Talking with Diane Burko on art and climate change
Diane Burko: Eagle Glacier, Juneau, 1982–2005, from Landsat Series, oil on canvas, 2015 My conversation with climate artist Diane Burko …
An elegy for Tesla
Elegy for Tesla, installation by Jeanne Jaffe at Rowan University Art Gallery, detail Jeanne Jaffe’s ambitious Elegy for Tesla is …
Phillips & Healy, sparkling
Carolyn Healy & John Phillips, installation in Emanations: Art + Process Carolyn Healy and John Phillips have done it again: they’ve …
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 …
More women in opera?
From an engraving of Giulia Grisi as Norma, 1844, Wikimedia Commons With all the great women’s roles in opera, from …
Upholding Isis
Our Isis in Sphinx pose During a hiatus from feline companionship last year, I daydreamed about naming our next cat …
Remembering Sun Ra
Limited-edition press of a Sun Ra remix by Brendan Lynch/deUS Space is the Place—the wild space-fantasy film starring Sun Ra, …
Looking at the Northern Lights
Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights The Aurora Borealis—that mysterious shimmer of light appearing sometimes in the night sky—is a great …
Burchfield and synesthesia
Burchfield’s “Early Spring,” 1966–67, Burchfield Penney Art Center In the paintings of Charles Burchfield, the trees vibrate, the air pulses …
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 …
Seeing Turrell’s Skyspace
Chestnut Hill Skyspace, photo by Greg Benson for Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting My friend and I arrived at James Turrell’s …
Nikola Tesla’s hidden contribution
Tesla featured on the cover of the Electrical Experimenter, 1902 Nikola Tesla is a hero to geeks everywhere, who will …
Asteroid Sighting
The Asteroid Belt Almanac celebrated its launch yesterday, at a great event put together by the publishers, The Head & …
Mark Twain & Crowdfunding
I’ve just written a guest post for The Head & The Hand Press, considering how Mark Twain’s innovations in publishing …
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 …
Opera, Real and Surreal
“Opera permits us to go into a world that is not real.” This was spoken by Nicole Paiement, artistic director …
Gravity and the Noosphere
Earth from space I loved seeing Gravity. In my opinion, the Planet Earth should be nominated for a supporting-player Oscar …
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 …
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 …
The Barefoot Artist
Next Wednesday, The Barefoot Artist—a documentary about the unusual career of Lily Yeh—will have a special preview screening at the …
From the Ground Up
Isaiah Zagar’s Islands of Nova Scotia, 1973 — a pre-mosaic painting “Like embedded journalists, Peter Kinney, Isaiah Zagar and Jeff …
