March 2026
Eugene Onegin by Yury Possokhov: Cold Rush San Francisco Ballet’s World Premiere Renate Stendhal
Life’s A Beach The Photography of Jon Rendell
The Creation of a Self Frankenstein, Marty Supreme Two of 2025’s best films share the theme of a man in the throes of discovering who he is. Miles David Moore
The Snare of Distance and the Sunglasses of the Seer/ Part TwoWe are fortunate that the collapse of our culture entertains us. We might otherwise not pause to notice it at all. Brian George
Columns
The World With Us While trolling around the streaming multiverse, The Marvelous María Beatriz and I landed on Bugoniay. Michael Bettencourt
Heaven Redux Ladies and Gentlemen and adolescents of all ages everywhere, good wishes for the year and for carefully filtered memories of past years. Arthur Meiselman
Hum Now we come to the humming. She cannot make it stop. She confesses it’s been going on two years. Imagine a five note leitmotif on an endless loop. Claudine Jones
The Bag What’s in the bag? Well…sometimes, its drugs…oh hell…a lot of times its drugs. Les Marcott
What’s More American? Redux Tawny Chatmon’s art would be well worth seeing for its sheer beauty alone. But come closer and look deeper. Gregory Luce
The Story of Oisín and Niamh in Brooklyn Many years ago on a particularly clement evening, my good friend Rich and his wife Diane hosted a summer party at their handsome row house in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. Patrick Walsh
The Tender Buttons Response Project Karren Alenier
Piano D.H. Lawrence David Alpaugh
Kandinsky’s Poems in “My” Paintings Lissa Tyler Renaud
Winai Madaree My impression of Winai Madaree stems from his exceptional skill in photography. Janine Yasovant
Being Human What we call ourselves, as a species, has always been a statement. Philip Gerstein
writings
The New Yorker Turned 100 (Part 2 ) Altenir Silva APreviously… JC was in an unfamiliar room, with a strange man staring at him. So many things rushed through his mind. He didn’t speak; he only thought something like: “Where am I? What the fuck is this place?”.
imagery
Painting Cosmic Neighborhood Poetry Big Bang 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
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 Meiselman’s and Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
Good Reading Is Currently On Sale Here
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