THE ENIGMA OF BEING
How do we become what we are? And what is it that governs our understanding of all there is?
Sandeep Girish Bhatnagar
THE SERIOUSNESS OF PLAY The arts are essential; theatre is essential, and its business is part of human civilization's lifeblood. As a society we need to remember this or we risk losing our humanity!
Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
A FINE MADNESS
The Great Insane Performances of the Cinema
Miles David Moore
The Arts of ThailandDAB KAM FAHThe Swords of the Skyดาบก้ำฟ้า
Interview with Karl Singha Surasaky
Janine Yasovantคลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย
QUARANTINE LOVEUnlike many, I have loved this COVID-19 quarantine. I have loved working from home. No more hauling the body along transportation routes to sit at a desk. Michael Bettencourt
WHERE FEAR STILL HOLDS LEASE Bill Rodman was a prize-winning journalist and newspaperman. He spent most of his career writing about people making a futile mess of their lives. Arthur Danín Adler
GRANDSON IS A GREEN TOOTHBRUSHYou could sorta kinda tell something was going on and one fine day a certain person started getting very curious about what was behind the curtains. Claudine Jones
MERCENAIREI lived in an Elysium strewn with orchids, bougainvillea,Hibiscus by the roadsides as if chucked by profligate gods Patrick Walsh
"WHOSE LANDS THESE ARE": NATIVE AMERICAN POETRY This is powerful and especially resonant now. One wonders when reparations to Native peoples will be broached. Gregory Luce
METH AND TATTOOS: SCENES FROM THE PANDEMIC Slices of life and scenes amid the pandemic that I see Richard Linklater or perhaps Mike Judge cobbling together for a film. Les Marcott
DISCOVERY—POETRY FROM A BRAIN EXPERTIf Gertrude Stein were studying medicine in the 21st century, the Steiny Road Poet believes she might have deeply appreciated the accomplishments of Don Krieger. Karren Alenier
SMALL ACTS OF CONCERNI am trying to find out something about the state of mind in which it is possible to act politically. I do not have this state of mind, but I would like to have it.My mother had it.Kim Chernin
VISUAL POEMSDealing With Bad NewsDe-Con-Text-Ual-LiesMom? Dad? It's Me!In Love With Free ShippingDavid Alpaugh
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
This IssueDAME HELEN MIRRENON KANDINSKY AND ACTINGIn a 2011 video, the world-renowned actress, Dame Helen Mirren, talks about her love of painting in general, and of Kandinsky's work in particular.Edited and Introduced by Lissa Tyler Renaud
images
Fog on Hobsons Bay
A heavy fog rolled into Melbourne this morning, 16 July 2020.
The Photography of Jon Rendell
PaintingDrunken BoatPoetryRimbaud's House
The Art of David Wiley
writings
ABBOTT & COSTELLO WAITING FOR BECKETT
A radio studio. Lou Costello is sitting on a stool and trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again.Altenir Silva
AN OLD POET'S REFLECTIONS ON RIMBAUD
Now, more than sixty years after my first encounter with the poet, I can only wonder what my life might have been like if Rimbaud had not lived.David Wiley
letters
Comments and Letters to the Editor
books
New titles coming soon.
media
THEATRE THOUGHTSAn entertaining array of audio essays on an array of topics by an astute and entertaining essayist. (Audio)
EAR BUDS Michael BettencourtWhat happens when we love our devices — and they love us back. (Video)
LIGHT FANTASTIC Michael BettencourtWeighty matters of brain neurons and addiction, two forbidden kisses,single-malt scotch, and the green dance of blue and yellow lasers. (Video)
UNDRESS ME Michael BettencourtIn a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undressher by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue. (Video)
THE GREED GENE Michael BettencourtA young couple is told by their genetic counselor, the "genie of genes" that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do. (Video)
Special—Issues
Everything Old Is New AgainJanuary 2013 | Click Here
What Is Obscenity and What's Not?January 2012 | Click Here
A Brief But Quirky History of the ArtsJanuary 2011 | Click Here
The Rising Fall of the ArtsJanuary 2010 | Click Here
The OneJanuary 2009 | Click Here
What Is Art?January 2008 | Click Here
View of the ArtsJanuary 2007 | Click Here
The Art of Sex in the ArtsFebruary 2006 | Click Here
State of the Art of the ArtsOctober 2005 |Click Here
Special—Indexes
Kandinsky AnewIndex of series by Lissa Tyler Renaud Click Here for Access
Good Reading Is Currently On Sale Here
Karren Alenier The Dresser addresses what's underneath the art ▼Sponsored by Scene4
August 2020
Sections~Cover · This Issue · inFocus · inView · inSight · Perspectives · Special Issues Columns~Adler · Alenier · Bettencourt · Jones · Luce · Marcott · Walsh Information~Masthead · Submissions · Prior Issues · Your Support · Archives · Books Connections~Contact Us · Comments · Subscribe · Advertising · Privacy · Terms · Letters
Search Issue | Search Archives | Share Page
Scene4 (ISSN 1932-3603), published monthly by Scene4 Magazine–International Magazine of Arts and Culture. Copyright © 2000-2020 Aviar-Dka Ltd – Aviar Media Llc.
Subscribe to our mail list for news and a monthly update of each new issue. It's Free! Name Email AddressPlease see our Privacy Policy regarding the security of your information.
