The importance of gravity is redefined in a Toronto-based artist’s beautifully illustrated and sustainable world, explored through rich colors, patterns and incredible detail, all applied in a unique manner simplistically created though the manipulation of paint.
It’s no understatement to say that Marvel’s The Avengers is one of the most intricate and biggest projects any Hollywood studio has ever undertaken. Since the surprising success of Iron Man in 2008, this cinematic monster has been in development, brewing away with little tastes along the way till the flavor was rendered “just right.”
No more than four days after moving into Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York this past February I started noticing it, and within my first week, I realized it was undeniable. It seemed that inevitably everywhere I went, there it’d be: French.
Music has been said to change lives. Listening to the richness and diversity of the sound illuminating from Israel-born pianist Alon Yavnai’s newest album Shir Ahava, recorded in collaboration with the 17-member German NDR Bigband, more than one life is susceptible to change through the orchestration of their reflective compositions.
The weather had turned warm in Istanbul. It was spring, the season after the one that sends uninviting gusts of wind off all three bodies of water that grip the city like fingers.
Summer is upon us and so is a plethora of Hollywood blockbusters. With a broad range of films for everyone in all genres, it’s important to know which films have the potential to deliver the entertainment goods and which ones look to merely earn a quick profit.
Imagine Raymond Chandler, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, and JFK showing up in a rural wasteland near the French-Swiss border. Add a few snowdrifts, a rundown hotel, an unsolved murder, and writer’s block.
Encountering the work of Alex Kisilevich is a little like spotting a Kallima butterfly for the first time. Kallima comes from the Greek word “kali,” which means beautiful, but put aside your perceptions of that last Monarch butterfly you witnessed, flitting quickly from view. The Kallima will, when drawing its wings together, perfectly resemble a dead leaf. It’s a master of camouflage, and it has a lot in common with our artist.
The PEN World Voices Festival, held in New York City every year, brings together writers from all over the world to converse about their own and others’ work. The acronym stands for Poets, Essayists and Novelists,...
Where is Koreatown and what kind of treasures can be found in this cultural oasis?
For those of you who feel the written word is in disrepair, it was alive and well at PEN’s 8th Annual World Voices Festival held the first week of May in New York City.
Shrouds of mystery fill the screen. Murder after murder, this macabre scene feels like a poet’s dream. A girl’s life and writer’s legend at stake, the unwinding minutes of despair are almost too much to take....
Often, it’s near-impossible to believe that American women won the right to vote less than 100 years ago. When reminded, many think of the fight for enfranchisement as a relatively benign process: men were puffed...
The importance of gravity is redefined in a Toronto-based artist’s beautifully illustrated and sustainable world, explored through rich colors, patterns and incredible detail, all applied in a unique manner...
It’s no understatement to say that Marvel’s The Avengers is one of the most intricate and biggest projects any Hollywood studio has ever undertaken. Since the surprising success of Iron Man in 2008, this...
“Texas is still a last frontier. It is the part of the United States where the traditional virtues are still operating; in short, a piece of living history.”– Author John C. B. Richmond
No more than four days after moving into Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York this past February I started noticing it, and within my first week, I realized it was undeniable. It seemed that inevitably everywhere I...
One cold morning in 2007, a man stood inside the entrance of a Washington, D.C. subway station and played the violin. Occasionally, the people walking by tossed money into his violin case or, in extremely rare...
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