Art & Authenticy

Perhaps the most catching piece of artwork in ICP for me was Yto Barrada’s The Belt, Step 1 to 9. This piece shows a woman with the same expression in nine different pictures. At the beginning, she seems like a rather big woman, however, after viewing the rest of the pictures it is clear that […]

Authenticity of any art piece can be measured by how much the artwork succeeds in drawing the viewer towards it and what impact the art piece leaves on the viewer. That’s exactly what Michelangelo’s first painting “The Torment of St. Anthony” succeeds in doing. The use of colors is such that at the first sight […]

A desperate mother with 4 children is truly a spectacle. We take certain things for granted, however, “nothing comes easy” as NBA basketball player Zaza Pachulia of the Republic of Georgia once said in an NBA playoff game when his team, the Atlanta Hawks ousted the Boston Celtics in Game 6 of the 2008 Playoffs […]

It was definitely interesting to go visit the International Center of Photography. I’ve never been exposed to photography used in such a wide range of mediums, and each photographer had a story to tell. It made looking at each photograph like reading a new book.

The American Folk Art Museum is full of cultural, familial, authentic art. It is about everyone telling their story, and it expressing it to others. The “Approaching Abstraction” Exhibit does just that.

I think that the way that Andrea Arnold was able to portray such a controversial issue in 26 minutes was outstanding. I never imagined being so impacted by a short film.

I cannot deny that I underestimated the art, beauty, and elegance that there is to dance; however, I would have been more impacted if Jodi Sperling had presented Loie Fuller’s amazing work in a different manner.

Looking at Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition of Looking At Music let me realize why my parents used to worry so much about me becoming a musician/artists. The exhibition features young musicians who doubled as poets who in the early 1970’s and initiated a “stripped-down,

Poetry has always been a headache for me. I had long branded myself as someone who don’t understand poetry and tried my best to avoid any poetry related activities. Therefore I wasn’t excited about attending the Common Event-Meet the Artists, Poetry Writers Reading, when I first arrived at the Macaulay building.

“More” is a short film that will make Karl Marx, Theodore Kaczynski and Tyler Durden smile in their graves.  It portrays a dull gray world whose weary inhabitant try to find happiness in 50 ft high advertisements and pre-packaged cardboard boxes. Though we try to distance ourselves from the pale and grotesque beings in the […]