Ula Einstein’s work is, in a word, ephemeral. While it looks impressive in photos, they are also somewhat deceptive by failing to capture its intricacies: filmy layers, delicate threading, fine surface slices or topography-like depth. If you have the pleasure to view her work in person, it beckons you to move closer, to reach out and touch. (more…)

After my last brief interview with live artist Kris Davidson, he and I decided that we hadn’t drilled quite deep enough into the mystery of what compels us both to paint. So over two weeks, while Kris was on the road in India (more…)

Instead of just trying to build environmentally, some people now are trying to build as part of the environment. (more…)

No Country for Old Men might have seemed an unlikely film to fall under the influence of the Coen Brothers – for one, it’s an adapted story – but on further introspection, Cormac McCarthy’s famous novel is a proper reflection of the brothers’ style since it deliberately rejects all sense of order in the universe (more…)

Before ever actually witnessing the spectacle of watching Muse guitarist Matt Bellamy play the guitar, I assumed that all of the hype about how the British musician was comparable to legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix was just that––hype. Pure rubbish, as Bellamy and his fellow countrymen would say. (more…)

My motivation for performance painting developed over the last few years from “Jeez, I can do that!” to “I am in this to inspire people.” Consequently, it is evermore important to me that I share what I am learning through all of this. (more…)

Most people are usually a bit confused when they look at Belgian artist René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images for the first time. The painting is of a simple smoking pipe with the phrase “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (”This is not a pipe”) written below it. (more…)

Downtown Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, now the tallest building in the world, briefly opened in January with a stunning celebration. In photographs, the building’s inauguration, replete with fireworks and video projections (more…)

It is fitting that one of the most recognizable symbols, images, of jazz, is the headshot of the High Priest himself, hunched over his piano keys smiling, singing Epistrophy or Round Midnight. Thelonious Sphere Monk captivated, but sometimes personal situations and most of all his high regard for originality (more…)

Frank Gehry is known for his easily identifiable style: big, swooping titanium and glass forms that seem to float like sails on the wind or the skirts of a dancer. Some compare his architecture to Disneyland, larger than life and a bit too whimsical (more…)