Charleston City Paper | John Stoehr | Culture | AAN.org

Photos from the Frontnew

Combat photographer and Air Force veteran Stacy Pearsall is part of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art's inside look at the War on Terror.

Charleston City Paper | John Stoehr | 01-28-2009 | Art

Tags: Iraq, Christopher Sims, Stacy Pearsall, War on Terror: Inside/Out, war photography

Obama's Historic Victory and What Kulture Klash 3 Really Meansnew

Is it more than an arts party? Does it have anything to say to arts organizations struggling to attract younger audiences? What does it suggest about 21st-century attitudes about our experience of the arts?

Charleston City Paper | John Stoehr | 11-12-2008 | Performance

Tags: Barack Obama, arts, Charleston, performance, Kulture Klash 3

Does Being an Artist Make You a Liberal?new

It's easy to see how the cost of education and a housing crisis affect the health of the citizenry. But reading a novel or watching a play? That's not so easy to see. Hence, we don't hear about it much. Even so, there is a long intellectual tradition of making the case for the arts in politics.

Charleston City Paper | John Stoehr | 10-30-2008 | Commentary

Tags: conservatives, politics, literature, theater, liberals, visual arts, performance, the arts

The End of Deliberate Ugliness: How to reclaim the historic role of art in expressing spiritualitynew

Gail Sickel was searching in the 1970s, a dynamic period still roiling with the social and political upheavals of the decade before. The United States was still sunk in the quagmire of a foreign war. Coming of age amid this influence of anxiety, Sickel was part of a boom of young, idealistic Americans searching for new ways to express spirituality. "I was looking for oneness," she says, reflecting on that time. "I was a seeker and eventually I found an experience that was heart-focused." That experience was the Dances of Universal Peace.

Charleston City Paper | John Stoehr | 08-13-2008 | Performance

Tags: performance