For me, there is only one other peak art experience that compares with the Immersive Van Gogh. When I was about ten years old my mother and her friend Ann Anderson took their kids on the commuter train to Chicago to see the movie FANTASIA. It was a grand adventure as my sister and I had…
Like falling in love, the process of creating art can be a mystery, even to the person writing the song or sculpting the statue. I loved interviewing the Greek singer Kid Moxie to find out the mysteries of her creative process as she and producer Michael Sternfeld, Amine Kouider, Sam Lieb, Donald Revolinski, and other Fairfield film geniuses did a remake of “Mysteries of Love,” the iconic Andrea Badalamenti score for David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.
I enjoyed interviewing this amazing European sculptor and last year. He creates monuments out of steel in the Netherlands.
BY LINDA EGENES James Meredith is not your typical classical musician. For one thing, he’s had a multifaceted career. As an accompanist he is a musical partner with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and dramatic soprano Olivia Strapp. He is the founding director of the celebrated Sonos Handbell Ensemble, which has brought audiences to their feet…
BY LINDA EGENES When Keelan Dimick was three years old, he started tinkering on the piano. At first he taught himself to play by ear, then took two years of instruction in classical piano. But it wasn’t until he switched to jazz that great things started to happen. At age 13, just four months after…
Last fall I traveled to New Jersey to see my friend Joy Kreves and her solo eco-art show, Translating Nature, at Rider University Art Gallery. Joy has been a transforming influence in my life since high school (I credit her with introducing me to two life-long passions—vegetarianism and Transcendental Meditation), so this trip was a…