT's Orphan of Zhao: Revenge, Honor, Sacrifice in Ancient China
BD Wong as a country doctor entrusted with a tiny but weighty burden Photos by Kevin Berne Like so many Asian antiquities seen through western eyes, the music-infused drama The Orphan of Zhao is a...
View ArticleWilling Absurdity
If one ever wondered where Mel Brooks might have gotten his inspiration for The Producers, look no further than Jules Romains' hysterical Donogoo at New York's Mint Theatre. This delightful, rarely...
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Ask the Art Professor: How Can I Make the Transition to Teaching Art at the...
"I have taught art in public schools at the high school level for 27 years (I am 52) and at this point I am eligible for early retirement and would like to teach drawing and/or painting in college. I...
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17 Artists Earn Southern Exposure
Guests view artwork at the opening reception for Southern Exposure: New Work Now at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County's headquarters in downtown Lake Worth, Fla., June 19. (Photo credit: Jacek...
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9 Fictional Frenemies Who Remind Us That Relationships Are Complicated
The frenemy. Not quite a trustworthy friend, but not quite an all-out enemy. Instead, the frenemy exists in some shadowy space between, often veering back and forth between these two extremes. In my...
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The Pitfalls of Self-Expression
Fifth grade is beginning in less than a week. The summer has been a long one but with the new school year looming, perhaps not long enough. At the end of our block lives a boy one year older and a...
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An Illustration of Privilege
My sophomore year of college I shared an "apartment-style" dorm with my best friend Katy and three other girls. We had a kitchen, a living room, two bathrooms, and our own teeny-tiny bedrooms that were...
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Starting Out: 9 Abstract Painters 1958 -1971
When I first walked into Starting Out: 9 Abstract Painters 1958-1971, I didn't immediately remember that the pristine space on Fifth Avenue was the site of an raucous opening I had attended decades ago...
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Jazz on a New Summer Night's Dream
Bandleader Pablo Batista in rehearsal for the premiere of The Journey (photo courtesy of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts The Kimmel Center's Solstice in the City had a little something for...
View ArticleTheater: The Lion Roars (With Pride); Tupac Doesn't Bloom on Broadway in Holler
THE LION *** out of **** HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME * 1/2 out of **** THE LION *** out of **** MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER This one-man musical written by and starring Benjamin Scheuer is...
View ArticlePhilosophy You Can Use: The Ancient, Practical Wisdom in Stoic Thinking
When most people think of "philosophy," their eyes glaze over. It's the last thing they want, let alone something they need. But this, as you already know, is silly and naive. Philosophy is not just...
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A group of women on their way to Sunday mass from the series ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA: THE CITY OF TRUE LOVE
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Brook's Valley of...
Although it may be that most men would prefer their first-born to be a boy, is there any man in history more intent on having a son than Henry VIII, known to intimates (such as they are) as Harry?...
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Taking My Baby to Kara Walker's Sugar Baby
I have a pretty raw blister on my left pinky toe right now. It is my battle wound from making the long trek out to the Domino sugar factory in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon while still wearing my...
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A Chef Off the Old Block
If you are a Food Channel regular and a devotee of Chopped you will love Chef. It's a far cry from reality TV, but it thrives off the same impulse of turning food preparation into an athletic...
View ArticleMapping New Ground: the Artist-Run London Biennale Pollination Event
The street frontages do not automatically suggest art venues within -- a mid-modern home in an historic suburb, a grilled-window apartment block in a 'transitioning' downtown neighborhood, a metal...
View ArticleHow the Jeff Koons Retrospective Was Curated and Other Recommended Readings
#1 If you're looking for some insight into the current Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum, this interview with curator Scott Rothkopf is a good place to start. #2 Why does connoisseurship...
View ArticleMary Rodgers
Back when Adam Guettel's The Light in the Piazza opened on Broadway in 2005, it was what we call a "nervous hit." The critics appreciated it, by and large, but with a slightly apologetic tone; they...
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Michael C. McMillen's 'The Entropic Taxi; Final Destination' at the Palais de...
"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay." - Ernst Fischer To enter Michael C. McMillen's new installation at the Grand Palais -- Entropic Taxi; The Final Destination --...
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