March 2024
Mere Mortals A world premiere at San Francisco Ballet launches a promising new era. Renate Stendhal
The Enduring Appeal of the Commedia dell’Arte It was the theatre of the mask. The entire essence of the tradition, born in Renaissance Italy, was founded on the concept of stylized illusion. Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
Brideshead Eviscerated Saltburn, The Holdovers If asked whether I find it a fascinating descent into depravity or an annoying collection of cheap tricks meant to titillate the audience, I would say, “Yes,” with a slight prejudice toward the latter. Miles David Moore
Postcards from Egypt Jon Rendell
Irish For 19 days in 2023, from July 28 to Aug. 15, we made our first trip to Ireland, picking up a car in Dublin (after staying in the city for three days) and driving around the perimeter of the island. Michael Bettencourt
La cuisine du démon When the preparation, consumption of food journeys beyond survival nutrition, it lands at the gate of entertainment as the art of cooking and it’s as indexing, revealing, and self-defining as any art form. Arthur Danin Adler
Not all right all right Yug. I'm incontinent. Not all the time of course, not that bad and it's not a medical condition that requires intervention —just a royal pain. Claudine Jones
Songs and Stories: Part I There’s a story behind every song. Maybe a dream, a keen observation about the human condition, an epiphany, a funny situation, a news item, or a muse – someone that inspires your creativity. Les Marcott
March Blows In It arrives as a welcome but not always civil guest, alternately bringing cold, sun, wind, rain, warm temperatures, offering the hope of and then disappointing with another blast of winter. Gregory Luce
St. Patrick’s Day in the 33rd County A fish takes for granted the water in which he swims. As a kid in 1970s Woodside, Queens, I never thought twice about how most of my classmates had a parent or two who spoke with a brogue. Patrick Walsh
From the Belly: Poets Respond Why does Gertrude Stein use the word “niggers” in Tender Buttons? How has this affected the presentation of a forthcoming book? Karren Alenier
“The Little Girl by the Fence at School” William Stafford
It demonstrates how emotionally and philosophically rich and powerful just eight lines of poetry can be.
David Alpaugh
“Nina and Me”: Jelena's Years with Kandinsky's Wife (Part 1) When you are reading Jelena on Nina, you are only a few degrees of separation from Nina herself—and who else do you know besides Jelena who had lunch prepared for her by Nina Kandinsky! Jelena Hahl-Fontaine - edited by Lissa Tyler Renaud
The Goddess as Active Listener Parts Six - Eight Few suspected how old my teacher really was, how many centuries she had spent preparing for her role. Her eyes were publicly accessible Brian George
Pakkawee Gangtonglang ภัควี แก่งทองหลาง The sculptures that are made are contemporary works. Most of the work that is done is from one's own point of view, expressed from one's own feelings Janine Yasovant
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Mx. Sturges Will Not Come to Thanksgiving Altenir Silva Since Clemon Sturges left Middleburg, a small town in Loudoun County, Virginia, to live his real life in New York, he has never returned to visit his family, and he hasn't heard anything about them.
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Long Live the King!... of Prussia I simply love exhibiting at The Painting Center in New York. I think their Project Room is perfectly suited to showing abstract work. The Art of Philip Gerstein
Painting Flowers In Magnesium Vase Artist Statement 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
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Letters to the Editor
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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 Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
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