by Marisa Martin -- Birds of a feather might stick together, but they aren't inviting artist-activist Lloyd Marcus to their dinner parties. At least most of the blackbirds won't anytime soon. Marcus more…
by Marisa Martin -- "Dancing faces you towards heaven, whichever direction you turn." – Terri Guillemets [caption id="attachment_207445" align="alignright" width="135" caption="Maiysha Mondesi"][/caption] Dancer, choreographer, entrepreneur and Christian – Maiysha Mondesi faces heaven more…
by Marisa Martin -- "Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist," claimed composer Franz Liszt. Nowhere is that truth more vividly embodied than in Mexico at this moment. While more…
by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_198641" align="alignright" width="290" caption="Matthew Troyan at New Britain Museum 1965"][/caption]I had never heard of the noted artist Matthew Troyan, and I'll bet you haven't either. Five years more…
by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_194477" align="alignright" width="186" caption="Jack Kavorkian"][/caption] "All that blood and not a paintbrush in sight" – Some such thought must have drifted through the dark chambers of Dr. more…
by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_189907" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Ilona Smithkin (photo: StyleLikeU)"][/caption] Dramatically garbed with 20 pieces of jewelry, a boa and long, orange eyelashes, Ilona Royce Smithkin turns heads on the more…
by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_185639" align="alignright" width="300" caption=""Chump Change," by Alvaro Alvillar"][/caption] Five years ago Alvaro Alvillar had the nerve to publicly have an opinion as a conservative, with the additional more…
by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_181007" align="alignright" width="200" caption=" Lucian Freud on his deathbed, by Jane McAdam Freud"][/caption]David McAdam Freud waged a war of reconciliation at his father's bedside last July. As more…
by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_176181" align="alignright" width="200" caption=""St. Patrick," by Mitsui"][/caption] Daniel Mitsui is artist of the contradictory: Creative orthodoxy, fiery, artistic conservatism and guarded zeal flood his work. His beautifully more…
by Marisa Martin -- George Santayana and David Ben-Gurion shared a common concern – can humans remember? Santayana's now clichéd concern with "those who cannot remember the past … " impelled Gurion more…
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