Art & Authenticy

It’s really quite a shame that huge exhibits overshadow the smaller galleries in the MoMA.  These smaller exhibits are like the middle children of Modern Art.

Barber of Serville Rating: 3 stars Reasons: I love Italian food, Italian scenery, and Italian language, but I’m not sure if Italian Opera can go under my definition of love. My policy in deciding whether I like or dislike something is to give it a chance, so I went to the the MET and gave Barber of […]

Considering none of us actually wanted to hear an author read his own works . . . or any works for that matter, I’m happy we had to see Joseph O’Conner. After I read the except, I didn’t expect anything that would actually keep me awake but his readings were actually A-mazing. His easy-going nature […]

The ICP exhibit was . . . an interesting experience. It was unlike any other museum I’ve been to, not only because it consisted entirely of photographs, but because it was held in such an intimate space. Among the beautiful pictures dedicated to African American women and Brazilian fashion, it was Alice O’Malley’s piece that […]

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, as performed by Leadbelly Being anything that isn’t white in America is hard enough, but being mixed is 10 times harder. Danzy Senna is the daughter of a black man and a white woman, and has lived her life in an infinite struggle to just live her life without […]

Painted by Regnault, Salomé is a depiction of an unnamed female figure in the Bible that is often considered a dangerous seductress. The daughter of Herod Antipas – governor of Judea – she is infamous for the execution of John the Baptist, which the dagger and silver platter on her lap serve as a reference […]

Loie Fuller singlehandedly brought together traditional skirt dance with multicolored lighting to create what became a world sensation know as the serpentine dance. A dance that was truly inventive for its time. Jodie Sperling –founder of New York’s own Time Lapse Dance Company that reinvents classic genres of dance with contemporary influences– held this Seminar […]

     Wasp is 23 minutes long, so there’s no way it can have any substance, why bother. These are my thoughts as I am introduced to this movie. I have never been one for short films, I always felt that you can never get the full effect and meaning of a film if it’s “short.” […]

     To be completely honest I don’t know what I expected from Michelangelo’s first painting, and I was soon to find out as I walked in and a large sign directed me to it. I guess I was almost purposely expecting the opposite of what you would think; this large grand feat of paint. In […]

On the magical evening of October 27th, I saw a performance of “The Barber of Seville,” an opera, or rather, a fairy tale, that was too good to be true. The story line was unreal to me, a 21st Century audience, as it was composed in the 18th Century. The setting is Seville, a “beautiful […]