February 2026
The Haircut Known Around the World: One Hundred Years Later Hans Gallas
Still Lives The Photography of Jon Rendell
They Wrote the Songs Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Blue MoonIt is difficult to imagine two people—let alone two songwriters—more different in style, appearance, and personality than Bruce Springsteen and Lorenz Hart. Miles David Moore
Being HumanWhat we call ourselves, as a species, has always been a statement. Philip Gerstein
Columns
American Revolution I have just finished watching Ken Burns’ six-part documentary, The American Revolution, the latest work in his canon, during these fractious and fractured times in American society. Michael Bettencourt
Time Flies and We Can't... NeoRedux We take snapshots of little dots of light in the so-called universe, our so-called dimension, and we take closeup snapshots of barren rocks that circle along with our tiny rock around a tiny star. Arthur Meiselman
Don't tell stories I was kind of sad, mostly because of the people I came to know over three years, to discover that my semi beloved retreat is no longer. Claudine Jones
Keith Richards Is Going To Live Forever Not only Rock music, as those of a certain age remember it, is dying but also the iconic artists who have written and performed those classic songs are dying too. Les Marcott
Shakespeare For The Birds? Shakespeare refers to a total of 65 bird species in his plays and poems. Gregory Luce
Meet Me at Cafe Gitane On a warm weeknight in the halcyon summer of 2017, I decided to fire up the Mustang and drive into Manhattan for dinner at my favorite restaurant in the city, Cafe Gitane. Patrick Walsh
Revisiting Cuba through Marcial Gala’s The Black Cathedral Karren Alenier
Poem #449 Emily Dickens0n David Alpaugh
Kandinsky’s Poems in “My” Paintings Lissa Tyler Renaud
Pairoj Pichetmetakula Supporting and encouraging young people, to see more of the world, and bring back knowledge and experience to help develop Thailand. Janine Yasovant
The Snare of Distance and the Sunglasses of the Seer/ Part One If we were to leap tens of thousands of miles into space, the Earth, would appear to be a blue and white marble. Brian George
writings
The New Yorker Turned 100 (Part 1 ) Altenir Silva At that moment, JC was completely terrified, and, not knowing what to do, he simply stared at the naked blonde as zillions of lustful thoughts filled his head.
imagery
Painting Untitled 05 Poetry Celebrations in Sutro Park 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
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books
Special—Issues
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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|●
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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