Art
Unsettling Beauty
THE FIRST THING that strikes you is the majesty, the serenity, the colors. Then you understand what you’re looking at, and it becomes heart-wrenching. An exhibit poster at the Gibbes Museum of Art says it best: “At first glance the brilliantly colored, impasto-like patterns that J. Henry Fair captures with his camera... Read »
N.Y. City At Christmas
THERE IS NOTHING more festive than New York City adorned in its Christmas splendor. The department store windows on Fifth Avenue never cease to boost the heart and soul of anyone who sees them, and always at the top of the delights stands the tree at Rockefeller Plaza which, no matter your age, prompts... Read »
Learning With Our Young Artists
IT HAS BEEN around for a long time. But the Monday Night Concert Series at the Simons Center Recital Hall, produced by Steve Rosenberg and the College of Charleston School of the Arts, is still a hidden—and very affordable—jewel in Charleston’s music scene. No, these are not world-class musicians (yet). No, the one hour... Read »
Through the Eyes of a Painter
THIS WAS NOT just another walk in the park. It was a three-hour witnessing of the artistic process—in this case, oil paintings coming to life. As part of a fundraiser, members of the Charleston Fine Arts Dealers’ Association (CFADA) gathered in the dappled morning light of Washington Park on a crisp, clear November morning.... Read »
A Window into Art
VISITING AN ART GALLERY is almost always a visit to the past; to representations of people, places, and relics of days gone by. It’s not that you go to see the past for its own sake. You go to see the art as art. But sometimes you go deeper. Without really trying, you can... Read »
City of Art
MOST VISITORS to St. Petersburg go to the Hermitage, and rightly so. It houses one of the world’s most large, if not largest, art collection in a former czar’s palace (the Winter Palace) where the Revolution of 1917 was staged, and where each room boasts a unique parquet floor, wall paneling, molding, and window... Read »
Dance: Noon and Night
ONE LAYER of Lucinda Childs’ DANCE is the eleven dancers who spill across the stage with movement that is like a live feed of entrances and exits in head-spinning sequences that are contained in constant parameters, and propelled by the pulsating flurry of the Philip Glass score which is experienced behind the final layer... Read »
Temporary French Art
TEMPORARY BECAUSE you can eat it—which you will do… quickly. We’re talking fresh pastries, baguettes, and macaroons made daily by a superior French pastry chef at the new Macaroon Boutique on John Street. The front door is usually open, delectable pastries loom on open shelves, enchanting co-owner Fabienne is at the cashier, and maestro... Read »
Spoleto Opera and Art
THE FIRST DAYS of Spoleto have, for me, been preoccupied with my eldest daughter’s graduation from the school she has attended for the last eight years. This departure before a new beginning has overshadowed my usual feeling of the festival’s whirlwind kickoff. Nevertheless, I have gotten to a few events. As an opera amateur,... Read »
Gallim Dance: What’s Modern Today?
TODAY’S MODERN DANCERS are not dealing with the emotional palate of yesterday. Their responses to the world deal with an ever-changing sense of psychology, technology, and culture. The form of modern dance is at its best when the perspective is fresh, the movement is original, and the performers are invested—which was true of the... Read »
The churches of Charleston
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