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	Eugene Onegin by Yury Possokhov: Cold Rush San Francisco Ballet’s World Premiere Renate Stendhal

Life’s A Beach
The Photography of
Jon Rendell


	The Creation of a Self Frankenstein, Marty Supreme Two of 2025’s best films share the theme of a man in the throes of discovering who he is. Miles David Moore


	The Snare of Distance and the Sunglasses of the Seer/ Part Two We are fortunate that the collapse of our culture entertains us. We might otherwise not pause to notice it at all. Brian George

Columns

The World With Us
While trolling around the streaming multiverse, The Marvelous María Beatriz and I landed on Bugoniay.
Michael Bettencourt

Heaven Redux
Ladies and Gentlemen and adolescents of all ages everywhere, good wishes for the year and for carefully filtered memories of past years.
Arthur Meiselman

Hum
Now we come to the humming. She cannot make it stop. She confesses it’s been going on two years. Imagine a five note leitmotif on an endless loop.
Claudine Jones

The Bag
What’s in the bag? Well…sometimes, its drugs…oh hell…a lot of times its drugs.
Les Marcott

What’s More American? Redux
Tawny Chatmon’s art would be well worth seeing for its sheer beauty alone. But come closer and look deeper.
Gregory Luce

The Story of Oisín and Niamh in Brooklyn
Many years ago on a particularly clement evening, my good friend Rich and his wife Diane hosted a summer party at their handsome row house in Brooklyn’s Park Slope.
Patrick Walsh


	The Tender Buttons Response Project Karren Alenier


	Piano D.H. Lawrence David Alpaugh


	Kandinsky’s Poems in “My” Paintings Lissa Tyler Renaud


	Winai Madaree My impression of Winai Madaree stems from his exceptional skill in photography. Janine Yasovant


	Being Human What we call ourselves, as a species, has always been a statement. Philip Gerstein


writings

	The New Yorker Turned 100 (Part 2 ) Altenir Silva APreviously… JC was in an unfamiliar room, with a strange man staring at him. So many things rushed through his mind. He didn’t speak; he only thought something like: “Where am I? What the fuck is this place?”.


imagery


		Painting Cosmic Neighborhood Poetry Big Bang The Art of David Wiley

	The Art of SS. Burrus A Retrospective When the Earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people will appear on the Earth

	Patrick Nagel It’s in the Eyes


media

Audio

Theatre Thoughts
An entertaining array of audio essays on an array
of theatre topics by an astute and entertaining essayist

You Don’t Say!
Occasional Musings by an occasionally amused writer


Video


	Undress Me In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her, by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue


	Light Fantastic Weighty matters of brain neurons and addiction, two kisses, single-malt scotch, the green dance of blue, yellow lasers


	Ear Buds What happens when we love our devices — and they love us back

		The Greed Gene A young couple is told by their genetic counselor that their child has the greed gene, there is nothing they can do

letters, comments

& responses


		books

Prior Issues From The Archives

Special—Issues

Everything Old Is New Again
January 2013|●

What Is Obscenity and What’s Not?
January 2012|●

A Brief But Quirky History of the Arts
January 2011|●

The Rising Fall of the Arts
January 2010|●

The One
January 2009|●

What Is Art?
January 2008|●

View of the Arts
January 2007|●

The Art of Sex in the Arts
February 2006|●

State of the Art of the Arts
October 2005|●

Special—Indexes

The Steiny Road
Index of Karren Alenier’s
columns and writings|●

Film Reviews
Index of Miles David Moore’s
reviews and writings|●

Writings
Index of Renate Stendhal’s
writings and reviews|●

Writings
Index of Arthur Meiselman’s and Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●

Kandinsky Anew
Index of the series by
Lissa Tyler Renaud|●

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