arts. writing. culture.

Holy Moley, I feel like a Jetson.  Artistic expression meets technological advances. Ultimate creativity fuses with voyeurism and controversy.  All in response to the latest project of Wafaa Balil, artist and photography professor at New York University.  Balil voluntarily risked his bodily safety and the privacy of all those around him as he takes new [...]

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Italian government’s announcement to cut the country’s cultural budget threatens the preservation of its most significant ancient sites, monuments and ruins. March 30, 2010: Domus Aurea (“Golden Palace”) built by Emperor Nero closes after water damage weakened it, causing partial collapse. May 26, 2010: Italian government announces $32 billion in budget cuts, targeting, in large [...]

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I had the pleasure of attending a press release yesterday, May 3, 2010, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newest exhibition: “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity.”  As a fashion lover, I knew that this collection of high end haute couture pieces were not only exquisitely chosen but expertly arranged to portray both the history [...]

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Was the “Young Archer” Created By a Young Michelangelo? The statue of a “Young Archer” is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to gather further expert studies on whether or not this work can be attributed to the Renaissance master Michelangelo.  Though unfinished, broken and with far less attention to detail as his [...]

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Earlier this week, I had the honor of previewing an upcoming exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915,” with the opportunity to listen to curatorial remarks by Carrie Barratt and Barbara Weinberg and gather impressions of the work on display before it’s unveiling to the public on Monday, [...]

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Nestled along a seemingly random road on a hill in Staten Island, NY sits the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art—an amazing building designed to replicate the Himalayan style of architecture often seen in the East.  Formed in 1945, it’s also the first strictly-Tibet museum in the world before the Communist Revolution. Factual tidbits aside [...]

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I’ll be attempting to keep up with this particular post in future months.  Every so often I will be posting a new list of the upcoming exhibits that museums in major cities across the US are opening (focusing on the list below).  Hopefully this will make you all aware of some great new art that’s [...]

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