inFocus

Diva World
The Devil Wears Prada 2, Hacks
Two recent entertainments share a basic premise: an acerbic, controlling woman who has risen to the top of her profession and a younger, more idealistic woman who is climbing the career ladder are forced to work together.
Miles David Moore               

After Karl Blossfeldt
He believed that the forms found in nature could provide valuable lessons for artists and designers. His photographs sit between scientific documentation and art.
Jon Rendell

Behind the Mask, the Presence, and Behind the Presence, the Mask Part One
Where did the beings go who were the models for the masks, the instigators whom the masks invoke?.
Brian George

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Who We Were
Asks Who Are We Now

inView

Sweet Nothings
When I first started crafting a career for myself as a playwright, I believed fervently that theater could shift people into being better. I’m pretty sure that that was not the right path to follow.
Michael Bettencourt

A Crime With A Name
We are in the presence of a crime without a name... the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world.
Arthur Danin Adler

SOS
While I myself have not had to hurl for a while now since my first trip to the ER back in July, it's a pretty common side effect of chemo. 
Claudine Jones

The Career and Strange Disappearance of Bobbie Gentry
Few artists in country music history have left a mark as deep and enigmatic as Bobbie Gentry. In the late 1960s, she became a sensation with her haunting storytelling. 
Les Marcott

“I have come/not to beg nor barter but to enter.”
In her magnificent new collection, Behold, the arrival of which is cause for great joy, SharaMcCallum again treats some of these themes refracted through different lenses.
Gregory Luce

The Value of Writing
In George Orwell’s essay “Why I Write,” he explored four reasons he hammered away at his Remington typewriter: Sheer egoism; Aesthetic enthusiasm; Historical impulse; Political purpose.
Patrick Walsh

inSight

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
A Fiction
Karren Alenier

AI on People
How Much Longer Must I Put Up with Them?
David Alpaugh

Iranian Theatre and Kandinsky:
From Painting to Performance,
Part 1
Kandinsky’s presence in Iran did not depend solely on his painting; his writings have circulated for years.
Katayoun Salmasi

It’s Alice B. Time. High Time!
In the next few months, I will be giving Alice B. even more due as we countdown to her 150th birthday.
Hans Gallas

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Sunisa Assawinrungroj
also in Thai สุนิษา อัศวินรุ่งโรจน์
Art is not simply about creating beautiful images. It is a space of dreams, love, goodness, and the healing of feelings.
Janine Yasovant

Perspectives

writings

Day             Altenir Silva
These stories take place in Brasil, but they could take place anywhere in the world.

Feed the Fish           Sandeep Girish Bhatnagar
Nobody saw him go overboard. Maybe, he had second thoughts before he hit the water.

imagery

Painting
Rugged Coast
Writings
Omo River Pilgrim
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  

Scene4 Magazine: Perspectives - Audio | Theatre Thoughts  | Michael Bettencourt  | www.scene4.com


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

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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

What's New

Notes, Announcements, Comments from Scene4 Writers and Artists

Prior Issues From The Archives

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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

Hours of fine reading and research. A unique array of articles as comtemporary as when they were first published.


The Steiny Road
Index of Karren Alenier’s
columns and writings
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Film Reviews
Index of Miles David Moore’s 
reviews and writings
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Writings
Index of Renate Stendhal’s
writings and reviews
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Writings
Index of Arthur Danin Adler’s columns and writings
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Kandinsky Anew
Index of the series by
Lissa Tyler Renaud
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