Art, Film, & Music

Something unusual is happening in the music industry.  Not just new technology, not just new tools; a shift in what […]

It was on a nighttime car ride when I asked my younger son, “Don’t you think it’s strange that we

About 15 years ago at a reunion in the Wyoming mountains, the elder generation started talking politics over dinner. Being

A couple of weeks before Halloween, two climate change activists stormed into the London National Gallery with a purpose: to

I’ve never believed that journalism was dead. Changing, transforming, and adapting but not dying. In fact, I have spent the

The word nuance is a French term derived from the word “nuer,” meaning shade or subtlety. I think this is so beautiful. A painter who can capture shade on the canvas has been blessed because she can depict the subtleties of darkness and light, how they depend upon one another and are bound together. This is a difficult skill set and points to what Otto Fischer called “art as a revelation of Being.” This is the artist’s capacity to create, without filter, precisely what we are: a spellbinding presence of Shadow and Light.

When the slap happened at The Oscars in March, I felt it was a culmination point in terms of comedy. I was navigating the dimensions: horrified by Will Smith’s actions, impressed by Chris Rock’s composure, pondering the Jada-Will dynamic, contemplating whether Chris knew about Jada’s alopecia, puzzling over the lack of Academy intervention, gobsmacked by the Best Actor standing ovation and Will Smith’s resulting speech. But amid it all, I was feeling something else, something in regard to the role of The Clown in contemporary culture.

Published on July 26, 2020 In 1999, like most baby millennials, our parents dictated the family television. In my Midwestern

July marked two years since the passing of American hero and Congressman, John Lewis. Before he held office in D.C.,