Will Roberson takes the seat just across from me on an almost rainy day at Tacombi in Nolita. (Tacos are always in the budget.) We're settling into a conversation about his new work (painting) and waiting on his collaborator in another work (music), "City" (formerly "Jemini the Gifted...

The Scene

What are the economic and social forces that shape the path of Art?

We, as the public, only see a small number of...

You've just been greeted by a stunning abstract, in front of which to sit down and steep your thoughts: "Black Monolith III: For Barbara Jordan" (1998), acrylic collage on canvas, 69h x 65.5w in (175.26h x 166.37w cm) by

It doesn't get much more Americana than writing for a national Sunday newspaper magazine: Amanda Brown covers this latest season of NBC's The Voice from the insider's angle Amanda's Voice Blog for Parade Magazine, where. Insider is an understatement. She was the breakout star of the...

Bass-baritone Keith Miller is a former football player and a graduate of Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. He joined the Metropolitan Opera in 2006.

Art, the Arts & Policy, is a cultural, anthropological questioning of how we are changed by art, whether we are...

I recently sat in a talk hosted by the Aspen Institute and led by Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner. As the room wrestled with the dog-yeared question of why Art suffers in taking up its proper space (i.e., any space) in public education, I...

The credits roll and you notice the name of the producer. Stock-in-trade for a film, but what about that role in the world of art? A profile of Asad Raza. An Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist with notes from artists.

On being futuristic and tangible at once: "Ness" and EYE2025*

The Scene

Some artists strain to look deeply into the future to escape the perceived orthodoxy of the present.
Others might enjoy the close-up view, one that Chesterton would love, finding nothing "so...

Interview and Photo Shoot With Artist, Alexis Laurent

I am currently leading a game/simulation called Urbanology...

110th & 5th Avenue, New York City, Harlem.

Harlem Meer is in the foreground. The scene makes for an instant city pastoral: a thicket of trees, the Dutch pond, and a museum... behind me. At this lazy hour of 5th avenue traffic, I can manufacture a scene in Beacon,...

A comment on Middle Eastern art through the lens of Art, The Arts, and Policy

To see certain things, we squint. In response to a glare, we omit the details of a scene by nearly closing our eyes and looking through the shade of brows and lashes to...

I'd like to use this space to revisit a three-way intersection: Art, the Arts, and Policy. It's familiar enough to create an easy deception, often driven by the summary cliché, "Art has Power." We also count on a solid history from agit prop to banned books and persecuted artists to...