November 2025
Hofesh Shechter’s Red Carpet A Glamorous Season in Hell at Cal Performances, Berkeley. Renate Stendhal
Demons in Our Midst Weapons, Sinners Two of the most popular films this summer were variations on the familiar horror plot of small towns beset by mysterious, threatening forces. Miles David Moore
Sea and Fog The Photography of Jon Rendell
Hanging Out The Making of Americans After 100 Years I don’t remember where I first heard about it, but it seemed such a barbaric act – cutting a mammoth paperback book in half in order to read it. Hans Gallas
Columns
MAGA-fied It is difficult these days to find clarity in the miasma rising out of the swamp of American politics and culture. Michael Bettencourt
Chicago Confidential (redux) Amidst the Orange Fog that is spreading across America, this light from George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is hopefully growing brighter. Arthur Meiselman
Making do Started out innocent enough. I’m watching Jon Stewart interviewing the godfather of AI who is a physics Nobel prize winning scientist out of Toronto. Claudine Jones
There Are Days I Don’t Write There are days I don’t write. The words come slow, or they don’t come at all. The muse refuses to strike. But anyway, if I wrote about love, the words would only break my heart…not yours. Les Marcott
“What’s More American?” I recently had the opportunity for a private press tour, led by the artist herself, of a magnificent exhibit by Black American artist Tawny Chatmon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Gregory Luce
Prefer not to Herman Melville's famous naysayer, Bartleby, the Scrivener, had it right all along: I would prefer not to. Walk away. Abstain. Refuse to participate. Don’t. Buy. In. Patrick Walsh
Stories of Strong Women Despite Missing Fathers Karren Alenier
INCIDENT Countee Cullen David Alpaugh
Dame Helen Mirren on Kandinsky and Acting The world-renowned actress talks about her love of painting in general, and of Kandinsky's work in particular. Introduced by Lissa Tyler Renaud
Poon Arthit Amornchorn For artists, the most important thing is authenticity and consistency. Success takes time, but with persistence and belief in one’s vision, opportunities always come Janine Yasovant
Notes on Kundalini and the Ticking of the Biological Clock/ Part Two It was she who would remove the sun from the stage-set of the Satya Yuga. My cry echoed across the cities of the flood-plain, once tall, which were atomized. Brian George
writings
Christmas Eve With Sinatra Altenir Silva Frank Sinatra was sitting on the sofa, watching her. She was scared to death, but she gathered strength from all her dreams and asked what he was doing in her apartment.
imagery
ARIADNE'S THREAD To the Origins. A 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition The Art of Philip Gerstein
Painting Untitled Poetry Mythological Present 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
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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