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: […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with John Hagel III (part I)
What do extreme surfers in Maui; green revolutionary youth in Tehran; an internet entrepreneur in Tel Aviv; and a manufacturing giant in China have in common? They all embody paradigms of success that are used by business gurus John Hagel, John Seely Brown & Lang Davison in their latest collaborative work The Power of Pull: […]