Samuel Beckett’s play, Krapp’s Last Tape, now being performed at the Keegan Theatre, resonates poignantly in our age of cheap, easy, and ubiquitous digital recording. Imagine thirty years from now looking back at your Facebook News Feed, or at your e-mail archive. Imagine looking through the old digital photos piled up on your hard drive … Continue reading encountering your past self
Art collections and art exhibitions tend to focus on things that can be collected and moved — artifacts. Yet digital technologies and the Internet make particular human creative efforts potentially available to everyone, everywhere. Unlimited Edition, a juried show that opened on December 12 at the Arlington Arts Center, highlights “works that explore mass production, … Continue reading modern art of commerce
Rebecca Bayla Taichman’s Twelfth Night, performed at Washington DC’s Shakespeare Theatre, prioritizes psychological drama and psychoanalytic conceptualism. … Read the post psychodrama: Twelfth Night at the Shakespeare Theatre
In the modern imagination, civilization’s antithesis is enemy tribes, intensely concerned for honor and vengeance, perpetuating endless cycles of physical violence. A civilized world means peace and global friendship, with the doings of state courts and state prisons being of little relevance or salience to most persons. Synetic Theater’s Host and Guest, adapted from Georgian … Continue reading honor, vengeance, and war: a review of "Host and Guest"
A review of the Hirshhorn Museaum exhibit, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, including a video featuring my mom and me. … Read the post video review of the Cinema Effect