Category: BLOG

Homa Taj In Conversation with SFMOMA’s Sandra Phillips on Surveillance & Voyeurism

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, […]

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 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’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 […]