Does It Make Sense for Artists to Advertise?
Investing in one's career is often touted as a sound business move, an act of confidence in the future, the cost of doing business, taking responsibility - that kind of talk. But, which career...
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Research published today by the American Psychological Association has shown that chimpanzees prefer listening to West African akan and North Indian raga over listening to silence. What does this say...
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Undeniable Labors of Love
"Oh crap, that song is soooo tired," groaned one of the towel boys at the gym as the music changed on the sound system. "I mean, like, ewwwwww....that must be two years old already!" As I watched his...
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Mama Won't Fly, Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, CA
It's summer. That means we need beach type entertainment material. Navigable, fun, not too ponderous. It also means road trips, planned as much as one can plan a road trip, a chance to connect with...
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Jennifer Reeves 1963 - 2014, With Apologies To ee cummings' (Buffalo Bill's)
Jennifer Reeves has passed who used to turn word and image mememe and hoitytoityness into a playground game of marbles shattered prisms of steelies and boulders superegos and ids...
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CHOMSKY'S VESSEL: Art Preview
I'm pleased to note that Gary Lloyd's 1978 work, "Chomsky's Vessel," will once again be on public display in "Valley Vista," a group show curated by Damon Willick and opening in August at CSU...
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Silence Is Not Always Golden
On October 19, 1959, William Gibson's powerful drama The Miracle Worker had its Broadway premiere at the Playhouse Theatre. Starring Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan and a very young Patty Duke as Helen...
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The Four-Walled World
The term "world-building" tends to conjure images of maps and manuals and sprawling, fantastical lands. But the worlds that interest me most are usually enclosed by four walls. I've always been...
View ArticleFACE IT: A Banner Year for Documentaries
I have seen a batch of documentaries in the last few weeks -- coming your way soon, no doubt -- and they remind me once again that the folks behind them may be our finest and noblest filmmakers. Here...
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10 Amazing Free Museums in the U.S.
National Museum of Natural History (Photo: Smithsonian Institution) Cultural discovery doesn't always come cheap. While admission fees support and sustain museums, they can add up for tourists looking...
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Expedition Photography (for Beginners!): 9 Tips for Better Travel Photos
By Cristina Veresan, Grosvenor Teacher Fellow & Middle School Science Teacher at Star of the Sea School in Honolulu, Hawaii. Whenever I open up an issue of National Geographic magazine, I...
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A Rose for Martha's Vineyard
Rose Abrahamson, Photo by Kathleen Young. Used by Permission. Rose Abrahamson illuminates life. She is a 93-year old artist living on Martha's Vineyard. She continues to create art, although today her...
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Living Legends of Jazz
Roy Haynes photo Fran Kaufman Once again Notes on Jazz is proud to carry on its tradition of compiling and publishing the annual "Fourth of July Living Legend of Jazz" feature. This is the fifth such...
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X-Woman
Moments before I was to go onstage for a preview performance of DEMERARA GOLD, a play about my life as a woman of color an immigrant and a witness to domestic violence, my mind wandered to the source...
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Spotlight on Women Choreographers: Allison Brzezinski
Co-authored by Ellen Dobbyn-Blackmore Allison Brzezinski, Choreographer, ChEckiT!Dance Photo by Aehee Kang Asano Whenever there are large scale dance events the question almost inevitably arises: where...
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Mélissa Laveaux at The Global Beat Festival - Serving Smiles and Warmth
New York - The rain in the beginning of New York's summer season occurs often and prodigiously. It doesn't however, impede the progress or plans of the average Gotham pedestrian. It is as flavoring to...
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Caravaggio Could Be the Key to a New Detroit
1 One of the most striking works held in the Detroit Institute of Arts' formidable collection is Caravaggio's Martha and Mary Magdalene (c. 1598). A grand example of the artist's chiaroscuro style of...
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Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys
Kumba is what you think about when you see Clint Eastwood's movie version of Jersey Boys. Everyone but Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen) who talks about T.S. Eliot's "objective correlative" is from the...
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Noctis Equi, 40 x 60 in., Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, 2013, dougargue.com , edelmanarts.com
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