Early last week, I caught up with Sandra S. Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Senior Curator of Photography, to discuss her institution’s forthcoming exhibition Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870. The show, that was on display at Tate Modern, earlier this summer, will be on exhibit from October 30, 2010 until April 17, […]
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Homa Taj In Conversation with Bettina RHEIMS on Her Return to America
Bettina Rheims has been creating intensely erotic images of women, for more than three decades. My introduction to Rheims’ work was marked by the purchase of her hugely successful Chamber Closed – a copy of which has graced my tri-continental travelling library since, 1998. Two weeks ago, I spoke with Bettina over the phone, in Paris, about her […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with Art Dealer LOUIS K. MEISEL
In Conversation with Art Dealer, Louis K. Meisel Homa Taj Nasab – How did you get into selling art? Louis Meisel – Ok, that’s an easy one. Every junky ends up selling the stuff to support his habit. Arts, antiques, drugs… they are all the same. I started to collect comic books and used to buy 3 […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with Marc Bouwer on Dressing Angelina, Charlize & Co.
A typical question for Tinseltown’s favourite Couturier is not whom Marc Bouwer has dressed? It is more like, which superstar female celebrity is queueing to parade on the Red Carpet in her Bouwer. A select list of his close friends and clients include: Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Whitney Houston, Halle Berry, Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez, […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with Oren Safdie on Staging THE BILBAO EFFECT
Canadian-Israeli-American playwright and screenwriter, Oren Safdie, has architectural genomes running through his blood. The son of the internationally acclaimed Israeli-Canadian architect, Moshe Safdie, Oren grew up in one of the greatest architectural heritage sites in the world, Habitat ‘67, in Montreal, Quebec. He attended the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University before turning to writing. Oren […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with PLAYBOY’s Artist in Residence – Olivia De Berardinis
A friend recently asked me, “How do you segue from writing about a Byzantine scholar to Playboy bunnies?” He was referring to my last interview with Professor James R. Russell, The Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at the Department of Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. My response? I had two words for him: […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with Elliott H. King on DALI, The Late Works
Elliott King is a Lecturer in European Modern Art at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and is guest curator of Dalí: The Late Work(Aug 7, 2010—Jan 9, 2011), on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. His publications include Dalí: The Late Work (2010) and Dalí, Surrealism and Cinema (2007). Homa Taj […]
NANOMODERNITY Revisited – JASON SILVA on Art & Design in Science
*Guest Contributor JASON SILVA on The Importance of Aesthetics & Design in Science Jason Silva is the host of the Al Gore funded Current TV & one of Bruce Weber’s muses for the latest Abercrombie & Fitch campaign. Silva recently signed with CAA (Creative Artists Agency), one of the most prominent talent agency in the […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with Filmmaker Benjamin Wagner
Which pop cultural icon would you guess that a Senior Executive at Music Video Television (MTV) has made a film about? The Jonas Brothers, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry or Jay-Z? How about Mister Rogers? Yes, that Mister Rogers! “Why?” Well, that was my initial reaction when I heard about Mister Rogers & Me that […]
Nanomodernity’s Epicurean Challenge – In Conversation with Jason Silva
Thus Life and Death, and young and old,Are, as the severall Atomes bold.So Wit, and Understanding in the Braine,Are as the severall Atomes reigne:And Dispositions good, or ill,Are as the severall Atomes still.And every Passion which doth rise,Is as the severall Atomes lies.Thus Sicknesse, Health, and Peace, and War;Are alwaies as the severall Atomes […]
In PSITTACUS’ Theatrum Mundi, Macbeth gets a Web 3.0 treatment
During the past two years theatre and performance art spaces and training programs have been forced to close down, across the United States and Europe. Recently, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) abandoned its live theatre festival; the esteemed National Theatre Conservatory in Denver is phasing out its graduate program; and, highly regarded non-profit companies […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with John Hagel III (part II)
Homa Taj – Speaking of collaborations (& guild work), tell us how on earth does participating in the World of Warcraft help individuals with their managerial skills? …This, by the way, reminds me that the day after the release of The Power of Pull, a new Museum of Video Games (Musée du Jeu Vidéo) opened […]