January 2026
Sculpture The Photography of Jon Rendell
Doll House with Single Bed and Computer Room Was this a glimpse of the utopia Virginia Woolf tried to call up? Renate Stendhal
Protecting Those You Love One Battle After Another, Good Boy It is difficult to imagine two movies as different in subject, style, and scope. The two films, however, share a subtext as old as storytelling itself. Miles David Moore
Columns
The Algorithm KPop Demon Hunters – I thought it was a pretty good show. The Marvelous María Beatriz, not so much. Not so much for the story – it seems melanged from lots of mythical/fantasy stories. Michael Bettencourt
Furthermore Or Less Look-see the current White House duo: Donald the Orange is the Pres. and Melania the Mannequin is the 1st Lady. Now reverse those roles. Arthur Meiselman
Don't tell stories I was kind of sad, mostly because of the people I came to know over three years, to discover that my semi beloved retreat is no longer. Claudine Jones
The Old Men Monologues Part IV Retirement Regrets and There Is No Santa. You know that moment when you're finally allowed to stop going to work and everyone tells you to relax, enjoy life, take up a hobby? Les Marcott
Shakespeare the Myth Imagining Shakespeare at Folger Shakespeare Library. Gregory Luce
What I Know When I Listen to Jazz There are deep assumptions underpinning my appreciation, some profound things I know when I listen to Jazz. Patrick Walsh
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife Karren Alenier
Uncle Bill Wendy Cope David Alpaugh
Revisiting Violet: Kandinsky’s Pre-Dada Masterwork with first extracts in English Jelena Hahl-Fontaine and Lissa Tyler Renaud
Pantip Vorachina My art wants viewers to see love and compassion among all beings in nature, because humans must coexist with nature and the environment forever. Janine Yasovant
Notes on Kundalini and the Ticking of the Biological Clock/ Part ThreeMy body was on fire. In pitch darkness, all the objects in my room were as bright as lamps. The space around me was a web of lightning. Brian George
writings
Al Pacino Wasn’t There! Altenir Silva Here’s the fact: It happened in New York City, in May 2013, right at the corner of Broadway and Seventh Avenue in Times Square.
imagery
Painting Wiley at Reyna Poetry Aux Barricades! 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, comments
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books
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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 Meiselman’s and Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
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