Do you preach what you practice? Or do you practice so you can preach? This column explores modern and classic works from the perspective of basic goodness and unity.
The ego does not always speak in your best interest; it speaks in service of preserving itself. When you see that, once in a while you can step out from under, feel the lightness of your true nature, and fly.
Last weekend I drove to Pittsburgh from New York in a sweet Chevy Impala from Hertz with my friends and co-workers Gio, Bill, Kris, and her boyfriend. The chat included a lot of dick and fart joke and a bunch of art and movie discussion. It was a...
“....At Castagna we see product as a cycle of abundance: when you eat it you become part of the cycle, and if it has been artfully prepared you can taste it, feel it, smell it, hear it, see it, and we hope understand it.” - Matthew...
"The answers I got to “Why Make Art?” from the New York Art World seemed to be money, fame, admiration and an entrance into the coveted canon of “Western Art History.”
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Amongst the ongoing fears of plague, peak oil, and drastic climate change which adorn our era (and at the timely tail end of a lingering cough and cold), I saw Steven Soderbergh's new movie Contagion...
Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating it when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious.
“What was it like to be on one of those planes or in one of those towers? What was it like to be steering a jet towards our own death and the deaths of thousands of others?”
This week a ton of galleries opened the fall season. Wednesday = Lower East Side galleries. Thursday = Chelsea Galleries. Friday = the Chelsea galleries that didn't open Thursday. Some galleries are holding out and opening a full week after...
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Writer and performaner Kate Bornstein had sexual reassignment surgery in 1986. Her performances and writings reflect our culture's binary way of defining gender and all the suffering and confusion that it...
I’m in Colorado producing a seven hour documentary series for National Geographic – which is why you haven’t heard much from me lately. Medical Marijuana is an enormous and complicated subject and it’s taken all...
Lojong - Abondon any hope of fruition.
For what are acheivements really? What and who from do we hope to distinguish ourselves by them?
Happy Thursday loves.
