December 2022
Time • Rone Street artist Tyrone Wright has taken over a city's iconic railway station's mysterious upper level and ballroom to create a nostalgic love letter. The Photography of Jon Rendell
Theatregoing in London The West End was once again bustling with lights and life, the theatres full, the pubs and restaurants overflowing. Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
Rock and a Hard Place Elvis, The Greatest Beer Run Ever Elvis Presley has now been dead longer than he was alive. This seems scarcely credible given his ubiquity in pop culture, much of which was engineered by his tireless vulgarian of a manager. Miles David Moore
Genesis of a Painting It is the first real spring day of the year, and as it often happens on the first spring day I feel a strong urge to paint. David Wiley
Lizzo and the Flute I am sometimes a bit late to come to things, and certainly Lizzo is one of them. I like her. She's entertaining, raunchy, loving, high spirited, confident and fun. Michael Bettencourt Time Flies As Time Flows I know that some readers are disturbed by my repetitive gloomy portrayals of the longevity of this planet as we now know it. One wrote to me and said... Arthur Danin Adler VoiceSo here's the weird thing: with the new director we were asked to go around the room and say what it was we liked about choral singing and when they got to me I said... Claudine Jones Santa Claus Monologues Well, as you've heard, the rumors of Santa Claus's death are true. He passed away peacefully last night under the mistletoe with Ms. Claus performing the last kiss. Les Marcott Poetic Alchemy In her new collection, Iron Into Flower, Yvette Neisser has achieved poetic alchemy, transmuting loss into wisdom, grief into joy—or at least acceptance, memory into living presence. Gregory Luce Me and My Old Mustang Me and my old Mustang were built the same year — A lot of things have come and gone, but we're still here. Patrick Walsh
The Artists Who Ignore Their Own Banshees The Steiny Road Poet was disturbed by Martin McDonagh's film The Banshees of Inisherin. Karren Alenier
Kandinsky Stages Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition 3. From Glass Painting to Performance Giovanni Vinciguerra Edited and Introduced by Lissa Tyler Renaud
Teerapol Saisombat ธีรพล ไสยสมบัติ Elegance and charm of ancient craftsmen, famous for its clarity, purity, and gorgeous patterns Janine Yasovant
Cabbage Escape from the Holidays If you are like me the related food orgies of the holidays are a dread. I found my personal salvation from stuffed turkeys in eating cabbage. Renate Stendhal
Elsinore Agonistes or MacLeish Unleashed
Imagine Shakespeare wrote: To see or not to see. (Hamlet might die fencing in the dark.) Tweak that misquote one iota: sea or not to sea.(He's a schizoid sailor, trying to embark.) David Alpaugh
images
Ad Astra ~ Higher Aspirations The Art of Philip Gerstein
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
99% Glyph6
writings
Let's Get Out of California Altenir Silva When Marlon went to Loren's house, he didn't know she was on the beach. He wanted to explain what had happened after they made love.
The Square Harriet Halliday Renaud Anton Tillis, urban designer, professor of City and Regional Planning, conceived of The Square while a condemned corner rooming house burned down.
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
With over 18,000 web pages (108,000 print pages), Scene4's Archives are a treasure of writings, commentary, visual art, graphics and media on international art and culture.
This Month from 2011
A World Elsewhere by David Alpaugh
Prior Issues
Special—Issues
July/August 2015|â—
Everything Old Is New Again January 2013|â—
What Is Obscenity and What's Not? January 2012|â—
A Brief But Quirky History of the Arts January 2011|â—
The Rising Fall of the Arts January 2010|â—
The One January 2009|â—
What Is Art? January 2008|â—
View of the Arts January 2007|â—
The Art of Sex in the Arts February 2006|â—
State of the Art of the Arts October 2005|â—
Special—Indexes
The Steiny Road Index of Karren Alenier's columns and writings|â—
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|â—
Good Reading Is Currently On Sale Here
Karren Alenier The Dresser addresses what's underneath the art â–¼ Sponsored by Scene4
Subscribe to our mail list for news and a monthly update of each new issue. It's Free! Name Email Address Please see our Privacy Policy regarding the security of your information.
Share This Page
Sections~Cover · This Issue · inFocus · inView · inSight · Perspectives · Special Issues Columns~Adler · Alenier · Bettencourt · Jones · Luce · Marcott · Walsh Information~Masthead · Your Support · Prior Issues · Submissions · 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 of Arts and Culture. Copyright © 2000-2022 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 Address
Please see our Privacy Policy regarding the security of your information.
