Ilya Zomb
Okay, imagine you’re a sorcerer with a massive magic cauldron in front of you, and you’ve been tasked with creating today’s artist. You know they’re [...]
New York
Quiet Please, There’s a Lady on the Stage
Here’s an interesting one… Today, 8 December, marks the 354th anniversary of women first appearing professionally on the English stage as actresses. Funny, [...]
She Put the Broad in Broadway
Some celebrity passings are sadder than others, even when it’s a performer in their 90th year of being fabulous as Elaine Stritch was. Dying at 89 is no tragedy; it is, [...]
A Whale of a Job (boom-tish)
I have one distinct memory of visiting the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and it’s this: Standing in the Hall of Ocean Life getting slightly [...]
Eudora Welty and the best job application ever
Eudora Welty, author and Pulitzer Prize winner, once applied for a position with the New Yorker magazine. She was a frustrated 23 year old university graduate, discontented [...]
New York Public Library
Patience and Fortitude are the names of the majestic lions who greet you as you walk up the steps of the New York Public Library’s main entrance, and patience and [...]
Outsider artist Shoko Kanazawa
The best part about starting Cultural Flanerie is the world of wonderful things it has opened up for me. I already knew the planet was full of amazing stories, but I’m [...]
Linde Ivimey, Bone Healer
Sometimes you get a look at the inner workings of a person’s brain and what you glimpse in there is so unlike the mind of any other you’ve ever seen, that it [...]
Tove Witzerman Langridge – with a name like that, you’d best be an artist…
It’s a rare privilege to be able to see firsthand an artist’s journey from tentative preteen to self-assured expressionist, but that’s what happens when your oldest [...]
Stairwells of NYC
New York is on my mind… The stairwell at the New Museum of Contemporary Art on Bowery, taken [...]
