Exploring identity in her modernist novel Orlando, Virginia Woolf suggests that people wish to be in a state “stilled, and become, what is called, rightly or wrongly, a single self, a real self.”1 It is easy to see a traditional…
If you’ve seen footage of the audience at The Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles appeared, screaming the joy that possessed them body and soul, you’ll have a fair grasp of my state of mind at seeing poet Jane Hirshfield…
By Lin A. Nulman October 09, 2012 Theater semiotics, one branch of the intellectual and theoretical pursuit of that art, analyzes stage elements as a chain of “signs” that signify meaning. This branch is tangled in undergrowth because…
I love the conjunctions and effects in the diversity of a group art show, when I am reminded that artists can wield color, form, and subject matter to catch my eyes in so many different ways. At the Gallery at…