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Debora Kim
less is more
reviewed by Gary Levinson

Debora Kim in her exhibition less is more presents some of her recent works. These appear at first viewing to be of a certain simplicity: square shapes in various colors, with the beauty lying in the juxtaposition of colors and arrangements. Read the rest of this entry »

USA Songwriting Competition
Deadline looms for the 14th Annual USA Songwriting Competition

There are just a few days left to enter the 14th Annual USA Songwriting Competition. Entrants stand to win a grand prize of over US$50,000 value in cash and music merchandise Read the rest of this entry »

Catman Cohen
How I Want To Dream
reviewed by Gary Levinson

In his latest album, number three in The Catman Chronicles series, Catman Cohen offers us his most impressive album yet. Catman’s unique spoken-verse-style vocals against a background a richly textured and varied compositions enthralls and compels us once again to focus our listening and to try to comprehend the message behind this concept work. Read the rest of this entry »

Delta Airlines
Deltalina
reviewed by Gary Levinson

Airline on-board safety films can be interesting! This eye-opening realization came to me after watching Delta Airlines’ in-flight safety film, Deltalina. Read the rest of this entry »

Make-Believe Machines
Moral Calculus
reviewed by Gary Levinson

Music in its essence is a vibration in the air. We perceive this as sound – tone. This tone can be transcendental. Make-Believe Machines in the latest album Moral Calculus dives into the transcendental and produces music that goes beyond thought. Read the rest of this entry »

John A.Walker
Dead End Zurich
reviewed by Gary Levinson

John A.Walker with his latest release Dead End Zurich presents us with a well-developed concept album. This album was influenced by his reading of the books Code Name “Dora”: Memoirs of a Russian Spy, by Sandor Rado, and The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead by Jean Ziegler. Read the rest of this entry »

Sally Potter
RAGE
Berlinale - 59. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Berlinale Palast, Berlin
reviewed by Gary Levinson

From the perspective of a color therapist, Rage must be an intriguing film. Against a solid background of different changing colors, dialogs with several individuals take place. These colorful interviews are recorded by a school boy for transmission on his web site. This all takes place over the course of seven days. Read the rest of this entry »

Tom DiCillo
When You’re Strange
Berlinale - 59. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Colosseum, Berlin
reviewed by Gary Levinson

When You’re Strange is a documentary about Jim Morrison and The Doors. Tom DiCillo’s film uses a variety of authentic sources: film made by Morrison himself, concert and studio recordings, news clips, and apparently much as-of-yet-unseen footage from the Courson (Pamela Courson was Morrison’s long-term girlfriend) and Morrison families’ private archives. Read the rest of this entry »

Fiction 20 Down
Welcome to the Grassroots
reviewed by Gary Levinson

Fiction 20 Down is the very definition of laid back. After I started to listen to it, I was taken back to a time in High School when my life was much less complicated. It seems that the Buddha-nature of life really kicks in as one gets older. Read the rest of this entry »

The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden (Der Meister von Flémalle und Rogier van der Weyden)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
reviewed by Jutta Ziegler M. A.

One of the greatest and as yet unresolved mysteries of Early Netherlandish painting is connected with three artists whose works are currently on show at the Frankfurt Städel Museum: Robert Campin (ca. 1375-1444), Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400-1464) as well as the so-called Master of Flemalle (1365-1444). Read the rest of this entry »