This week, the artist I admire is NYC theatre teacher and dramaturg, Aliza Sarian.
Earning a moment
Serial Play-entry #3: You teach where?
Read this now...
I just finished an article in The New York Times, "The Lonely Death of George Bell" by N. R. Kleinfeld. Well worth a read. So many reminders...
Artists I admire: Paul Cadmus
I first learned about the the work of Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) when I was researching the photographer George Platt Lynes for a theatre piece called mindlynes. That work eventually lead to my play III about the 15-year relationship between Lynes, Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler. Cadmus traveled in their circle as a friend and artistic contemporary. He even painted a picture called Conversation Piece, a portrait of the three men outside of their New Jersey home, Stone-blossom.
I never forgot Cadmus' work, his paintings in particular, as he found a way to create images that captured the beauty of the human body and juxtaposed it against the often times garish reality of the human condition.