June 2024
GATSBY The Lure of the Green Light The Great Gatsby on Broadway Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
Hannah Arendt Was Right The Zone of Interest, Ripley Miles David Moore
FreewayScapes The Photography of Jon Rendell
Dos Mujeres at San Francisco Ballet A Domestic Carmen and Ten Male Fridas Renate Stendhal
The Joyful Terrors of Owning a Home The trick, I’m learning, is to make the “going to smash” as spectacular and lovely and homely and beautiful as possible. Michael Bettencourt
Memorial Day: A Time to Love and A Time to Hate The challenge of True Believers, of Fundamentalism, all Fundamentalism, Christian, Jewish, Islamic… is its mindless, degrading nostalgia for the "better" way that things were. Arthur Danin Adler
Guayabera Sorry to say, as much as I try to avoid politics, I am acutely aware of its effect on my everyday life. There is a sense I have just this much tolerance. No more no less.. Claudine Jones
The Old Men Monologues - Part 1 Well, this is it. I mean they're taking my keys away tomorrow. They don’t politely insist…they demand it. Too many trips back home…and not making it home. Les Marcott
Notes Toward a Memoir of Madness and Writing - Part I A small surge of shivery energy passed through me and fluttered my fingers. If this is a relapse I thought, it might be more fun than the ones before. Gregory Luce
The Fraternity of Arms, the Airborne Brotherhood You catch a blast of the engine’s intense heat for a second, then there’s a sudden jolt and a tug that makes you feel like you’re flying back up towards the plane. Patrick Walsh
Brilliant Exiles An important exhibition that focuses on women artists who flourished in the City of Light in the early 1900’s. Karren Alenier
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d Mark Twain
This poem that has delighted readers most is unusual in that it was not published as a standalone piece but as an integral part of Huckleberry Finn.
David Alpaugh
“Nina and Me”: Jelena's Years with Kandinsky's Wife (Part 2) After Kandinsky's death in 1944, Nina asked me, as well as many others, how to proceed with carrying out Kandinsky's last will. Everyone knew what was in his will. Jelena Hahl-Fontaine - edited by Lissa Tyler Renaud
The Stranger Face of the Friend Part Three I became obsessed with the idea of the “façade.” Worcester’s skyline was no more than a series of cardboard cutouts. How strange it was that they had no other side. Brian George
Srijai Kuntawang ศรีใจ กันทะวัง In each era artists never stop creating and what artists use as creative guidelines that come from things that are close to the artist, for example, lifestyle, nature, even. Janine Yasovant
writings
The Perfect Joke Altenir Silva Even though they sometimes work together in comedy clubs around NYC and the country, they have many conflicts. Whenever one presents a new joke to the other, the latter doesn't laugh and tries to find a lot of flaws in it.
I Deliver Meals to One of “The Boys of Buchenwald.” Marc Bloom He’s Helped Me to Never Forget.
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Queen of the Sirens The Art of David Wiley
A Spring Exhibition Part 2: Color Abstraction Show Opens in Boston Just in time, several NY and Boston artists have come together to hurry the slow progression of New England Spring. 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
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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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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
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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