Hi, I'm a freelance writer living in Germany. I write about the fascinating research, art and scholarship occurring at universities, onstage, in books, galleries, ateliers, gardens, and kitchens both here and abroad.
Kunst and craft
Cracking Wise Dave Hickey, art critic and curator, in interview.
No Dubbing Required British poet Simon Armitage mixes metaphors with German counterpart Jan Wagner.
What does it mean to be a woman? It seems we've been whittled down to just one dimension, if you believe the "wim-ages" that bombard us from prime time to Times Square. Thanks to Avenue Arts Studio Gallery owner Kelly Mattox and four VCU alumnae for expanding the narrative. In these fresh takes by Barbara Ames, Anne Savedge, Marsha Polier and Willie Anne Wright, we meet women who haunt and holler, nourish and inspire, dazzle and dare. Here's to the wondrous women in the photographs--and to the equally wondrous women who made their pictures. Rock on, ladies.