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San Francisco Opera's New Production of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera —Assassination of a King Renate Stendhal
Window Reflections The Photography of Jon Rendell
Ghosts and Dreams All of Us Strangers I Saw the TV Glow Two recent films use dreamlike fantasy to tell poignant, melancholy stories of people consigned against their will to be misfits. Miles David Moore
Siriratda Noiwichai สิริรัตน์ฎา น้อยวิชัย
My paintings are related to women, flowers, and silk to convey the soft and sweet feelings, the beauty of women, and the unique local dressing culture. Janine Yasovant
See the USA The Travel Diary of Alice B. Toklas Hans Gallas
On the Death of Small Creatures in Our Care Our eldest cat, Cordelia, 15 years of age, died. I so want to make this remembrance of her sentimental, soft, sadly joyous. But I must make one thing clear: she did not die of her own volition. Michael Bettencourt
Mythmaking There is an almost countless number of urban-rural myths regarding people in foreign lands—places other than where you live. Here are a few. Arthur Danin Adler
Confounding I'm finally really mourning my father. He's been gone since 1994. There's a very detailed and eloquent passage in the book I'm reading—the conflicted daughter at her dad's bedside . Claudine Jones
Dining With Orson Welles Looking back at the life and career of the late, great Orson Welles, it's hard to imagine how far he had fallen from the great heights he once ascended to. Les Marcott
Notes Toward a Memoir of Madness and Writing - Part V It's been almost six years since my resurrection and I have not had any further episodes. I wish I could say that anxiety had completely vanished, but in fact, it's a constant presence along the periphery. Gregory Luce
Firenze That year it was Florence and Tuscany, and we had the best bistecca anyone could remember, better than Luger's, better than Delmonico's... Patrick Walsh
Jamie Raskin Oratorio He wanted to preserve the details of both his son's short life and that terrible day of January 6. Karren Alenier
Cuthroat Bandits in the Paths of Fame The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About A TV Series But Were Too Afraid To Ask Altenir Silva
The Artist as Blind Seer: A New Perspective on de Chirico/ Part 2Perhaps the most important immediate predecessor to the Surrealists, who adopted and then abandoned him. Brian George
Nigeria: Bauhaus Architecture and Kandinsky Fashion A creative hybrid of Kandinsky's Bauhaus work and an African visual sensibility, manifested in Nigerian fashion. Lissa Tyler Renaud
Riding the "A"
May Swenson
The thrill of riding Swenson's train, riding her ride, riding her "a," her vowels, are all metaphors for riding life itself.
David Alpaugh
writings
Chicken Bone (Part Three) My Story with Ernest Hemingway Altenir Silva I began searching to meet Allison, but I couldn't find her. The house was very big. Then, I tried to find the guy who was with her. No way; he had vanished as well.
images
House On The Hill 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
Letters to the Editor
books
Special—Issues
July/August 2015|●
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 Danin Adler's columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
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