In honor of the film’s tenth anniversary, a repost from 2007. Julie Taymor is one of my artistic heroes, and the Beatles are the Beatles, so I had high hopes going into this film. Of[…]
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Category: Beauty
Exquisite Corps(e)
Exquisite Corpse was a game played by the surrealists, in which they collaborated on a story or artwork. Each person would contribute a piece, usually based on just a tiny fragment of what came before.[…]
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Gallery of Echoes
Shadowbox Live is a musical theater cabaret in Columbus that is best known for its seasonal shows combining original sketch comedy with live performances of well-known music, chiefly in the rock genre. A longtime institution[…]
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A Prince Among Men
As with so much of the art that has had the most impact on me, it took me a while to warm up to Prince. I was still a kid during the “Purple Rain” era,[…]
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Common Cosmology: Sunami and Rond
For fans of my wife, artist April Sunami: New Exhibition Brings Together Two Diverse Artists with Universal Theme Street artist Stephanie Rond and mixed media painter April Sunami will feature new work in the exhibition[…]
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The Aesthetics of Football
In honor of the OSU Buckeyes’ continued dominance, please enjoy my recent essay from Partially Examined Life. Whole volumes could be written, whole volumes have been written, about the ethics of American college football, a[…]
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Nina Simone invents alt-Classical
Before watching the excellent new documentary, “What Happened, Miss Simone?”, I knew relatively little about celebrated songstress Nina Simone –except that she is held in the highest regard by anyone who knows anything about music.[…]
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