If you only know Dennis Hopper’s film and TV work, run, don’t walk, to catch the show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery that’s up until October 24. As long ago as the mid-1950s, Terry Southern called Hopper an up-and-coming photographer to watch. He’s only improved over the years. Oh yeah, he also paints. Dennis Hopper: [...]
Author Archives: Virginia Parrott
Song Dong’s Mom’s Stuff at MoMA
August 12, 2009 – 5:59 pm
A few years ago I had a conversation with my kids about what they would do with my stuff when I die. I joked that if the sheer accumulation of it got too overwhelming, they could always hook one of those big slides up to the window of my apartment and shoot everything down to [...]
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
April 28, 2009 – 5:29 am
Jazz Fest–the name puts some people off. But the full name–New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival–still doesn’t begin to describe the seven days of music that takes over New Orleans for two long weekends at the end of April (this year’s festival runs from April 24-26, resuming April 30-May 3). There’s more music than you [...]
Ayckbourn’s Conquests
April 14, 2009 – 3:29 pm
When you’re watching a play, do you ever wonder where the characters go when they leave the room? Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy “The Norman Conquests” answers this question; each play in the series shows the same six characters in a different room of the house during the same unhappy weekend. Although the plays are self-contained and [...]
