Bobby McFerrin: Try This at Home: Blues Improvisation [VIDEO]
Enjoy this awesome moment of audience interaction. Take a look at the woman with the doggie; she shows such delight! We can have so much fun playing together. video via …
A Fable Timeless and Timely: Su Yang’s Phoenix
Do fables have something to contribute to the modern world? What do they show us about our society and ourselves? The Cultural Revolution took place in China from 1966 through 1976 …
Quote for Today: Freddie Mercury
“Does it mean this, does it mean that, that’s all anybody wants to know. I’d say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his …
Sevara Nazarkhan: Gazli [VIDEO]
The night descends, falling like tree leaves on the outskirts of the desert, bringing serenity to the mountains of Gazli. You are so graceful, such captivating beauty, bring together the …
Quote for Today: Federico Fellini
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film …
Quote for Today: Leonard Bernstein
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that …
Quote for Today: Ansel Adams
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you …
On Audience Interaction: Cyclea’s Comeplay Comply Arraycycle
What does it mean to be an audience member? Can old definitions accommodate the fluidity and playfulness of modern art? Last Saturday I attended Comeplay Comply Arraycycle presented by Cyclea at El Rincon …
Finding Creativity in the Community
Sometimes we sit alone and wait for inspiration, never realizing that it is bubbling up all around and within us. A long time ago, there was a land called “Wells,” …
Making Beginnings Out of Endings, Part Two
In the light of recent events, what can the creative community do to help a culture in shock and mourning? When I left this post open-ended I had no idea …