Talking with Diane Burko on art and climate change
My conversation with climate artist Diane Burko has just been posted on Creative Disturbance, a podcasting platform for dialogue among artists […]
Climate Change, Visual art
Arts in the Digital Age, Myth + Spirituality, Nikola Tesla, Visual art
An elegy for Tesla
Jeanne Jaffe’s ambitious Elegy for Tesla is a high-tech, dreamlike and heartfelt meditation on Nikola Tesla, the legendary scientist and inventor.
Visual art
Phillips & Healy, sparkling
Carolyn Healy and John Phillips have done it again: they’ve created an art installation piece that both transforms the space
New Opera & Performance
Leah Stein, Dance Alchemist
Leah Stein, a master of site-specific choreography, is known for creating outdoor dances that work a kind of alchemy on the places
New Opera & Performance
More women in opera?
With all the great women’s roles in opera, from Aida to Norma to Tosca, bringing up the issue of increasing
Arts in the Digital Age
Upholding Isis
During a hiatus from feline companionship last year, I daydreamed about naming our next cat Isis—after the goddess Isis so central to
New Opera & Performance, Science Fiction
Remembering Sun Ra
Space is the Place—the wild space-fantasy film starring Sun Ra, the legendary experimental jazz artist—came out in 1974. It follows
Look up at the sky
Looking at the Northern Lights
The Aurora Borealis—that mysterious shimmer of light appearing sometimes in the night sky—is a great thing to contemplate now during
Visual art
Burchfield and synesthesia
In the paintings of Charles Burchfield, the trees vibrate, the air pulses with rhythmic patterns, and birdsong takes on shape
Climate Change
Got Climate Change?
I was one of the 300,000-plus people in the People’s Climate March in New York on September 21 – and
Visual art
Seeing Turrell’s Skyspace
My friend and I arrived at James Turrell’s Skyspace, at Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill Friends Meetinghouse, just before sundown. When I asked
Nikola Tesla, Science Fiction
Nikola Tesla’s hidden contribution
Nikola Tesla is a hero to geeks everywhere, who will be celebrating his birthday this week. World-famous in his lifetime, the
Arts in the Digital Age
Asteroid Sighting
The Asteroid Belt Almanac celebrated its launch yesterday, at a great event put together by the publishers, The Head & the Hand
Arts in the Digital Age, Future of Books, Nikola Tesla
Mark Twain & Crowdfunding
I’ve just written a guest post for The Head & The Hand Press, considering how Mark Twain’s innovations in publishing could be
Arts in the Digital Age, Future of Books
The Asteroid Belt Almanac
What if Poor Richard’s Almanac were reimagined for today? The Asteroid Belt Almanac, coming soon from The Head and the
New Opera & Performance
Opera, Real and Surreal
“Opera permits us to go into a world that is not real.” This was spoken by Nicole Paiement, artistic director of Opera
Nikola Tesla, Noosphere, Science Fiction
Gravity and the Noosphere
I loved seeing Gravity. In my opinion, the Planet Earth should be nominated for a supporting-player Oscar. I drank in the massive,
Visual art
James Turrell and sacred architecture
James Turrell’s installations at the Guggenheim left me in an altered state. Using light as his primary medium, Turrell’s art
Future of Books
Out of Print — What’s happening to books?
We’re living through a slow-motion earthquake in the world of books. The massive shift from printed books to e‑books and other
New Opera & Performance, Nikola Tesla
How Tesla kidnapped my imagination
There’s something about the inventor Nikola Tesla that has strongly attracted artists—much more than his arch-rival Edison, let’s say. Tesla’s
