inFocus

World Premiere of Ercole Amante
at the Paris Opera Bastille

Imagine the hype: a 300 year-old opera composed by a woman and never before fully performed.
Renate Stendhal

Memento Mori
Death and decay serve as powerful, melancholic metaphors for the passage of time.
The photography of
Jon Rendell
 

Keep Watching the Skies
Bugonia, Project Hail Mary
Their endings are directly opposed to each other, and I leave it to you to discover what they are.
Miles David Moore               

The Snare of Distance and the Sunglasses of the Seer/ Part Six
The emptiness that is space shows no sign of disturbance. Space is, for there is no way for it not to be.
Brian George

inView

Can an Uncommon People Have a Common Story?
Of course, he rues the lack of such a narrative, wondering if a nation without a unifying fable can survive, but he is just spouting sentimental claptrap.  
Michael Bettencourt

Poets In New York
As the months of this 26th year in the 21st century stream forward, I have the eerie sensation of a life lived and a life lost.
100 years ago it was 1926.
Arthur Danin Adler

I Dabble with Danger
I've been thinking about relationships. Relationships mostly between men and women, and how miserably mismatched the people in my family seem to have been. 
Claudine Jones

Whiskey River: A Song That Forged A Friendship
When Willie Nelson began opening his shows with “Whiskey River,” the song transformed from a regional hit into a national anthem of Texas country music. 
Les Marcott

Family Architecture
Stanford White, was the great American architect, considered by  many the greatest architect of his time. Unfortunately, his lust for beauty was not limited to buildings or art objects.
Gregory Luce

Perfect Album: The Hurdy Gurdy Man
No doubt if Oscar Wilde had still been swinging in The Swinging Sixties, he’d have adored the songs of Donovan Phillips Leitch, better known simply as Donovan.
Patrick Walsh

inSight

In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot
An interesting read with its intertextuality format, its two instances of violence and the intriguing book title.
Karren Alenier

Filling Station
Elizabeth Bishop
David Alpaugh

Kandinsky’s Creativity:
Laughter, the Trouser Button and the Sugar Pot
What was the source of Kandinsky’s creativity in so many fields?
Jelena Hahl-Fontaine and Lissa Tyler Renaud

You’ve Got Mail
or Not!?
Hans Gallas

Surachat Patanapanich
also inThai สุรชาติ ปธานะพานิช
I have loved drawing since I was a child. My love for sketching eventually turned into a profession.
Janine Yasovant

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Perspectives

writings

How I Met the Advertising Wizard Washington Olivetto     Altenir Silva

imagery

Painting
Source
Writings
Confabulation of Love
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  

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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

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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

  & responses

books

What's New

Notes, Announcements, Comments from Scene4 Writers and Artists

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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|

SpecialIndexes

Hours of fine reading and research. A unique array of articles as comtemporary as when they were first published.


The Steiny Road
Index of Karren Alenier’s
columns and writings
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Film Reviews
Index of Miles David Moore’s 
reviews and writings
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Writings
Index of Renate Stendhal’s
writings and reviews
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Writings
Index of Arthur Danin Adler’s columns and writings
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Kandinsky Anew
Index of the series by
Lissa Tyler Renaud
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